My colorful quilt- WIP

Lots of sewing and cutting... this quilt will take me much longer to make it than I anticipated.

I need 140 blocks, I cut pieces for 50 and I already pieced 20.

I will have to use all these colors so the quilt will be even more colorful than I intended it to be...

Even my assistants are tired...

 

so today I will work on the other quilt...

I hope I will show you some pictures tomorrow...

Basket from swap

Look what came in to the mail from my swap partner! All the way from New Zeeland!

Thank you Susan, for such a wonderful basket and for the other goodies!

You can see here how Susan made the basket- so creative!

How cute are these lollies (8 inch squares) ? And no calories at all...

Thank you Michele, for hosting this fun swap. I love checking the Flickr Group and seeing how everyone uses the same pattern, yet makes totally different and gorgeous baskets.

Colors, colors, colors...

I am working now on the most beautiful quilt. I just abandoned another one to work on this.

It's for my youngest sister, with a pattern that she likes a lot.  She can't even imagine how beautiful it will be! Alex (her little baby) will love it too!

I need strips and I need many colors and these jelly rolls were the best option.

I am so excited that I almost forgot about my allergy - but I am working in front of the open window.

Until now I have never used so many colors in just one quilt ! I pieced seven blocks and they don't look scrappy at all! I might add even more.

 

More about this quilt soon! I hope!

Hexy Flowers Report again

We already have 30 flowers!
I will use this chocolate fabric to connect the flowers.

We made a few flowers just from solids  - gorgeous!

For a few we mixed solids with prints.

I gave up to the idea of joining the flowers with diamonds.

I tried to make one and I couldn't do it.

I really can't imagine how those sharp points could be achieved (regardless of the size). Probably a sturdy template is a must ( I made mine from regular paper).  

I know many people do it -  they are my hero! Could you give us a hint?

So I decided to join them with hexagons  - my sisters are very happy!

At least 30 more to make!

Have a beautiful day!

Quilted Basket

Here is what I made with the 3D pinwheels.

It's the basket for the swap. I hope my partner (her niece, actually) will like it!

There are not two baskets, just two different sides.

I made a nice boxed bottom just with the help of the iron.

In this way I iron all the bags with boxed bottom. If you bought my bag patterns, maybe you will want to try this on your bags.

At the end I press well the top edges.

Here is the flat basket, ready for shipping in an envelope.

 

It was fun to make it! And it is even more fun to see the endless possibilities!

3D Pinwheels

Fun! Fun! Fun!

I need only 8 blocks for my project but I dream of a quilt for a girl.

Happy Weekend!

And "THANK YOU" for your nice comments about Alex's quilt.
I am glad you like it.

Inspired by a Baby Boy

I am happy and excited to share with you my latest quilt! I enjoyed so much working on it - no wonder- I made it for Alex, my 8 month old nephew.

He can't yet build himself little castles from wooden blocks,

so here are the 12 little castles I built for him.

I started cutting and piecing the blocks thinking that this step will take me forever because all the blocks are different and I was surprised by how quickly I finished the piecing -in a day.

I love everything about this quilt!

 - the solid fabric, the color palette -

 - the design of the blocks -

- the fabulous textured quilting given by the cotton batting- something I don't use every day so that I can appreciate it even more -
 

- the wide binding (almost 3/4'') -

 

I am glad that I took the time to piece it from many colors - it's great! 

 

The quilting was fun, I mean FUN! And easy! SUPER-EASY!

If you are interested in free motion quilting, follow my blog because I have a few new ideas for a few FMQ lessons.

If you want to build yourself little castles, the pattern is available here:

I finished the quilt two weeks ago, I already gave it to Alex  (pictures soon) and I am still excited !

I should work now on my abandoned summer bags!