After all the hand piecing, I decided to do some foundation paper piecing for my next quilt. Here is the result - Violet Craft's Elephant Abstractions with some Kaffe prints added here and there. I love the toes!
I am Having fun working on the flowers for my Garden of Forgetfulness quilt. They are all made from Liberty Tana Lawn prints in several shades of pink. There are a lot of pink roses in there! My finished La Pass top still needs a backing fabric, so I am working on this new project while trying to decide which fabric I will use. This quilt is from Willyne Hammerstein's book Millefiori Quilts 2 .
After looking at the large rosettes for this project, I decided that one of them did not go well with the others. My black and pink attempt to do an outer flower ring was a little bit blah compared to its three siblings so I ripped off the outer ring in preparation for using this as one of my smaller rosettes in the quilt. Then it was time to find some new Liberty Tana Lawn prints for the large rosette, so I went for the flowers! There are some sailboats and rabbits thrown in there for good measure. The rabbits are the small hexagon in the first ring of stars. Here is the new large rosette in progress. As always, the center of the rosette consists of the little creepy Cranford faces. I think I have just enough of this fabric to use in all of my rosettes, then it will be gone for good. Happy quilting! Susan
I am making progress on my "Hearts and Gizzards" quilt for my mother's 80th birthday. The top is complete and it is time to make the back. I have had to hunt for and order several fat quarters of numerous "hard to find" Kaffe fabrics that are in this quilt top so I can make more blocks for the back of the quilt. Here's a look at the completed top. Although they are not sewn together in this photo, all of the pieces are together now. I laid the blocks down in random order. The only rules were not to have the same fabrics touching one another and to try and make the center wheels contain 8 different fabrics. I must say, this simple layout strategy worked out pretty well. Happy quilting! Susan
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