Woo hoo! this was a LOT of hand piecing. I am remiss in my blogging. My La Pass quilt top is complete. Now I need to decide on the backing fabric and get 'er done. Here she is...
Selwyn, this was a lot of fun even though it took me forever! What fabrics are you going to use? There are so many choices. I might have to make another one someday so I can try a different set of fabrics and a different approach to the pattern.
Found Valley of the Kings Nefertiti Stripe (in Spice) (http://www.hancocks-paducah.com/SHOP-BY-BRAND/Valley-of-the-Kings/Robert-Kaufman-Fabrics-Valley-of-the-Kings-Spice-Nefertiti-Stripe) to begin with and so far have pulled teals, greens, red, royal blue, gold and natural to coordinate. Will use black for all the bazillion triangles. Wasn't sure about using a metallic...but I have searched and searched and this stripe lends itself to lots of cool fussy cuts without wasting a lot of fabric. We'll see how it goes! Not sure when I'll begin this project...still working on a lot of others!
I like that fabric very much! I would like to make another one and have all black star points, or whatever color went with the other stuff. Maybe next year! Did you join the Facebook La Pass group yet? You should!
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
Yay!! I am so impressed! I finally picked some fabrics for mine! Hope to start on it soon!!!
ReplyDeleteSelwyn, this was a lot of fun even though it took me forever! What fabrics are you going to use? There are so many choices. I might have to make another one someday so I can try a different set of fabrics and a different approach to the pattern.
DeleteFound Valley of the Kings Nefertiti Stripe (in Spice) (http://www.hancocks-paducah.com/SHOP-BY-BRAND/Valley-of-the-Kings/Robert-Kaufman-Fabrics-Valley-of-the-Kings-Spice-Nefertiti-Stripe) to begin with and so far have pulled teals, greens, red, royal blue, gold and natural to coordinate. Will use black for all the bazillion triangles. Wasn't sure about using a metallic...but I have searched and searched and this stripe lends itself to lots of cool fussy cuts without wasting a lot of fabric. We'll see how it goes! Not sure when I'll begin this project...still working on a lot of others!
DeleteI like that fabric very much! I would like to make another one and have all black star points, or whatever color went with the other stuff. Maybe next year! Did you join the Facebook La Pass group yet? You should!
DeleteI would join...but I am NOT on Facebook. Maybe when I retire...but no time for now...Pinterest soaks up enough of my time!!
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