New Weekly Quilt - QR Affirmation 1

Well, I didn't expect this would be as popular as it is, but thanks so much to those who are viewing this from The Guardian Online!  

This is the first in a series of mini quilts I'm doing this month that are "affirmations".  This is 8 x 8 inches.

These codes are everywhere and if you have a smartphone, you should be able to use a free QR code reader app to snap a picture of this and read what it says.  I'm not going to ruin that for you, so have fun figuring out what it says!

More are coming later this month.  This was a lot of fun.

Collaborative Canvas Weekly Quilt

At some point with the collaborative canvas, you go from this:

to bits of the same canvas all cut up, with no real discernible rhyme or reason.  It's at that point that I saw a leaf shape in the canvas, and thought to turn it into a flower.
Here's the finished piece.

New Weekly Quilts and January's theme

While I finish up the Technique of the Week weekly quilt series (due in no small part to my crazy summer schedule), I did decide (with all of your help) to go back to monthly changing themes for my weekly quilts in this new larger 8 x 8 inch size.
It was comforting to be back to sketching out ideas in my sketchbook, planning out ideas for this and future months.  I also like how these looked in their groups on my website as I posted them.  It's nice to take a theme and stretch it out to it's furthest possibilities, and this coupled with the small size, is a nice exercise.
So, that all being said, January's theme is the same as the Japanese New Year animal, the rabbit (usagi).  For this first one I made this Japanese feel work with my Cherrywood dye fabrics.  It's a soothing scene for the beginning of the year and feels good after the chaos that was 2010 (both good and bad).