Holiday Quilting. Or Not.

Life got in the way over the past couple of months so I haven't actually completed anything since Halloween. My Halloween finish is a variation of a traditional 'Tree Everlasting' pattern in autumn colors. These are the leftovers from my McCord Vine UFO (UnFinished Object).



In the midst of finishing old projects earlier this year, I started a few new ones (and this is why I always have too many UFOs). I was skimming through Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns earlier this year and playing around in EQ7 to see how different patterns looked together when I designed this one. I call it 'Noughts and Crosses.'



I don't often use whites/creams as a background, but I did with in this one. I think the colors are unusual, but they work.



As a geologist, I suppose it was inevitable that I would eventually make a quilt in the traditional 'Rolling Stone' pattern.



I like the deep gray background and the color fade from yellow to orange to green in the blocks.



I had some leftover blocks that I didn't want to turn into another UFO, so they went on the back.



I pulled out a string quilting project to work on over the holidays. Maybe I can get a little momentum going. I set up an old black Singer 15-91 from 1951 in the cabinet that I painted last January; it is oiled up and ready to go.