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Design Wall Saturday

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I have been using fleece all week! At least that is how it feels anyways. I made 5 hats – two of which are for charity (more in the coming month). I also started working on Anne’s project. Check out the current state of my cutting table:

Pink Tiger Fabric - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comSo if you know Anne at all, you will know that she picked this fabric out all by herself! She is going to be a Pink Tiger for Halloween. As soon as she saw this fabric there was no question in her mind that of course cats come in pink!  I have a coordinating solid too. Yesterday I got the main bulk of pattern pieces pinned, today I will cut them all out (or try to anyways).

Note: I need new fabric cutting scissors. I have very nice Gingher Dress Makers Shears, but truth be told, they really hurt my hands. Being that my psoriatic arthritis is in my hands scissors are hard for me. These ones are hard for me to open and close and they are super heavy, I would love recommendations for a good replacement pair.

On my actual design wall are some awesome Riley Blake Fabrics! The South Sound Modern Quilt Guild is participating in the national Modern Quilt Guild fabric challenge this year. Pictured below are the fabrics our guild was sent:

Riley Blake Fabric Challenge - https://test.sewbittersweetdesigns.comWe are allowed to add solids and any other Riley Blake fabrics that we like. I have them sitting up there in the hopes that by staring at them I will become magically inspired!

What’s everyone else working on?

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Crazy Cat Challenge

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The new Modern Quilt Guild that I am a member of, South Sound Modern Quilt Guild, is hosting its first fabric challenge! One of our members got a TON of cat fabric to make charity quilts with, so much so that she was kind of over cats…and then she got a second donation of cats. Our board came up with a fun challenge to get some of the crazy cat fabric off her hands. We came up with a challenge. You can read about it here.

My original plan was to pair the fabric with a black background, then over the weekend, block started popping up in our Facebook Group and our group on the Modern Quilt Guild site and most had a white background. As we are planning to put our blocks together into a couple of charity quilts, I thought I should change my background. Here are my original fabric pulls:

I wanted to pull in some bright modern colors in the hopes of adding more pop to the fabric as it reads to me a bit on the dull side. I knew I wanted to do a stained glass window type of block but I also didn’t want to recreate the wheel. I decided to head over to Oh Fransson and I used the Mod Mosaic tutorial to create my block. In all honesty to took me longer to pull the fabrics than it did to assemble the block!

I couldn’t bring myself to chop up the little kitties so I actually included one face, I think it is the sweetest one and I’ve always loved blue eyed cats.

I hope I hit the mark on using some outdated fabric and creating a modern block. What do you think?

Got Mail?

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It is entirely possible that I might need to go to the post office either today or tomorrow…

What you are seeing starting on the left is a batch of my dad’s favorite cookies – I would explain why but I am super emotional about it and I don’t want to cry as I write.

Then you see the quilt I blogged about yesterday for my new Modern Quilt Guild Chapter and the quilt I made for my mom…which I don’t think I ever showed finished pictures of (note to self, photograph it and do that!). On top of the quilts are 6 bee blocks that need to be packaged up.

Next to that is a pile of already packaged stuff. Another 6 bee blocks, a thank you note to an amazing friend who is just so supportive, wonderful and thoughtful, a swap package from a monthly fat quarter swap group (if you are interested leave me a comment with your flickr name and I will invite you to the group) and some charms from a swap that I need to send because I can’t resist a good charm swap. LOL

So yeah…I think I need to go to the post office, what do you think?

Happy Thursday!

 

South Sound Modern Quilt Guild – OKC Quilt Donation

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Wow! That was one long title!  Last month, I hosted the inaugural meeting of the South Sound Modern Quilt Guild, currently meeting in Tumwater, WA at Ruby Street Quiltworks. At our first informational meeting we had over 50 people in attendance and at our second we had over 25 (great turn out for the second meeting).  We decided as a guild that our first charity project would be to make quilts to donate to the Oklahoma City Modern Quilt Guild, who will be donating them to victims of the May tornadoes.

We had so many quilt blocks donated that we were able to make TWO quilts! I am so excited by this because our guild is so new that we haven’t even started collecting dues yet, that will be at our July meeting. To read about our second quilt, go check out Sew I’m Pressed – our lovely Vice President did the quilting on that one and let me tell you, she has some MAD free motion quilting skills!

This quilt was pieced by the wonderful Honnah, who is now our Fundraising Officer. She was so fast too! She got the blocks at our meeting on June 5th and had the top done on June 6th! I couldn’t believe it.  Here is the top before quilting:

We had a last minute block arrive at our collection point and because we wanted to make sure every block was incorporated into the quilt, I did a pieced backing with the block as the focal point. I really love this backing.

With the exception of the center block, all the fabrics were found in my stash.  I showed the top to the lovely Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts and Debbe from Pieces to Love and bounced ideas off them for the quilting. I am terrible at decisions like that! Shanna suggested using blue tape and doing straight line quilting at different angles on the quilt – it fit the back and front perfectly! Here’s a picture of the quilt all pinned and taped up. The cool thing was I was able to have it entirely quilted in just a couple hours.

When I finished quilting, I trimmed it and up and decided that I couldn’t let the cool backing go to waste, so I turned the backing to the front and it became my binding too! Let me know if you want a tutorial for how to do that, I will happily do that with my next quilt.

The quilting is easier to see on the back:

So there you have it! The first successful charity project for the South Sound Modern Quilt Guild. If you are local to the South Sound Washington area and are interested in joining, please head over to Facebook and join our online group – that is where we post all meeting information!

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