More blocks

A quick update on my ongoing monthly block projects.

The September block for StitchCraft's $10 BOM was easy.  I'm quite happy I decided to go with the neutral colorway, it's a big change for me.

The Queen Bee for September for the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild monthly bee asked for a wonky log cabin.  So I made one for her:

And one for the sample quilt that I'm making for myself as part of the bee.

Also, the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild decided to make a group quilt with a modern Florida feel.  We chose a fabric from the Kaffe Fassett line called "Paperweight" in the yellow colorway as the focus fabric.  I think it represents the Sunshine State without being cliche.

 

I went with a modern wonky dresden block featuring some improv piecing.  I'm calling it a "Modern Sun" block.  It say's "Florida" to me.

Modern Turtle Quilt

Over the past month I've been working on finishing up the many quilt tops I had laying around.  It feels good to finally get the quilts done and share them.

I found this fabulous chartreuse yellow fabric and absolutely LOVED it!!  I sketched out a simple block and got to work cutting out all the little pieces.

I went through my stash and scraps and picked out fun prints to go with it.  I was quite surprised how they all worked great together.  Now I didn't originally intend for this to have anything to do with turtles but after I started putting the blocks on my little design wall, I saw the turtles.  I kind of like it.

I quilted it with a simple allover meandering design.

I found this fabulous elephant print to use for the back.  I love the look of the chartreuse and purple together.  I think chartreuse will be used more often in my quilts.
 

Linked to "at the end of my hallway" @ from the blue chair

Call me surprised!!!

 What a way to celebrate my 100th post!!

My "Secret Garden" quilt was chosen as the winning quilt for the 2012 StitchCraft Challenge!!!  I can't wait till next year's challenge!!

If you are ever in Boca Raton, FL or South Florida please stop by StitchCraft!!  It is a fabulous shop!

Organization

Last weekend I was working with my scraps to work on a new project.

Since it was a bit of pain to dig through the scraps to find the next color I wanted to use, I decided to organize my scraps.

Thankfully I don't have too many scraps.  I like to use them for bee blocks or small projects so I can manage to keep the pile under control.  Mostly recently I worked on a mini ticker tape quilt that I made last weekend when I was trying to catch up on quilting my quilt tops (that will be a later post).

Now that the scraps are so well organized I couldn't let the fabric cabinet continue on it's downward spiral.  It was a never ending black hole.  I knew I had certain fabrics, like plain white, but could never seem to find them.

Looking around the Internet I saw some great ideas on fabric storage by making mini fabric bolts using comic book backing boards.  I spent Saturday afternoon organizing the fabric.  It didn't take long, I watched two movies while I did it.