Gotta Love It - the flimsy (at long last)

Inspired by Retro Blooms, Wendy Williams (Quilts Down Under)

First I made a black & white with greens.

Then I made two quilts using black & white with "reds" ...

FINALLY, I have made my black & white with blues!!!

Introducing Gotta Love It (the flimsy)

52"  x 76"

Next, I need to piece a back . . .

Scrappy, of course!

Quiltdivajulie

Black, White and Red Log Cabin Quilt Finished

Well it took me a while but I finally finished my black, white and red log cabin.Its machine quilted with loopty-loop quilting and I really enjoyed doing it. I found some interesting patterns evolving and had a lot of fun with the quilting.

Black, white and lime

I FINALLY got around to finishing these two quilts!!! Lime green, black and white!

-Erin (miss erin crafts)

Oink

 

Last year my grandson was talking a lot of “Oink” – I am not quite sure if it still is there– but is/was a music website.

I decided to make him a wall quilt

detail

My B & W contribution. At last!!

I did complete a B & W & Pink quilt in 2009 for a girl friend's 40th birthday, but did not take any photos before I gave it to her. I will one day co-ordinate to have camera and remember to take a pic when I am at her house. Until then, this is a progress shot that I took along the way. (The white squares actually contain a flower stitchery pattern, stitched in black)For the same friend, I made this cute wall hanging for her new home.I also made this top from the left over fabrics from the first quilt. Yes, so I over estimated!!! There's always the stash. As yet, this one does not have a home, so will remain a top until a home is found. It is a disappearing 9 patch and sew easy but sew effective.

Falling Shoo-Flies

Back from the LA quilter and bound, here is my result of our Bee's "Your Way" mystery challenge of 2009. We each chose a 9-patch based block and over the months made 3". 6", 9", and 12" blocks of the fabric we each had chosen for ourselves. Near the end these were combined into 12" blocks with spacers and then the big blocks put together as we pleased. My idea was that the Shoo-Flies were falling down by "weight", so the biggest are on the bottom.

The plan was for a lap quilt, but I made MORE blocks so that it would cover our queen sized bed. And I am the "wonky" one in our Bee, therefore the odd angles.

Made the border treatment with a Seminole piecing style and three (four?) different sizes of squares. The Shoo-flies have been SID and then the waving lines put between them to echo the border fabric.

Sara Homeyer

Woman With Red Lipstick: Part 2

I entered the Keepsake Quilting "Black, White and Red Challenge" in the fall of 2007. It was understood the 1st and 2nd place became the property of Keepsake Quilting. My entry won 2nd place which is awesome but I miss my quilt!! I was able to see it recently at a area quilt show and decided to remake the quilt but with my rules. I changed the size from square to rectangle and was not limited to only 6 fabrics. I appliqued using the raw edge fused technique. It was machine quilted on my commercial sewing machine. I used red metallic thread to create the woman's strands of hair. I embellished the quilt with rhinestones, glitter, fabric paint and small silk flowers. I love the red polka dots on the eye lids and wanted to use more of it but it didn't work since I had so much red in the quilt already. I like the "dreamy" look the woman casts. Check out my website www.laurieceesay.com to see more of my work. lol

Happy New Year and Black and White Status Update.

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to thank everyone for all the wonderful works that you have put together over the year!! They have all truly been inspiring to me and to many others. I hope that you all had fun making your projects. I am sure it was a challenge for some and for some, not so much!

So here is my proposal...

1. I am going to keep this blog open!

2. You can continue to post new Black and White projects as you like.

3. If you don't want to continue, send me an e-mail and let me know. I will remove your name from the list.

4. Once your name is removed that will allow me to invite new members.

5. So if there is anyone who is new and would like to post their Black and White projects, send me an e-mail and I can add you to the list of authors.

I am looking forward to seeing new ideas and new projects.

Remember, even if you choose not to be an author on this blog, you can continue to post to the flickr group!

Happy New Year to you all!

Skating in under the deadline... kind of.

I worked all week on getting this top made and finished it this evening. I guess technically it's not a finish because it's not quilted, but this is as finished as most of my quilts ever get. LOL!

I loved watching everyone post their projects and learned a lot this past year. Thank you everyone, and most of all, Jackie for all the work you put into this. It was really fun and inspirational.

You can read more about it at my blog: http://gitdownkitty.blogspot.com/2009/12/scrappy-goes-to-prom.html

Finally a Showing for 2009

Hi everyone, I have finally had the time to post my black/white with a touch of pink for 2009. This little quilt measured 24x24 that I made for a quilt swap. It is now with its new owner and she is very happy with it. I will be making a full size quilt in the coming year. I have really enjoyed looking at all the lovely quilts and bags that have been made. Can't wait to see what everyone does this coming year with the theme.

