Saturday, 13 March 2004

I've been working very sporadically on the setting kit for Jo Threads. I'm just about finished piecing a checkerboard internal border. I mixed up their suggested layout of the squares, but decided that I don't care. Once that's on, then I need to do the internal red border, and thanks to Carrie I will have the fabric I need for that.

I haven't gotten back to the bargello placemats in a few weeks because 1) I think I want to finish the Jo Threads top and set that aside and 2) I'm at a stage in the bargello that requires techniques I've never tried before and I haven't had the time to set aside and think about it yet. Soon though.

The way this year is going, I fear that my quilting ambitions might not be realized. I had hoped to be much further along. Oh well. There's always '05!

A friend of mine wants to commission a lap quilt from me for a friend of hers' birthday in November. I gave her a couple of designs to choose from and (lucky for me) she chose the simplest one -- a nice straightforward log cabin. Here's a schematic from EQ of what we're going to do. (With 95% certainty.)

I love the variety of design you can get with log cabin-this layout looks dramatic. So? What colors are you going to use?

      Quilty comment by Cher on 13 March 2004

Reds/yellows/golds, as in the picture. Not as orange-y as this picture suggests, though. I think it will be neat. (And hopefully very fast!)

      Quilty comment by Lyn/Uncorked on 13 March 2004

Look at you go! Only one year of quilting, and already selling your work.

That is a cool design - doesn't look simple to my untrained eyes at all!

      Quilty comment by Liz on 14 March 2004

Oo very nice. I would love to get to the point where some one would want to buy a quilt I designed and made. But for now I'm too busy giving htem away. I husband keeps lamenting that we haven't kept a single quilt I've made. He doesn't mind quilting as a hobby but he wished we had something to show for it. ;> I finally decided to make hime a quilt tht he could keep, but it keeps gtting put on the back burner for more gift quilts. I liek to think that I'm just perfecting my skills till I get to his very special quilt. :>

Uhoh, nap time is over gotta go collect a baby. Hope to comeback soon.

      Quilty comment by Wendy on 30 July 2004

Thanks -- I haven't made a quilt for us yet, either. And there are several more that I want to make for other people that could keep me occupied all the way until 2010. Sigh.

      Quilty comment by Lyn on 31 July 2004