Monday, January 12, 2015

Sock Hop Blog Hop


Today is Day 1 of the Island Batik Sock Hop Blog Hop!  This is 14 days of great new fabric and projects.  The fabrics from Island Batik were all named after golden oldie songs - so that is where the Sock Hop theme came from.  Each blogger picked a group of fabrics and a favorite "oldie" block and made a project to share with you.

Today is Island Batik's day on the hop.  Be sure to check it out, and follow along everyday and go to all the different blogs to see what they created.  Enter at each blog for some fantastic giveaways!

1/12 –  http://www.islandbatik.com/news/  - today
1/13 – Susan Vassallo Quilting Arts – Topsy Turvey Log Cabin
1/14 – Freemotion by the River – 54-40 in Running Water
1/15 – Beaquilter – Hunter Star in Crimson Tide
1/16 – One Quilting Circle – Flying Geese
1/17 – Mary Mack’s Blog – Sisters Choice in Down in the Boondocks
1/18 – Happy Cottage Quilter – Nine Patch in Johnny B Goode
1/19 – Kauffman Designs – Drunkard’s Path in Downtown
1/20 – Tamarinis – Pinwheel in Saturday Night Fever
1/21 – Bejeweled Quilts – Maple Leaf in La Bamba
1/22 – Six Gables Designs – Friendship Star in Full Bloom
1/23 – Purrfect Spots – Duck and Ducklings in No Particular Place to Go
1/24 – Inchworm Fabrics – Another Star in In the Summer Time
1/25 – Sew Fresh Quilts – Stepping Stones in Cry Me a River


My day to post is on the 19th.  Come back and see what I made using these fabrics called -Down Under.


Monday, December 22, 2014

Color Inspiration


The colors of Christmas always inspire me!  Here's just a sample of my Christmas decorations.  This is an easy way to get color inspiration for a quilt.  Find a photo or image that you like and pull coordinating fabrics to match.


Here are a few fabrics I pulled to go with the photo above.  So easy - fabrics are ready!  Now need to decide a pattern...

Hope everyone has a wonderful- colorful Christmas!


Monday, December 15, 2014

Give-a-Way Winner

The winner of the e book Take 5 Fat Quarters by Kathy Brown, is Mary Ebert!
Mary, you will be hearing from Martingale's soon about how to download your free ebook.
Enjoy!

(winner was drawn from Random.org)

Monday, December 8, 2014

Book Review & Drawing: Take 5 Fat Quarters

Martingale - Take 5 Fat Quarters (Print version + eBook bundle)
photography courtesy of Martingale
This book:  Take 5 Fat Quarters by Kathy Brown. has a nice variety of 15 easy patterns.  The first thing I do when I see a new quilt book is look at the patterns and the fabric colors.  Then I go through again and look at how the quilting is done.  I liked the patterns in this book and I also liked that each quilt had a unique and different quilting design.  See two of the projects below and notice the nice quilting detail.
Martingale - Take 5 Fat Quarters (Print version + eBook bundle)
photography courtesy of Martingale

Martingale - Take 5 Fat Quarters (Print version + eBook bundle)
photography courtesy of Martingale


Martingale is giving away a free ebook  of Take 5 Fat Quarters to one lucky winner!  Leave a comment with your full name and email address and I will choose a winner on Dec 15.

Monday, December 1, 2014

Free Published Project - Winter Snowfall

Photo courtesy of
Quilter's Newsletter

This quilted table runner I called Winter Snowfall.  It uses Winter Wonderland and Baker's Dozen Sprinkles fabrics from Island Batiks.  These fabrics worked wonderfully to give the feeling of snowflakes flying in a winter sky. The curved flying geese are paper pieced.

This is a free web extra pattern from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine - Dec/Jan 2015 issue.  The size is:  30" x 10".

 Go to:  www.QuiltersNewsletter.com to find the free instructions under the Webxtras.

Monday, November 24, 2014

Blog Block #2 - Betty's Delight

Blog Block #2   Betty's Delight

I've liked this simple block pattern for a long time.  I didn't know the name of the block, so I looked around and the only name I found was Betty's Delight.  I'm sure it also has some other names - send me a post if you know this block by another name.

I made the block using a simple paper pieced pattern.  It takes two patterns to make one block.  Each block only uses two fabrics.  My block is a three inch finished square.


I had a small sampling of Island Batik fabrics that I loved, and thought I'd see how many blocks I could make out of them. 
Here is my finished mini quilt.  
Aren't the colors lovely!


Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Give-a-Way Winner

The winner of the Island Batik fabric Give-a-Way is Carol C Thomas!

Carol- please contact me within 3 days with your address so I can get the fabrics sent out to you.

(winner was drawn from Random.org)