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m lovingly refers to this quilt as "clown vomit." he says that every time he looks at it he thinks of this shirt: www.threadless.com/submission/44125/The_Morning_After.
perhaps this quilt isn't his most favorite?
i'm really enjoying watching it grow...it sure is eating up a lot of my scraps! i've finished 12 blocks + i have about 24 more to go, if i can eke that many out of the scraps.
Day 13 - A Pile of Things
Today, it's a pile of blocks ... we're having a new garage built and the old one will be demolished.
I've been using a lot of woven stripes and shot cottons lately! This is the latest. Its kind of a 'Gee's Bend' inspired creation. Each block is totally random. I thought the red shot cotton would really make the blocks standout.
Available at: twiggyandopal.etsy.com
I'd never seen baby seagulls before, but there were dozens of nesting seagulls around the North Lighthouse. These siblings were both pleading piteously to their Mom(?) for something to eat--sometimes in unison. I shoulda captured it on video, but I'm definitely more of a still photo kinda guy. I watched them for some time, hoping to catch a feeding, but it never came I guess Mom was teaching them patience (HA! As if ANY seagull evidenced even a trace of that trait!). This northern end of the island was quite beautiful, as it's been kept undeveloped (save for the lighthouse) as a wildlife preserve. The other end of the island was plenty beautiful as well, and where I spent the majority of my time. There is where one finds Mohegan Bluffs Beach, photos of which will eventually find their way into my stream.
For her blocks in Bee Unique Bee Knotty Joanna sent us either green or blue fabrics plus some grey and white. She asked for geometric, non-wonky, non-pinwheel blocks and noted that she loved paper-pieced stars.
I love paper piecing so it was an easy choice. This block is from a quilt pattern called Millennium Compass on eQuiltPatterns. I used the two green fabrics that were sent and added in two of my own, each slightly darker than the ones sent.
Part of: Augen Borgen - Borrowing Eyes.
Adventkalender 22.12.2011 Apple of Paradise: DMC-G2 - P1200402 + Selbstportrait: DMC-G2 - P1040334
Here are the 16 finished blocks (12" each). They are yet to be put together (have a nice blue Amy Butler fabric for a sashing).
Finished carving the key block for "Garden"! Read more about our plans for this print & see more photos here ~ www.tugboatprintshop.com/woodcut_garden.htm
Now a 18" x 24" full color woodblock print, part of our ongoing LIFE OF LEISURE Series!
Sample block in my colours of aqua, yellow and grey. For the 3x6 Sampler Quilt Mini Bee.
Blogged stitchnbits.blogspot.com/2011/07/spiderweb-sample-block-3...
Built: 1893. Architect: Carl Fredrik Ebeling.
The buildings in the block are listed buildings (Swedish: byggnadsminnen). Residential housing in form of a tenant-owners' society (Swedish: Bostadsrättsförening) called Brf Furan.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvarteret_Furan (website in Swedish)
Block 1 for the Camelot Quilt. It was so much fun to make! I am really looking forward to starting block 2!
handpieced
The East Block is the most intact of Parliament Hill's heritage buildings. It is also one of the world's finest examples of High Victorian Gothic architecture. The Government of Canada built the East Block in two major campaign periods. The first portion was completed in 1865, but is referred to as the 1867 Wing. A second wing was added in 1910. We last performed major work on the 1867 Wing in the 1970s. The East Block is now in need of restoration and modernization.
Read more about the history and architecture of the East Block.
"Et toujours se trouve parmi l'ombre des arbres les sombres abris du souvenir"
Leintrey, Lorraine, France
On Highway 71 just south of Highway 3 in Northwest Iowa. Block barns are few and far between in Iowa, and this one came with an old fashioned block corn crib and silo as a bonus!
Textures by Distressed Jewell and Jessica Drossin. HSS!
A westbound CSX auto rack train is now wholly within the Ramey DTC block on the New Castle Subdivision. The block extends from Nova (seen here) to Greenwich in Ohio. (Scanned from a slide)
15.5" square block for Gretchen. Inspired by the beach. I used the freezer paper tutorial from Oh Fransson (map of the states block) to create this block.
For our March block, Lesly picked this cool Grandma's Flower Garden block, and sent us each the taupy linen for background. She also sent 5-6 fabrics of 2 specific color families, and we were able to alter the block as we liked as far as the piecing goes, as long as it maintained the same shape and the linen background strips were the same. I had so much fun figuring out what I wanted to do and picking out fabrics to add in. :)