Although it rained most of the weekend (and we were grateful for it) I still had a fabulous weekend because I was at the river. It doesn't matter the weather it's always nice and relaxing there and there's always some sewing involved. We even had fresh crabs and shrimp for dinner Saturday. Perfect.
I knew I would not have a ton of sewing time so I took this tumbler project to work on. The original plan was to make a blue scrappy quilt from my hand dyed fabrics. I planned for it to be a simple quilt for one of the guest house twin beds. It was about half done before the weekend and after pondering it a while I decided that I wanted to do a giant applique of some sort on it and that's why the bottom 7 rows are predominately green. I'm picturing a giant sunflower or something like that. Now that I have it up on the wall (and not yet pressed) I think it might be too long so I'll go measure it out on one of the twin beds and see before I proceed with the next planned step. But the way, the cutting for this quilt went very quickly using the GO! 3 1/2 inch Tumbler die.
Since I took my GO! Cutter I also took my scrap bin and the Equilateral Triangle die to play around with that a bit. That die has 3 sizes of triangles and I just cut a bunch of each to play with.
I wish I could remember what I was thinking when I purchased this die! Look that the smallest triangle set and note the size compared to a straight pin. I'm not sure what I will do with these. I suppose it could be a good river project for the next 25 years if I want.
I am making progress on my spiral quilting too. I've finished the teal quilting and will start the bright pink band next.
I will not be getting much done this week. I'll be spending a few days with Mom instead but I might sneak in a few hours quilting on the longarm. We will see. Check out what everyone else is doing at Judy's redesigned blog.
I really like that tumbler quilt. The colors are wonderful. The idea of a giant sunflower sounds great.
Posted by: Linda | July 23, 2012 at 02:29 PM
Oh how I miss and love fresh seafood. Imagine a quilt entirely made of those itty bitty triangles. Go ahead...I'll wait. :o)
Posted by: Stephanie | July 23, 2012 at 06:48 PM
I love the tumbler quilt. I love the dyed fabric in it. so fresh.
Posted by: Cathy Tomm | July 24, 2012 at 02:11 AM
I like the triangles a lot!
Posted by: elle | July 24, 2012 at 09:39 AM
LOL. I saw that really small triangle and thought it was a bit small compared to the pin before reading the rest of the text. The blue/green tumblers are really pretty, though. Reminds me of slag glass, the end of the day mix that was put into the molds like the other solid colors run during the rest of the production day.
Posted by: Summerset | July 24, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Hi, Vicky. I think your tumbler block quilt is one of the prettiest I've ever seen. The combination of blues, yellows and greens is sooooo pleasing.
best, nadia
Posted by: nadia | July 24, 2012 at 11:48 AM
I love the colors in the tumbler quilt. Looks like water and the sun reflecting off of it!
Posted by: Cindy Is Crafty | July 24, 2012 at 09:19 PM
You've got a winner there with the tumbler quilt we all seem to love it. Your fabric just make it so interesting and lively; has to be the best tumbler I've ever seen.
Posted by: Laceflower | July 25, 2012 at 11:37 AM