Lucky Stars QAL! Join us!!

 The day has finally arrived! Okay, so maybe you haven't been waiting, but Megan and I have worked hard on these quilts and our Lucky Stars Quilt-A-Long, we really hope you will join us!

We created our quilts from the beautiful Happy Go Lucky fabric line from Bonnie and Camille, for Moda fabrics. We thought it would be fun to use the same fabric line and pattern but show how different they can look in different colorways!  What do you think??

Heathers Lucky Stars quilt finish.  LOVE it! I worked hard the last week!

We've both fallen madly in the love with this pattern (and with each other's quilts).  There's already discussion of switching at some point.

Megan's Lucky Stars quilt finish. Love the navy background. Makes it all "pop!"

One of our sponsors, Christa Quilts has put together Lucky Stars Starter Kits for those of you wishing to quilt along. Each kit contains 1 Jelly Roll plus 1 Layer Cake of Happy Go Lucky by Bonnie and Camille. She's offering them at a special price of just $74.95 which includes free US shipping (discounted int'l shipping)! On top of that, use code STORY at checkout to save an extra 10% on your entire order so that you can purchase background fabric or other supplies.

Christa Quilts

The plan

every Wednesday

Week 1 June 5th:...................Introduction

Week 2 June 12th:.................Fabric Requirements

Week 3 June 19th:.................Cutting Requirements

Week 4 June 26th:.................Star Block

Week 5 July 3rd:...................Square Block

Week 6 July 10th:..................Patch Block

Week 7 July 17th:..................Piecing the Quilt Top
Week 8 July 24th...................How to Finish a Quilt

****2 week hiatus to complete any missing steps or full quilt assembly****

Week 8 August 7th................Lucky Stars Quilt Top link-up

Week 9 August 14th..............Winners Announced

Quilt Tops must be linked up by Tuesday August 13th 10 pm MST to be prize eligible

if you do not have a blog or ability to link up please email us a photo of your quilt top with the subject "Lucky Stars Quilt Top" and we will link it for you

The prizes

Those who finish their quilt tops by the end of the Quilt A Long will be entered in to win prizes from these amazing sponsors!!  Hip hip hooray!

Connecting Threads

Fat Quarter Shop

A Joyful Soul Fabrics

Mad About Patchwork

Southern Fabric

The Stitch Sanctuary

Poppy Seed Fabrics

five monkey fabrics

Get a jump start and head over to Christa Quilts for a starter kit!  Or start organizing your stash and thinking of what prints you'd like to use!

Instagram
Don't forget to follow us.  Heather's @quiltstory and Megan's @quiltstorymeg
Post your progress and use the hashtags #quiltstory and #luckystarsQAL

Feel free to share these images on all the social networks!  :)  This is our first QAL and we want it to be a success because we both want to do it again.
What do you think, are you in????

Sweet Celebrations Book Tour!

As we've talked about before we were so excited that we were asked to be part of Moda's newest book, Sweet Celebrations.  It's such a great collaboration of sewing projects for all of life's happy events!

Can't wait to hold my first copy!  ....keep reading because we have a fun GIVEAWAY at the end!

Here's a little bit of eye candy.  The pillow below Heather made, so cute right?  You can slide little candies and gifts into the pockets.

This little mailbox I created along with the party hats.  Can't wait for my boy's to use the mailbox this Valentine's, they both really love mailboxes for some reason, lol.  The party hats are fun because the age/number is removable thus reusable!

Here's a few fun questions from Oda May to get to know us a little better.

What is your favorite birthday memory?

Megan writing :)  When I was 18 my three best friends spent the night, my parents were out of town and we made music videos all night long.  Including me starring as Britney Spears.  I love to re-watch that old VHS tape.

Do you prefer to celebrate with cake pops, cupcakes or plain ole cake?

Ice cream cake, hands down.

If you could have a quilt shop spree what items would you snag off the shelf?

Precuts, batting, notions, minky...everything?

Here is a recipe for our very favorite (and the best) Caramel Popcorn. If you visit each blog on the tour you can get each recipe!

Here are the blogs on the tour:

October 1 - StashBooks and Moda Cutting Table

October 2 – Melissa Mortenson and Melissa Corry

October 3 – Mary Lane Brown and Natalia Bonner

October 4 – Lissa Alexander and Corey Yoder

October 5 – Jane Davidson and Angela Yosten

October 6 – Jo & Kelli Kramer and Stefanie Roman

October 7 – Sherri McConnell and Megan Jimenez & Heather Andrus

October 8 – Angela Mitchell and Ellie Roberts

October 9 – Katie Blakesley and Aneela Hoey

October 10 – Amy Smart and Angela Pingel

October 11 – Vanessa Christenson and April Rosenthal

October 12 – Moda Bake Shop

October 14 – Readers have until midnight on the 14^th to comment on all the blogs for the giveaways.

October 19 –Winners announced on all the blogs.

Giveaway!!

Leave a comment to win 

Sweet Celebration with the Moda Bake Shop Chefs book

AND

a fat quarter bundle (our favorite!)

