What's on your design wall?

granny squares

Do you use a design wall?  Mine needs some help but for now it is a piece of fleece hanging from the ceiling covering most of the wall behind my sewing machine.  Check out what is on all these quilters designs wall over at Judy's!

blue Farmer's wife

Red Farmer's wife

Blogger BOM

Plenty of WIP here!  Check out all the wonderful things being made at WIP Wednesday.  

And the winner is.........................

I use the random generator and it pulled number 23.......... Nicole :0).

(One of these days I will figure out how to put that random generator on my blog!)

Alphabet scraps

I'm going to enter this one over at the Festival of Scrappiness.

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1. Alphabet quilt for Lily                         
   

 I finished the top from the left over fabrics from the alphabet quilt :0), see what everyone else got done this week over at Finish it up Friday with Amanda Jean.

BASICS....what's it all about?

"White baskets"

Quilted by Jackie

Have you heard of  BASICS?
I didn't either until my friend Victoria
( Bumble Beans Inc)  told me about it.  Look at all the good that has come from Victoria's efforts :0).   This top was recused from a friends flooded basement, I finished it, and Jackie     (Canton Village Quilt Works) donated her quilting.
 Now the quilt is on it's way to a new home in the Bronx.
I hope you you have a quilt you can donate to families starting over too.

Happy Sewing, Kim

What's on your design wall?

keeping up with " Just takes 2"

 What is on everyones design wall?
Check it out at Judy's :0)

Sow along with Randy

And for another chance to win the "Quilts from a 100 blocks magazine"
enter over at Bonnie's.

Or right here with me :0).


Happy sewing,
Kim

Little blessing baskets

Saying Goodbye

Saying goodbye to my motorcycle

Feathered Star

Well I'm so proud of this one square so I'm gonna call it a finish :0).  Check out all the other finishes over at Crazy Mom Quilts and don't forget to congratulate Amanda Jean on her new book.  And don't forget to enter my giveaway here.

 

What's on your design wall?

Just takes 2  on my design wall, check out what everyone else is up to over at.... 

Design Wall Monday :0)      
   
            Still time to enter my giveaway too.  It's right HERE.

Just Takes 2 Brown and Pink

 

 Keeping up with mystery "Just takes 2" and linking up   with "Crazy Mom quilts" come see what ever one else is working on :0) . Happy sewing, Kim


Also my giveaway for  the collector's edition of Quilts from Quiltmaker's 100 blocks  is here. 
And look more chances to win over at the Quiltmaker blog!

Just takes 2

Lincoln Center

colorful scarves in the gift shop

A bit of the old chandelier for sale:  1500.00

"War Horse" playing at the Lincoln Center Theater

Colorful inspiration is everywhere!

































We thoroughly enjoy the show!

Blogger BOM #6

Block Number 6... love those little owls :0)

Amy Smart over at " Diary of a quilter" has done a nice tutorial  for this months Blogger block of the month presented by Jackie. ( over at at Canton Village Quilt Works)

 I'm all up to date again!
Happy sewing, Kim

Oh and don't  forget to enter my giveaway here :0)

The first six blocks

The Farmer's Wife

The beginning of two the Farmer's Wife quilts

Two big baskets of scraps, one blue, one red, will be made into the quilts     " The Farmer's Wife" .  Here are the 1st six blocks in each colorway up on my design wall......go see what everyone else has to show over at Design Wall Monday on Judy Laquidara's blog.

Giveaway........Quilts from 100 blocks

Collector's Edition

" Quilts from Quiltmaker's 100 blocks" will be out on newsstands soon.
 I have an extra copy to giveaway :0).  Just leave a comment about quilting and you are in for the drawing :0)
on St. Patrick's Day.

My fellow Scrap Squad members and I made a quilt for our editor, Diane Harris, and it is in this issue so they generously sent me two copies....one to share :0).

