Scenes from my New Quilting Space

I am very happy with how much space I have to work on projects. All of these flat surfaces have been completely covered at least once since I've set up!

 

To the left of my work area I have enough wall space to display a quilt. Right now I have up my Bunny Lady quilt top. I love looking at it. Sure hope to quilt it one day!

 

Perhaps more importantly than all my new space is the giant design wall! I have a large flannel sheet up which extends almost the entire length of the wall directly behind my sewing machine. I do have another wall I can place a design wall on if I need to put something up for awhile to see how it looks. 

Here you can see that "Bloom" is still nagging at me to get it finished. I am really enjoying the process of listening to this one.

  After some play, this is how I progressed. The dark blue colour has already been chosen for the stems of these letters {although I must admit there is a strong tug to change my original design}. Instead I thought about using a colour that goes with blue for the border.

 I have this tiny voice in my head that chants at me all the quilt ideas on my 'bucket list' of quilts and "blue leaves, yellow borders" rings loudly when I'm working out the design for Bloom.

Yellow borders it is!

My design wall has even more stuff on it right now. Time to take some more pictures, cut some more fabrics and keep quilting!

With Joy,

Sarah Vee

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Is Quordle a Word? and FNSI

This series of quilts has been shouting from the back of the closet!

I started this one awhile ago. I played around with some border ideas again, but still the push to quilt it isn't compelling.

I took the photo and put it away as the NEXT quilt almost stitched itself together.

The series of quilts - panels -poems are inspired by the words I put into a wordle, back when making wordles was a new thing to do.

 You can see the wordle in this post. 

You can make one today if you want!

The next quilt - perhaps the first to get finished? features the word BLOOM. . .

I was so tickled when I finally figured this word out! I won't bore you with all my previous attempts at bringing this word to life. Apparently, I needed to let the fabric do the talking!

My favourite idea of blue stems is coming out in this one. I love this fabric from Izzy House.

At first the background was just going to be the Amy Butler print and the almost snake skin pink fabric that my dad bought me. {Cool dad, eh?} Then it needed to be bigger so I pulled out this blue solid I used on my daughter's latest Egyptian purse.

As I was editing the photo I realized the background should be square. A few changes and another click of the digital camera - a new layout to follow.

I love walking in and out of the room when there's something new brewing on my design wall. 

This blooming bouquet is screaming for a BIG 3 dimensional bow at the bottom of the quilt! 

I love getting inspiration on how to FINISH something - makes it much more likely to happen{grin}

What's blooming on your design wall?

With Joy,

Sarah Vee


p.s. still not sure if quordle is a word, but it is what I kept typing as I saved my photos. So this series of quilts is getting labeled with the word quordle so I can find my pictures again!

P.P.S 

As I checked my blog Reader this morning I found my sister's post and got inspired.

 

An opportunity to GIVE - a word prompt on this month's dreamboard!

You'll have to check out my sister's post for details. Friday Night Sew In happens once a month and I finally hit the right Friday. I spent my morning sewing time cutting up fabric to make 2 pillowcases for ConKerr cancer - something this month's FNSI group is joining in on. Of course I challenged myself to make some for teenagers. I think these fabric combos fit the bill.

AND

It looks like this outside my window this morning!

A  GREAT reason to stay in and quilt tonight!

Thanks, sis, for the push.

Sarah Vee

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