If you ask my quilting friends, they will tell you I'm the Queen of Fussy Cutting. For my House Hunting Quilt I designed a foundation pieced house block that can have a fussy cut center. Yay! I have been trying to make one house per day, slowly building a neighborhood. I was thinking about houses because my husband and I have been looking at houses in NC to find our next home. I think we've looked at 47 (over the past 3 years) and counting with our realtor....as we aren't ready to buy yet it's an ongoing process but soon....(thanks, Melinda! We WILL find one..... soon.) Paper foundations, cute fussy cut centers, 3" finished houses, 9" finished block of houses. This is the plan for a 25 block quilt. I think all the backgrounds will be blue and white. I might not stop at 25 blocks if we haven't found our dream home by then. When we do find it I plan to sew a house and put a big heart in the center of it! If I do one house per day I'll be done with the blocks by June. I think these houses are so fun to make that I'll keep going!! Loads of whites to choose from. Loads of blues to choose from. These are the sizes of background pieces that I cut. This piece of fabric is 8 1/4" x 3 3/4". This is how I cut for the center block square. To make the 8 outside house backgrounds I cut long strips of fabric and then chop it into my desired sizes. These are ALL cat fabrics. Lots of cats to make a cat block with some extras for later. Background pieces cut for 1 white and 8 blue, center fusses, foundation papers and scissors to trim the seams. This 3 1/2" ruler is a MUST for trimming the houses. There is plenty of room around the house so it isn't going to be a crowded neighborhood. I couldn't resist putting a mouse in the "cat block"! This is the Snow block. I pieced most of these on one snowy Saturday. The center house has a popcorn background. That block was made New Year's Eve. The upper right house has Mary weeping for her lost lamb. Christmas day I made the Santa in the peppermint house with the candy cane background. The center house has the little bear from the "Beary Merry Christmas" advent calendars that I finished in December. This was printed on the instruction part of the fabric. I'm sure most people threw it away but I found a use for it. There is Mary's little lamb in the yellow house! And one of my favorite geckos lower left. I started this one-a-day house quilt on December 1st. Sometimes I make houses ahead to cover days that I can't sew (like when we were in New Orleans). Since I made the cat block in one day I'm now up to Feb 1st. I can slack off if I want to for a while but these are so much fun! Finish It Friday link up. Busy Hands Quilts-Finished or not Friday link up.
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One of my dearest friends approached me a few weeks ago to ask whether I could help her customise one of my patterns. Her work colleague was injured in the Manchester Arena bombing and she wanted to raise funds for him by making a special quilt to raffle. The block she wanted to include was a Bee. The industrious Worker Bee has been a symbol of the city of Manchester since the C19th and, since the terrorist attack, has been adopted as an emblem of unity, strength and positivity. In that spirit,
Токио квилт фестиваль 2018, часть 1 Tokyo Quilt Festival 2018, part 1 Посты с фотографиями с квилт шоу в 2015-ом году можно посмотреть тут. You can find a lot of photos from Tokyo Quilt Festival 2015 here. Сегодня покажу сумки вне очереди, они заслуживают того. С победителями я была не согласна, но покажу их в конце поста. Today - bags, they were excellent. I didn't particularly agree with the choice of winners, may be I son't understand the criteria, but I will show them in the end of the post. Итак, победители. Первое место: Yasuko Takemura. The winners. First Prize: Yasuko Takemura. Второе место: Masahiko Demoto. Second Prize: Masahiko Demoto. Третье место: Yoshie Kuratomi. Third Prize: Yoshie Kuratomi. Все на сегодня, ждем продолжения :-) Хорошего вам дня! This is it for today. until next time! Have a nice day!
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1/12/2010 I am thinking of making a patchwork tool bag (also a cosmetic bag) using pattern from here... maybe a little bit of adjustment. 8/12/2010, 2pm. Very cold weather, 0 degree today. I just completed my applique, owl is my theme this time. When I was in Hokkaido, a lot of souvenir stores were selling owl figurines, the design were really funny and cute. I thought of making projects that have owls as the theme since then. If you really noticed, it's really rare to see projects with owls in any Japanese patchwork books. This is something different . I think I will stop for the day. I will perform quilting tomorrow. 9/12/2010, 4:30 pm It is warmer today. I find that I am more energetic when it is getting warmer. I have actually completed quilting for the front page and the 2 pieces for the zippers. By adding some red juicy fruit, I think that looks better ^^. Let's see what is the task for tomorrow. Mouth watering fruit.... what do you have in mind ?
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