Snow Day!

Any Way You Slice It with Chicopee and some Hope Valley

Yeah!  We are having a snow day!  That means catching up on reports and drinking lots of hot tea, thinking about my project I get to work on when I finish this report!  But first, a few updates!  I finished Any Way You Slice It by Denyse Schmidt using DS Chicopee with some coordinating Fats and some old Hope Valley for filler.  I had it in mind for a male.  But the challenge was to find masculine looking fabrics and a cool modern pattern.  I thought maybe this might do the trick, but Aretha was not so sure!  So she consulted Steve, the boyfriend/consultant on all things male and he gave it the thumbs up.  He said that the 'cool' factor made up for some of the flowers and pinks.  He also said that he was impressed by the randomness of the pattern and declared that a computer programmed to randomize could not have done a better job!  So thank you, Steve!  But I still wonder if I should do something in solids for a guy.


Now onto my latest project which is a baby quilt made with Aneela Hoey's Little Apples line.  I have been reading Liberated Quiltmaking II by Gwen Martson which I highly recommend.  She helps rule-following, conventional types like to become brave enough to walk on the wonky side.  So, with her help and inspiration, I made my first wonky log cabin.  And here it is:

Making the squares was so much fun!  I just love the way Aneela Hoey captures the joy of play in childhood!  I am putting this quilt in my Etsy shop for sale.  The back is grey and red-very much unisex!

I am on a mission to use up my scraps inspired by Sunday Morning Quilts by Nyberg and Arkison.  I had lots of left overs from making two Tiny Turning Twenty Quilts with Sarah Jane's line, Children at Play.  And I have enough left overs to make a smaller Any Way You Slice It, baby size quilt.  With the NHL out of their lock out and back on the ice, I barely get to see Fred who is so happy to be watching the Rangers and the Bean Pot and Middlebury and UVM!  So I am happily sewing away!