Mini Quilt Show!

Throughout the year, I make quilts for a variety of publications.  It's a good bet that I hardly remember when a project is actually published because of the lead time.  So, I may be making a quilt in March for publication in October!  Or making a winter quilt in the middle of summer.  It can get really confusing!

But, sometimes, it can be utterly wonderful when several projects are published or become current at the same time!  So, in this post, I give you a mini-quilt show of several of my current projects!  

If you have received your Fons and Porter Love of Quilting November/December 2017 issue, you may have seen Cornerstone.

November/December 2017 Issue.  Picture courtesy of Fons and Porter Love of Quilting.

Sneak peek at Cornerstone.  Picture courtesy of Fons and Porter Love of Quilting.

 Cornerstone is a lap size quilt that was pretty easy to assemble despite how complex it looks!

By the way, here's a picture of Hillside Harmony from Quilting Quickly September/October 2017 issue.

Hillside Harmony.  Picture courtesy of Fons and Porter Quilting Quickly.

Hillside Harmony is a scrappy quilt that I had a lot of fun designing.  I just love how the yellows and reds pop against the blue and green background fabrics.

I have single patterns available right now through Annie's Catalog.  One of them is Christmas Cookies, a lap size quilt that Annie's Catalog is offering as an Exclusively Annie's Quilt Design.  

Christmas Cookies.  Photograph by Annie's Publishing. Used with Permission.

Another pattern is a favorite of mine, Drifting Snow.  It is a table runner that is also being offered as a Exclusively Annie's Quilt Design.

Drifting Snow.  Photograph by Annie's Publishing. Used with Permission.

In the Winter 2017 issue of Quilter's World, is City View.  It has a geometric and modern feel in shades of blue and green (even the background is a pale blue!).

City View, Quilter's World Winter 2017.
 Photograph by Annie's Publishing. Used with Permission.

City View was published with complete AccuQuilt die-cutting instructions.  It was so easy and fast to use my fabric cutter to cut the pieces for this project.  I confess, I use my AccuQuilt fabric cutter more and more these days.  The cutting just goes so much faster and, with the accurate shapes, the piecing is just so much easier!

Speaking of which, also check out my project tutorials on the AccuQuilt Blog!  The latest is a pattern for a Christmas Bell Pull!    I used silk, wool and cottons and I added some beading for that extra bling!

I hope you enjoyed my mini-quilt show here!  I am off to Quilt Market this weekend and I can't wait to see what's new in the quilting world!  

Latest news!

It's been an eventful few months!  But, here's the latest news.  Last week, I did an AccuQuilt demo at our local guild, County Line Quilters.  It was a wonderful experience!  AccuQuilt provided a prize package consisting of a GO! fabric cutter, a GO! Qube and a strip die.  


It was TO DIE FOR!  The winner would only need to "add fabric" and for us quilters, you know that's really not a hard thing to do.   Drawing the winner's name was the very last thing we did that evening and Pat K., who really wanted it, actually won the prize package.  So, it went to a great home!    Congratulations, Pat!


This week, the 2017 Row by Row Experience began.  At our local quilt shop, The Round Bobbin (in Ambler, PA), everyone has been busy sewing the samples and putting kits together.  "From Sea to Shining Sea" is the shop row and you can check it out on Facebook!   Here's a sneak peak!

While I wrote the pattern, it is based on Susan S.'s idea (she also made it!) and Susan A. machine quilted it perfectly! 

Speaking of Susans, my latest AccuQuilt blog tutorial using the GO! Sunbonnet Sue die has been published. 

Sunbonnet Sue is such an iconic quilting figure, it was a puzzle to come up with new ideas to present her.  Family events this past spring finally inspired my project.  I have three sisters (including another Susan!) who I do not see often.  It's even harder for us to all get together in one place at one time.   So, the blog tutorial this month is a "portrait" of my sisters and I as Sunbonnet Sues!  Check it out!  

More news to come soon!  Watch for it!  Until next time...

Serendipity

I'm sure you have heard of Edyta Sitar (Laundry Basket Quilts) by now.  She of the lovely quilt designs in patterns and books.  Well, add AccuQuilt dies and embroidery to the list!

With the GO! Qube Specialty Set - Serendipity by Edyta Sitar, you get dies and an embroidery CD to make a couple of her designs.  Plus, you can use the the applique and geometric dies to cut shapes for your own quilt.

For my most recent blog tutorial for AccuQuilt, I made patriotic placemats using some of the applique shapes!

