Prolific Day Off Quilting!

I now understand why people take so many projects with them when they go on retreat! These three projects I tackled in the afternoon of my day off. The morning I spent making the backing for my son's Christmas quilt. I need a little more batting and then I can start quilting it.

 I fused all 6 of my baskets for my newest fall project. I'm calling it Hybrid Happiness Baskets.  I first wrote about it here.

 After asking for suggestions and letting it sit a while longer. . . peach petals! Which is completely out of my colour comfort zone, but they look pretty cool with those blue leaves. I'm planning to blanket stitch around them with some lavender thread.

This project started during my Follow Your Bliss Makealong. 

I took a chance and cut my side and corner triangles for this project. I'm not entirely thrilled with the purple corners - it's not what I envisioned. But, I will live with it as I don't have enough of the fabrics to redo it a different way.

You can read about how this project started here.

Now I am thinking of this as the Fat Quarter Tree Section of possibly a 4 section quilt of the seasons?

With Joy,

Sarah Vee

Read more...

Full Harvest Moon Dreamboard

 This is my dreamboard. I follow Jamie Ridler and she does one of these each month. Here's a link to Jamie's dreamboard this month. I do it occasionally, although I am more likely to do it at this time of year when I love all the inspiration of the autumn colours.

I won't interpret it too much, I try just to cut and paste and reflect on one until I make a new one:) 

In this one I see:

• an upright bass and the words "Give Voice to Your Heart" - this is the instrument I would learn how to play if I had time

• all the new furniture! we are moving stuff around at my house and I can't but think that these chairs would be really comfy in my house!

• loft window and the word "when" - I am curious about what this means and will be even more curious if these views show up again.

I always have lots of words when I do these things. Words prompt me as much as pretty photos I guess.

I tack my dream board up behind my sewing machine, beneath my lovely mini quilt from Cherri House. My favourite dreaming spot.

Do you make space for your dreams?

With Joy,

Sarah Vee

Read more...

Hybrid Happiness

 

3 Basket Quilt Patterns + Fall Fabrics + Prize Incentive from Pat Sloan =

Hybrid Happiness!

 Pat Sloan is hosting a sew along using her Baby Baskets pattern or one from her Novelties book. You can find out more about it here.

 I'm planning to use her baskets and make 6 of them - one in each of these colours. The autumn floral is one of my favourite 'neutral' backgrounds.

Basket of Whimsey from Barbara Brandeburg's book, "Meadow Rose".

 

 I took a photo of these prints that I plan to use to make a floating border like in Barbara's quilt.

I think my colour choices fit into the "Indiana Amish" palette that Roberta Horton describes in her book, "An Amish Adventure: A Workbook for Color in Quilts". {second edition} It's the addition of orange, yellow and yellow-green, plus tan and brown into the more 'traditional' Amish quilt colours of using the section of the colour wheel from red to green with black as the neutral.

I took all of these pictures about a month ago when the contest first started. I just happened to be rereading Roberta's book at the time and well, let's face it, Basket Whimsey has obviously been in the back of my mind since I bought the book years ago! When Pat recently extended the deadline for the project - and it just has to be a top  & not finished! - I had to make a plan to act on all this basket happiness:)

I  just polished off a piece of leftover Thanksgiving Cherry Pie and am set to fuse my baskets before my daughter gets home from school!

With Joy,

Sarah Vee

Read more...

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

 Here's to celebrating the harvest! 

A small {15 x17 inches} wallhanging from LAST fall that I hung up by pinning some leftover ribbon to the top.

 Here's to preparing for the treats yet to come!

Another project from last year that I just needed to finish some blanket stitching on.

Here's to finishing small projects and

taking small steps to get

the BIG ones finished!

I finally finished stitching the back seam for my third row of Lady of the Lake blocks. One more row is needed {whose blocks still need to be quilted and sewn to each other}

I plan to celebrate with family and a turkey dinner. 

And maybe a few more small finishes while watching sports;)

With Joy,

Sarah Vee

Read more...