Rayna Gillman Meets Sujata Shah Meets Patty the Quilt Lady

Let me give you a snow update first.  (oh lordy, I forgot to do a bird today......I will do two tomorrow, don't worry Lynne.)  We had snow hanging in until mid afternoon today.  As we drove to buy me some rain (or currently snow) boots, I snapped some of the SneauxMen still hanging around on street  corners.  This is the longest surviving snow I have ever

seen!       






Even Frozen got into the fun!  I thought this was hysterical.  A couple days ago this Frozen guy was on green grass!  LOL







So here is my sewing chronicle. 


I did those green blocks as an exercise from Rayna Gillman's book.


 I started at this point yesterday.  That is actually white at the top, it just blends with the design wall. 

Then I decided it needed large areas of just open space.  That is mostly because the green I needed was only fat eighths.  Really.  I actually got a lot of squares out of those 6 fat eighths.  I had 4 greens plus black and white.  I added the green trellis because it played well color wise and read as a solid.


I decided that the piece needed to be larger.  It was like a baby quilt at this point.

So......





LOL.....Ignore the diamond leftover from Diamond Dogs!

I have Sujata Shah's book on improv piecing and Patty the Quilt Lady's technique for making improv triangles.  Patty makes these long strings of triangles and Sujata pieces them one at a time.  I sort of combined the two.

And made Improv Triangles.  I tossed in some yellow, since I no longer had three greens. Yeah.

I made some.

then some more.

Then I moved them around.

You know, it is too busy now.  The integrity of the two unrelated sides is disturbed.

In the picture above you  look at one side, then the other.  Now it is too jumbled together and you don't know where to look.

Trouble.

So I moved them around a bit.

And filled in some blank spaces.

Remember that space at the top is white.

I really like the triangles on the side of the  green blocks.  Not sure what to call them so green blocks seems to be it.

Those blocks on the right side pull the idea of the left side into view.

I like it.

I can't even imagine how to quilt it!  LOL

Stash Report and A Next!

You know me by now.  I gotta be working on something!  So here are the next few things.

When Frank had all those points from his sales awards, I thought they were better spent on quilt books rather than those silly B Sci-Fi movies like The Creature From The Planet Zorgon.

And Cultural Fusion was one of them I chose.  Since then I have seen so many of the modern (and not so modern) quilts make fabulous quilts from this book.  I was so jealous they were having such a good time in Sew Alongs with Sujata herself, that I thought I would at least try some on my own.

So if you have the book, and want to do a Sew Along, LETS GO!

Here are two blocks from the book.

This one is simply a ton of scraps from my existing (and never ending) scrap boxes.  I paired up dark and light and made a kit to take with me to retreat.




This one is from garments I purchased for 99 cents at The Purple Cow.  The stripes were crop pants and the leafy things was a linen shirt.  the beige was a sofa fabric sample that softened after it was washed.  And discolored a bit as well to make some soft shadings.  Now I need to dig through Frank's pants and,

YES........

I will make sure he understands THIS time that I will CUT THEM UP!

I won't do THAT again!  LOL    But it was really funny to see the look on his face!

 

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