Ahhhh's are taking over

Most of you know that I now buy lots of fabrics on this group on facebook.

well, Tonya- the group owner, also makes hexie blocks!

recently she partnered with paperpieces.com and they are now making her custom sets, look here

Until the other day, I always thought the Ahhhh's just stood for the sound you made when you saw them, but it means Artistic Hexotic Hecic Hillbilly Hexagons.

 

Here's one as an example! finished 3" hexie

 

 

Now me and one other lady in the group have the PRIVILEGE of coloring these for Tonya before she posts, how fun!! this is just one of my samples

 

 

Here's my first sample! using Riley Blake Serenata fabrics

 

 

this one I made last night, same templates, totally different look!

 

This is another one I made, it's called conference call, not loving it, but it's fun to make!

and I have another one prepped and ready to go for this afternoon when I sit in the car line waiting for the kids at school

 

They come in these cute little envelopes :-)

 

Did I show this picture the other day btw??

Sonja checking her e-trade account! :-)

she's sick today and had a fever last night, had to go upstairs and sleep in her room with her because she kept waking up daddy too. it's going to be a snuggle day today I'm sure

 

 

saw this on FB the other day too, tulip farms in Holland!! cool quilt pattern huh?

 

 

THIS is me to a T!! ha ha, I try but my house is not perfectly clean, if you look too hard the dust bunnies will eat you.

 

Let me see how much I can applique on this McCall's quilt today while snuggling with Sonja maybe in the Maya wrap, poor girl

 

 

 

 

Blogger-versary give away

Today is my Blogger-versary

 

I can't believe I started this blog 3 years ago!! in 2010.

time flies- when you're having fun :-)

 

 

So I want to thank all my FUN and creative followers!

I've really made some special quilty blogger friends-

funny you can have that without having ever met.

 

 

As a give away, Riley Blake is giving away a FLUTTER rolie polie (jelly roll)

Rolie Polies (2.5" Strips) Bundle- Flutter. 24- 2.5"x44" cuts.

Bundle includes 1 piece of each print in the fabric line. 100% cotton fabric.

 

All you have to do is comment and write about what you'd like to make with this.

for a 2nd chance- be my follower and tell me you are :-)

for a 3rd chance- sign up for the Riley Blake newsletter here click consumer.

so that's 3 comments total!

Good luck

 

I'll have mr. random pick a # friday the 1st -don't know what time, so try to comment by Thursday!

 

MMRR, QUBM and WOBBOW and snow

 

Lots of abbreviations here!! :-)

 

Here's a peek at the QUBM- Quilt you be mine Round robin

 

It's the last month, so we should all have our tops back before Valentine's

 

 

 

and Modern Mystery Round Robin started this month too

 

 

here's my block, a winding ways block

 

And here's the Bible BOW

Delilah!

how Delilah tricked Samson into telling her where he got his strength from- his hair

so the little triangles around the edges I picked to look like hair...

The center has the hanging clothes line, reminded me of the chains when Samson was chained to the pillars. To have it be more feminine and about Delilah, I picked the floral fabric.

 

The directions recommended foundation piecing, but since my block is 8" the tiny triangles were pretty easy to sew, by sewing 1 1/2" squares together diagonally and then trimming, though the long border strips got a little wonky, once they were sewn to the center, it kind of straightened out.

 

and we had snow friday- the schools had half a day- 11.30 but then it started snowing at 10, so they let out at 10.30, what a waste!

today they had a 2hr delay because it was freezing rain during the night.

 

Does anyone have some ideas for a T shirt quilt BTW??

 

 

 

Here's an update on my 2013 list

#1 giraffe wall hanging - still working on needleturn applique, mommy giraffe almost done

#2 pineapple black and blue quilt- giving these a break now

#3 Bonnie Hunter ORCA mystery - backing fabrics ordered

#4 green, red, yellow flower quilt- top done, just taking forever removing the papers

#5 spring swap blocks- got plans but no background fabrics ordered yet

# 6 Making memories embroidered panel- needs to be made into a cute wall hanging

#7 fall leaf blocks swap- ready to quilt

#8 bubble gum quilt kit won at quilt show - top done adding vine on border

#9 won 9 march BOM -dotted flowers -DONE!

