Color!

A while back while we were traveling in Fairfield, Ohio, I found some colorful fabric at Seams Sew Easy. When it was my turn to have it cut, the clerk told me it probably wasn't what I thought it was. She opened the fabric and showed me that it was really 40" panels that looked painted. I loved the colors and I had waited quite a while to be helped so I took four panels. 

I have just finished the first of two quilts I'm making with this fabric. This quilt is called Color! I cut the fabric vertically (blue to green) and then into rectangles horizontally. I added two vertical strips from a second panel to make the quilt a little larger.

I used more vertical cuts for the outer border and the binding. The finished quilt is 50" by 54". 

The quilting is done with Aurifil thread, 50-weight, #2600, Dove Gray.

The backing is fabric from my stash.

Each of the 35 blocks is free-motion quilted with a different motif. I took photos of each block before laundering and I think you can see the quilting. It's still a bit hard with the colors of the fabric.

Quilting motif: Matrix Rays

Quilting motif: Swirl Meander

Quilting motif: Cat's Eyes

Quilting motif: Beads on a String

Quilting motif: Double Bubble

Quilting motif:Venn Diagram

Quilting motif: Split block with Stippling and Lazy Eights

Quilting motif: Horizontal Stipple

Quilting motif: Leaves with fill and echoes

Quilting motif: Desert Sand

Quilting motif: Pebbles

Quilting motif: Stippling

Quilting motif: Fern and Stem

Quilting motif: Wave

Quilting motif: Stomach Lining

Quilting motif: Bubble Wand

Quilting motif: Brain Cord

Quilting motif: Flowing Lines

Quilting motif: Tufts

Quilting motif: 2-Petal Flower

Quilting motif: Chrysanthemum

Quilting motif: River Path

Quilting motif: Wavy Lines using rulers

Quilting motif: Bamboo Forest

Quilting motif: Paisley

Quilting motif: Echo Shell

Quilting motif: Loose Weave

Quilting motif: Spirals

Quilting motif: ruler work

Quilting motif: Loopy Meander

Quilting motif: Feather with echoes

Quilting motif: Mesh Curtain

Quilting motif: Mario Vine

Quilting motif: Wandering Clover

Quilting motif: Straight Spiral using a ruler

Quilting motif in sashing: Lazy Eights or Wishbones
I used a walking foot to stitch 3 lines in the border.

I love the colors in this quilt as does Ray.

We haven't decided if it's going into the donation pile or staying with us.

In other news, I saw the allergist today. They did two panels of testing. However, their controls did not react. No one knows why because I do not have any antihistamines in my system. So now we are waiting on blood tests results...

Crazy Cars is finished

A while back in 2018, I cut up my small scraps and fabrics that I no longer wanted into 2 1/2" squares. At one point, I made a number of 16-patch blocks from some of the squares using 2 different fabrics for each block. I thought that I would just put the blocks together into a quilt but I didn't like it. Then I thought sashing would help but I didn't like that either. So I just set everything aside. Last October I found the stack of blocks and decided that they would make some cute, crazy cars.  

I used my Cricut Maker to design a car. After backing each block with Heat n Bond Lite, I cut one car out of each block. Then I cut out the tires which were also backed with Heat n Bond Lite. 

I added dogs to four cars because I thought it might be fun for the recipient of this donation quilt to find them. I was asked about a cat but I don't have any fabric with cats - I only had 4 with dogs.

I appliquéd the cars and tires using a zigzag stitch. Then I free-motion quilted this quilt. I outlined the cars and tires, did a loop-de-loop design in the gray for texture, and did a horizontal meandering in the green. I used 50-weight Aurifil thread, #2610,medium gray thread.

The back is a colorful piece of fabric from my stash. I didn't have quite enough so I added a little of the green.

This donation quilt is 55" wide and 51" long.

In other news, my MacBook Pro finally updated so Photoshop Deluxe no longer works. We do own Photoshop 2020 and I just put it on my computer. I am lost! I did finally figure out how to rotate photos and eventually I'll learn more.

Ray still has pain - we'll see the surgeon in early March. I see the allergist on Wednesday. And life goes on...