Pets on Quilts!

It is once again time for the fabulous Pets on Quilts show hosted by Lilypad Quilting!

Not much quilting, blogging or photographing has gone on this year but I did get a chance to finish piecing my Quiltville mystery quilt, Allietare, this year.

Red insisted I enter his photo in the cats on quilts category and how could I resist? 

And my finished top.

Be sure to visit all of the beautiful entries at Lilypad Quilting.  

Thanks for visiting!

Cheers,

Debi

Marie Webster Mash-Up

Our quilt guild is having a show in July and of course there is a quilt show challenge.  The title of our show is "Quilts are Homemade" and we were required to put a house somewhere on our quilt.  We were also required to use homespun fabric somewhere in the quilt.  I wanted to do something that felt French-inspired and included cats!  

I searched for patterns and eventually decided on doing applique Iris' to represent the fleur-de-lis and landed on patterns by Marie Webster.  Her iris was perfect with a slight modification as I didn't want to spend forever appliqueing all those tiny bits and pieces.  My eyes and hands aren't what they used to be! 

My house is a free pattern from Le Rouvray and I modified it to suit my purposes too.  The homespun component is my roof--I might add that I really hate homespun so that alone was a challenge to include in any of my quilts.  The little window boxes were cut from fabric I purchased in Pairs last year.  I was thrilled to be able to use it on this project.  Of course there are cats in each window!

In the end I was quite pleased how the quilt turned out.  I did try a different approach to applique as I typically do a traditional needle turn technique where I baste all of the pieces beforehand but this time I tried back-basting and I really liked it!  I just may do a little more applique now.

Cheers!

Debi

Le Progres En Provence

During the holidays I tried to work on En Provence along with everyone else but you know how it goes.  My progress has been exceedingly slow and I was having a few issues with my color choice, which were the same as Bonnie's, and I realized I don't like yellow and green together--crazy!  Now if it is an appliqued flower or something along those lines I am just fine with it but for some reason in a pieced quilt it doesn't suit me.

After much thought and shuffling of fabrics I realized I needed to make En Provence my own and use the colors that work for me.  I swapped yellow for turquoise/aqua/teal and the green is now lime or some bright variation.  I am so happy with the results.  The colors remind me of Easy Street which I just love!

Here is a close up of my favorite part so far.  Hello Kitty!

I have decided to use my Eiffel Tower black and white fabric along with my magenta as a constant.  I know it isn't the south of France but I do love Paris and I have to include it.

Love to see some fabulous finished quilts along with other works in progress?  Then quickly click on En Provence, A Quiltville Mystery to see what everyone is up to.

By the way, I am absolutely loving all of the borders that folks are putting on their quilts.

Cheers!

Debi