May's Block of the Month, Hourglass

May's Block of the Month

Theme: Hourglass

Join our  Block of the Month series you are not too late!

We are using the book 501 Rotary-Cut Blocks for a lot of our blocks in this series.   As well as linking up your blocks today you can also add them to our flickr group.  And PS the linky party will be open for a YEAR! 

Here is what Heather and I came up with:

Megan's Block

12" x 12"

Four Corners page 115

Fabric: Backyard Baby from Michael Miller

I think this block for May could look really cool done in a quilt with just this block.  I love the diamond shapes it creates! :)

Here are all of my blocks thus far

Notice anything different? Probably not :)  But I did change one block, here is a before and after:

I decided that I'm going to have the soft aqua as my main solid/background. I'll use a lot of gray too with pops of green and orange.  I just decided that the green was too loud and would stand out more than I wanted it to.  It's been a different experience for me creating just one block at a time with no plans for future blocks.  I'm learning a lot!! :)

Heather's Block

12" x 12"

Combination Star page 70

Fabric: Ooh La La from Michael Miller

I love how bright and cheery Heather's blocks are!!  I have to admit the fabric line was a little much for me initially, but seeing how she pairs the colors and uses the white, it's fabulous!  I have myself a stack of Ooh La La and I think it would make an awesome bag!

And here are her blocks thus far, March, April and May.  FUN!!!

The block theme for June is FLYING GEESE

Heather will be making the block Toad in a Puddle pg 251.

Megan will be doing a TUTORIAL.  I meant to have a digital image for you so you could decide if you wanted to wait and make it.  Sorry it's too late for me!!  The tutorial will be posted Thursday May 17th.

Time to link up your blocks!  Go HERE to link and to see others blocks!

Chevron Tote and BOM

I have a really good friend and it was her birthday last week.  I also had recently got some of Riley Blake's Chevron prints from Fabric Shoppe and thought it would make a really cute summer bag.  Combine above two sentences and I made her a Chevron Summer Tote!  Of course I finished it about 15 minutes before I was planning on giving it to her :)  I used a Kona solid to coordinate, not sure which color it was exactly, sorry.

The bag is kind of bent on the corner, it looks like the strap is off center but it's not ;)  Well at least not that bad!!   I searched around online to get a few ideas on totes, I decided that the whole straps on the outside gives it a summer/beachy feel. Plus it breaks up the chevron print nicely.  The print inside is Robert Kaufman's Remix Stripe in royal, the colors worked perfectly I was so happy to use it from my stash!  I had originally gotten it for a quilt binding but it wasn't going to work.

And here is a whole little stash I have left!  I plan on making three more bags.  The gray chevron with green solid for a niece who is graduating, the yellow chevron with the royal blue solid for a good friend...I am dying for this combo and try to justify it for myself but it is just too "her".  So for me I'm doing the red chevron with  the red solid, what do you think? I don't usually do red and I'd like to pair it with a funkier solid but nothing else seemed to work.  No plans for the green chevron other than using it to make my stash look pretty :)

Chevron prints make me happy.  The end.

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And to those of you participating in our Block of the Month Series, we're posting Monday! Have you finished your blocks using hourglasses?  If you're following along in the book as a reminder Heather will be making the block Combination Star page 70 and Megan will be making the block Four Corners page 115.  Here is a peek at my squares cut out. I may pull the orange, we'll just see how it comes together.  Also the background in this photo is a soft aqua so that throws off the prints a little ;)

Have a great weekend, hopefully sewing!

Darling girl's quilt by From Three to Insanity

Julie of From Three to Insanity is such a fun read!! I love when I get features that I read the whole thing without even thinking :)  Super sweet quilt and super sweet room :)  Check out From Three to Insanity, her darling shop and her flickr after reading her feature! :) Thanks Julie!

I'm lucky Sprout's so patient, because I've been working on her quilt for the better part of the year.  It's been 9 months since I first saw the inspiration for it while we were running errands together.   And it was well on it's way 6 full months ago when I made the label for the quilt quilt.  I had hoped to have it done for her 3rd birthday back in July.  Wishful thinking. 

But now, just under the wire for the year, it's done.  The pink and orange combination that I love so much looks perfect in the [very] pink room that she loves so much.  

The quilt is filled with lots of my favorites - AB Full Moon Dots, Swell, Mendocino, FMF, Cake Rock Beach, Tula Pink Ladybugs, and tons of other goodies that I thought would be harder to cut up than they actually were.  It's backed with a Valori Wells flannel that I wouldn't have chosen but that you did, and is bound with these dots that I recently went a little overboard with.  They ended up being perfect. 

  

Finished size after a trip through the dryer is 60" x 83" - it's a bit narrow since she doesn't use a box spring, but it's definitely twin-sized, and is by far the largest quilt I've ever stuffed through the tiny shank on my machine quilted myself.  The quilting is hard to see, but at random intervals I've traced the inside of the squares.  I'd say maybe 60% of them have quilting and the rest do not.  This loose quilting has made for a great drape.

I love it, (and so does Ginko) and I hope that my sweetie-pie girl does, too.

Fabric Tuesday and winner! :)

Winner from Mad About Patchwork's fabulous Fly A Kite bundle is...

Josie McRazie said...

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APRIL 27, 2012 6:57 AM 

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Welcome to Fabric Tuesday #84!

It's been a busy weekend for us! (I was trying to think when I have started a post with "It's been slow around here..."  Ha!!)  I (Megan) spent the weekend cutting and sewing up bonnets and aprons for the youth in our church, not so exciting but fun for them!  And I will not be sharing the finishes...such cheap fabric I can hardly stand it but alas there's a budget.  And Heather has been working herself like crazy!!!  She was one busy woman, finished 2 quilts in 72 hours?!?  She was making a deadline and she did it!  However it was many tears, curse words and threats later :)  But two new patterns out of it (YAY) and a new pattern cover (YAY) and much more work.  More on that another day!

Let's see some of the fabulous fabric projects from last week:

Glasses Cozy by groene kamertje

Camera Pillow from Katie Mae Quilts

Oliver + S Badminton Dress from Our Busy Little Bunch

 

Log Cabin Baby Quilt by Plum and June

Bunting Gift Bags from a maidenhair fern

Positively Perfect Quilt from invisiblegirl.org

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What have you McCrafterson's been up to?

more on Fabric Tuesday here