Where do I go to start this quilt?

[kathyst2]

Thanks Kathy, your quilt is lovely! The colors you chose are close to what I'm looking for. An elegant purple is my favorite color, I want to use purple, green, rust/burgundy, blue-all in country colors. I'm impatiently waiting for the fabric list to get here, LOL. In the meantime, I'm working on a Christmas present for my daughter. It's an asian theme wall hanging.

I need to get photos of my quilt projects uploaded... there aren't that many. I've never made a bed-size quilt, the Stars for a new day will be the first one.

[Margo]

Christine, thanks SO MUCH for catching that error and reporting it to tech support!!
If you will send me an e-mail through my profile, I will have your e-mail addy and can forward you the list for the 2009 BOM fabric requirements.
THANKS!

[Margo]

Christine~ May I just take a moment here to say that if Rosemary wants to be a quilting buddy on this project you just fell into a pot of jam! Check her profile. She's amazing!

Thanks for the compliment, I suffer from the problem of whilst my quality is good, my quantity (especially finished quantity :wink: ) is fairly abysmal ops: . But this is one top I really want to get finished, and hopefully having a quilting buddy 8) will stop me dragging my feet :roll:

The good news is that I treated myself to a walking foot last weekend at the Harrogate Knitting & Stitching show, and after a small play with it in the week I cannot wait to get quilting the 'too loud/dogrose I' quilt - as a practise piece for my sottt quilt :lol:

[Margo]

Hi Rosemary! I think I found the colors I want to use, or at least the main colors. Shown here:
http://www.ttfabrics.net/cgi-bin/fab...i?Category=583
I'm going to build on these colors I think. I love the aubergine!

[Margo]

Christine,

Something I found essential to have when working on mine was a mini iron put out by Clover. It was great to press open the seams of all those little pinwheels on one of the borders!
cheers
Jeanine

[Lorna1021]

Great colors, Christine. I am stuck on the last border on mine. I think I have all of the stars completed, I just need to find time to sew them together and onto the quilt. I also need to decide if I am going to alter the quilt size in some manner to bring it closer to a queen size. I know Sue gave ideas on that so will have to go back and find that video. But for now I am finishing up a Christmas tree skirt and then need to get back to work on the HST quilt.

Lorna

[Lorna1021]

Hi Rosemary! I think I found the colors I want to use, or at least the main colors. Shown here:
http://www.ttfabrics.net/cgi-bin/fab...i?Category=583
I'm going to build on these colors I think. I love the aubergine!

Those look good, personally I started my collection of fabrics for this quilt from a, those left over from Dog Rose 1, because I thought there was a lot of potential in the colouration of a dogrose flower, then a charm pack that I aquired that sort of fit the bill, the fabric which I used as setting triangles for the feathered star centre then sort of took over as the focus fabric and then I started filling in different values, particularly some darks for contrast, if you look at the photos on my profile, you will see that my pinwheels were not as successful as they could have been, due to some low contrast but this is more evident from the camera than in real life. I was certainly buying fabrics for it well after I started sewing it. I think I have enough pinks/yellows in my somewhat small stash of quilting cottons, to finish this quilt; but I want to get this quilt finished so I can find out what is surplus before I let my daughter loose on 'spare pinks' :wink:

You will also see how I kept the pinwheels under control by using small folded paper boxes, I have continued with this system for the stars that you start making from April/month 4 and is really easy to do and uses up scrap paper that is lying around.

[Lorna1021]

Janine, I have a clover mini-iron, I love it! It's a great tool.

And dang if I didn't shoot myself in the foot... I should have quit looking at fabrics because now I can't decide whether to make a turquoise/brown/green/rose or the batiks I posted earlier. I have overdosed on fabrics, and need a break for a few days. LOL You know how using the right side of your brain too long is like overdosing on chocolate? I need to use the left side for a few days, so I'll start stitching my daughter's Christmas present for a few days. One of these days I have to learn to pace myself!!

[Margo]

[Margo]

Wow! My brain must look really scary ;o)

[Margo]

LOVE IT!!! ROTFLOL

[kathyst2]

Margo! Where'd you get that picture of my brain?? :lol: :lol: :lol:
That's just how I feel. Work, left brain. Colorless, lots of numbers and words in rows.
Quilting, right brain- color! Texture! Pattern! Quilting! O Joy!

Love it!
Kathy

[kathyst2]

And dang if I didn't shoot myself in the foot... I should have quit looking at fabrics because now I can't decide whether to make a turquoise/brown/green/rose or the batiks I posted earlier. I have overdosed on fabrics, and need a break for a few days. LOL You know how using the right side of your brain too long is like overdosing on chocolate? I need to use the left side for a few days, so I'll start stitching my daughter's Christmas present for a few days. One of these days I have to learn to pace myself!!

I remember that I had a color direction, set by the center of my star which was a batik with blue, purple, pink in it. I picked fabrics that looked good with that for the center, and then just went by instinct as I went outward. I think there is every color in that quilt, even though it reads blue and purple. I hope you have a good stash because you might find yourself sparking up your blocks here and there with stash fabrics, even if you get new fabrics for the quilt.

Kathy

[kathyst2]

Wow, the tech support are quick to fix things on the website. :shock: I'm impressed! This is a wonderful website, I'm so glad I drifted on in.

I finished uploading the rest of my quilt projects, there aren't that many. :lol: I've been looking at photos of finished quilts in the quilt gallery (lifted my jaw up off the floor a few times!) and now I'm inspired!

[kathyst2]

Margo I love the picture of the right/left brain! I teach art and guide my students through many r/l/brain exercises -what is your source for pic - I'd love to use in my classroom - I notice a Mercedez logo....
thanks
Jeanine