Silverlily colorwheel quilt...

Cute Tyra from Silverlily likes to sew made this super darling color wheel quilt for her playroom wall. I LOVE it. I think it is sweet to make for a playroom. It is so eye catching. Tyra has a great blog with lots of cute quilt projects. Plus she has a darling etsy shop too... thanks Tyra...


I just finished this color wheel quilt.  The pattern is from Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts by Joelle Hoverson.  When I first perused the book after I'd gotten it about two years ago from the library, I saw this pattern and thought, that is so pretty but there is no way I could make that.  I was totally intimidated by the curved pattern.  But for some reason we were rearranging our playroom/office/my studio room and I looked at one of the blank walls and thought, this wall needs the Color Wheel quilt.  I pulled out the book and read through the pattern again.  I thought, well maybe it is doable and since I was starting up with the StashPact2011 group on Flickr I thought this would be the perfect first project to start going through my stash.  So I got started on it and once I did, I just fell in love with it.  It came together so beautifully and now that its done I LOVE how its warmed up the room with all its bright colors.

I finished the Color Wheel quilt and hung it yesterday.  YAY!  I took it to the park in hopes to work on it while Asher slept in the stroller and Carver played in the sand (its basically spring time here in California).  Doesn't that sound nice?  Unfortunately Asher had other ideas and decided that he needed to be held.  What's a mama to do?  Luckily both boys napped very well that afternoon and I was able to finish up the binding and hang it up.

I love, love, LOVE how it warms up the playroom.   (Don't tell but I hung it up with push pins...I know... bad bad bad...But it worked!)  I just want to sit and stare at it all day.

It was a fantastic way to utilize the stash and really added some great and needed color to our playroom walls.

Creative Block Loner Party...

Don't you fret our friends. We will be announcing our Block Party Contest that you all entered the last couple of days, just not today. Come back on Monday and we will have the winners announced. We still have a lot of blocks to look through, and our Celebrity Judges are hard at work Judging.

Today is the final block Megan and I made for our little feeling left out party. Remember? Since we obviously couldn't enter the real block party, we decided to do our own. You guys are the judges.  

HIP HIP HOORAY! I am the WINNER!!!

HEATHER IS THE WINNER OF ALL TIME!!!!

SORRY MEGAN, I TOOK YOU DOWN TO CHINA TOWN!!!!

BLOCK 1- traditional, I won...to be fair, it came down to fabric, and apparently you guys like pinks and blues and reds...or maybe it was just that tiny cute dear in one of my wedges...

Heather's-

Megan's-

BLOCK 2- Modern, a much closer race, I won....

Heather's-

Megan-

BLOCK 3- Creative, today's blocks, we are still having you vote on, even though I have already picked out my 2 yards from Megan's stash...

LOOK WHAT I WIN... Grand Prize: 2 yards of fabric from the others stash, one free week from posts and a custom pillow.  

Megan is bitter and full of wrath and rage right now, and she thinks I won't make her pay up because we are sisters and BFF's and all that...but I will collect, and I will show you all my fabric I picked, and the custom pillow. (I forgot about that!)

Now we still have our Creative blocks to show you. And we will still have you vote... 

We hope you all liked the big block party, and our loner block party. It has been busy for us, but super fun!

BLOCK A 

BLOCK B

Welcome to the Block Party!!

The time has arrived and it's time to PARTY!  We are so excited to see everyones submissions, this should be so nuch fun and great inspiration all around.  Thanks so much for participating and for our great sponsors and judges, this has been so exciting for us!  If you don't have a block to enter, check out the submissions and let them know if you think they've done a great job, we all *heart* comments :)

There are three separate parties to link up to below so make sure you link your block to the correct party.  (If all of your blocks are in the same post that's fine, just link it up again but choose the correct block as the thumbnail picture.)


Just to clarify, your post must have been made in the last three weeks since we announced the block party (Jan 17th) AND include the Block Party button (see sidebar). 


You pick the category that your block should be in. Even though some blocks qualify for 2 categories, just pick one. Do not enter 1 block in more than 1 category. 


Please label your link with the type of block first, name of block (optional) and your name and/or blog name.
Example title: MODERN, Pinwheel, Quilt Story


If you still have any questions please refer to this post or this post.

Traditional Block


Modern Block


Creative Block

Thank you so much everyone for entering and checking out everyone's cute blocks.  Also there will NOT be Fabric Tuesday linky party tomorrow, but it will be back next week!

Boring Post! :)

The linky party for our block party starts this Monday!  Yay!  We are so excited to see all the blocks you've come up with.  I'm going to tell how the party will work out, make sure to check the original post if you still have questions.

You can begin linking at 12:01 am MST Monday Feb 7th (phew) through 11:59 pm MST Wednesday Feb 9th.

You will be linking up a blog post of your own, so if you haven't already, make sure to blog about your quilt block and include the block party button in the post.  (See sidebar)

If you don't have a blog, email us a photo or two of your quilt block and include the category to enter them into.

There will be three categories in which you can link up your blocks, traditional, modern, creative.

You can enter up to three blocks in any of the three categories.  However, each block can only be entered once.

Your blocks should be completely unfinished, raw edges and all.  Ironing optional :)

It's almost here!  Yay!  Email us with any other questions, myquiltstory{at}gmail{dot}com

Here's a lovely reminder of our prizes from the Block Party sponsors!!

First Place Prizes

 The Fabric Shoppe

3 yard bundle of Organic Circa 50 Birch fabrics and pattern

$60 value

SkyeReve Fabrics

$50 Gift Certificate

Poppy Seed Fabrics

$50 Gift Certificate

Runners Up Prizes

The Fab Store

$25 Gift Certificate

Fat Quarter Shop

$25 Gift Certificate

Fresh Squeezed Fabric

$25 Gift Certificate

Elle Designs

Half Yard bundle of 9 Ivy Trellis by Riley Blake fabrics and pattern

Treasure Bay Fabrics

$25 Gift Certificate

See you Monday!