kaffe fabric

Surprise audition................ from Exuberant Color

This is not what I had in mind for the 4 patches I have been making, but I had to try them as a border for this second busy little quilt top. They definitely work and maybe I just need to use them and scrap my idea for starting another quilt top. I could add another row of 4 patches on the top and bottom to make it more rectangular.

The early Peonies are coming up. There is ne group slightly behind the birdbath and another group to the right of it. There is a patch of jonquils or daffodils ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , nature , nostalgia

Sorting, stitching................ from Exuberant Color

I still had the bin of my parents' photos on the dining room table since the day my cousins visited. I decided they weren't going to sort themselves so I spent 3 hours yesterday, making some progress. Most are from my mother's side of the family. I sorted into piles of 3 generations, my brothers and me, great aunts and uncles and their families, and one pile of "who is this?". I will need to go back through some of the piles again but for now I can put them back into the bin with labels inserted into ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under 4 patch , kaffe fabric , nostalgia

Mindless sewing.................. from Exuberant Color

This is the view from my sewing chair at 9 p.m. last night. I worked on the binding a little and earlier in the day cut some more batik pieces. I needed a break from both projects so I gathered up all of the Kaffe collective 2.5" strips that weren't a full length and started sewing contrasting values together. At this point I'm thinking 4 patches with one of two different ideas as their landing spot.

This is a better photo of all of the ones that are sewn so far. I need to press them ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , strip piecing

Border...................... from Exuberant Color

A little over a week ago I showed some pieced strips I found in a drawer in my studio. This photo shows what is left after using some of them.

I also showed 2 possible small tops in progress that the strips could be used on. This was the winner and I got all 4 borders sewn on Wednesday night.

To break down this design: I started with 4 star blocks and then added sashing made of Flying Geese. After that I added Bow Tie blocks as a border and then it stayed in limbo for 4 1/2 years ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , knitting , nature

Blooms, weather, and hand stitching................ from Exuberant Color

Yesterday morning I noticed the second bud has opened on the double white Amaryllis. I hoping the last 2 buds will open too.

There were several storms rolling through yesterday afternoon. The second one brought hail. It is pea size and lasted about 5 minutes. There was heavy rain too, and we need the moisture in the ground.

There is a corner of 2 roof angles meeting in the back by the dining room window. When the hail shoots off the roof it makes a pile on top of one of my Coral Bell plants but nothing has sent up ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 1 week ago. under binding , kaffe fabric , nature

Yes, it did snow................ from Exuberant Color

This was the scene around 9:30 yesterday morning. I think we had around an inch of snow when it was all done. The good part is how fast it will melt today when it gets close to 50 this afternoon. We may get a little snow Thursday morning too, the first day of spring.

The good news yesterday was the Amaryllis saved from several years ago is blooming. I was happy to see it was a double white one.

A few days ago I thought it only had 2 buds but when it finally all opened up there are ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 2 weeks ago. under binding , hand dyed fabric , kaffe fabric , nature

New fabric................... from Exuberant Color

I usually preorder some of the new Kaffe collective fabrics in February and August. There weren't many that I wanted but I thought this group would cut up nicely. You can see here how they would look in a 2.5" strip.

I like Brandon's "gingham" which had some new colors offered. I ordered 2 colors of one more print but there was a mistake on my order and one of them wasn't included. It will be coming next week and then I'll show both of them.

I put the strip of Tilda's ladies on ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , stash , strip piecing

How many strips are left?........... from Exuberant Color

My goal was to use up a lot of 2.5" and 1.5" full length (45") strips in the Kaffe Strippy quilt last month. The 1.5" strips are in the box on the left and 2.5" on the right. I removed all of the partial length strips from the boxes and will store them separately now. I have used a lot of 2.5" strips in several quilts in the last year. That box used to be packed full.

I'm going to keep both groups in one box now which frees up a storage box for ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months ago. under kaffe fabric , knitting , nature , strip piecing

Binding chosen................. from Exuberant Color

When I saw my binding choices from yesterday in daylight I decided the rosy one was leaning toward purple. I went through 2 stacks of batiks and came up with these two new choices.

This one was the winner. I named this quilt shimmering fish and the setting triangles look like water ripples. I decided this aqua and green batik would carry that feeling of water the best.

I got it sewn on and started the hand stitching. Some of the setting triangles are blue but none of them made it into this photo. I will spend the day today ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months ago. under accuquilt die cutter , batik , binding , hunter star , kaffe fabric

Rows sewn, not pressed............... from Exuberant Color

All of the rows are sewn but I haven't finished trimming the right side. I need to take it down to the basement to my big table for that. After I press it, it will become clearer how the trimming needs to be done.

My other project is trying to find a binding fabric for this quilt. Here you can see the backing fabric which has little shots of green in addition to the red and yellow.

I have a lot of pieces of batik that are between 1/4 and 1/2 yard so some of them are ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months ago. under batiks , kaffe fabric , strip piecing

Progress as I look at it........................ from Exuberant Color

The color is way off in this photo, but it is showing the progress from yesterday.

The top 8 rows are all sewn together, trimmed at the left edge but not on the right side.

