SCRAP PLAY

 I did some cleaning and putting away of stuff in the studio this morning.  I even managed to cull some things out, which can go to the Goodwill. 

When it got to what to do with the scraps that are in my 'project bowls' (bowls where I keep the scraps of quilts I'm working on) I slowed down and got distracted.  

The bowl that contained the little scraps from the Trinkets quilt, which are from Alison Glass' Kaleidoscope Collection and are a little more loosely woven, I decided to just start sewing them together.  I contined sewing on them when Brave Patch Monday Sewcial started.  I sewed and fitted and sewed and fitted them all together, eventually, with only 6 little pieces left over.

It's about 13" by 11-3/4" - I think I'll make a little table mat out of it.  So cute.

PEARS AND RIBBONS

I picked up my quilts from the Puyallup Fair today.  I was pleasantly surprised they both had ribbons.

"Carolinas" won first in Small Quilts Original Design and an Award of Merit for Quilting.  Woo-hoo.

"Trinkets Six" won a third place in Large Quilts.  

FINISHED TRINKETS

Finally!  I've been quilting on the Trinkets Six quilt.  Eduard put in almost 11 hours quilting.  I think that's the longest I've ever spent on any quilt.

This one was great for practice.  Every trinket square was quilted differently, giving me an opportunity to try out lots of different fills and motifs.

QUILTING TRINKETS

I had loaded my Trinkets Six quilt onto my longarm, Eduard, before we left for Quiltcon.  I was not happy with the little bit that I had quilted, and was in the process of picking some of it out, which was not easy because of the loosely woven fabric that I had used - Kaleidoscope by Alison Glass, from Andover Fabrics.

Since being back from Quiltcon, I've been sick and too tired to work on it, so there it sat until now.

After I got the United Squares of America done, I finally went back to work on it and got the bad parts picked out and started quilting on it.

It is looking a lot better.

I'm using a King Tut varigated thread on the top, and putting straight lines in the dark squares and quilting each 'trinket' differently, highlight each square's shape and image.  It's a lot of fun. 

TRINKET

I finished up the panto on my City Sampler quilt, but I didn't have time to take it off the machine.

And while Eduard was working on that, I was working on my latest new project - Trinkets.  I had changed the blocks from 4 inch to 6 inch in Electric Quilt and printed out all of the foundation papers I would need.  This quilt will be bigger than the original pattern by Alison Glass.

I had gotten caught up and bought the quilt kit.  It came with about 29 fat quarters in all those delicious colors in the Kaleidoscope collection, plus the dark grey (Raven) for the background and a funky black and white striped knubbly fabric (which I don't like for a quilt).  When I saw that there was plenty enough fabric there for a bigger quilt, I immediately sent away for more of the Raven fabric which I would need more of, and a grey and white stripe to use instead of the knubbly one.  Here we go - just what I needed, another project.  But, I love it!