~Among Brenda's Quilts~

My Current Unfinished Object

This page is always changing, but it is updated haphazardly. I'm always working on something. These pictures are from one of my latest projects, in various stages of being finished, from design through chaos to a more finished piecing-together. Later it will need to have binding and quilting. Check back periodically to see my progress, other UFOs , WIPs, or check out some finished quilts, recent projects, or my own quilting designs.

I haven't updated this page in a while, I've been so busy with getting ready for the upcoming shows in Oregon and Vancouver. Frankly, I feel a bit scattered, but I've got a lot done. In Vancouver, I am expected to give a couple of 15-minute talks on why stores should stock my patterns. The tentative title of my talk - a rough draft of which you can see in this picture, under the patterns - is 'Patterns Done Right.'

The new pattern is my thirtieth! I call it The Bali Blossoms Quilt. This is a design I've had kicking around in the back of my mind for years, and I've finally done it. It uses an interesting 'yo-yo' technique for the flowers.

Finished another 'Raggy Baby' Quilt, and laid it out on the living room floor for binding and to take a picture of it. Harry found it right away.

I've been thinking about turning this page into a sort of blog so you can see not only what I'm working on now, but what I worked on in the past. What does anyone think about that? I'm ambivalent: I used to have a boss who, despite what wonderful accomplishments you did yesterday, always said, "What have you done for me today?" Now I'm my own boss, and I know what he meant!

In this photo, I'm putting the finishing touches here on another LimeTwist Bag; this one's being sent to the VSM show for March.

The little bag I was working on is finished (I called it a bag-ette), so now I can concentrate on other things.

I took February off from teaching so that I could hammer out a new quilt design that uses jelly rolls, those tightly wound thin strips of fabric with a common colour or theme. Harry also took Februrary off, since it was too cold for his usual hunting outside. He's going a little stir-crazy, actually. He circles the house, thinking that spring is just around the corner. That wouldn't be so bad, except its in-and-out all day long. And every time I open the door, and it's still cold - he acts like its my fault!

The new jellyroll design was written as I went, on an old computer that kept crashing. The frustration mounted. But I think its finally coming together at last, and now I've got another old computer in the basement with its own idiosyncrasies.

As for the quilt - its actually a design for two quilts in one. Its fairly simple, and I can see a lot of people might like to try something like this, to use up their stash and have some fun at the same time. Now its finished, you can have a look at it: I call it 'On a Roll.'

I'm using moda jelly rolls; each seems to come with about 40 different strips, each one 2 1/2" wide.