Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Intuition Collection

I have a handful of small intuition projects that I finished recently... I have really enjoyed seeing all the intuition quilts in progress here and wanted to share. Because each piece is small, that came together quickly and spontaneously... most of my design decisions were based on reaching for the nearest scrap that spoke to me. I really like working on this scale (I've made my biggest quilts ever in the last few months so it's a satisfying contrast) and I think I'll be making more small quilts this year.

Three bookcovers, #1 started it all with the La Virgen panel... she needed clovers for good luck and some extra rays of light. The rays became a star for book cover #2.... and the scraps from both went into the fabric I was making at the time, which (why not?) ended up as cover #3.

This Bloom mini quilt started out with making fabric as well, and I thought it looked like a flower when I put the orange scraps around it. Then it wanted to be in a garden (and orange one!) and have spiky grass (with those triangles on your cutting mat!) and leftover binding stem and some needle-turned leaves. I practiced my free-motion quilting on this as well... which is a much needed start.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

spring

I don't know why...
but these are the colors I've been playing with.
Am I tired of the cold??? Maybe.
Am I dreaming of spring??? Maybe.
Do I like pink and green??? Maybe.
When that warm weather comes...
I'll be ready!!!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

log cabin with posies

It's been almost a year since I first put this together. 
Sort of a free formed log cabin. 
It is 68" x 76". 


It just seemed way too blah for me, so I began making log cabin posies for my log cabin.  Nothing brightens up a home like a yard full of pretty flowers.  Once I had made lots of log cabin flowers, I began improvising with some other types of flowers.  
Then I made some stems and leaves and buds. 

 
 
 
Dozens of flowers later, another issue presented itself to me.  
Do I like the new landscaping with or without the stems? 
       
 


What do y'all think?
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Friday, August 13, 2010

My 15 minute crazy, scrappy block became a pot.
Lots and lots of circles...
Maybe they'll turn into flowers.
???