WIP Wednesday #13

This week I completed the Rose of Sharon Wall Hanging.  I spent lots of time quilting!  Fun!!


First I went around the outside of the 'wreath flowers' then inside the vine, leaves, and flower center...

 
Then I quilted a round feather design in the center - you can see that I'm using a variegated thread which helps to make the quilting stand out...

And I quilted the corners with another feather design...

I finished up the flying geese and pinwheel border with a straight stitch pattern...

Added the binding and here it is!

 This will hang at the Camp! I love working with these bright colors!!  Now on to the quilt to cover the space to upstairs to help keep the heat in this winter....


The other project that I made some headway on is the  Bottled Rainbow - ticker tape quilt

Steph and I decided to reduce this project's size due to time restraints.  We are doing 3x3 instead of the standard way and they're a bit smaller too.  Steph narrowed the colors down and set the placement.  Got the background pieces attached and here's the layout  :)

We have LOTS of fabric collected and started cutting and layout pieces....  Hopefully have more pictures for next week!

All for now - happy quilting!!



Completed Projects:  Rose of Sharon wall hanging
 
New Projects: none (new jelly rolls are still calling to me!)

Ongoing Projects: Worked on this week: also see no progress
Eric's Browning Quilt (Christmas present 2010!!!)- hand sewing binding :)
Bottled Rainbow - ticker tape quilt - Continue collecting fabrics & attached borders :)


Ongoing Blog Projects-monthly: include donated amounts - shows one person CAN make a difference!!!
4 Patch 4 Hope - 72 4-patch blocks (November next)
Block Lotto - monthly - November
Valor Quilt Bee (Month 1)

No progress:
Berry Bliss Twin Quilt 2of2 played with several designs... still deciding pattern 8/17/11 (got some fat quarters for this!)
Mason's graduation quilt - Back - continued - cut out fabric and started to assemble blocks 8/31/11
Snowman Quilt - top together awaiting borders, quilting, and binding 8/17/11
Boat Log Cabin Quilt 8/17/11 - took pictures - hanging in sewing area
Row Robin Sampler Quilt! have 5 strips of four blocks each... MoVeD the rows around... Still Thinkin...  8/24/11
Sunflower Glacier Star -Completed June's block - 4  behind now! progress!!! 9/4/11
SVQG - Mystery Quilt - Received instructions month 2&3!! - 9/9/11
Jelly Roll 1600 quilt! - completed top :)  10/5/11 - thinking I'm going to add some flying geese?!?
Two baby quilts! - pinks using D4P design - still piecing blocks...

This week’s stats:
New projects – 0
Completed projects – 1
Currently in progress –15

Rose of Sharon & Flying Geese?

I took my first machine applique course this past Spring and I don't know WHY I waited SO long!!  This one course taught by Carmen Geddes took ALL my fear of machine applique away :) 

This is a project - my second machine applique piece!, using the pattern from the class.  I am once again using the Hard Candy Batik fabric collection.  This collection just doesn't get boring!  So many colors... So many ideas!!  This is the center piece of the wallhanging which is from the class:

Rose of Sharon

From here it's my own design.
I went crazy making 4 paper pieced strips of Flying Geese with the rainbow colors:

15 colors in this Rainbow Flying Geese strip.

I played around with how to attached them...  Facing down, facing up, Left to right, right to left???  And what to do in corners....  I decided to use Pinwheels in the corners:

4 Colors in this corner Pinwheel (note the pin?)

And this is how I brought it all together:

Now I have to decide how to quilt and bind this wall hanging.


Did you notice the PIN in the pinwheel picture above?  I have become so relaxed with our new place that this project has been hanging on the wall UNFINISHED for over a month!  Maybe I shouldn't be so proud of that?!  Oh well...