Quilting

Hi Everyone! Nights have started to get cooler around here. As I was taking quilts out for our beds and sofas, this idea of hosting an online quilt trunk show got stuck in my head. I come across so many pretty creations all throughout the year on the blogs of my fellow quilters. Wouldn’t it be nice to showcase some of your favourite creations on a blog post and link it up so that others can visit and admire your hard work?!

Here is my cordial invitation to all of you out there with blogs to Trunk Full Of Quilts – an online quilt trunk show event.

Choose your favourite FINISHED quilted projects. They can be quilts, bags, pillows, wall hangings, etc. They do not have be made in 2015, but they do have to be quilted and finished projects.

Write up a blog post including photos and a little description of each one.

On your blog post include a link back to the Whims And Fancies Trunk Full Of Quilts 2015 page.

Then come back here and link up! That’s it!

The event will start on November 10th, 2015. Link-ups will start on that day and close on November 18th.

Online Quilt Trunk Show | Whims And Fancies

I am not very fond of competition when it comes to art, so there will be no judges. This event is all about simple, pure, sharing fun! Just for participating, you will be entered to win prizes.

Everyone has been very supportive of this event so far and I am very thankful to these generous sponsors for providing prizes. Along with my fellow pattern designers – Cheryl from Meadow Mist Designs, Lorna from Sew Fresh Quilts and Beth from Cooking Up Quilts – I also have Aurifil Threads, Craftsy and Fat Quarter Shop sponsoring this event. I will, of course, add something extra to the pot as well. I will share more about the prizes on the opening day of the event.

Here is a little badge for you to share on your page. Please invite others to participate. The more the merrier, right?! You can either save the image or copy and paste the text in the box below to share on your website –

Online Quilt Trunk Show | Whims And Fancies

We are going to have a fantastic time right before we get busy with the holidays! So will you join me?!

I need to pick your brain on something. Apart from arranging for this event, I have been working on this quilt pattern. I really love to swim, specially at night, and I love the way light reflects in the water. I drew this to make a quilt.

Pool Bokeh Light Fantastic | Whims And Fancies

I can easily scale the design to make a lap-size quilt. Do you think I should go for that or make a wall hanging?

Happy Quilting,
-Soma

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Viking Penguin Quilt Pattern | Whims And Fancies

Purchase Viking Penguin Olaf Pattern

I have had this idea of creating another penguin quilt pattern for months now. I recently got a set of loose colour pencils and I desperately need to make a new pencil case. That provided a perfect excuse to draw my little Viking Penguin Olaf. Viking helmets didn’t really have those horns, but Olaf insisted that I put horns on his helmet. Although I think he looks very cute, he thinks the horns make him look more formidable!

I couldn’t resist taking a short break from the stained glass flower blocks to make him. The penguin pattern is for a 10″ block. I scaled it down to make a 7″ block for my pencil case. Originally I was going to give him a green vest, but the red looks so much better on him against the starry background. Olaf is available in my shop if you want to make him for yourself.

Penguin Quilt Pattern | Whims And Fancies

Purchase Little Penguin Polaris Pattern

It all started with Little Penguin Polaris. I have a gimpy and chubby kitty cat called Charlie, whose photo occasionally surfaces here. He would like nothing more than for people to take him seriously. Except it has never worked since he was a baby. He just gets picked up and cuddled, and he just sits on your lap with all of his claws tucked in.

When I was going to make a little winter-themed block for a friend, I knew I had to make a chubby little disgruntled penguin in a scarf and a hat. So if Charlie were a penguin instead of a cat, this is what he would look like where all the other grown up penguins are just not taking him seriously enough!

Polaris and Olaf have become great friends already. They are busy planning all sorts of mischief together.

Thank you for staying with me until the last set of cards from this set of 61 index card paintings. Here are the last five –

icad 2015 Sunrise Painting | Whims And Fancies

Sunrise

I like to look toward the west during sunrise where the first rays of the sun light up the mountain ranges while the full moon sets behind them.

icad 2015 Affair Of The Hearts Painting | Whims And Fancies

An Affair Of Hearts

icad 2015 Edinburgh Tenement Painting | Whims And Fancies

Edinburgh Flat

I really like moss-covered stone buildings.

icad 2015 Explore other worlds | Whims And Fancies

Cross the boundary and explore other worlds

icad 2015 Telescope, Stars And Blake Painting | Whims And Fancies

I had to make this one as my final card. I love William Blake’s work and I love the stars. I see William Blake’s words come to life every time I look through my telescope.

I will share another post about the index card painting experience along with photos of all the cards together. It has been a lot of fun sharing these cards with you. Thank you again for your encouraging words.

I will leave you with a photo of the lunar eclipse I took last Sunday. We are surrounded by mountain ranges, and there was also a thick layer of cloud right at the horizon. The eclipse occurred right around sunset for us, so it was low in our sky. I really wanted to see it during the maximum eclipse. Just as I was losing hope, a faint, eclipsed moon showed up, shortly before the maximum eclipse and right above the cloud layer.

Lunar Eclipse 2015 | Whims And Fancies

Enjoy,
-Soma

An Online Quilt Trunk Show

Viking Penguin Olaf, Paintings And Eclipse