Photo shoot!

My Patchwork Prism quilt is done! A big thank you to Sweet Diesel Designs for hosting this Quilt-Along. I really didn't think about the time crunch I would be putting myself under before I joined the Quilt-Along because I was completely mesmerized by the pattern by Anna Maria Horner for Janome. She's my fave, and I knew I had to make this quilt to get me back to the sewing machine. 
I wanted to photograph the quilt outside because I really love the look of the outdoor photos that other people have taken of their beautiful finished Patchwork prism quilts. So with the help of some of my coworkers, we headed to the Hudson River. Unfortunately, it was way too windy!

So we took it to the garden at St. Luke's and got some nice shots:

I made the whole quilt from fabric in my stash, including the back. The only thing I bought was the batting!

Here's where we got arty!

It was a lot of fun, and I am very happy that I joined the Quilt-Along. All of the quilts are beautiful; it is so fun to see how everyone executed the pattern.  

Patchwork Prism Quilt

Hi! I have not been keeping up with my posts--I've been mostly knitting--but when I saw this Quilt-A-Long, I knew I had to dust off my sewing machine.  I will be posting more photos and officially entering, but here is a photo of the finished product. Still life, with dog.

Summer Sampler Blocks are done!

Here's the last block:

And all of the blocks:

The next two Summer Sampler Series Blocks!

Block #10...

And Block #11, which I actually sewed together the wrong way, but I like how it looks and I am pretty lazy, so I am going to leave it as is.

The last block will be tomorrow!

Catching up with the Summer Sampler Series

I'm caught up! The blocks...

And where I am so far...

Summer Sampler Series...slowly but surely

So I am now three blocks behind, but here is my block #4. I'll get there!

In over my head

Okay, so the Rockin' Robin seems to require more of a time commitment than I can handle right now, and as much as I hate to admit it, I think I have to bow out. Maybe I can pick up the quilt later because I do like the blocks and designs, so we'll see. I am going to join in this Sew Mama Sew Quilt Along. It's a block a month. That I think I can handle!

Rockin' Robin

So I finished the first row, for which I made six blocks because I wanted two blocks of each of my stash bags--aqua, blue, and green--but because of time, I think I am going to cut it to four for the next row. So I'll have 2 blocks to make something of, maybe.  In any case, the finished row:

Summer Sampler Series Blocks 2 and 3

I  finished my first Summer Sampler QAL block last night. here it is!

I also am still working on the first row of the Rockin' Robin QAL, but I think I'll finish up tonight.  My fabric:

These are from scrap bags I bought from Purl Soho online. I had no business buying them because I have too much fabric to begin with, but I think they are going to make a lovely quilt. The background fabric is a Kaffe Fassett that I bought for a tile quilt that I am abandoning after two blocks due to its labor intensiveness. The blocks will be framed. 

Any-hoo, the first row blocks are dhaping up to look like this:

I am also doing this one!

There are so many talented people in the quilting and sewing community online, and in an effort to get to "know" some of them, I am also going to participate in this Qulit-Aong. 




I love the idea of breaking projects into smaller, sort of time-controlled elements.  I look forward to seeing what all of the blogger-sewists have come up with!

I am doing this!

I will post photos as I go!

So I never posted the bag. it is finished and Groucho gives it his stamp of approval. 

Fall project!

I LOVE the new seasonal Fall fabrics from Liberty of London. I am always obsessed with their prints, but I decided to finally splurge and buy a few yards to make a bag from Amy Butler's great book, Style Stitches. 

(Sorry the photos are so dark; I took them with my phone.)

I bought these beautiful prints:

And I got to work here:

 I have the evening to myself to work on it!

A beginning

Is it possible that I will have enough interesting things to say to support a blog? We will see...