Borders are on!

Added the borders to my little quilt today. Next – deciding how to quilt it.

**Didnt see the little white dog stowaway on the left in this picture at first. Guess Aberdeen just can’t resist a photo op!

Stupid name, great effect

Picked up a new quilt ruler that has the unfortunately cutsie name, the Lil Twister. Ugh.

But it’s really cool to use. SO simple and the results are quite effective.

This:

Turns into this:

Just need to add some borders, quilt it and bind it and I’m done. I love this. Here’s a detail shot.

And here’s the ruler. SO simple!

Another quilt…..

Oh, dear. Freshly Pieced has come up with another quilt project that looks gorgeous. Add it to the list, I guess. So much fabric, so little time….

LOVE fabric deliveries!

Rather excited – got the fabrics in the mail today the I ordered to make the gorgeous Super Nova quilt.

I’ve wanted to make this one for a long time. Finally took the plunge and ordered fabric. Combined with what’s in my stash, I now have what I need to get going.

Here’s the happiness I got in today’s mail!

This is the adorable Backyard line. LOVE this – and there’s a little white dog in one of the prints so, of course, I had to have it.

Then there’s the tangerine stack. Not sure all of these will work for my quilt but there are a few that have the right orange and blue.

This Seashore stack has some great fabrics.

And this is the grey solid I choose for the background. The photo doesn’t show the colour properly. It’s much richer than this; more like the one in the photo of the finished quilt at the top of this post.

I have some additional FQs in my stash I’ll use to round out the fabric choices:

A couple more FQ stacks:

And some lighter grey prints.

Next step is to audition all the prints and make my final decisions. I think I need a total of 22 FQs. So I have lots to choose from!

The back is pieced!

I had lots of little strips of the fabrics I used in my black and white quilt top so I decided to piece the back, using them up. I’m really pleased with how it turned out. Now I can send it out to be quilted. Yeah!

Black and white quilt

Decided to piece the back of this quilt – because I haven’t sewn dozens of pieces together already!

Obviously, I chose a red solid (Kona) for the back. I do like the look of all the strata of leftover scraps from the front.

Three more seams to see and this will be ready for quilting! Yeah!

Valentine’s Mug Rug

This just makes me happy! Pretty colours.