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Blogger's BOM and Design Wall Monday

I don't have a lot for Design Wall Monday today but I do have the latest installment of the Blogger's Block of the Month on my wall.

It's not my best work for sure. I like the one on the left but I'm not so fond of the one on the right. I may replace those triangle edges with solid white. Ignoring how mine look, it's a very cool block designed by John at QuiltDad.com.  

Here are all of my blocks together. I was originally going to use white for the side triangles but knew that I would be sashing the blocks in white and thought that might be too much.  But I think those green pieces have got to go. This is the 5th block in the series and you can find all of the information about the project at Canton Village Quilt Works.

While I noodle that, go to Judy's blog and check out what everyone else is doing this fine Monday.

Coming Home Fabric Palette Projects

I am ending the Coming Home series with a lot of projects! If you are interested in the Coming Home fabrics you can find all of the information here.

A few weeks ago I made the Coming Home quilt . Between the quilt fabrics and the sample fat quarters that I made for the palette, I had lots left over.  I started with the same pattern as I used for the Color Palette placemats and made this set. I really like the gradient as the feature fabric. All of those different patches came from the one gradient. 

I also wrote up instructions for making these placemats and you can get it here.

Next I got out the Go! Cutter. I love this tool for taming scraps. Because I had lots of leftover fabric and because these are sufficiently manly fabrics I decided to try to cut out enough fabrics to make a Verteran's quilt.

There were lots of pieced strips so I cut tumbers from those and from the fat quarters. I was still short some tumblers so I peiced enough bits to cut 20 more tumblers. I have enough here for a 48 x 60 quilt and will use these strips (leftover from the quilt) for binding. I think that the pieced tumblers will make the quilt even more interesting. I will work on this at the next Guild Sewing Saturday.

With the rest of the scraps I cut out lots of other shapes trying to get the biggest shape possible from each scrap. I have a bin where I keep these. When I get enough of a shape I will create an ultimate scrap quilt.

Now you know that I am haunted by little bits of fabric. I just can't let them go! These cards were made from the trimmed raw edges.

I wove the background and stitched it directly to the card and then fused on 2 circles. The top one was first stamped with the gold leaf motif.

I had a little more time in the day so why not try some postcards! Some crazy peicing, a little stamping and some programmed stitces and now my February birthday cards are all taken care of.

I put these in the garbage can before I could change my mind and keep them. Chris has alread taken them to the dump and I miss them. I really must get some therapy for this.

I really enjoyed working with this palette but I'm very excited about the new one that I will introduce February 5th!

Coming Home Placemat Tutorial

 

Remember these?

I made them again using my Coming Home fabric palette so I've decided to call them the Coming Home placemants and you can find the tutorial here.