I’ve had Tricia Yearwood’s “Livin’ on the Wrong Side of Memphis” playing through my head through the past few days!However, Nashville is on the RIGHT SIDE!
What’s not to like about Nashville, TN in the spring?
Three workshops and a Lecture/Trunk Show!
Time to explore and find antique malls and quilt shops?
Reconnect with some ladies I haven’t seen in several years!
The only thing dragging me down is that my flight is wheels up at 6:53AM this morning ---so you guessed it – this post is being written ahead so I don’t have to deal with it when the alarm goes off at 4am.
Some sewing did get accomplished on a very quiet Easter Afternoon ---
I sewed a spring green binding on a very pink Atlas machine, circa 1958!
Doesn’t this shout SPRING to you?
Bright green binding on an indigo blue border? You bet!
I can’t show you the whole project because there are magazine and book plans for this one in the future –but I’ve been working with these colors for the past 6 months or so, building this quilt as leaders and enders while working on everything else as always – just working here and there a bit at a time. This is a project that has packed easily in my suitcase. Up until now!
I have a “generic” walking foot on the pink Atlas machine….and needing a 1/4” binding and finding the foot too wide to use the edge of the foot as my guide, I screwed on another little vintage goodie that came in a random box of machine feet – it’s a curved seam guide that drops down in FRONT of the foot so I can set it where I need to go!
I've found sometimes when putting on a binding that the sticky guide is not high enough to use as a fence when the quilt is thicker than the guide. I still like the sticky guide for every day all purpose piecing..but for binding and using a walking foot, this is my alternative!
Loving the 1940’s looking backing fabric!
Guess what finally showed up on my doorstep? The latest Quiltmaker May/June issue with Wild & Goosey & Part II of the Lazy Sunday Mystery in it!!
Do you see a similarity between the colors on the cover – and the snips of my quilt above?
Sometimes –the color goddesses are in synch!
Let’s have a Give-Away!
Tell me what color combos you are working with right now!
I’ll be home Friday and we will draw a winner for one copy of Quiltmaker Magazine's May/June issue on Friday Evening ---
Catch you from Nashville!
Orange and Pinks..........grin.
ReplyDeleteRight now I am working on a pattern for BLACKS AND WHITES...I have it narrowed down to 3...........not wo choose
ReplyDeleteI love that spring green and navy! Right now I don't have any spring green out though. I've been working with peach and red and white on one project and blue and white on another project. And dull dull dull earth tones for a quilt for my son. :) But then it's a bright, almost neon, scrappy trips around the world! I've been using that as incentive to get the dull ones off the table in a hurry!
ReplyDeletePretty and funky pink,orange, purple and a riot of other bright colours that I hope will suit a teenage girl!
ReplyDeleteTurquoise-orange-lime-white scrappy quilt. -- soparkaveataoldotcom
ReplyDeleteI'm working with 30's prints, mostly pastels and white. Lovely spring colors.
ReplyDeleteHi Bonnie...I'm working on Thimbleberries Club in blue with plum and biege. Of course I can't forget about the leaders and enders project that is in whatever color comes out of the bag next...Thanks for that idea...lol
ReplyDeleteWorking with mustard, navy, wine & dark green right now- some of my favorite colors!
ReplyDeleteA few! lights and darks in browns. Brights finished off with white.
ReplyDeleteTook 3 UFS BOMs to DDs last week when pet sitting. Only got the one moved toward finishing. I'm on block 11 of 12 now and trying to finish it up before moving on to something else. Colors? Dusty Rose and Cream background. Yes, it's a yrs. old BOM and I had not even started it. I like the colors. I can't remember where or when I got it. Perhaps in the 90's?
ReplyDeleteI am working on brights and whites for one quilt, and green, aqua and tangerine for another.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on Easy Street in your colors, had to wait for a friend to mail me some more black & white prints and trying also to finish up Thimbleberries Safe Haven that's in browns, reds, greens and blues. Thanks for the chance to win, subscribed, but have not rec'd any issues yet!!!!
ReplyDeleteRight now I am working on a scrappy baby quilt with left over brights of all colors!
ReplyDeleteLove that pink machine! Awesome! I am working with my usual palette...reds, greens, blues and tans...my favorites!
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a springy pastel twin quilt-yellow and purple and pink.
ReplyDeleteLime green, light gray, black, white!
ReplyDeleteI love a blue and white combo. Not working on anything right now, i'm packing for our move to Sweden the 1st of May. And after the move I first want to finish Easy Street which is still just units.
ReplyDeleteright now I'm working on a strippy quilt with cheddar, blues and browns with a little cream thrown in!