Leave a comment here telling us your favorite type of sewing project! 

You can comment on each and every blog to increase your chances of winning.  Outside of US will win the e-book version.

This giveaway is now closed.

Simply Charmed Quilt Top and Fabric Tuesday

 Quilt top finish!

Finished Size: 36.5" x 45.5"

This simple and sweet quilt top is made of Hello Luscious charm packs and a few pieced blocks. 

The blocks didn't stick out as much as I'd hoped.  But I am smitten with the color palette, so pretty!

If you wanted to make your own I'll give you a quick tutorial!  It's really easy so don't be intimidated.  You'd need two charm packs OR seventy-one 5" x 5" squares.  I made one small pieced block (the star), so the finished size for that would also be 5" x 5".  You could make as many of these as you want, just subtract from the seventy-one for each that you make!  Next I made two pieced blocks to replace 4 smaller blocks.  The finished size of those blocks would need to be 9.5" x 9.5".  Piece together as seen below.

It's fun to dress up simple blocks with a few pieced ones.  Can't wait to quilt it!  I'll share when I do :)

Fabric Tuesday #103

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Twister Quilt from A Quilting Jewel

One of the fabulous things about doing features weekly not only is inspiration...but it reminds me of projects I want to do! :)  I had a Twister Quilt on my list for a while and I forgot about it until I saw this quilt by Jen from A Quilting Jewel!!  I love the design, love the bright colors (It's A Hoot is such a great line!) just love it all!  Jen is a modern quilter with a great list of completed quilts and some awesome free patterns and tutes.  Check out A Quilting Jewel!

This weekend I finished putting the binding on my twister quilt.

I love the way it came out.  I used two It's a Hoot charm packs for the twister portion.  I then used coordinating fabric for the binding and backing.  The white around the outside of the quilt is a Kona white.

I quilted this little quilt on either side of the horizontal and vertical seams.  I was trying to think of some way to play off the twisting pinwheels, and realized that with this type of quilting, the quilting would go through the long point of every pinwheel.

 I love this mini quilt.  I think it would be a perfect baby quilt.  I know so many people having babies this year, so who knows, it could wind up being for one of them.

I can see myself making more of these twister quilts in the future.  They come together so quickly and look great.

Tanner Reunion modern quilt from a maidenhair fern

Today's feature is from Linda of a madienhair fern.  Linda is a mom to 5 and has been sewing most of her life, but took up quilting in 2007 (same as me!).  She has become quite skilled with her free motion quilting, you can see a lot of her work in pictures here.  Also here are her finished quilts, an impressive list!  I really love the quilt we're featuring today, the Tanner Reunion quilt. I love the fabric line, Sweetwater's Reunion from Moda, her design is great and so is the quilting!!  Thanks Linda, and make sure to say hi at a maidenhair fern!  

Tanner Reunion . . . finished!

stats:

65" x 65"

25 -  11.5" blocks

fabric is Reunion by Sweetwater for Moda, jelly rolls and fat quarters

Warm and Natural

organic/straight line quilting

Picking a quilting design is almost as hard as designing the quilt. There are so many fun options!!

Jacquie from Tallgrass Prairie Studio has a great blog with lots of good information, pictures and tutorials.  I studied her tutorial on Organic Line Quilting before quilting this quilt.  Mine doesn't look quite organic as hers, it probably borders on the line of straight line quilting.

Have you ever quilted words into your quilt?  I've been fascinated with the idea ever since I saw a verse quilted into a quilt by Angela Foster.

It takes a little practice on paper, and even chalking onto your quilt what you're going to write.  It reminded me of typing class in 7th grade, a gazillion years ago, before computers.  Remember figuring out how to center your title on your page?  Count total number of letters, divide by 2 . . .  

I'll stick with names for now.

I love the back almost as much as the front.  For vivid colored pictures, leave your quilt a bit damp.

My next project to finish is the wall hanging that goes with this quilt, see below left.

Ruby Hexagons Quilt by The Life of Riley

I'm excited to show you today's quilt! It's a gorgeous baby gift made by Rachel of The Life of Riley.  I'm excited because it is a little different than most quilts we feature, it's all hexies!  So sweet and a great baby gift.  Check out The Life of Riley, she's a great quilter as seen here on her 2010-2011 finishes and 2012 finishes but she's also a great cook!  She's got a great list of yummy recipes too!

The quilt is finished and delivered!  Welcome baby Lucy!

 99 Hexes.  33 fabrics - 3 of each in the quilt top.  80 diamonds.  20 half diamonds.  8 triangles and 4 half triangles.  The hexagon fabric is from  the Ruby line by Bonnie and Camille for Moda.  The white is a white on white leaf pattern.

 The hexes were pieced into rows by machine, the diamonds and triangles were pieced in by hand.  The border was done by machine.

 The back is a solid piece of flannel also from the Ruby line.  Soft as butter!

 I did some free motion quilting of flowers and leaves.

 A picture of the label which you can read about here.

Posts about how I put it together  Here.  Here.  & Here.
The quilt label post Here.