Big Green Star, Pink-Purple Hearts, and Autumn Pineapple Quilts

I finished 3 quilts this past week/weekend. They are all smaller table topper size for my round table at work. Here they are: Big Green Star, Pink-Purple Hearts, and Autumn Pineapple.

Big Green Star:



 

Here's the top:

Here's the back which is pretty plain:

The quilting shows up nicely, don't you think?

Pink-Purple Hearts
Here's the top:

Here's the back:

It's the same pattern as the green star quilt - and fits both pretty well.

Autumn Pineapple

I made one of these previously with applique leaves and acorns. This one was made using foundation piecing on preprinted foundations. Here's the top:

Here's the back:

This one was quilted with some great feathers. Here's a close up of the quilting:

Very nice, huh?

Picasa!

I've worked with a lot of different photo sites. Sometime, I did Picasa...and now, it just may help me with my photo problem...and woo hoo - it did! so, in random order...here's what I've been working on over the past couple of posts.

Hexies quilt based on patterns from Sizzling Sixties by Heather Mulder Peterson

Cindy Lou Who pattern from Carrie Nelson's Another Bite of Schnibbles in Countdown to Christmas fabric from Sweetwater (I LOVE THEIR STUFF!!)

My four red/white/blue (ok turquoise) Granny Squares blocks. I hope to make more...but then again, what a cute runner this would make, huh???!!

Black and white nine patch... the rows are sewn and need to be ironed and then the rows joined. Cute, huh?

Ohio stars - from who knows how long ago! I had them in a baggy and have been trying to use up my stash. For some reason this weekend, I just thought I'd put them together with a little border and finish it off.

String Hearts. I forgot to include this in the previous posts. I had the blocks done for awhile but didn't like it just like that and wasn't sure what to do. I thought of the black and white print checkerboard border. Loving it!!

String webs. I couldn't remember if I posted this so as long as I was working on everything else, I'm posting this too. This and two more are going to the LAQ tomorrow...

 

Oregon Ducks Disappearing 9-patch... I bought the fabrics to make a mug rug for Christmas but wasn't sure what kind of pattern I should use. So I bought three different fabrics, 1 yard each. I made this for the same guy I work with for his table at work...or...whatever he wants. This one goes to the LAQ tomorrow also and I hope to talk her into getting this one done in the next month or so...



Peace on Earth is the fabric line and name of the quilt. I love this one. I wasn't sure of the background, but I do love it! This is the third one going to the LAQ tomorrow.

and that's it! PHEW! I love that I can get these loaded up!! Maybe I'll reset everything I changed on my internet settings and just use Picasa for uploading photos...

LOVE LOVE LOVE my design wall!!!

(sure wish I could fix the picture issue!!)

I love having a design wall! I've completed so many tops and improved on some layouts I thought would be good. They were made even better when I could lay them out and look at them from a distance.

This weekend, I made a top of four orphan Ohio star blocks - I can't even tell you where the fabric came from! It's a cute little top.

Then, I made some nine patch blocks in black and white to use with some string blocks... NO it was horrible. So, I made some other strip blocks and now have a cool quilt top (well, almost I do have the rows together!) in just black and white.

Then, I wanted to make the quit "Cindy Lou Who" From Carrie Nelson's book "Another Bite of Schnibbles". (If you go here:  http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/Schnibbles.html the quilt on the left is Cindy Lou Who...cute, huh??? Christmassy but not in your face!) So....I pulled out all of my left over Sweetwater "Countdown to Christmas" fabric and went to town...except there were four blocks I just couldn't get figured out. Up on the design wall in went in stages and then POP I was able to figure out those 4 blocks! All of the blocks are up waiting for the black and white rows to get done so that I can use my row markers on Cindy Lou Who.

Next up with be a Halloween runner for my sister. She found a cute runner of witch's hats. I've looked online and at a couple of shops, but haven't found the pattern. So, I'm making it up. Hopefully it'll turn out well and she'll like it.

Peace on Earth and Oregon Ducks

I've been able to piece two quilt tops this weekend. The first used two charm packs of "Peace on Earth" plus some yardage in the teal-on-teal print. I've seen the pattern a couple of places online, but not any one place that I copied from... I love how it turned out - and I remembered to make the binding and use the rest of the yardage for the backing!!!

I took 3 different Oregon ducks fabrics that I had leftover from a project last year and did a disappearing 9-patch pattern. It's small - just under 40" square - but it should be the perfect size for a table topper for the new owner. Again, I remembered to cut some of the yardage into binding strips and I hope to have the back pieced before the weekend is over!

Still no ability to upload photos : ( 

Quilt Progress and Blogger Frustration

I've had a quilt in progress for most of the month of August. I had planned to show it here...but I'm having problems uploading photos. Blogger says there's an error in my server...but I think it's just a setting somewhere that I can't resolve.

I'm also having a display driver issue when I'm surfing the web. I have a 2 year old Toshiba laptop that I love...the good news is that I prepaid a 3 year service agreement so today or this weekend, I'm going to contact them and see what I can get fixed. Maybe both problems are related and one will take care of the other. Maybe the blogger problem is "operator error" ...and if so, hopefully they can help me with the.

At any rate, I do have photos to show and things in work. I have a couple of projects in work at one time so that I can work on one and work the other as a "leader and ender"...It's a little confusing as there's more than one project in work at a time...but it's also easy to work on two when they are completely different. Hopefully, I'll be able to show projects shortly.