The Husband's Space Shuttle

Many years ago, after I made the Day Lilies, I said "never again" to complicated paper piecing.  Then my husband saw me browsing a Quilts with Style magazine and asked me to make him the shuttle he saw.  

How am I supposed to say no to that??

So I started the poor shuttle in 2014 and finally finished it last week. 

I chose to double the size of the pattern (it finishes at 48 x 48 now) so that I wouldn't be dealing with tiny bitty little pieces.

It hangs opposite his desk.

I'm linking with Finished or Not Friday and Crazy Mom Quilts

Day Lilies

Started in 2009, finished in 2010.

Reason:  This was a gift for my sister and brother-in-law as a Christmas / Housewarming present.  My sister is a lily grower so it seemed appropriate.

Pattern:  It is all paper pieced.  Every time I do a big paper pieced project I say never again.  Clearly it doesn't stick because I have another one in the works.

If I can find the author of this pattern, I'll post it.

Fabrics:  Most of the fabrics were from my stash.  It was really fun and a little scary picking all the colours by shade values.

Mine

I was trying to make a joke, but the joke turned out to be on me.  I took fabrics I thought were ugly and put them into a potholder.  How beautiful is this???

Here's another potholder with the same pattern, different fabrics.  Doesn't look early as nice, does it?!

Fabric selection is everything.

Marie's

Marie was the only person that got to choose her colours.

Cheryl's

Cheryl is a huge fan of light neutrals.  One day I'm going to try to do an entire quilt in ivorys and whites!

Brenda's

My husband chose the cat print :)

Can anyone tell me what the star block is called?  I didn't take careful enough notes.

Phil's

I love the chaos of these paper pieced potholders for Phil.

Mum's

For my mother.  Paper pieced.  In my first year of quilting, I don't think it occurred to me to square up.

Jane's

Quilting for a quilter is always intimidating.  These are paper pieced

Ali's

Ali will ever be a purple girl.  I did two like this for her Christmas 2006.  This is paper pieced.