Design Wall Mayhem

Hello Everyone!  Here's a peek at my messy design wall today.  I agreed to make my son-in-law a quilt and I've been slowly collecting fabrics that depict his interests...country life, cowboy culture, fishing and anything related to the sea.  So, now that I have this fabric, what am I going to do with it??  Good question....wish I had an answer for you! 

I'm going to leave it up for a day or two and see if it inspires me, or just plain drives me crazy....;-)



Lots of tans, greens and blue tones in these fabrics, so most of them work together.




I could draw out the red from this fabric and use it as an accent colour.




I could certainly use all the shades of brown and black from this fabric...but that would probably make it too dark.




I love this fabric and the other one with the fish, but I'm not really sure I'll be able to work them in.  That bright blue is the first thing that catches my eye when I look at the design wall.  We all want a 'zinger' in our quilts, but I don't want this piece or the other fish fabric to become the focal point of the quilt.  Time to go through my stash and see what else I have that works with these fabrics.  Of course, if I can't find anything, it's off to the quilt store for me!

Enjoy!
Mary-Frances

My Charming Stars

Hi Everyone!  I've been spending as much time outdoors as I can, enjoying the sunshine and tidying up the yard.  I usually cut down all my plants in the fall but for some reason I left everything last year and boy, oh, boy am I ever regretting that decision!  I've yet to plant any seeds, but I did check out a few garden centres and came away with a few favourite plants, blue lobelias and some snapdragons.  Spending my days outdoors leaves me too tired to do very much sewing in the evening, but I had a burst of energy tonight and finished up a project I began a few months ago. 

Enjoy!
Mary-Frances




My Charming Stars flimsy is finally done.  No borders to add, so I hope to get the quilt sandwich done this week so I can begin quilting this one by week's end.

 

More projects in the works.  I've put my hallowe'en wallhanging up on the design wall because I'm hoping it will motivate me to actually get this one finished!

 

A few more fabrics I picked up today...who can resist dancing skeletons?? :-)

 

The view from my sewing room this evening.

  

Design wall and more bee blocks

Hello everyone!  I did a little rearranging in my sewing room, moved my old Singer sewing machine and computer desk and now have a design wall.  What a difference it makes to be able to sit at my sewing machine and view my blocks across the room.  I don't have to leave the blocks in a pile then place them on the floor every now and again in order to see how the quilt is coming along.  I know many quilters use batting on their walls but I bought a vinyl tablecloth and am using the flannel backing as my design wall.  Works just fine so far!

I also received two more blocks for my red and white "Goddess" quilt - thanks BeeBee!

Enjoy!
Mary-Frances



My Singer in its new home - tucked in against the wall.



Moved some of my shelves down to make room for the sewing machine...I still have to get my fabric organized, maybe next week sometime.




My new design wall - finally!



Two more blocks for my red and white quilt.



The work in progress.



The piece of selvage that inspired the name for the quilt.  We should all have goddess quilts I think.