Tag: Possibilities

I was thinking that I don’t often write about my dream projects. The last time was in June of last year. This time, I put in photos, not of finished projects, but notes and ideas so you can understand what I am talking about.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I have the version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt, shown left, and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so I can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric. I’d really like it if someone else would apply fusible to a bunch of turquoise for me. I also have to figure out how to keep all those little pieces on the fabric without satin stitching around each one. I absolutely don’t want to do that.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (one sheet of fabric) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
• Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
• Added: 9/14/2017

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing
• On the list since at least 2011. Sherry D sent me the pattern.

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started since I have cut a lot of rectangles. I just need to arrange it and start piecing.  The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have more than enough patches now. I just need to slot the time into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. I have cut quite a few more 2 inch squares, but probably still need more.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge. Not sure this will become a reality.

En Provence #2

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I loved the one I made before and can’t stop thinking about it. I may have to make another one, but I can’t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.

Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale, as I say over and over, and am not done with that fabric combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background as the background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call the quilt Good Night Irene. I am less enamored of the pattern and may use it to make a donation quilt.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. It seems more important to me now to get those used. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. It occurred to me recently that I could do four rings and make a pillow cover instead of a whole quilt. Partially, I thought of this because I saw an EPP pattern for this quilt. Taking on another large EPP quilt right now is not in the cards. I could also make the pattern larger, making the piecing for a quilt much quicker. Sometimes, I still like the smaller version idea better. But I think I could piece this quilt without EPP. I could make the pieces large, which would make the pattern go faster.

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline and now I have missed the college graduation deadline. I printed out the piece of music he sent me. Now I need to make into an applique’ or do something else (print on fabric?). If I can manage to make it.

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have some strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.

Spin Wheel

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
• Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and the will. After adding the correct size piece to my cutting sheet, I have continued to cut and cut. I now have quite a large stack of patches waiting for a background color.

Out of the Dream State: Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Flying Around
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• MetroScape quilt is finished, working on the binding
• Stepping Stones #2 –finished
• Cool Windmill –finished
• Warm Windmill –finished
• Warm Windmill #2 – finished

It has been quite a while since I reflected on these potential projects. The most notable change is that the Windmill patches have been turned into 3 quilts: 2 are quilted and live in new places, one is ready for quilting and another quilt, with the rest of the patches, will be in process soon.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so I can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric. I’d really like it if someone else would apply fusible to a bunch of turquoise for me.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (one sheet of fabric) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
• Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
• Added: 9/14/2017

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing
• On the list since at least 2011. Sherry D sent me the pattern.

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it, thus it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have more than enough patches now. I just need to slot the time into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. I have cut quite a few more 2 inch squares, but probably still need more.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge. Not sure this will become a reality.

En Provence #2

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I loved the one I made before and can’t stop thinking about it. I have to make another one, but I can’t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.

Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale, as I say over and over, and am not done with that fabric combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background as the background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. It occurred to me recently that I could do four rings and make a pillow cover instead of a whole quilt. Partially, I thought of this because I saw an EPP pattern for this quilt. Taking on another large EPP quilt right now is not in the cards. I could also make the pattern larger, making the piecing for a quilt much quicker. I still like the smaller version better.

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline and now I have missed the college graduation deadling. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’ or do something else (print on fabric?).

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have some strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.

Spin Wheel

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
• Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and the will. After adding the correct size piece to my cutting sheet, I have continued to cut and cut. I now have quite a large stack of patches waiting for a background color.

Out of the Dream State: Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Flying Around
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• MetroScape quilt is finished, working on the binding
• Stepping Stones #2 –finished
• Cool Windmill
• Warm Windmill
• Warm Windmill #2 – ready for quilting

Quilt Diva Julie had an ideas post recently. I really liked the methodical way she went about deciding what projects from inspiration would turn into actual quilts AND when!

