Moving forward

My Golden Strips quilt only has 5 more strips to go up

this should be all sewn tomorrow.

I'm still getting the hang of my new computer and all the gadgets,

 this photo was taken with my iPad and the light was not

very good, it's not coming up as rich a golden as it truly is.

You all know how much I love the Kaffe Fassett Collective fabrics,

one of the reason I enjoy working with strips from these guys

is the serendipity which can come from randomly sewing the strips, check out 

Shoal on the left hand side with a strip of Pastel Brocade next to it,

I love the way we almost have a secondary pattern where the centre of the 

Brocade flower meets up with the top of one of the fish - not cut and matched I have to say.

I had a new book arrive yesterday, I missed out on this at the first printing

and they went to a second print

and I'm looking forward to some practice over the next week.

Another project for next week is to gather my scraps from Gypsy Wife

and join in September with Ann  at Fret Not Yourself blog,

Ann thought it would be a good idea to make scrappy butterfly
blocks, I'm joining in with her 'cos there's
 no shortage of scraps at my place!!

I'm just going to post a photo of  lovely camellia -  Guilio Nuccio -
it's a practice run for adding text with a new editing system,
things may not work out too well on this first trial.
Here goes

well I can just about see the text bottom right,
a little more work needed methinks!

All for now, enjoy the rest of your week
and happy quilting.

Kaleidoscope and Butterflies

This is the first link up with
Ann at Fret Not Yourself
and
Cathy at Sane, Crazy, Crumbly Quilting
for
Kaleidoscopes and/or Butterflies

I've used four strips (cut 2") in this kaleidoscope, others I have made
have either used two strips or were similar to the one on my banner.
You can see I'm going with just one fabric for the corners in the current one
and the finished size of the block will be just under 12" - no thoughts
yet on how I will quilt this one.

current blocks on the design wall

favourite block so far

The one above is my present favourite, but you won't
find any butterfly fabric in any of these blocks although
 I'm using a piece as a backing for another quilt currently
under my machine for quilting

and I have another length exactly the same pattern
in a much brighter colour so you may see that particular fabric in
my next kaleidoscope.

No lovely photos of butterflies to show sadly but the monarchs are
already flitting around the plants in the garden so
hopefully I'll get a photo soon. In lieu of the butterflies here is
 one of my dinner plate sized dahlias blooming right now.

Heading over to the link now, please do go and visit !

Maureen