Happy Sewing, Kim




And another giveaway of a magazine called " On track",
for machine quilters,
is happening over at Bonnie Hunter  blog, she has a feature
in the giveaway issue :0).
 

Quilt made by 2011 Scrap Squad

Does art inspire your quilts?

" Tiger Rug"

 Living in the Hudson Valley gives me plenty of opportunities to visit college art shows.  Recently I attended  one  at the Marist college art center.
This piece really talked to me, it is done on Tyvek of all things.

Happy sewing, Kim

Christy Syminton's "chop" or signature

 

Marist College Art Center

The Farmer's Wife

Large basket of blue scraps left over from "Orca Bay" by Bonnie Hunter

The Farmer's Wife by Laurie Aaron Hird

 I've learned that I am much more likely to get through a project if I sew with a group.  I can't decide if it is because I enjoy the company or if I am competitive.  Either way, I was delighted when Bonnie Hunter pointed out that Randy D. was having a "sow along" ( farmers wife... get it?), using Laurie Aaron Hird's book " The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt".
As wonderful as this book is there are no measurements to follow only the templates that get printed from the CD included in the book.  Randy has taken the templates and gives all the measurements :0)!  I also love using my Marti Michell templates, so now that I know the size of the pieces I can easily make the blocks.  Could I have figured this out myself?  Of course, but now I have a group to sew with!

Want to join in?  Randy is making it real easy with just 3 blocks twice a month.

Happy Sewing, Kim

I write in my quilting books adding notes I want to remember like the starting date

the first 6 blocks

all blocks finish at 6 inches

Two templates from set B

Design Wall Monday

scraps made into  zigzag

Zigzag mixed with squares

These are left over fabrics from making this little alphabet quilt quite some time ago.  I kept most of the pairings of colors together from the original little quilt I made.  I used to receive a fabric collection from Keepsake quilting every month with 9" by 42" cuts....or a 1/4 yard cut.
I still have tons of these fabric yet uncut but I am trying to use them up.

So here is what is on my design wall today, go and see what everyone else has on their design wall over at Judy's.

Happy Sewing, Kim

Shakespeare in the Park by Judy Martin

"Shakespeare in the Park"

Added label to finish it this week

I finally got the label on this quilt and will mail it to my niece as a surprise.

You can see the whole quilt here.

I'm linking to Crazy Mom Quilts for another week of finish it up Friday. and fabric tuesday too.

Happy sewing,
Kim

Close up of some of the quilting by Debby Brown

Happy Valentines Day!

I hope you are surrounded by Love this Valentines Day!

Japanese X

curved sewing lines

Cute little boy fabric for the backing

 I finished up this  little  44" X 52" scrappy madness, putting cute baby fabric on the back  helps soften it a bit.

close up of scraps

Happy Sewing, Kim

Have you seen all the scrappy quilts over at "Stitched in color "?  I 'm entering  my Japanese X quilt over at the "Festival of  Scrappiness"
now going on at Stitched in color.

blue binding machine applied :0)

Too Scrappy

 

Japanese X block

Sometimes I wonder if scrappy is just too much. Does it come off  as a better quilt if it has a unifying color
instead of just randomly picking scraps and sewing them together?  What do you think?
   I started these awhile ago then jumped into Scrap  attack  but when I put this little quilt up on my design board to have a look........ well it might just be too much going on!  I think it is hard to see what the block started off to be. So I think I am going to stop here and quilt it for a baby quilt.  Time to move onto the next project.

Happy Sewing, Kim

Peppermint candies quilt

I hope you can see what a difference beautiful quilting makes

quilted by Debby Brown

A nice swirl

more quilting detail

I finished binding this quilt recently even though it was pieced back in Nov. for my Quiltmaker "Scrap Squad" assignment.   Debby Brown did a beautiful job quilting it for me.

Happy Sewing,
Kim

I've linked up with Crazy Mom Quilts on finish it up Friday, go have a look at some more finishes :0)

machine binding ( back)