Escada Azul

Wow, I just had a very fun 3 day weekend….it is sad to see it past!!! On Friday, I mailed my Sunflower quilt to the East Cobb Quilt Guild show in Atlanta, where it will be judged next Monday and then hung the following Thursday. I am looking forward to seeing it hanging in this wonderful show.

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday, I worked on several different projects and truly enjoyed spending long hours in my studio.

The prize of the weekend was finishing the blue stair quilt that I showed a couple of posts back. It is now named “Escada Azul” (Blue Stairs)……

Here is the photo that the quilt was based on……

As with most of my pieces, I learned a lot about myself!! I ended up doing a lot of applique to set the piece together and found that I enjoyed the hand work. I also had one piece that didn’t l0ok right but I had decided that it was “good enough”. I thought about it during the night and went in first thing Monday morning and ripped the piece out and re-did it, being much happier with the result.

I also quilted a wallhanging for a friend who is in a time crunch trying to get her booth ready for the upcoming Atlanta show. I still find it nerve racking to quilt for another quilter….someone who KNOWS what it is supposed to look like!!!

Oh well, so much for the Holiday….now it is on to Accounting work!!!

Portugal Stairs #2

I have been working on the second in my series of stairs from Porto, Portugal. This time it is a long set of stairs (100 in this first set and then another 114 after I turned the corner), and I decided to do it in a monochrome palette.

This afternoon, we were supposed to go to a friend’s house for the evening, but my husband started feeling poorly mid afternoon so we didn’t end up going. Instead, we watched the University of Georgia football game (unfortunately we lost) and I did the hand Applique on this piece.

It is amazing with these stair quilts that the perspective doesn’t appear until you put the “stair-step” side piece on and then…..WOW!!!!

This one will have even more perspective when I have done the shading, thread work and quilting…..something to look forward to doing!!

I have also been working on a charity quilt for our guild and quilting on a piece for a friend.

If you are in the US, i hope you are having an enjoyable “Labor Day” weekend!!

UFO Number 1

I decided that the first of the UFO’s that I would tackle would be a small wall hanging that was started in a class several years ago. The workshop was given by Debbie Frey and used the “Scrap Happy Spools” pattern. I had selected shades of blue for the piece and had only finished 2-1/2 of the 12 blocks needed for the top.

I truly enjoyed spending an evening finishing the squares and setting them together to make a cute small quilt. I dont particularly care for paper piecing, but found this project to be fun. As I stitched, I decided to give the quilt as a gift to a wonderful friend who wants to make quilts, but cant find the time at the moment.

I needed to quilting to be fast and easy so chose a variegated blue thread and did a free form swirl over the surface.

I am pleased with the result and my friend loved it!!!

One UFO down and 17 more to go!!!!