I last wrote about my dream projects in March. Since then, I have, actually and surprisingly, made a little progress on this list. This makes me kind of feel like writing down dream quilts isn’t a terrible idea. Of course, many of the potential projects on the list haven’t changed.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so I can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric. I’d really like it if someone else would apply fusible to a bunch of turquoise for me.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (one sheet of fabric) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
• Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
• Added: 9/14/2017

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it, thus it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have enough patches now and just need to slot the time to work on it into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. Now I am working on cutting more. I hope to slot the time into my schedule int he not too distant future.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge. Not sure this will become a reality.

En Provence #2

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I loved the one I made before and can’t stop thinking about it. I have to make another one, but I can’t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.

Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale, as I say over and over, and am not done with that fabric combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background as the background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. It occurred to me recently that I could do four rings and make a pillow cover instead of a whole quilt. Partially, I thought of this because I saw an EPP pattern for this quilt. Taking on another large EPP quilt right now is not in the cards. I could also make the pattern larger, making the piecing for a quilt much quicker. I still like the smaller version better.

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline and now I have missed the college graduation deadling. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’ or do something else (print on fabric?).

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have some strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.

Spin Wheel

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
• Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and will. I have added the correct size piece to my cutting sheet and now have a huge stack of patches waiting for a background color.

Windmill (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: half cut; need more greys for the background
• Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
• Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates
• Thoughts: I thought I would buy the Sizzix template and cut grey windmill pieces with that instead of by hand. Friend Julie tested the Sizzix die and found it to be the wrong size, so back to cutting

Out of the Dream State: Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Flying Around – in process!
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• MetroScape quilt is finished, working on the binding
• Stepping Stones #2 –finished.

 

I last wrote about my dream projects in July. Since then, I have, actually and surprisingly, made some progress on this list. This makes me kind of feel like writing down dream quilts isn’t a terrible idea. Of course, some projects haven’t changed.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so i can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (one sheet of fabric) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
• Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
• Added: 9/14/2017

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it, thus it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have enough patches now and just need to slot the time to work on it into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. Now I am working on cutting more. I hope to slot the time into my schedule int he not too distant future.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge. Not sure this will become a reality.

En Provence #2

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I loved the one I made before and can’t stop thinking about it. I have to make another one, but I can’t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.

Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Flying Geese Quilt

• Status: some Flying Geese made, good design in mind
• Pattern: I did a drawing that I want to use
• Thoughts: this wasn’t on any of my lists, but it has been on my mind lately and I think I will make it soon.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale, as I say over and over, and am not done with that combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt as the background. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making, after I learned to quilt. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. It occurred to me recently that I could do four rings and make a pillow cover instead of a whole quilt. Partially, I thought of this because I saw an EPP pattern for this quilt. Taking on another large EPP quilt is not in the cards. I could also make the pattern larger, making the piecing for a quilt much quicker.

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have some strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.

Spin Wheel

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
• Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and will. I have forgotten to cut the pieces I need to make the quilt, so I’ll have to add the correct size to my cutting sheet.

Windmill (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: half cut; need more greys for the background
• Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
• Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates
• Thoughts: I think I will buy the Sizzix template and cut grey windmill pieces with that instead of by hand

Out of the Dream State: Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• MetroScape quilt is finished, working on the binding
• Stepping Stones #2 –finished.

Other:

I removed Stepping Stones #3 from the list, because I decided to give the pre-cuts to quiltmakers from the CampFire who need projects to work on. The details were:

• Status: waiting.
• Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have lots of pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
• Pattern: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls
• Thoughts: Hmmm. This is less exciting to me now. I think I need to finish #2 and then decide. It is just as likely as not that I will make this.

I might make another Stepping Stones quilt, but for the moment I think I am done with that pattern.

I last wrote about my dream projects in July. Since then, I have, actually and surprisingly, made some progress on this list. This makes me kind of feel like writing down dream quilts isn’t a terrible idea. Of course, some projects haven’t changed.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so i can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (one sheet of fabric) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
• Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
• Added: 9/14/2017

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it, thus it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have enough patches now and just need to slot the time to work on it into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. Now I am working on cutting more. I hope to slot the time into my schedule int he not too distant future.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge. Not sure this will become a reality.

