The Aviatrix Grows

Since coming home from the show/fair last weekend, I've had an enormous amount of sewing energy. It's really nice - I think it's the first time since the end of last year that I've really felt that obsessive need to sew (or is that just me?) that normally drives me. It helps that I've been working on a project that I really love, I guess - my Aviatrix medallion.

I have been working on the blocks for the next border very slowly over the last few months (in between other projects), so they feel like they've taken forever. They are fun blocks to make though - and seeing these together made me think I'd like to make an x plus quilt at some stage. I am in desperate need of whittling down my enormous scrap box, and I although I struggle with true scrappy quilts, I think I'd like to make something a bit more controlled like this. Maybe...

Once they were sewn, it was pretty quick to piece them together and sew them to the centre of the quilt - and it grew really big really quickly! It's around 50" square already, but there are only two more complex pieced borders to go, so I don't think it'll take too much longer to finish at the rate I've been sewing this week ;o)

As I said in my first post about this quilt, I'm using the same colour scheme as Elizabeth Hartman has in the pattern, but I'm using prints instead of solids (except for the white background). I'm starting to get really excited about quilting this quilt - there are so many interesting shapes in the piecing which is going to make it loads of fun to quilt!

I hope you all have a great weekend!

xx Jess

A growing medallion

I've been working on this one on an off over the last week or so in between a few other projects - although I must admit it's been keeping me awake at night. Most of the decisions about where it's heading seem to be made pre-sleep :o)

The second border is pieced and on (it is actually square, I just need to learn to take better front-on photos ;o) ). Obviously I'm a bit obsessed with the whole text/low volume thing.

The next border is being worked on at the moment - there will be a narrow 'something' added before the triangles (not sure what yet, possibly black again?). I can't get my head around how long each of these pieced triangle strips will end up, so I'm making them first, and then I'll add the narrow 'something' (descriptive, hey?) to bring it up to the correct size. Not quite sure how I'll handle the corners either - but I think it will need to involve y-seams...

I have never enjoyed making anything quite as much as this one - it is just so much fun deciding what to do with each border.

xx Jess