Stashing and Scrapping

Aren't these fabrics so cute?  Pearl Bracelet from Lizzy House, ordered from Sew Mama Sew.  I love these and decided to add to my stash - thinking of course of possible use in a baby quilt.  From the top are Essex yarn dyed in Flax, Crosshatch from Architextures in peach,  pearl bracelet in Persimmon, Watermelon, Peach, Ice skate, Glacier, Citron and Verbena. 

 We have had yet another snow storm - hit on Palm Sunday, and snowed a little all day Monday too,  8" of heavy wet snow.  So tired of the cold and snow and ready for Spring.  I'm thinking the Easter Bunny may need his Snowshoes :>)

Since my studio is in an outbuilding rather than in my house, this meant I had to once again dig out the snow boots and heavy coat to get over to sew. 

 

 

I had been blog surfing the other day and ran across this X Plus quilt.  It was big back in 2011, but somehow I missed it then. Badskirt Amy had a tutorial to make it,   I fell in love with the design and decided to try piecing a few blocks - Ha!  It is addictive.  And you think you are going to use up scraps , but uh, no, not so much. 

I started out doing pretty well with using scraps but then started cutting pieces to go with scraps... but I LOVE how the design is so interesting with the grid and the X's.

I have 12 blocks pieced now and am loving all the fun scrappiness (sorry for the bad photo).  Hope to get more done today. 

Thanks for stopping by, stop back to check on the progress of the X Plus.

A Thousand Pyramids

I read many blogs, mostly quilting blogs and one of my favorites is mollyflanders.blogspot.com/2011/11/pyramid-quilt.html I really enjoy her posts, and love her quilts.  This pyramid quilt inspired me.  I also love Anthropologie and enjoy their catalogs.  So here is the beginning of my pyramid quilt. 

I was having so much fun cutting out pyramids I think this is going to end up much bigger than originally planned  I used a green and aqua solid that I already had but ran out after 4 rows of each.  So I ended up deciding to piece a couple of rows of just prints together.  Not totally sure I like that, so stopped working on it and decided I needed to get more of the solid fabric, or maybe some other colors of solid fabrics.

I ended up with about 36" x 60" at this point.  I have also found some other colors of solids that I intend to use.  So stay tuned.