#10 Round Robin swap -TOP done and ready to quilt

#11- drunkard's path- top done

#12- Hidden forest- applique- traced owl

#13 pin cushion swap - mailed

#14geese in a ring- 6 blocks are here

#15 christmas tree skirt- top done

#16 hexies- 43 flowers done and sewn together

#17 women of the bible quilt blocks- block #14 Jael done

#18 Boxes!-

#19 McCall's #5 diamond in squares - DONE! & mailed

#20- roman holiday- kit

#21 Benertex floral quilt- top done ready to quilt

#22 Valentine's Round Robin- dec done and mailed
#23 Woven Stars for CT - DONE!
#24 Quilt it today #2- red, white and blue quilt-fabrics are here and washed
#25- easy street- top done, may need a border?
#26 McCall's #6 flower star- applique blocks are ironed on, started star blocks
#27 McCall's #7- "crazy daisy" - all fabrics here
#28- Book quilt- just planned
#29 and 30(December) twin boy quilts -spider web quilt,scrapping the spider quilt, planning twist on bargello instead
#31 "birds"(Jan), #3 quilt it today- DONE

#32 winding reds(Jan) #4 quilt it today- Done and ready to mail
#33 T Shirt quilt (Jan) Ning gave me shirts from home, any ideas?

 

Super busy, but can't show much

I really have been super busy this week.

Well, my kids were off monday for MLK, then off tuesday for teacher workday.

My son started getting a fever sunday-tuesday, tuesday morning I took him to the Dr, negative for the flu or strep, but I still kept him home wednesday.

Wednesday afternoon they called from the Dr. that the strep was positive! so I kept him home again today with a nasty cough too. Now it looks like we'll get snow tomorrow afternoon so the kids have early release at 11.30. Why even bother!? ha ha

NC schools are wimps....

 

Here's a few things I CAN show.

pot holders, using the winding ways Go! die, and Rhapsody of reds from Connecting threads

 

 

AND I got this idea too, sewing just the corner parts together 3 times

 

plus a little handle =

 

a cute little pin cushion :-)

 

And looks at SOMEONE's cute shoes!

I always thought it was silly to give shoes to babies, but I had these- BRAND new and lately Sonja has been Ms Cinderella with her socks.... so it HIT me to put shoes on her to prevent the socks from sliding off, it worked too! duh..... :-)

 

here's some funny quilty pics :-)

 

 

 

well you can read the list and see why I can't show much more.

 

Here's an update on my 2013 list

#1 giraffe wall hanging - still working on needleturn applique, mommy giraffe almost done

#2 pineapple black and blue quilt- giving these a break now

#3 Bonnie Hunter ORCA mystery - backing fabrics ordered

#4 green, red, yellow flower quilt- top done, just taking forever removing the papers

#5 spring swap blocks- got plans but no background fabrics ordered yet

# 6 Making memories embroidered panel- needs to be made into a cute wall hanging

#7 fall leaf blocks swap- ready to quilt

#8 bubble gum quilt kit won at quilt show - top done adding vine on border

#9 won 9 march BOM -dotted flowers -DONE!

