Covering terra cotta pots with fabric...

Prickley Pineapple

This is my latest project. It is the class I took last night. On the table are 4 blocks.  Each block has 27 pieces!! The finished project will have 36 blocks. Or a few coasters! I figure if I do 3 a day I'll have them all finished by next class on April 11.

I bought a strip set which included most of the lights and darks.  The strips came 2.5" wide. We are working with strips that are 1.5 and 1" wide. So I only had to cut each strip once. Don't you love the use of the pasta dryer?

Look at all the Chihully Challenge quilts.

We each had the same photo and instructions to reproduce as we saw fit. Then we share the completed ones today. THEN we cut up each little quilt into 4 pieces, kept one of our own and randomly drew out the other 3 pieces. Our task will be to put the 4 pieces together and show our results next fall.

Click on the picture to load the album with all the other pictures... whole and cut up.

Challenge 2012

Chihully Challenge

This challenge was to reproduce a photo from the Dale Chihully exhibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens. The photo is of an old row boat full of glass balls. Red glass pieces were hung from the cacti in the background. My background consists a "chenille like" set of layers. The bottom layer is red fabric and it peeks through like the red glass did at the exhibit.

Ticker Tape

On Wednesday our Neighborhood Bee worked on making Ticker Tape blocks. I'm going to make a steering wheel cover from mine. My steering wheel measures about 15". I used an 18" circle and fused some flannel to the back of the circle. I will stitch around each little piece, probably with a zig zag stitch, then put it together.

I'm going to try to put in a link to the Picasa album that has the rest of the pictures from our group...

Ruth's progress

All blocks pieced ...ready to be sewn into blocks

Chris' progress

All 8 orange units pieced.

Ruth's 4th of July Quilt

We spent two hours today laying out Ruth's quilt.

50% Complete

On the orange points. This is r-e-a-l-y slow going!

First Large Corner

Twenty -five pieces in each corner unit! Yikes! And some of them are l-o-n-g!

Circling Geese Almost Complete

I'm working on the last circling geese unit.

Circling Geese

And Melon Spikes! Two smaller units and where they fit. I have the Melon Spike units complete and one of the Circling Geese units. There are 23 seams in each geese unit!!

Challenge Quilt 2012

This is the picture I took of the Chihully glass balls in the old boat at the Desert Botanical Gardens. It is very similar to the photo we are supposed to replicate in a small quilt. You can see the background looks like "chenille". I am going to try printing out the boat and balls on my printable fabric. Then I will make the chenille background.

Lone Star

Finished this section this week.

Mini quilt tops

We'll use these tops to practice free motion quilting.

One of the paper piecing templates

There are 6 different templates.  And 8 of each.

Pieces for half of the one template

There are 8/16 pieces in each clipped stack.