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There's a fun place out in Blogland called 15 Minutes Play where quilters are encouraged to make their own fabric by sewing together small scraps and then using that "made fabric" in their quilts. I participated in a block swap in 2011 in which each player, when it was their turn, could request blocks of their own design, and the other participants made and sent that block. I blogged about it HERE. I requested two blocks -- one neutral block of made fabric and one color block of made fabric.
I asked that they be slashed, switched around and re-sewn. Like this --
I made the purple blocks and received 12 more sets from the swappers.
They stayed on my design wall for a while and then were hidden away with the rest of the UFO's. Since this is my "Year of the UFO" they are once again seeing the light of day, and this is my current project.
I didn't think I would like the look if I had just sewn them together into rows. I needed to play. So I slashed .....
..... shuffled .....
..... then added 1" strips of a complementary color.
I still wasn't happy, so I slashed some more and added another strip.
Now, THAT is looking interesting! I played all day yesterday and was able to finish the blocks and get them sewn together.
I'm really starting to like this idea. I need to give the borders some thought, but I have several ideas in mind. I have a feeling this one won't be a UFO much longer!
I keep track of all my quilts and quilted projects on an Excel spreadsheet, and I just took a look at my totals for 2012. Hmmm, something has happened to my momentum!
In 2008 I completed twenty-eight quilts, nineteen of which were for charity. This stack and slash quilt was made and hand-quilted for baby Seth....
....and I made this quilted stocking for our grandson, Aidan.
In 2009 I completed eighteen quilts. Two of my favorites are this "Wacky Blues" quilt I made and hand-quilted for our great-nephew Phenyx....
....and this quilt I made for our grandson Noah's bed using a Hockey print for the focus fabric and red, white and blue alternate blocks.
In 2010 I completed fifteen quilts. One was a Black & White & Bright baby quilt for a friend's new baby, Max....
....and one was a little quilt for Noah's stuffed monkey, made out of the leftovers from his quilt.
Then in 2011 I completed twenty quilts. The only one I haven't blogged about in a previous post is the baby quilt I made for our great-nephew Christopher. I used some blue strips I found in my sewing room and pieced them with white squares, similar to the Allegro pattern by Terry Atkinson, then hand-quilted it.
That brings us to 2012, which will be ending in one more day. That is not much time to bump up my totals, so I will admit that I only completed seven (yes, seven) quilts this year. That includes not one single UFO. ((sigh)) And I even blogged about all of them so there isn't anything else to add. Except maybe one of the reasons. Better make that THREE of the reasons.
