Passing The Pattern ~

While searching for Tula Pink fabric, I ran across this free quilt pattern :  Shoreline - featuring Tula's  Salt Water collection.  Very interesting method of construction so it is being passed on to you to enjoy for free!

Shoreline:  by Tula Pink featuring Salt Water fabric collection

 

How to Use a Facing

Oh, Joe Cunningham....He's the Man!  Watch in big screen and let this video change your binding MO!

Make It.....Give It......Auction It ~

What with the QGA auction on the horizon.....many might be wondering what to contribute.  Here's a gentle idea to make.  At the same time, your limits are tested as to how to use those tiniest bits of fabric.....even the selvedge! while making this pouch to give or sell. 

Sharing the tutorial from Sew Delicious ~ how to sew a selvedge panel:  a quilt as you go technique.

Have a great meeting today, Quilters' Guild Acadienne, and have fun making those auction donations.
 


 

Take A Spin Around The Block ~

Do you need a nudge.  Get out of that rut....come take a "Spin Around The Block" designed by Michelle Engel Bencsko ~

I'm drooling over some of these PDF free downloads found at Cloud 9 Fabrics.  Get out and go see.  So many to select- there's one there for you. 

Also designed by Michelle Engel Bencsko - Sea Glass quilt.  How fun, how easy!

And this one makes my heart flutter - Yes, it is "The Flutter Quilt" by Angela Hoey,

And, if that's not enough.....well, here is a Melanie Tuazon designed quilt:   the "Floret" quilt

Let's download.  Let's make some quilts. Let's take a spin.  See you around the corner ~







 

Do You Purl Soho?

If not, then do... Purl Soho is a wonderful site filled with inspiration for the knitters and purlers and quilters and more. With their offerings of so many free tutorials and patterns - well, it's just a  no-brainer. 


Here's todays find....and what with winter coming our way, who couldn't use a knit shawl.  On those mildly cool days that we so often have here in the deep south, a shawl is all that is needed to ward off a chill. 




Purl Soho Elementary Wrap

Finished with that knit project....then, let's get back to quilt-making.  Here's an easy start:

The Prism Quilt in Liberty of London fabrics:

Purl Soho.....where you can shop and create.  Now,  that's a good thing!













 

How'd you do that?

How to mount quilts on canvas?  Do you have that perfect art quilt that deserves to be spotlighted... one that needs to stand out from the crowd?   Here's the best tutorial on how to mount your quilt so it becomes a special piece of art.    Found at Wendy Hill Happenings - here's how the talented fiber artist, Judy Simmons did that! 



Mounting Quilts on Canvas by Judy Simmons a fiber artist
@Windy Hill Happenings

I can also see a fragment of an heirloom quilt that's  been handed down preserved and displayed mounted on canvas.  Or what about an unfinished quilt block?  Oh, the possibilities of mounting fabric on canvas.  



 

Refresh those paper piecing skills.....

Yes, the perfect way to refresh those paper piecing skills -  Folkwood Rabbit Pillow.....a free paper pieced pattern by Danica Willig Designs using Folkwood fabric designed by Rae Ritchie.  And, in case you need to know, Hawthorne Threads has a little bit of Folkwood rabbit fabric in pink and also a beautiful chocolate brown. 



 

Picture credit to
Danica Willig Designs

 

Ready

Set

Hop

right into this paper pieced design.

I'll be right behind you so don't stop now!

 

 

 

 

 

Jolly Braid Totebag

It's a Jolly Braid Totebag

Kimberly put a smile on my face this morning.  No, it's not just another tote tutorial!  There are lessons to be learned. 

• How to make braids easily using braids triangle on a roll sheets.
• How effectively Kimberly uses Wonder Clips rather than pins in heavy fabric areas.
• How to make a tote strap more dense with Annie Strapping....love this. Side note with a smile for those going to Houston, Annie Bags will be there!
• How to easily box the bag.  I've struggled with this for years.....how easy life is! Beginning on minute 9 in the video. 

And enjoy, as I did, the intensity on Kimberly's face as she does the big reveal pulling the bag out of the lining. 

Looking for a way to quickly sew gifts for the holiday season?

Looking for a project to make as a group?  For a guild program? 

 Now you have it.
Go to the big screen and

Enjoy.

 

Scrap Happy Scrap Buster Quilts

It's was just a pile of scraps - a few days ago! And, as the song goes, 'baby, won't you look at her now?'  A beautifully pieced pile of Christmas fabric by Mary Duhon Louviere.  Mary says,

"I do a lot of Christmas projects so 2-3 years ago I started sewing the scraps together to make 5 inch blocks and saving all unused triangle blocks. When I felt I had enough I put them together with white sashing. I will quilt this one this fall."

And the sweetest note from Kelly Broussard along with a picture of her scrap quilt. 



"Marty, this is the first scrap quilt I made.  I found a picture on Pinterest and completed it in May 2016. I'm working on another scrap quilt using 16 patch stars,  but it's still a wip. 

Thanks

Kelly Broussard

Ps. I enjoy your blog!  Thanks for posting!"

 

 

Kelly, it's scrap quilts such as yours that make my heart sing.

 

Love, love, love Gloria Raggio's scrap-made tumbling jewel.  

 

 

 

Gloria says this is one of her favorite quilts made from scraps done as a Bonnie Hunter scrap busting challenge.  She used this setting so she wouldn't have to match seams as in a more traditional tumbler setting!! Girl after my own heart. 

 

And one of my personal favorites, a design idea out of "making quilts" with Kathy Doughty of Material Obsession.....Greenfields:

 

 

Books, oh, my!  Aren't there just a number of books on how to use those fabric scraps in quilts and so many other projects.  Zakka Style helps us use those scraps in 24 projects complied by Rashida Coleman-Hale from bags and totes to potholders, pin cushions and more. 

 

 

And Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison: 

 

 

 

Also by Amanda Jean Nyberg is No Scrap Left Behind  with bragging rights to 16 quilt projects. 

 

 

An oldie, but certainly a good one to jump start the love. This book continues to make me

Scrap Happy....by Sally Schneider: 

 

 

 

So, what do you do with your fabric scraps?  Do you organize by the size or shape of the scrap?  by color?   Do you cut in squares or strips? 

 

 

Scrap quilting isn't for every quilter just as buying packaged kits isn't for everyone.   So.....if 

 you aren't in love with piecing with fabric scraps.....well, just pass those scraps on. 

 

But by all means, don't just sit on them! 

Signed:  A Happy Quilter in Scrap Heaven

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come Go With Me ~

Let's truck on over to the AQS BLOG.....where the lessons of the day are all about free motion quilting .....

• 25 square-in-a-square quilting designs

Free motion quilting design for SQ in a SQ quilt block

• 25 9-patch quilting designs

Free motion quilting design for 9-patch quilt block

 

What a perfect place to play and practice free motion quilting in quilt sashings ~

La Boheme table runner pictured with fabric designed by Pat Bravo. 

 Pat used scraps of fabric from her Indie Boheme fabric line,  but, you know, not taking away from the beauty of Pat's fabric, any scrap in your pile could make one. 

  That, of course, is my favorite go to place. 

Life is good in free motion.  Come go with me.