My week of sewing has continued. This beauty is Supernova! I need a baby quilt for a coworker and her colors are gray and mint green--she does not know if it is a boy or girl. I had the gray in my stash-it is beautifully mottled with small sparkly dots--very celestial looking. I picked up a few quarter yards of mints/aquas and shopped in my stash for 10 different greens. I have added a four inch border since this picture was taken and I quilted it yesterday. Unfortunately, the quilt shop was closed all weekend, so I could not pick up some more of the darker green that is the off-center focus which I want to use for binding. I will get some on Tuesday after work. The Supernova pattern is a freebie you can find here:
Please note, I made my half-square triangles smaller to finish at four inches.
This has definitely been my Drop Everything and Make project this month! Check out everyone else's here: http://www.mmmquilts.com/2017/11/dreami-linky-10.html
This has definitely been my Drop Everything and Make project this month! Check out everyone else's here: http://www.mmmquilts.com/2017/11/dreami-linky-10.html
For Spelling Bee Saturday, we did not go on to the letter G, but went back and made some picture blocks the bird and the butterfly.
I also made my Bella block. I need to embroider the details on all of these picture blocks.
I also finished a new Christmas pillow for my house. The red VW Beetle is special for me because my first car was a 1970 one. The pillow is 18 inches square.
The only place I ventured out to on Black Friday was Joann's. I wanted to pick up my minky backings for the Supernova Quilt and my Patchwork Swoon and use my 25% off their sale price. I also checked out the Christmas fabrics at 70% off and found this buffalo check for $1.79 per yard. Yes, I will take all six yards please!
I made three of this style Christmas pillows this week. I am planning on gifting them for some of my work friends. Here is the link the the free tutorial:
I have one more to embroider this evening for Slow Sunday Stitching:
I am back to work tomorrow, but I hope to get Supernova finished up this week. Stay tuned for pictures...
Don't you just love finding pieces from your stash to make a quilt. I do! That is one lucky baby.
ReplyDeleteI love your Spelling Bee blocks!
Wow! The supernova quilt is awesome! Love it big time. Great job! ;^)
ReplyDeleteLove the Supernova quilt! It is beautiful in the greens and gray! Looks like you have had a productive and fun break.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link and love the baby quilt.
ReplyDeleteThe Supernova quilt is great - will head over to Sarah's blog to get that pattern (how did I miss it??) and I love all your pillows - wow, you got a lot done. Thank you for that link too. :-) Thank you so much for linking up with my DrEAMi! linky, you certainly did chase and capture that squirrel! Also great score on the 1.79 fabric!
ReplyDeleteOkay I remember that quilt of Sarah's! Her husband claimed it, yup! Thanks for the reminder, Tanya--too many quilts, not enough time.
DeleteLove, love, LOVE your minty fresh Supernova baby quilt!!!
ReplyDeleteFunny, I saw another Super Nova quilt today in completely different colors from yours or Sarah's. They are all great! I'm really liking your color palette, fresh but not too out there.
ReplyDeleteYour SuperNova is beautiful!!! You have been very busy in the quilt department--love them all!
ReplyDeleteWow!That was quite a week of creating. The Supernova looks stunning and I'm sure your lovely cushions will be well received - what generous gifts :-)
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ReplyDeleteWowee - you had a productive week! I just love Supernova! Ooh-la-la, those colors. Using that green as the binding will be the perfect touch. I didn't wander out for BF but had I known that Christmas fabrics were 70% off I might have. Our Joann's is so disorganized and SO slow to cut fabric that I usually cannot deal with the hassle. You did good! And the pillows - they are just super, too. ~smile~ Roseanne
Love the colors and the design of that Supernova quilt. Nice!
ReplyDeleteSupernova will delight both baby and the new mommy. What a lovely gift. Wonderful Christmas pillows too!
ReplyDeleteWow!! You have been super busy!! Great projects.
ReplyDeleteLove the VW bug pillow. My first car was a VW bug too! Where could I find this block pattern?
ReplyDeleteHere is the pattern for the car part https://www.fatquartershop.com/media/blog/Snapshots/10-Snapshots-GoneSurfin.pdf and the tree part can be found here http://greydogwoodstudio.com/blog-1/2015/10/13/snapshots-month-10-car I hope you find this as you were a no reply blogger.
DeleteWow!!!! You sure were busy!!!! I love all those Christmas pillows and the patchwork ones have been on my To-Make List for a while now. Time to gitterdun!
ReplyDeleteWow! Your quilt is stunning, my friend. And the pillows and amaing! Your friends will surely love them. Kisses!
ReplyDeleteWow! You have been busy! The darker green will be a perfect binding. Love the red VW Christmas pillow. Happy December!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link to the Supernova pattern. It's really spectacular! I did one of Amy S's pillows. It was fun. Love your use of some other text! Thanks for that inspiration.
ReplyDeleteooo! What a pretty Supernova!! I really love those aquas with the marbly gray.
ReplyDeletegenial gracias
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