marcia derse fabric

Something new................. from Exuberant Color

This project has been on one of the design walls in the basement for about 8 months. Here is the post where more of the layout is shown. I decided it was time to start sewing some of the blocks to see if it would be an enjoyable project. I need to cut a lot more of the light prints. These are all Marcia Derse fabrics.

This is how the center of the first block turned out after 3 tries at it. That is about 1/16" of an inch off.

The second block turned out better. I used to ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under marcia derse fabric , nature

Third finished quilt in March 2026........ from Exuberant Color

This is another quilt made with mostly 1990s floral fabrics, with a few newer ones worked in. I also added Kaffe Fassett Spot fabric. It is made of Hourglass blocks with rectangles used as the border.

It is 53" x 64.5".

I bought the 59" wide black and white fabric many years ago. It was nice to not have to piece a backing. The quilt has Hobbs 80/20 batting in it. It was quilted by Robin Diaz.

This finished quilt top is made with all Marcia Derse fabric, from many years of her collections. There are 35 different ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under marcia derse fabric , quilts made with triangles

Top sewn and binding on another................. from Exuberant Color

This top is sewn but needs its final pressing so I'll do that today and then photograph it.

After that was done I sewed the binding on the floral hourglass quilt. I was happy I had more of the same fabric I used for binding on the other 1990s floral quilt.

You can see the print better in this photo. It will be machine finished so I hope to get it done today too.

My two cacti plants by the east picture window are finally blooming. This is the third time for the white with pink edging, but just ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under binding , marcia derse fabric , nature

12 blocks and sewing columns.................... from Exuberant Color

The last 6 blocks have been pressed and trimmed and have joined the first six on the design wall. I have several thoughts about these blocks. First I thought they would be nice sewn together like this as the center of a medallion quilt. But then, the more I looked at it, I wondered how they would look with sashing between them and a wide border all around. I removed them as stacked columns so I could use the design wall for my other project.

I went down to the basement, looked one last time at the layout of this ...

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

More blocks and a layout................ from Exuberant Color

I finished the 5 blocks I showed in progress yesterday and added them to the one left over from the table runner.

Last night I didn't have anything else lined up to sew, so I made 6 more blocks. I will get them pressed and trimmed today and add them to the other 6. They will all finish at 8".

While I was in the basement doing laundry I decided i needed to get the Marcia Derse fabric blocks up on the design wall. I was a little disappointed with the result. There were 2 blocks left over.

I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under crazy piecing , marcia derse fabric

My choice.................................. from Exuberant Color

My choice for the sashing and borders was the busy print. Surprised? I love busy quilts. The binding will cover the outer edge so the borders won't look quite as wide when it is finished. I'm not sure what color will go on the back but I'm thinking a red binding might be nice. I ended up just using 4 blocks instead of all 5. I didn't want to piece the long border strips. It is 43" long.

I was going to sort and bag all of the rest of the scraps, but they told me ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under crazy piecing , marcia derse fabric , nature

Down to three................... from Exuberant Color

I removed all of the fabrics that had a stripe pattern from yesterday's choices. That narrowed it down to 3.

This one might show the best contrast between the light edge strips and the sashing fabric.

This is the original fabric I showed a couple days ago. Now I just need to study these photos and make my decision.

My niece was in town visiting her parents so I invited her over to choose a couple baby quilts for her first grandchild, a little girl. This was her choice for the baby's house.

And this was her choice ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under baby quilts , marcia derse fabric

Finding more choices................... from Exuberant Color

There were more black/irory Marcia Derse fabrics that I thought I should audition for the sashing on the table runner.

I put 4 of the 5 crazy pieced blocks on top of them. I may have to remove the light strips on the edge of 2 of the blocks and replace them with something darker.

I turned the two with light edge strips to touch other fabrics.

I had pulled this fabric for the first photos thinking it was too dark, but I still had to try it with the crazy pieced blocks. No decisions made.

It got up ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under black and white , marcia derse fabric

A little sewing.................... from Exuberant Color

I added some pieces to the partially assembled crazy pieced blocks, pressed and trimmed them. This will be a long table runner with the blocks measuring 8": 5 x 8" = 40", and that is before adding sashing or borders.

I tried this Marcia Derse fabric as a possible choice for sashing and border. With both light and dark strips on the outside edges of the blocks it becomes trickier to choose the fabric.

I also sewed the six half blocks for the 'other 16 patch' quilt, 2 of each that are shown. I need to press them and then I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under crazy piecing , marcia derse fabric , strip piecing , triangles

Pressing, cutting, sewing.............. from Exuberant Color

I decided to take the larger pieces of Marcia Derse scraps out of the project boxes and cut 3" finished triangles out of them. I pressed all of the strips and the other things piled on the ironing table.

Last night I sorted the triangles into piles of the same fabric. I'll do lots more cutting before I decide a use for these.

I sewed these 3 stratas which will become half blocks for the 'other 16 patch' quilt.

After pressing the blocks I made on Monday night, I trimmed them to 8.5".

