Progress ...

The top section of the quilt is now nearly complete … since it's a 10th Anniversary present for a couple that will be celebrating their 11th Anniversary in October … I am a little behind.  I guess I've taken the attitude that if a wedding present can be delayed by a year …

You can see here what the overall quilt is meant to look like.  There were a couple of inspirations for this quilt.  The painting the couple have over the fireplace in their family room.  A quilt that I have admired and already made a quilt. 

The design was done on excel … it's funny.  I work in Marketing (the analytical side), but had some humor shared over the past couple of weeks as my creative partners in marketing all chuckled at the the thought that I could actually design something beautiful in excel ;-).

Spending the long weekend out at the cabin … and got a 6-mile journey in on our new kayaks.  This is a totally new sport for us and so far … we're having a ball … 

Today's 6-mile kayak journey on Hood Canal

Tuesday night's kayak & sunset on Puget Sound

If you can't tell … we're really enjoying the new boats!

Hope you're having a great weekend.

All the best

Lisa

Wedding quilt ...

First … my thanks to all of you who commented on the challenge with my niece's quilt … I love this quilting community … your heart and generosity is abundant in so many ways!  I was away at a wedding and didn't get a chance to say thanks to everyone personally … but I truly appreciate your thoughts … I have connected with her dad, and he is helping sort it all out.

And now … this week's wedding quilt ...

My husband picked this quilt out from my Pinterest page as the one that he thought would be best as a wedding present … and lo and behold, there was a great tutorial attached to it!  The inspiration quilt was made with 6 fabrics, I added 2 to make it 8 for mine, as I wanted a slightly larger quilt.

Like us, the happy couple own a home in Seattle and a cabin out on Hood Canal.  My color choices wrapped around what they experience outdoors … the sun, the trees and the sea (you can see all these colors in the photo of the wedding setting below).  I used strictly Kona solids for this … on the front they included:  Maize, Celery, Olive, Peridot, Spring, Seafoam, Sage, & Teal Blue.  Wish I could tell you what color I have used on the back … but it's not on my color chart and I cannot remember.

I tried a new quilting technique that I hadn't used before.  I loved the squares on this quilt by Katie at Sew Katie Did.  It came out pretty good considering that it was all done free-motion.

The wedding was this weekend up in Port Townsend, WA.  We had the opportunity to watch very special friends take their vows in what has to be one of the most idillic settings I have ever seen for a wedding.

We had a chance to be appreciative this weekend … appreciative that I live in one of the increasing number of states that are allowing all of it's residents to marry someone that they love and want to spend the rest of their lives with.

Hope you guys had amazing weekends as well!

All the best

Lisa

Quilting squares

So excited to be back from a few weeks of travel for business and getting back to my quilting!

This is a wedding present for a wedding this coming weekend …  yup … I have got some work to do!

I am so excited about trying the square quilting … haven't done it before, it's time consuming, but as someone who REALLY likes geometric, it is really within my wheelhouse and am happy I tried it on this.

I used this as my inspiration quilt -- AMAZING tutorial found there to help you with it … quick glimpse at what the quilt is …

Hopefully some time by this weekend to finish, wash and get some better pics!

Hope you having a great week!
Lisa