ReplyDeleteWEll I decided to make your " My blue Heaven" so I am working with lots of beautiful blues and noticible neutrals. I think that I am loving this quilt so far. Wish i could figure out how to post a pic here
ReplyDeleteI'm using a lot of primary colors right now. I'm making floor quilts for my 2 newest members of the family. A granddaughter and a great granddaughter! Also using a lot of pastels too.
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I'm working with a variety of colors because I'm working on another scrappy quilt, using some lights and darks.
ReplyDeleteright now I'm working on a black and white with turquoise accents
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm working on a quilt for Quilts of Honor so it's red, white and blue.
ReplyDeleteI'm currently working on 3 quilt tops! One has reds, whites and blues and "firefighter" fabrics; second one has grays, greens, blues, for my 3rd grandson, due to arrive in early June!; in the third one I have Alison Glass' fabric collection of "Lucky Penny" shades of grays, browns greens, dark pink and dark peaches!
ReplyDeleteI am working with blue and yellow, which are my favourite colours, for a Christmas gift for a friend.
ReplyDeleteright now I am working on diamonds set together in a starburst pattern 3 shades of yellow in the center 3 shades of green then 3 shades of red. Its all using paper diamonds like with hexagons. I'm just trying to turn it from circular to rectangular now.
ReplyDeleteRight now I am working with Purple, Turquoise, and black on white, I am working on your Easy Street Quilt for my daughters bed. She loves purple and blue. She picked out the colors.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that my post is published not sure what i am doing wrong but my colors are the blue and neutrals since I am working on "My Blue Heaven"
ReplyDeleteWorking with yellow, gold, black, and white. Georgia Tech fabric for a GT quilt for a nephew.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on TWO different scrappy quilts right now. Oh, and a scrappy baby quilt and a red, green and cream scrappy hexie project. Bonnie, you've turned me into a scrappy addict!
ReplyDeleteI love Nashville! Lived south of Nash. for 12 years and west of it for 4 years. Enjoy, and hope the weather is lovely for you. I just finished 72 scrappy 12-patch blox, stacked in their appointed rows just waiting to be sewn together....and ready to cut my "Nancy Drew" fabric...so I'd have to say I'm "un-customarily" working with mostly bright primary colors. TIA! B-)
ReplyDeleteI'm making a wallhaning out of florals in black, corn yellow, gray and taupe. Gorgeous and out of my comfort zone but so cheerful.
ReplyDeleteI've got a Stack 'n Whack going ... green background and a floral print kaleidoscopes! love it :) thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeletemaking square in a square blocks, a lime green print center block with one plum corner, one yellow, another shade of plum, and one green not sure where it will go after these are made as I don't have a lot of the lime green print, maybe just a smaller quilt this time
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Gladys
I'm working on a red,white, and black. Looking for a red and white stripe to cut on bias for binding.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a red,white, and black. Looking for a red and white stripe to cut on bias for binding.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a red,white, and black. Looking for a red and white stripe to cut on bias for binding.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a Grandmothers Garden with primary Colorado.
ReplyDeleteI am hoping to start a green, blue and white quilt this summer. I found a really pretty pattern on the Quiltmaker website. =)
ReplyDeleteLots of orange and yellow.
ReplyDeleteI just finished a table runner and a table topper in red, white and blue. I had planned to make these at least 2 yrs. ago. In the meantime several things have changed my life and I am just getting back to quilting. So glad to have this as a finished project!
ReplyDeletetomato red and a brown poke-a-dot as my border on sisters choice.the tomato red is the color of my stars,so i will do a thin border and a wider of the brown.i will quilt it and use it for a every day quilt for my bed.thank you BONNIE for the pattern and the insperation,you real ROCK!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm using Moda's Indigo Crossing collection right now- the blues and whites and tans. I love it!
ReplyDeleteWorking with a rainbow collection at the moment, but I like greens with purple and turquoise :)
ReplyDeleteI am working with red and cream for a small spools quilt. Then it is everything goes with scrappy trips.
ReplyDeleteJust finished a new quilt for my grandson - haven't decided what's happening next!
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not Bonnie I'm still working on Easy Street and am using your choice of colors. Block 2 are all done, and have 14 more to do for Block 1. As the blocks are completed I'm laying them out and still can't believe how the color choices are coming together. Colors that I would never have thought to put together. You are indeed an inspiration and learning alot from you!! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI'm working on throw size Birds in the Nest quilt for a wedding gift. It's black/white prints, white/black prints, and bright lime green. Really fun and bright.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm working on a quilt using solid colored t-shirts and white. I have found out I REALLY don't like working with t-shirts.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a version of the Sweet Pea quilt, in black, beize, and red. other squares are fussy cut with green, blue, and purple.
ReplyDeleteMe too! The only way I would ever make another tee shirt quilt is if a granchild asked for one
ReplyDeleteHi Bonnie: Just finished Orca Bay in your colours and now am working on a neutral quilt adding some brown and orange for interest.
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