Yesterday afternoon I remembered there ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under crazy piecing , marcia derse fabric , triangles

Sewing on two................ from Exuberant Color

There was a large pile to press yesterday, including these 4 Marcia Derse fabrics for the last 2 blocks. I will get them cut today. I also pressed all of the finished blocks that were in the test layout yesterday.

I pressed the 14 stratas from the day before and got them cut into 2 columns. Later in the afternoon I sewed them into blocks, so they are ready to press now.

I had 2 hours of TV to watch and nothing set up to sew, so I grabbed a box of Marcia Derse fabric scraps and started making crazy ...

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

Sunday sewing............... from Exuberant Color

Some of the pieced scraps from the orange basket got made into four 5.5" crazy pieced blocks.

They will go into this box of 5.5" batik squares. I counted over 300 plain squares and about 30 pieced blocks.

I got a bunch of blocks made for the 'other 16 patch' quilt project made with Marcia Derse fabric and tried 2 layouts. The blocks are horizontal in this layout. I need to cut 6 or 8 more fabrics depending on which layout I choose.

I rotated the photo for a vertical block layout. I will probably leave some future ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under batik , marcia derse fabric , nature

A little progress........................... from Exuberant Color

I didn't do much yesterday, but did decide to make the 'other 16 patch', the one with rectangular pieces. That meant I could cut the strip sets in half again and then sew the 2 pieces together.

I hope I'm going to like this.

After I cut these stratas into 2 columns and sew those together I'll know if I want to add more blocks and make it larger than my original plan.

These photos show all I got sewn last night. I need to turn on the iron and press some more of the stratas that ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under marcia derse fabric , strip piecing

Sorting................... from Exuberant Color

This little orange basket was bugging me so I finally sorted through everything in it. In the front left is larger pieces that I'm not sure why they were in there. The pile next to the basket in the top row is pieces I will cut into squares soon. Everything in the basket is batik fabric pieces.

The pile at the top right is all trimmings from making crazy pieced blocks and some strip pieced small sections. This pile went back into the basket.

Some groups got labeled and put into zip top bags that I can keep adding ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under batiks , marcia derse fabric , organization , strip piecing

Some new fabric............... from Exuberant Color

I used to buy at least one color of every new Kaffe fabric but now I only buy the ones I like and sometimes more than one color. The February fabric was finally delivered to the stores. I thought this one might make nice bindings but I may end up using some in other projects. I got 1/2 yard of each.

I had to have several colors of this one. I got a yard of the red and half yards of the other 3.

This is the last batch of Marcia Derse paired strips, sewn last night. I also ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under kaffe fabric , marcia derse fabric , nature

Something new......................... from Exuberant Color

When I cut strips for the Marcia Derse fabric 16 patch last year, I cut an extra strip from several of the fabrics.

Last night during TV time I sewed 19 pairs together.

There are 11 more sets paired ready to sew. I'm not sure if I'm going to make another 16 patch or do the "other 16 patch" which is 16 rectangles in a block. I have enough here for 60 blocks but would need 63 for the smallest size I would want to make. There are 60 unique fabrics so I need to search for a ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under marcia derse fabric , nature , strip piecing

Table runner and black and white........................... from Exuberant Color

The hand stitched binding was finished last night on this table runner. It is all Marcia Derse fabrics. The back is the same fabric as the binding. It is 14.75" x 40".

You might find the rest of this post boring, but since it is my diary/journal I use it to document some things. Today I am documenting the batik black and white fabrics.

Yesterday I sorted them by more than a quarter yard, quarter yard or less but full width, and chunks/small pieces narrower than full width.

I would estimate that 85% of them are Bali ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 4 weeks ago. under black and white , marcia derse fabric , tablerunner

A little bit of everything................. from Exuberant Color

I had a few things to take care of in the basement so while I was down there I got this little quilt ready for basting. It didn't keep my interest though so I moved on.

My friend who visited on Monday wanted to buy some black and white batik fabrics for this quilt. I had the fabrics in 2 bins and had large and small pieces all mixed together.

I want to sort through them now and get all of the small pieces in one bin and large pieces in the other bin. There is a lot more ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months, 4 weeks ago. under baby quilts , basting , binding , black and white , flannel quilts , kaffe fabric , marcia derse fabric

Machine quilting................ from Exuberant Color

The table runner made with Marcia Derse fabric has been nagging me to get finished. Finally last night I chose this Invisafil thread and changed my bobbin thread and got busy.

I chose the easiest block to ditch quilt first. Can't see the quilting? That's the point with ditch quilting. Of course you can find a couple places where I wandered a little out of the ditch.

The last block was the hardest to find a continuous line of stitching. I had to do a few stops and tie offs to get the whole block finished. I have ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months ago. under machine quilting , marcia derse fabric , tablerunner

Another day of good intentions............... from Exuberant Color

I don't get much done in the mornings. It is my computer time, when I clean up the kitchen from the night before, and other things around the house. I planned on basting another baby quilt in the afternoon. After lunch I knew I had to take my van for a ride to keep the battery charged so I went to W*lm*rt. For 2 weeks in a row they didn't have any big bags of frozen strawberries. I use them in my morning smoothie. Shortly after I got home my son came by. But first I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 5 months, 2 weeks ago. under basting , marcia derse fabric , tablerunner

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