Ohio Star

Here is yet another block from the quilt shop hop 2011. We made such good progress on it this summer but sadly now its locked in a plastic storage bin waiting for time. We are falling slowly more and more behind on the quilt shop hops. However I feel that 2012 will be the year we catch up. 

Finished Almost Irish Chain

Hoping S has a better picture. Gives the general idea though. :)



R did most of the quilting. Artwork in the "white spaces" includes turtles, stars, seaweed, fish, stylistic nautilus, and a couple unidentifiable objects. We made a small dent on already cut 2 1/2" squares and finished it up in time for Christmas!

A cartoon block

Part of the 20101 quilt shop hop fabric this year has cartoons. How cool is that? Do to busy work schedules we haven't been quilting much this fall. but that's all going to change. Every January we the three S's swear this is the year we finish all the the half finished projects and this year we will. Woot!

Irish Chain sorta

Shhhh... It's a work in process for the holidays. But since the intended doesn't read this blog probably safe to talk about.

I like intricate small pieces in complicated designs. In my attempt to move from smaller postage stamp sized quilt squares I moved to this. It's an Irish chain like pattern, however instead of one fabric making the pattern all of the little 2.5 inch squares are in the same color plait. I resisted my desire to make these pieces 1 inch postage stamp size but barely. More pictures to follow.

Spool

Spools woot, one of the S's really likes spools. she made this block as a test to see if she wanted to make a whole quilt out of it. I think she decided to add it to the maybe list. Will we see a whole quilt made out of this pattern here soon? Maybe we will wait and see. In the mean time here is another addition to the quilt shop hop quilt.We are making progress slowly but hey the turtle won the race right?

More Dresdens

This quilt has a lot of Dresden plate blocks some of them like this one below is a mini Dresden. Look at how small the individual pieces are. Next photo op we will have to picture the mini Dresden with a coin to give some perspective.  

Oh the Kite Quilt!

I almost don't want to talk about this quilt. It brings back difficult memories. For starters, I thought it would be a great idea to do a paper piece type quilt without doing paper piece.

So, I hopped on my computer and made myself a pattern for kites. Then, I printed out the pattern, built like 4 kites, swore, yelled, and complained. Then, I realized the printer scaled my pattern and I was about 20% to small. So, those went in our extra pieces scrap bin and I started alllll over!

Since I wanted each kite to be different, I cut each piece separately. This took a very long time to complete but it was worth it. I think it turned out adorable. I embroidered little kite tails to each of the kites after I put the quilt together.




I would make the sky a little more plain to accent the kites if I did this again. I thought a pale shade of blue with different patterns would fade into the background but it didn't. Oh well. Lesson learned.