Floor design board

Some leftover 5 inch squares will become a quilt top soon.

Pick a Petal hanging on my wall

Done and done.

2025 BOM from THe Quilt Show

Every year The Quilt Show site has a yearly run block of the month (BOM). I have made several of these quilts and saved the directions for a few others; but did not made the quilts. Life happens sometimes. Next year's quilt has a lot of the parts that I love to make. I am going to use scraps again and I will buy the background fabric to keep it somewhat uniform. Maybe a few different fabrics of the same line; not necessarily only one background. I have taken this pictures from the Quilt Show website and changed it to a gray scale. I can see that it uses most medium value fabrics for the blocks. I think I have the perfect fabrics for this quilt. Perfect to my make it my own, there is. Below is one of the original colorways offered as a kit from the Quilt Show Website.

She Who Quilts

Another day in the studio. I am about to start quilting another quilt top.

Spider tshirt

Just in time for Halloween 2024. Of course, I saw many examples of this on Pintrest. I had to make my own. I used 2 black buttons for the spider, some black #8 perle cotton thread to embroider the spider legs, White thread for the web thread line and leftover cotton lace around the neck. I love Halloween; but none of the scarry stufffor me.

Pick a Petal quilting

And the quilt is quilted. I used the embroidery unit on my Bernina. The quilting pattern is from My Creative Stitches; and it is called Mixed Up Feathers. Quilted with Fantastico and Sew Line threads on top and bobbin respectively. I did audition a few fabrics for the binding and decided on a low volume white. I had previously made the binding with a "beige" low volume; but I wanted the binding to "disappear", to emphasize the curved border, so I made another lighter binding strips.

Pick a Petal

I finished my Pick a Petal quilt that was designed by Jen Kingwell for The Quilt Show block of the month for 2024. I need to block it and add a label. So, I will photograph it in the future for another post. This is not one of my outstanding piecing. I had a lot of trouble "fitting" some of the curved pieces eventhough I used the acrylic templates sold specially for this quilt. I also modifed the applique border to my own quilt.