Becca's Quilting Fun

Project Quilting Season 9, Challenge 6: Scraptastic Monkey's Naptime 38" x 50" I create in Schaumburg Illinois There are 26 unique fabrics used, all from my stash. This is the 6th and final challenge in Sason 9 of Project Quilting. I've learned a lot, had a ton of fun and been immensely inspired. Monkey's Naptime started with gathering a bunch of scraps. I have a ton I can use. I decided to use holiday themed fabrics that were already cut up into 2.5 in squares. I had a nice light purple fabric to accompany the holidays. I wanted to do something besides squares, so I chose pinwheels. I liked the idea of doing a lot of chain piecing. So I started quickly. I found a sashing fabric that would not clash with any holiday pieces, so I cut it up and pieced the rows together horizontally. Then I did each row to each other, with sashing in between. The squares are not perfectly aligned, but I like them. When I counted up my pinwhe...

A Stitch in Time This is my piece:   Canary@Work 27" x 16 1/2" I create in Schaumburg Illinois I started by looking up the proverb. It's basically about saving effort, saving time, procrastination is evil.... so I went towards the saving effort end of the spectrum.  My team at work is in the software development realm. We needed an automated testing solution that is easier to use. I took that task on.  With a couple of tools I developed Canary.  We call it canary, because coal miners used to send canary birds into the mines. If the birds survived, the miners knew it was safe.  This automated solution gives us the ability to run thru our application quickly, making sure it is functioning normally.  So anyway when the challenge was announced, my mind went to canary and never really left.  Here are some sketches.  I wanted to do thread painting and applique. So I have a canary sitting on a keyboard. The one above looks ...