Finished Friday!

I finished the binding that I talked about last week! Such a great feeling to have another completed project! This was a QAL by Ladybug quilts. Autumn Friends.

Autumn Friends

Monday I was reading some of the linky party blogs. Always a lot of great quilts and inspiration! I found two blogs that highlighted designs that I had made years ago. In fact, both of those quilts are on my bed right now. We are at the 3 quilts part of the season. I have a bottom quilt, bedspread quilt for pretty and then a top quilt folded at the foot of the bed so it is easy to pull up. My bedspread right now is the quilt I highlighted last week.

Bull's Eye

The bottom quilt is my version of Bull's Eye. I saw a similar project on Beth's blog, Love, Laugh Quilt!  I used a slightly different technique, I did QAYG instead of making a top and then quilting it. I used plaids for the centers and outside rings. Then used a great variety of lights for the center ring and backgrounds. It has a serpentine border using the quarter blocks. Beth's quilt is much brighter and so cheerful! 

Hourglass

And my top quilt is an hourglass that I made years ago. Well, actually both of these quilts were made in the late 90's. The hourglass I made in a class with Barbara Peterson at Gentler Times. It was a fun class! A friend took it with me. We were having so much fun that twice I had run out of bobbin and didn't notice! Both times I had run at least a dozen sets of squares through the machine before noticing. I found this project on Deb's blog, A Scrappy Quilter. I love the way she is using two colors to add more design features to the quilt. I used a color scheme of browns, golds, and oranges. With tons of different lights for the backgrounds.

I love the way simple designs can result in such a variety of interpretations. So may ways to use a quarter square triangle. So many ways to use color, value and block placement to alter the look of the basic unit.

It was fun to find other quilts using the same basic design out in the wild of blogland. Totally worth checking out as many blogs as you have time for when the linkys show up every week.

 I also finished a hat for my granddaughter's birthday. I am a bit late with the hat, but I was working on it at her house and so she knows it is for her. She loves green!  The pattern is Da Crofters Kep by Wilma Malcomson. This is the second hat I have knit with this pattern. Link to my Rav project page.

And my pretty photograph for the post. We went on an OHV ride with some friends. This area is just north of Coral Pink Sand Dunes and just outside of Zion National Park. We stopped for lunch here at this rock.

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