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Got scraps? An extra jelly roll? A fat quarter bundle just waiting to be used? A layer cake languishing in your sewing room? Look no further…we’ve got a pattern to help you use up some of these fabrics (so you can make room for more, of course!) The striped blocks in this pattern use 1 … Continue reading Sofa Siesta – A Free Quilt Pattern
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I’m Designer, Author, Talk Show host Pat Sloan. In 2010 I created the first original Block of the month for Aurifil and it was so much fun we’ve done it ever year since! 2019 is my 9th year hosting…
Kaffe Fassett fabrics made into a bright queen sized quilt.
It is such a satisfying feeling to finish a quilt! You might have noticed that it's not something I do every other week so it's caus...
Happy Friday. This week I finished the Birch Trees Quilt for my grandson Easton. He picked out the pattern (Bright Birch Trees from Crazy M...
Kalish Quilt - I bought this from my Cousin's Wife when they were leaving the states to go to Panama. I have fixed a few spots that the threads were loose etc. other than that it is in good shape. Have no idea who made it, where it came from, how old it is, what the pattern is, but I LOVE THE C
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Two of the ladies were doing bindings. They took the class for these 2 quilts about 8 years ago. I have shown my flannel versions of it here and here. It is my own original layout and I taught the class for over 10 years. Now I have more students wanting that class because they weren't quilting yet when I used to give the class. Another student finished all of her blocks for the Turning Twenty Just got Better and got her layout of the blocks decided. Another student had her blocks on the wall and I didn't get a picture, a blue and yellow Bento Box. I helped another lady figure out how to put her 1250 nine patches in 3 sizes into 7 quilt tops. Here is my latest visitor to the back yard that I have to identify. He walks like a dove or pigeon. I know this photo is blurry but he wouldn't stand still. I wanted to catch the iridescent color on the back of his neck in the sunlight. After checking my bird books I guess it is a Rock Pigeon. I have only seen gray pigeons before but after reading about them, I know they come in several different colors now. The books say they mate for life but this male has been here by himself 3 days in a row now. It also said they usually hang around in groups of 20. I hope he doesn't bring his 19 friends to my yard.
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Hi, all! How are your own personal scrap issues coming along? I have barely made a dent in my overflowing pile of scraps, but I do feel...
Well it took me long enough, but I can finally check this one off! You can see my almost two years' worth of progress shots over here. This is an exciting finish as its the largest quilt I've ever made! I know that because I ran out of binding, and I've never needed more than 8 strips before. I had more of the green solid, but I decided to keep that spot interesting and gave it a little Happy Go Lucky orange mum. When I started this quilt, I was disappointed that for the first time in my adult life I lived in a house and had a backyard, but I couldn't do what I'd been dreaming of for years- garden! I loooove home grown tomatoes and squash, but we couldn't grow a thing because of a vole infestation. Luckily they were just in the yard, but man I hated those things. They ate everything in sight, there was no stopping them. Since I was so sad that I couldn't grow a garden, I started a quilt full of flowers and juicy reds and oranges and greens. (For the record, it was just a weird occurrence that year, and we haven't seen one in the yard since, thank goodness!) Fabric: mix of reds, greens, oranges and a dash of grey from my stash. They are about 70% Bonnie and Camille, with some Riley Blake basics and other lines mixed in. The backing is Vintage Picnic wide grey check, and the border and binding are from the Miss Kate line. Pattern: I did not follow a specific pattern, but the stars are 12" square, the sashing is 2" finished, and the border is 3.5" Quilting: by Julie Hirt in modern loops. Thanks again Julie!!
Well, "Tartan" is what MrPnP called it, when he saw my latest quilt top together! As this is made from Densye Schmidt's "Shelburne Falls" range of fabric, that's the name that's stuck! I chose the pattern from here... There is just one partial seam in each block.... right there in the centre! But it came together fairly painlessly! I didn't need to use "Herman" too many times! The solid I chose is Kona "Chinese Red".... a nice change from white or grey, and appropriate for a southern hemisphere winter. Though I'm not sure the Chinese made tartan fabric? Perhaps someone else has a better name for me? Happy sewing! SUZ
Time for Part 3 of the Pacific International Quilt Festival ! All the quilts we saw were absolutely gorgeous. Let us know which ones are y...
