I wish I was a faster knitter. I wanted to make more scarves but am too slow. I was able to finish three cowls and two scarves and made a few journal covers. I’m sure they will appreciate that I tried.
I really loved this Deco quilt pattern by Brittany Lloyd, but agonized over the colors. I finally decided on colors and then messed up while cutting and decided to try two different color schemes and made one for my daughter and one for myself.
. This is the throw size 56″x68″. I really like the black with the green and blue as it makes the colors pop.
. This is my own creation. I had thought I was doing what I originally planned above but cut the gray instead of black, so I decided to just go with it and made a small quilt for Raven. I added it to this post so you could see the different use of color. It is the same base colors as above but with gray instead of black. It looks so different this way. The quilting on this one is amazing. I love how she did it. My quilter is Tina Katwal from The Square Inch in Chennai, India.
My helper: Raven really wanted to help me take a picture, so I just had to put it in this post.
When I started to do the blocks from “Tula Pink’s 100 Modern Quilt Blocks“, I soon realized that I wanted to try it with three different types of fabric . I wanted to do one with Tula’s fabric, one with regular quilting fabric, and one with batik. It was a grand idea that took me a very long time as I don’t have loads of time to quilt in between parenting a toddler and working a full time job. However, I really enjoyed picking the fabrics and making the different blocks. I’m a sucker for a sampler! I got about 3/4 done and realized that I need more red, orange, and yellow in the regular and batik fabrics. I definitely tend to buy loads of green and blue and shy away from those colors. After spending a summer focusing on expanding my fabric collection with all colors, I was finally finished with my blocks and ready to put them together and that’s when I hit a wall. I didn’t know what to do. If you do all 100 blocks you have a huge square quilt. I also didn’t like all my blocks, so should I ditch some?
In the end, this is what I decided.
I just posted a new pattern on Etsy. Check it out: Diamond Panes. It’s a beginner quilt pattern and has many color possibilities.
I used Christmas fabric, but it can be made with anything. The possibilities are endless.
Tula Nova Update
I finally moved past my indecision and have gotten this far in the project. So far I’m pretty happy with it. I do wonder about the lighter/whitish fairy dust fabric, but it will make the different rows pop out.
I love love love Guicy Guice’s Deco Glo line of fabric. I wish I’d bought at least two yards of each, but alas, many of the fabrics in the line are sold out.
I’m not sure what possessed me to use this directional fabric in this pattern. I just loved the fabric and the pattern from the book “Barn Star Sampler” 
and decided to mix deco with traditional. It has made this project very time consuming and has wasted some of the fabric due to trying to match up the directional fabric. In the end I think I will love it, but while I’m working on it I’m not. I’m also sad that after this project my fabric will be all gone. Maybe I’ll stalk the internet again looking for more!
I have finally gotten back to my Tula Nova hand sewing. I absolutely love what I have so far and that’s the problem. I love it so much that I don’t want to “ruin” it by making a bad fabric choice. I also really hate cutting my Tula fabric because I can’t get more of some of the older prints. Which has left me paralysed to make a decision. Every been there?
My daughter is often shy, especially around new people. However, if you take her into a fabric shop, she’s a totally different person. She runs around grabbing things she likes and carrying them around. Even as young as two she would pull bolts off the display and try to carry them. She also loves to crawl/run into my sewing room and pull the fabric off my bottom shelves. I can’t wait until she can quilt with me. She already likes to climb on my lap and try to “help” me sew.
Check out this video
And this one!
I finally finished piecing this. It was very challenging to figure out. For some parts I just couldn’t get my ratios correct and choosing to round the corners made remembering which piece went where very important and tedious. I also reached the bottom and realized that I might run out of the blue I chose. Which wouldn’t be a problem if I lived in the US, but I had bought this two summers ago and I live in India. Below you can see just how little I have left.
Now I need to get it quilted and take the time to write up the pattern. I’m overwhelmed thinking of writing up this pattern. There are so many different cuts and I’m nervous about how to make it understandable. I’ll keep my fingers crossed!
Oh, how I love blues and greens. This pattern was really simple. I just made 5 inch squares and turned them so they were diamonds. It made the edges more complicated than if I’d just done regular rows but not much. The fabric is really soft. I bought some one year and then found more this year in Spokane, WA. It’s silly how much I love this quilt!