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| Rainbow Colors |
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| Basting |
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| Light and Dark |
Happy New Year!!! Yes, I am a little late on these well wishes but I got sick on that day and my day job has been keeping me way too busy. I did sneak in some planning for the new year. All of this has kept me on my toes. Since my mind has been circling around the idea of renewal, resetting, and new goals I remembered something… I just realized I haven’t shared my Color Turn Quilt Pattern here or put it in my shop yet. The Color Turn Quilt Pattern is my take on a modern rainbow ...
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I chose to make two quilts - Sea Salt and Rainbow Kiss.
Sea Salt is a baby sized version based on my Masala Box pattern. I picked out bright blues and greens from the Island Batik Basics (these are available all year round) and paired them with Island Batik solid white background.
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| Sea Salt |
Over the past year, we’ve made a scrap buster block each month. On the AccuQuilt Australia blog, I shared different quilt layout options for each block to provide inspiration for how you could make a quilt from just the one block pattern – check those out here. But if you were sewing along to make a sampler quilt like me… well, now’s the time to put it together! Here’s how I made my rainbow sampler quilt…
You can find all the scrappy quilt block tutorials here.
HOT TIP
To get the same scrappy rainbow effect, I highly recommend ...
It was about one year ago, when I first doodled the idea that became Synergy. I first made Synergy in Rainbow Fabrics on a Light Gray background, provided by Island Batiks.
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| In Lace & Grace (Fall 2021 Collection) |
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| In Playful Purples (Island Batik Foundations) |
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| In Interurban (Fall 2021) |
Posting on my blog on a fairly regular basis was how I shared my quilting makes, for years. But since covid it's been VERY sporadic because Instagram is so much easier....and life in general was not. So I'm back again...I hope. I do not have internet at home. I use the library for the most part...or my phone. And cell service out here is touch and go. Dropped calls are the norm here. So it's a struggle to get a post out. But here goes... Now that it's a NEW year and we ...
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My pattern Synergy is in the Make Modern Magazine, Issue 44.
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| Synergy in Make Modern #44 |
Meet Synergy. Measuring 56" by 70", Synergy is made entirely with Island Batik Solids, provided to me free of charge by Island Batik. It is good to be an ambassador :-)
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| Orange Foliage, Rainbow Quilt |
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| My favorite :-) |
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| Breeze was a Brat |
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| More Fall Foliage |
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| Oh my beauty! |
The quilt was completed in November 2021. The pictures were taken on November 14, 2021. All instructions and pictures were sent on November 20, 2021. And then I had to sit tight till NOW.
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| Sitting ... |
I have a new finish!!! Let me show you a few process pictures before the final reveal.
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| Basting |
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| A Grizzly and a Polar Bear walked into a quilt!!! |
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| Quilting Slowly |
The guidelines for the Island Batik December Challenge were simple
Project Type: Any
Size: Minimum size 12” x12”
Any fabric
Technique: English Paper Piecing
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| Paul, the model |
Usually in my quilt making process, the sewing together of blocks is my bottleneck. But lately, the biggest stack has been those projects waiting for their bindings!
Today I am ready to share another Rainbow Scrap Challenge finish. This one was made using 2" strips of varying lengths. I trimmed up each block to 12" square.
When I placed the blocks, I turned them 90 degrees from the last so that I didn't have to match many seams. I really love the look.
When I pulled the scraps for each block, I also tried to group color hues to ...
read moreA is for Abacus.
Abacus is a bonus quilt made from leftover triangles while making the RSC blocks this year. I made a total of 30 Sister's Choice blocks, resulting in 60 bonus blocks. In the pictures below you can see how the herd grew.
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| In the beginning |
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| Red ones |
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| Purple Ones |
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| It grows! |
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| Almost there |
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| Finished Flimsy |
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| Baste, shall we? |
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| Finished!!! |
In an uncharacteristic frenzy of cleaning and decluttering of my sewing room, I went through my scrap tubs and finished sorting the pieces into the different coloured bags, tossing the really small pieces into the bin as I went. By the end of the afternoon, my scraps were (mostly) nicely organised and I had a bin full of little pieces to throw out.
This week I shifted priorities in order to get quilts out of my house. This Gingham Rainbow Carpenter’s Star quilt is now finished. I don’t remember how long ago I made this quilt, but it’s been several years. The binding is now complete and the quilt is ready to donate.
It’s been 40 years since I first saw this view of downtown Minneapolis, but I never get tired of it. Jim and I took a lovely walk around Lake of the Isles this morning so I took my photos on a bridge there.
The blocks of ...
read moreIf you follow me over on Instagram, I shared this quilt design a couple of weeks ago as part of the IG hop celebrating Sassafras Lane’s new fabric collection “Favorite Things” for Windham Fabrics, where it got an enthusiastic reception. I’m excited to be able to release the quilt pattern today.
“Petrichor” is the smell of rain on parched earth, and I think it captures the general feeling of this quilt design quite nicely. (Much thanks to Rebecca L. for suggesting this name, and teaching me a new word in the process of naming this quilt!)
There are ...
read moreWe are going to step away from the Jacob’s Ladder blocks this week to get back to talking about UFO’s since it is the beginning of the month.
How are things coming? Do you feel like you are making some progress toward getting anything finished? Maybe when you took some time to clean your crafting area it somehow turned into a bigger project. That is an easy thing to have happen. I’ll be honest, I really only cleaned up what I needed to in order to be able to do some sewing. I am optimistically thinking that ...
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