#10 Round Robin swap -TOP done and ready to quilt

#11- drunkard's path- top done

#12- Hidden forest- applique- traced owl

#13 pin cushion swap - mailed

#14geese in a ring- 6 blocks are here

#15 christmas tree skirt- top done

#16 hexies- 43 flowers done and sewn together

#17 women of the bible quilt blocks- block #14 Jael done

#18 Boxes!-

#19 McCall's #5 diamond in squares - DONE! & mailed

#20- roman holiday- kit

#21 Benertex floral quilt- top done ready to quilt

#22 Valentine's Round Robin- dec done and mailed
#23 Woven Stars for CT - DONE!
#24 Quilt it today #2- red, white and blue quilt-fabrics are here and washed
#25- easy street- top done, may need a border?
#26 McCall's #6 flower star- fabrics here, templates started! starting this next
#27 McCall's #7- "crazy daisy" -  all fabrics here
#28- Book quilt- just planned
#29 and 30(December) twin boy quilts -spider web quilt,scrapping the spider quilt, planning twist on bargello instead
#31 "birds"(Jan), #3 quilt it today- DONE

#32 winding reds(Jan) #4 quilt it today- Done and ready to mail

 

My patterns for sale at Connecting Threads

I'm so happy to announce this!!

I've been working with Connecting threads on publishing some of my patterns there.

Here's the two patterns I've published

 

This FUN kaleidoscope quilt in these lovely batiks!

 

The 2nd is Berry Squares

 

Click HERE to see the patterns.

I'd love to know what you think and IF you buy the pattern, I'd also love feedback on the patterns of course!

 

 

 

Tutorial Tuesday EQ7 How to determine a FQ pattern

 

I had a "conversation" with a fellow blogger who said she had a hard time trying to figure out Fat quarter friendly patterns in EQ.

 

here's MY tip :-)

 

So I have this file already- I made a quilt using Riley Blake FQs a while ago

 

 

Of course you know how to preview fabric yardage??!!

 

 

I went back to the quilt and picked a random color and colored in parts of the block

 

then checked the yardage again and BINGO! 1/4yd

 

I tried to color the other part of the block on a different block

 

well it MIGHT work it says 3/8yd ( I know it works from when I made the quilt) if you aren't sure maybe sew a block together to test it

I even had the star block without the circle in the middle, but that also showed 3/8yd

but you see how I just colored the whole block.

 

Now another quilt, simple pinwheel and rail fence quilt

 

instead of going back and forth several times, I colored one block in blue and another in red, here I did 3 blocks in red, but it would be the same to color the "rails" in ONE block.

 

the blue shows 1/4yd and the red 1/8yd

see how it's the same to color one whole rail fence block

 

Now just to test it out I colored the whole pinwheel block red too

 

and the yardage is STILL 1/4yd

 

PLUS the dark red AND the purple is 1/4yd together

Now it's time to GUESS how many FQs I need, back to the main quilt

 

by just looking at the yardage it won't help

 

go back and color just the borders a different color

 

Now you see the yardage, the total for the pinwheels is 2yds =8 FQs

and for the pinwheels it's 2yds also. =8FQs

 

Let's double check.

Knowing that 1 FQ makes 1 pinwheel block, there's 17 block, so MAYBE we actually need more??

The rail fence block 1FQ= 2 blocks and there's 18 blocks so that's 9 FQs, that fits better

let's go back and add some more to the pinwheel block

 

here I colored 1 1/2pinwheel blocks green

 

 

yardage is still 1/4

how about 2 whole pinwheels then?

 

hmm, yardage is 3/8 so it MIGHT work, but not sure.

so if we stick with 1 1/2 pinwheels =1FQ then you'd need 11.3 FQs, so 12.

If you THINK you can fit 2 on a FQ, and there's 17 of them then 9FQs is enough.

You can even go in and look at the cutting directions.

let's just round up to 5" and a FQ is 18 x 20"

so you can fit 3 x4 squares on a FQ or at least 3 x 3 which is 9.

4 squares makes a pinwheel block, so easily 1 pinwheel blocks per FQ!

so I'd get 9FQs for 17 blocks

and 9 for the rail blocks

 

You can of course look at the cutting for the rail fence too, you get the idea.

 

Often bundles are at least 20 right, so that's PERFECT!

one bundle and yardage for borders and binding to make this quilt