JUNE AND JULY WORK

It has been so long since I have posted anything on my blog so today I am going to do a quick recap of things I am working on and/or have finished.

Straight line quilting on a piece called "Spring Gardening".

Hand piecing hexies for my upcoming class I am teaching at QuiltWeek Chattanooga in September.

Finished the quilting on the "Leftovers Table Runner".

Quilt As You Go Valance for my breakfast room.

Lots of straight-line quilting on little projects for my Trunk Show/ Lecture coming up in September.

Finally finished this queen-sized bed quilt in Improv and Quilt As You Go techniques.


                                               -sandi

SKYLINE

I tried another technique that is included in the description of what makes a quilt modern.  One of the characteristics can be Pixel or Pixelation.  Many times the squares used for this are extremely small and one must stand back several feet to see the image emerge.

I took the idea of working in a pixel style and enlarged the squares to finish at 2 inches.

Using a pic from some one's Pinterest page as my guide, I began putting my piece together.  This originally was published in "Inspiration for Precuts" and used 5 inch squares. 

I started by graphing what I wanted and used my colored pencils to do a little color selecting.

After I "built" each component, I used straight line quilting.

I also chose to do this Quilt As You Go method.  In these shots you can see the three layers are together and quilted.

I used another sketch to get a look at what I thought I would see when I used straight line quilting.  In the final rendition I opted to only quilt the background.


Lil Bit is seeing if it "measures up" to her standards!!

I think she approves!!

This piece measures 18.5" x 37".


                                          -sandi