Cspoonquilt

I decided to link with Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side Here's the  link .  It is a great way to be introduced to lots of quilts, websites and network around. I chose a quilt to show that I finished earlier in this year.  I was so happy with the color scheme.  I think it is rather eye catching!  It was a really fun quilt to make you can read about the mechanics here . The first pic is on my design wall not quite finished but the color came out better in this pic than the finished pic that follows. I I would take a picture of the finished quilt on the design wall but I sent it off to The Sacramento Guild to promote my Scrap Strategies class that I will be teaching there in November.    Some of the triangles have moved around but it's still basically the same top/ I was really happy with the way this quilt turned out except I used Minky for the backing and that did not work out so well.  But it was really fun making the...

Northern California Quilt Counsel's ( www.NCQC.org ) January meeting will be featuring demonstrations by 9 quilt teachers from the Northern California area.  I proposed a demo on Improv Stack and Whack curved piecing.  This fun easy-to-learn technique can be applied to a lot of different quilt blocks.  I've been experimenting with this technique for a long time.  This sample shows quite a few different quilt blocks as well as some borders.  I posted a demo of these techniques here: http://cspoonquilt.blogspot.com/2015/09/simple-modern-improv-class-sample-2.htm Here's are some other examples: The two above are my work.  These below are orphan projects in varying stages of completion.         NCQC Demonstrations meeting last January was very popular.  I hope if you live in the area you can make it to this fun informative meeting! cheers, Claire W.

Many years ago I went to an exhibit at New Pieces quilt shop in Berkeley, CA.  The exhibit featured a quilter (I don't remember her name) who had made a quilt for her own bed for each month in the year.  I don't remember all of her themes but several featured whatever major holiday occurred in that month; like an xmas quilt for December,  a halloween quilt for October etc. I'm not sure I want to make a different quilt for every month of the year but I thought I might start with one Special Seasonal quilt. I do love Halloween (and Halloween fabric) and the change of seasons that occurs in October, so I thought I'd start by making myself an October quilt.  I have been ruminating on this idea for some time and been collecting themed fabric for the project.  I don't think I'll finish this quilt by October 1st, but, I have started to develop a layout and it's pretty simple so I might finish it by Halloween... I know what I want for the center and I've ...

I might have posted a pic of this quilt in July when I got the final borders sewn on...but now it's actually quilted! Because of the formal layout of this top I wanted to quilt it in a symmetrical way.  So I resorted to a little marking...   I still made the shapes free hand but just marking the mid-line kept me on track.   I wanted the two halves of the HSTs to be distinct.  The white reads as background and the print as foreground so they each got there own pattern.   It took a lot more time but I'm pleased with the result! Happy Weekend! Cheers, Claire W.