Haze Kilim

This is a Kaffe Fassett design I started a year or more ago and a couple of days ago, in a "finish the darned things" frenzy, I pulled it out and started to sew . I had three strips done out of eight and this was  the fourth. I sewed away till it was ALMOST finished but when I tried it against the rest of the quilt top, it was all out of whack !!!! Grrrr!! I was ripping cross at myself. I DID rip! I picked it all apart patiently, murmling under my breath, and it is all together now again and attached to the third strip so now I am HALF FINISHED! Yay! Just thought I would post what it looks like so far. When it is finished, it is to be 72" square. Wait till you see the backing fabric! DEE-Licious!!!

The colours here are a bit wilder than it really is and it looks crooked because it is draped all over the sofa. It IS actually straight! Now that you see it, you can see how much picking out I did!! Poor old me:-( BTW, the pattern is from Kaffe's new-ish book, Simple Shapes, Spectacular Quilts. LOVE that book as much as I love his Glorious Inspirations , which I own in Hard Cover, and Kaffe signed it for me when I took a needlepoint workshop with him in Toronto years ago.Lucky me! That book has appreciated in value a LOT since I bought it.

A work LONG in progress!

Many moons ago , I made a quilt top from a pattern by Lori Allison called Cinnamon and Ginger. I do not do many bed quilts any more and rarely use patterns but I loved this one. It is 89.5inches square the way I made it so it would cover our Queen sized bed with its extra deep mattress. Instead of making the fabric for the corners of the blocks dark as in the pattern, I used a pale limey green to work better in our pale green bedroom. I bought five metres of Kaffe Fassett fabric for my backing but today, when I took it to Lucy the Marvellous Longarm Lady for quilting, I decided it was not enough material to do the back side! SO... Lucy and I both came up with the same solution- make a strip to widen it. Clever little things, aren't we! I started making some ten inch square blocks , sort of a log cabin block and have two of ten done and trimmed to 10.5 inches. This will give Lucy plenty of width to play with and me , an interesting quilt back. I am using KF's Targets fabric for the centres of my "cabins" and will use one round of the limey green in each block , varying their placement so each block is truly unique. Did you know that I LOVE Kaffe Fassett fabrics?? I do!

Here is the bed with the quilt top on it. The colours are more intense than this shows

This is my backing, Kaffe Fassett's "Suzani"

...and here are the first two of ten blocks to widen my backing

As this really IS a WIP, I am going to post this on the needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com  Drop in there and prepare to be amazed!

Andrea's quilt

I made this Kaffe Fasset quilt for my niece for her wedding last summer. Now there is a baby coming and I guess I need to do a baby quilt! I only do quilts for first babes mostly because I am lazy. Anyway, should it be another Kaffe Fassett? I have done a couple of nice KF baby ones but apparently, those pics are not stored on this hard drive. If I can find them easily, I may post them later. Anyway, I LOVE KF and his gorgeous prints and have scads of his fabrics in my enormous stash. Guess it sounds like  KF quilt for this babe!