Last Saturday in Light Blue

At last, a more productive week!   I started with the information Angela gave us about the colours and the number of 2.5" squares we would need for each.  After cutting the squares for the colours we've used to date I completed the alternate blocks in blue,  light blue and green for row three.  In checking the layout drawing I noticed I could also complete row four if I made alternate blocks in green, light green and yellow. 


Here are row three and  row four with the start of row five.  I think this will be a lovely quilt.  It will be exciting to finish off the July blocks and see if another row can be added to the quilt.

The background of my leaf like pumpkin seeds is a light blue and I worked on finishing the wall hanging up this week.  

 I snapped this picture this morning and the light wasn't the best.  Even with photo enhancement the colours still don't ring true but you'll get an idea of the finished quilt. It's about 2 feet by 3 feet in size.  I like the different shades of light blue so it looks like bits of sunlight shining through the leaves. 

 

 

I have three days left in June to work on my Laura Wasilowski workshop quilt. Here's hoping it will also be a June finish.

 

I'll be checking in at so scrappy to see what others have been working on.  Looking forward to hearing about the July colour.  Will it be red or indigo perhaps? 

LIght Blue Block Two

Why is it that little things that demand much attention crop up when you want to finish something up?  I had hoped to complete my little  leafy wall hanging.  The top was finished; the sandwich was put together and basted but the quilting remains to be done.  I'll get started on it later today.  I know how I want to quilt it but have to dig up the right green threads and get started. 

I did manage to finish the second light blue block in the RSC.

And I tried the lay out for row three but haven't finished the alternate blocks so nothing to show for it here.  Next week I have only four days when I have to be away from home for a few hours so hopefully there will be lots of time to finish things up.
In the mean time I'm hopping over to Soscrappy to see what others have created this week.

Week two in blue

In reflecting on my title for last weeks link up I realized that somewhere in my stash I must have a bit of hand dyed sky coloured fabric left over from a landscape class and sure enough after digging through my bins I found it.  It is focused in my star points and the 16 patch centre.

The only other quilting done this week was a bit of applique.  Hopefully greater things are in store for next week.
Linking up with Soscrappy and checking to see what others have been up to this week.

Blue Skies for June

Angela has selected light blue for our RSC blocks and projects for June.  I don't have many light blues so will be using the lighter shades of blue in my blue bin.  I finished my lightish (is that even a word) blue Boxy Star. 

Last weekend I went to see the Quilts of France quilt show.  France was celebrating 30 years of quilting and one block was selected to represent each year.  The quilters were given free rein as to the size of block and the setting of the blocks.

This earthy toned quilt has all 30 blocks.

This one was set to resemble a banner.

This neutral one had some of the blocks bound individually and buttoned on by the corners.

This one was set like blossoms on a tree.  The machine quilted tree was incredible.

And there were art quilts.  Brown tree like fabric was attached to backing.  The whole was then machine quilted in wonderful silk and cotton threads.  To me the quilt looked like zebra stripes. 

A landscape in blues.



Some lovely Japanese fabrics in this one.

Envelopes full of love notes in a wide variety of languages.
 

And what would a quilt show from France be without the Eiffel Tower?

 

The quilts were wonderful to see.  There was a lot of lace used as an overlay as well as many silks, brocades, velvets and other interesting fabrics.  

But my favourite was a unique French quilting style - boutis.

 

The pattern is traced onto a linen weave batiste.  A backing fabric is attached and then the piece is hand quilted with white hand quilting thread.  Once the quilting is done, numerous strands of thread and yarn are inserted from the back between rows of stitching to create this trapunto  effect.  The quilter for this piece told me it took  three years to make this quilt.  It was beautiful - all white on white.  Her stitches were so small and even.  Wow!!!   

 

 

Why don't you check in with Angela to see what other blue scrappy goodness is happening?