whackadoodle coconut

Yesterday was week two at quilting class I was able to get the rows sewn up and half of them sewn together.  I will be missing next weeks class, but I will be posting the "homework" so you can see the progress.  I hope to be on time still with the final product the following week - last week of class. I had some trouble this week sewing the pieces together, but I think I may have figured out how to work through it.  There are these tiny little 1 inch squares at each intersection which have really been tough for me to ease into the rows and keep their seams matched up.  Now, if I wasn't totally anal about it, it wouldn't bother me.  In fact there is one that refused to match and I am already in self therapy about it. I hope to get the rest of the top done today, work on the borders tomorrow and then Thursday get it basted to the back.  Then the following week, work on the quilting portion (in the shop when the teacher is there) and finally bound off on t...

This week starts the new quilting class and I am enjoying it as much as the last one.  That's a good thing since I will have a lot of homework for the class and will need to pay close attention to the instructions before I leave each week. This first week, I prepped, cut and sewed the 4 patch kaleidoscope squares together and then homework was to get the borders on each of the 36 squares sewn on.  Two full days later I have 36 squares with borders.  Frankly some are kind of crappy looking, but I need a seam ripper to take them apart and redo.  It's okay though, just like frogging the left side of a sweater full of cables and double knitting, it's necessary to look right. Take a look at the surprisingly easy process to get an innumerable number of squares from one fabric.  Actually you could easily count the number of squares it's 42 so far and probably another 36 if I cut the rest of the fabric totalling 78 DIFFERENT 6 1/2 squares. When I say it's easy, it...

Today was the day I was scheduled to choose new fabrics for my next quilt and I was super excited.  I looked online for the last week or so learning more about the kaleidoscope quilt that I would be making in the next class for a stacked 4 square quilt. I wasn't totally sure what I was looking for, even when I went to scope out some fabrics that I liked.  I chose a few that I thought would work well and I found two that I was especially fond of.  One with dragonflies and another that has sort of a paisley asian/indian print.  The dragonfly print was right out once I pulled it, mostly because the background was too dark. The asian print was my first choice (and it was a little pricey), plus since the print was over 24" I needed the largest amount of fabric.  Now let's see those fabric choices! Here together neatly stacked This is my post and binding fabric. Surprise its the same print at the dark green I bought for my other quilt, just a ligh...