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Home / My Blog / fabrics / ::Finally Inspired::

::Finally Inspired::

February 1, 2010 By Katie

This doesn’t happen much for me, but ALL this week, I couldn’t get my design idea down.

My HST blocks were sewn, but my very simple layout (something like this) wasn’t sitting right with me on the design wall.  I knew I wanted the colors, and the white downy flannel.  I went pin wheel, zig zag,  rearranged to on-point singles,  you know…the hst menagerie.  Concluding with deserving satisfaction on this.  I love flannel, I love matching points, I love the blockie color goodness.

Even if I was annoyed with my lack of inspiration this past week, my cup is now overflowing from the massive amount of left over blocks.  Acting on a small idea and seeing where it takes you can result in a few scraps.

Grandma Moses (Sew Mama Sew had this picture up, Love it.)

I’ve had thoughts of hand quilting this one, and am hoping to meet up with some awesome people to learn it with.  I’m happy to say The Seattle Modern Quilting Guild has received an incredibly enthusiastic response!

So a big call out to any crafty peeps out there wanting to be part of getting the Seattle Modern Quilting Guild off the ground.  You can now check us out/join HERE.  It will be giddy fun to talk sewing to others who want to do the same!  Sew Mama Sew’s forum also has a thread for getting a Sewing Circle together.  Go find yourself some stitchy friends.

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Filed Under: fabrics, half triangle square quilt, Improvisational Quilting Classes, Improvisational Quilts Tagged With: alexander henry, amy butler, Anna Maria Horner, baby quilt, birds, classes, denyse schmidt, dots, fabric, flannel, handcrafted, handmade, Improv, improvisation, improvisational, seattle, sew katie did, value quilt

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  1. Andi says

    February 1, 2010 at 9:20 am

    Your design is looking gorgeous.
    Truly ‘inspired’.
    ANdi 🙂

  2. Katy says

    February 1, 2010 at 12:51 pm

    truly awesome. I’ve got an itching to do some hand quilting at the minute too. Ordered a new hoop for the job last week…now I need to make a quilt worthy of hand quilting!

  3. wishes, true and kind says

    February 1, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    Very pretty — a nice combination of colors/fabrics.

  4. mjb says

    February 1, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    It’s great! I’m not a fan of matching points though 🙂

  5. Cheryl Arkison says

    February 1, 2010 at 7:46 pm

    You can do so much with a HST! Looks lovely.

  6. heather at brown robin says

    February 3, 2010 at 2:22 am

    Oh dear… I want to move to Seattle right now and be inspired by you all the time. Any chance, you and your fam are coming to Asheville? You always have a place to stay with us. Every time I check back in with you, you are doing more and more phenomenal work. Just beautiful. Really. That’s not my path right now, and I’m green with envy. Keep it up!

  7. Rebekah says

    February 3, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    I love your scrappy patchwork hst squares…what a great solution to your piecing problem.

    That Grandma Moses painting is so pretty. I need to find some prints of quilting paintings for my sewing room.

  8. Heather { A La Mode fabric } says

    February 4, 2010 at 2:38 am

    I’m in Llluuuvv with this one!!! 😉

    XO, Heather

  9. Penny says

    February 4, 2010 at 3:51 am

    your quilt top is awesome Katie! I want to make a quilt of that dinner table in the photo, it’s awesome!

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