Update on the Super Nova Quilt

I am taking a class on how to lay out and sew together my Super Nova quilt.  I ran into some problems and had to recut some pieces on Block set C, but I have finished the set. I have now finished sets A-D for a total of 20 blocks out of 40. Half way done but I have worked on this  a LOT. I mean a really BIG LOT. Probably 15 hours a week for 9 weeks. Now that I think about it, I haven't done much else. 

Here are the pictures of the finished blocks so far

I am hoping to get new pictures in the next few days. I am really happy with the way this project is moving. I am not going to make the mid-January finish date, but I am going to keep at it until it is done. I am watching every episode of Once Upon a Time, then moving on to something else. I love my new Roku.

My I Do and Heartstrings Quilts Plus a Finished Top

This is the I Do Quilt from Cherry House Quilts that I had taken a class on like 3 years ago.

I have all the pieces cut and have started to applique the circles. I had decided that I didn't like the look of the 6 min circle on Cherry House Quilts blog because the circle didn't "poof" out of the fabric just sunk below the fabric. I don't care for machine applique either. So I decided to hand applique all the 40 some 4" circles. I asked for the pain and I got it. I love the look of the hand applique and I only have about 8 circles left (Yeah!). I hope to have the circles completed by the middle of January. 

Here are the pieces laid out by row in stacks.

I have also been working on another class quilt called Heartstrings by Black Mountain Quilts. I changed this quilt by changing the background to a dark red and making it a queen size. I think I still have 10+ blocks to make.  This is another quilt I need to dig out and work on. I put the quilt up on the design wall at my quilt shop to see if I like the dark red background. It looks okay. It is actually a Kaffe Fassett shot cotton with red and purple threads so it has an iridescent look to it.

This is a finished top from a class I took in October. It is a beginner foundation piecing class taught by Carl Hentsch. The class was very good, but my fabric choices were HORRIBLE! I didn't think about which pieces would be dominant in the finished project. I really wanted the brown stars to stand out in the yellow. My main quilting teacher gave me the idea to quilt the pink fabric with purple thread and quilt the purple fabric with pink thread. It might tone both fabrics down enough to make the quilt tolerable. I have several small quilts I need to sandwich and quilt, so we will see if it works then.

Here is the not so pretty quilt