This is what I've been working on during my long holiday weekend. I have all the pieces cut out for 12 blocks and managed to get 6 of them made. There will be one more block in each of the 6 colors. This is brighter in person than the photo shows. Some of the flower fabrics are light and kinday blendy with the background greens but I like the watercolory effect so it doesn't bother me. With the border I'm planning this will finish at 64" X 80" so will be big enough to wrap up in for naps. I should be able to finish the rest of the blocks this week in the evenings and maybe get the border done this weekend. It's going to be a pieced border so I'm not sure how long that is going to take me. That's going to be a change for me as I usually use plain borders and knowing me that just might be what this finally ends up with. We'll see how much trouble I have with the one I have planned.
Things have been REALLY quiet on the cat front today. All 5 of my babies have been laying around sleeping. That is until I laid blocks out on the floor to take a photo. That seemed to be a sigh for "Tornado Sam" to go into action. I swear there wasn't 2 minutes time lapse between the 2 photos. I'm thinking since they've all slept all day and are just now coming to life at bedtime I'm going to toss the lot of them out so I can get some sleep tonight!
Several people commented on the quilt on the couch. I do that because I have 5 cats that come inside. It's MUCH easier to grab a quilt off the couch and toss it in the washer than to get 5 cats worth of cat hair out of the upholstery. LOL!
19 comments:
I love your quilt that you have been working on over the long weekend. Great progress.
I love your colour selection for this quilt.
Nancy - those flowers have turned out so well - not that I expected otherwise - a lovely way to use drunkards path/bullseye blocks - very pretty :o) have definitely put that idea away for future reference
I don't recall ever seeing drunkards path set to make flowers-and I like it. I like the colors you are using, I can definitely see the petals. Like Anne, I'll make a note of it and file it away for the future.
I love what you are doing! (So glad to see that you are back to quilting too!) Yours looks better than your ispiration piece - IMHO. BTW I love when quilts have some low contrast blocks - make me stop and really look at them.
My cats are good "helpers" too. :o)
This is really nice. I have it in the back of my mind to do one of these. I saw the one at Shelina's and smiled to myself and now here you are. Great minds think alike. I love your color choices. I know my will be bright also. I look forward to the completed quilt.
The blocks look wonderful but you know as a fellow cat owner, I am LOL at the 2nd shot of how Sam rearranged them for you. As I often have to tell mine "you are NOT helping"
I love the colors in this quilt. They are awesome! And you picked a great design. Great minds think alike. Are you cutting out an L and a pie out of each fabric like I did, or are you only cutting out L's from the green and pies from the other colors? Drunkard path seems like this never ending project where you have to keep finding a way to use the leftover blocks and fabric. What do you do with those odd shaped leftovers?
I love this quilt! I just saw another version of this one somewhere and printed it out - maybe one day I'll get around to making one myself. I hadn't seen Shelina's verson but did follow your link to check that one out too.
Very pretty flowers!
I had to laugh at the rumPussed through blocks on the floor, I guess it looked like an invitation to play!
Is Sam one cat or a cyclone made of all 5 cats rough housing together? Mine are both siamese, so group demolition efforts I usually blame on the Black-Nosed-Bandit crew.
Nancy, what wonderful blocks! I totally love the watercolor look. Keep going, you are half way there!
Your colors are awesome. It's going to look great.
I love those blocks. They are simply beautiful! Good job!
Love your colorful quilt! What kind of pieced border are you doing?
Maybe your cat is just trying to re-arrange the blocks to give you more options.
Lovely curved blocks. I am looking forward to see the quilt :-)
love this latest quilt project Nancy! great colors..
I love this quilt top so far. I really wish I had the patience to do the rounded pieces.
Yeah - it is looking bright and cheery and beautiful! Good for you.
Cheers!
Evelyn
Love these flowers. Great idea.
I think your helpers thought they were really doing you a favor and rearranging things for you!
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