Quilting for Claudia

Claudia is an excellent piecer. Following are two of her most recent... 

 Scrappy in Reds and Creams the blocks are nine patches with HST corners

 Claudia pieced the borders

 How about set on point? 

We decided on a block quilting design. It was repeated in each block with the thread color matching. We added a second motif in the HST corners in red thread which does show on the cream and created an Irish Chain effect. I love this quilt, wouldn't it be wonderful in Repros!?! 

The second quilt is modern, with greys and cream and we chose to do a straight line/squares quilting design that accent her piecing and fabrics.

 Fabrics are all stripe and plaids and dots on the back...

Claudia pieces most of her backs and this one really adds to the quilt. She plans to add red binding. 

Well done Claudia!

Wednesday, hump day already! and almost the first day of Summer. Were does the time go!!! Looking forward to the next part of Doreen's June Jelly Roll today. Check out her post... her Modern Day Jane is going to Show in the Vermont Quilt Festival's Celebrating Jane Stickle exhibit, curated by Brenda Papadakis. WOW!!! Congrats Doreen!

I am working on a quilt that was hand appliqued by Sally that will be donated to the guild. It's gorgeous and big, 98 x 98! We have a yard sale :0( aarg) planned for this weekend, I can work on my Medallion pieces then. Enjoy the day!

Design Wall Monday

Made progress over the weekend on my UFO Challenge quilts #8 and #7 :0) Simple Scrappy Pleasures is a 2002 BOM from Claudia's Quilt Shoppe, Click on the link for her current website. I made it in 2 sizes. UFO #7 is 80 x 88 and #8 is the wall hanging a quarter of the size at 40 x 44. On my design wall is the wall hanging: (notice my cheering bear and mountain goat squad :0)

Simple Scrappy Pleasures 40 x 44

Here is the lower left corner on the big quilt with its HST inner border:

Simple Scrappy Pleasures 80 x 88

Both have pieced outer borders with nine patch cornerstones. The wallhanging has 2 navy blue fabrics for the inner border and both have four patch inner cornerstones. Fabrics are all calico scraps from a sewing job I had in the '80s

Check out what other folks have on their design wall today at Patchwork Times. Judy is working on a gorgeous quilt she is doing for her Color Palette Challenge

JT2 ~ block 18 is prepared and ready for appliqué. This morning I took another look at Vintage Rouge BOM on Aunt Reen's blog. Check it out, it starts in May. I've been drooling over this quilt for a week!  Doreen also has a Modern Jane blog and QAL starting this month that I pulled fabric for. It's so hard NOT to start new projects and Brandie isn't setting a good example! ;0) 

We have rain in the forecast for this week, so far it's sunny today but a bit nippy and windy. Clouds over the weekend but not much rain so far. They say it's coming and possibly for the next two weeks! We need it and it always makes for nice quilting weather! Have a great week.