Summer Time Blahs

 

With all of the heat and humidity I don't know about you but this past week I developed the Summer Time Blahs!  With no intrest in working on that pineapple quilt, staring at me from the design wall, I decided to dive into another book and figure out how to do something new, at least new to me. 

 

Last year the local quilt store was offering a class on making fabric baskets, which intrigued me. So I signed up for the glass and bought Susan Breier’s book “It’s a Wrap”.  Sadly, I was unable to attend the class and put the book on the shelf to be forgotton until the blahs overcame me. 

 

Following the instructions I found making a basket was a total kick! 

As the basket was forming it came to me that this would make a great purse bottom and so my new summer project came to life. 

And here you have it.....

My lovely new purse with a basket bottom (The Basket Bottom Bag)  It is lined with compartments and a heavy zipper to keep everything safe. 

Guess I better concentrate on the Pineapple UFO and get it finished up.  Hey, maybe on my next blog post, I can show you a finished 2 year pineapple quilt.

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Design Wall Mondy 7/1/13

I took a break from working on the Pineapple UFO and put this together last week.  It is a 'mini-mosaic' quilt.

Alex Anderson, of The Quilt Show, interviewed Paula Doyle  about her new book, and I found the process Paula Doyle has created, so amazing, I had to order her book.

I think the reason this caught my attention is becauseI haven't learned how to do paper piecing and this does not use that technique.  To end up with 1 inch squares on a completed mini quilt was so much fun.

 What do you think of my first attempt at Mini Mosaic Quilts? Oh, and my very first attempt at free motion quilting! (Notice there are no close ups of the quilting, there is a reason for that).

 

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