Ryan's Quilt

I finally figured out what to do for my summer quilt. I decided to repeat my son's name several times in the border and then do free piecing for the center blocks. It started out like this:

Then it exploded!
And there are still more.

I'm trying to figure out how to set the blocks together. The words will go in a red border. It will be a while before I get back to them because the Sister's quilt show is this week and I'm super busy. I hope you are all having a great summer!

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!

Love, Learn, Laugh

Hi! I am having to "work" at playing. Luckily, I have a couple more words on which to experiment.