Bathroom and hallway quilting

Finally, pictures of different quilts. After five years of working on it (or not working on it, but feeling guilty about it) my T quilt is finally on the wall it was intended for. This skinny tall wall on the second floor landing is now decorated with a skinny tall quilt. I'm liking it against the yellow-gold paint, and I admire it every time I walk by it. My oldest son's first response was wondering where the poster went that used to be on the landing (the temporary decoration until the quilt was done, but it took me so long the temporary became permanent in his mind.)

And here's another quilt up in a permanent way: my To Be quilt is hanging in the bathroom, where it has caused some amusement among houseguests. Since I'm the only one who ever takes a bath in this room (everyone else showers in the other bathroom, if you must know), I figure it's fairly safe from splashes. Plus it adds some splash to the newly repainted walls once held hostage to Laura Ashley-style wallpaper. (nothing against Laura, I just don't like busy wallpaper of any type.)

Here's a closer look at the unmatched points and minimal hand quilting of the T-quilt. I had good intentions of doing dense stippling on it, but just got tired of the whole thing and I had moved on to other quilt relationships. Sometimes done is better than perfect UFO.

Here's A different thing with the "altogether" moved to the right. I'm glad I took the seam ripper to it. See the post below for a comparison.

It's a different arrangement again

I decided not to use either star in the little word quilt on my wall. So now I have the beginnings of a wonky star quilt in black, red and neutral, or maybe another priority hope quilt. For now, they're going into the parts drawer. Below is the final arrangement of "A different thing". It's different than my other arrangements. I made more friendship star blocks, this time with red points, and more nine patches, and threw in a few more red squares.

The red borders are on, but not the black ones. I'm sort of debating cutting off the right side so the words are more centred, or unpicking the "altogether" row and moving it to the right, but then again, the forces of inertia say no. Actually, I did unpick it after looking it this way for a couple of hours. I have a sharp, new seam ripper and I got it apart and back together in about 45 minutes. It looks much better. Right now is 36 inches wide and about 24 high without the black. I had intended to make this mostly about the words, but I decided halfway through I wanted more variety in the background, so I started sewing two inch squares together in various neutrals to make stars and nine patches. This probably won't be much fun to hand quilt because of all the seam allowances, but I'll take the needle to it anyway. If you look carefully, you can see the bottom row patches are wonky, mostly because the letters were a different height.

For those of you who are Steve Bell fans, you'll recognize the lyric.

Another arrangement

Thanks for all your comments on the previous post. I've replaced the black star with a neutral one, and added some small splashes of red. Above is a horizontal arrangement without the side borders, which didn't fit on my wall, and below is a vertical one.

I like them both, but I don't want this to be too big. Right now its about 36 wide, nearly square in the top layout, a bit longer in the bottom one.

What's coming together on my wall

I sewed this star in a black mood the other day and it was just hanging on my design wall. Then I started making letters for another project, and a few muted 9 patches and stars for the background. But it needed something else.

I like the red as a border, not so sure about the black and red star. Maybe a star with a neutral background and red points? I'll be filling in the rest of the background with patches and stars. I like the black and white border. I think this is the fourth quilt I've used this fabric for and I'm wishing I had bought more.