I thought I'd share my most recent projects with you.
First is this tool bag which is entirely hand pieced and is intended as a birthday gift:
Here are the makings for a second, similar bag for another friend:
I finished a small quilt from a pattern by McKenna Ryan last Thursday -- this design is called Harmony:
I actually bought all nine patterns in this collection of designs, thinking that I would make them for my beloved daughter and her new husband. I don't know if you can tell from the photo, but these quilts are intended to be mounted on stretcher bars so they hang on the wall like paintings. I really enjoyed making this one enough to pursue making the others, I think. :)
This was the first time I ever used McKenna's method for finishing the edges of fused designs -- she does a free motion straight stitch just inside the raw edge around all the fused pieces. It was not nearly as hard as I expected to do that, so I might use her methods more often. :)
I have several other projects in my mind, gestating, waiting for time to make. Here are a couple of the more recent ones. :)
First, an antique applique quilt for my bed at home (where we have three cats and a dog) -- a very nice 'cheater' cloth design in early 1800's colors:
Each of these blogs are about 24" square and I have eight of them (was all the yardage they had at the store where I bought the print). Someone I know professionally was there while I was having this cut -- she walked up to feel my forehead, laughing because this is NOT the type of fabric I usually buy. :) Mimi suggested that I could applique one block in the same pattern for the center of a nine-by-nine block set -- no way, Jose! Maybe something pieced. (grin) Not wasting my applique time, precious as it is, on cat claws. LOL
The next piece of fabric I bought I do not know how I will make into a quilt -- what pattern, whether this will be the border, no idea. Could not leave it behind, though. :)
Soft colors, tapestry style print texture, beautiful Renaissance angels -- what's not to like? :)
As you may know, I have a passion for the Daiwabo-style Japanese prints -- taupes, beiges, soft colors and antique reproduction (Japanese) prints. I found a wonderful tote bag kit at a shop that carries the Daiwabo fabrics (there were so many beautiful prints there, I was frozen with indecision -- and at about $17 to $20 per yard, no way I can buy it all:). Anyway, here is a shot of the kit contents (I did not think to take a photo of the bag sample hanging beside the kits, and there is no photo in the instructions).
I am hoping to make this tote up sometime soon. (sigh)
What are you working on? :)