I did a small favor for the list-owner of Stashbusters on Yahoo! and look what she sent me!!! A fabric postcard! It is sooooooo cool 🙂 I have a stash of Peltex and Timtex and I just might have to try making a few of these. My bin of tiny scraps would be perfect for making small snippet style postcards. I just can’t wait to try it myself! TYVM to Sandra Wucher for the card and the inspiration!
Quilts in the works
Watercolor Quilt in Florals
Here’s an older top that I did using Dina Pappas’s method of fusing the fabric squares to a lightweight gridded stabilizer. She loves florals so that’s what we all (in her class) used.
I don’t love florals that much, so I tried Dina’s technique in batiks. This is still a pretty quilt and made even better with the addition of the two great borders (Sarah’s work again – what a great kid!)
Watercolor Quilts in Batiks
Watercolor quilts are usually made from floral fabrics, but I hate florals, so I used batiks.
My friend, Dina Pappas, wrote a book about making watercolor quilts using a foundation stabilizer with gridded lines on it. I used her technique to make these quilts and what a breeze!! Even MY seams are straight – and that’s saying something!
I also hate doing borders so my daughter Sarah Raffuse put the fantastic borders on the quilts for me – now I just need to quilt them. What do you think about the 
batik v. floral?
Fabrics from Quilt Market in Houston 2007
My daughter, Sarah Raffuse, my best friend Penny Herndon, and I all went to Quilt Market in Houston and I came away with these fabrics! I bought quite a variety!
The Earthtones are P & B Textiles.
The dark chocolate and periwinkle
blue are In the Beginning fabrics, called Bohemian Manor.
The milk chocolate and powder blues are Marcus Brothers
the stack of autumn colors are RJR;
the muted tonals with the rose is Transitions by Benartex.
The two photos of Kings Road Fat Quarter Packs (there are 4 of them)
are the exact same fat quarter packets, just reversed. On one side of the bundle you see 4
fabrics and on the other side (I just flipped them over in the same order when photographing) you see the other 4 FQ’s in the bundle.
I can’t wait to use them all!
Scrapper at Heart
I love scraps and save every sliver – I even save the ends of my decorative threads! I randomly pieced these scraps together and ended up with 4 squares. Check out the stitching – I am happy with it. I need to get it sashed and bound this week.
Overpowering Purple
I put together a few mismatched fabrics, and an awesomely overpowering purple flecked with silver, just to see what would happen. I might make a purse out of the squares.
Black & White and Bright!
This little quilt is a favorite! I love black and white quilts and wanted to throw some really bright fabrics in it, just for fun. For extra special fun I am using my extensive collection of 12wt cotton Sulky threads. I couldn’t be happier if it were quilting itself! I can’t wait to see what my granddaughter Audrey thinks of the colors 🙂
The X Bag
I read about this bag and saw a photo posted to the website for Stashbusters at Yahoo! I wanted it immediately. I ordered it from Quilterswarehouse through a link on the designer’s page Four Corners Designs.
I just love this pattern. I put it together in a few hours, modifying the size (down) to a small purse size instead of the tote bag size in the pattern. The pattern gives specific directions for creating it from 3 types of materials (fabrics, denim and quilted fabrics) which I thought was very cool and the instructions were understandable, with good diagrams.
I chose to make my first one from a tapestry fabric and a cotton print but my next ones will be of our own crazy shortcut quilting technique. I already have a few squares prepared but I wanted to test-drive the pattern first before using up my quilted squares.
Crazy Eights Quilt
I am sashing the squares to a reproduction quilt that was made by a group of quilters. The fabrics are by Chainteclaire and designed by Darlene Zimmerman. The squares were randomly cut by the ladies at Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe in Anchorage, Alaska (http://www.seamslikehome.com) and machine quilted by them in part and finished by me. It’s gorgeous!
Quilts in the works
In the latter part of December, 2007, I’m working on a quilt made of feedsack reproduction fabrics. I’ve had the fabrics for a long time and thanks to the folks on the Yahoo! group “Stashbusters” I’ve been inspired to finish this quilt. The more I work on it, the more I love it!
I’ve also got a black & white fabrics quilt in the works (just set aside for now) that has small bits of pink, yellow and blue fabrics interspersed. I’m using my 20wt Sulky threads on that one and some basic decorative stitches for the quilting.
