My Design Board

This is my design board after I had taken the service quilt off -- although as you can see, what with the one remaining star from the service quilt still hanging on the board, this was taken before the service quilt was finished.

Uncovering the board seemed to change the tenor of the room. Colourful chaos now reigns everywhere.



Since I turned the service quilt in, I have been working on completing some unfinished projects, but I have yet to tackle any of these on the board. The red place mats are already quilted. All I need to do is pick a fabric for the back side. Actually that explains why I have yet to tackle that project; choosing fabrics for the backs and to use for the binding is not my favourite part of any project.

Round Robin Service Quilt

Well my round for this service quilt is done.

I think my design works -- it looks like one, more more or less unified quilt top -- but I am afraid the quilt is a bit off kilter/wonky. You can see the warble in the fabric as it hangs. The problem is a bit exacerbated by the fact that I don't have it hung quite straight and it is laying over a nail, but it really is a bit wonky. I had a small accident with my cutting and the light blue fabric had a propensity to behave as it wished rather than as I wished.

One More Red Flower

Works in Progress

A few of the projects I am most actively working on.

Fighting Fishes


The beginning of two blocks, photographed on my ironing board. This block, "Fighting Fish," was my guild's block of the month, back in March, for Pisces, but I didn't get around to making one then, barely thought about it even, but somehow it sunk into my subconsciousness and I've been thinking about for the last couple months. That little 3x3 block was one of the hardest I have ever made. The complete 12 inch block calls for four of the pairs of fish and for the rest of it to be made of the background colour. I haven't finished them off, because I don't think there will be enough contrast -- somehow I am going to add contrast in the middle.


Mini Quilt


This little piece is mainly made from left over pieces from another unfinished object. I am not quite sure how I will finish off the top and bottom borders. I kind of think I need to extend an orange triangle into one of the borders -- probably the top as that will leave the blue star on the cream fabric slightly more visible than if I were to extend the orange triangle in the lower right.


Service Committee Round Robin



My goal here was to increase the size and to increase the scale. If I maintained the scale of the six inch nine patch blocks I felt the whole would become chaotic. I wanted to add an element that would allow the small blocks to read as one area of playful blue and yellow. So I am adding a large blue and yellow box around the smaller box. It might be working although a slip with the rotary blade which has made one side is a bit short has me in a bit of a snit.

Late Summer Colour