Current Projects: Asian Circles

So I continue my adventure through projects that I'm currently working on. This next one is very much a work in progress. It all started with a piece of gorgeous Asian style fabric. It started with one of the techniques in this book. You can't quite tell, but all the blocks are slightly different sizes and what I'm planning to do is to actually cut them into circles which I'm going to applique to a background. It's just this week looking through all the blocks that I've decided that I might piece the background, out of an assortment of creams. Maybe. I'm considering it! :)

I want them to end up looking like the Japanese Temari balls, and in my head, I want them to kind of "float" across the background of the quilt, and I think that I will quilt loose kind of "wafts" of air.

The techniques in the book are great, I just love how you can get so very many....

different blocks from a single fabric! :) ... and the way the patterns seem to rotate around the centre of the block

Current Projects: Odd Fellows March

Wow - that was a trial! It's taken me 45 minutes to load the photos for this post! Moving right along to today's current project, this is Odd Fellows March: This was the result of one of my very first adventures in online shopping. I loved the pattern in the book, but I didn't like the "old man" look of the prints in the pattern, and then one day I saw these beautiful pastel/bright coloured plaids in the Keepsake Quilting catalog, and I just HAD to have them! The pattern is called "Odd Fellows March" and is from "Quick Quilts from your Scrap Bag" by Leisure Arts. (sorry I would crop the photo below to get rid of the carpet background, but I'm SO not reloading it!)

It's a great book, and has lots of fantastic ideas in it. One day my Odd Fellows March will look like this

But for now a lot of it looks like this!

Current Projects: Part 1

As I mentioned the other day, part of moving house has meant that I've had a chance to go through all my current projects. I've rediscovered some that I've started working on, and not completed. So this week I am going to show you a couple of them, explain where I'm up to, and what I think I will do next.

Up first is this Hydrangea.

I think that I stopped working on it because I wasn't quite sure what I should do with it once it's finished. It's about 15 inches square at the moment, and I think that it would probably make a good little wall hanging.

It comes from the brilliant book "Fabled Flowers" by Kumiko Sudo.

Each little petal starts out as a circle and then you do some folding, and you wind up with a petal.

I've always loved Hydrangeas so I do still really love this block. Now I think that I will put on a skinny border in one of the purple fabrics, and then to mirrior the petals, I might do a border of little hour glass blocks, then bind it.

I haven't really thought about quilting it yet, but I will require a fairly close amount of quilting on the background, to help hold the weight of the flowers.