Long Time Gone is a Jen Kingwell pattern I saw in Houston 2016 and liked. I found a Block of the Month on Homestead Hearth and ordered it, receiving fabrics each month over the course of a year--that started in February. Then I found a blog working on it, one block a week,
Gnome Angel and decided to use my own fabrics for the first one. This top will be finished in July. Here is what I have so far:
The sashing between these sets of blocks might be gray, or lavender, or something else entirely. Still on the hunt for the perfect background color.
Yesterday I received my swap quilt from Lori's
4th annual doll quilt swap :
This came to me from Jan H, in Markesan, WI. She hand quilted it, very lovely.
Here is the one I sent to Danice, only about 75 miles west of me:
I finished a small quilt the other day, part of the samples for my "Work Faster, Not Harder" class:
My free-motion feathers are getting better, practice makes perfect, so they say. I would forget the direction I was going so some of the feathers are not headed in the "right" direction but some baby doll won't care. The X blocks are 3" small, the instructions can be found on my
Tutorial, here.
Our guild program the other night was about "creative backs". Years ago I made a back that took almost as long to make as the front did, but I was determined to use up as much of the fabrics/parts from the front as I could, to NOT put anything away in the closet. I really like this back but didn't have a photo of it. So here is the Front of Purple Plus!:
And here is the Back:
And, wonder of wonders, Delta fixed my suitcase, this came home the other day:
They ordered a replacement pocket and fixed it--no more rip. Who knew they could do that?! It's ready for its' next trip in just a few weeks, to Spring Market in St. Louis, home of my grand-girl, Stella:
I am eager to do more ruler work quilting on the Ohio Stars quilt. I got lots of great information in classes in Chicago. Stay tuned,..,
Let's Quilt!
Barbara
