Illusions Update (AKA - Bento Box)

I've re-named the Bento Box to "Illusions," which I thinks truly describes this quilt.

Here are the next set of pictures:

The Never-Ending Pile!

Orange

Blue

Yellow

Now it's time to lay them all out and sew them up into one HUGE quilt top!!!

It Takes Two To TANGO!

Another one of my "hiatus projects" was making this lovely little lap quilt that I called Tango, that I was inspired to make from the Moda Bake Shop.  I followed the instructions pretty closely but made the quilt bigger than the example.  It features Moda's Fandango fabric from designer Kate Spain.  I absolutely love this line of fabric and wish I had more of it to keep making things!!  Maybe I'll hit eBay up and buy some more soon!! :)  The gals at Melear's quilt shop did a fabulous job quilting this!

Dog quilts

I've been making dog quilts for some people at DSK during my little blogging hiatus.

Here is a picture of the dog bed I just finished for Maureen's dog, Amalia.

Here is a picture of the two quilts I made for Debbie and her dogs Clarence and Athan.

Here is Nancy's quilt of her pups, Luke, Chance, Cruiser, and Hope.

....and we're back!

It's been 6 months since my last blog post!!  My excuse is that I've been so busy sewing I've forgotten to blog!?!?! Anyway, let's jump right back in and I'll share the projects I've been working on recently and maybe a few of those projects from the missing months will make an appearance here or there too!

The newest project is the Bento Box Quilt for Mike & Ben - named after Ben - (or so he thinks!)

All the fabrics

Just a few of the MANY cut pieces being ready to be sewn

Each square consists of 17 pieces either 1 inch or 2 inches in width with various lengths to make a "courthouse square" block.

The YELLOW colorway

The ORANGE colorway

The BLUE colorway

The CREAM colorway

Then after all of those are done you cut each one into fourths and re-sew them with their opposite matching block in opposite corners like this....

What you get is an AWESOME pattern called the Bento Box! 

This quilt will end up approximately 110x110 inches!  I'll post more pictures of progress when I do more!