When I was at my quilt guild meeting recently, they were taking about giving more quilts and also working with orphan blocks. I suggested to do a Round Robin and one lady gave me this heart block to work with. I added some FPPed hearts and a plain white border. I also found one of …
The 7 wishes Ahhhh block swap has started I ordered the “kit” at Hillbilly Quiltshop The pack arrives with a BIG print out and also a “blank” one inside for you to color! VERY CLEVER!! With each participant, we all chose what colors we wanted for the hexagons/diamonds and triangles and we each make 7 …
When I got these lovely purple fabrics fro island batiks I wanted to use black with it and had an idea for hexagons! So I ordered a pack of 25 hexagons from paperpieces.com and 100 of the trapezoid pieces, each 2” on the side. The hexagons are easy to cut out, I used a fons …
Tonya has come up with more Ahhhh designs and especially putting the same ones together to get a different result or secondary pattern. Here’s a “simple star” design Again with her designs I am just “playing” in EQ and not really caring about accurate measurements I just want to see the design and colors. Start …
Hi everybody, welcome back to the Accuquilt Go! Challenge 2014! Last month was SO inspirational with the first post. Accuquilt sponsored a giveaway and I had a LINKY to upload ANY Go! quilts made in 2013 and there were 22 link ups!! VERY inspirational…. First I have a guest BLOGGER! Rhonda from Stitches n Stories …
I took at picture of my daughter’s quilt the other day, it’s the first quilt I ever made while pregnant with her 9 1/2 yrs ago…. It’s the most LOVED quilt EVER!! no borders left, strips of binding still hanging on (to patches I had hand sewn on when Peanut chewed a hole in the …
I’m SUPER excited about this 2014 Challenge with the Go! cutter… As I mentioned on a post in December Accuquilt sent me a set of NEW dies to play with, for this challenge. Each month I will CHALLENGE you to make something with your GO! dies. I’ll highlight a few dies and also make something …
Just wanted to wish you all a Blessed and Merry Christmas! I made this pin cushion Christmas tree from hexies, using the new GO die and 3 sizes of hexagons. Sewed them together into grandmother flowers then added another hexie and the green outer hexies folded in half to attach to the extra hexagon. ( …
I finished the Celtic solstice blocks for clue #3 ( I swapped red instead of orange) I whipped up some portfolios before the weekend, my friend wanted to get some of the small stuff for the Elem. School’s craft fair (which I normally plan with her, but couldn’t attend this time with the studio tour) …
It’s HEXIE time!! If you follow my blog you know I love working on Ahhhh’s but I will show a bit of those at the end here. I DID make a new project for this hop. I showed this picture last week, a project I worked on while on vacation in Napa, CA My plan …