Monday, March 18, 2013

Design Wall Monday

My March "Quilt To-Do List" is almost complete!  I have only to sew the blocks together for my March UFO and I'll be free to sew whatever I want for the rest of the month!

Here's what's on the design wall today:


It's the Colorado Shop Hop quilt from 2010.  The background fabric was custom-printed for the shop hop, and it highlights scenes of Colorado.  You can probably pick out the State Capitol building.  Do you see the "Welcome to Colorful Colorado" sign?  I drive past it every time I come back from Idaho.  There is also a hot-air balloon, reminiscent of the Labor Day Balloon Festival.  And do you see the Sculptured House, which featured in the 1973 Woody Allen movie, Sleeper?"  DH and I saw that move at a midnight Woody Allen festival in 1976.  The tickets cost 99 cents, and we paid in pennies harvested from our penny jar!

The May Jelly Roll Party Quilt is "Grandma Mary's Five Patch."  I chose this one for May because in the US, Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May.  And my mother's name is Mary.


As I put this quilt together, I realized it is the third one I've made from Kate Spain's "Terrain" collection.  Must be my favorite, huh?

I also finished test-sewing another bag for Sara of Sew Sweetness today. Come back Wednesday to see the new bag, and enter the giveaway for one of Sara's patterns!

From the desk of your auntmartisignature

10 comments:

  1. Oh you just reminded me of another UFO of mine, I also have that shop hop fabric! and have never decided on what to do with it....hmmm B-)

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  2. Lovely fabric and blocks. I have a quilt half made in that Kate Spain range, you are right, it is very pretty. Hugs.....

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  3. Thats great Colorado fabric! And I really do need to get my hands on some Kate Spain soon. Looking forward to seeing how the bag turned out, Sara seems to have SO many great patterns happening!

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  4. Agreat way to use the Colorado fabric - it would have been such a shame to cut it up! Love your Grandma quilt too - how coincidental! and another giveaway - is there no stopping you???????? Glad there isn't by the way.

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  5. Great progress for March already! I love the May Jelly Roll project - and I can't wait to see the next bag! Gill

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  6. I love that jelly roll quilt pattern. Is it listed somewhere so we can make one too?? I am amazed you can make 52 quilts in 52 weeks. My title would be 52 years to make ONE quilt! grin

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  7. You're nearly finished your March to-do list? But it's only the 19th! I *am* impressed! :o)

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  8. I've made the Gma Mary's Five Patch quilt...it is so fun & easy. I should make another one--YEAH! Keep up the good work!

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  9. Nice Colorado quilt project. Marti, is the third block down on the left eggplant purples? Looks too like a reproduction fabric. I'm looking for that combination...reproduction eggplant purple. I need a FQ. Of the three reproduction type LQS in my area I could only find one. Having a second would be wonderful. Where did you get it? I'd like to add it as a block to my Seven Sisters Simplified project.

    All your "Ms" are lined up for next month!

    Sandi

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  10. I used that same Colorado toile fabric on the back of my challenge quilt!

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