A Chicopee Triangle & Colorblock Quilt : :

I finished another new quilt this weekend, A Chicopee Triangles & Colorblock Quilt! Many thanks to those of you offered up sashing help on Thursday!! I was working on finishing up my triangle blocks, stopping to read your suggestions as they came in, agreed that the white had to go, and then I had to do some thinking. I was really torn between the Chicopee & grey and the Chicopee & aqua, yellow combo for a little while.



I loved the way the grey warmed up this collection and kept it a little masculine, but equally loved how the two solid colors brightened everything up. Curious, I decided to see how things would look if I added even more colors to the mix, with the grey as well, and I loved it!!



Seeing all those Art Gallery Pure Elements beautifully blur together with the Chicopee colors made such a pretty picture!



The back is imporv pieced together using up some of my left over triangles, to make one large triangle, combined with several more Pure Element Solids. I snapped this photo early Saturday morning, I just love these colors together with the Chicopee patchwork! 



I went with 505 Spray again for the basting, and quilted when I found the chance throughout the rest of the weekend, using a colorful, Brick Red Aurifil Thread.



I was pretty nervous about how my quilting would look on all those solid fabrics that made up the back, with such an obvious thread choice, but I went for it anyways!



My binding is made of Dark Citron Pure Element, my favorite shade of green!!





I wish I wouldn't have gotten better photos of the finished front, this is my best shot!



Thankfully the back photos turned out nice. I'm really happy I went with something modern and improv for the back!



This was a really fun quilt for me to make and is my husband's new favorite! It finished measuring 50" x 56", so a nice quilt size for the couch!

I have my Applique Art quilt top all basted and ready to be finished next, just as soon as I figure out a plan for the quilting!

Wishing you all a wonderful new week!  ♥,  Maureen 

Color Blocking + Chicopee : :

Last night I had decided on a solid plan for my Chicopee Triangles. After a few more blocks and finally settling on a dark grey sashing in this Pure Element Moonstone Solid, I thought I'd spend today whipping up a new quilt top, easy!



Well, here I am right now!



Color Blocking + Chicopee! What do you think ?

Thanks so much for the help, in advance!! You guys are THE BEST!! ♥,  Maureen 

Catching Up : :

Phew, I finally feel like I'm all caught up! I felt so behind yesterday as I settled into my sewing machine with another large stack of etsy orders that needed finished before I could officially begin my week. Not the best feeling to have on a Tuesday morning! But we had such a great weekend, so no regrets!



Beside my crowns, I have this growing stack of quilt tops that need some quilting love as soon as possible!
I have the quilt backs planned out and the fabrics are now ordered, can't wait to see these finished!!



I did manage to finish up my Buffalo Check Plaid Man-Pillow Friday morning before we left town. It's so, so comfy!! I used a very large, Euro size Home Elegance Pillow insert from Joann. LOVE! I actually picked up four of them when they were 50% off. I can't wait to have a stack for our living room!





The front is made up of Art Gallery Fabrics Pure Element solids in White Linen, Sandstone, and Moonstone.

I finished the pillow back in a heather grey sweatshirt fabric, from Joann as well, for an extra manly finish! And, added some binding in an Empire Yellow Pure Element Solid, inspired by this quilt that Nik shared with me after I shared my Buffalo Check blocks a couple of weeks ago.



This pillow is a gift for my Brother-in-law. It's so perfect for him, I'm really excited!!



Well, I had completely fallen in love with these Triangle Chicopee Quilts when I saw them here and here. I actually wanted to make one exactly the same, which never happens to me! I dove right in and did all my cutting last week.



I didn't get too far with my triangle piecing that first night.



Now, this is my free sewing  project this week! It's been really fun and has taken on a new, improv direction. I've decided most of my quilts making will mostly likely fall into the improv category. I just love it!



Just a few more orders to finish up today and then I can get back to playing with Chicopee triangles! 

How about you, what are you working on this week ? Who's headed to QuiltCon ?? I wish!!
♥, Maureen

Thrifted Quilt Top : :

Why, hello! I'd love for you to meet my new thrifted quilt top today!!



Isn't it amazing??!!



I found this beauty yesterday for such a steal! It's completely hand sewn!!



It's made of these scrappy triangles and sewn into hexagons. Such a marvelous kaleidoscopic image!



How fun is this one! Brights with a dark charcoal-y gray!



Now I have questions --

-- it smells a little? But not too bad, just like something really old. Do you have any ideas for laundering?

-- what to do with it? Finish it? It's so special I don't want to ruin it! What would you do?



And, can I just say that my husband is truly all that is this Handmade Ryan Gosling business. So much so, that he actually checked out the photos and captions with me the first day I noticed the Ryan Gosling images popping up everywhere and we laughed so hard together. He is so supportive and amazing and really does know just how to speak right to my crafty heart!

And, now he's going to kill me! hehe