Wednesday 10 April 2013

Two WIPs!!

Whilst DH is at Pétanque tonight, I will be making the binding for this little beauty:



Grandma's 80th birthday quilt is nearly finished!

And then, if I'm not completely desirous of the idea of doing some much-needed ironing, I shall do a little bit more work on a Pants Bag I'm making for Kathleen over at Crabbit Quilter - Kathleen kindly gifted me a bag of pink scraps which I said I'd only accept if she let me make her a Pants Bag. I asked her about colours and she asked for 'jewel' colours which she defined as:

Really anything goes, its the tertiary colours I am really drawn to - you know those inbetween colours: bluey greens, reddish purples, greeny golds, the ones that look all mixed up and rich. Like Topaz, and Cranberry garnet, that's what I think of as jewel colours.

So, I looked at my stash last night and googled 'bluey green' and got (amongst other images) this:


Then I searched for 'blue jewel' and got this:


So, some fabric choosing and a little drawing:


And some paper piecing later (and, I won't lie, some unpicking!): 


I got to this:


Very excited am I :)

Linking up to Freshly Pieced - WIP Wednesday






7 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, LOVE the jewel you are making. It looks like an aquamarine! Can't wait to see the rest!

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  2. Grandma's quilt is lovely, and I can't wait to see the pants bag. Are you putting the jewel on it? That is really neat. I just have to ask - what is Pétanque?

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  3. How creative! That jewel looks great.....and, what IS pétanque?

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  4. Grandma's quilt is gorgeous. I love the border fabric. It sets the rest of the quilt off very nicely. I think she should love it!

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  5. Look at you, such talent. I love the jewel, it's priceless. Wow, just draw it and sew it. Beautiful.

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  6. Wow! That jewel is beautiful. Paper peicing is on my "list of learning".

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  7. both so pretty! Nice work on both of them.

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