new cargo blanket

travelled to lancaster, pa this week for the aqs quilt show.  success!  saw lots of great quilts, and a ton of vendors.  while we were there we also went to the lancaster quilt and textile museum and saw beautiful amish quilts from the 19th and 20th centuries.  they were amazing.

also this week, i'm starting on another cargo blanket quilt.  this one will have a red back and the star chart for april on the front.

and, i sold the pillow shams!

you can check out the quilt museum here: quilt museum

i did it!

just finished R136 in 30 Doradus!  and 2 days ahead of schedule!  now all i've got to do is drop my submission form in the mail tomorrow and cross my fingers.

you can see detail shots over on my website: jimmymcbride.com

dwell, baby!

i'm featured in the april issue of dwell magazine-prefab today!  (page 34).  awesome!

thanks kheli for the heads up!

all pieced together!

just finished the quilt top, and now i'm 2 days ahead of schedule!  next up comes quilting it, and adding all the blue stars.

3rd section down

just pieced together the third section of the quilt, and put up the pattern for the last section.

as a special bonus, i took a million pictures while i did this and made a stop motion video showing the process! thanks to ethan for all his help, and judith and steven for such a great idea!


R136 in 30 Doradus Top Layer from Jimmy McBride on Vimeo.

2nd section done

and still ahead of schedule.  this is the pieced together lower left section and the pattern for the lower right section.

1st section done

so i've got good news and bad news.  bad news is i didn't get into the aqs paducah show.  the good news is i'm ahead of schedule on this quilt.  so far so good.  this is the pieced together top left and the pattern pieces for the bottom left.

all cut out

finally!  i got all 548 pieces cut out and now it's time to sew them all together.  i'm trying to make the deadline (march 22nd) for the american quilter's society show in knoxville, tennessee.  i've planned it out and it's going to be really tight.  might be a suicide mission.  the thing is, it's kind of a long shot.  the category that i'm entering in is for "quilts featuring stars as the primary design; galaxy of stars"  perfect, right?  anyway, i'm basically trying to find out if the aqs has a sense of humor.  i'm reasonable sure my quilts aren't what they have in mind, but it's worth a shot, right?  it's gonna be a rough month.

this is the upper left section.