Winter Wonderland Mystery Quilt 2010

This was our mystery quilt class for November and December. Can you see the ear muffs on one of the appliquéd snowmen?!!

We had 2 crazy patch pine trees and 2 'braided' pine trees all done as foundation piecing.

Two different 'snowflake' blocks and the 'Pineapple' variation in the centre.

I plan to add Prairie points, in various greens, around the outside instead of binding as I usually would. I thought that they would look like more trees, in keeping with the winter theme.

I chose a wintry background fabric (with crazy cats skiing) to keep the quilt current after the Christmas season.

Some of the other quilters chose brilliant red background or splash in your face blues which really brought out the snowflake blocks and showed off the greenery very well.

New Apple Tree

Well, I re-did the apple tree for the Fall Class Wall Hanging. I was not happy with the first one.

What do you think?

I think this apple tree is less colour chaotic with two greens and two reds in the tree instead of a mix of lots of scraps. And I prefer this clean blue background.

Having the challenge of re-designing and getting the whole wall hanging to make sense gives me a thrill.

I can always improve! Seems to be my motto.

Originally I was going to put a bushel basket with appliquéd apples around it on the bottom right under the tree, but I'm re-thinking that area.

How about a log cabin type of house?

Hmmm. I'll need to make a sample, to see if a log cabin house will dimensionally be balanced and complimentary to the overall 'look'.

I couldn't come up with a satisfactory foundation block of flying crows. It just won't work at all. I really want some crows flying over the scarecrow to give motion to the whole look. Probably I'm going to do a 'puzzle block' that will look like crows flying.

Cosmo Quilt Flying Geese

So far we've done the 3D Cosmo flower centre block, 'bricks' and 'yo yo's', strips and posts, and now we are doing the Flying Geese.

This is a Foundation Piecing technique for our project. You do not have to do all Flying Geese as Foundation Piecing, but we like it. With this technique, your points are always sharp and your 'Geese' stay in formation!

In this case, my 'Geese' are various colours with the background a solid white.