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I think I first showed you this top about a year ago April/May - it's a string quilt made with copper and brown lame, burnt orange velvet and burgundy silk.

This quilt was a pain in my posterior extremity if you know what I mean - because of the fragility of the fabrics, I first foundation pieced them. At the time (I've only been quilting for two years now!)I thought it would be better if the seams were large. So I had thick, heavy seams, on a foundation fabric that was too heavy.

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If you're here for the Bloggers' Quilt Festival, the entry is HERE

Happy Monday, everyone!

You may remember this from a WIP back in September, I was just playing with some fabric remnants I had. Because I got them from a friend who often gives me her scraps I'm not sure whether they're nylon, or parachute silk, but I like to think of them as having been intended to float lightly through the air, gently landing on the earth.

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It was a busy weekend for me this weekend. I made this little quilt on Friday night, worked on a queen most of Saturday as well as making the most delicious stock ever (I mean ever! Beloved Spouse wanted to drink it up just as it was); making cakes for birthdays and our anniversary and recovering from the cold I developed on Monday (of course, because it was my first week back at work, I got sick.)

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I'm back to work today after a five week absence (to have a vacation and then to take care of BSP pre and post surgery); and so I've been very busy the last four days getting things organized. You know, easily accessible and cooked food, a spring-type cleaning of the house, fall wardrobe update and the like.

This entailed not only the cleaning and organizing of my fall wardrobe, but also the making of certain additions - two new skirts, two dresses, and a suit.

I have a very specific work look which I call "sexy secretary". I've always been in love with 40s and 50s era fashion and have constantly sought out and made clothes in this style for myself. Pencil skirts feature frequently in this look and they're easy to sew - these days, I don't even use a pattern - I just cut directly into the fabric and they only take 45 minutes to an hour to make (including felled seams) - so quick and easy!

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When I conceived of this quilt, I remember thinking "I want to make a contemporary quilt - you know, something that's of the moment". And as I put these silks together in this particular configuration, I wondered whether this quilt was not only of the moment, but whether its design would stand the test of time.

I quilted it very simply (but time consumingly!!!!!) in straight lines of two different varigated threads - one in purples and one in a fuschia/green/yellow.

I was pleased with the result (even taking into account the wonky back) and love, love, LOVE the hand this quilt has - which is, I think, as a result of the quilting and the fabrics.

An odd size for me, this quilt is 55 x 65 instead of my usual lap size - 52 x 73. BSP thinks my laps are too long unless you have a big couch - my thoughts have always been that I like things generously sized, and a lap quilt that two can cuddle under while watching t.v. or that man could comfortably nap under on a couch is the size I've been aiming for.

BSP says that people's couches are getting smaller and smaller as we adjust to big city living and that my laps are too big to use as a throw. If it's meant to be decorative only, than sure, it could be smaller, but to cuddle under - bigger is better, I thought. What are yours?

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Leafy Gold by Kit Lang (front piece)

I showed you this quilt in one of my Wednesday WIPs a few weeks ago, and finally got around to quilting it.

Although this quilt's beauty may not show up in photographs well (BSP says it doesn't); this is one of my favourite quilts that I've made. Perhaps it's the warmth of all those wools (the entire quilt is wool except for the gold satin accents and the cotton batting!)

One of the reasons I love it, is that it's made entirely from scraps. Some of the "scraps" were so big that they may not necessarily be viewed as such (a scrap is in the eye of the beholder after all); but the entire quilt is made from leftovers from other projects, so technically speaking at least; it's a scrap quilt.

I chose to use a honeycomb quilting in the loden green wool panels; and line quilting in red thread in the plaid wool panels. The satin accents were quilted in a free motion leaf motif; and the insides of the one row of blocks was done in receding triangles. I quite like the way that turned out, and am going to use it again!

I love this quilt and will be sorry when it goes to live in someone else's house!

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There were a number of stories in our newspaper a couple of weeks ago about a new by-law banning kite fighting in one of our local parks as the strings were wreacking havoc with the wildlife in the parks and hurting adults and children in addition to being a nightmare for the workers to clean up. I only saw a kite fight once, but it was a beautiful thing, and remembering it, I was inspired to make this quilt.

Originally, when BSP asked me what the name of the quilt was, I said "Kite Fight".

"Fight? Fight? That doesn't seem very diva quiltish! Shouldn't it be called something more elegant?"

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Breakfast at Tiffany's, close up flower by Kit Lang

So, last week, I was a little bored with what I was working on; and I pulled out this lovely piece of dupioni silk in this pale shade of Tiffany blue.

