2011 In Review at Last

     Well, finally, I am home, and ready for another blog post. I actually came home days ago, but I brought company with me, and that hindered sewing, and kept computer time to a minimum.

     I was planning to show you the blocks that I have been working on for the Bird Cage quilt; but they are not quite ready yet. I hope to finish sewing them this week. My art guild is having a Plen Aire next Monday. They will all be painting. Being around all of them always makes me want to paint too; but there are too many quilts I want to piece, to spend time painting! So, they will be painting; and I will be trimming those blocks. Maybe I can post those pictures early next week.

     It has was raining here yesterday, but today was drier, only cloudy; so I took advantage of that to photograph some quilts I have been meaning to photograph for months. Now, I finally have pictures of all of the quilts I made in 2011 except for 1 which I still have a good deal of binding and sleeve to hand stitch down. Since it is pasted mid April, and it's still not finished; maybe I will just call it a 2012 quilt. So admittedly tardy, but here are the quilts I made in 2011:

Aubry

 

 

Named for the plant in The Little Shop of Horrors.

I used stack-n-whack to make a giant grandmother's flower garden.

Double Star II

This one is kin to the one I posted last week in the what's on your bed link party. I wanted to try to use those blocks in another way. I have a couple more "in the pipeline".

I called this one Victorian Library; and I even have a label on the back with that name, but I'm not satisfied with that name, and may change it yet. I really forced myself to include a wide variety of scraps in this quilt; even those I was not so crazy about. I made a tone of these blocks. The quilt I have finished but not yet bound is also made from this group of blocks, and I am planning at least 1 more if not 2.

Indian Summer

I have already showed you this one in a previous post. It was inspired by an Indian blanket I saw in a book. I enjoyed this one so much that I immediately designed several more. I even thought that I could expand this idea to write a book, but I have no idea how all of that works; and how does anyone get enough quilts in one done in one theme to write a book?

LaLique

I have fun doing one block wonders now and again, and people tend to buy them from me, so I keep making them.

Let's Polka

This was made using simple blocks, out of dots, stripes, and solids.

My Waterlilies

This quilt was inspired by a painting by Monet. I wanted to see what would happen if I interpreted the composition in batik half square triangles.

Native Fall

This quilt is kin to the Indian Summer quilt above, and it was named by a blog reader.

Speakeasy Shuffle

This was made to replace my Milky Way quilt (shown in a previous post) when it sold. I wanted to have a dark, quite one block wonder on hand, to show it could be done.

Galapagos for Alice

This king size quilt was a special order from my Galapagos quilt which is posted on my etsy site. It now lives in California.

Wow! Now I feel like I actually got something done last year!