Quilts will travel to 3 states

My beautiful nieces ---
The Kaleidescope will travel to Iowa for Holly in peach shirt.
The French Braid will travel to Kansas for Shana in red shirt.

The Strips that Sizzle will travel to Arizona for Paige in yellow shirt.

Kaleidescope and Strips that Sizzle finished

These quilts are for my three nieces, Holly, Shana and Paige. See their pic on a previous post. I love finishing, such a rewarding feeling to see the vision come to life in my work. These batiks have been so much fun and the colors are so vibrant. I hope the girls will love them as much as I do. There are 3 great nieces and 1 great nephew in this family group so onward I go to the next generation.

French Braid quilt

Shana's French Braid quilt is quilted - I used the techniques I learned in the Free Motion class and it was good practice!

Adding pieced borders to Strips that Sizzle

I am wishing I had mitered the first borders, now I need to get rid of the blue that extends into the gold border. Thinking I might add a corner block or just piece in a new gold section. Any ideas out there in Quiltland???

Strips that Sizzle with borders

I sewed blocks and added borders, working on corners.

Today's progress - Strips that Sizzle

Today's progress

This quilt is for my niece Paige in the center, the kaleidescope is for Holly on the left, the french braid quilt is for Shana on the right. Aren't they so pretty!!!

Strips that Sizzle??? 1st layout - not so good!!!

I can see lots more turning and twisting for these first Strips that Sizzle blocks. I havent made one of these before, so many small blocks to work with on the design wall. Need a good night's sleep to tackle this again tomorrow. Perhaps I am making it harder than it has to be, not even sure about my fabric choices, but I will figure it out, suggestions are welcome!
Happy Quilting!

Colleen

Shana's French Braid quilt top is finished!

French Braid quilt top finished for Shana. I will start Paige's this week. Holly's kaleidescope quilt top is finished. The girls are all excited about the quilts I am making for them. Last year I made a Wizard of Oz quilt for my niece Heather, her favorite movie!

Borders added to Holly's kaleidescope

Kaleidescope top needs borders - next week!

A picture certainly shows what needs to be changed! dont know if I will make changes or leave it like it is.

I am too tired now to make that decision. Tell me what you would change.

Thanks for taking your time to see my blog!

Colleen

On my design wall - Batik Kaleidescope

Today I cut this out and put up on design wall, moved it around a lot, not sure if this is the final layout. It will be a lap quilt for one of my nieces, the French Braid is for her sister, and one more to plan for the youngest sister, she is 29 and single so I am thinking something brighter colors. Once I complete their quilts I will have made one for each of my sisters and their children.

French Braid closeup

The French Braid quilt is almost toooo easy, I usually make quilts with very much planning, forethought, design and design changes. Now I am trying to decide who will get this beauty! I am waiting for fabric to arrive to do the borders as shown. Luckily I can still get the exact fabrics!

Have a wonderful day!!!

Colleen

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today's progress - batik French Braid

One more braid run to make, then I will start the separators, I am loving these colors. Instant gratification!!!

Thanks for taking time to view my blog, leave a comment!

Colleen

French Braid in batiks

Finshed kaleidescope pics

This quilt is ready to ship to my sister in Virginia, hope she will love it as much as I loved making it for her.

Kaleidescope finish

 The Kaleidescope quilt is finished, it is for my sister, Kathy. On my next one I will concentrate more on contrast, but I do love the overall intertwining pattern.  I have learned a lot on this first try. Lots of leftover batiks will inspire my next design.

New project- Batik kaleidescope

This is my first try at making a kaleidescope, dont have a book but have discovered some really good instructions and pictures of step by step on blogs. I had purchased these peacock colored batiks for a quilt for my sister, not knowing what I might do with them. Now I am auditioning the corner triangles to use to make the blocks intertwine. In my pic I can see that the blues arent working so back to the drawing board today with other choices.

Something is telling me that I should have used something other than batiks for my first try at this technique! But I do think it is pretty and my sister will love it.

If any of you have suggestions on my color values to use for the corners please respond. My thanks go out to Elaine Adair and Subee Sews for their inspiration.

Colleen

Closeup of Batik Puzzle quilt

Someone asked for closeup of Batik Puzzle quilt, here are a few!

Batik Puzzle Quilt

I have almost finished the Batik Puzzle quilt. Took pics today , still have to do the binding but couldn't wait to show it to everyone who follows my blog! Thank you all!!!

A peak at my Batik Puzzle quilt