Monday, January 30, 2012

Design Wall Monday and Quilt Retreat

I had a great week.  I spent the first portion getting ready to attend quilt retreat.  I sewed strips and cut fabrics for special projects.  Below are the two quilts in progress that I worked on.  Then, I have a slide show of projects I saw during retreat.

First, here is my log cabin quilt I took out of my UFOs to move further along.  I needed to add two rounds to each of the blocks.  I only have 9 circles shown, but I have all 64 blocks completed, enough to make 16 full circles.  I'll lay this out on Friday during my craft guild meeting at work.  I'm looking forward to sewing the quilt top together.
 Then, I worked on the main retreat project for which I prepped the strip  sets at home.  The project is from Ricky Tims' book Kool Kaleidoscope Quilts.  If you haven't tried this technique, please do so.  I must warn you that it can become addicting.
Here is a link of a slide show of some of the participants and projects I saw at retreat.  We had so many projects going on among us.  "Ain't no mountain high enough" to stop the creativity.  For some reason blogger is not recognizing the YouTube video so click here.

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11 comments:

  1. lovely projects!! I love the circles so much. Thanks for the link.

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  2. I love all things Log Cabin... great job and I'll have to check out the kaliediscope method. I actually got some sewing in too. Finally... LOL

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  3. That Kaliediscope is FABULOUS!!!! I can see how it would be very addicting.

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  4. The log cabin is beautiful! I enjoyed the slide show as well. Looks like it was a fun and productive weekend.

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  5. These color selections are amazing.

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  6. Tea, I am preparing to go on a retreat next month. I am so excited I am about to brust!

    My problem is that I will only be gone from Thursday - Sunday and my list of items to work on keeps growing.

    I am lovin' your round log cabin!!
    R

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  7. Round log cabin and kaleidoscope look beautiful. May have to add them to my bucket list....

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  8. What fantastic colors you've got going on!! Sounds like retreat was fun ... I've got one next month and CANNOT wait! :)

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  9. Wow! How long was that retreat? It seems you all got lots and lots of things done. Thanks for the info about the kaleidiscope -- ricky timm's way. I may have to investigate it after I try a paper pieced/stencil version I already have. And your colors were gorgeous!

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  10. Love those log cabins!! What a neat effect!!

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  11. I really like your log cabins. I may just have to make something like that for me. And the kaleidiscops are wonderful.

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