One thing turns into another

My chevron quilt has become the master bedroom quilt.  This chevron quilt was going to be a throw for me but it became a whole other project in the process.  I had 8 colors to use and I had to figure out how to arrange them.  I just laid them out in two different ways using my scraps as a guide.  I decided on the top one.  

The color progression.  No surpise that I ended up doing a color order instead of random.  It's my style.

As I was laying out my quilt I had a little helper.  My mom's cat Bela boy was a big helper.  By helping he was really good at moving all my pieces around.  Good job kitty.

Overall I like the look of the quilt.  It's now time tow cut out many more triangles of quilt since the size has increased.  

Chevron quilt in all blues and greens with a little help from the cat.  It's a good thing!

Let the assembly begin!

I love starting another project.  And this time I've got a brand new cutting mat too!  My poor last cutting mat had been used so much that the self healing top was flicking away.  It's nice to start anew in a new place with a new mat!

I liked the chevron quilts that I have seen around the web.  I decided to go with all solids in the same color family, teals, blues and greens fabric from a defunct project.  About a yard and a half each.  Time to cut the triangles and put them together in the chevron pattern.  Triangles are frequent in many of my more recent projects.

To get an idea what it was going to look like I laid it out on the counter.  Looks good.  

Four rows down with many more to go.  Gotta start somewhere!

Valentine's pillow finished

 From the base work of the one fabric I was able to fill in the other colors as well.  At first I wasn't sure about the lightness of the pillow, usually it is not a enough contrast for my taste, but I went with it to see how it would end up.

 After starting to sew together the squares I realized that I was missing a row.  I planned it to be 8 rows by 8 rows and I only had 7.  Oh no!  Just a little bit more time with my rotary blade and a couple fabrics and I was back on track.

And the finished product, at least the front.  I looked much better after it was all put together.  

After another trip to the fabric store for some fabric for the back and borders and the pillow was complete!

I loved the pillow once it was done.  Again sorry about the lousy pictures, crafting at night will do that to ya.

And this time I remembered my craft tag!  Score one for Bryn.

Crafting has been a good distraction of late.  Although time usually passes by quickly when I am working on my computer or crafts but lately it seems to trickle by.  Hopefully this is a temporary thing.  I know things will get better soon.

- Bryn

1/8 of the project done, if that

Making progress right?  Slowly but surely the quilt is coming along.  

It starts in stack, goes to rows, rows to sections, sections to a whole quilt.  So many more rows to sew

 This is week is the busiest week at work and I'm sick to boot.  I won't get a chance to do much more today but hopefully in the next couple of days the quilt will come along.

- Bryn

Putting together rainbows

I was planning on going to the beach today, well needless to say, that didn't happen.  I laid out the majority of the rest of the quilt.  I had to cut some extra pieces of teal, orange and yellow.  I thought I might be able to make my quilt with no fabric repeating but I was wrong.  So close!  But my stash is probably big enough as it is.

I was able to sew together 3 more rows today.  Only 4 more to go from what I set out in the picture above.  

Only need to add about 3 or 4 more rows to the width to make a queen size.

My project stack is growing!  And this is only part of what I'm working on above.  I've got a whole resuable bag full of projects just waiting for their turn.

4 1/2 Harry Potter movies down, 2 1/2 more to go! 

Piecing together

I finished cutting up most of the pieces of the quilt yesterday and starting piecing them together today. 

It is hard to tell the complete pattern, the floor that I work on is very distracting.  When I add in the white between the colors it will make a huge difference.

I will have to piece together all of these and then add additional rows afterwords.  I don't have a lot of crafting space in this house.  Have to be creative with not only crafts but construction!

3 rows down, 8 to go.  3 Harry Potter movies down, 4 to go.  Off to work, the quilt will wait until tomorrow.