Finish Friday: Cousin M's c4 quilt

Finished the top at least. Quilting for later.

Hopefully M likes it: simple and earthy.

WIP Wednesday: the one with cousin quilts

Current state of the C4 Quilt: Number Six - laid out and being sewn together.

I pulled out a lot of Tula Pink, because that actually had some lighter greens I could use with the Lizzy House. Still not perfectly shaded for each other but not terrible either.

I do feel like it needs a 'pop', but the quilt isn't for me, and I suspect Cousin Number Six doesn't need a pop. He's stable and steady and cool-headed, a bit like his dad.

Anyway, I could do five blocks a day + sew a row; I'm sure I could...

Speaking of Cousin Quilts: I may want to do Cousin Four ASAP since I'm hoping to make it to the UK in October and would make the effort to see him and his fiancee and maybe give them the quilt ahead of their marriage next year. I had a Boxes Of Colour design planned, but now I'm not so sure.

Complicated Half-Square Triangles?

Avant Garden: Turning Squares?

Split Squares?

IDK. Trying to decide is tricky. Although I do rather like the possibilities of the Complicated Half-Square Triangles, I'm going to need to make three of these kinds of quilts and so I don't want them to be too much work!

C4 Quilts: Number Six

Cousin Number 6's quilt is in progress! I finally decided to just bite the bullet and start.

Here's the colourway:

Here's the pattern so far - from this pattern by Mommy by day; Crafter by Night.

In black and white to get the values (have since shifted a few pieces around)

The many and complicated shades of green:

It's going quite a bit faster than I expected. If I did one row a day, I could finish the top by the end of the week...

"If? If is good...

His siblings will get the same pattern in a colourway appropriate to their personality. That's the idea anyway.

Cousin Quilts - the 2022 version

These have been on the to-do list for an AGE and a half. Four years, to be exact.

Time to get 'em done!

Quilts for cousins: masterplan post from 2018 (can be adjusted as needful)

Plan:

1. work with colourways for each cousin/group of cousins.
2. go with a simple quilt design, the same for each 'family' of cousins

I've incorporated the Cousin Quilts into my 2022 APQ WIP challenge.

Whether they get done? IDK. But I have a concrete colourway and plan for each of them, and we'll work it from there.

One unfortunate thing: the old colour scheme post for the C4 cousins no longer has the colour cards. So I've gone through the new cards and actually downloaded a bunch of them. However, they're all of a 'type' and while it kind of suits? I really wanted the more vivid colour combos. That said, a quick Flickr search of 'design seeds' shows promise.

Aha! Found some old design seeds and have begun curating my own collection!

M: climber, earth tones

P: gamer, bright vivids

C: photogapher, classy

P: lifestyle, bubbly

Midweek Mod Squad [WIP Wednesday]

Let's see how long this goes for! I'm going to try posting a 'state of the WIP' regularly, even if it's just to say 'didn't do a single thing this week'.

My main sewing group is the Sydney Mod Squad, a bunch of women in their 30s and 40s in the northern part of Sydney who've become friends over sewing and quilting. Currently, we're doing zoom sewing meetings because of social distancing, but we're still enjoying ourselves and welcome the chance to talk with each other while working on our projects all at the same time.

I have been rather remiss about posting for a while, and I have many many WIPs over the last few years, but the three relevant to the moment:

Penny Patch On The Roof #3
Half sewn together now, have to sew the other half.
The Restless Hands Of Sel
Another few for Column #1: blue-purpoe, purple, purple-pink.

Mum's Alison Glass Bag
Sew Sweetness' Clydebank Tote in Alison Glass.

Possibly with a leather bottom and some leather sides, because the AG isn't sufficient for the bag...I'm still thinking this one through. How to connect everything. What colour leather I should use. How to sew the leather without completely wrecking everything else...

I've just done some cleaning of my sewing room, and have realised just how much fabric I have, and how little of it I've used. I have a whole box for Heather Ross, Tula Pink, Kate Spain, and a half-a-box of Cotton+Steel, two boxes of leather, and innumerable fabrics that I bought for clothes, most of which are very impractical right now as the weather cools. Not to mention the many bags of scraps that I have lying around and which need dealing with.

2019 FAL: Q4 Finish "C4 Quilt"

Finish Along Q4 Goals

Another one of the original C4 Quilts done.



The only problem is that I've changed the requirement...

