Design Wall

I've been working with some pre-cuts. At the longarm guild meeting I won a honeybun of Christmas fabrics. I got the crazy notion to make a Christmas quilt, for this year! I visited Moda Bake Shop, because they have great designs using pre-cuts. I typed in honeybun in the search engine, and up popped Counting by Fives. Perfect! Quick, easy, and best of all I would only have to buy backing fabric.

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 Here is my version. It's a flimsy. The only problem now, is getting it quilted. Hmmm, just a little snag, right?

Progress

 The blocks are assembled and the borders are on the string quilt. I even mitered the corners! Mitered corners are easier each time that I do them. Next task, tackle the applique. 

You'll notice though that I haven't begun the applique yet. That's because I'm intimidated by all that applique, and I'm not really sure where to begin. I'm figure the stems for the flowers come first. However, because of the way that the red diagonal is pieced they are not perfect. That means that each stem is a little different. I guess I just need to jump in and start it.

 

I also wanted to show you the progress on Dear Jane. I may have to redo the block in the lower left. Curved seams are not my strong point, and that one is a little off. The seam allowances are so narrow that some of the rounded pieces will get cut off when I sew the sashing on.

Next my SewCalGal Christmas Quilt Show entry.

This was my first experience designing a quilt using Electric Quilt. I had purchased the fabric, one yard of each, and I didn't want to buy more, or have any leftovers. I played around until I had a design that used up everything. The only thing I had to add was the white for the alternate blocks in the nine patches and the plain blocks. This poor quilt never got a name.

 This quilt, however, does have a name. My grandson, Bubba, named it Mimi's Kiki. I purchased the fabrics during one of the shop hops. I bought fat quarters at each of the shops to get a nice mix of fabrics. 

Visit Patchwork Times to see more design walls, and head over to SewCalGal to see all the Christmas quilts.

  

But, wait there's more!

I decided that the little Christmas quilt needed some perking up. I tried adding different borders. The hourglass border and the chevron border are my two favorites so far. I'm pretty sure I have enough fabric for either border design.

I think that the chevron border might be easier (faster) to stitch.

I'll just stare at them for a bit and mull them over in my mind while I'm finishing the last customer Christmas quilt.

What's on my design wall?

Wow, I have something on my design wall! During a bit of quiet time last week I fiddled around with EQ6 to see if I could come up with something that used some Christmas fabric that I bought a year or two ago.

The pattern I came up with is not unique. I'm sure I didn't come up with it. I bet that I actually saw this design in a magazine or on someone's blog. My apologies to you if it was your article or blog. My frazzled brain doesn't remember.

What is new for me, is that I worked it out with EQ6. I played with it until it used just what fabric that I had in my stash.





The other day during a short pity party I started cutting and sewing strips. Because of the plain blocks it didn't take me much time to piece it this far.

I'm hoping that tonight I might get some of the rows sewn together.

Visit Judy's blog to see what she and others have on their design walls.