Can you really call posting once a year blogging?

And I'm starting  O V E R...... NOW!  Stay tuned folks...  I promise to start blogging seriously.

Please enjoy one of more recent finishes.  I made the design created by CrazyMomQuilts.  She's such a talented quilter with great ideas and designs.  I love her work. 

I took 18 inch squares of yummy Kona cotton and asked the VQB (virtual quilting bee on flickr) I was in to grab whatever scraps they had on their floor and sew them into strips.  Let's face it - don't we all have little scraps laying all over the floor of our sewing areas...? 

I got them back and about a year ago I put the top together.  Then...the whirl wind hit - we decided to sell our house and move.  That's a long story for another time.  Anyway, let's just say that when you move - you have to box up your sewing room... 

And then your husband might notice how many boxes there are.  Especially when the mover says things like: "OH MY GOD - How much fabric is there in that closet???", or "you mean there's more---we're going to need more boxes."   So that was a lot of fun.

We're finally settled in now.  After reorganizing and reorganizing, and ...reorganizing - I think I finally have my sewing room in some sort of agreeable order.  So out came this top and I quilted it. 

So when someone asks me the usual question (how long did that take to make?) - I'll get to say about 2 years.

Let's just ignore that awkward silence in between posts, shall we?

Oh good grief. I stink at blogging. But I was so excited to be a part of the Pantone Color of the Year: Emerald challenge .....that I returned to my blog.

Here's my "topper category" entry. Lets just say that I'm an obsessive type of person, and despite extreme effort....I just couldn't make it to the quilting stage on this one. I'm ok with that as I am still able to enter it.

Here's a little closer shot. I think I may name this one Six String Music. I loved making the string hexies and the border was made out if the same strips. Plus I love Jimmy Buffet and that's an excellent song. Seems very fitting.

I used a Northcott solid green ( I'm sorry- I didn't see what the color name or number was). The string fabrics and the fuchsia colored flower fabric were primarily Kaffe Fasset's and the nuetral is Kona Ash (my all time favorite!). The size is 27 x 29 inches.

And now for something really big....Drum roll please, here's the finale .......

 

The quilt is 58 x 62 inches. I used the same emerald shade of Northcott fabric and the same Kaffe print in the wheel and the center of that little 9 patch. The rest is glorious Kona white. I loved this design as it gave me lots of room to quilt. The design was my own.....and I was pleased with all of the neutral space. Green is my favorite color- so I was extra pumped for this challenge.

For those of you that follow fabulous quilting blogs.... The person holding that magnificent quilt is none other than Fairly Merry! I think just having her hands on it added a little "mo "to its "jo"... Her entry is AMAZING!

Check the whole group out here:

http://www.asquaredw.com/2013/03/march-lets-see-those-pantone-quilts.html?m=1

Wish me luck! Although, I am heavy on the Irish side and it is St. Patrick's day....maybe I've got enough on my side already!

Here are some detail shots:

And my favorite way to bind......BY machine!

 

 

 

 

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