Para una amiga... El Square Dance es un trabajo que parte de la base de coser cuadrados, utilizar una plantilla "especial", cortar y volver a coser... Es aconsejable para realizar a máquina Utilizamos los cuadros que queramos (pares o impares) y unimos en tiras cosemos esas tiras formando un bloque Colocamos una banda alrededor del bloque (si el cuadrado mide 12 cm, la banda debe tener algo mas de la mitad de este, unos 8 o 9 cm. aprox) Las costuras de cada tira se planchan cada una en un sentido Colocamos la plantilla haciendo coincidir los trazos del patrón con las cuatro costuras Dibujamos todos los cruces, bandas incluidas y cortamos los nuevos cuadrados. Aconsejo cortar con tijera El cuadrado pequeño del centro se descarta Tenemos las cuatro piezas. Vamos poniendo los cuadrados rectos, dando un pequeño giro hacia la izquierda... y ya tenemos montado nuestro square dance Lo planteamos y cosemos por tiras, planchando las costuras de igual forma, cada tira para un lado. Unimos las tiras entre si y queda montado el bloque Para hacer la plantilla : Trazamos una recta que llamamos AB y situamos el punto C a la derecha Trazamos una recta pasando por C y formando un ángulo de 57º con la recta AB con la ayuda de un transportador Sobre esta recta situamos el punto D a una distancia de C con la medida exacta de los cuadrados cosidos y terminados. Situamos el punto E en mitad de CD (si el cuadrado mide 12 cm, lo situamos a 6 cm) Hacemos una perpendicular a la recta CD pasando por E con la ayuda de una escuadra Situamos los puntos FG de tal manera que la distancia entre ellos sea igual que CD (12 cm) Hacemos dos rectas perpendiculares a AB pasando una por F y otra por G, llamamos a estos puntos H e I Por último, hacemos una paralela a AB pasando por D y con esta obtenemos los puntos JK El resultado al cortar este cuadrado sería nuestra plantilla. Si no nos conviene las medidas del patrón que venga en una revista, con este trabajo, ya sabemos hacer la nuestra propia. Espero que el montaje de las fotos os aclare la forma de hacerlo, cuando se lo di a leer a mi marido, me miro y me dijo "la parte contratante de la primera parte será considerada como la parte contratante de la... me dio risa pero... ooooohhhhh, se entiende ¿no?, explicar una plantilla con ángulos, paralelas y demás no me ha sido tan fácil, hacerla si lo será. Buen comienzo de semana
Sewing This: Sometimes you just need a new direction when you are sick of your own sewing. The free tutorial for this block, from Sew Kylie, is found *here.* My bee-mate chose it for h…
A few weeks ago, my parents were up visiting and we went to a local quilt show that is held every other year. There are always some amazing quilts at the show. Here's some really beautiful ones that struck my eye while I was there. "Curves Ahead" by Sue Schoch. The pattern was called Urban Pods. "Party Streamers" by Suzette Merendo-DuPont. The pattern has the same name by Kate Mitchell Quilts. "Queen of the Magnolias" by Jennie Ozog. The pattern is called Cathedral Window Quilts by Lynne Edwards. "My Celtic Solstice" by Laurie Collins. The pattern is "Celtic Solstice" by Bonnie Hunter and Laurie made modifications to the borders to make it all her own. I like how she modified the border and put a celtic quilting theme into it. The quilting was great on this one. "Star Sapphire" by Monica Mottolese and the pattern is by Jinny Beyer. "100 Patch" by Ronald H. Lower. This one would be a great pattern to use up lots of those little scraps that we never know what to do with. "Floral Fantasy - William Morris" by Rita Haldar. "Baltimore Album Quilt" by Chris Polak. The patterns were taken from various books by Elly Sienkiewicz. "Mimi's Traditional Garden" by Carol Swota. Pattern is "Mimi's Bloomers" by Erin Russek. "Bella's Mimi" by Janet Palombo. Pattern "Mimi's Bloomers" by Erin Russek. "More Whirligigs" by Laurie Collins. Pattern is "Whirligig" by John Kubiniec. "Repro Stars" by Mary Widdis. Pattern is from County Threads. This quilt is actually very small. The log cabin pieces were only 1/2" wide finished. The individual did an amazing piecing job with this one. "We're on a Roll...." by Suzette Merendo-Dupont. The pattern is by Karen Brown of Java House Quilts. I couldn't help myself with this one. Its just so cute and funny. "Feather and Swirl" by Laurie Collins. This last quilt was one of the few whole-cloth quilts in the show. It is a masterpiece. I can't imagine the number of hours it took to quilt this. Next time I'm hoping to enter a few quilts into the show. I always end up forgetting to do so and finally remember it about a week before the show opens, which is obviously too late to enter anything. I really need to start planning ahead a little bit more. :c) Happy Crafting! ~Sarah at upstateNYCreations
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Hi, all! Are you having fun with your scraps this week? I know I am! Here's the latest blocks for my Long Time Gone quilt... These log cabin blocks were fun and I worked them up in about an hour, pulling fabrics from the top of the string basket again. Today I also pulled some scraps to remake this block.... ...because when I put it with the other blocks I've made, it seems dull and muddy. I've pulled some pretty Kate Spain prints for the second go and I think it will be much better. This one will find a home in another quilt! And now, since I have strings on the brain these days, here's some great inspiration I've found in the last few weeks... You can find the original info for all of these quilts by clicking on them on my Pinterest page, Oh Scrap! What have you been doing with your scraps this week? Feel free to link up below and share!! Hugs! Sarah
