PURPLE SAGE ORIGINALS: Quilting with Friends

Creativity is endless in Quilting!

I think that is why I like it so much, endless possibilities....

From choosing your design you want to quilt, to choosing your fabrics for your quilt.

How you choose to quilt it, either by the old fashioned look of tying off your quilt with yarn or the more finished look of machine quilting. There are few ways that you can finish your quilt, but these are the two that I use.

We'll a group of us have decided to get together to do our projects. I love getting together with friends and family to do projects like these.... it is always so much fun.

Stephanie R. has choose Moda Batik fabric, called Sticks and Stones.

This fabric has a real rich earthy palette, that will blend with and decor.

Stephanie D. has choose Island Batiks fabric, called Juicy Jewels.

This is a real beautiful color palette, that has a calming effect just by looking at it.

Light a Lavender candle, snuggle into your quilt and start reading a good book.

I already have a BOOK in mind!

They both have choose to do quilt designs that we have seen from Missouri Star Quilt Co. youtube tutorials. They have an app that makes it so easy to keep up with their new additions... it's called

Quilting Tutorials by Missouri Star Quilt Company

this is the IPad App link above.

BUT... I'm sure they have a App for tablets also.

Look for their icon above, when looking for the App.

Below are the links for the two quilts that we made. The Fence Rail tutorial and the Sticks and Stones tutorial.

Fence Rail Quilt Tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co.
Jenny Doan

Sticks and Stones Quilt Tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Jenny Doan

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Gathered all the materials for this Sticks and Stones Quilt.

Going to start cutting all the strips out.

I cut the Cotton Supremes French Vanilla by RJR Fabrics into 2 1/2 inch squares, then

I took the Juicy Jewel strip pack and took all the strips and cut them up into

2 1/2", 4 1/2", 6 1/2", 8 1/2", and 10 1/2" inch pieces.

This is what became of all those strips below.

The first row, I put a 10 1/2" and 2 1/2" together.

Second row, there is a 2 1/2" and another 2 1/2" and a 8 1/2".

Third row, there is a 4 1/2" and another 2 1/2" and a 6 1/2".

Forth, Fifth, and Six rows are the reverse of the first three.

I just love these colors together... Blues, Greens and Purples are some of my

favorite colors.

We'll I thought this might be a challenging quilt top for me to do since, I like things a little more symmetrical.

In this case it would be the colors not matching, meaning each being an identical block

like the others ....

Some might call this a slight compulsive disorder. So, I'm really going to lean towards the creative artistic side of my brain in this quilt design creation.

We'll.... I weathered the storm in my mind, and just let the creativeness juices flow and fall where they may....

and this was very impowering and I feel

pretty good about that!

And most of all the quilt is turning

out so beautifully.

Did I say earlier, that these are some my favorite colors and I'm already struggling with having to let go of this quilt, but I did promise this one to the kids, and they where estatic about that so, I must keep my word, it will be their quilt.... so sad for me :(

Quilting time - we all got together at the church to work on our projects.