En Provence #2

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I loved the one I made before and can’t stop thinking about it. I have to make another one, but I can’t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.

Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale, as I say over and over, and am not done with that combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt as the background. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making, after I learned to quilt. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. It occurred to me recently that I could do four rings and make a pillow cover instead of a whole quilt. Partially, I thought of this because I saw an EPP pattern for this quilt. Taking on another large EPP quilt is not in the cards.

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have some strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.

Spin Wheel

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
• Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and will.

Windmill (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: half cut; need more greys for the background
• Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
• Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates
• Thoughts: I think I will buy the Sizzix template and cut grey windmill pieces with that instead of by hand

Out of the Dream State: Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• MetroScape quilt top – top finished, working on the back
• Stepping Stones #2 –finished.

Other:

I removed Stepping Stones #3 from the list, because I decided to give the pre-cuts to quiltmakers from the CampFire who need projects to work on. The details were:

• Status: waiting.
• Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have lots of pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
• Pattern: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls
• Thoughts: Hmmm. This is less exciting to me now. I think I need to finish #2 and then decide. It is just as likely as not that I will make this.

I might make another Stepping Stones quilt, but for the moment I think I am done with that pattern.

I have been thinking more about dream projects again lately. I have been working on so many UFOs that my mind is straying to fresh, new, unstarted projects.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so i can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (one sheet of fabric) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
• Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
• Added: 9/14/2017

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it, thus it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have enough patches now and just need to slot the time to work on it into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. Now I am working on cutting more. I hope to slot the time into my schedule int he not too distant future.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge. Not sure this will become a reality.

En Provence #2

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: En Provence by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I loved the one I made before and can’t stop thinking about it. I have to make another one, but I can’t figure out what colors to use next. The ones I used before were almost perfect.

Feathered Star Block (or quilt?)

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale, as I say over and over, and am not done with that combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt as the background. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making, after I learned to quilt. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. Making the nine patches would be a good leaders and enders endeavor. As if I don’t have about a zillion leaders and enders opportunities.

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me

Quick Curve Ruler Quilt

• No exact plans yet
• Pattern: I have a couple of patterns I received as gifts and I will use one.
• Thoughts: I just want to make something with this ruler!

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.

Spin Wheel

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
• Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and will.

Stepping Stones #3

• Status: waiting.
• Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have lots of pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
• Pattern: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls
• Thoughts: Hmmm. This is less exciting to me now. I think I need to finish #2 and then decide. It is just as likely as not that I will make this.

Windmill (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: half cut; need more greys for the background
• Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
• Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates
• Thoughts: I think I will buy the Sizzix template and cut grey windmill pieces with that instead of by hand

Out of the Dream State: Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• Stepping Stones #2 –finished.

The last time I wrote on this subject was February. As I mentioned in that post, it had been a couple of years before that. it is always interesting for me to look at this list and see if I still want to work on the projects

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ (Ticker Tape Style) Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style so i can cut it up into small pieces. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make another one with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original, I do have a version of the pattern I used for the Whole Cloth quilt and I will use it as starting point.
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly
• Steps: need to fuse a big piece of turquoise to SoftFuse or similar, then cut out the image and fuse it to the background. I would satin stitch all around the image. I don’t know that I can make one continuous piece, but will try. The image would be similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.
• Thoughts: I might make it with turquoise on top of red with just two pieces of fabric.
• Added: 9/14/2017

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it, thus it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have enough patches now and just need to slot the time to work on it into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably had enough squares to make this quilt, but then I used a bunch of them to make En Provence. Now I am working on cutting more. I hope to slot the time into my schedule int he not too distant future.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge. Not sure this will become a reality.

Feathered Star Block

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale as I say over and over and am not done with that combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt as the background. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored; I also have a lot of stripes to use
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making, after I learned to quilt. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. Making the nine patches would be a good leaders and enders endeavor. As if I don’t have about a zillion leaders and enders opportunities.

