Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Summer Play

While working in our yard this June, I would daydream quilting ideas. So many things I saw at market were fused on, rather than pieced. I decided I wanted to join the fun.
 The other day was rainy, so it was a perfect time to start. First I fused some squares of batik. I cut them into curved 1/2" strips using the Cut A Round tool. Then I arranged them on several larger background squares and fused them into place. This is what my first squares looked like:

I had thought I would continue making a total of 9 blocks, alternating between the greenish backgrounds and the purplish backgrounds. Nah...didn't like that after making four squares.

So I cut the two purple squares into fourths and added a ninth smaller piece:Next I added lattice pieces between the squares and surface stitched all sorts of lines using decorative stitches on my new sewing machine.

 I studied the left over green squares and found I liked them the best. So I made a couple more to sew together into a tablerunner or long wallhanging.

If you would like to have instructions on how I made my squiggly slivers, go to my website freebie pattern page. The download is found there.

Next project I'm planning is a Yucca plant using the slices you see here and there in these pieces!

Until then,
Happy Quilting,
Cheryl
 

 

 

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Comments

• Oh, my! Your patterns are just OMG. I am in Littleton, via Rapid City, SD.
  by Helen White on 18 March 2012 at 12:57 a.m.
• Thank you, thank you, thank you for your Christmas gift! I can't wait to try your very clever and imaginative patterns. Sorry, but the garden is sleeping right now. You'll really get those weeds in July, though.
  by Jean Walenta on 18 January 2012 at 5:29 a.m.
• Only you can be so inspired by yard work!! Can't you see yardage done like this then cut into jacket or vest pattern, sewn and then beading and embelishments added. Talk about a designer origional!!
  by vicky g beckner on 03 January 2012 at 7:39 p.m.
• Something different for you and worth every weed you pulled! If yard work stimulates your creative juices, please drop on by and pull all mine. I guarantee you will produce great plans. Just joking, of course, since we are having such an bad drought that our butterflys are carrying water jugs as they fly around. Great work! Nadine
  by Nadine Medlin on 05 September 2011 at 12:51 p.m.