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My quilt for the Tri Lakes Women's Club (TLWC) 2015 Pine Forest Show and Sale is well underway. Keeping with the springtime theme, the fabrics are a cheerful mix of Rowan floral fabrics with Martha Negley tree rings and sticks for the borders. This is a fun Kaffe pattern called "Bordered Diamonds", a great way to show off the large floral prints. Hope to see you at the show in Monument, Colorado, on the first weekend in May. Perhaps if you purchase a raffle ticket, you might win this springtime quilt pieced by Susan and quilted by Jennet at IcePurplePenguin. All monies raised go to the TLWC charitable grants program and right back into our local community. Happy quilting! Susan

I have entered a bit of a "quilting sidebar", setting aside the Mendocino quilt top and deciding to finish up my Kaffe Broken Dishes quilt back so that this "5312-piece-top" of a quilt can be put together and find a new home on my granddaughter's bed here at my house. Here is a picture of the Kaffe quilt back while it was under construction. It is all finished now with Carla Miller's long OOP green and pink "Chicken Scratch" fabric totally surrounding the 48-inch wide broken dishes piece you see here. I also got the itch to try a "One Block Wonder" hexagon quilt just to see what happened.  It was an awful lot of fun to prepare and construct these hexagons.  They certainly do not look at all like the original fabric that I used, except for the range of colors that are displayed.  Here are the quilt top pieces laid out and ready to be put together.  Just for fun, here is a picture of the gorgeous peacock fabric I used for thes...

My mother got her 80th birthday quilt last week, and it was only about a month late! The top was actually pieced by her birthday, but the back still needed to be completed and the pieces and parts needed to be made into the finished product.  With some excellent quilting by Jennet at icepurplepenguin , the quilt is beautifully done and now at home with its new owner.   Here is a picture Jennet shared with me of my quilt sandwich getting quilted in a lovely purple thread followed by a front view of the finished quilt as it made a brief overnight stop at my house. Time to start a new project! What fun! Susan

Finished the back of my mother's belated birthday quilt and it is ready to be quilted and bound. The binding is going to be made with a very precious yard or more of Kaffe's freckles fabric in blue. I really enjoyed piecing the hearts and gizzards pattern to make the back panel.  Most of the fabrics I used in the quilt got used up, so there aren't many leftovers except the bits and pieces now in my Kaffe scrap jar. Here is a picture of the finished quilt back: I really had fun mixing in the flower print with the fabrics I used on the front of the quilt. And just for fun here is a photo of the Kaffe freckles fabric for the binding so I can remember I once had such a large piece of this extremely hard-to-find and absolutely yummy fabric... Happy quilting! Susan

I need to put together four more blocks for an outside strip on this quilt and then the top is finished. The outer border strip on the right side nearest my ironing board is the missing outer strip.  Somehow I counted wrong and came up just a bit short on blocks, which is easily remedied. Here's how it looks in its "almost complete" state... There sure are a lot of pieces in this quilt top. I may just have to count them myself to see just what the final number is. How many pieces do you think there might be? Susan

The Wonky Star Quilt top and back are officially finished and ready for quilting and binding.  It's always fun to finish one project and start with the next one, isn't it?  Here is a picture of the quilt top to the right with all of its many pieces sewn together. The back is a wide Echino green dots print with a strip of leftover Echino squares from the front. All of the squares on the front are made from Echino prints. Now it's time to have fun with my next project.  I have been waiting to do this particular project for a long time. It's Kaffe's Broken Dishes Quilt from his book Kaleidoscope of Quilts .  Many years ago I bought most of the fabrics for this quilt and put them away for future use!  I am so glad I did that way back when. The picture to the left is of Kaffe's finished quilt straight from the book.  Isn't it gorgeous? I am using Carla Miller's mint green chicken scratch as my quilt back. The fabrics I was missing (so...