Maple Leaves in Time for Fall

I made some big maple leaves. I used left over fabrics from a couple of quilts I made in the last couple of years.  I love using half-square triangles to make different quilt blocks. 

Finished the Monster Quilt!

A couple posts back, is a photo of the monster quilt layout on my design wall.  Now it is all done!  The zig-zags did turn out to be horizontal, but I like it fine that way. 


Ta-da!  The blue monster fabric is from Where the Wild Things Are.
I do not know the monster characters in the green fabric,
but they sure go well together. 

Completed: RW&B Scrappy Quilt

I have lots of red, white, and blue fabrics. I have some great ideas for busting some of that stash. I just finished a scrappy red, white, and blue quilt. It was a lot of fun and I learned you can make kind of pin wheels out of the darks and the lights. I hope you like it!

Make smaller triangles for a better design!



I get more zigzags if I use smaller triangles!

 I cut smaller triangles, so now I have more zigzags in this new quilt, I am working on.  I think the up and down zigzags look better than horizontal.  Well, I have got to quit working on this and go to the laundramat. 

P.S. I am irritated with Google for changing my photo layouts to be so small. It changes the whole look of my blog, which I work very hard to attain.  I have discovered, however, if you click on the photos you will see them bigger. But it messes up the look of my blog! Arrrgghhh!

New Quilt Coming Up!

I am starting a quilt made with triangles.  A friend has a friend with twin daughters who want monster quilts, so I provided the monster fabric from my stash.  Yesterday we decide she would make one and I would make the other. Hers is with squares and mine is with triangles, so they can tell their quilts apart.  Trouble is deciding on the layout with the fabrics at hand.

Layout 1

Layout 2

Layout 3

I love layout 3, but it does not mix the colors up enough, so I may need to cut smaller triangles, so I have three sections instead of just the two.
Tell me what you think of the three options? Will keep you posted!

Stack N Whack Quilt

A friend of mine showed me how to do the Stack N Whack quilt process.  I picked out some paisley for my quilt last October. It was on Columbus Day.  I started it in November and finally finished it last week.  The way I quilted it was stitch-in-the-ditch.  It took me so long because I have been busy with other things.  I am happy to have it finished. It is awesome!  This is me, Kirsten, and my first Stack N Whack Quilt.

Fabric from Sleepy Hollow Quilt Shop in Marsing, ID,
and from Craft Warehouse in Meridian, ID.

Learning to Stack N Whack

My friend and I went out to Marsing, to the quilt shop there.  They had so many wonderful fabrics.  I was looking for something to use in a Stack N Whack quilt, as my friend was going to be teaching some of us how to do that technique.  I found the nicest paisley in aqua, pink, and brown.  At the retreat in November, I learned how to do it and got all  my blocks finished. I am now adding the edge pieces and sewing it all together.  This is how it looks: