Tuesday Talk

Happy Tuesday!

 

I hope you day has started out well!  I am off to do a little grocery shopping to get the last few things for Thanksgiving dinner and also to do a little fabric shopping!  I need to look through my solid stash as I am getting ready to start a new project!  Fun, fun!

 

Today, let's talk about solid fabric!  I love solids!  My favorite are the Robert Kaufman Kona Solids.  I love the Kona Color Swatch card because it is a really great tool to use to match up your solids to prints.  I use solids quilt often these days and love to use the by themselves and with a little splash of pint fabric.

 

Here is a wall hanging I did this summer out of solids.  I know you have seen it before, but I wanted to show the simplicity and beauty of just using solids.  This is the Kona Coal, Bright Pink, Aqua and Chartreuse.

 

 

Do you like using solids since that is the popular trend with the modern quilting movement?

 Do you use a lot of solids by themselves or so you like to use them with prints?

Let me know what you think!

 

30 Days of Thanks~Day 20

I am thankful for solid fabrics.  The use of solids has brought me into another whole side of quilting that is refreshing and interesting.  Solid fabrics have opened up a whole new world of quilting to me to explore and have fun with!

 

Have a Terrific Tuesday!

 



Tuesday Talk

Welcome to Tuesday!

 

I hope your day has started out on a bright note!  Today is Tuesday Talk!  I thought I would talk about Free Motion Quilting.  I have only done stippling in my free motion adventures.  I used free motion on a T-shirt wall hanging I did and also on a tote bag.  They both turned out pretty well and that is the great thing about stippling, it does hide mistakes!  I have not ventured out into patterns yet.  Mainly because I haven't had time, but I am also a little intimidated.  We had a couple of workshops in our guild to teach some proper quilt ideas to our members.  Our president made up several samples of different, easy quilting patterns.  You can see them below.  They are beautiful. One of these days I am going to try several of them! 

 

How about you?  Do you free motion quilt, and if so, what is your favorite pattern?

Stippling on T-shirt wall hanging

Stippling on tote bag

Free motions designs in our workshop

 

30 Days of Thanks~Day 13

 

Today, I am thankful that my sons' truck was not stolen or vandalized yesterday.  They just smashed the back sliding glass window and they didn't take anything.  Luckily, other than a jacket, there was nothing in there at all.  Just a pain to get it fixed, but we are very thankful!  :)

 

Have a Terrific Tuesday!

 

Tuesday Talk

Happy Tuesday!

 

Today is the day~Election Day!  Get out and vote! 

No matter which way you plan to vote, just do it! 

Exercise your rights, because we live in a country that allows us the freedom to vote. 

If you want change, don't sit on your couch and hope it will happen!  VOTE!

  

 

30 Days of Thanks~Day 6

 

Today, I am thankful that I live in a country that allows me the freedom to vote and make my own decisions.  I love our country and our freedom!  God Bless all of those who fight for our freedom!

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. 
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. 
~Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday Talk

Happy Tuesday!

 

This is just a quick post today!  I am so busy rounding up everything for my retreat later this week.  I am getting projects together and doing last minute errands.  I am so excited about our retreat.  It is our local modern quilt guild fall retreat.  We had a retreat in the spring and it was just wonderful!  I plan to work hard to get several projects pieced.  I will take plenty of photos and share later!

Have you ever been on a quilt or scrapbook retreat?  If so, tell us about it!

 

My beautiful mums!

 

Hope you have a Terrific Tuesday!

 



Tuesday Talk

Happy Tuesday!

 

Hope things are going well in your little corner of the world!  It's time for Tuesday Talk! 

If you sew or quilt, do you like the modern, more free style of quilting?  Are you more of a traditionalist and stick to patterns?  Or...are you somewhere in between? 

 

For me, I am sort of in between traditional and modern, in that I like some of the traditional style of blocks, such as log cabins, pinwheels and stars.  Really though, I am drawn to much more of the modern style and making things your own.  I love the wonky log cabins and wonky stars much more than I do the traditional style.  I love pretty clean and simple lines, graphic in nature.  I love to straight line quilt also.  I think the modern style of quilting suits me much better since I do like the graphic looks and clean lines.

 

How about you?  What's your style and why?  Let me know what you think!

Have a Terrific Tuesday!

Tuesday Talk

Happy Tuesday!

 

It's starting out to be a very rainy day today.  We have needed some rain, but I don't think we needed this much at one time.  Oh, well!  After today, the weather is supposed to be great with lower temperatures...it is going to feel more like fall!

 

Here is a simple quilt top that I have not quilted yet.  It is supposed to be a Potato Chip pattern quilt, but I changed it up a little and just did the squares and put sashing in between.  This is a quilt for my son, who like some of our family, is a NC Tar Heels fan.  At one point, he wanted to go to college there, but ended up staying here in TN.  I still wanted to make him a quilt and I started this one almost two years ago.  Then, I got it back out to piece together and then never quilted it because I got busy with other projects.  Imagine that!  I am thinking about getting it out again and quilting it very soon.  I would like to give it to him one of these days!  LOL

 

 

So, how many quilt tops do you have finished, but not quilted? 

I have five right now I can think of!  I know that is bad, so I am going to try to do something about all those!  LOL  I also have blocks that were put together from several online bees and one from our guild that I participated in and need to sew those together.  I have four sets of those and then they need to be quilted.  Ugh...I need to get this stuff done, but I have got to make time to do them! 

 

Let me know how your unfinished projects are going!

 

Don't forget to check out the Modern Quilt Guild QuiltCon Block Challenge post!

 

Have a Terrific Tuesday!