November 2011 :: Making Progress -- Green and Pink!

Making progress on the pink and green quilt!

Trying to keep up with Missy before our next quilting bee :)

Simon helping, of course:

Ready to sew together tomorrow:

October 2011 :: Fabric Shopping

A sale at the fabric store gave me a chance to try out some of the interesting color concepts described in the book that I recently bought. I noticed that nearly all of the fabric remnants that I have collected over the years are all sort of the same tone - not too dark, not too light, but pretty bright and in the middle of the value and saturation scales...which has led to a lot of similar looking quilts. I am excited to try out these new fabrics--dark pinks and oranges contrasting with very pale greens.

(Simon seems to approve!)

Spring 2011 :: Bright Pink Diagonals

This diversely colorful quilt is one of the most wild ones that I've done so far! The teeny pink squares line up in diagonal stripes across the quilt. Simon enjoyed giving this one a test run before I finished it with the mostly black back with little sushi nibbles.

Summer 2008 :: Squares of Pink

This quilt was an early foray into lots of mixed bits of leftover fabrics - something that I've been doing a lot since!

Winter 2007 :: The Quilting Saga Begins

I took a course in Winter 2007 (during my last year at Stanford) that required each of us to choose a 'term project' to change something specific about our own lives. I chose to push myself to sew a quilt while I was taking a very challenging ME course.

Fortunately, Scott and I had a friend that had recently had a baby, so I got to make a quilt for her! I've always loved working on design and craft projects, and it is always more fun to make things FOR someone specific. It felt so good to finish this quilt, and it was the starting point for me to start working on more quilts and projects like this one.

When our friends had their second baby, he got to enjoy the quilt too!