Heart block winners
I may have missed something but I do not know where to send my heart blocks to the February winners. Are the details going to be emailed to us? Congrats to all who won. Jo in Oman.
Heart Blocks
Hello Everyone,
I am so happy I won the heart blocks. My granddaughter really wanted to have a quilt with the ones I made. Now she can have one with many other beautiful blocks from my quilting friends.
Thanks to everyone, Debra
Yay!!
Made it!! Planning my February blocks.
pineapple blossoms are a top…
The blocks I won are in a top and it will be going to the quilter real soon.
So there is time to think about…..
What color binding???
Julie P.
Oct. blocks and auditioning border fabric
Here’s a start for the month
I’m auditioning border fabrics for the blocks I won.
This quilt will be for my future nephew due in March.
Here are 4 to start…not sure about any of them.
What do you think?
Any suggestions?
The far left is a molted batik
Under that is a blue on blue bubble print
Then on the right is blue stripes
And lastly the electric green.
These were some fabrics I had in the stash that I found quickly.
There will be appliqued words of “Oh the places you’ll go” in white along part of the border (see the cut paper, something like that)
let’s play!
I finished up the second top from my tic-tac-toe winnings last year, and hope to get this quilted soon. There were fun to play with — thanks again to all who made the blocks!
Julie Wa
Playing with African violets
Today I did my block for the July (!) Bee I am in. One of the requirement for the block was to make a flower in the block so I thought I would use the African violet block from the blocklotto last month that I DIDN’T win as I loved that block so much and Sophie had nicely provided instructions for different sizes of blocks. I followed Ellie’s exampleof a pansy block but modified it slightly when I realised I made a mistake in the cutting!
I used the triangles off-cuts of my pansy to make the tiny pinwheel blocks
You can see the finished block on my blog.
Although this is slightly off-topic, I hope it is OK to post this here, otherwise please let me know and I’ll delete this post.
Celine
How would you quilt these violets? (one block for Kim H.)
I’m going out of town this week and loved this month’s pattern so much that I tried to make a table topper for my host, who loves flowers. Sadly, my back started giving me trouble, so there is only ONE block for Black Lotto (Kim H.) and four 12″ blocks for me. At least I got in for the sneak peek deadline.
But this does give me some time to think about how to quilt the top. I had thought to follow the outline of the flower and do stippling in the black, but would be interested in any suggestions!
Thanks Sophie for another great pattern and color combination.
coin stack quilt top complete
After a few misstepts, I now have added the borders to the quilt top, and I’m pleased with the outcome.
I followed your suggestions with the green fern border with a thin blue line for a little oomph. Even though I have completed 4 or 5 quilt tops with borders, and have always added borders one layer at a time (including a large king size quilt), I decided crazily that it would save time to make a single long border strip by sewing the green and blue fabrics together, and then cutting them for the different sides. I got the top and bottom borders cut and sewed on, and then realized my mistake, that the blue corners wouldn’t work with just a long strip of green and blue. So I had to cut off the side strips to the exact measurement of the blue border, and then add green corners to fill in. Luckily the fabric is so dark that the corner pieces don’t show.
I’m confessing this dumbness in case there are any new quilters out there, to show that the standard procedures have a reason (even in liberated quilting). Luckily I had enough fabric to make the corners!
Now I have to figure out the backing and binding.
If I can take off work, on the 5th the Guild is having a workshop about quilting design, so I may take this quilt to get suggestions on how to quilt it or have it quilted. With so much white space, there are opportunities for some interesting design.
(By the way, I think the photo is sideways; I visualize the coins and flowers (or lanterns) going up and down vertically).
Thanks to all the January coin stack makers for your beautiful blocks!
The Three-Hour Challenge
When Michelle posted her quilt top, 42 x 54 inches, made from our 3-patch Rectangles using 4 fabrics, finished from cutting to finished top in 3 hours 15 minutes . . . I wondered if a completely scrappy version would go as quickly. The super rectangle table topper I planned to make started to feel like The Three-Hour Challenge.
My little 18 x 27 inch table topper is made from nine 3-patch blocks cut from 27 fabrics (no fabric repeated.)
Michelle inspired me to time my effort tonight:
25 minutes to cut fabrics-one rectangle from each of the 27 fabrics.
25 minutes to sew the blocks . . . including ripping out one of the blocks because I sewed a fabric that looks like a batik but isn’t wrong side up.
30 minutes arranging and re-arranging the blocks.
10 minutes to sew the 9 blocks together, 3 rows of 2 short blocks and 1 row of 3 tall blocks
90 minutes from cutting to ready to layer and quilt. I plan to try a bunch of Leah Day’s FMQ filler designs, maybe even a different one in each small rectangle. I haven’t decided yet about thread color? (or thread colors?) What do you think?Edited to add, I blogged about it on my blog here: A rectangle for my table.