My #1 Quilting Tip~~~~

Good Afternoon!  Can you guess my #1 tip?  It's Netflix!  Crazy I know, but I'm 100% serious.  Even the most boring task can be done while watching your favorite movie.  My current favorite thing to have on while sewing is Masterpiece Theater Classic.  I'm now in the middle of "Middlemarch".  The scenery, old stone houses, castles, the period clothing, they all speak to me... haha.  I also recommend listening to your favorite music on Pandora.  This nifty tablet my husband gave me for Christmas is perfect for beside the machine. 

So, speaking of boring tasks....  this idea of piecing sharp triangles for a border????  was that my great idea?  Well, I'm half finished, and quite tired of it.

I still think it will look striking, and have it down to a quick seam, a quick cut with the rotary, then a press, so it goes quickly.  I'm just tired of it.

This morning I amused myself with putting together some leftover squares.  It might look nice with some appliqued borders, flowers, leaves, a vine?

It's a good size for a table topper or even wall quilt if the border works out.

I should have taken a pic of my quilting frame.  There are 7 or 8 quilt tops hanging over the rails, waiting for me.  No, more like nagging me...  hahaha

All in good time I suppose. 

In the mean time, these little hst's, left over from cutting geese blocks, caught my attention.  I'm thinking they will make a nice medallion center! ttfn

A Beautiful Day For Anything....

I have a confession...  it involves my plentiful stash, and continuing to put by  enough French General fabric to make quilts with it forever!  I recently posted about this fabric, but my mind is obsessed with these colors.  The richness of this turkey red is unmatched by competitors.  Others try, and I look, but this is what I buy. Actually, I have a list of quilts to make with various lines of French General, and corresponding sticky notes on the intended fabric.  Crazy I know....  but I love it.

Right now I'm waiting for some jelly rolls to arrive.  I'm planning a braid style quilt, in rows, and perhaps using an older line such as the great borders from Maison Garance between the braid rows.  I can hardly wait to get started.

 This morning I tried very hard to ignore the beautiful weather today, and start right in sewing, but the weather outside won.  Fall is in full swing here in Indiana, so I grabbed my camera and started walking.

I love to stand under the trees and shoot pics, sometimes squirrels will run through the shot!
Fall colors always inspire me to pull out my basket of Fall colored fabric.  Over the weekend I got busy and made a few table runners for gifts.

The small blocks in this piece are paper pieced from Carol Doaks book.  They work up very quickly.

Small Quilts also make great seasonal wall hangings, or even look great draped across the top of a sofa or chair.

  Sometimes, I get my scissors, and just start cutting fabric, and end up with something like this table runner.  There was no plan, except to attempt something that looked like a sunflower.  I'm not sure I succeeded, but it is colorful, and sometimes it's fun to just pretend fabric is paper, and cut, fuse, sew!  ttfn....