Hawaii

My husband had to go to Hawaii for work.  So of course I took the opportunity to go down and visit him!
 

He found a fabric store! So I had to get some fabric!! 

Look at all those rolls of fabric!! 60 yards on one of those!! So much more than the 8 yards on bolts here on the mainland.

They also had some on bolts.  It was such a cool store, I wanted to buy SO much fabric.  But I managed to control myself.

Christine, my quilting buddy and I decided to buy some of the same fabrics.  And we are going to make it like a challenge quilt, we can add 1 yard of fabric, and then we will see what the quilt turns out like! We want to have them done by Thanksgiving.

I have an idea of what I would like to do for this quilt.  But you will have to wait to see it :)

I want to make a quilt with these, we will see the design I come up with.

And this one is for hubby & I  have NO clue what design I will do, but I should have enough for a full quilt!

Chevron quilt

I had cut out enough to make plenty of chevrons!  But if I kept adding to the bottom it was going to be the longest quilt in the world.  It did need to be a little wider, so I added a border to the sides, that I did not add to the top and bottom.

The only thing I might have done different was added one more row to the bottom so it wasn't pink on pink.  But not much I can do about it now.

I don't know what to do about the back now.  I had originally thought about using some of the chevrons on the back, but I don't have enough of the other fabrics.  And I don't have an issue doing a scrappy back, BUT it's not just by colors, it won't match the colors I have used in this quilt.

Kite blocks

I am a teacher, and we are now taking a break from school.  We will still be doing online learning, but no more going into work.  I decided to use some of my time to do some sewing.  (Still getting my classroom work done, no worries, I am good at multi-tasking.)

I have been cutting out kite blocks.  And I needed something mindless to sew because I had been working on a commissioned project, and I was having some issues.

Here is one layout.  They kind of look like rain drops!

I think this might be my favorite layout. It kind of reminds me of the periwinkle (or hummingbird) quilt that my great grandma made.

I thought this layout was fun.  We will see which one I end up doing, I don't have much done, so I don't expect this quilt to be finished anytime soon.

Kite Block

I decided to buy the kit block to cut out with my accuquilt.  I thought it would be a good stash buster, because I can do light/darks, or by color.

I cut some out, and couldn't decide if I wanted to make sure all the background were all different or

If I would make each background different.  I don't have much cut yet, but I think I am going to go with a scrappy background but keep two of each color in the blocks (maybe)!

Churn dash quilt

Well I finished the blocks I needed for my churn dash quilt.  But I felt like it needed something, there was only one yellow block.  So it felt, I don't know, kind of "heavy".

So I made two more yellow blocks, another pink, and a purple.  But now I am not happy with the size, it's SO much longer.

So I think I am going to do something I have never done, I am going to make it square, currently it's 6 blocks by 4 blocks, I am going to make it 5 by 5, which means I need one more block, but I think I will enjoy the size quite a bit more.

I am excited to finish this quilt! I have had it too long! (I started it in 2014!)  That's one of the good things about cleaning and organizing my sewing room, I am able to get to some of these projects that have been hiding.

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