The End!

Free pieced liberated stars and Tonya's wonky letters marks the end of my stint in this class. I've thoroughly enjoyed myself, picked up some great tips and met some new quilters who think the same way as I do.

If Tonya doesn't mind, I'm moving my Sugar Sweet Houses quilt over to the Lazy Gal House Home or Pantry Class.

It's been great!

Stained Glass or Sugar Candy Houses

It's taken a bit of time, but the top is finally finished!

Now the question. How am I going to quilt this?

Stitch the ditch round the house blocks and fans on the black?

Not at all sure.

I'm going to sign off now as I've done 2 projects for this class (there is a third which I haven't shown here, but you can see it on my blog) and I've now got tons of hand quilting to do.

I've thoroughly enjoyed myself, met lots more quilting bloggers and learnt loads of new things, especially about colour and design.

So have a great autumn and hope to meet you all again at the next class.

Thanks Tonya - it's been great fun.

Deadline Met!

Constrution finished.






All we have to do now is tidy up the neighbourhood and build the infrastructure.

Past the Planning Stage - Construction has Started!

The plans were proving difficult. The houses did not look good.

The architect had a consultation with the structural engineer (aka Tonya) and construction finally started yesterday.



Building is continuing apace. The deadline has been fixed for the end of this week and hopefully we'll meet it.

House Building 2

Just about to go to bed, but just had to share this.

I think I'm going to take out the original block and the one bottom left and create mad houses. Alex chose the colours for the one on the right. My favourite is the one top left which took me an age to do as I was going through one of my 'can't see the angle' phases and I kept on just cutting and sewing strips to get it square.

House Building

I'm creating a small village. The big centre block was one of the first houses I made and its been crying out for its own quilt ever since.

I started using the colours that are in the first house and alternating them. The one top right has probably got to have its roof cut off (no contrast) and perhaps replaced with a purple one.



I pulled from the scrap box a bit of the border from Les Bleus, cut it into strips and this was the result.


Photo not brilliant - light was crap - but I like it. It doesn't fit in with what I originally intended so I'm going to have a rethink.

Result!

One finished top.



It's a lot bigger than I meant it to be - covers the entire design wall!

It's joined the list of tops to be quilted and I'm continuing with the repetition theme by doing some wonky houses. I love wonky houses!

Oh pffffffffffffffffffff!

I was pondering the background and border and started piecing together 2 inch wide piano keys for the border. Having done half, I decided I didn't like them after all, so cut them in half and used to them as a border round one of the blues.



Nope - don't like. Sorry Tonya - I unpicked it.

Then I thought about this.


Using the olive tree fabric as the background, with a blue border, then perhaps a thicker white border (got some unbleached Kona somewhere) and then the binding.

I quite like it - sort of throws the letters into a 3D effect.

I'm not going to start cutting until you tell me what you think.

Sewing Up a Blue Storm

I've been staring at the design wall for ages deciding on how to take things further, but before starting the filling in, thought I had better finish the words first.

So I sewed up a blue storm yesterday and got them done.

I think I'm going to reorganise the blue's, but am pleased with it. My favourite letters are the D in "world", the l in the last "blue" and, drum roll Tonya please, look at that S! I've finally cracked that little beastie!




For the filling in, I wondered about hearts, trees (I think no because they will detract from the words), houses, free pieced flowers, or alternatively putting blue borders round the words with the light background, filling in with white/cream, and putting a really jazzy/scrappy blue border round the whole thing.

I don't really want to make the length any bigger - it is already 38 inches long!

I've got the blue's again

Yet another change of plan - well sort of.

Wonky tree which looks like a cross between a house and a mushroom and the beginning of "Blue, blue my world is blue.


I've finally got my Crumbs project out of the way and can give this project 95% attention. The other 5% is being spent finishing off some hand quilting on a quilt to be sent to the UK by the middle of next week - eeek!

Singing the Blues

Change of direction here. I decided against the blue mish mash and thought I'd try something else.





The "B" looks more like an eight - I'm better at lowercase letters

The next strip will probably be the blue olive fabric as the letters and the background will be a mixture. We can but wait and see.

Allez les bleus

Two letters made up very quickly last Sunday (notice I said Sunday Ton).



The one on the left is supposed to be a lower case b. I know it doesn't look like one. These letters are, hopefully, not going to be made up of the same fabric and are going to merge into one big splash of blue.

Blue Blue Blue

This is the blue stash that has been glaring at me. I'm hoping to start cutting soon, but was wondering if I ought to add some more white. What do you think?

Introduction

Hi everyone. I'm Clare, I live in France and have been a fan of Tonya's work and free piecing for sometime now. I've done wonky houses and letters, but do need to expand my letters a bit more and get them more wonky, rather than "straight". I need to think "outside" those straight lines!

I've joined the Lazy Gal Summer Class in the hope that I'll finally get to cut into the blue stash which has been glaring at me from its box for some time. I've got one or two ideas on what to do with it and hope to share ideas with you all along the way.