Liberated Serendipity

YAY - my finished quilt!  

Approximate size: 48" by 50"
I have entered it into my local guild's annual quilt show - Rising Star Quilt Guild in Lexington, MA - set for the weekend of October 13 and 14, 2012.  Thanks to the organizers of this round robin for the challenge, to Nancy S in joining me on this creative diversion, and thanks to everyone else for their encouragement!

I had so much fun playing with free motion quilting on the larger quilt, that I used similar techniques on this mini-quilt.  I will be donating it to the Guild to sell as part of their Mini-Quilt auction.  I laid the mini-quilt on the back of the larger quilt to get more contrast in the photo.  The mini-quilt is 12" square.

Serendipity in progress

I've had these blocks on my wall for over a week now, waiting to take a good picture.  Wish I had better light in my livingroom!

Anyway, I've made progress toward finishing the quilt top.  I need to trim these blocks and determine how many more I need to make, then sew them together.  I won't make the deadline for Finishing the quilt, but I will finish it.  I like it!

Adding color

I shouldn't be intimidated by this project but I am.  It took me three weeks to get up the courage to try this next step.  Sheesh!  I'm pleased to say that I'm happy with the results!

Round two - made fabric ready to go

It doesn't look very exciting but progress has been made.

my first post - wish me luck!

I've started my center block for this fun project. This is my first posting so forgive me if this posting looks wonky! I started with a LARGE block that I picked up from my quilt guild's "free" table.

I trimmed it down to reduce the amount of white space and added in some batik strips.

Here's the finished block

and here's the pile of bright colored strips I plan on incorporating into the design.

I got a little sidetracked playing with some of the fabric. Maybe I'll get to use them for the next step!