Below that is 2 more rows sewn together. The next row is at the sewing machine, and the bottom 4 rows are waiting to be sewn. I decided to just lay the bottom row on the floor instead of pinning it to the design wall. I think this one will end up around 47" x 67" and I'm thinking about putting flannel on the ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months ago. under kaffe fabric , strip piecing , triangles

Playing with the design wall..................... from Exuberant Color

This is the view from my sewing chair while I'm watching TV last night. I should have started this up a little higher because I have one more row to add on top or bottom. I'll try to add one more row at the top today. I actually have enough pieces left to add 2 rows so the other one would have to be pinned onto the wall at the bottom.

The largest sections are approximately 5" x 12" now. The half sections are 5" x 6". I can unpick the excess at the beginnings and endings of ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months ago. under kaffe fabric , strip piecing

Trial layout............ from Exuberant Color

Finally I got the strip pieced blocks cut into 5" strips, 2 each from most of the blocks, just one from a few of them. I pressed all of my seams open so I didn't want to have to match seams. By offsetting the strips with the narrow strip meeting the wider strip of the ones above and below it, I shouldn't have any problem sewing it together. I did just enough of a trial layout to see if it is going to work and now I'll plan the layout of the colors.

I had 4 Amaryllis ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 1 week ago. under kaffe fabric , strip piecing

A finish! Yay!........................ from Exuberant Color

My green Rosy quilt (a Kaffe design) is finished. I just love this quilt. What's not to love about green; it goes with everything. Nature shows us lots of green and it goes with every color of flowers.

I have it photographed upside down to the way I designed it so a couple of one way designs are upside down here, but I'm short, and this quilt is taller than me, so I didn't want to unpin it and turn it around.

If I had flipped the photo above, then it wouldn't match this photo that ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 1 week ago. under 9 patch , kaffe fabric

All cut............ from Exuberant Color

I finished pressing and cutting the rest of the fabrics for the last two shapes for the Tilda Whimsey quilt. I have also cut strips for a 16 patch and one other quilt.

I spread out the fabric for each group and also added 4 fabrics at the bottom right that I can add if I need more contrast in one of the shapes. I might not start sewing these into blocks until Saturday.

I worked on the hand sewing of the binding on this green Kaffe Rosy quilt last night. I have about 3/4 of one short side ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 1 week ago. under binding , kaffe fabric , stash

2 quilts back home.............. from Exuberant Color

I got 2 quilts back from my longarm quilter friend so I'll be looking for binding fabric soon.

While she was here she helped me slide the bag off my new 30 yard roll of batting and get it up on the tables. Now I can cut batting for a few more quilts.

I spent a couple hours choosing and grouping Tilda fabrics for her Whimsey quilt pattern. Then I made notes for each group with what I need to cut for that quilt plus 2 others. There has to be a 16 patch quilt made from these fabrics ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 1 week ago. under kaffe fabric , stash , strip piecing

More no brainer sewing.......... from Exuberant Color

I had so much making these strip sets Saturday night that I chose some more pairs and kept sewing. There was one more under the needle when I took this photo so 9 strip sets last night and 14 sets on Saturday night.

I decided I'm going to cut them into 5" sections so I made some half sets for more variety, and also to use some shorter pieces in the boxes of strips.

Here are the next 13 paired sets ready to sew tonight.

I got my large Crooked Cobblestone top 3/4 basted yesterday. I should be ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , strip piecing

No brainer sewing............. from Exuberant Color

It was either turn on the iron and press fabrics for the next project OR just do some no brainer sewing last night. I chose the second.

This is all of the combinations I sewed while watching TV.

On the right is a whole block and 2 folded blocks, trying to decide whether to cut them into 2 strips or 3 strips. I am using 2.5" and 1.5" strips of Kaffe collective fabrics that have been cut over the last 10 years. I would like to get them all used up and cut new strips as I need ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , strip piecing

Blue February block from Northern Deb Quilts

My current projects: 1. Hand quilting my vintage style quilt 2. Making monthly rainbow scrap challenge blocks (above), feb is blue 3. Still making triangular blocks for my Thousand Pyramids quilt.

I decided to do a very large Bear Paw block for this year’s Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I really love these blocks. It’s going to be scraps of Kaffe or Amy Butler or whatever brighter pretty scraps are hanging around, then a coordinating solid. The background fabric is one I found as I cleaned and unpacked my sewing room. It was supposed to go with an animal quilt ...

added by Northern Deb 4 months, 2 weeks ago. under bear paw block , hand quilting , kaffe fabric , rainbow scrap challenge

First quilt top for February 2025........... from Exuberant Color

The first thing I'll say is that it is a lot prettier in person than I have been able to capture in a photo. This little quilt top is all Kaffe Fassett collective fabrics. I was able to use a pile of scraps and just a few pieces cut from yardage. I would never have made this quilt if I didn't have a die to use for the cutting. Its a Bow Tie die, with a wonderful secondary pattern.

I bought this cute piece of flannel on sale a couple months ago and I think it is perfect ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 3 weeks ago. under accuquilt die cutter , kaffe fabric , triangles , yo-yo

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