Excuse me, what was your name again?

This new project needs a little PR help. I've always seen this block called "Devil's Claw", which is truly unappealing as a quilt name. Can someone put a positive spin on it or come up with an alternate name?

Quiltville mystery quilt is completed

It's bound, it's labeled, and it's on my bed in about an hour from now.

And you know what? I already have my next project picked out. More later.

Anybody watch "Enough Already!" with Peter Walsh on OWN network last night? He's a professional organizer who tackled a quilter's clutter on last night's show. I don't usually watch it but was alerted to the show on the Quiltville chat group. I'm still conflicted about the resolution. Sure, she got a great quilt studio but it was in the garage, and I didn't see a single quilt displayed in her decluttered living room. It was like "Yeah, you can have your little hobby but don't bother anyone with it." And her daughter seemed a little controlling. She claimed she wanted a better relationship between her children and their grandmother but wouldn't bring them to visit because she said the cluttered house was too dangerous. Admittedly, the living room was a complete fright, but that seemed a little manipulative.

Oh well, one woman's opinion.

Don't make anything bigger than you can photograph

I even got out the stepladder but this was still the best I could do. The room isn't large enough to back up far enough to frame a decent picture. I was standing in the doorway here. But the top is finished: The basket quilt that grew. 95" square. And I like it a lot. To think it was just a whim to expand the Schnibbles quilt at its' heart.

Can anyone tell me what fabric line this is?

I bought charm packs from Keepsake Quilting on sale, and sometimes they rename collections (for no good reason) so I don't know who made it nor its proper identifier. I would like to buy a yard to put a border on the EQ BOM quilt I started but realized I don't have any idea what it's called. I checked Keepsake and they don't seem to have the charm packs anymore. Help? Lakeshore, lakehouse, something like that sticks in my head but I don't know if it's right.

P.S. This was bought last summer, by the way. And now I'm starting to doubt that it came from Keepsake. I also bought a few charm packs from a sale on Quilt in a Day so who knows? Looks like this will be scrappier than I planned! Surely I can find a coordinating print that will work. Ooh, ooh, reason to go shopping!

Another BOM

I stumbled upon a BOM on the EQ7 blog yesterday and decided that I had to play along. First because these are 6" blocks and thus different from what I've been doing, and second because I remembered a charm pack that I bought from Keepsake Quilting for another project but didn't use that would be pretty in these small blocks. So, here are the first two months' blocks and the fabrics: The blog gives links to EQ7 files for templates and paper piecing foundations. Since I have EQ6 I couldn't read the files so just drafted them myself. I'm doing these by regular piecing although depending on the design I might use foundation paper piecing later.

And, by the way, I fixed that bad corner in the right hand block. I didn't see it until I photographed it - as usual.

Sneak peeks

Here's what"s going on in the old quilt studio:

Quiltville mystery Roll Roll Cotton Boll is back from the longarm quilter and as usual, Sherry Meyer did a bang-up job. This incorporates a pattern I hadn't used before and it's lovely. Now to apply 420 inches of bias binding (really!) and get this on the bed. Here's the front: And here's the back, showing the quilting a little better:

Isn't that pattern darling?

Work is progressing on The Quilt That Grew. I have made the triangle side panels and was assembling the piano key outer border this morning when I simply had to lay the pieces out on the floor to get a peek. It's coming out even better than I hoped:

The only hard thing about this (and it isn't really hard) is that I'll have to tweak the pieced border a little to remove 1/2" from the total length to fit on the inner segment, meaning I'll have to increase several seams a teeny bit. I also had to make the white border just inside the pieced one a tad wider than the others to make everything come out but it won't jump out at you - I think! It has to be that way, so no use brooding on it. This would have been easier if I could have figured out how to do medallion quilts on EQ. I have to work on that.

Quilt film

If you love quilts, if you love beautiful graphics, if you love music, you must go and watch this short film made for the National Film Board of Canada. Thank you to the member of Quiltville Chat who led me to this link. This little film is charming.