Night & Day quilt – Work in Progress Wednesday

Posted in Quilt patterns, Scrap quilts, WIP Wednesday by wombatquilts

Having just finished my gretchen block quilt top I decided that I wanted to do another modern take on a traditional quilt block. I settled on making the night & day quilt block using a grey and green color palette.

I am doing another paper piecing scrap quilt. I am really enjoying paper piecing again after 4 years of not doing even one foundation block/paper pattern. You can find quiltcache’s version of the Night and Day pattern here

I am only a day into this quilt and have already made a few blocks and a lot of mess. My work station is awash with grey and green fabric and my husband is now pulling grey thread off his shirts rather than the white he usually has to contend with.

I am really excited about how this quilt looks, even at this early stage. I am going to work hard to get it finished in the next week or so and promise to post the final quilt when it is done.

14Jan2013

Paper Piecing Monday

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

Today’s pattern is a fun one I think, and the one that looks most like a compass.

For the regulars you know the drill… the Quilting on the Sqaure pattern can be found here block10holidaycompass This block is a great one to add to your collection I think.

The block was easy to make, as again each piece is the same. I must admit I have a couple of blocks that I have started only to realise I have sewn the wrong colour in the wrong place, despite my expert colour coding system! A few of them I have unpicked and fixed and a few of them I had made such a mess I have abandoned them.

I also promised a look at how they are/or are not coming together as a quilt. So here you go….

What do you think?

9Jan2013

Gretchen blocks – work in progress Wednesday

Posted in Quilt patterns, Scrap quilts, WIP Wednesday by wombatquilts

At Project Linus there is a constant need for boys quilts and every now and then I make a conscious effort to make boy appropriate quilts. I must admit my fabric stash is full of wonderful florals, pinks, princesses, mermaids and other girlcentric fabric. I do try to make a lot of my quilts gender neutral – not too many flowers, appropriate backing fabric and minimal pink.

This week I pulled blues and oranges from the my stash and also raided my scrap boxes for little bits and pieces to make a quilt just for the boys. I kept the florals to a bare minimum.

After some pondering I decided to make a gretchen block quilt (partly because I love the irony of making a boys quilt using a girl named block and partly because it is a cool block). The gretchen block is an easy, traditional quilt pattern and Seven Stitches has a great tutorial on making it here. I actually went the paper piecing route and Quilterscache has a great paper pattern you can find here.

I have a pile of blocks made and a pile still to make. I have been playing with the layout of the blocks and looking at what size I want to make the finished quilt. Although this is a traditional quilt block, my interpretation is definitely modern.

I am loving how the pattern and colours work together and the scraps seem to add a really fun element to the quilt. I am excited to see how it all comes together.

7Jan2013

Paper Piecing Monday

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

I am loving starting the week with a fun paper piecing block. Today’s block is another fun one from Quilting on the Square. What I love most about these blocks is that you can make so many creative choices so that each pattern can make such different blocks.

The pattern is for this star can be found here block4flyinghome or at the Quilting on the Square site. Although there are some fiddly little pieces in this block it was an easy one to put together because each of the block pieces are identical. I still colour in the back of the block to remind me – better safe than sorry.

Next week I promise to take a work in progress photo so you can see how all the blocks are coming together.

Have a great Monday… and happy quilting!

4Jan2013

Flower Garden quilt finished

Posted in Finished Quilts, Scrap quilts by wombatquilts

If have finally finished my Flower Garden quilt. The quilt may look familiar as I use the unfinished quilt top to as my blog header, but here it is all completed….

There is an element of crazy to this quilt. I really wanted to just use all my bright floral fabrics in one simple quilt. The end result is loud, crazy, fun and bright. I LOVE IT.