I haven't been idle...I swears!

As I was writing my post about the Jacksonville show, it occurred to me that it's been

a while since I've really written about anything quilty...8/13/13 to be exact. 

I haven't been sitting idle.  I've been keeping busy in fact working on several

things...bouncing around from project to project as usual.

I've made some more City Sampler blocks.  I have on 18 more to do and then I have all 100. 

But to be honest, I'm not sure that I'm going to make the last 18.  I have to have this

project pieced, quilted and bound in 4 weeks to be entered into our guild's

show with my friends under the Group category.

 

Here are my blocks so far.  I haven't a clue how I want to set them

or even how many of them I actually want to use. 

 

 

 

I've also been spending some time "dying" black and white prints using diluted textile paints.  I had planned to do this I think a couple years ago and then never did.  I had all the stuff but just never got around to it.  Mark Sherman's class gave me just the motivation I needed to do it.

 

 

 

With a ton of paint leftover I decided to experiment a little bit.  And I came up with this.

To make it, I traced a deer silhouette I found online onto freezer paper and then

 ironed it onto a white Kona fat quarter.  Next I diluted some paints and

put them into small spray bottles and this is what I ended up with. 

 

Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet.  I'd like to add more color...maybe.  And initially

I thought I would Zentangle the heck out of the deer and then changed my mind. 

What I think I'm going to do is quilt the face in so that it gives a ghostly appearance. 

Stay tuned to see what happens.  I should have it done in a couple years...lol.

 

 

On the longarm front I did a little charity quilt.  This is #16...

nothing special quilted on it...just a funky free motion flower thingy.

 

 

During the past couple of months I also made this quilt from approximately

110 jelly roll strips.  This is a shot of what it looked like before I quilted it.

 

And here are a couple of pics of the free motion quilting

I did on it...a big meandering paisley.

 

 

And finally...this is what I'm working on as we speak.  It's for a black and white

challenge for a show in West Palm Beach in January I think. 

Like the City Sampler, I have to have it done in about four weeks.

 

The challenge is to come up with a quilt that is black and white with the option of 

one or two colors added that equal no more than 25%.  The quilt has to be no

more than 160" around.  I think this one will come out around 140". 

 

Right now I'm stitching down the fused applique and then it's ready to be quilted

...which I have no idea how I'll do yet.

So what have you been up to?