TGIFF! - Modern Totems

Happy first day of Spring! You'd never know it around here though; Old Man Winter is holding on for dear life! I'm determined to welcome Spring though, hence today's finish, which has Spring-like colours.

I started out with a Hello Luscious Charm Pack and a 1/2 yard of the blue and cream fabric from the line. I wanted something with clean lines, modern and fresh feel and straightforward piecing. I added in the soft white of Kona Snow -- so a Snow convert now!

If you'll remember, I was kind of stuck for a name. Luscious Columns/Modern Columns was what was brewing. However, when I took the kids to the Museum of History last week during March Break and saw my favourite totems again, it hit me -- Modern Totems.

The quilting was done with white 50wt. Aurifil #2021. Wishbones in the totem columns. Alternating double loopy loos and single loopy loos in the background. Flowers in the squares.

Modern Totems - Front

Simple pieced back:

Modern Totems - Back

I'll be teaching Modern Totems in a workshop with the Ottawa Valley Quilters Guild in November. 

Finished Size: 52" by 59".

Linking up to TGIFF!, which is over at Sew Fresh Fabrics this week. Check it out and come link up your recent finish!

Rough Patch

I was working on the quilting for Luscious Columns, when this happened. Not once, but twice! And tension issues. Sigh.

Funny how quilting can be a metaphor for life, eh? Not funny ha ha, but funny weird. After such a great start to last week, things went south in the extended family area shortly after my last post. Mixing metaphors, M-R?! Tsk, tsk! At least most quilting problems can be fixed. Or patched. Sorry, that was bad.

Anyways, I'm coming out of the fog now and I plan on taking this advice:



Time for a new quilt, don't you think? :)

Luscious Columns - A Work in Progress

Monday night, I received the exciting news that Happy Canada Day, Eh! was selected for Quilt Canada 2014's National Juried Show, which will be held June 11-14, 2014 in St. Catharines, Ontario. I'm surprised I didn't wake the kids up with my shriek and crazy happy dance. ;D I. am. still. so. excited!

I got to go to Quilt Canada back in 2006 when it was in Ottawa and I was blown away by the gorgeous quilts in the National Juried Show. I remember wondering if I'd ever make a quilt that was good enough to be accepted. And now it's actually happened. Pinch me. I still can't believe it. Woo hoo!

Coming back down to earth was hard, but it was made a lot easier with the quilt top I'm sharing with you today.

After so much wonky with Scrap{Bee}2.0 and Purplelicious, I was ready for something more straightforward and simple. I pulled out a charm pack of Hello Luscious by Basic Grey that I've had in my collection for some time and some Kona Snow and got down to business.

I've had this design in my head for a while and it's so charm pack and jelly roll friendly that I'm sure someone else has done it. I couldn't find anything in my Quilts board on Pinterest though. If you've seen a similar design somewhere, could you let me know? Thanks! Oh and if you have any suggestions for the name, I'm open to those too!

It's a good sized throw quilt and should finish ~ 50" by 60".

BTW, the horizontal stripes you see through the background are from my very high-tech vinyl tablecloth design wall. It's distracting, I know. Must find something better.

Hope you are having a wonderful day and getting in some time to quilt!