Love it or Hate it–Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year
Each year, Pantone chooses their Color of the Year. This year it is a yellowish green called Greenery. We’ll be making 8 inch Dutchman’s Puzzle blocks combing the color-of-the-year with another fabric of your choice and adding a tan or pink background. Susan made this block. I apologize, but I think I picked up a nasty flu that is working it’s way through the city and so this post will be brief–providing you with the essentials and updated as I can later. Block Pattern You can download the block pattern here:...
read moreJanuary Recap
In January 2017, 29 quilters made 153 heart blocks, using made-by-you fabric, that were won by Laurie, Nancy and Susan. Karen N. made this one. Complete guidelines and the link to the block directions are in this post: What Do you Love? January’s Heart Block The tag for ALL blog posts about this month’s block: heart This month, I also released a quilt pattern which you might use for any or a sampler of all of the blocks we make this year: The 3 Bears – A Fill-in-the-Blocks Quilt Pattern. This post serves as our...
read moreUpdate on string blocks received in Australia
Apologies for the delay in updating the blocks which arrived. I received some wonderful blocks from Maree NZ ( 23 Jan), Cathy L from IA (25 Jan), Robin in MS (27 Jan), Nancy in Texas (30 Jan) and today 1 Feb from Elizabeth in MI. Thank you all so much for your colourful blocks. Margaret
read moreThe Queens of Hearts are …
The January winners are: Nancy Laurie Susan Congratulations! Look for email from me later today.
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Last of the Strings
The last few strings have arrived, from Sophie and Elizabeth. Now comes the fun!
read moreCHICKENS CAME HOME TO ROOST!
Karen Nicole the three roosters arrived today from South Africa! After 39 days in transit I had about given up hope of ever seeing them. They are beautiful; the chicken wire background is so spot on and the fabrics you chose for the roosters are wonderfully bright and cheery. Many, many thanks and I apologize to the South African Post Office and the USPS for ever doubting them.
read moreString Blocks in the mail
My three string blocks were sent off today at the post office to Margaret in Australia, and will take about 7-10 days to travel from South Africa. A bit late, sorry, but how could I send them off without first showing, along with the Heart blocks, to my monthly quilt group! (Sometimes that’s the only sewing I get done!) I normally try to get the previous month’s ones off to the winner BEFORE making or posting about the current month’s ones, AHEAD of our third-week-of-the-month meeting, but Christmas and holidays...
read morebaby quilt almost done
These are the blocks I won last summer. It was my first attempt at spiral circle quilting on the machine. It went well and will do it again one day. The binding isn’t on yet, but I couldn’t wait to show it. We had a lot of snow last night, I’ll go shovel a little, then start sewing on this snow day at...
read moreMore Strings
More lovely string blocks have arrived from Kristin S. and Sophie W. Thanks so much ladies.
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