Recent Acquisitions

 Recent purchases that I thought were worth talking about here. Aurifil Thread acquisition has reached maximum for me, mostly because I ran out of room in my thread box! Only a few repeats with colors I already owned. If you like this thread, try the Cotton Club's thread club.

 There were so many color choices for this cork fabric, and I couldn't pick so I went with a neutral near natural one. This will be made into a bag, It's fairly thin and very flexible, the backing is poly-urethane. I'm interested to see how it sews up. Sew Sweetness carries many choices. And they have a video on how to sew with it which should be useful.

 RFID blocking fabric to be used in bags and wallets, etc. (A tin-foil hat too perhaps?) The only instructions that came with it was to NOT iron it ever, so that'll make it kind of tough to use in sewing a bag or a wallet, hmmm. They sell it at Nancy's Notions in case you're intrigued.

 A rather crazy selection of fabrics (even for me) I bought at Golden State Quilting. Guess I was needing some color that day or something. I have been challenged to use these all in one quilt. Hmmmm.

Who knew you could buy Cherrywood fabric scraps at your LQS? Too fun, huh? Such a nice selection, I really love how this fabric feels.

Wandering Wednesday - Curiodyssey

 This month's CQFA meeting was a wonderful sort of field trip to a kid's science museum one of our members works at, Curiodyssey in San Mateo on the shores of the San Francisco Bay. We had a great turnout and a super meeting and then set out to explore the place. In the immediate foreground at the top of this photo are red pinwheels that are set in a metal structure along the edge of the building to catch all those ocean breezes.

When you're with like-minded friends, it turns out no kids are required to enjoy. I love this picture of Bron as seen through the kaleidoscope.

The texture wall was fun, I really liked the design of these lined-up pencils.

 I could have played with this thing all day, I promise I didn't knock any little kids over to get to it. What a great way to illustrate the result of gear size differential.


I really want to make this quilt! I wonder if there is a design program that would be able to replicate this? Seems like there should "be an app for that."

Fun with mirror-symmetry and colors and shapes. this was another fun thing that would be useful for quilt designing.

The small garden and zoo were very enjoyable too. What a lovely and inspiring place, I think I need to get my nieces to come here so I have a good excuse to come back. 

Solstice Thirteen

 The thirteenth Solstice Quilt block, eh not my favorite. Those little triangles in the corner aren't working for me.

I am liking how all the blocks look together so far.

Thirty-Fourth Study Square

 The thirty-fourth Weekly Study Square quiltlet has a current favorite color combination of orange and blue. And pooh my trademark wonky edges are finally sneaking in. I knew they would eventually.

 I have an enormous spool of rayon orange thread that I love getting to use with abandon like this.

Solstice Twelve

This twelfth block for the Solstice Quilt might be my favorite so far. Maybe it's just the colors that I used.

Thirty-Third Study Square

 The thirty-third Weekly Study Square quiltlet is almost landscape-ish. I loved getting to use these colors together.

Close-up of the asterisk/star. Not bad for free-hand.

Solstice Eleven

Sounds like a movie title to me. This is a really nice block, lots of possibilities to play with as far as the colors.

It's almost looking like the start of something at this point.

Thirty-Second Study Square

 The thirty-second Study Square quilt let is rather simple compared to some of the others. I like the graphic-ness of the big swaths of orange.

 The orange and the black were both some type of polyesters so they were rather ravel-y.

Solstice Ten

 Here's the tenth block I've gotten done for the Solstice Quilt. Pretty simple, but it's got some depth.

 I really like how this one looks with all the others so far.

Thirty-First Study Square

Here's the 31st Weekly Study Square quilt let. Now that I'm looking at it, there's definitely a comic-book-ish feel to me. Probably from the red/white print that is so graphic and clear, that and the outlining stitching that I did around the shapes.



 I kept the heart-shape from the heart appliqué block that I did for the Solstice Quilt.

Thirtieth Study Square

 Back to posting the weekly study square quiltlets. Picking up where I dropped off showing these, this is the 30th one!

I had to document my fingernail polish looking so good with this quilt let.

I used a whole lot of different machine embroidery stitches.

 Using the stitches in unexpected ways is some of the good stuff I've learned while doing this project.

I don't think I've ever shown the back of one of these study squares. Here's what it looks like, a big thready mess. The fabric I used this time for the backing is the printed instructions for making a holiday decoration that I completed probably twenty years ago. It was in my scrap bin and was the right size to cut up and use. I write the week and the date also to help me keep track of these quiltlets.

ICAD Day 1

Back after a little blog-holiday. Happy June! This year I'm joining in on the ICAD event, which entails making art on an index card everyday for June and July.

Index Card A Day = ICAD

It's not too late, you can do it too.

My plan is to use some words or a word on each one. This first one has my sticker from my visit to the SFMOMA on Monday. It caught my eye, so that was what I started with. Inspired by some of the modern artworks I marveled over during my visit.

I'm not planning to post mine every day here on the blog, but will probably do a round-up weekly or so. Because there's other stuff to talk about.