One More Completed Top

I spent last Sunday finishing up a black and white floral quilt using my favorite "Fat Quarter Shuffle".  It is going to be a wedding gift for a colleague.

Wedding Quilt

The other quilt top is a donation top made from "Cinnamon Girl" by Robyn Pandolph.  I used "Turning Twenty Again" for this one.

Donation Quilt

The new executive committee for the Austin Modern Quilt Guild just planned and executed our first meeting as a team last night.  A good time was had by all.  We had a jelly roll drawing with jelly roll strips in QuiltCon colors.  This was to hype up the QuiltCon block challenge.  We also had a pouch swap that was loads of fun.  We did it White Elephant style and a couple of popular pouches got stolen the maximum three times.  Of course we had show and tell. It is really nice to see how many talented quilters we have in our group.

A Cutting Frenzy

I cut the block pieces for two more quilts.  For the first one I am going to use "Yellow Brick Road" and Moda Summer Breeze.  The second one is batik fabrics and I am using "Crazy Eights."  The Summer Breeze is for me.  I am a sucker for florals and this one is especially pretty in white, blue, yellow and green.  The second is for another donation quilt top.

Now to put everything together.

Picnic Quilt

Last weekend I finished up piecing my picnic quilt from Nature's Made by Moda.  It was all woven fabric.  I prewashed the fat quarters and they were not happy.  Had a little fraying here and there.  It did turn out cute.  My daughter and grandson should enjoy this.  She is a fanatic about blue.  I used my go to pattern "Fat Quarter Shuffle."  You cut six fat quarters at a time and then shuffle fabric in the different sized piles according to a certain order, i.e. take 1 and put it on the bottom.  Next pile take 2 and put on the bottom, etc.  It is quick to come together.

This weekend I am working on using up a couple more twelve fat quarter bundles of fabric I ordered on-line a couple of years ago.  My taste in fabric has changed over time and I am making some quilt tops that I can donate.  Someone will like that fabric I am sure.  I did not get the one that I finished done in time to take pictures so I will have to do that tomorrow.

I am thinking about getting a Juki TL2000Qi.  If anyone has any experience with a Juki machine I would appreciate comments.

Hover Quilt

I got my Hover quilt done from the pattern in Scrap Republic.  I had fun piecing all the logs.  It is nice and colorful.

Also other news.  We finally have an executive council, bylaws, rules and regulations and membership dues for the Austin Modern Quilt Guild.  We only had one volunteer for each position on the executive council.  It is a start.  I went bold and volunteered for President.  With Quiltcon coming to Austin in February it should be a jammed pack year for us.

Jungle Quilt

Okay.  I got a little carried away on ebay buying fabric a couple of years ago.  Some of the fabric choices were a bit iffy.  I am trying to find a good use for some of that fabric.  Here are my six jungle fat quarters and four fat quarters of some bright Free Spirit solids put together using the pattern "Rainbow's End."  I think I am going to just use a solid for the backing but I am not sure what color.  My husband said I need to trim it in yellow.  I bought thread to match each of the solids so it will be interesting to see what I can do with it.

I finished up my June block for my block swap and sent it off last week.  My first wonky log cabin block.  I should say second,  I had trimming problems on block #1.  

Today I am going to get started on a quilt from "Scrap Republic".  Let's put it this way, I cut a lot of logs over the weekend.  

New Projects

I finished up a quilt top that I gave to a long arm quilter that is looking for charity quilt tops.  This was a different pattern for me.  It is Strip Twist made with partial seams.  It was easier than I thought.  I had 20 jelly roll strips.  Just enough for a baby quilt size.  I made it just to learn a new technique.  Sorry about the picture.  I could not get it right no matter what.

Strip Twist

I also pieced together a table runner from 1 charm pack and 1/8 yard fabric.  I found the pattern Petit Fours at the Moda Bake Shop.  I used a charm pack of Luna Note.  I hope to get it quilted this weekend.  I have a bigger office at our new location and a credenza that needs some sprucing up. The strips are 1 1/2" wide.  Cutting 27 charm squares into three pieces took more time than sewing it together.  

My first table runner

Sun, Moon & Stars Wall Hanging

My first original project.  I designed it myself.  I did use a paper piecing pattern from rightpatterns for my sun.  I used my own embroidery machine for all the lettering.  The wall hanging was for a friend for his son's 11th birthday.  He provided the photos and I had my first experience with printable fabric.  It did not turn out as clear as I hoped but the pictures were still pretty good.  It felt good to come up with my own design.  I can really appreciate the work that goes into coming up with a unique design.  I still would tweak it a little if I were to do it again.  My friend was very happy with it and that was the important thing.

It is a little hard to see, but the binding is TaDaDots by Michael Miller.  I won a $25.00 gift certificate from Sky Reve on A Quilting Life's blog giveaway.  Guess what I bought.  Yep.  TaDaDots.  They were perfect.