UFO done, skip one, start something new

 I finally got the binding on the coffee filter paper pieced fan project that I started in Debby Kratovil's class last year.  Each student got a kit, so the colors were not something I usually use.  I think getting to explore new and different color combinations makes a class fun.  Debby  will be here in Duluth at the Georgia Quilt Show next weekend, so I hope to show my finished wall hanging to her.

 I used some stash fabric for the back.  I think it goes well, plus it is such a riot of color you can't see any of my quilting on the back.

 I mixed perl cotton quilting and machine quilting.  What the heck, the goal was to finish and the hand quilting had WORN me SLAP OUT.

I know, I know, I have one more UFO on my "must finish" list.  Poor little orphan star.  Thirty years of waiting for hand quilting to be finished to earn a binding.  Well, I am skipping that for now.  Remember I was doodling on graph paper?  I have been saving these fabrics for years to do a special quilt, and tonight I got started.  At first, when I was sewing the red and green together, I thought, oh NO, it is screaming "Merry Christmas" which is NOT my intention.  Once I got a block laid out, I felt better.  Excited really.

But now it is time to put away my toys in preparation for the work week.

See you on the other side.

Karmen

Well, whatever changes Blogger has in it, I will just have to adapt.  Here are the Coffee Filter Fans Quilt setting ideas from Debby Kratovil.  The bright one in the middle is the idea on our patterns with one small difference; we have 12 fans and this one has 16.  I like the pastel setting better, but it also has 16 blocks, so I will have to be creative about what I put in the 4 corners.

And this lovely green and orange is a sample Debby Kratovil is working on.  I love these color and am fascinated at what a difference the setting makes.  Personally, I think the squared off fan base works the best in this setting.  I will have to play with my blocks to see what I end up choosing.

One confused blogger here.

I don't know what is up with Blogspot.  I watched 5 pictures load, but only one is showing.  I am confused.  Anyone else having blog trouble?  Is it my computer?  Could it be eating downloaded photographs?  Ah well; let me tell you what this photo is.  This is from a class I took yesterday at the Original Sewing & Quilting Expo in Duluth, Georgia.  In Debby Kratovil's Coffee Filter Fans class I learned how to paper piece.

This is the assembly line construction the student behind me was doing.  My table was a little more messy, so hers made for a better photo.  Debby showed us three different ways to set the blocks when we finished piecing them.  Those were the other photos I downloaded.