The Bloggers Quilt Festival Rainbow Fishes

WELCOME to my blog :)  I am SO happy you have stopped by for a visit!

I am a new quilter and have gone a bit bonkers with quilting over the past 9 months.  You can read about my quilting beginnings HERE.

I am so excited to be participating in the Fall Bloggers Quilt Festival!!  Whoo Hoo!!!  I am entry #258.  If you like what you see, I'd LOVE your vote :)

Check out the Festivities and vote HERE

I have had such a hard time trying to figure out what to say about this quilt.... (it's late, I am tired and for some strange reason, I am out of words!) lol (if you know me, I am almost never short on words)

So, on with the quilts story..... At my mqg we received 75 different 6" squares to make a hst quilt.   I surfed the internet looking for what I'd like to do with them.  I fell in love with Red Pepper Quilts HST Overload quilt.  I had my heart set on making mine just like hers when my sweet hubby lost his job and I needed to make due with my cute little stash :\  No worries!  I had a pile of AWESOME green that would not only make due, but turned out pretty FANTASTIC! ;D 

I used THIS method for making my hst's.  It's the BEST!! :)

Super EASY and no trimming!  Oh the joy's of bias.

The back is a piece of fabric ended up with in an odd sort of way.  My sil got it out of her grandmothers home after she died :(  It is WAY old, but it totally works!  Happy day :D

Now for the reason I call this Rainbow Fishes!  Can you see the fishes?  I always thought the blocks looked like fish, but my visions were confirmed when my 11 year old son walked in the room and exclaimed, "HEY MOM!  THOSE ARE COOL FISH!!!"  

My other children now all concede that they look like angel fish :)  Score one for the mom!

NOW, here is the deal about the layout.  I was thinking that the blocks should be laid out randomly, but the thought came to me that I should arrange them by color.... but how.  I tend to try rows and stripes, but no, I didn't like that.  That is when this "round the quilt" color wheel came to be.  If you will start at the top right of the quilt and move around clockwise (or counter clockwise) you will see that the colors change and blend into the next color on the color wheel. :)   Yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, red, orange and back to yellow.

In order to make this quilt square, I had to add 6 more blocks.  The original 75 did not include red, do I added the red to give me the full(ish) spectrum! :)  In my additions I accidentally added a duplicate print :(  Can you find it?

I bound it in the same green after auditioning many different fabrics.  The green binding just disappears and lets the rainbow shine :)

Here are the quilts stats:
62" square
Quilted my me and my cute little Pfaff and it's AWESOME squeaky walking foot ;D
HST's using THIS method
Best Categories:  home machine quilted quilt, ROYGBIV (color wheel) quilt, throw quilt

Phone Post

Midnight quilt progress at Mom's :D

Weekend Update

Holy Busy-Rolli!  (Yes, that is the new phrase of the week... along with "proclivity" which is the actual cool word of the week.)  I have a proclivity for being WAY TOO Holy Busy-Rolli!!! :D

This week has just sped by at full lightning speed!  Monday I bound and bound and bound!  One quilt for Emily Herrick and 6 items for Terry.  PHEW!  I thought I was finished, but when Terry picked up her things on Monday, she gave me two sewing kits to finish up for her :)  Thank heavens for work!

Tuesday I finished up Terry's sewing kits just in time to test some patterns for Terry.  One went together like a snap, the other is in a heap on my sewing table mocking me! :p  (I'll show photos at the end of the month after market). ***I don't get to go to market :(  I am just the sewing elf for many fabulous designers that are going to fall market ;)

Wednesday Emily gave me two more quilts to bind for market and two more are on the way for binding today.

So, what did I get to sew for myself this week?  Hold on a sec, and I'll show you :)

I started working on my hst quilt for the Utah Valley Modern Quilt Group at my church's quilting night Thursday.  Check out the WILD party HERE.

Cute cut triangles needing to be pressed :)

the other side of the cute little triangles needing to be pressed!

Ta-da!  Pressed hst's

Here are chain pieced pairs of joined hst's waiting to be pressed and joined in the other direction!

A lay out of what the finished block will look like.

I am hoping to get these all finished today... or tonight.... or tomorrow.  I REALLY love the EASY method I use for making hst's blogged HERE!

I also need to cut out my daughters Weekender bag while she is at work today.  I have to find some way to make it a surprise for her :)

I also, ALSO need to get to work on the girls socks for Christmas   Being alone without any of them around to see what I am up to is HARD! ...especially since I like to knit at night while we watch a movie or TV :(