Isis's Quilt

Well the top is done and quilted :) I finished up the last little bit of quilting on it today, I even got around to making the binding. Tomorrow I will sew the binding to the quilt and start hand stitching it down. She is going to be so happy - she's been waiting on me to finish this off for quite awhile now and I figured I had better get my butt in gear before she outgrows the darn thing LOL :)

Here you can see a close up of it. It looks so much better in person. As soon as I get it finished off it will be put back to go under the tree for Christmas. Christmas is going to be very slim this year so I hope that I can get a quilt finished for each of the kids as their big gift. In a couple of days I'll be pulling out Cheyenne's Sampler quilt and finishing that off. The string quilt will go to Wade and the Orphan Block Quilt will go to Phoenix. I don't know what else I'll give the kids this year but I'll figure something out :)

Here you can see the binding, I didn't have enough of one fabric so I made it scrappy. I hope it looks alright on the quilt, I didn't have any of the fabrics that I used in the top available so I just used some that I thought would look good with it. Well I have a bunch of homework to do and it's all due by the morning so I guess I better go get it done and quit playing on the computer.

Getting close

Well I have started to applique my fan to the background fabric. It comming along pretty slow , seems like it has taken forever to get it to this point. I hope to be able to start embellishing it by this weekend.

A busy day

Well I had a busy day yesterday , however I was able to get the fans sewed together . I also had to drive to Leesville after work to get my books for this upcoming semester. I hope to be able to get this sewed to the background fabric today . I changed out a few of the fabrics as they just weren't working out , I really like it much better this way. I also have the second one to pick fabric's for and to stitch up , I hope to have that done by this weekend. I will make the bases of all the fans out of a neat wrinkled cream fabric that I have ( I hope that I have enough of it !! ) and they will be set on black fabric.

Some fan blades

Man this camera really stinks !! These fan blades look so much diffrent in person . The first blade is a dark cream fabric , the second is almost an olive color the third one is close to a light celery colour , the forth one is a really pretty royal purple and the last one is a very pretty medium green . I think I need to find some prints to go with these solids , I thought I would like it all solids but they really need something to spice them up.

Fabric's picked out

Well yesterday I didn't get quite as far as I wanted with my fans. It took forever to hunt through all of my fabric's to find what I thought would be suitable . Then when I laid them all out together it was way to pastel looking so off to Goodwill I went. I was able to find a few silk shirts (yesterday was thier 50 cent sale ) I have decided that I will do 2 blocks for each month , that will give me a total of 24 by the end of the year . If I add sashing it will make a nice sized CQ , now I'm crossing my fingers that I will be able to go through with it and it won't land by the wayside as I would really like to give it to my oldest daughter Cheyenne. Stay tuned for some pic's after I get home tonight y'all

Fan Colours

Yup I think I really do like them better on black , now I just cross my finger's that I have enough black for all the blocks . I think I will use this Rose fabric ( it's a litter darker in person ) for the sashing and I may even have enough for the backing too. I found another 4 1/2 yard of the rose fabric in my closet tonight so I thin in all I have 2 yards of the black & like 8 yards of the rose. Thank you to everyone who left me a comment on the other post ya'll are just wonderful !!!

A couple of Fans

Well this is as far as I have gotten with my new Fan quilt . It's going kinda slow as I also have the Fall C.Q. to work on & the Redwork RR. Also I had ro revise my pattern as the one that I had started out with was not working . These will be 9 inch blocks instead of 12 inch blocks but that's alright . Cheyenne has picked out the fabrics for these two fans and I think she has done a wonderful job for being 11 years old . I have a couple of questions for those of you who read my blog -

1. Should I make all the fan base's the same colour ( I have a medium grey ) or should the base's match the fan ?

2. Should I put the fans on some black satin or some light rose satin ?

3. Should I give ya'll pic's to see what they look like on each fabric ?

4. Should I do sashing or a straight set ?

The Start

This is a new crazy quilt that I have started - someone please stop me I have no will power !!! This will be a 20 block quilt for my kid brother Corey & his wife Erika . I have never made anything for them & I thought it was about time I got off my rump & got started on it . I will be setting the fans on some white fancy fabric that I bought and it will have a deep rose coloured fabric for the sashing though I may have to change the rose fabric because I only bought 2 yards and it may take more than that to do the sashing . I'm not sure what colour I will do for the fan base maybe some black satin that I have but I'm not sure yet because I think I want to do some outline embroidery in each fan base but we'll see how it goes . Well I'm off to do some more fan blades . I hope to have the top done in a couple of months so I'm really gonna have to hustle on this one.