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Have you all check out Patterns Only?  If not you guessed it, loads and loads of patterns!

They carry PDF patterns, paper patterns and kits as well.  They carry more than 120 designers (including yours truly)!  Clothing, toys, holidays, crochet, QUILTS, bags...oh my!

Here are some of my faves:

Christmas in July right?  This pattern has 12 Christmas projects!!

Sleepover Overnight Bag...yes please.

Phoebe the Elephant Softie...too cute!

Bailey Romper.  You know I can't resist baby girl clothes!!

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Lucky Stars Quilt Top

Welcome to the Lucky Stars QAL!

Lucky Stars QAL Intro

Fabric Requirements

Cutting Requirements

Star Block

Square Block

Patch Block

Piecing the Quilt Top

Easiest week so far!
At this point you should have
8 square blocks
9 star blocks
18 patch blocks

 Step 1: Construct three rows as below. Star, patch, star, patch, star.

Step 2: Construct four rows as below. Patch, square, patch, square, patch. 

Step 3: Sew rows together as in photo.

Step 4: Add 3.5" borders.  As per fabric requirements 2-3.5 x 62.5 and 2-3.5 x 76.5

Ta-da!!  Hooray!!

We've been seeing sneak peeks from many of you and we're so excited!

If you're behind do not panic!

If you're just starting do not panic!!

You have THREE FULL WEEKS to finish JUST THE QUILT TOP.

On August 7th you can link your quilt up to win awesome prizes.  There are several all valued at $50.  There is a high chance you can win fabric for your backing or your next quilt!!

Good luck, please don't hesitate to reach out to us for help, thoughts or just so we can see your progress!!

Fabric Tuesday, you guys are AWESOME!

Edited to add our winner from our Cucire giveaway!  Congrats to Linda!:

Linda F. said...

I love her whole selection of voile!

JULY 11, 2013 AT 10:14 PM 

Hello folks! Hows the summer going?  I see so many people keeping up with their crafting, and I am sad to say I am failing miserably! I get hardly any sewing in. And I want to SO bad!  At I can live vicariously through you fine quilters!

I have been working on an embroidery I will be showing you Friday, so there's that.

Here are some of my favorites...



Dancing spools quilt from Fabric fascination. Cuteness!



Just love the scrappiness! Tumblers quilt from Salt water quilts....


The sewing chic. Just love EVERYTHING about this block. Want it!


Awesome paper pieced sunbeam quilt from OCD Obsessive Crafting Disorder.



Pinwheel quilt from Design originals by KC...cute. and hand quilted!

One more...there are so many each week! And this is narrowing my favorites down!



Made by Chrissied, scattered Cheverons. Just cool to look at!

Modern Batman Quilt from Simply Pieced

As a momma of two boys (who are obsessed with super heroes) I absolutely LOVE this quilt.  Really, seriously.  I may be making one of these very soon.  I'm not just saying that.  Anyway, I love this quilt!!  Made by Janet of Simply Pieced I was so excited to see it linked up to Fabric Tuesday two weeks ago.  Like so many of you she does a great job documenting her quilt finishes, from 2011, 2012 and 2013.  I wish I had mine documented so well!  Make sure to stop by Simply Pieced after checking out her feature!

I hate to play favorites, but this next quilt is probably my favorite quilt that I've made so far.  Don't get me wrong, I love the other quilts.  I don't usually make something that I don't like, but this one took a piece of my heart with it when I gave it to the mom-to-be at her baby shower.  I should have asked for visitation rights, or to quilt-sit when they go out of town...I'm being ridiculous...sort of.

When I found out the mom was pregnant and having a little boy, I contacted the dad through a mutual friend on what they were doing in the nursery.  You see, the dad does all the decorating...ALL the decorating.  He's a very talented graphic designer that has an eye for fashion and color, but he's also a big kid at heart.  When it came to this baby boy's nursery, the dad knew exactly what he wanted to do and was very specific when it came to colors (robin's egg blue, stop sign red and charcoal grey) and theme (classic Batman).  I received these two attachments:



The first is one of the prints used in the room and the second is a diagram of the different batman symbols used since the character's creation.  The dad ended up using this diagram to create an art piece above the crib, which looks awesome.  The diagram was also my inspiration for the quilt.  When I think of Batman, one of the first things that comes to mind is the bat signal.  I liked the cityscape at the bottom of the diagram and wanted to use that design somehow in the quilt.  I ended up drawing up a sketch on graph paper of a simple cityscape with the bat signal in the air.  The idea of recreating the drawing as a quilt was a bit daunting, but I was determined.  

When it came to piecing the front, I decided to machine-piece the buildings separately and then applique them onto the background fabric by hand.  Before the buildings could be attached, I had to put the spotlight and bat signal in the sky.  I ended up picking the bat-signal I associated with Batman as the call-sign.  This took a lot of trial and error to get everything exactly where I wanted it.  Once the bat signal and the buildings were in place, I put windows on the buildings to help bring the buildings to life.  Mixing the red and blue for the windows helps bring in the nursery colors on top of the charcoal grey.  I machine-quilted the quilt with horizontal lines.  I knew I needed to keep the lines fairly close together to help secure the large appliqued pieces of fabric.  I hand appliqued the initial onto the back of the quilt as a finishing touch.

This quilt was so much fun to design and make.  I sincerely hope the baby boy will love his quilt as much as I do.