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Free PDF Pattern is now available for download. Click here! I have had this quilt in the works for a few months and finally got to quilt it this week. When I loaded it on my machine I was planning on doing a panto but it kept nagging at me that it deserved some custom work so I gave in! :) Large pebbles and swirls it was! I had made the blocks at a guild UFO day and had a few guild members help me decide on the finally layout as there are so many options when playing with HST style blocks. I really like how the blocks are worked into the border and glad my friends suggested it! :) I used soft yellow So Fine thread for the background quilting and a light brown Lava thread on the dark batiks. Batting is Quilter’s Dream Blend. I used a Stonehenge extra wide backing. I thought I would share how I made the blocks as I didn’t use a pattern but used a technique that I saw on a Missouri Quilt Company YouTube video that you can see here on how to make quick HST blocks. But instead of using just two fabrics from a charm pack I resized it and replaced one of the fabrics with a Four Patch made with 5” charm squares and that turns out to be 9 1/2” square. Once I had the four patch sewn I cut a 9 1/2” square of my background fabric and layered them right sides together and sewed a 1/4” seam around the outside perimeter. Then I cut the block diagonally twice. Then press open the four sections ( to the dark side) and end up with four HST blocks. Trim blocks, if needed, to 6 1/4" square. Now the only down side to these blocks are they are all bias edges so you have to be very careful when sewing the blocks together that you don’t stretch them out of shape! When adding the border cut 6 1/4" strips WOF of the background and piece in the two corner blocks that extend the design into the border. DO NOT piece white and white HST in the border as that would put bias edges on the outside edge. I have had a few readers do this and that makes for a very unstable outside edge. So if you have a few charm packs sitting around and want make a fast and easy quilt why not give this a try! I used 3 charm packs and my quilt finished 63 3/4"x 69 1/2", that includes the 6 1/4" border. I used about 3m of background/border/binding fabric for this size.
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My Scrappy String quilt/wallhanging is finished and hanging on my entryway wall. It's the perfect spot for it I think, and my husband agrees. We love it hanging there to greet people as they enter our home. I quilted it with "organic" lines down the middle of each string. I like the fact that the lines are not perfect. And, I love the black/white polka dot binding. It's perfect! There is not a good way to get a photo of the whole quilt so this view is from the hallway looking toward the front door. The next photo is the view from the stairs as you are walking downstairs. I'm really, really happy with this quilt. It was fun to do and I love how it looks on the wall!! I was going to do a tutorial but I found an even better one than I could have written. It's seems many, many people have used this tutorial and I can see why. It's very good. Here's what I did differently - rather than one narrow white strip down the middle, I did two strips of black/white fabrics. That way, when they were opened, they created a much wider light "middle". I used a 10" foundation block and when finished sewing all the strips onto it, I trimmed it to 9 1/2". I used 1 1/2" strips throughout. It was an easy, easy quilt!! In case you want to see even more string quilts, I've created a little linky party. Please join in if you've got a great string quilt to show us! Take care,
Hello dear quilty friends, Thank you for all your lovely comments on my previous posts on the series of wishbone variations! It is truly heartwarming to see so many people being enthusiastic about …
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Just got in the Honey Dew sashing from Sew, Mama, Sew sale. Pattern is Boho Girl from McCalls Quilting mag
Earlier this year, some of our Tasmanian MQG members got together at one of our sewing days and started putting blocks together for our raffle quilt. One of our very dedicated members (my friend Lauren) then put the rest of the blocks together. We worked together to piece the top - and then it was handed over to me for the quilting (which I finished back in April). We made this quilt using a bundle of Kona solids, and Carolyn Friedlander's fantastic Aerial pattern. The blocks are all paper pieced, so it was the perfect choice for a group quilt in terms of making sure the blocks were all the same size. It went together like a dream! It took me a while to decide how to quilt this one, but I knew I wanted to keep it fairly simple since it's such a dynamic and complex design. I ended up deciding to quilt in the ditch in all the seams in each block, and then chose one colour within each block to do some free motion organic straight lines. I think it works really well - the texture is really lovely without distracting from the complexity of the blocks. I used coordinating Aurifil thread for all the quilting - my healthy thread stash certainly came in handy ;o) How to quilt the borders had me stumped for a while - but I ended up extending out the 'fractured' lines within the blocks, and then filling in the spaces around them with some swirls and a couple of feathery designs. It wasn't until I quilted the last border that I discovered what I should have done across the whole border - rather than extending the line and echoing it at an angle on both sides (as in the photo above), it looks much more effective where I've just echoed one side (as in the lower area in the photo below). I'm still really happy with how this one came out, but it was a really great learning experience and has given me ideas for how to quilt future projects :o) We are currently selling raffle tickets for this quilt, and the winner will be drawn at the Craft and Quilt Fair in July. The money we raise will be going to a support a sewing program at our local Women's Prison. I am thrilled that we are supporting this program - I know so many people (including myself) who have found sewing and quilting to be amazing therapy when going through difficult times in life. If you are interested in purchasing tickets, please contact us at tassiemqg at gmail dot com. xx Jess PS stay tuned for my MisDirection pattern release later this week! I can't wait to show you my amazing testers versions.