I now understand a little better how to add pictures, so here is what I have worked on during the first quarter of the year. The first two pictures are the table topper that I was trying to show in the last post - but never made it.
These two pillows borrow Sharon Shamber's design, I used different flowers but the idea of the background quilted feather circle and fillers were from her website. I actually drafted and marked the feather circle. On the blue pillow, I had used a very boring olive green for the leaves. I was not happy with results, so I broke out my dyes and added a little texture with both black and white (I also added some gold to the tulip while I was at it).
This is a pi pillow for pi day. You can see the numbers in the circles if you zoom in. Fun easy pillow, raw edge applique with blanket stitch.
Here is the same pillow that I showed before along with another new pillow that is triangles. I am actually enjoying making pillows.
This is a table topper, nothing too special. Fun piecing method based on Craftsy class. Quilting simple.
Finally, this is a wall hanging that I started at the Longmont quilt retreat. The inner embroidery was purchased over 20 years ago from Hmong women. It is a story cloth (thus I named the quilt Story Quilt), Used seminole piecing techniques which were really fun. Lots of quilting too. I like the result.
I think that is the majority of my quilting activities over the past quarter.
I will add that we replaced our carpet this week and I got busy and spray basted two large quilts on the old carpet. They are my Great Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt and a quilt that I pieced last year. Still trying to decide how to quilt both of them. Cheers!
