Mischievous Wife quilt - Sections 3 & 4

This month our instructions were to do both section 3 & 4 of the Gypsy Wife quilt.  Obviously, I'm not doing Gypsy Wife but I still did both sections 3 & 4.  There are only 3 more sections left to be done - sections 1, 2, and 7.  I'm looking forward to getting finished with this one too.  But I know I'm glad that I didn't actually do the Gypsy Wife quilt.  I'd be totally hating life at this point if I had.

Mystery quilt - Block #6

I missed my last quilt guild meeting, but I still got the directions for the next set of blocks.  Again, it is a fairly simple and straight-forward traditional block.  I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.  I'm still really looking forward to this project being over, though. I believe we have 4 more sets of directions yet to come.  I hope it looks nice when it's finished. 

Dragonfly Carnival

This is the other quilt that I finished binding on our New Jersey trip.  I finished this one on the drive home (June 15).  It is made from fabric that I bought on our last summer trip to New Jersey.  The fabric line is called Dance of the Dragonflies, and the main motif is, of course, dragonflies.

I also had trouble coming up with a name for this one.  Clearly I haven't been too inspired in the naming department lately.  I asked my son and my husband for help in the naming process.  My son said that the colors of the quilt made him think of Mardi Gras.  I decided to go with Dragonfly Carnival, since Mardi Gras is the culmination of Carnival season.

Dream Baby

I do a lot of hand sewing, specifically turning quilt binding, when my husband and I take long car trips (defined as an hour or longer).  We recent drove to New Jersey and back to visit his mother, so I had plenty of time to finish up some projects.  I finished the binding on this quilt on the way up to New Jersey (June 6th).

I had trouble coming up with a name for this one.  It is a baby quilt made from the Happy Flappers fabric line.  The most prominent motifs in the fabric are flowers and owls.  At first my instinct was to go with something owl-related for the name - something with Hoot or Who in it.  But I decided to go with a much more subtle reference. 

I often name quilts after songs, so I started looking at songs recorded by Hootie and the Blowfish.  I considered "Not even the Trees", which is a Hootie and the Blowfish original, but decided against it in favor of "Dream Baby".  It's originally a Roy Orbison song, but Hootie and the Blowfish covered it on their Scattered, Smothered, and Covered album, so in my book it counts.  Plus, for a baby quilt, I thought it was appropriate.

Mystery Quilt - Block 5

These are my two quilt blocks for the guild mystery quilt for this month.  I won't actually be able to attend the meeting next week, but at least I have the blocks finished! 

I'll be happy when the whole project is finished.  I'm really starting to wish that I had used this fat quarter bundle for a different project.  I think part of the problem is that I'm getting tired to working in monochrome on a year-long project.  Or maybe I'm just tired of year-long projects. . .

Watercolor Bluebird

I decided to try again with my watercolor paints.  I am a lot happier with the results this time.  It's still far from perfect, of course, but I think I'm getting more of a feel for the process.  My favorite part of the painting is actually the branch and the feet.