Monday, July 26, 2010

Design Wall Monday

Knowing that this week my scrap quilting club was meeting, I went right to work, sewing the remaining rows to my cathedral stars quilt top.  After that, I decided to go ahead and add the borders as well.  I did make a small change to the design by piecing the setting triangles instead of using plain traingles.  This small change just made the edges finish with 16 patches instead of 12 squares.  This is one top I'm glad to be done with the piecing.  Sorry about the tree leaves shadows on the photo.

Here is the mystery quilt top I couldn't show you a few weeks ago.  My scrap quilting club met yesterday and now I can have the big reveal.  To learn more about this quilt and to see some in different colorways, go to this post.

I got a few steps completed on a WIP.  This mock log cabin quilt was started in September 2009.  I don't know why I put it up as it is really simple.  Maybe I didn't like the colors as they are not usually my bright jewel tones.  Although I couldn't get the colors to show up correctly at night, this is a pretty quilt and reminds me of tiles.  This will be a quilt for a male family member.  I need to work on my family/friends quilt list as I only have about 10 more to make.  Before you ask, the number needed was well over 100.  My goal is to make everyone in my family a quilt from my grandmother on down the family tree.  Some of them have managed to get more than one from me.  I still need to pick a fabric and add one more plain border before this one is done.

Judy has links to more design walls on her site.
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Type-u-later,
Tea in MO
http://www.teaquilts.com

10 comments:

  1. Wow is that cathedral stars gorgeous!!!!! I can see why you are happy with it and that the piecing is finished. I love jewel tone and rich colors myself but the mock log cabin is great. Very pretty and your scrap club will be so thrilled to see it. I wish we had something like that around here....

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  2. Oh nice quilts Tea! variety is the spice of life! I just love the cathedral stars. Nice that you're working on the mock log cabin, it's been very patient.

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  3. I am very happy wth the way that crystal stars turned out too! It is beautiful. And I love the scrap mystery.

    glen in Louisiana

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  4. Wow, you have been very busy! The Crystal Stars is gorgeous!!! I love all the scrappy mysteries from your group.

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  5. Tea, I like the change you made to Cathedral Stars :) I popped over to Bonnie's blog to see what you were explaining and it spices up the edges.

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  6. What a fabulous quilt. Hard to imagine that you are making a quilt for every member of your family. That is a lot of quilts. How long will it be until everyone has one?

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  7. Your cathedral stars is beautiful. And I really like the mock log cabin. I have never seen that design.

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  8. Love your projects this week! You have such a good color sense!

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  9. Wow...you sure set your goals BIG! I thought I was doing well to get a quilt to each of my 14 nieces and nephews! Love the Cathedral Stars!

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  10. OMG....the cathedral star quilt is my favorite but I like them all. Your color choices are great and well thought out.
    Take care.

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