Thanks
Wendy
http://stitchduchessscrazysanequiltingworld.blogspot.com/

Black and White and Red Zig-Zag

The whole thing, 66" X 96", hanging on the quilt wall in the kitchen this afternoon.

Closeup of my LA quilter's excellent idea for the quilting pattern.

Small view of the background B&W batik while I was putting on the binding.

This has several different Reds.

The Zig-Zag pattern is a simple two-rail fence explained into a zig-zag by Amandajean at http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com .

Sara Homeyer

http://saras-scraps.blogspot.com

My 'SIMPLE' B/W Finish

I struggled all year about how I wanted to do my quilt. As I thought about it I decided I wanted it 'simple' and to have the BLACK as my dominate color without it being ALL black. Well, I guess it turned out simple enough and I made it about lap size. This most definitely WAS a challenge for me.....but, I guess I can say I am happy with it. I have more photos posted on my blog.....Brown Dirt Cottage. Thank You Jackie....this was fun!!!!

Wonky Blocks

I love my wonky blocks - after taking inspirition from Jacquie and her Orange Crush quilt - here is my humble sample.

I've loved working on this and I must say it has urged me to look at more contemporary designed quilts, both pieced and appliqued.

There is one small section however which needs a little TLC, I've got one slight mishap on a seam, which unfortunately I only noticed when 90% of the quilting was complete. So I'm considering adding a applique patch just to cover and protect that one section.

Thanks for the challenge - it took me a while to get going but once I'd decided on a designe that I was happy with, I was determined to finish before the end of this year.

Just Spinning Around!

Hello Everyone,

While on retreat, I had the opportunity to finish up my Black and White Challenge! Well, just the top is done. I have to make the back and then quilt it, mere technicalities.

Anyway, here it is...

I really love the splash of orange in this. The design is really a variation of the Kaleidoscope block, but by adding extra pieces it makes it spin! You can find the pattern HERE. Best of all the entire quilt was cut on my AccuQuilt Studio Cutter. Well, with the exception of the borders. It took about 15 minutes to cut. Not bad.

Until Next Time...

Long weekend

As we didn't get away again on holiday, due to a number of reasons, I've got some holidays to use up from work before the end of the year - so this weekend is a lovely long weekend. I'm off until Thursday.

Over these few days and after completing some of those craft distracting issues (housework), I'm hoping to get a few hours each day up in my craft room - it will be chilly up there but hopefully some frantic sewing will keep me warm.

The UFO's on my 'hit' list will be:-

1. The Threave challenge project
2. The B&W quilt challenge top

Other than the Threave project I'll hopefully be able to share photos with you within a day or two.

Number "2"

This Black/White/Red "Fractured Star" is my second and final installment in this wonderful challenge. Each block measures 8 1/2" with a 2" red border and 3" piano key border. I had a blast choosing colors, looking at everyobody's quilts and reading about what each person blogged about.

Black and white and bright all over

I'm entering this as my challenge, although it doesn't quite meet the challenge requirements of black and white and one colour. This is black and white and bright , with lime green being the dominant colour and lots of others mixed in for good measure. It is 50 by 60 and still in the flimsy stage. I intend this to be machine quilted on a flannel backing, so it will be a cozy throw. I've been watching the rest of you do the challenge, and I couldn't limit myself to one colour. But I did collect b/w prints for the last several months, and cut into about half of them for this project. At last count, I used more than 50 fabrics in this quilt. Thanks Jackie for a great challenge, and for enlightening me in the path of black and white.
Brenda at Scraps and Strings

Finally--A FINISH!!!!

I fell in love with this Timeless Treasures line the first time I laid eyes on it...couldn't resist making a quilt out of it.Introducing my Black, White & Lime Kiwi Kisses quilt....blogged here.
Happy sewing!

Doris
www.threadsofconversation.blogspot.com

This is my contribution to the Black and White Challenge.  As with most of my quilts, it grew like Topsey.  The three leaf panels are my very first lino prints!

Hopefuly this detail shot will show the small continuous leaf pattern I used to quilt the back ground with.  I hope you like it!

Sally

Sally's Stuff

Finally a black and white finish!

hiyall,

I was one of the first to sign up for this challenge. Did I get any black and white and turqouise done? nooooooooooo, at least not yet! but I did get this sweet little tote done from a online tutorial from one of my favorite bloggers! Happy Zombie they are made from 3 FQs and are very quick to make up! This little tote is black and white and bits of yellow. the yellow is the centers of the daiseys . Pop over to her website and get the FREE pdf file!

Keep On Stitch'n On! (mauh) Liz A Redneck Dingbat Quilter