SWEET IMPROV

It all started here.  I made this quilt as a birthday present for a special friend.  I still had lots of this fabric left so I decided to start an improv piece.

Need to get busy sewing bits together.

I have no specific design, it will be what it will be.

Okay, the top is together.  It is not completely square - yet.

Now to make a back and layer it for quilting.  I had planned to do QAYG but I started sewing units together and got carried away and finished the top.  Uh-oh, now I need to quilt the whole quilt.  

Definitely a project for the upcoming cooler weather.  I have a small stack of quilts still to be quilted.  

That means more posts to come.

-sandi

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MAKING IT UP AS I GO

I have been working on a quilt top as a gift and it is due next month.  I had so many extra parts and pieces left:

that I decided to make a pieced back so I could use up all of this "girly" pastel-like fabric.  Maybe this will be an attempt at de-stashing.

It started with

combining a few units.


Then I put some units with more units

Now I have some bigger units.

Tried combining these to see what it would look like.

Okay, by now I am seeing lots and lots of seams.  Wonder how that is going to work when I start quilting it.  I was planning to quilt this on my mid-arm.  Ummm, don't know about that.


I kept working and working and working. . .

Now I have two large "panels" and the light bulb came on!  This is going to be another top!! 

  I am thinking I need to do a traditional back and piece 2 or 3 fabrics together and call it done for the original top.  Then get it quilted and wrapped!


I started a third panel and when I have it all put together  I will then decide how I want to assemble it.  It is reaching 60" x 70". 

This could be my first attempt at Quilt As You Go.  Will just have to see.  I am not sure if these panels are too large to handle as QAYG or not.  Back to doing some more research!!  Give me any tips you might have about this.

 I have had so much fun with Improv!!!  Thanks Joe Cunningham, Gwen Marston, and Victoria Findlay Wolfe for your inspiration!


                                           -sandi