Tru Inspiration! (Friday Foto Fun #9)
This week I was traveling for work in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and I stayed at Tru, a new Hilton brand family hotel. It's a really trendy hipster more affordable hotel. I saw inspiration for quilts everywhere with all the bright colors and designs throughout the hotel. My favorite was this amazing wallpaper. I actually want to make this into a quilt! (Who would have guessed? It has lots of triangles on it!)
Because of the travel, I ended up bringing a few hand-stitching items with me. I was able to finish off this wool pineapple welcome topper by Granny's Legacy Patterns that I purchased at the sewing expo last month. All of the blanket stitching and embroidery is hand stitched, perfect for traveling.
Instead of working on Windswept this past weekend, I decided to pull out Mod Dots from my unfinished pile. Mod Dots is a pattern that was developed by Sew Kind of Wonderful for Winter Quiltfest this past January, and I haven't worked on it since! The top row was done in class at Winter Quiltfest and the second row I made this week! (On a sad note, Winter Quiltfest is no longer getting put on.)
I started on a new wall hanging quilt for my husband! My husband streams Final Fantasy 6 on Twitch (online video streaming platform) so the quilt will be hanging on the wall behind him. This is the start of Kefka, the villain in the Final Fantasy 6 game. I am using Kona Solids with the fusible grid method. I wrote a tutorial using fusible grid a while ago, and it's my favorite method when sewing pixelated quilts!
I can't wait for the holidays when I'll be at home to work on all things quilty! Only a few more weeks left.
My available time for quilting this upcoming week:
Saturday, Sunday, Monday PM, Tuesday PM, Wednesday PM
Projects I want to work on:
PBQ106
Fox and Friends
Windswept
Starbucks Mug Rug Swap
Goals for the Projects:
PBQ106: Start Sewing Top Together (seriously, I need to do this... it's been neglected!)
Fox and Friends: Make one row
Windswept: Finish the hand applique parts
Starbucks Mug Rug Swap: Make my mug rug top
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First of all, that wallpaper is amazing! It’d make a perfect quilt, and isn’t it virtually the same pattern as your fox and friends quilt? Also … FF6 is one of my favorite games of all time! I can’t wait to see the full Kefka. In order to do these pixel quilts, do you need to keep a huge array of solids on hand?
It’s very similar to fox and friends, it’s all about color placement. If I were to actually make it, I’d probably try to see if I could eliminate some seams!
I did a Kona solids club this year, so I have a FQ of almost every color minus the ones that came out this year. The nice thing is that these quilts don’t take a ton of fabric except for like the white and black. I then can order more of what I run low on. Pixel quilts are definitely fun!
I love your pineapple Sherry, hand sewing is very meditative especially when traveling for work! All your projects are so cool, is Kefka a surprise for your husband?
Thanks Abbie!!! <3 I agree with you about how meditating hand sewing is! Kefka was not really a surprise, I've been waiting to get browns in from my Kona club this year to make it for him! I finally got them this month! <3
Well, I know the final presentation will WOW him!💕