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’

Neutrals and Red/Scarlet Quilt

• Status: some cutting of black rectangles done.
• Pattern: Slice a approx. 4 in x 7 in rectangle on the diagonal and insert a red strip, resew and set into columns.
• Fabric: red, black and whites. I
• Thoughts: gift. I have black fabrics cut and am just waiting to slot this into my schedule (sounds like the story of my life). I could use the bias tape I made for the Mighty Lucky January challenge from last year

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me.

Pink Rectangles Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: same as Blue Rectangles quilt above
• Fabric: pink 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: How many gradation exercises does one person need?

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Status: I have the fabrics and the plan
• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them. I think I have that covered now and there is nothing stopping me except time and will.

Spin Wheel  

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background
• Thoughts: I like the construction of this quilt and am convinced that I will make it. Another one just waiting for time and will.

Stepping Stones #3

• Status: waiting.
• Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have lots of pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
• Pattern: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls
• Thoughts: Hmmm. This is less exciting to me now. I think I need to finish #2 and then decide. It is just as likely as not that I will make this.

Windmill  (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: half cut; need more greys for the background
• Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
• Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates
• Thoughts: I think I will buy the Sizzix template and cut grey windmill pieces with that instead of by hand

Out of the Dream State:  Below is a list of projects that were on this list at some point that I actually made or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• Stepping Stones #2 – not finished, but in process.

The last time I wrote about all of the new and exciting projects swirling around in my head was in 2015. Time flies when you are having fun.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Applique’ Quilt

• Status: Dream state
• Pattern: Original
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers, perhaps
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.

Basketweave Baby

• Status: Dream state
• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and using a lot of partial seams for the piecing

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt

• Status:Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: I can’t decide if this is still a dream or if it is already started and I just need to arrange it and start piecing. I have done a lot of cutting, so I think I have started it and it may not be a dream anymore. The original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do a monochromatic version – using just blues, in this case. I probably have enough patches now and just need to slot the time to work on it into my schedule.

Blue Lemonade

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts: I probably have enough squares to make this quilt and just need to slot the time into my schedule.

Easy Street

• Status: have pattern/ dream state
• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for her quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge.

Feathered Star Block

• Status: Dream state.
• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs. I also saw a pattern, Star of Chamblie, at a shop in Reno that I might want to use as a base idea.

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: I decided not to use a layer cake and will use the scrap 2.5 inch squares I have been cutting. I love the cheerfulness of Scrapitude Carnivale as I say over and over and am not done with that combination yet.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt as the background. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Status: have a lot of stripes to use; dream state
• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Status: dream state
• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making, after I learned to quilt. I have seen a number of variations lately using different hexagons in the center. Making the nine patches would be a good leaders and enders endeavor. As if I don’t have about a zillion leaders and enders opportunities.

 

Music Quilt

• Status: dream state, but not very inspired
• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’ or
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his high school graduation quilt. I missed that deadline. I will make it. He has sent me a piece of music, which I printed out. Now I need to make into an applique’

Neutrals and Red/Scarlet Quilt

• Status: some cutting of black rectangles done.
• Pattern: Slice a approx. 4 in x 7 in rectangle on the diagonal and insert a red strip, resew and set into columns.
• Fabric: red, black and whites. I
• Thoughts: gift. I have black fabrics cut and am just waiting to slot this into my schedule (sounds like the story of my life).

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: I have strips cut.
• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me.

Pink Rectangles Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: same as Blue Rectangles quilt above
• Fabric: pink 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: How many gradation exercises does one person need.

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the silk fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them.

Spin Wheel 

• Status: Hunting and Gathering
• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background

Stepping Stones #3

• Status: waiting.
• Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have lots of pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
• Pattern: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls

Windmill  (Hunting and Gathering)

• Status: half cut; need more greys for the background
• Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
• Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates

Out of the Dream State:  Below is a list of projects that were on this list that I actually did or am working on:

• Box Full of Letters
• Food quilt #2
• Food quilt #3
• Half Moon Modern Quilt I made a Chubby Charmer instead of a quilt and am happy with that choice.>
• Medium Mondo Bag – I actually made the Midi bag. I think I might have another pattern to make another one, so I will have to try it out without the class.
• Stepping Stones #2 – not finished, but in process.

