Once again my "Wheel" is on the design wall.

Last time I worked on this quilt was in September,.2010. You will see why one should not take this long to finish a quilt!

This wheel started out from the leftover wedges from another quilt. There is a big hole in the middle that needs to be covered!

I had added some confetti and some strips to finish the quilt as a wall hanging in Sep. 2010.

And now more than a year later, with more scraps added to it, I feel that it lost it's boldness.

Should I add more of those bold strips to it?  This image is very close to how all the pieces fit into each other. I am open to any and all suggestions.

Improvisational Scrap Quilting Workshop

Buffy and I led a workshop yesterday for our local quilting guild. Ten talented and enthusiastic souls showed up with their scraps. We gave them 20 minutes to make each block, with Buffy's advice, "Don't think. Sew!" Look what they made in the first hour! We couldn't get it all in one photo.




Buffy added the dark and light strips, with Anna Williams inspiration. Aren't these gals amazing!

Anna Williams meets Annie Mae Young!

  On my design wall.

Honestly, If I was working like I did for past few days, I would have finished this top. But, I put the blocks on the design wall and it stirred up my brain. Should I blend them or not?

That is the million dollar question.

What do you think?

Organized Chaos

 This is one of my quilts I can honestly label as scrap quilt. All of the pieces were from one or the other previous quilts. Mostly  two to four and a half inch pieces.

The crazy kaleidoscope pattern was born from not wanting to buy new fabrics!

Each block has different combination of scraps and there are no repeats.. I think!

As I was making this quilt i had discovered that by placing the corner pieces strategically I could have what I call sparks in the pattern. There are total nine of them.  

I think there is enough spark and craziness int his quilt that would make me go blind if I look at it for too long!

 This would be my somewhat Anna Williams inspired quilt.

Here is one that was made from one of Kaffe's books.

  and the close up of that quilt.