Tulip Time Quilt Show

Today I went with a friend to a local quilt show.  We got to vote for our two favorites.

This was the first one I chose, "A  Touch of Whimsey" by Betty Balk.

 This was the second one.  I didn't get a clear picture of the designer or title. :(

I didn't vote for this one, but it is still cool.  Especially since it has tulips, which is what the festival celebrates.  (Although this year there were only stems since it was so nice out in early March.)

May goals

Here are the three things I really want to finish in May.

1. "Don't Touch Me"  - I just have the quilting and binding to do.
2. Create a pattern for Don't Touch Me

3. Finish quilting another baby quilt.

If time allows (haha) I want to do these things too...
1. Finish a shower curtain
2. Quilt another baby quilt
3. Try paper piecing and FMQ.  I was thinking of making some coasters.

I'm linking up with Traceyjay quilts and CrazyMomQuilts

 

April finishes

Ok, I don't really have a lot to show you. But I wanted to link up with Lily's Quilts, so I decided to do a summary anyway.

1. I finished my first pattern, Interlocking Pinwheels. I think the cool thing about this is that I can change the diagram colors to match the colors you're using.  No one has asked me to do that yet, but I figure there's still time.

2. I started "Don't touch me."  I'm quilting it right now, but quilting always takes me the longest.  I think I need to try a new technique so that it goes faster in the future.

 

Liebster Blog!

This week two lovely ladies gave me the Liebster Blog Award.  I was so excited to get it the first time, and amazed to get it the second time!  Huge thanks go out to Pauline at The Little House on the Hill and Heather at A Passionate Quilter

The award goes to your five favorite blogs with 200 or less followers.

So now I get to pick my favorites.  I spent quite a bit of time figuring out who to award, but here they are...

Rebecca at Pieces and Cream

Karen at Ramblings of...a novice quilter

Unnamed at LittleBook Notes

Phoebe at Pixiecup Industries

Diane at Life Scraps

Enjoy!

Quilt 13: clothesline

I put up a clothesline last week. Partially to help dry baby clothes (they take forever in the dryer!) and partially for my quilts.

Although it was nice and sunny this morning, it was almost too sunny. The nice background direction shows the quilt back through the front.

So here is the uglier direction.

I'm in the middle of quilting. It takes me forever to do the quilting and I have several more waiting in line. I'm also using white thread to quilt white triangles on the white pieces. But here's my question...I don't have enough colored thread to do all the little outside triangles. How should I quilt that area? Just the white triangles? Sometime else?

I'm linking up with Sarah's Whoop Whoop party on Friday, Quilting by The River on Tuesday, and WIP Wednesday.

Something new

My dad needed some pants hemmed, so I tried the blind stitch for the first time.  It worked well!  

I'd never changed the presser foot before, but it was significantly easier than expected.  I guess I can't use that as an excuse to not try new things now.

Quilt 13: HSTs

I finished piecing my quilt for the festival of half square triangles!  I'm a little sad that I wasn't able to completely finish the quilt by the deadline, but I'm just not that fast.  I am really happy with how it turned out though.

The top is called "Don't touch me."  The colors only touch each other at their points and the same color never touches itself.

The back is "Hug and make up."  I even made the corner squares (that look solid) out of HSTs, to preserve the pieced look.

I'm also linking up with Quilting By the River and Freshly Pieced