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About mlwilkie

Software Developer, Mother, Wife with keen interest in art, design and crafts of all kinds.

Quilt design complete

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For this month’s “A lovely year of finishes” I am targeting to finish one of 3 quilt tops. I do not think I will get that quilt top finish, but the good news is I finished my first quilt design for the first quilt.

I had mentioned that I was looking to do something like this:
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Well then I was in a meeting the other day, and someone had put up a powerpoint slide, which lead me to designing my own block using threadbias.com. It has a set of arrows that point in (this way) and a set of arrows that point out (that way). Here is a look at the block:
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The quilt is for a boy who loves blue, so playing with blues and this design here is what I think  the final quilt will look like. What do you think?

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Scrap-bee-licious September blocks

Big sigh!!! My scrap-bee-licious blocks are done for September, and they are early :-). This was my first time ever making the scrappy trip around the world blocks and they are a lot of fun and so quick….love them 🙂

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It also gave me a chance to use my jelly rolls which this one I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. Gwen, the queen bee of the month, decided to have a quilt focussed on her first year of quilting…..and this jelly roll fitted the theme perfectly if you asked me.

I am loving participating in the bee so far – such a great bunch of folks, and I can’t wait to see what other blocks we may get to make that I haven’t made before. I could easily become a bee addict.

9403480642_e07d4f3438_mLinking up with Amanda Jean for Finish it up Friday over @ Crazy Mom Quilts.

 

WiP Wednesday {18.09.2013}

I have several projects ongoing at the moment. Here is what my design board looks like:
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Starting top left: Scrap-bee-licious September blocks; Pillow pop Triangle Modern Quilt Guild Brown bag Challenge; Paper pieced “Blooming hot” block…thinking a pillow; Tula Pink 100 city sampler blocks; and then finally on the bottom the paper pieced NZ bird blocks for a quilt.

Linking up with Lee @ Freshly pieced.

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced