WIP Wednesday

Basting in Progress on the AQG Mystery Quilt

I have been basting quilts this week in preparation for a bunch of quilting. The one currently on the table is the mystery quilt for my Guild. I was going to leave it unquilted until after the big reveal at Guild, but that was moved from March to April, so I'm going to go ahead and quilt this, hopefully before the April meeting. 

I'm linking this up with WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.

WIP Wednesday

Freshly Pieced hosts a What's-in-Progress Wednesday link-up and I decided to join in this week.

Freemotion Quilting with my Janome

This week I have been working on quilting my Purple Syncopated Ribbons (aka Sam's) quilt and finished it up and got the binding made and sewn on. I like how the quilting came out, but it was a pain to do as the pattern of following sections diagonally through the quilt with wavy lines was too confusing on such a big quilt. If I make this pattern again (which I might) I will definitely choose a different quilting plan. Now I have about a million miles of binding to hand sew to the back of the quilt.

Sew Thinky Thursday

Sew Thinky Thursdays is a linky project hosted at Mommy's Nap Time.

This week's question is: What is your favorite color of Kona Cotton? (Feel free to respond using your fav solid fabric type.) How much of it do you keep in your stash? Is there a solid that you always find yourself running out of? 

Moda Marble - Royal Blue

I don't pay a lot of attention to what line the fabrics I use are in. If the fabric feels nice and looks good in what I am making I get it. The exception to this is that for "solids" I love moda marbles. They come in a ton of beautiful colors and always play well with others. I use a lot of the black because it sets things off so nicely. My favorite is the royal blue, which works surprisingly well as a "neutral" in a scrappy quilt. My bee has been doing a block exchange this year with this as the common fabric in all our scrappy star blocks and they are absolutely beautiful!
I don't keep a lot of it in my stash, I tend to buy it and use it up.

Sew Thinky Thursdays

Sew Thinky Thursdays is a linky project hosted at Mommy's Nap Time.

This week's question is: Describe your quilting style. Who or what influences you? How do you see your style changing over time?

My quilting style is eclectic, but with a strong streak of the traditional. I like colors--lots of colors--and am not drawn to pale, pastel, or neutral colors. I use them, because they make the fun colors look so good, but I never see pastels at the fabric store and have an overwhelming urge to bring them home with me. I love traditional blocks and am very interested in the history of quilt blocks and the connections quilting gives me to the past, which influences the designs I create. I am not good at following patterns, I always see something I want to do differently or change just a little. (My quilting bee members are laughing at "just a little" as they read this.) 

I am influenced by the beautiful and amazing work of the quilters in my guild and by professional quilters whose work I come across in books and magazines. I am also influenced by non-textile art and the graphic design I see everywhere every day. 

I think my style changes all the time in some ways and not at all in others. I try to stretch my abilities and my comfort zone and try new and different things with every project. I am always drawn to saturated color though, and I don't see that changing. 

How about you? Please share your answer to this Sew Thinky Thursdays question.