Improvising Traditions Wedding Quilt

It is finally finished!  I finished the binding on this one last night.  

I can't wait to be able to gift it. 

 I blacked out the names of the bride and groom until they actually see this as they are on Facebook!  Two of the women I work with and I worked on this masterpiece. 

 I did the green, Judith the aqua and Robin the royal blue sections of the quilt.  

Kathy Koch did the amazing quilting job.  We loved it!  

You can't really see it in these photos but I put a small section of each color into the binding too.  

Well, maybe you can just make it out on the bottom right near the corner.

 You can see the organic line quilting better in this photo. 

I used a lime, aqua and royal for the backing.  

Three strips, horizontal across the back. 

 Kona Charcoal for the binding.

I made this improv fabric, framed label after hand embroidering the words.  That took a LONG time.

I am linking up to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Up Friday.

Have you finished up anything fun recently? 

 I hope you all are busy quilting but I bet a lot of you are getting ready for the back to school rush too. 

 Have a wonderful weekend! 

 We are heading to a wedding on Saturday for our niece. 

 I will get to gift her quilt tomorrow too.  

Photos of that will come next week, after it has been gifted too.

Have a great weekend!!!

~XOP~

Improvising Traditions and Autumn

Our collaborative quilt using the Improvising Traditions book has returned from the quilter.  

I had to square up the quilt, make the binding and then I sewed on.  

Now I need to turn it and hand sew it down. 

WIP that I hope to get the binding finished on soon so it can be gifted!

 As per usual my "helper" kitty was there.  

I hope the new owners find it as comfortable as Autumn does!

I love the organic line quilting that Kathy did on this one!

Not sure how I am going to get her off this quilt.

~XOP~

Improvising Traditions Quilt

I got together with some friends a couple of weekends ago to work on a quilt top for another friend.

Our homework was to each make a strip a la the quilt in Improvising Traditions. 

 Since the three of us work together we all brought our fabric and 

made selections for the sections each of us were going to sew.  

The three colors we chose were green, aqua and royal.  I got the green section.  

Here are some of my progress shots.  

Seems like my pieces got smaller as I went along.

Yay improv!

This is going to be a pretty large quilt and I could barely get a good photo of my strip!

This is all the strips laid out together.  So much prettier in person!  

With the three of us working all day we were able to get the gray background cut.  

Robin, a graphic artist, was in charge of figuring out how large we needed each element as we were enlarging the quilt to fit on a queen sized bed.  

She had cutting diagrams and everything!!  

We also got the entire top put together and the binding all made.  

We used the gray with a 2 inch "pop" of each color. 

 I went home and got the fabric together to make the back.  A strip of each color.

A finished top!!!

This is the same crew that worked on all those napkins!!!  

We all love how this came out and working together on a project.  

It was determined that we will do this quilt 3 more times with each of us making a strip for each quilt.  We will each end up with a quilt and will have strips made by our friends incorporated into it!!!  

We will all choose the colored strips we want too.

It was a fabulous day spent sewing with my friends.  

Robin's mom was able to join us too. 

 She is an artist and her work is fabulous.  She always enjoys spending time with us when we work.  Now that the work is over it's wine time!!!

Happy Quilting!

~XOP~