The start of The Hobbit in Hoffman

 

I have posted photos of my 2013 Hoffman Challenge.

The Hobbit in Hoffman.

 

The post office misplaced the quilt but after a week it was delivered to Windsor Colorado. Now we wait to see if it excepted in this years challenge. It has been a fun quilt to do.

The Hobbit in Hoffman

For the Hoffman 2013 Challenge I went a new direction. I choose a book cover of a book I received as a gift in 1972. I always found this book cover to be interesting to me as it has a sun and a moon on it. So I decided I was going to do my interpretation of this picture. I would make the fabric work. Most of the fabric used is Hoffman. I cut the leaves to make the trees at the bottom. I twisted silk ribbon to make the tree trunks. I need to quilt it and add the embellishments. Beads, crystals dragon before it is finished. Then submit it and wait to see.

2012 Hoffman Challenge

My Hoffman Challenge was again selected to travel for the next year. This is my entry called Stained Glass Cathedral Windows.

Bird House's in Thimbleberries and reproductions

Another quilt I started in 2009 was Safe Haven from the Thimbleberries Big Block book. I made the quilt entirely from salesman samples. Small pieces from the books that the fabric sales people bring in to get a quilt shop to buy the fabric line. That was a challenge as I was quite limited to the amount of fabric I had. The largest piece was about 10 inch square. The only fabric I purchased was the border pieces to put the rows together. It is a row quilt with the birdhouse blocks running vertical. It still needs the borders and then needs to be quilted.

Trip around the world in batiks

I started a quilt in 2009 as I was teaching the class at Stitchin' Time. I completed the main part of the quilt and then put it in the cupboard. i got it out today as I wanted to measure the pieced part as I have started a new one for a June wedding. I decided to take some photos as I had no photos of it. Layla Em's cat always wants to get in the photo. There are 12 of my favorite batiks in this quilt top. I still need to put borders on it and want to place some applique in the lighter areas.

This years challenge is started

I have started my 2012 Hoffman Challenge this year. I felt the roses were way too big to use the fabric as my focal fabric. So I am using the print as my background fabric. Again I am doing cathedral windows as I love to sit and do the hand work. It's a great stress reliever. Here is a photo of the rectangles put together. Notice you can not see the whole large rose. I am just getting a broken pattern and the color. I love the colors as they were my wedding colors. I will be doing the center windows in a dark purple. After that I do not have a clue. The vision will come.......

Navy and Fushia Wedding Quilt

Well the wedding quilt is started. Cut the fabric last weekend. Today I did a marathon sew and all the strips are sewn together. Tomorrow I plan to cut the strips into the next strip set. Then begins the large job of pinning those strips into the actual pattern of the quilt.

Feels good to have it started!!!!