Week Three City Tiles QAL

This is the end of week three of the City Tiles Quilt Alongby Quilty Love and we were to make three blocks.  I have two complete and one almost there, I plan to finish it by the end of this evening.  Here are my three from this week.

 

I’m enjoying these blocks and progressing through this quilt at a nice pace (let’s see if I do keep up).  The finish size for the 18 inch large block quilt is 72” by 72”.  Happy to be using this fabric which my mom picked and gave me as a gift. 

Purple Cogs

Purple/lavender is the colour for February for the RainbowScrap Challenge (RSC), so I have started the month with the purple cog quilt blocks.

 

I realize when taking the picture that one of the blocks looks more (hot) pink, however this fabric actually blended better with all my purple/violet fabrics than with pink.  Also the very dark purple is looking almost black, here is another picture with some sunlight.

 

After doing the cogs blocks in blues for January, I realize that it is good to keep the corner cogs more equal in tone to the other cogs, so I tried to be conscious of that when making my purple blocks.  The Cogs pattern is by Leila Gardunia and you can find it in the Summer 2015 edition of Fons & Porter’s Scrap Quilts.

You can see what other Rainbow and purple projects are on the go at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, enjoy.

January’s OMG completed

Quilted and bound my One Monthly Goal for January is complete.  This Gold Tone Single bed size Mile a Minute quilt has been hanging around waiting to be quilted for a while.

 

The borders, cornerstones, sashing and backing are Kaffe Fassett fabrics.  The borders and cornerstones are Millefiore, the sashing I believe is Woven Haze and the back of the quilt is called Parasols. 

 

The Millefiore and parasols inspired me to use a pantograph called Spirals by Denise Schillinger.

 

If you are interested in making a Mile a Minute quilt, I have a tutorial that starts here.

I’m linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal (OMG), and I think I’ll check out a few of the other completed projects, as I’m sure I’ll find some inspiration there.

City Tiles Quilt Along W2

For week two of the City Tiles QAL we were to make a test block, cut the rest of the fabric and then go ahead and make two more blocks.  As I already had the fabric cut from week one (I just couldn’t stop) it was time to make a test block, here is my first block.

 

I really like how this is looking.  Once again, I’m using the pink fabrics my mom gave me in some fat eights bundles, the blue green corner fabrics are from my stash, and I decided to use an assortment of whites from my stash, so far all fabric I had on hand.  It feels good to be playing through my stockpile of fabric.  Here are two more blocks, they are a little more true to colour.

You can find the quilt along at City Tiles QAL and the week two post at Quilty Love.  It’s an Instagram quilt along, however I’m following and participating on my blog.

Baby’s Block

This is my son Kevin’s baby quilt from 41 years ago - today is Kevin’s birthday.  Baby's Block was probably the first quilt I ever completed. 

Before Kevin was born I took a quilting class at SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) and this was one of the quilts I made during the class.  I was attracted to geometry in quilt blocks and liked the three-dimensional look of the baby’s block pattern.

The instructor was teaching us how to tie quilts, so this little quilt was tied, however I decided the ties should be on the underside of the quilt, to give contrast and decoration on the solid white back of the quilt, I felt the tie detail would be lost on the front of the quilt.

Kevin, who has three boys of his own, has this quilt at his home now.

Happy Birthday Kevin.

City Tiles quilt-along

I’ve decided to join in the City Tiles QAL, I saw a picture of the block on Pinterest, and was interested and while reading about City Tiles realized that it called for Fat Eights, I had a bunch of co-ordinating Fat Eights that my mom had given me and was wondering what to do with them.  City Tiles was the inspiration that I needed.

Week One is to Prep, Order (plan) fabrics, Plan out the quilt top. I guess I’m a little ahead of the game, I bought the pattern, started playing with the fabric and then cut everything (opps, that’s week two).  Here’s what I’ve got.

I’m trying to come up with a name of my version of City Tiles, perhaps Loretta’s (my mom’s name) Tiles, or Inspired by Loretta, any other ideas? 

Unfortunately I won’t be able to play along on Instagram, I can follow and view pictures on my computer, however I don’t have a device to download the Instagram application to.

It seems that this January is a time of starting, I think this is the third quilt I have started this month.  Feeling inspired.

You can see the quilt and start of the QAL at Quilty Love.

Cogs

Along with other projects I have on the go for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, I have decided to work on a quilt called Cogs by Leila Gardunia.  As we have 10 months of colours to play through and I will need 48 of blocks to make a full-sized quilt I plan to make 5 blocks in each colour.  Here are my first 5 with the main colour of the block in light to medium blues, our January colours.

My friend Sandra is making this quilt, and I really liked that she was using srappy fabrics for the background.  I love scrappy and I felt it gave the blocks more appeal.

As I was making my blocks I needed to add the second colour in the cog as well as the centre piece, so I have gone ahead and pulled some fabrics in my stash for future months, following Angela’s colour plan for the 2018 RSC.

You can find this pattern in the Summer 2015 edition of Fons & Porter’s Scrap Quilts.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one’s individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi