Gated Community Edging

 This is the edge of the Spoonflower fabric on the background fabric. I need to cover this edge to make it look better.

I am going to cover it with some lace trim. This is the trim I am going to use. It was white, but I used Tsukineko ink pens on it and gave it a multi-colored blue/green/whitish appearance. Next is sewing it down.

Flying Geese Quilt Guild Quilt Show

The Flying Geese Quilters Guild will be putting on a quilt show this weekend at the Soka University in Aliso Viejo. The quilt show runs on Saturday and Sunday from about 10 am to 4 pm-ish each day. This guild, which I am a proud member of, consistently puts on one of the best shows in Southern California. I have seen many of the quilts in the show and they are stunning. If you have a chance, this would be a good show to check out!

Boo Boo Pins

 I have started to do my machine quilting here on my Gated Community art quilt. You can see some red/orange yarn in a couple of spots. Those are "boo-boo pins". I learned this trick from Paula Reed. You tie some brightly colored yarn on a safety pin. If there is a spot you need to come back to and fix something, put a boo-boo pin there and return later. I use these all the time when I have to remember to do something somewhere on a quilt.

Gates - Just a Start

Quilts on the Wall is having a Challenge entitled "Gates". I have wanted to do a flamingo art quilt for a while, so I am going to use this as an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. I am going to have my Gate quilt be called "Gated Community" and incorporate a flamingo painting I did a few years ago.

Here is the start of the quilt. I took a photo of my painting and sent it off to Spoonflower to have it printed on fabric. Then I placed the Spoonflower fabric on the blue fabric. It's just a start at this point.

Cool Blue Vase Series No. 2 Close Up

 Here is a close up of the beading.

Here is a close up of the picture on the wall.

Cool Blue Vase No. 2

Here is the second "Cool Blue Vase" with the quilting done and beads added to the stems. The beads really help a lot when you see it in person.

I quilted a picture on the wall in the background, along with a swirling pattern on the wall.

Cool Blue Vase Series No. 2

This is the second in my "Cool Blue Vase" series. It is just at the beginning stages here. I am going to add beads to the stems and do some quilting on it. It looks bleak right now!