See Susan Quilt

Hooray, all of  my unfinished quilts have been completed and are back in my possession.  The last two quilts were my mother’s koi kaleidoscope quilt and the Japanese double start quilt.  I also snuck in finishing three pillows to match the grey Tana Lawn strip quilt that lives on our bed.  Here are the pillows: Here are the front and back views of the koi kaleidoscope quilt that will be getting shipped to my mother in West Virginia later today. Thank-you, Jennet, the quilting (as always) is great. Here is the double star quilt that I made from some fabulous Japanese fabrics I purchased several years ago from Michelle at Kallisti Quilts.  Sometimes you just have to wait until the right pattern comes along, don’t you? Wow, this means it is time to actually start planning, selecting fabrics and cutting the pieces for some new quilts… too fun. Susan

My mother’s koi quilt top is moving along and finally pieced, at least the smaller pieces.  I am currently contemplating what to do for the borders and for the back of this quilt so I can get it finished in the near future.  Here is the current state of the quilt top, complete with some little boxes (what fun!) and a diagonal stripe of the original koi fabric so you can actually see what the fishes look like swimming around. Stay tuned! Susan

Well, here is my next try at a kaleidoscope quilt top.  I LOVE my new quilt tool that allows me to pick those pieces up off the floor and look at them from a different (and much better) perspective.  The blocks are on a 72-inch white portable design wall,  Cheryl Ann's Quilting Design Wall.   I didn't have a place for a permanent design wall in my quilting room, although with this portable wall I don't need one. I bought mine on Amazon.com and I am thinking seriously about getting a second, smaller one.  Quilts and their blocks really look different when you are not looking down at them while figuring out what block goes where.   I am currently making more square blocks based on my favorite square in the quilt.  It's the one with the yellow top just off the center.  Once these blocks are done today, it all comes down and gets rearranged into three panels incorporating a lot of those squares.     The original fabric ...