Hand Pieced QAL Update

I'm cutting it close for the link up party but I did finish my Hand Sewn QAL top. It's a very bright and sunny day here in Florida so it might not be the best picture. I used a textured white fabric and the rest is all batiks. I love batik fabric. 

I really enjoyed working on this project. I've wanted to try hand piecing a quilt for several years and it's nice to be able to cross that off my to try list. I will be hand quilting this quilt also. I find hand quilting very relaxing so it will be fun. I like working on this project early in the morning before I start my day.

A little bonus picture of one of my mini flower beds. When they tore up our road to put in city water and sewer I found a bunch of sea shells. These are a handful of them. Both bunches of orange flowers are marigolds that I planted from seed. They're supposed to be dwarf marigolds. The flowers that are only green leaves right now are dwarf sunflowers that I started from seed. I bought both seeds from The Dollar Tree. I wonder if they have a thing for dwarf flowers??

Funky Rooster

I saw this funky rooster block on the side bar of the Attic Window Quilt Shop blog a long time ago. I've always loved the funkiness of the design.  I had an empty spot on my wall of quilts and decided the Funky Rooster would be a perfect fit. I went with a funky shaped background that measures around 16" squarish. 

I found some of my brighter fabrics and fused them down to a mottled lighter grey fabric. I stitched everything down with a simple black straight stitch. I like the cartoon feel of a black outline stitch especially with the brighter fabrics. I decided to hand stitch a turquoise button on for his eye.

He's quilted in my standard crazy all over wiggle stitch and I went with the stitch and flip method because I didn't want any binding. 

For now this is where the Funky Rooster resides on my quilt wall.  I'm going to be ordering some curtain rods and clips so I can hang my quilts. Right now I am using the Command poster strips. That means anytime I want to rearrange the quilts or add more I have to unstick the ones already hanging. The strips aren't overly expensive but it does add up if you're like me and you like to add or rearrange quilts almost weekly. Plus, with the curtain rods the quilts will hang away from the wall and be able to breathe a little.

How do you hang your quilts?