Deana: Tuesday Archives on Thursday: Fall & Irish Chains

Ok, so I'm only two days late for Val's Tuesday Archive Linky Party; I am happy she leaves it open a few days.

Her themes this week are Fall and Irish Chains.  

 My very very favorite fall quilt is my barns.  I designed this as a design challenge project for myself in 2011 for the DOD Mystery group.  It was a ton of work and even more fun.  It is still not finished.  Some times the brain needs a break from intense design.

Here are some close ups of some of the scenes.

 I named the red barn "Bud's Mootel" after my Grandpa Bud who was a dairy farmer.  
The silo has a gazillion half square triangles all paper pieced, but I love it.

 The flowers are all 3-D done the same way I did some of the horse's mane in my current project.  They are attached with French knots.

This one has not been added yet.  It is of a bridge in Bridgeland near my teenhood home.

 I love fall colors and my second Row Quilt Design was my autumn one.

Here are some closer photos of some of the rows.

I love autumn colors and this "Brown Bag" quilt was made in autumn fabrics and harvest themed stack-n-wack blocks I had laying around.  The idea behind this quilt is you gather up some fabric you don't care for and trade it for some one else's "brown bag of fabric" so to speak.  It was an online swap.  We then had to make a quilt out of what they sent us but we could add whatever we wanted to it.

This is the fabric I started with.  

 I felt like the pink did not go so I dyed it orange.

 This is what it looked like when it was done.

 I pulled some fabrics from my stash and found a design idea.  I had already made the stack-n-wack blocks years earlier and then went perfect, so they became the center of each star block.

 Here is the final quilt.

 The back is kind of crazy.  I just used leftovers.

Go check out the other archived quilt posts at Val's Quilting Studio.

Also linking up today with:

Thread and Needle Thursday

and

IQuilt hosted today by Gnome Angel