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Blogger’s Quilt Festival-Fall 2012

Blogger’s Quilt Festival-Fall 2012

 

Here’s my entry for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Fall 2012 hosted by Amy’s Creative Side.  I call it my Chevron Picnic Quilt.  I participated in the “In the Bag -Ugly Fabric Quilt Challenge” earlier this year and this is my result!

All the fabric, except some white on white from my stash, is from my swap partner, Patti.  I didn’t have a plan so I cut the fabric into 5″ squares and then made half square triangles using the June Tailor Perfect Half-Square, Quarter Square slotted ruler.  Everyone was perfect!   I’m a gadget person and I highly recommend this one!

 

After much shuffling, I decided on this layout.

Chevron quilts are fun!  When you rotate them, you have a different quilt!

For this quilt, I played around with different quilting designs in each row.  It’s become the quilting sampler in my studio.

 

 

 

In keeping with the theme, I “acquired” some truly ugly fabric from my stash for the backing!  It’ll be perfect for a picnic – who cares if this gets a little dirty!  I like how the quilting detail pops!

 

Quilt stats:

Measures 48″ square

Longarm quilted by me

Best Category – Throw quilt, Scrap Quilt

Thanks for looking, have fun checking out other quilts!

 

Amy's Creative Side

Design Wall Monday and retreat update

Design Wall Monday and retreat update

We had a great quilting retreat at A Place to Sew in DeSoto, WI.  What a wonderful place to sew, sew and sew!  Here’s one of the quilts that I started, Love’s Woven Rectangles.  I designed this on EQ7, based on other quilts of this style, when I decided to re-purpose this fabric.  I cut the long borders today because I didn’t want to piece this fabric for the wide borders.

I posted pictures throughout the weekend on my Facebook page and got a request for the measurements.  So here’s the details for making your own Woven Rectangles.

 

 

Cut print fabric into 5 1/2″ strips

Cut solid fabric into 2″ strips

Sew solid strips to each side of print fabric using scant 1/4″ seam.  An accurate seam is important to achieve a finished 8 1/2″ strip set.  (Ask me how I know that!)

A short strip is pictured here because I cut the long borders from this fabric.  For all the other fabrics, I cut width of fabric to make the strip sets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cut the strip sets into 8 1/2″ segments.  The blocks are a 8 1/2″ square.

Repeat this step for every print fabric.

Alternate the blocks to create a woven look.  I’m making 80 blocks for an 8 x 10 setting.  My design wall picture is a random setting but I’ll probably play around with other looks.

Cut additional 2″ solid fabric strips to make the narrow inner border.

Cut 5 1/2″ strips, either lengthwise or crosswise (for pieced) from the border fabric.

Here’s my link for adding borders to your quilt top.

Thanks for looking and have fun planning your own Woven Rectangles!  Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday projects.

Just keep stitchin’ !

Linda

 

 

My Version of Rectangles and Squares Quilt

My Version of Rectangles and Squares Quilt

A  couple of quilters asked me about my Rectangles and Squares Quilts, so here’s a mini tutorial on how to make your own.

Bryana + Sam Quilt is finished, and the greys and browns version is a work in progress.  I’ve sewn the body together, and need to add the borders.  For this one, I am adding a mottled black border which contrasts the squares, unlike Bryana’s which has matching borders and squares.

Check a previous post that refers to the inspiration for these quilts.  I like the way the  AllPeopleQuilt pattern clustered the colors, but didn’t take advantage of strip piecing like The Baby Bricks pattern.  So, I just combined the two patterns to create my quilts!  For Bryana’s quilt, I used larger blocks that finish 9″ x 3″ and the grey blocks finish 2″ x 6″.  You can use fat quarters or width of fabric.  The construction is the same for each.

The smaller block is a 4 1/2″ strip of print fabric (rectangles) and a 2 1/2″ strip of background fabric (squares) sewn together and pressed toward the print.  Cut the strip set into 2 1/2″ segments.  Do this for all the fabrics, arrange them and sew together!  That’s it!

The larger block is a 6 1/2″ strip of print fabric (rectangles) and a 3 1/2″ strip of background fabric (squares) sewn together and pressed toward the print.  Cut the strip set into 3 1/2″ segments.  Do this for all the fabrics, arrange them and sew together!

This would be a fun one to do scrappy if you wanted to cut individual squares and rectangles, but this method is so fast you can have all the blocks done in an afternoon.  It takes longer decide on the layout!

I hope this makes sense to everyone!  Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’ !

Linda

 

 

Cockscomb Meander video

Cockscomb Meander video
Cockscomb Meander video

Here’s my first foray in quilting videos!  Thanks to Connie at Artisan at Heart for requesting it and to my dear hubby for operating the camera and getting it uploaded to YouTube.  The tricky part is trying to sew with the Millennium handles straight up so they are out of the camera view.

I designed this E2E pattern when Candace of Double Nickel Quilt Challenge brought me a quilt with Kaffe Fassett fabrics.  I call it Cockscomb Meander but another good name would be Fassett Flowers!  It’s very simple and easy to change for your own personal style and density.  Here’s some quilts with the design.  Ginny’s QuiltCandace’s Quilt.  Hope you like it and have fun!!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’ !

Linda

Design Wall Monday and Plan Ahead

Design Wall Monday and Plan Ahead

 

 

 

My “Tangy” quilt is getting bigger!  Now, I’m trying to decide on the size and whether to go square or rectangle.  This will probably be someone’s baby quilt so this might be big enough, especially after 2 borders are added.

 

 

 

 

 

My other “design wall topic” is about planning ahead.  When you’re preparing your backing for your quilt top, consider making it large enough for an unfinished table runner, orphan blocks or pillow shams.  Especially, if you quilt by check.  My customer’s know that I will load their little projects after their quilt and they will save!

Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday projects!

Thanks for looking and just keep stitchin’ !

Linda

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