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Showing posts with label Blog Hop. Show all posts

Monday, March 14, 2022

Citified Blog Tour

I'm pleased to be a proud participant in the Island Batik Citified Blog Tour. This luscious collection of sunset-inspired hues is the signature line of my dear friend, Sherry, who I last saw at QuiltCon, since she moved away from Albuquerque. 😭 But enough blubbering about that. Let's all find some consolation in beautiful fabric, shall we? I find that gorgeous batiks and chocolate help many sorrows, or at least it's worth a try.

Signature lines are designed by in-house Island Batik Designer Kathy Engle. 

Sherry created the patterns featured in the Citified catalog. This batch of her designs (shown below) is quite impressive. You can pick them up from her Payhip or Etsy shops. Check out her blog page for a giveaway.


Citified is currently shipping, and comes in yardage, as well as precuts including 10" squares and 2.5" strips. Check the Store Locator to find local shops that carry Island Batik.

Check out my wall-hanging using my mixable Rolling Diamond blocks, available as a digital, printable set of over a dozen 14" interchangeable paper-pieced block options in my Payhip store. 



Paper-piecing instruction is not provided in he pattern, but you can find several YouTube videos demonstrating the process. Do remember to make sure your printer scale is set to 100%, because that can cause major sizing issues. I put four together with a 1 1/4" border for a simple project. The fabric requirements are four cream and eight vibrantly colored fat quarters. This gives you some leeway depending on your paper-piecing efficiency.


In thanks for dropping by, pick up your free pattern for the Double Diamond block (top right in the quilt) from my Payhip shop. 

I have several more layouts for the blocks in the works, so come back for more fun. Also, check out the other participants throughout the coming weeks.
March 8 – Sherry Shish of Powered By Quilting
March 9 – Tammy Silvers of Tamarinis
March 11 – Kate Starcher of Katie Mae Quilts
March 12 – Leanne Parsons of Devoted Quilter
March 13 – Sally Williams of Paleofish Designs
March 14 – Afton Warrick of Quilting Mod
March 15 – Sarah Vanderburgh of Sew Joy Creations
March 16 – Jen Strauser of Dizzy Quilter
March 17 – Kathryn LeBlanc of Dragonfly’s Quilting Design Studio
March 18 – Laura Piland of Slice of Pi Quilts
March 19 – Anja Clyke of Anja Quilts
March 20 – Sherry Shish of Powered By Quilting





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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Quilt Block Mania: Summer Fun


Welcome to Quilt Block Mania, Summer Fun Edition. This will be a monthly online blog hop with free blocks that follow a theme and color scheme. I present to you my crabby creation!


If you want to make your own, you'll need to get cutting:

A: aqua, B: brown, T: teal 

3” x
1½”
2½”
3½”
4½”
A
6
2
2
1
B
6
4

T
1


1½” x 2½” A
2½” x 6” A
1½” x 6” A
2½” x 5½” A
3½” x 6” B
(2) 1½” x 5½” B
2½” x 6½” B
4½” x 6” B

Now for assembly! Sew together a 1½” x 2½” A, 2½” x 6½” B, and 2½” x 5½” A. 

Sew the following strip sets by attaching the 6” sides. Crosscut each into (4) 1½” sections.
3½” B, 2½” A
4½” B, 1½” A




Sew the following strip sets by attaching the 3” sides.
3½” A, 1½” B, 1½”A
1½” A, 1½” B, 1½” A, 2½” B
1½” T, 1½” A, 2½” B, 1½” A
1½” B, 1½” A, 1½” B, 2½” A
2½” B, 2½” A, 1½” B
2 ½” B x 3½” A
1½” B, 4½” A



Crosscut each into (2) 1½” sections.


Sew the sections into two units that mirror each other.





Sew the 2 mirror units on the right and left of the remaining section as shown.



Gather up the rest of the designers' blocks:

Curvy Fish by Velda Roy of Freckled Fox Quiltery

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Turnabout Patchwork

Welcome to the Turnabout Patchwork Blog Hop! 


Turnabout Patchwork provides 23 quilt patterns and the knowledge necessary to create your own designs with the techniques presented.


According to the author of Turnabout Patchwork, Teresa Mairal Barreu, "Turnabout Patchwork is all about playing with blocks—making a block, slicing it up, and turning or repositioning the pieces to make a completely different block ... to yield numerous patchwork designs. It’s a technique that allows you to expand your design capability yet doesn’t require you to master a library of block patterns..."


Because I have a really fun Little Red Riding Hood backing and a couple of coordinating prints in my stash that I wanted to turn into a quick baby quilt with an interesting pattern design, I chose the Coordinated Strips Block.


The Coordinated Strips Block is a great choice for using 2 1/2" strips. Let's face it, if you're like me, there's quite a few jellyrolls that have joined your sewing room.


I discovered very quickly that even edges are very critical in this block, or things will not line up neatly in the following steps. Therefore, I recommend that if you will be making multiple blocks, cut full width of fabric strips (instead of 8" ones), sew them into strip sets, and then crosscut into 8" sections that have perfectly even edges. You may be giving me some eye roll given the photo below, but do as I say, people, not as I do.


After some diagonal slicing, I was ready for some repositioning and sewing.


This led to a new arrangement.


Next I assembled a Four-Patch from the units attained in the previous step.


While I've started off with just one block, each block in the book has a quilt pattern and two or more variations.


Be sure to check out the other blog hop stops involved:

January 30 - Quarter Snow Ball

Arrowhead
Sweet Bows
Tutti-frutti
Sun Dunes

February 1 - Modern Shoofly

Flying Rainbows
Flying Butterflies
Flying Flags
Flying Confetti

February 2 - Half Square Triangles (HSTs) and squares

Rose Garden Star
Swirl
Houndstooth
Diamond Star

February 4 - Striped Fabric Block

Shells
Xs and Os
Jaws
Arrowhead

February 6 - Coordinated Strips

Peaks
Diamond and Crosses
Knots and Crosses

February 8 - Double Disappearing Nine-Patch

Holiday Trellis
Stepping Stones
Two for One
Cross

    Now's your chance to win an electronic copy of the book and a pattern from Teresa's pattern store.

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