New and exciting projects continue to spring into my head.

Art Institute of Chicago Fusible Quilt

• Pattern: Original
• Fabric: Turquoise and red, mainly, but other colors for the leaves and flowers
• Steps: need to fuse a bunch of turquoise to some piece of fabric in the ‘ticker tape’ style. I am thinking of making it similar to the Whole Cloth Quilt and using red, again, for the background.

Basketweave Baby

• Fabric: Scrappy
• Pattern: Fons & Porter, series 1000, episode 1005
• Thoughts: I like the challenge of piecing this quilt and the unique piecing

Blue Rectangles Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)

• Fabric: blue 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts: Original idea stemmed from the FOTY quilts. I just decided to do one with blues instead of all colors.

Blue Lemonade (Hunting and Gathering)

• Fabric: blue, purple and green scrappy
• Pattern: inspiration from TFQ’s Pink Lemonade quilt
• Thoughts:

Easy Street

• Fabric: pinks
• Pattern: Easy Street by Bonnie Hunter
• Thoughts: I really liked Daisy‘s version of Easy Street, which she calls Cherry Bomb (she thinks of the best names for quilts) in terms of color and feel. I don’t want to copy her, but if I do this quilt, I’d like to have the same pinky-red feel to it. One challenge about a mostly monochromatic quilt is getting enough contrast. I look forward to that challenge.

Feathered Star Block (Dream State)

• Pattern: I haven’t decided on a particular feathered star
• Thoughts: use the Triangle Technique for the HSTs

Food quilt #3 (Hunting and Gathering)

• Pattern: Disappearing something, probably 4 patch or 9 patch
• Fabric: RJR Food prints. Will use a different color for the non-food print section than I did for the Young Man’s version.
• Thoughts: Gift for nephew for graduation

Good Night Irene Quilt

• Pattern: Good Night Irene from the Missouri Star Quilt Company’s Block magazine, Spring issue v.2, issue 2, pg. 54
• Fabric: Possibly a layer cake I already have, though I am tempted to use the scrap 2.5″ squares I have been cutting.
• Thoughts: I thought about using dots on a white background, as I did with the Scrapitude Carnivale quilt as the background. It makes the Scrapitude quilt look so cheerful. I probably wouldn’t call it Good Night Irene.

Half Moon Modern Quilt

• Pattern: I have some ideas, but nothing definite. It occurred to me that I could use the Stepping Stones pattern with a strong background to make the pattern show up. I’ll think about that.
• Fabric: Half Moon Modern Fabrics. I have half yard cuts, I think, plus some odds and ends and I’d like to use them together with some additional fabrics, or, at least a background.
• Thoughts: I do think it is difficult to start with fabrics rather than a pattern.

Interlocking Triangles Quilt(s)

• Pattern: This is an idea that I designed myself. I made two quilts and have variations on the pattern to make more.
• Fabric: I have a few different collections of fabric I want to use. Most are rainbow colored
• Thoughts: This is a quilt from which I get a lot of bang for my buck. The visual impact is tremendous. The easiest way to do the spiky triangles is with paper piecing. I am not that big of a fan of paper piecing (read my laments about the Spiderweb‘s paper piecing). I made Spiky Stars using templates and that was meditative and won a prize, so it is doable.

Jack’s Chain Quilt

• Pattern: Jack’s Chain, a continuous pattern
• Fabric: bright scrappy, consistent centers
• Thoughts: This is one of the first quilts I saw hanging in a quilt store and thought of making, after I had learned to quilt. Making the nine patches would be a good leaders and enders endeavor.

