Colorwash exercise

Dear friends,

I allways wanted to sew a colorwash quilt. So during the last days I spent some time looking at wonderful quilts in the web, just to get some inspirantion.

Since it is my first attempt, I decided to get small. First I had to grab all my fabrics and divide them into colors. What I found was usually done in 2" blocks, I cut mine in 1 1/2". So with all my tiny bits I sat in front of my design wall and stardet playing around.

This is the first result:

It is 11 by 10 blocks. After that I decided that I wanted it square, so I added one more row on the top and changed just some blocks on the buttom purple section. And here is the final result:

It is about 12" square, a bit wonky, but after quiltin I'll square it. Now I'm hand quilting it, probably very soon I'll show you the finished piece.

Have a nice week-end. Hugs.

Pink

BLOCK FINISHED

HI DEAR FRIENDS,

9 ISLANDS - 9 COLORS - AZOREAN ARCHIPELAGO

THE BLOCK IS FINISHED!

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING THIS WONDERFUL PROJECT, HAVE A LOOK HERE. THERE IS TIME TILL 28TH OF FEBRUARY.

STATS:

BLOCK SIZE: 9" X 9"

TECHNIQUE: REVERSE APPLIQUÉ - 9 PATCH BLOCK

AND HERE A MAP OF THE ISLANDS AND THEIR COLORS:

HUGS. PINK

ANOTHER NEW PROJECT

HI DEAR FRIENDS,

TODAY I'LL SHOW YOU MY SECOND NEW PROJECT FOR THIS YEAR. IT CAME TO ME BY CHANCE WITH AN EMAIL THIS MORNING. I GOT IT FROM QUILT AROUND THE WORLD WITH A FANTASTIC PROJECT AND THE IDEA STARTED TAKING SHAPE VERY FAST.

I DECIDED TO PARTICIPATE AND CREATE A 9" BLOCK ABOUT THE 9 AZOREAN ISLANDS, THE ARCHIPELAGO WHERE I HAPPILY LIVE. EACH ISLAND HAS A COLOR GIVEN TO IT FROM A SPECIFIC CARACTER.

THE ARCHIPELAGO IS DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS:

- EASTERN GROUP WITH SAO MIGUEL AND SANTA MARIA

- CENTRAL GROUP WITH TERCEIRA, GRACIOSA, SAO JORGE, PICO AND FAIAL

- WESTERN GROUP WITH FLORES AND CORVO

THIS ARE THE COLORS FOR EACH ISLAND:

- SANTA MARIA - YELLOW - DUE TO THE BROOM FLOWERING THERE

- SAO MIGUEL - GREEN - DUE TO THE FIELDS AND WOODS

- TERCEIRA - PURPLE - DUE TO THE WISTERIA AND LILAC TRELLIS

- GRACIOSA - WHITE - DUE TO THE WHITE STONES

- SAO JORGE - BROWN - DUE TO THE ROCKS AT PONTA DOS ROSAIS

- PICO - GREY - DUE TO THE MOUNTAIN

- FAIAL - BLUE - DUE TO THE BLUE HYDRANGEAS

- FLORES - PINK - DUE TO THE AZALEAS

- CORVO - BLACK - DUE TO THE LAVA AND THE DRY WALLS DIVIDING THE FIELDS

AFTER ALL THIS INFORMATIONS HERE IS THE LAYOUT:

NOW I JUST HAVE TO APPLIQUÉ THE CIRCLES AND SEW THE SQUARES TOGETHER. SOON THE FINISHED PIECE WILL BE SHOWN.

THANK YOU FOR VISITING AND HAPPY WEEK-END.

HUGS. 

PINK

NEW PROJECT

 First post for this new year and already a new project to show. I decided that this year I'll try to avoid buying clothes, although I'm not a shopping addicted, but in fact who need s all the clothes in their closets?

But I decided too that I could sew some special and unique clothes. So, my first project will be a tunica, but a very special tunica. I took inspiration here and bought this book. The idea is to create my own clothes collection.

For the tunica I started assembling scraps of Liberty fabrics and will then sew them together to a large piece of fabric and after that sew my tunica (the patchwork will only be in the front).

They already look great, but I will rearrange them, this is just to get the feeling.

Have a nice week-end.

PINK