Pat's Creative Loft

Recently came across this Blue Lone Star Block. This block was developed to build skills   resulting in taking one of my online quilting class.  This lesson was my first encounter working with   60 degree angles and dreaded Y seams. I knew it would be a challenge and yet favoring the possiblity  with the idea of forming a star. Lately I have been exploring border ideas.  With desires to finish this blue star block into a quilt top. Today, I have added 2 borders which frame the star block & pictured below . HST borders HST Border with frame blue border The photo below is a preview of another star formed sometime ago.  This star is a center section of another class work quilt  I believe, called Summer Stars.  And one I plan to pull out of the bin  and revisit to work on that quilt top .

I paused in the sewing loft for a time. A dry spell came over me from my sewing routines and in turn an event of purging came forward. And speaking of purging, for me it can almost become a treasure hunt within the collections of items on hand & specially now as a Quilter now- a -days. I pulled my UFO bins out.You know, those places where " unfinished objects" rest. I've also been going through my files, photos & quilt journals to match some of those " objects" with the patterns and to rediscovering them. How I'm wishing to pick back up on some of those and soon. Since my quilting and sewing skills have likely advanced since the time many were first formed, I am to think it shall be good as to see just how far I have come since I first formed them with my quilting abilities. Below I've posted a few of my quilt journal photos and hope to continue more quick post of those blocks as I revisit them and locate more information to share. The b

My freemotion quilting has progressed & continued through the weekend. The white background section is completed and soon time to begin working on the color sections of this Rising Star Quilt.

Summer has suddenly appeared while spring just bounced away. And I have finally found my way busy in the sewing loft once again. My year goal venture has been to explore wholecloth quilting and in turn expand on my Freemotion Quilting techniques  That desire has brought me to produce another quilt top to freemotion away. The pattern is called   "Rising Star" which appeared in the AQ  American Quilter  September 2017 issue. I've rather found just how much I have enjoyed this process,  and to expand abilitites with a variety of techniques with Freemotion Quilting. Currently my fondnesses with stitched designs fall with paisleys, pebbles and sqwizzly line sets with my freemotion techniques. This has also encouraged consistency in my freemotion flow  and with time to loose myself in what I love.  Music  and freemotion quilting.  My pebbling and paisleys The quilting is coming along and the process pleasing. Tha

A Check Mark  Marking off one more quilt block design today  on my quilt bucket list.  This fan quilt consist of favorites  both country calico prints and colors.  Here's a peep before I begin to sandwich set to prep to quilting.  I'll try and post some links later  since today I am busy in the loft deciding on fabrics. Happy Quilting!