Blooming Nine Patch Quilted

So I got the blooming nine patch I made for my cousin's wedding back from the quilter recently.  Here are a few pics.

I absolutely LOVE it!  There's a little piece of me that wants to keep it for myself, but I won't.  It's totally my cousin and his soon-to-be-wife.

You can see the pantograph here in this last picture.  The flowers look a lot like one of the flowers in one of the fabrics, so it goes nice.  It was quilted using a light tan color.

Now to bind it...

Blooming 9-Patch Mid-Assembly

I've finally finished all of the nine patches for the blooming nine patch I'm making for my cousin's wedding next May.  I'm hoping to have it done so I can give it to his fiance at her shower.  I cut out all the squares and am in the middle of assembling it.  Here are a few pics.  I think I'm going to put a border on it using the same fabric in the outer most section (the triangles) since that fabric was the inspiration for the entire color scheme.  

I managed to squeeze a little battery life out of my camera, but I still can't find my charger.  I may need to suck it up and buy a new one.  Hopefully I'll be able to share more quilting photos soon.

Set 5 of the Blooming 9 Patch

Here's set 5 of the blooming nine patch blocks.  Just one more to go...

And here are all 5 of the sets of 9 patches.  

I have to cut the strips for the next 9 patch still.  I probably won't get to that until next week.  I have to add a sleeve to a quilt I made a while ago for a show that a friend asked me to submit a quilt to.  

I'm also taking a class on Saturday with Carol Doak at the Lowell Quilt Festival, so I need to do a bit of prep for that.  I'm so excited for the class. I haven't taken a class in over a year, maybe two, so it will be nice to learn some new tips.  Even though I've already taken a paper piecing class before, I always seem to learn something in classes I take because someone always seems to have tips and tricks to share.  It's one of my favorite aspects of taking classes.  

I hope to report back with pictures from the festival itself as well after.  I have a bunch of stuff that I'm looking to get from the vendors... thread for the machine quilting of several quilts, backings for 3 quilts, fabric from the Santorini and Kiwi lines, maybe a few charm packs, batiks, and neutral fabrics to add to my stash.  This is one time that I will probably add a bunch of fabrics to my stash at one time.  Yay!!!

Set 4 of the Blooming 9 Patches

I finished grouping 4 of the blooming nine patches.  I'm really liking how this is all coming together.  It's nice when you're working on a project and you continue to love the fabrics and color choices.  Sometimes the fabrics and colors look great when folded neatly next to each other, but once you start piecing them, they just don't have that same pizzaz.  

Here are the four sets next to each other.  I started to put them up on the design wall, but it was getting so full.  I need to finish a few other projects and get them off the wall so that I can begin to lay this one out.  

Sets 5 and 6 left to go and then I can start cutting the solid squares and laying the entire thing out.  I can't wait!  In my mind I'm 5 steps ahead of myself.  I'm already thinking, "hmm, what would this look like if I extended the last fabric as a border?" "How should I quilt this?"  (If you've seen any close ups of the quilting on blooming nine patch quilts, feel free to pass those along for ideas since I'm already mentally on step 1000 in my mind.)

More later... Happy Quilting!

Set 3 of the 9-Patches

I finished set three of the nine patches last night for the blooming nine patch quilt. Here are a few pics of them...
And here are all three sets. If you use your imagination, you might be able to picture the transition in your head.
I also got a little machine quilting done on the scrappy flower quilt that's in my profile picture. I was having some difficulties with my machine a few days ago when I first went to do some of the sewing for it, so I put it aside and worked on something else. I came back to it today, and the machine worked just fine. I think it was just telling me to do some piecing and not some quilting. At least I've been making progress on something, just not my stack of unquilted tops. ;)

July BOM and Beginnings of Blooming 9-Patch

I finished the July BOM today.  I'm officially all caught up now!!!  Here it is.  Isn't it cute?

I also started my asian blooming nine patch quilt for my cousin's wedding.  I made the nine patches for the first two inner sections.  The lighter one is the inner most set of nine patches, and the darker one is the second grouping of nine patches.  I placed them up on my design wall for now that's becoming pretty full right now.  I'm going to have to do something about that. ;)

Here are the two of them together so that you ca see how they go together.

I'm so excited, I'm taking my sister to the Billy Joel/Elton John Face 2 Face concert tomorrow night as her graduation present.  

Quilting Room Inhabited

So my quilting room is being inhabited right now by one of my sister-in-laws.  My in-laws are staying with us for the week, up from Georgia.  As a result, my sewing table and all my stuff has been pushed to the side, so I can't really do too much right now.  I did, however pull a few things out so that I can cut things on the dining room table. 

I'm cutting the fabric for a blooming nine-patch that I'm going to make for my cousin's wedding next May.   Here's the fabric that I'm using.  I've never been big into Asian fabric, but I fell in love with the top fabric and I know it's totally going to fit my cousin and his fiance. 

 

I also opened up a Swanky honey bun from Moda and began organizing the strips so that I can make an Irish Chain quilt that I saw using honey buns on the Moda Bake Shop blog.  

My 6 year old sister-in-law (my husband is the oldest of 6) was helping me pick the color combinations.  How cute.