Manifest and more text and picture blocks

Today I would like to present Manifest!

In the beginning of April, my youngest daughter ask me if I could 'try to make a cute minimal wall hanging? Pleeaaaasssseeee?' She wants it for over her bed as 'a piece of you with me in San Antonio.' 

(She will be moving there this summer to finish her studies) 

She sent these as examples.

The bottom one is a mural done by an artist friend.

I thought that it would give me a good opportunity to use some of my natural dyed fabrics that I hand dyed last summer. So after pulling them out and searching for more inspiration, I came up with a plan. 

I used 5 of my hand dyed fabrics and some Kona cottons. The yellow in the sun was dyed with turmeric, the orange/red is dyed with madder root, the orange/brown is madder root with soda ash, the yellowish brown is avocado with iron and the gray is dyed with black beans. The blue Kona is Prussian, the gray is med gray and the borders are white. The piecing was a little tricky but I did it without much waste! The inverted V could be interpreted as a mountain or as shelter. 

The backing is a lovely yellow/orange from the Sunny Splash Collection my Lecien. The machine quilting is all straight stitched 1/2" apart except the gray which is 1/4". The finished size is 36" x 44".

I love this wallhanging (I love when I step out of my comfort zone and try/learn new challenges) 

and most importantly, so does my daughter! 

Thanks to my hubby for being the quilt holder!

I also worked on 2 more of my Quiet Play Pattern Club 2019 blocks...one text and one picture! Last post I asked for recommendations as to which color I should do the next text block in. Light pink was chosen so here it is! The word cut with the rainbow scissors picture block.  

Here are all the text blocks together so far!

Only one more to go! Which color next? Light blue or light purple? 

Make is dark purple

Here are most of the picture blocks.

I made one more that I used a light blue background because I used white for the cloud. I will either remake that block with a white background or chose a different block. Many bonus blocks were included in the pattern club.

Linking up to Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop?, Brag About Your Beauty, Peacock Party, Finished or Not Friday, Friday Foto Fun, and My Quilt Infatuation and UFO Busting 

What have you been working on?

What else I've been working on

May brought a new color for the Rainbow Scrap challenge and it is dark green!

I pulled out my green scrap and sorted through the darker green pieces. 

I made my grid on graph paper for this months block column of blocks.

5 months and 5 columns of colors!

I'm linking up to Scrap Happy Saturday over at So Scrappy. 

I also worked on another of my Quiet Play Pattern Club blocks from last year. 

Another word block:

Here are all the word blocks before I added this one.

I welcome any suggestions on the next color to use: light blue, light pink...?

Updates and a new block!

My youngest daughter's visit ended yesterday. We had a great time together! During her visit, she wanted to learn how to sew garments. She sent me some pictures of a couple of items she wanted to make. Although I haven't sewn many garments in recent memory

(with the exception of some diaper covers for my grandson), 

garments are what I made for many years before quilting. I searched for some patterns that I thought she would like and we settled on and ordered 2 patterns from Wiksten. They arrived on the day she arrived. We headed to JoAnn's for some garment fabrics. There we found fabric for her top and my coat. We cut her top out together and started sewing. She learned quickly.
The next day, we headed to Vogue Fabric (a big fabric warehouse/retail store close by). We spent quite a bit of time looking through many bolts of fabrics. We narrowed our choices and headed home. She got fabric for her jacket 

(and a bit more) and I got the lining fabric for my coat and another short jacket. 

We had successful days of sewing and she went home with sewing knowledge! 

On the left is her inspiration and the right is the one we made.

To add the quilting, we needed to changed the pattern to add a lining and we also slightly changed the sleeves.

I choose to make the oversized long coat. I will add some hand quilting.

My daughter wanted the short jacket and choose to use the same fabric (a light peach linen) for the main fabric and the lining. 

Left is her inspiration, right is her finished project!

Yay, for successful sewing projects!

On to quilting news!

I finished another block for the Quiet Play Pattern Club!

Another text block which I love. Isn't it cute!

Here are the 6 that I have finished so far.

I will be back soon with my next finish! 

I'm so excited to finally have a finish this summer!

Have You Joined the Club?

I had to share my newest blocks for the Quiet Play Pattern Club! This pattern club is the brainchild of Kristy over at Quiet Play. She loves rainbows and paper piecing. Every month she releases 3 blocks to club members that are, of coarse: paper pieced and rainbows. 

One word block, one picture block and a bonus block!

I have fallen a bit behind due to my schedule and other obligations but I love making these cute blocks. The May blocks are 2 of my favorites. 

(yes, there is a 3rd one but I haven't finished it yet)

So without further adieu...

The bee picture block

The word block!

Here, here, here are some of my previous blocks.

Go check out the club here!