Elsewhere in the Studio

I finally came up with a good way

to store my Baptist Fan stencils.

Two vintage wooden hangers 

plus four curtain rings/clips

and the stencils now hang safely

in the to-be-quilted closet.

They are in good company . . .

Scrappy Bow Ties 

Liberated Wedding Ring 

Stacked Squares

Cherie's Broken Dishes

Scrap Happens

Quilts Madder No. 2 

Plaid-mania! 

Rise and Roost 

Colorful Crumbs 

AND 

Green Geese

One quilt that will be coming out of that closet

in the very near future is Scrap Happens.

I printed out a photo of the quilt top

 and covered it with my vinyl overlay

so I could test out some potential quilting designs.

(I use dry erase markers which easily rub off the vinyl)

After a lot of doodling,

I decided to use my single Baptist Fan stencil

(link to Barb's Etsy shop in my sidebar)

and pink Glide thread.

After all, this quilt was created during the 

Gwen-Inspired Medallion Quilt-along last year

and Gwen has quilted LOTS of her quilts

with Baptist Fans (although she hand quilted hers).

Have you seen the latest news from the Quilt-along?

Click here to learn more.

(Scrap Happens IS going to be part of this)

I also spent some time doodling design ideas 

for Something Fishy.

(this was my Quilt-along Round 5 project)

The design I settled on is from this book.

* * *

Choosing the designs is the hardest part for me.

Now to do some actual quilting.

Quiltdivajulie

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"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, 
and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
(Arthur Christopher Benson)