Black & White Quilts

I finished up the Black and White BOM for 2010 recently. Here is a picture of it on a bed.

 And a close up.

 This is another black and white quilt I made several years ago. I want to show how some of the black and whites have faded. 

 These were all quilt shop quality fabrics.

Most often I have had the quilt turned over so it would not get too much sun and the blinds closed as it is in a guest room but even so, a good bit of fading. I'll just say it gives it character!!

Here is another black and white quilt for a great nephew to be born very soon. When I asked for the colors and theme of the baby's room, I was told told black and white fabrics, tee pees, arrows and swiss crosses, so this is what I came up with. A little traditional in layout . . .

 This is a little closer up with the backing showing

and this is really close up. I used EQ7 to make my pattern and quilt layout. 

Happy Fourth of July!!

More Dear Jane Blocks & Quilt Retreat!

I'm not sure how many years I'll be posting these Dear Jane blocks until I get a finished quilt but at least I am now past the halfway point - yay!! There are 225 blocks and I've finished 115. Our small group had a quilt retreat for a week and I got a lot accomplished that week.

 I had some ripping going on as the above corner triangles were all sewn incorrectly for starters. Oh well - life as a quilter.

 Four more triangles made . . .

Now this error took more than ripping. I had to make a whole new block. See how just a smidgen of being off with your 1/4" seam makes a difference with 4.5" blocks! The first one was TOO BIG and my friends would NOT let me get by with cutting all those outer points off - it would have looked pretty bad, wouldn't it have?? LOL! So, a REDO. Glad I did!

 Jane was working on her beautiful pineapple quilt - actually, just one of her projects.

Here is one of Nancy's projects - a patriotic quilt she had been saving to make for a while - turned out SO pretty!

 If you wonder why Nancy's quilts are so perfect - you can see above that she trims and resizes every block.

 This picture was not too clear but the quilt is beautiful - Gloria's curved blocks.

Wonda was making a large red and white scrappy quilt from a magazine pattern that when finished will have lots of stars in it!

 I did not get a picture of Gerry's blocks but she is making the Women of the Bible Quilt being shared at Little Quilts, using lots of batiks.

Happy Stitching!