C4 Quilts: rejig

Trying to sort out Design Seed color palettes based off the solids that I have:

Steel - Deep Sepia
Slate - Periwinkle
Ash - Bone
Iron - Metal

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Cousin M: mid-thirties, adventurer, does a lot of rock-climbing. So I was thinking something that carries the idea of the mountains and the rocks and the wild.

Iron: Wander Tones




Cousin P: early-thirties, office professional, gamer-quiet. He and his gf are living in their grandparents' old house (heritage listed, the family can't sell it for love or money), and apparently they have whole gaming campaigns up on their living room wall.

Slate: Shuttered Hues




Cousin K: v early-thirties, professional photographer, stylish. She's always beautifully put together in a casually elegant way, and does

Steel: Color Shore



Alts:
Steel: Color View
Steel: Flora Tones


Cousin P: late-twenties, bubbly, fashionable

Ash: Urchin Pastels



Alt:
Ash: Mental Vacation

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Seriously, though, I'd forgotten how much fun it is to play with color boards!

First Monday Of The Month: October

Gee, I'm really terrible at this business of keeping up the blog. I missed August's first Monday so turned it into the last Monday, then I completely forgot about September!

Anyway, we're back. Hopefully to be a bit more productive these next three months; there are things which must be done!

1. Cousin Quilts - a change in direction

I was planning to gift a set of four penny patch quilts to a quartet of cousins. The cousins are all in their 30s, one is getting married at the end of this month. We're not hugely close - I think the affection is more on our side than on theirs.

However, this morning I thought about it and, looking at the design and fabric I've chosen - traditional in Traditional fabrics - I'm doubtful that that's going to be in their style.


It's a great pattern, maybe a bit busy with this fabric, just probably not everyone's thing.


Instead, I was thinking of something like The Flight Quilt (as rendered by Joanne's Design, although she indicates that she got the idea from a quilt that was labelled 'Simple' but didn't have any attribution to it). It can be done in a variety of colours and with either colours or a neutral as the background.


In Kona Solids, because I still have the better part of 200 FQs of Kona Solids and I'm pretty sure I can work out a way to use them like this.

I'd colour co-ordinate them according to the style of the cousin in question. M would be rich earth colours, P would be bright-saturateds, K would be stylish and elegant, and P would be pretty yet classic.

What am I going to do with the Penny Patches? Dunno. Thought I might give them to a friend's family, but...really not sure it's their style, either. I mean, they'd be happy with it anyway, but...hmf.

Oh well, more quilt tops at any rate.

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Otherwise, for Halloween I was planning to make curtain fronts for the lounge room and maybe the study using Tula Pink's De La Luna (which takes inspiration from the Día de Muertos celebration of Mexico), using the Penny Patch pattern again.

The major things vying for my attention right now though are: the garden, the fiction writing. Oh, and the cats.


But that's usual for cats.

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I should probably make an icon and a banner or something, shouldn't I?

2019 Q3 Finish: C4 Quilt #1

Finish Along Q3 Goals

I said I only finished one goal, but I finished a part of another.

Six: Cousin P's quilt

This is the first of the cousin quilts: grey and green with black highlights.



There's also pink and grey with dark blue highlights, orange and grey with green highlights, and grey and green with blue highlights. Still don't know who is getting which quilt yet. Don't even know if they like the style, so that might be a bit of a Russian roulette.

Still, one more quilt top done.

Quilts for cousins - 2018

Reference this post.

I finished a quilt for a cousin once-removed (my cousin 1E's son) having already gifted one to his sister last year (or the year before).

So the plan for next Christmas is to get quilts out to all my cousins.


Mountain Majesty
1E & Husband - Blue-Greys
2G - Golds-Blues

Boxes of Colour
Requires 1 jelly roll and a background solid
3N & Wife - scrappy colours and white
7M - blues-yellows and slate
8A - blues-purples and slate


Lattice Quilt
Requires a layer cake and a background solid
Use Rooftop Garden Collection
9M - Greys and Greens
10P - Greens and Purples
11K - Pinks, Golds, Greys
12P & b/f - Golds, Greys, Greens

Landlocked Sea Lovers
Dan - Blue and Yellow
Cam - Blue and Orange

That's 11 quilts, not counting the show quilts and all. But, no, I'm not being particularly ambitious this year...

At least I'm not doing this one, which was a commission quilt for a friend's daughter:

I've been very unproductive this year. I'll work on that next year...