I wanted to try my hand at a whole cloth quilt, and since it was my first try at making a whole cloth quilt, I wanted it to be fairly simple.

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Garden Salad by Kit Lang (2)

(Monday post on Tuesday because I was away...)
This was the last of my "journeyman" quilts: the quilts I made when I first started quilting and was trying everything and anything - whatever I thought was pretty, or fun. It was a good experience. Not only did I learn a lot in terms of sewing; but I also learned what my style was, what worked for me, and what I wanted to know more about.

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I made a baby set (!) which is called "Daisies Sing the Blues".

The baby quilt is, well, baby-quilt sized *w*; done in white cotton and scraps of the blue-on-white daisies fabric that you see here.

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This is a little baby quilt I made a couple of weeks ago called "Mango Tango".

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I'm on vacation at that moment (back to work this Friday) and so, have been away from the computer - so I missed my Monday post. I was actually quite busy the first couple of days of my vacation and managed to start and finish three (count 'em - THREE) quilts. Two babies - this one (and another that I'll post next week), plus an art quilt for my blog Coneflowers In Leslieville. And then I rested. ;)

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(The only clickable pic - I'm having computer issues and am posting from someone else's computer. However, you can go to flickr and look at "in big" if you're so inclined)

May I introduce a quilt I whipped up yesterday - "Jungle Princess". She's a little quilt, meant for the much cherished youngest daughter of Tarzan and Jane (or perhaps your most cherished baby daughter *s*).

This quilt is funny - or serendipitous - because over at Coneflowers the other day, I was talking about how sometimes you pull together fabrics that shouldn't work, but somehow do - and this was one of those instances.

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So, those of you who are regular readers of my blog will notice that I have a new look to the blog. It's not just 'cause I wanted something different, but because I'm going to be using this blog somewhat differently from now on.

"Little Boy Blue" a quilt for my youngest son's 17th birthday - which is not until next March, but I came across these fabrics earlier this year, and knew they were meant for him.

When I re-designed my blog the last time, it was in pursuit of Serious. Business. My plan was to open a store (last year I bought and registered the business name, "Diva Quilts", bought and registered the site name DivaQuilts.com, and got the business end all set up to go) and then stuff happened that put those plans on hold. But the then-new site look was to be reflective of my new goals for myself as a quilter; and the dark background and sleek set-up were part of how I wanted the brand "Diva Quilts" to be viewed, so I left them up as a sort of precursor of what was yet to come.

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My friend Crystal was talking on her blog the other day about quilting without obligation - in other words, just quilting what you want, when you want - as the spirit moves you.. Although I fully subscribe to the idea - sadly, I am not of that ilk.

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It's finally done - my favourite quilt that I've ever made, "A Sparrow in the Rain".

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You may remember I gave you a sneak peek of this last Monday on my "WIP Wednesday" (I know, I know, but we're back on schedule now!); so here's the finished product on Monday like it's supposed to be. *heh

The inspriration for this quilt was believe it or not, this:

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*hee* To follow up my WIP post on my Finished Piece Monday, I thought I'd share a finished piece on WIP Wednesday. *s*

This is a quilt some of you may remember I started back in 2009 - and when I was done making the top, I was sooooooo upset because I felt it was such a waste of a fabulous vintage fabric.

Although it didn't turn out as I had imagined it would, I do like it very much now. (Time heals all wounds, as they say). I quilted it last night in about an hour flat, because we desperately needed a "summer weight" quilt for our bedroom (which is situated on the surface of the sun, y'see. Or perhaps that's my menopausal symptoms talking. No matter!)

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Project "Finish Those WIPs" is well underway - this quilt - just last week, a pile of blocks in a basket - finally got done. Sadly, there are a lot more like it waiting for attention!

Click below for the back and details... oh - and a little giveaway.

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The last quilt I finished in 2009, this one was completed on December 30, and was a late Christmas present for my oldest son, nineteen and about to move into his first bachelor pad. I called it "He's a Man Now"

this quilt went through a lot of iterations. Immediately after I made my first quilt, I was shopping the Garment District of our city and came across these African wax cottons in three prints of beiges, gold and black. I thought they would be perfect to make a "manly" quilt for oldest son's 18th birthday, which was about 9 months away. So I bought them, cut them to a pattern I had in mind, and then was distracted by working on my first commission quilt, which I posted about here before, called "Saucy Divo".

When I went back to the quilt a couple of months later, I couldn't figure out what the heck my plan had been with all those triangles and squares, so I went out and bought some more of the fabric (I ended up buying all that the seller had left) came up with another plan and then, a little afraid of wrecking it, I put it aside for awhile.

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