Getting things done

Since I returned from Quiltcon, I have been in a wonderful sewing mood. I have finished several items and made some new. The first item shown is a top I call 3D20. It is the result of a challenge from the Facebook group, Improve Handbook for Modern Quilters. Each month the group comes up with it's own score ( ala Sherri Lynn Woods ) and we go for it.

I took a piece I made a little over a year ago when I first got Sherri's book. I was attempting the strip sets score and pulled leftover strips from my scraps and made a very dismal piece. I was not very happy with it at all. Then came these challenges and the second one was to take orphan blocks, leftovers or even a full piece and cut it up and remake it using only scraps you had on hand. You were allowed to purchase 2 additional fabrics but solids only.

The result is 3D20 and I love this piece. Not only the reworking of something I didn't like into something cheerful and happy, I love that it brought me back to fun days with friends.

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This next item now has a name, Rogue One, due to a comment made on Facebook about the "little rogue diagonal piece". This is the final result of a class I took at Quiltcon Savannah from Heather Jones called Improvisational Line and Design. Loved the class and loved the technique. I want to try it again but with larger strips ( these are between 1" and 2-1/2" ) resulting in 4-1/2" blocks, 16 of which make up one "block". Heather told us how she had done a larger scale piece with 20" blocks of which there were only 4. I also was to do more striking color combo's. While I like this softer palette, I want to go a teeny bit crazy on the next one.

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This little guy was an orphan. I had an idea for a piece and got this much done and the plan was to add a small silhouette of a bird in red standing on one of the grasses I was going to call the piece Sentinels. I had seen this while driving along the highway in Northern California. Well I couldn't get the bird to look just right so I set it aside. Guess that was a good idea because my chapter of the Modern Quilt Guild has approached the Int'l Quilt Study Center and Museum for a small show of modern quilts and the president of the guild asked if I had anything minimal. I showed her two pieces and she choose this one so I quilted it up and got it ready. I really like the finished product. The piece is still going to be titled Sentinels.

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On National Quilt Day, I was sewing selvages together at the local celebration and it got me to thinking about all the selvages I had saved and so I took a look at what I had and made this bag. Just for fun!

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I was also able to do a challenge piece for the LMQG this month on Curves!