May Table

My table is set for May. It is called Easter Basket. If you want to know the story of this quilt you can click this link and read the posts. The idea started in 2015 when I sent Julie a stack of fabrics for her to cut the tumbler shapes. I got them back, played with them, but the idea hit a wall because the colors were so wimpy. I ended up sending a second batch of fabric to Julie later that year but I never got back to the quilt until 2017.

The Table Quilts & A Few Ideas

When I visited my pal Julie in 2013 I was surprised to see a quilt covering the table in her kitchen. I thought it was a good idea to protect the table and a nice way to show off a quilt. I inherited my grandmother's mahogany dining room table, and I have to keep it covered to protect the surface. A quilt would do that quite nicely.  Over the years I have made seven.

I use the rail fence quilt, Picnic Table in January.

I wanted a red and white quilt for February. This is Peppermint Swirl.

I made a black and white Slashed Squares quilt for the month of March. I call it Terrazzo.

I like using "Hidden Treasure," the quilt Julie made for me using my leftover bits for April.

The Tumblers quilt, Easter Basket, is the one I use for the month of May.

I like using the Blue Deco quilt for June, and the rest of the summer.

The Fall House Top quilt is the one I use for November and the big Thanksgiving Feast.

The Christmas Random Plank is the quilt for December.

I like having different quilts for each month, but if I do that, I am missing quilts for July, August, September and October.  So I had to think about that. Do I really want to have a quilt for each month of the year?  YES! What would I do for those? My birthday is in July, so I knew that would have to be something special.

The quilts I have tend to be seasonal colors, so according to that August should be hot colors or red orange and yellow. September is probably my favorite month of the year - the weather is perfect, and October is peak fall foliage season, so that means reds, yellows and oranges with some greens and blues. Well, ok, but August and October aren't anything alike, and I don't want them to have the same colors. Maybe August could be beach colors - sandy tans for the beach, light blues for the sky and blue greens for the ocean...

I like that idea for August, so that's a go.

When I started looking at fabric shops online the idea for July came to me like a thunderbolt.  

I like Pink, and although it isn't necessarily my favorite color, I wear a lot of it because I look good in it.

 So the quilt for July will be Pink. (Then I bought about 13 yards of 28 different pinks!)

I like the quilts to be different designs too. I want to make a scrap slab quilt for one of these, and when the Wavelength quilt showed signs of looking three-dimensional, I got out my little notebook and did this drawing. It looks like a honeycomb, and as soon as that word popped into my head I knew that would be the theme of this quilt and that it would be the quilt for October.

And for that quilt, I may very well use White on Black fabrics for the dark side triangles instead of just darker Black on Whites. I'll experiment, of course, and see. I've got plenty of time.

That leaves September, but I'm not going to worry about that at all. I only have color ideas for July and August, and that's never stopped me in the past, but I do have a very specific idea for October, so that's where I'll start.

The next quilt is: Honeycomb, in Golds, Oranges, and Yellows for October!

Easter Basket is Finished

My Tumbler quilt is finished. I've been sewing the binding down in the evenings. Because this quilt has summery colors, I wanted to finish it so I could use it on the dining room table while it is still summer.

I made it to use in Springtime, but why wait?

Binding Easter Basket

I attached the binding for the tumblers quilt, Easter Basket, last night.

I'll pin it over to the front and hand sew it down. This will be a table cover for my dining room table.

One, Two, Three

It's always fun to get a quilt back from being quilted, but yesterday I got to pick up THREE of them.

Treasure Trove

Snow Day

 Easter Basket

I'm halfway through the binding of Fruit Loops, and I have to get ready for a Barn class at QT on June 10th, so I don't know when I'll get these finished. I have binding fabric chosen for Treasure Trove, but not for the other two.

I left Terrazzo and Jewel Box to be quilted, but I won't pick those up until early July. I have a lot of binding in my future.

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To Cherie who asked if I sewed while "listening" to the TV during a sporting event, or just sewed during the "downtimes."

Cherie, it depends who's playing and which match it is. If it's a final that involves my favorite player or team, (Roger Federer, or the New England Patriots), then I watch the game. If it's a regular game, or like all day tennis, I sew nonstop. There are always replays of a very good point, so I don't miss much. Generally I use the commercials to make a pit stop, refresh my water, get a snack or just to stretch.