Friday Night Sew In - Summer Wall Hanging Progress

What do I do on a Friday night - I sew whilst my husband is out with his brother and Dad at a Movie (that I really wanted to see...but oh well, pity party is over - we can rent it when it comes out, I was really bummed that I missed out on the movie theatre popcorn!) and attempt to make some progress on my Summer Wall Hanging.

I'm having mixed feelings about this one so far.....its cute, but I'm not sure if its big enough, if Its got enough contrast, how I'm going to finish the top, what boarders I should do....and the list goes on!  I think it needs to get put away for a little bit and then I can ponder (or maybe make one more row of pinwheels and solid blocks?!?!)  what to do with it after I've had a few days away from it.

I started the day with these made:

Then I cut my solid squares, squared them all up and started to assemble them into the quilt top.

The finished top, I like it but I still feel like its missing something....not sure what but I'm just not 100% happy with it.

I was trying to figure out what boarder to use, the white is a nice contrast but the red is nice and bold - but there is no definition between the quilt top and the boarder.

I think I like the white boarder with red binding - that way they both stand out and there is still that awesome pop of color.  Still - something is off....

AHA!  Its amazing what happens when you are trying to clean up and write a blog post at the same time - INSPIRATION!!  I found two extra pinwheels hiding under my cutting mat and I realized if I took the two pinwheels and three solid squares I had enough for one more row....and I think it was exactly what the quilt top needed!!

If I couple that with the white boarder (still not sure how big that is going to be - maybe 1/2 the width of  a row?)  and then do the red binding it will be pretty cute.

Its not going to be very big (how big does it have to be to be classified as a 'wall hanging' and not a really big placemat?!!?!) but I think it will be something like 20x24 inches which seems to be a pretty good size.

Its amazing how I can go from not really digging this quilt at the beginning of this post and before I started cleaning up to quite liking it 30 minutes later.  Its funny how a combination of being over tired and cleaning can clear things up!

Now its time to finish cleaning up and maybe I'll attack this quilt tomorrow or maybe I'll give the Crazy Cat Quilt some love since its been neglected for a few weeks after some serious progress!

The Happy Summer Wall Hanging

So I managed to make a little bit of progress with the Happy Summer Wall Hanging yesterday - its still a work in progress since I've changed the design three or four times already and I'm sure I will a few more times before I finally finish it.

Originally I thought it would be cute to just do random traingle-squares and have a central square pattern to anchor the wall hanging together but the more I used the Accuquilt to cut my triangles the more I realized that I could make some cute pinwheels so I could have some sort of a pattern to make the piece  a little more cohesive.

I only managed to get four of the ten pinwheels put together before I got frustrated from sewing the wrong squares together and needed to put it away before I got angry and did some damage with my seam ripper!

I'm still not sure how big its going to be or what other twists and turns it might take over the period of time it takes for me to finish it - until then its just cute and all the bright colors are making me pretty happy on this gloomy Thursday!!

A Happy Summer Wall Hanging

After rummaging through my scrap bin last night trying to figure out what I can make without running to the store (which I can't do!) to grab either some elastic for a skirt, background fabric for a few quilts I'd like to start, buttons for embellishments...... the list could go on.  I stumbled across my leftover Oh Cherry Oh Jelly Roll fabric and had a lightbulb moment!  I realized that if I put a strip of the jelly roll on my Accuquilt Go triangle die it just fits and I don't have any extra cutting to do!  Pure Awesomeness!

I think I'm going to attempt to make a little summer wall hanging using a Ohio Star-type design but for the most part I'm just going to wing it and see how it goes!  ;)  Probably not the best course of action but I'm feeling a little rebellious lately and I am going to attempt a few things that I've never tried before on this little wall hanging to mix things up!

There are 14 different fabrics that I will be mixing up to make different squares - super cute fabrics!!

The red flower fabric on the right is going to be the 'filler' between the triangle-squares.

Time to get sewing before the girlies get home from Grandmas house in an hour or so!!