Quilts by Julie Ramsey
fabric
Sale!!!
Apr 30th
Ok, nix the lime-and-black quilt designs for a bit. Fat Quarter Shop is having a sale on Jelly Rolls (sets of precut 2.5″ strips) and I found some that I really like. I think these will be perfect for a baby quilt or two!
A shout-out
Mar 12th
I’d like to give a shout-out to the lovely employees at my local quilt shop, Bella Quiltworks here in Tucson, for giving some amazing help in the fabric-selection process.
I ordered some of the fabric on the far left for the commission I’m doing for my mom,and needed to find some fabric to go along with it. Luckily, there was a whole bolt of the stuff in the store (as opposed to the 2″ strip I brought along with me), so there was plenty to carry around the shop and hold up to different bolts of batiks.
The larger print will be the center for the big stars, with dark green points, and the fabric on the far right will be for the smaller stars. I’m really looking forward to seeing the whole thing assembled, and with any luck I can get it all put together this weekend, especially since I have the entire night to myself to watch anime and quilt 
Shopping victory
Feb 16th
While running some other errands today, I decided to stop by Jo-Ann to check out their selection of fat quarters for the Tetris quilt. I really lucked out: I was able to find fabric in three shades for each of the colors I needed!
I also did a test-run with the new block-construction method this afternoon, using some scrap fabric I had sitting around. (I think black, grey, and white will be a good method to show the different contrasting fabric pieces when I take the “final” pictures for the printed pattern.) Unfortunately, I messed up the math; I can never get the calculations for half-square triangles right! In this case, I think that to have 4.5″ finished blocks, I’ll need to cut the initial squares at 6 1/4″ in order to cut down the squares twice.
This leads to another bit of math– and to think I hated math in school– as I figure out how many pieces I can get out of each fat quarter, and whether or not I’ll have enough fabric to construct all the blocks. If my triangle calculations are correct, I may be short on the “medium” fabric for several colors. I’m reasonably sure I can finish the necessary pieces out of my stash, but I’ll need to account for that when I write up the pattern.
In all, I’m very excited that the fabric shopping went so well, and I’m looking forward to creating another geeky video-game quilt!
New home, new projects
Jan 20th
Welcome to QuilterGeek.com, the new home of my quilting blog! Don’t be surprised if the page layout changes very suddenly, as I’m still playing with themes and changing the blog appearance until I get it “just right.”
I’m finishing up a weeklong vacation at my parents’ house in Washington state, and it’s been very relaxing. Best of all, my mom took me fabric shopping! Turns out that our local Jo-Ann is moving, and they’re in the final stages of clearing out their merchandise– everything for 75% off! While there wasn’t a ton of selection in the quilting cottons, I found two interesting prints that should make great “Stack-and-Whack” kaleidoscope quilts that were originally $10/ and $12/yard! (Good thing it was so cheap, since you generally need 5 or 6 yards of a given fabric to make the blocks and have enough left over for borders!)
The first is a zodiac-theme print in pink, orange, yellow, and turquoise. I think it’ll make a very neat quilt for a girl’s bed, so I imagine I’ll make it twin-sized.
The second is a rather crowded print of flower-filled Easter eggs on a light purple background. This one might make a nice baby quilt, I think, so I could probably get two projects’ worth of blocks out of it. The print is busy enough that the kaleidoscope patterns should be very interesting!
(Apologies for the picture quality, these were quick snapshots from my cell phone!)
This means I’m in the middle of one project, and I have enough fabric to start roughly four more projects in the near future. Guess I’d better get myself in gear and finish up the one I’m working on before I tackle another new quilt!
