Whoop whoop Friday

I've started working on a quilt with HSTs.  (Half Square Triangles) (Speaking of which, shouldn't it be HTSs?  Then the adjective is triangle, and it describes the square.  Not squares describing the triangle.)  Anyway...I got a quarter of it put together today.  But the big yellow triangle seems to be the slightly small, so some of it might be coming back apart.

I also worked on making a pattern for interlocking pinwheels.  If anyone is interested in reviewing it, please see the details here.

I'm linking up with Sarah again this week!

WIP: it keeps changing

This (Quilt 11) is supposed to be my main WIP.  However, I don't have enough fabric for the back.  Maybe I'll try and get some tomorrow.

While waiting to get the backing for the quilt above, I started working on a shower curtain (project 12). It'll have a disappearing nine-patch.  I didn't realize that there was an easier way to make a disappearing nine patch until I had started to cut pieces, but after these are put together I'll start using the easier way.

Then I decided to join Canoe Ridge Creations' HST festival.  I'm not sure I can turn out a quilt in the allotted amount of time, but I can probably at least get it pieced.  And maybe I'll surprise myself.

I'm joining up with Lee at Freshly Pieced as people share their works in progress.

Pattern Review

I recently became a stay-at-home mom and thought I would try to sell some quilt patterns.  If it works, awesome.  If it doesn't, oh well.  However, I don't know a lot of quilters and so was wondering if anyone would be interested in reviewing the first one I've written, called Interlocking Pinwheels.

The cool thing about the pattern is that I can make the diagrams match the colors that you are actually going to use.

So if you're interested, and can have the pattern reviewed within a month, please leave a comment with the colors that you would use.  If I am lucky enough to get several responses, I'll probably choose one at random and one based on the colors.  I'm afraid that I can't offer you a lot in return, but I will give you a finished .pdf copy of the pattern with your original colors and a second copy with another set of colors if you would like to give it away.

Quilt 11: pieced

I finished piecing quilt 11 today.  It went together faster than I expected.  I had some trouble trying to get the points to appear lined up, but I think it turned out ok.

I'm joining up with Sarah's Whoop-whoop party.

Quilt 11 and Project 12

I've slowly been working away at some sewing at night.  A new baby and a new house don't leave a lot of time for quilting, but I can't complain.

I've started quilt 11 (idea from here)

and I bought fabric for a shower curtain in our new house (project 12).  I expect this will be the most expensive shower curtain I'll ever see, but I bought the fabric with a gift card so I can just enjoy making it!  I'm not 100% sure that I'll use all the colors below...we'll see how the mood hits me.  I also didn't make any measurements for how much of everything I needed, so that could make it interesting too.

I'm also joining up with Sarah's linky party

Quilt 10: Isaac's quilt

I finished the quilt for my son about a week ago.  Hurray!

The pattern is called November Stars by Marge Gordon.

And of course, here is Isaac enjoying the quilt on his six week birthday.  He spends a lot of time on it.

Quilts 8 & 10: progress

Quilt 8: The top is finally all put together, although I need to trim the edges.

Quilt 10: I've finished all the big stars for my baby's quilt. Actually, I finished a lot of the small stars too, but because of the extra orange star that I made I ran out of fabric. I found some of the browns still at the fabric store, but now I need to wash and cut it.