Magic Tile Progress

i am making progress on the Magic Tile quilt.  I am trying to spend an hour every day on it.  I have 75% of the body quilted.  Determining the quilting pattern for this one was a struggle.  I've been struggling with the question of how I am going to quilt the border so that the quilting is as dense as the body (echo quilting patches every half inch) and may have figured out a plan.

Finished

The applique tulip pillow is finished.  I just need to launder it and get a picture.  The black fabric really shows the cat hair all over it.

I read the Aloha quilt by Jennifer Chaverini last week.  It has inspired me to do another hawaiian applique.  I think this one I'll do the ulu pattern in read and white.  So much for not starting anything new!  I've also almost finished the first Tisket a Tasket block. 

Tulip progress and UFO finish

I've made progress on the Tulip pillow. I've finished all of the applique - pictures below are steps in progress. I am on to the quilting of this one.

And I have also finished the Bear's Paw quilt.

Progress...

Well, I got two more of the Grandmother's flower garden blocks pieced while watching karate last night. My ankle isn't up to the stances or kicks. So I sat on the sidelines and pieced GFG blocks. I now have 29 blocks pieced.

And I've gotten a few more pieces on the stained glass. 9 more applique pieces to go and the pillow top will be done. I got some black yli handquilting thread from sew-sister's quilt shop mail order (I think I really like this company) so I'm ready to start the quilting as soon as I get the applique done.

National Quilt Day/Weekend Retreat

As Saturday was National Quilt Day I spent as much of the weekend as I could working on quilting. Strictly hand-sewing. I finished two of my grandmother's flower garden blocks (total done is now 27) and worked on the Tulip mandala. I finished the light green and started adding the gold. I put on 4 of the dark gold pieces and have since started the light gold (no picture).

The above picture was once the green was added. The basting stitches on the right are the result of the stained glass frame coming unfused from the black. The picture below is with the first part of the dark yellow pieces.

Tulip Mandala

I've started work on another UFO. It's a tulip mandala stained glass pillow. I am not fond of this particular stained glass technique. It is very fussy, which is probably why the piece became a ufo in the first place. It's kind of appropriate to be working on it now that it is spring time.

I am working in colour blocks now - I'm not certain what I was doing before as I have pieces appliqued that are 3 colours. I've basted the last of the light pink and hope to finish that colour today.

The light green patches are cut out and ready to be basted on. I think I will baste more than one at a time and then have a stretch of stitching. I think I can do eight. Then there are the dark and light gold pieces to do. Doesn't sound like much, but I think it will take a couple of weeks to finish. This one will be finished as a pillow - I don't really use wallhangings.

Almost done the green quilt. It's quilted, bound and labelled - it just needs to be washed and I will call it done done.

Labels...

Quilt labels are the bane of my existence. I usually use T-shirt transfer onto white fabric because you can get a nice clear lable.

Problem is it takes several attempts to get a good transfer. I'm trying to make labels today and I've got a mess - wasted transfer, wasted fabric because the transfer didn't work properly. Now I've got to boot the laptop, print the labels again and try it again.

I'd use permanent marker but it never looks nice on the back of the quile.