Too many quilts on my mind ...

I am making progress on about four fronts at the moment.  The double wedding ring for my Sue Ross class.  A great quilt pattern of Kathy's from Material Obsession Two (MO2).  Another from Kaffe's Kaleidescope of Quilts and some with a bit of Gwen Marston inspiration.

The  MO2 pattern is photographed here, not particularly well (sorry).

I'm using a great Kaffe from this season's range and a Lecien which looks like a fuschia version of the David Jones herringbone as the main two fabrics, and "favourites" for the stars.  I've been surprised how hard it is to make those stars stand out  Other patterned fabrics seem to just blend in, even if the colours are quite different.

 And in between quilting a "mini-party" for my big guy, say me make some special lolly bags for two friends to take home.

Cowboys fabric, some cotton tape from the haby drawer and old labels from an ancient dream of starting my own market business ...Happy Birthday!

When a back is better that a front

By contrast to the front of the Sue Ross quilt, the back come together effortlessly.  Spare colour spectrum fabric, and left-overs from the quilt, a heady mix of Kaffe, Anna Maria and Lecien, plus a little bit of extra effort appliquing a few leaves on ... and tah dah ...

And showcasing a gorgeous melalueca out in flower at the moment.

Full credit has to go to the boys, who gave me the time to get on with this today, between trips to Taekwondo and the skateboard park, while the other half was on an epic training ride...

Sue Ross - Circles of Fun Quilt

I have been going along to Material Obsession to classes with Sue Ross for a while now.  Sue has an amazing way of combining different fabrics, designs and colours which you'd never expect to put together.  Her quilts are phenomenal, and at first trying to pull something together which tool a similar approach was challenging, stressful even.  But after a while it was just liberating.  Sue's recent quilts have included "Circles of Fun".  And it's fair to say that this has been a difficult journey for me from start to finish.  A decision early on to use a colour wheel for the outer circle really impacted what I could do for the next two wheels ... and the border .... and the centres... And then the rotten things wouldn't sit flat and I ended up unpicking 1mm seams (gotta love that foundation piecing ... not).  But here it is looking pretty nice, even if I do say so myself.

Circles of Fun

By contrast, this dinozag for my nearly 8yo has been a dream to put together.  Skulls aren't quite my thing, but they make someone happy ... and it does go to show that for this design you really can put anything together.

Dinozag