How was your weekend?

Mine was pretty good.  How was yours?

I made a run to an art supply store an hour away to get more supplies for my Interpret This! self-portrait.  While there I got more supplies for fabric dyeing.  I see I will be spending more time doing that coming up soon.  I am so excited!

I spent quite a bit of time on Friday and Saturday on my self-portrait and then I rewarded myself by making more blocks for my Black, White and Red All Over quilt.  I have now started to assemble the blocks into strips.  Not quite as much fun now that size and shape matter.

If you compare the fabric in the Snowball quilt and the Black, White, and Red All Over (I gotta come up with a shorthand for that name!) you'll see a lot of overlap.  Makes good sense since the second quilt is a scrap quilt and believe me, I made lots of scraps in the process of making the Snowball quilt!  Wasn't that good planning on my part?  Tee Hee

No pictures today.  The self-portrait is a secret but I'll post more in-process pictures of the BWRAO (does that work for shorthand?) quilt soon.

A trisket, a tusket, I made Miss Rosie's Tuffet!

I finally found a reason to make one of Miss Rosie's Tuffet to fulfill the December Schnibble challenge!  I had totally given up on it when, on Christmas day, I decided to work on my Black, White, and Red All Over quilt.  It is my scrap quilt that I play with when I am tired of the math and exactness of regular quilt patterns.  It occurred to me that I could make a tuffet out of black, white, and red and incorporate it in the quilt.  The tuffet would feel right at home since fabric and mis-sized blocks from other Schnibbles are also included.

So, here is my Scnibble made in red and white so it will fit into the quilt.  It is the Double Nine Patch.

Here is the tuffet embedded into a larger section of the quilt.

And here are a few more blocks for the quilt.  Other than the Tuffet, everything is leftover fabric and blocks and scraps.  It is so fun putting them all together.  I have almost enough pieces now to make a double bed sized quilt.

What is red, white, and black all over?

After working hard to make the Winter Picnic quilt exact (sewing seams, checking points, ripping out seams, *re-sewing seams, checking points, ripping out seams: repeat from * until points match perfectly)  I need a day of the type of sewing I really enjoy.  So, this morning I am rewarding myself with working on an ongoing scrap project, Red, White, and Black All Over. 

I am using red, black, and white scraps along with some leftover red, white, or black blocks or half-triangles left over from other quilts.  I am also using some of the scraps to make blocks from Origami Quilts by Lousie Mabbs and Wendy Lowes.  I especially like the nip & tuck  and the posies for rosie2 techniques.  I may experiment with other techniques from the book but for the most part I want the quilt to just be free.  I want to just sit at my sewing machine and say, "Oh, these two scraps are about the same length and might look good sewn together."  and then to go for it.  Here are a few of my unique-shaped blocks.

This afternoon I will need to get serious again and work on Christmas presents and the Red and White Snowball Challege (and maybe wash dishes and fold some laundry).