Owl eyes.

The scrappy trips around the world has now taken the place of honor on the floor. This is the upper left hand corner. The upper right hand corner is mostly pink. The lower half of the quilt devolves to browns and oranges. An unplanned four seasons quilt, I guess. (The fractured quilt is sewn together waiting for a border, and the wedges from yesterday are lined up by the sewing machine.)

Playing with the leftover fractured pieces.

Here are my fractured blocks laid out on the floor. You know your cat is old when you lay out your blocks in the evening and there is only one out of place in the morning.

In a blink of an eye.

Layered crescent flowers.

Tommy said he would stand in as my object of design if I promised to promote his blog on Tumblr: TripodTommy.tumblr.com. He gives fashion advice to shelter cats to help them get adopted based on his vast experience living in a shelter: where vast is a couple of weeks back in 1996 and the shelter was a room in a townhouse run by the Humane Society. That said, he did have to share the room with his brothers and sister.

The raccoon and the weeds are in the playoffs to see who gets control of the garden. My money is on the weeds.

Tie-dye kaleidoscope pattern.

I finished all the blocks for the scrappy trips around the world and now have to figure out how I will lay them out. Well, first, I really do need to fix the overhead lights. I didn't realize how poorly the square on the bottom left fit in until I saw the photo.

Here's my progress on the fractured quilt-a-long with Vicki W. This pattern demands strong contrast, so I started a "I'll show them, let's try multi-color low contrast." Well, let's not go there... So here is my second attempt. Oh, and when Vicki said her version was king size, I was scared into using a smaller grid, so my block size is 9.5 inches.

Pink flamingo dance pattern.

Flamingo dance.

I sleep so you don't have to.

Stacked boxes.

Crescent line overlay.

Watercolor rug.

 I am so excited about the fractured quilt along that Vicki W. is holding over on her blog. I bought the book and have been sewing like crazy all week although the two overhead lights in my sewing room gave out.

I cut all my strips, sewed them together, cut apart the strips and am now sewing the blocks. For once I get to hang with the queens of productivity!

Oh wait...these are my blocks for February's Quilt Along with Melody...I wonder how they will look fractured?

With a little time and effort you can make more elaborate tie-dye patterns...with photoshop.

On Sunday, some friends came over to tie-dye. Here is some tie-dyed fabric that I made into a pillow case. Sweet dreams!

  

 

New clocks so I can remember what time it is: Tommy Time! The clocks are from Zazzle and the artwork behind the image of Tommy are by Cassandra Tondro.

More millefiore.

Millefiori.

Oval dotty.

Revisiting the dot flowers.

Spin spools revisited.

Monkey kaleidoscope.

Pelican carpet.

Tommy,

Rose kaleidoscope.