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CSQ Veteran's/QOV mystery quilt - Clue 1

The first clue for the Country School Quilter's mystery quilt is now posted on the Country School Blog. 

Here are the blocks from the first clue. I am making 2 quilts. The gold/black one will be a QOV and the red/tab/blue one will be a veteran's quilt. You can read the general information on the CSQ blog, just page down to get to the first 2 posts. You can read about some extra incentive that I'm offering here.

If you have any questions please post them at the CSQ blog so I can answer there for everyone to read.

Design Wall Monday

I didn't accomplish much in the way of piecing or sewing this weekend but it was a very productive and busy weekend. Last week was abnormally social for me so I had to iron and pack all of the fabric that I dyed last week on the weekend. We also had a nice visit from my nephew and his girlfriend. They are fun to talk to. I really should adopt a bunch of teenagers. I don't care for kinds much until they are about 15 and I love seeing them transform into adults. But I wasn't totally away from quilting this weekend. In fact, I had one major accomplishment.

I've mentioned a few times that I had a beastly project on Willie. I tried my best to work on it an hour every day since I loaded it but I would hunt for any excuse possible to avoid it. I still made reasonably steady progress. Last week I reached a major milestone on it and this weekend I was finally motivated to finish it. It still needs to be bound but the quilting is finally done. I'll have photos once the quilt is totally complete.

Now I can finally work on some quick projects! I have loaded Chris' quilt and started a pantograph. It will be done in a couple of days. After that I will load some QOV and veteran's quilts for more pantograph treatments. I feel like I need to do some pantos to cleanse my palette before jumping into another long term project. Plus I need to allow some time for Mom to come quilt some of her quilts too. I'm just so happy to see something else on Willie!

As for my goals for the week, I have lots of them but no week can get off to a better start than this one. My "office" is the back porch where the weather is just perfect today. It's about 73 and partly cloudy. 

Here's my view and I do find it distracting. I've jsut spent 20 minutes watching a Carolina Wren jump around these trees. Life is really, really good and I am grateful.

Don't forget the Thankful Thursday post. This week I'm giving awat 2 Quilt Show membership gift certificates. You can use them even if you are already a member and extend your membership a year.

I'm going to get back to "work" now so go check out what everyone else is doing at Patchwork Times.

Thrive Fabric Palette Projects

I've been catching up on my magazine reading lately so I'm back this week with another quilt design from Quilter's Newsletter. This week I'm working with the Blue Lagoon pattern in the June/July issue. This one is designed by Toby Lischko. If you like the Thrive palette you can get ordering information here.

Blue Lagoon

As usual, I started with the pattern layout and worked out a few color options.

This version is closest to the pattern.

But I loved it with the values reversed.

This one is with the Thrive gradient.

This version is with the Abundance gradient. 

Next I played with the layouts.

Next I tried a horizontal set.

eh.

A little more interesting but not nearly as interesting as the on point layout.

The best part of this exercise was learning how to do arcs and points in EQ!