Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

Do any of you have this problem?   I have a hard time giving away some of my quilts!   Many were practice quilts dating back to machine quilting on the DSM, or the Grace/Juki set up.  Some are in colors that are not my typical decorating scheme.   Many are baby quilt size but not really up to par to give as a gift as coming from me - the quilter!  But for whatever reason, I just keep hanging on to them.  Well, this weekend I identified a few that I can pass along.   This one, a sweet quilt that I do like, doesn't really fit in well in my household with black cats and 3 men in the house.   It is headed off soon to have a new home!   You can click to read about the inspiration for this Robert Kaufman Challenge on my blog.   Goodbye quilt!   It's time you came out of storage and got used, maybe even loved!     It sort of looks like...

I finished my quilt last weekend and can finally share all the pictures with you of my quilt.   We were asked to create a modern quilt using a charm pack of Robert Kaufman kona solids.  Requirements were to interpret some architectural  design found in our home and create a quilt based on that design.   I chose to use the new bathroom tile for my inspiration.  I used only the charm pack, lots of RK Kona White, some pink from my stash for the faux piping and also backing from my stash.   I would have loved to had a new fabric for the backing that was from one of the gorgeous modern fabric lines but not enough yardage in my stash to get the backing and I just could not justify buying backing fabric for this quilt when I did have fabrics on hand that I could use. One thing I learned, long diagonal quilting lines are difficult to obtain on the long arm!   I tried several ways to do this and just did not like my results.  End...