He Likes It!

This is the youngest of my "fairy nephews" on the quilt I made for him (his mother refers to him on her blog as the "caboose" meaning he's the last one).

The quilt is a red white and blue version of "Sliced" from this book.

I think he likes it.

Sliced is Finished

The red, white and blue Sliced quilt is finished, and will be soon be flying to my little nephew for whom it was made.

I'm sure he'll love it to bits.

FOUR

Anybody who knows me knows that if I'm excited about a project I work on it every single available minute.  The Flying Pigs have languished on my design wall. It just isn't singing for me. Fortunately I have a distraction.

I got a box of quilts back from Chris, who does my longarm quilting.

 First, the low-volume Crayons.

Next, the Bright Crayons,

 And here's a detail of the Black Crayons, showing Chris's wonderful quilting.

 Finally, Sliced, for one of my "fairy nephews." (If you're a Fairy Godmother, you get to have Fairy Nieces and Nephews.)

I've already added the binding to the low volume Crayons quilt.

Home Sweet Home

My quilts arrived back home yesterday.

After an extended stay in Memphis with Julie, the sampler quilt, Letters From Home, is back on the wall for which it was designed. I've missed it.

The Black Box, Nine x Nine and Magic Happens are all back where they belong. (Note the space bags on the floor at the right.)

I had to unpack the two giant boxes that came back from Memphis because today is trash day, and I wanted to get the boxes into the recycle bin.  I'll tell you about the goodies Julie and Larry included later. Last night was the Project Runway finale, and I had to watch that.

I also received the fabrics I ordered for the Chicken quilt. Chris gave me a few scraps of good stuff too. I've been washing and ironing all that. I'll show you later.

I changed my mind about the backing of the Sunburst Rainbow quilt. I've selected something else, and I've also chosen the binding. You'll see.  I'll be using that gray and white zig-zag for the back of the Sliced quilt, and I think that one will have a red binding. I know where both these quilts are going.

I have to finish the Rainbow Baby quilt, and the Spools quilt. Both need binding.

And I have to clean the house. Oh well.

And I bought myself the new Kindle Paperwhite, which I love. I sent my old Kindle to Kidbean, the oldest of my "fairy nephews." His Mom reports I may hear the sonic boom of joy when it arrives at their house later today.

:-)

Sliced - The Flimsy

This pattern was from Amy Ellis's Modern Neutrals book, but you know I'm not a big fan of mashed potato quilts.  I like the punch of the red.

This is about 54" square.

Sliced, again

While waiting for the fabrics I ordered for the Chicken quilt to arrive, I'm finishing up the Sliced quilt. I made all the blocks, sliced them apart and matched them up and resewed them together.

Next I had to trim them to 10" square. I didn't have a ruler big enough to do that. Hmmm.... What did I use?

A six inch ruler, a four inch ruler and some blue painter's tape.

Once the blocks were trimmed, I worked on the layout and started sewing some rows together. This is where it's going, and I like it.

Slicing and Dicing

I've made all the blocks for my Sliced Quilt, it's time to "slice" them in half.

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 Now the real fun begins.

Sliced, the Lights

I've made all my dark blocks for my Sliced quilt. Now I am working on the light blocks. I think this quilt is going to be fun.

There are three blocks of each style.

Here are the dark blocks:

Yeah, I think I'm going to have some fun with this.

Slicing for Sliced

I have decided I have WAY TOO MUCH FABRIC and need to start whittling it down by making some "normal" quilts.  That means I have to find "normal" designs I find interesting. About a week or so ago, Jacquie posted a photo of "Sliced" from Amy Ellis's Modern Neutrals book.

You all know how much I love neutrals, right?  NOT!

They bore me to tears. But I liked this design, and I have to make a quilt for a special little rug rat and I thought this could be fun. So I've got the book and I've selected my fabric and the other night while watching Elementary on OnDemand, I cut out all the strips.

One thing that bugged me was that Amy's instructions didn't indicate which fabric was which. She mentions A1, A2, A3, D1, D2, D3 and D4, and I know that means Lights (A) and Darks (D) but I wanted to know which of the fabrics she used was which so I could make my own substitutions while keeping the value distribution she had designed.

After cutting out the fabrics I did a little reshuffling and more cutting.

 While dinner bubbled in the slow-cooker, I sewed the dark blocks together. Naturally I did a bit of fabric rearranging.  Next up, the light blocks.