This week I have been visiting the blogs of the participants in the “Too Good to Cut” Challenge. This is an awesome group of very talented quilters, and I am so impressed with how organised everyone is, and how busy they have been! I’m going to have to get really, really busy just to catch up!
Amy’s Passions has been making adorable Quilts4Kids, as well as scrappy log cabin blocks and finishing up a UFO project. She’s also hosting a Block of the Month quilt-along, including complete patterns for all the blocks. I love the drawings of quilt designs on graph paper with coloured pencil — still my favourite method, too!
Over at Beth’s Quilty World, she is super-organised with a detailed list of goals for February. She is also working on a monthly UFO challenge and doing so well with her finishes — three already since the first of the year! She’s using a gorgeous stack of Moda fat quarters for her “Too Good to Cut” quilt — can’t wait to see those all sewn up!
Our sweet friend Dakota City Quilter has been baking something yummy and sewing on a lovely Bricks and Stepping Stones quilt. The red and white blocks are very striking and make the pattern stand out in a way I haven’t noticed with that pattern made in other colours. Beautiful! She’s using a “Japanese royalty” fabric for her “Too Good to Cut” quilt, and she’s found the most perfect pattern for it.
Katie’s Salt Marsh Path is also very organised, with a list of weekly goals. She’s been making colourful String blocks and working on a Rail Fence quilt, and her batik fabrics for “Too Good to Cut” are so dreamy. She also has some nice photos of tile floors that look like quilt blocks. It’s so much fun to see “quilts” in other materials than just fabric!
Quilting Junkie also has some fabulous batik fabrics lined up for her “Too Good to Cut” project, and she has chosen such a lovely pattern to showcase them. That is going to be a truly wonderful quilt! She’s also been doing some serious stash busting! Can you believe how much fabric she has already used this year?
For bird-watching quilters, Spinning Star has a link to an eagle cam website and some very cool screen shots of the eagles with their nest. She’s also working on a fantastic pinky-orange and black batik quilt, and her “Too Good to Cut” quilt is being made from a delicious collection of Cherrywood fabrics.
Well done, everyone! 🙂
Happy Quilting!
Thank you for such entertaining posts – great way to spend my saturday morning – looking at all the wonderful ideas your friends have!!
Thank you, Debi — what a sweet and lovely thing to say! I’m really glad you have been visiting my blog and that we have become quilting friends. 🙂
I guess I’d better check out everyone’s progress on the challenge. I have all my fabric cut and ready to sew. Just need to finish a few things before then.
I had so much fun checking everyone’s blog! The frogs I saw made me LAUGH, all I could think of “the green frog was kissed by the princess and the blue frog wasn’t!” SOMEONE really sewed like crazy so far this year, and there were some fabrics I saw I just loved! I’m so lucky I am far away from the quilt stores right now!
I’ve been traveling the last few days, so I didn’t get an update on my challenge quilt. But, I really like to watch sports and with the Olypmics starting this week – I’ll be sewing up a storm! One of my goals is to finish the quilt I started during one of the previous winter Olympics!
Liz
What a great update! Thanks for taking all that time for this post!!!