Medium Mondo Bag

• Pattern: From QuiltSmart. Saw Katie’s and really liked it. I also thought it would be a good use of those mini-charms, or give me an excuse to buy them.
• Fabric: I have a number of groups of mini-charm packs I have been collecting to use for this project. I will probably go with a combination of Bonnie & Camille fabrics to start.
• Thoughts: There is something about the stabilizer that I cannot wrap my head around, which is one of the reasons I have not started this pattern.

Music Quilt

• Pattern: Top will have a piece of music the Young Man can actually play. That will probably be applique’
• Fabric/Colors: music prints and tone-on-tones with a little red
• Thoughts: The Young Man has requested this quilt as his graduation quilt. Probably won’t make it for graduation, but I will make it. He has sent me a piece of music, which I need to print out and make into an applique’

Neutrals and Red/Scarlet Quilt

• Pattern: Sew two ~3?x3? squares together, slice each separate fabric and insert a red strip, resew and sew the two squares to another set of squares.
• Fabric: neutrals+white, black and whites. I have some of these. I bought them not know what to do with them.
• Thoughts: gift

Pineapple (Hunting and Gathering)

• Fabric: dots. Have most of the strips cut. Will be much more selective about which strips I use.
• Pattern: Pineapple log cabin
• Thoughts: I haven’t given up on a Pineapple quilt despite my frustration with the previous attempt. I bought a different ruler: a Creative Grids Pineapple ruler in hopes that it will work better for me.

Pink Rectangles Gradation Quilt (Hunting and Gathering)

• Fabric: pink 2.5×4.5 rectangles
• Pattern: similar to FOTY 2008
• Thoughts:

Scrapitude #2

• Fabric: scrappy again, but with NO browns or blacks or super darks that look like holes; also more blues and perhaps a different background, though I do like the dots on bright white. I would make sure to skip the dots with a cream background.
• Pattern: Scrapitude by Charlotte Hawkes
• Thoughts: I want to try and figure out how to make the edges NOT on the bias.

Silk Colorblock quilt

• Fabrics: silk dupioni and cotton in brights (of course)
• Pattern: Similar to Colorblocks 2
• Thoughts: I have made a couple of, what I call, Colorblock quilts over the years. One was the Kona Challenge in 2011, another was my 1990 Colorblocks 2 and the first one, Colorblocks, also made in about 1990. I bought the fabrics at the Marin Needlearts show about a zillion years ago and they have languished waiting for me to learn to back them so I can use them.

Spin Wheel  (Hunting and Gathering)

• Pattern: Fons & Porter Spin Wheel, 1200 series, episode 1201
• Fabric: Scrappy with controlled scrappy background

Stepping Stones #3

• Fabric: Macaron pre-cuts from Hoffman. It isn’t started, but I have lots of pre-cuts and think they would make a really fun version of this quilt.
• Pattern: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls

Windmill  (Hunting and Gathering)

• Fabric: Scrappy. I will use a grey for the background, because if I use more of the cut fabric patches, the pattern will be lost. The pieces are too oddly shaped and I don’t want to lose the pattern in a mass of scraps.
• Pattern: Come Quilt with Me Rotary templates

Out of the Dream State:

Box Full of Letters

• Fabric: Kiss Kiss Charm Pack with a solid blue background
• Pattern: Missouri Star Love Notes
• Thoughts: since I write so many letters it appealed to me. I have already started sewing, though only a little.

Food quilt #2  (Hunting and Gathering)

• Pattern: Disappearing 9 patch
• Fabric: RJR Food prints. Will use a different color for the non-food print section than I did for the Young Man’s version.
• Thoughts: Gift for son of good friends for graduation. I have started cutting for this in a serious way. The alternate color will be purple. I will use black again for the non-food squares.

Stepping Stones #2  – I started to make blocks for this, so it is out of the dream projects stage.

• Fabric: Bonnie & Camille fabrics Bliss, Ruby, Vintage Modern. I wanted the contrast to be good, so I added additional fabrics to beef up the Bonnie & Camille fabrics.
• Pattern: Stepping Stones by the Lintott girls