Tax Day in the USA

Going a little dotty

I have a new project I need to work on. Had to go shopping for the supplies today weird concept as I usually don't go out and just buy supplies for a project.  I usually start a project with what I already have and add to it with a little bit of new.  But not this time everything had to be new.  I think I have only every made two quilts this way before my first quilt, which my grandmother paid for the supplies,  and my wedding quilt that I gave to my husband as our wedding gift.   Since I knew what I needed it was a quick run in grab what I need and leave.  Not the way I usually want to be when I am at a quilt store but some times it is just that way.

Supplies on list

•  fabric (polka dots) red 6 at 1/2 yard 2 at 3/4 yard
• fabric (polka dots) green 6 at 1/2 yard 2 at 3/4 yard
• fabric (polka dots) yellow 1 fat quarter
• fabric (polka dots)  brown 1 fat quarter and 1@ 5 inches wide long and skinny quarter yard
• fabric (polka dots) white 2 1/2 yards
• 1 package milliners needles
• 2 new thimbles
• 3 hand quilting threads red, green, white

My sister's flowers

My sister had some very lovely flowers in her yard over Easter.

The above photo was taken by my husband all the rest in this post are taken by me.

What we had in our yard over Easter was snow.

Amazing what driving 5 to 6 hours south does for the climate.

Remember that yoyo quilt

I while back I posted about a quilt a lady showed when teaching a class at the local quilt guild fair, her daughters quilt is shown above.  I wasn't very excited about the class but the work shown was lovely as you can see from the quilt shown above.

 

Well the other day I found two of those store bought quilts (on clearance)  sort of like the one pictured  above that the teacher's daughter did, but a tad bit different.  Mine don't have a scalloped edge and are not white on white.  Mine are white on one side and colored on the other  and the quilting is colored.  One is bright orange and one is medium blue.  As for the colored seam binging well that is something the teacher's daughter added.

 

So I am thinking I will make two of these one brightly colored and one more subdued.  I think the white yoyos the girls have been making with the big blue yoyo tool might be just the ticket for the subdued one, using the blue quilt.  I will probably make a little tutorial to go with this so other people can do it too.  The bright one I may add a quilt too it that I was making a while back that I want a little stronger and a little bigger.  the nice thing about doing this type of thing is it makes the yoyo quilt stronger and it also makes it a warm quilt not just a summer coverlet on a guest bed.