New Patterns and Shop Hop!

This year I'll be doing quilting demonstrations at Quiltworks Northwest during our Western Washington Shop Hop, so stop by and say hi, I'd love to meet you!  I'll have patterns with me as well as extra books, just in case the shop runs out:-) The samples are at Gathering Fabric, along with patterns as well.

Just in time for our local shop hop, I have 2 new patterns!  With shop hop starting tomorrow, I’m hoping to get them up on my website later today, as well as an updated snail mail order form.

Summer Bounty:

This is my idea of summer!   The piecing is quick and easy, and weaving fusible strips of fabric for your basket for texture is fun, especially when you add some paint to it.  Fuse your fruit and flowers in place, and you’re ready to quilt.  After you’re finished quilting, add some beads to the flower centers to make it sparkle, and you’re done.

Fall Basket:

By the end of summer there are so many flowers blooming in the garden, I just had to create a basket full of them!   The piecing is quick and easy, and weaving fusible strips of fabric for your basket for texture is fun, especially when you add some paint to it.  Fuse your fruit and flowers in place, and you’re ready to quilt.  After you’re finished quilting, add some beads to the flower centers to make it sparkle, and you’re done.

I hope this is enough

yarn for a sweater (or vest), that is.  In a few minutes here and there, and then a massive attempt to get it all plied, I've manage to finish 3 huge and 1 medium skein of dk / worsted yarn from that warm gray wool.  I'm in need of a break from this color,  because I'm tired of looking at it and after putting it around my neck like a cowl and looking in the mirror, I believe it will be headed into the dyepot before knitting.  so it's washed and dried and I'll try out my McMorran balance to see what yardage I might have after it has been dyed (it could change during dyeing process).  Here's what I have at this point:

My Cuffs are Finished!!!

I'm so happy with my cuffs!  The beaded ruffle was challenging, but lots of fun to do, the only problem is waiting until fall to wear them:-)

And the Winner is...

After plugging the number of comments into RANDOM.ORG, it chose #4, so the winner is Delighted Hands!  Email me your snail mail address and the book will be on its way to you.  [My email can be found on my website at:  http://lynnmajidimehr.com/contact/contact.html , although it needs to be typed without the spaces.]

Almost there...

A few weeks ago, this was filled with weeds (really one big mass), but I finally got the weeds out (okay, there will always be more sprouting) and have a lot of mulch spread.  The mulch not only makes the garden look better, but helps retain moisture, which really helps in the summer.  I think one more weekend and the major work will be finished!

We have lots of fruit and vegetables sprouting in the vegetable garden!

Another Bracelet!

This bracelet is not my design, but was a fun, learning experience and I love it!  It took about 2 hours for me to make it, although it could have been finished much quicker if I had not made so many mistakes and had to find the right size mandrels for the curves.  As it was, I tried various pliers until I found the one that worked with the length of wire that the pattern called for, because they come in so many different sizes and the pattern didn't have a size specified!  If the designer had measured their pliers, I would have been able to measure mine and not waste as much wire - or time. 

Some of the pieces that didn't come out right were able to be made into charms, or saved to possibly be used in another project, but I also created a pile of scrap wire, so I'm really happy I'm working in copper instead of silver!

Figs and Ginger - more blocks

Progress is slow right now, but at least I'm making some progress and eventually, I will have two finished quilts!  I thought you might like to see the way I calculated the number of each block colorway that needed to be made from my diagram, so here's a picture of the chart (remember I had to double the numbers for two quilts, and make full stacks of fabrics - that's how I ended up making as many additional blocks as the pattern said to cut for the original size):

My cut and shuffled decks:

If you were wondering about the colorful papers in the stack, I use them to separate each deck and also to make moving the stack in progress closer to the machine easier.  Once I complete these blocks, they can be organized and sewn to the bottom of my panels to complete them and then the borders can be sewn on!