Scrap HSTs

I somehow hurt my knee over the weekend.  Don't ask me how, but I can barely bend it, so I am having trouble getting up out of a chair and stairs are impossible.  I cannot get downstairs to do laundry or get at my longarm.  I just need to quilt the feathers in the centre of the piece and I can't get down to do it.  I have traced the design on tracing paper for all four sections and I hope to follow them on the squares.  I am not confident enough to freehand them because I want them to be the same.  One day I will win the lottery and purchase a Statler or one of the other computerized systems, but right now it is just me. 

So the whole point of this post is to show the picture of the bonus hst's that I am squaring up to use in a project.  These units were from the Maple Leaf quilt that I pieced many years ago.  It is still downstairs waiting for me to quilt it.  I made it king sized because my plan was to use it over our twin beds so it looked like a king but since we don't have both beds in the same room any more I may re-size it or quilt it for the kids.  Most likely I will give it to the kids. (who are enjoying the warm Florida weather right now)

I received my copy of Bonnie Hunter's new book on Tuesday and there is a pattern for a quilt that I may make using these squares.  Her quilt is called 'Holy Toledo' and it is similar to 'Lady of the Lake'.   I will play around and see if the units will work.  Quite a few of the units are not light/dark so it may look like mud.  I will see.

There is also a pattern in her book called 'Tumalo Trail' which I really like as well.  I do have a pile of nine-patches using 1 1/2 inch squares that I could use in it.  I will also have to change the name of the quilt to 'Tu-Pelo Trail'. LOL.

Here is a picture of my sweetie wondering what he did.

Isn't he gorgeous.  He is very camera shy and it is hard to get a proper picture of him.

I am off to hobble around the house again.

Happy Quilting,
Lynne

RRCB pictures

Here are two pictures of my Roll Roll Cotton Boll quilt.  The colours do not look great in the pictures.  My pinks look orange.  I am taking a digital photography course from Continuing Education and the instructor informed us that we could change the settings to get a better picture than the default settings.  Who knew.  I guess one should read the instruction manual.  I am going to play with the camera and try to take some better pictures of the quilt, probably once it is quilted.  I am so excited that I finally took the time to play around with the camera and downloaded all of the pictures on the disk.  There are some pictures of the Terry Fox t-shirt quilt I made for the charity run and one of feathers I did on a customer quilt.  I will post them another time. 

I think now that I know how to download pictures and am not afraid of doing it anymore, I will take pictures of all of my work and post it.

I am off to have a coffee then downstairs to the longarm to quilt my wall hanging.  Pictures to follow as well.

Happy Quilting,
Lynne