Hi Friends!  I know I told you about this program last month, but it bears repeating!

There have been two blocks so far, so you can jump in and catch up right away.

The first is from Sherri, and October’s block is from Vicki.

Check out the flickr group for inspiration, and don’t forget to add your blocks to the linky on Jackie’s blog!

Happy Quilting ~ Amy

My friend Jackie at Canton Village Quilt Works, is hosting a Block of the Month program, just for bloggers!  She’s invited a talented group of designers (including me!) to each design one block and over the course of the next year we will be posting instructions.

Each month a pieced block tutorial will be offered by a fellow blogger.  You can get all the details over on Jackie’s blog, and see who else is designing a block!

My month is almost a year away, so I’ll be pointing out where you need to visit each month, to get a fabulous new block pattern!

I hope you will join us – I’m looking forward to seeing all the different blocks.

Amy

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It’s my turn to share a block!  If you haven’t been following along yet, you can get all the details and blocks here on John’s blog!  If you are new here – welcome!  I hope you like the block and take time to poke around a bit.

Block 10 :: Turned Geese

I think I hear some of you grumbling, “so many geese!”  ”so many pieces!”  Don’t worry, I’m going to break it down to very manageable steps.

Up first cutting your fabrics:

My block uses

Orangesicle Discs Print 5445-13 – referenced as white

Limeade Floral 5444-11 – referenced as green

Orangesicle Solid 5448-13 – referenced as orange

From the white fabric cut:

1 – 5 1/4″ square

8 – 2 7/8″ squares

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Thanks to everyone that participated in the giveaway day!  You all are just as busy as I am trying to finish things up this weekend!  I hope the new friends enjoy time spent here with me.  The winner is -

Laura, I’ve just emailed you!  Can’t wait to see what you make with the layer cake!

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By now, many of you are busy making the final push towards the holidays. But what are your crafty plans as we enter 2011? Well, clear your plate, because we have a great quilt-along planned that will begin in January!

18 quilt bloggers have collaborated to bring you the first-ever Bloggers’ Block-a-palooza. We’ll jump from blog to blog making 2 quilt blocks per week, wrapping up with a custom setting and layout design to help complete your quilt. I am so … Read More »

Hi Friends~

I have not quilted my sampler yet.  I’m still working out a plan, but wanted to share some resources for finishing just in case you need them to finish your quilt!

Prepping a Quilt Back

Basting a Quilt

Straight Line Quilting

Prepping a Binding

Sewing Binding to a Quilt

Hand-stitching a Binding

I can’t wait to see them all finished up!  Please let me know when you get there, and if you need any other help!

Amy

Hi friends!  How was your weekend?  Did you pack everything you could into those precious hours?  I sure did!  Joe and I had a great time celebrating our 11th anniversary.  He had reservations to the restaurant that we thought we went to the night he proposed to me.  Turned out to be a newer restaurant, with amazing food, so we were happy!  The rest of the weekend was full of family, friends and sewing – all the way around good!  Now I just need to catch up on some sleep and get myself on my self-proposed schedule this week before school starts…I’ll let you know how that goes.  All I have to say is “I’m a night owl”.

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Now that we have all the blocks made, it’s time to put them into a complete quilt … Read More »

Hi there!  How was your weekend?  We had a quiet family weekend, which was perfect after the last week of travel, and getting readjusted to life at home again.  I’m thinking about school starting again and working out schedules for me and the kids!  Two and a half weeks before we start back up again – sniff, sniff – I’ve really enjoyed our relaxed summer.

Anyway

This is our last week of blocks!  I’m so excited to see these quilts come together – I hope you are too!

Our first block this week is a classic star – Aunt Eliza’s Star:

Here’s what you need:

In white/solid -

4 – 4 1/2″ squares

2 – 5 1/2″ squares

In print -

1 – 4 1/2″ square

2 – 5 1/2″ squares

Set aside the smaller squares for a few minutes, we are making hourglass blocks.  Draw your diagonal, sew on both … Read More »

Hi there quilting friends!  I hope you had a great weekend – we spent the weekend with family celebrating a wedding.  More on that later, we have some blocks to make!

First up this week is Mosaic #10, I’ve also seen these called Dutch Windmills:

Here’s what you need:

8 – 4″ solid

8 – 4″ print, one print or same color family

Mark the center and make your HST’s, just like you’ve done in the past few weeks.

Trim on the 45 degree line to 3 1/2″, then layout.  Pin, sew and press your rows.

I mixed up my order and ended up switching things up a bit, of course I see now how I to fix it.

Continue to work in rows … Read More »

Hi friends!  I hope you had a great weekend – it seemed like some of you took the weekend to catch up on blocks!  I did some sewing, and worked on understanding wordpress more.  Many of you have asked if I had help designing the blog – YES, I do not understand all the behind the scenes workings, like servers and what not, but Amy does!  Ever since Amy announced her blog design business, I knew that she would be the one to help me move to wordpress, and now she has.  Many many thanks to Amy for the hours spent reworking things!

There are still links that need to be fixed, so if you find something that isn’t working, please try not to be frustrated and send me an email – I will do my best to fix it and … Read More »

Happy Monday!  I have the blocks for our Simple Sampler – I hope that you are having fun, and maybe learning a bit too.  I’ve been tempted a few times to sew up all the blocks, but I have really enjoyed doing two blocks a week with you guys, so I haven’t!

If you are starting now, these will catch you up -
Simple Sampler Quilt Along Details (includes a pic of the quilt)
Simple Sampler Quilt Along — Week 1
Simple Sampler Quilt Along — Week 2
Simple Sampler Quilt Along — Week 3
Simple Sampler Quilt Along — Week 4

This week we have a 6-Grid Chain, these are great blocks to alternate in quilt tops, and a perfect addition to our sampler –

To make the Chain block you need:
6 – 2 1/2″ squares from two fabrics
From your solid:
4 – 2 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ … Read More »

Hi Friends!  I hope you had a great weekend – I was a working double duty all weekend with Joe backpacking up in the Unitah’s.  We had some special fun, a little bit of drama, and I stayed up late sewing too!  I have blocks sewn up, and a few rows pinned for a top, hopefully I can show it to you tomorrow.  

For now I have this weeks Sampler Blocks!  

Just in case you are starting now, these will catch you up -

Simple Sampler Quilt Along Details (includes a pic of the quilt)
Simple Sampler Quilt Along — Week 1
Simple Sampler Quilt Along — Week 2
Simple Sampler Quilt Along — Week 3

Originally I had planned to put all the HST blocks at the end and work up to them…but then I decided we should slowly work through them, so I have … Read More »