ufo, playing with painsticks and crayon roll-up

This quilt was a bom/ufo from way back. All I had to do was make one block, the bottom one with the hedgehog on it and then put it together. Today I finished getting the binding on it I'm glad to have another UFO checked off my list, this is number 3 ufo completed this year.

My small quilt guild is having a quilt show this spring. This is the third crayon roll-up I have made for the boutique and have one more cut out and halfway pieced. The show is in April so it's coming up really soon.

This piece of fabric is a handdyed that I decided to play around with paintsticks and stencils. The bottom 8 stencils are positive and negatives, I wanted to show what they look like. The others are just stencils that I have and also sell. I'm hoping this will help show people what to do with paintsticks and stencils on fabric you can make some really awesome fabrics with paintsticks.

ufo, client's quilt and mandalas

Finally the weather has turned and we are having a few beautiful days with temps climbing into the 70's and 80's tomorrow. Sure we are suppose to get some rain and maybe even some storms but I would much rather have that then the snow we had the other day. Yes on Monday we had 7" of snow but the ground was warm and it melted quickly. Today I got some fabric on the barrel letting it rust for a few days perfect weather for that.

This quilt belongs to a client, I did cross hatching behind the bunnies and a loopy ribbon on the sashing. This quilt is for my client's great grand baby.

I talked about this ufo the other day. I got the entire quilt top done now. I really like the way this quilt turned out. I thought about doing some custom work on it but I did a paisley overall pattern instead with it being so busy.

The following are more mandalas I did the other day. The last two are regular snowdyed pieces. After doing the mandalas and seeing all the awesome texture in them I like them alot more then just the regular snowdyes.

SDM 155

SDM 156

SDM 157

SDM 158

SDM 159

SDM 160

REGULAR SNOWDYED

REGULAR SNOWDYE

UFO

I decided this year I would work on UFO's. This one was a block exchange at a Jo Morton retreat a year ago. There were 17 of us that exchanged blocks so I made a few more to make 20 notice how there are no 2 blocks the same. We have retreat coming up again in a few short weeks so I really want to get it done to take with. I have also been working on more snowdyed mandala's for future quilt shows. I think I have around 100 of them made. Next I'll be doing more snowdyeing of t shirts for the quilt shows as well.

UFO

This little doll quilt is a UFO, I had the 3 1/2 inch 9 patches for a long time just sitting on my cutting table waiting for me to do something with them. They were from a swap on the Little Women's list a few years ago, I got it all put together today and  quilted and it feels good to have one of my ufos complete. I'm going to try and work on more ufos this year and not buy fabric unless it's to finish a project.