Mosaics and other linky things

Pat Durbin, who makes those great mosaic quilts like the one above, has a book out: Mosaic Picture Quilts: Turn Favorite Photos into Stunning Quilts. I haven't had a chance to check the book out in person yet, but if she can show how she does her quilts, then it sounds like a great idea to me.




Also, here's Martingale's new release page - several of those sound interesting!


Upcoming quilt shows (I always wish I could go to more of these, but my travel budget is limited, and I think what with the trip to Vegas it's pretty much gone for a while.)


There's another Fab Shop Hop going on, which is a good thing - except they send out these weekly newsletters that annoy me. "Don't you just hate it when a friend tells you the ending to a movie you haven't seen yet?" they say. Yeah, like telling where the bunny is is the same as spoiling a book or a movie! It's enough to make me want to post a list of bunny locations. (Don't worry, I won't. I may be rebellious, but I'm also lazy.)

Purchases and projects

I went to Quilts by the Bay yesterday to get quilt show tickets and I escaped with only one piece of fabric - which is pretty amazing, really! - but I did get two books, since they had a bunch of That Patchwork Place books on a buy one, get one free sale. I only spent $40 altogether, which is cheap just for the two books, don't you think? Much less with a piece of fabric and a quilt show ticket, besides. The books I got were these: The Border Workbook: Easy Speed-Pieced & Foundation-Pieced Borders and Spellbinding Quilts: Wizards, Witches And Magical Characters. We'll see if I ever get around to using them; it's not like I really need any more projects. But I am always saying I am going to start putting more elaborate borders on some of my quilts - mine tend to be very basic - and heck, who knows when you're going to need a paper-pieced dragon? (That book in particular, I have been admiring for some time now.)

(More entry after the pictures!)






Speaking of projects... Now that I'm going to be able to quilt again in the foreseeable future, I've been assembling a list of the projects I already have going. I posted it over at Livejournal, and I don't mind sharing it with you guys too. (Although it's gotten kinda scarily long - and in fact has grown longer just since this morning!)

In no particular order:
1. unfinished community service quilt (just needs the quilting finished, and it's ready to go)
2. green triangle quilt - needs pinning and quilting
3. Ohio star sampler - 8 of 12 blocks done
4. Tutti Frutti quilt (from a kit that was given to me - good baby quilt)
5. and 6. Two, count 'em, two sets of swap blocks - need to be assembled and quilted (here's one of them - the other is fall colors) (and hmm, I suppose this really ought to be 5, 6 AND 7, since as you can see in the picture, I am intending to make two projects out of that one - but I'm not renumbering again, anyway!)
7. Poetry wallhanging I think the blocks are finished. The setting in that picture is probably not what I'm going to use, that was just how I was sticking them up on the wall as I went.
8. Indigo log cabin
9. The fabled pink quilt, which is only a pile of fabric right now - enough fabric for several quilts, actually. I think I may start out with triangles again on this one, and go from there. This pile of fabric probably has some Quilt Pink blocks in its future, too, although that's not what started it!
10. t-shirt quilt - also just a pile right now, so I need to start cutting the shirts apart and putting stabilizer on them, and then see where it stands
11. Frank Lloyd Wright wallhanging - my very oldest UFO

Also, decide what to do with...
- Mom's few UFOs - she only had a couple (she was big on finishing things)
- quilt top from my grandmother's house (I bet my grandmother didn't make it, but I have no idea who did!)
- Cuppaz blocks - I think I still have 20 or so, and I need to make something with the remaining ones
- crazy quilt blocks - I have 3, maybe make a 4th and then finish? or make a table runner or wallhanging with the 3?
- leftover green squares from triangle quilt - I have lots of these! And also some HSTs.

Altstadt (Old City)

Altstadt (Old City), originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Made by Karen Eckmeier; from the exhibit "Tactile Architecture" at the 2006 Houston International Quilt Festival.

(Click on the picture to see the bigger version - you can't tell too much from this small one!)

I was fascinated with this quilt when I saw it last fall (so much that I took two detail pictures: here and here) and just now I stumbled on Karen Eckmeier's website and learned that she has a book out, Happy Villages, which appears to show how to make a quilt like this one. I can't wait to get a look at the book!