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May 11, 2011

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Retiring - Hawaiian style

So we had a little flurry of retirements at work - two in January, and now another one the end of this week. This time I asked my co-worker what colors she wanted. She came back and asked if I could do a Hawaiian quilt. Um - yeah - not me. I don't applique very much at all - and this definitely was not time for me to challenge myself with something on that scale. So I compromised - I found this Triple Bear Paw two color quilt pattern online from Martingale Press - and chose two hibiscus and swirl fabrics in the colors that my coworker suggeseted - and "HIbernation" was born (or HI-bear-nation -to be more accurate). I wish I was more confident with softer rounder quilting -but I did a lot of echo quilting (and pivoting) on this one. If I had it all to do over, I would have quilted it in a round spiral from the center. It is nice to be outside photographing again - the spring flowers are starting to pop, and everything is greening up. After this pho...

Three in January

My coworkers didn't time their retirements too well for this quilter - I ended up with two only 7 days apart. This one was made with a 'faux' jelly roll - it only had 4 different fabrics but I still think it worked to give this quilt some movement and interest. I used my Lazy Angle ruler and this is my own layout (after an oops) - or my "Lazy Streak" (though for this gift I called it "See the World" - either name would work for a new retiree, don't you think?" Unfortunately the weather was not so cooperative this day -so this is the only photo I was able to get. (I know this is upside down - Blogger is giving me fits on inserting photos today) I was able to set aside enough of the strips from the "roll" to use for the binding.

New Horizons

This is my 2nd finish for 2015 - a retirement quilt for a very dear coworker and mentor. She said she liked peaches and corals, and when I saw this kit from Connecting Threads , I knew I was on the right track. I backed it in orange, and bound it in brown, since those are the school colors for the university we work at.

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