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Tangled Tiles – A Finish

Happy Friday Everyone!

Today is especially happy for Anne and I because my hubby comes home tonight and we haven’t seen him in 2 weeks!  I can’t wait, I’m even making homemade bread and pasta for dinner tonight to celebrate his homecoming. I do so love to bake for my family.

Anyways! On to the quilting!

As a member of the South Sound MQG I had the opportunity to participate in a special challenge for Pacific Northwest Modern Quilt Guilds. The challenge was to take metallic fabric, thread or metallic themes and create a quilt no larger than 48×48″.  We were provided with fabrics from Robert Kaufman, my guild selected the Quilter’s Linen. It was luxurious to work with. Here is what I came up with:

TangledTiles-FULL - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comIt is really much smaller than it looks – measuring 28.5″ x 28.5″.

It is an original design of mine. I really wanted to name it Drunken Tiles because of the quilting reminded me of someone just aimlessly wandering around but since this is being judged, I thought I would go with a slightly tamer name.

Here is a close up of the quilting:

TangledTiles-DETAIL - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comI really enjoyed making this quilt and it will hanging in our bedroom, though I do hope it is accepted into the show, although after seeing some of the other entries, I’m not very confident.

Quilt Stats:

Name: Tangled Tiles
Fabrics: Kona Black, Quilters Linens
Thread – Metallics by Superior Threads
Quilting – done by me on my Janome Horizon
Designer – Melissa Dunworth

Thank you for stopping by! I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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Week 17 Sewing Goals

Wow! Where did last week go?!? My mom was here and blogging just slipped right off my plate! Tomorrow I will be showing off the pictures of Anne finding out that the “package” we were picking up at the airport was her Nana and not a piece of luggage.  I will also show her in her finished Easter dress and some Easter bunny pictures. Gotta love little ones and their excitement for all things Easter.

My goal this week is to finish my Modern Metallics Challenge piece. Thanks to the power of Instagram, Katy from The Littlest Thistle gave me some incredible help (more later) and I was able to figure out how I want to quilt my piece. I have until May 2nd to get this puppy 100% done so it is time to shake my tail!

Modern Metallics Challenge -https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comHave a great week everyone!!!

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Color Value Class

This past weekend I was very blessed to be able to attend a Color Value Class by Katie from Sew Katie Did. I planned this class for the South Sound Modern Quilt Guild, with the help of my amazing board, that is in the South Puget Sound area of Washington State.   The class was made extra fun because Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts came too! She drove up from Oregon earlier in the week and spent the night on Saturday so we could visit and sew together. It was so much fun!

I learned so much during the class. Below are some of my biggest takeaways:

  • Most of my fabrics tend to be dark and medium values – I have a very limited selection of light value fabrics (except solids)
  • I struggle to work with prints only – turns out I really LOVE solids
  • My blindness can actually be an advantage in  determining color value
  • I need a new cell phone that can switch the photo to black and white – thank goodness Shanna let me use her phone during the class!
  • Everyone NEEDS to have a design wall of some kind!!! This is an absolute MUST HAVE!

With the fabrics that I brought to class (and two donated squares) here is what I have so far for my value quilt:

Value Diamond Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comHere it is in Black and White – that makes it easier to see the color values:

Black & White Color Value Quilt - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comI have been shopping my stash some more and I plan to add to my quilt. I would like for it to be at least 60″ x 60″ so I have a lot more half square triangles to make.

Have you ever made a Value Quilt? I can’t remember the last time I made a quilt and used all prints…it has been at least 7 years.

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