After making the star placemat, I wanted to play with some of the floral appliques to make the flower placemat.   I love the way these turned out!  So, if you would like to check these projects out, head on over to my tutorial!

Christmas in July!

I don't know about you but I'm never ready with presents and projects in time for Christmas!  For once, I've made an early start.  On this hot July weekend, why don't you join me and dive into Christmas projects?   And, boy, do I have a cute project for you!

Check out my blog on the AccuQuilt website to make this wonderful table topper!

Shown here On Point

It doesn't take that long to make so spend the hot day in the cool indoors and you'll still have time to sit out to enjoy the sun at the end of the day!

Summer of 2016

Celebrate summer with my Sunflower Throw Pillow that you can make with your AccuQuilt dies!  Read all about how I made it 3-D for just a little more fun.

Also, don't miss a new AccuQuilt project, Woven Bed Runner, that you can download for free!

In other news, the free pattern project for Red Rooster's Akahana collection is making the rounds in Pinterest.   It looks so complicated but it's so pretty and easy to make!  

Using the same collection, make this stunning Table Topper!

Last but not least, check out these pictures I took at the Philippine Eagle Center.  They take care of injured birds as well as try to find ways to increase breeding.   Endangered and breathtaking!  

Enzo, my nephew.

This is "Fighter".  He lost his left wing to a bullet. 

Still so magnificent.

Keep cool this summer!

My Sweet Hearts Quilt and other projects

It has been quite a busy last 3 months, filled with travel and family visits and, of course, holidays.  It's hard to believe but I found myself with doing maybe half an hour of sewing in all that time!  I logged in lots and lots of digital sewing, however, putting my EQ7 to work!

One of the first projects I picked up this month - when I finally had time to sew - is the Sweet Hearts Quilt.  Read all about it on the AccuQuilt Blog.

I really enjoyed making it especially since AccuQuilt makes cutting those triangles so perfectly easy and precise.  I love that the dog ears are removed, right at the start.  I love that I can piece quarter square triangles together for the border and they come out the perfect size!  I love that I didn't have to spend much time cutting and subcutting.  Can you tell I love my AccuQuilt GO! Fabric Cutter???

Last year (before my little sewing hiatus), I made Prismatic from a couple of Northcott's Sandscapes jelly rolls and it is now available as an Exclusively Annie's quilt pattern from Annie's Catalog.

Photo courtesy of Annie's

 One of my quilts, Sunspots, also managed to land on the cover of a book, Bargello Quilts and Beyond!

Photo courtesy of Annie's

It was a lot of fun and easy to make, using non-traditional bargello methods.   So fun and easy, I used the same methods to come up with Robin's Egg Blue, which is also in the same book.  

Photo courtesy of Annie's.

Doesn't it remind you of southwestern turquoise and silver jewelry?  I hope it does for that was my inspiration for it!  Anyway, I can visualize this quilt in dramatic red, white and black, too.

For now, I have one more project to share with you - my Bollenvelden table runner  that appears in Quilter's World Magazine Spring 2016 issue.  Google assures me that "Bollenvelden" is Dutch for tulip fields and that's exactly what I was going for in this quilt.

Photo courtesy of Annie's.

Think Spring!

Quick Project for Christmas

 Christmas is just around the corner!  Yes, I know it's not even Halloween yet but, still, Christmas is barely 2 months away.  That's 62 days.  Phew!  Time to get those holiday projects going....

So, are you ready for a quick project?  AccuQuilt has a fabulous  die that makes 3 different 7" snowflakes!    I used it, as well as the 8" Circle die (LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!)  to come up with Ornament Hot Pads!

 Read about how I made these Hotpads here!

And, don't forget to get the free pattern here! 

You're going to love these!

Some exciting news, friends!  I recently made Pillows for AccuQuilt using their new GO! Churn Dash Dies and my blog tutorial just got posted on the AccuQuilt Blog!  Here's the link:  https://www.accuquilt.com/blog/education/go-project-tutorials/new-churn-dash-pillow-patterns/

The Churn Dash block is one of my favorites.  It's one of the few blocks that I've made over and over again.  Here are just a couple of my projects - both named after the alternative block name, Double Monkey Wrench.  It's still the Churn Dash!

Monkey Blues, Quilter's World 2014.
Jo Morton's Blue Variety Fabrics for Andover.

Monkey Business Quilt, Quilter's World 2013.

Here's the front of one of the new Churn Dash pillows.  

Quilted Front, 18" Churn Dash Pillow.

So, head on over to the AccuQuilt Blog and read how easy it is to put these pillows together!