A little piecing

I've gotten in a little piecing lately.  The bowties are samples for Karen Montgomery's Tuxedo Ties pattern.  I cut both styles of these bowties with my 8 inch Qube.  They were fun to make so I cut more of my repro stash to use as leaders and enders.

This is the August block for my LQS' Saturday Sampler.  She gave us the pattern for Block 9 which caused me a little distress, thinking I'd lost a block, when I realized that August is the eighth month.  I really like the colors in this sampler.

Friendship Chain sample

So I've been working on a sample for the book club.  This is another Karen Montgomery companion pattern.  I cut into my Tula Pink ROAR fabric.  I don't know why but this felt like cutting money!  I love this fabric so much.  It might be the first Tula Pink fabric I've ever bought.  Don't get me wrong, I love Tula Pink but she's more into the intense, neon colors and I'm just not.  However, during the All Texas Shop Hop I found out that my DH LOVES neon colors.  He kept petting the Tula Pink fabric in all the stores.  Go figure!

Doghouse sample

This is the sample I made for the Book Club.  It's the Karen Montgomery companion pattern for the book club.  The pattern is called House and Home.  I'm not sure if I want to make the table runner or not so I just worked on the houses.  I used leftover Minick & Simpson fabrics.

A cute little top

This was the other half of a Karen Montgomery sample.  I plan to bind it with the striped fabric that I cut on the bias.

And it's a top

One of my goals for the weekend was to get the borders on this quilt.  And here it is!  It is nearly a square quilt, the length is about two inches shorter than the width.  I'm proud of it as it was a lot of work to get the dogs all facing the correct direction!  Now I need to piece some minky for the backing. . .

After this is quilted and bound, I plan to snuggle with it on the sofa-with my dog!

A stop border. . .

I was going to add a 2.5 inch stop border but had a re-think and went for 1.5.  It will finish at 1 inch which feels right.  I still need to cut and add the dog border fabric. The stop border is a little ruffly so I may need to re-do it.  

Looking good

Finally got the blocks completed and sewn together!  Now I need to add borders.

Gone to the dogs

 

So I am working on a sample quilt for my book club.  This is the Reflections pattern by Karen Montgomery.  (It's basically a delectable mountains block.)  I had planned to use this funky fabric but as I was digging around for brown fabric in my stash I came across these dogs and was smitten!  I had to use them.  Of course, I couldn't make it easy on myself.

The first block showed me that I, after cutting the fabric as instructed, would have to have the blocks in a vertical orientation.  I really prefer the horizontal version. Can you see how the dogs are facing?  So I cut another test block and got all of the dogs going the right way.  I'm leaving out lots of cutting errors as I sub-cut the pieced blocks (grrrr).  I had to get DH to help me lay out the blocks as it was!  Tonight I'm hoping to get another full block pieced so I can try the alternating blocks.  I'm hoping to have this finished for Book Club on Saturday so I really need to spend some time.  I had two yards of the dog fabric and I was hoping to have some for a border but it's not looking good.  And this is really old fabric!!

Sample quilt

I'm facilitating the Cozy Mysteries book club at my LQS and this is a sample based on the Karen Montgomery pattern for the book we are currently reading.  I can't decide if I want to add blocks or just a border.  This would be a cute baby quilt someday.

ETA: The pink is Andover Century Solids in Bubblegum!  I decided I need to pick up some more incase I decide to make the quilt larger.