bow-tie quilt

Pretty In Pink from Podunk Pretties

Hi Quilty Friends! The calendar said yesterday was the first day of Autumn. Most quilters are stitching up fall leaves, pumpkins and bat quilts, not me, I'm loving the bright happy colors of Spring.

The weekend started with the search for 100 pink fabrics in the scraps. Between the two scrap bins of pink fabrics, 99 different pinks were found. I could pull a pink fabric from the fat quarter stash or the yardage stash, but I decided it would be cheating since this is supposed to be a true scrap quilt. I was hoping to have no repeat ...

added by Podunk Pretties 9 months, 2 weeks ago. under bow-tie quilt , scrappy quilt

100 Blue Bow-Tie Blocks from Podunk Pretties

Hi Friends! It's so exciting to have 100 more Bow-Tie blocks completed. These little blocks are addictive.

I don't know why it makes me smile to think of someday finishing a quilt with (900) three inch Bow-Tie blocks. As the work area was being prepped I took a step back to admire the many prints. It's hard to believe I had 100 different blue prints in my scrap bins. My fabric stash building didn't start until 2005. Before 2005 I was making quilts from upcycled and repurposed fabric. I had never heard of building a stash ...

added by Podunk Pretties 9 months, 2 weeks ago. under bow-tie quilt

Jumping From This To That from Podunk Pretties

Remember the baggies full of HST's created over my quilting lifetime? It's time to add a few more to the baggies from my current Twinkler quilt. Tackling them in small batches as they are produced is easier than doing them all at once after the quilt is finished.

The quilt will produce 336 bonus HST's! I used my handy dandy homemade locking HST ruler. It makes the process so much quicker. If you would like to make one of your own, I made a YT video a few years ago.

The HST's from this project are ...

added by Podunk Pretties 9 months, 3 weeks ago. under bow-tie quilt , hst's , khaleesi the german shepherd , twinkler quilt

Quilting By Candlelight from Podunk Pretties

Last week our power went out twice due to thunderstorms. The first outage happened during the daylight hours and there was no property damage we could go about business as usual as long as it didn't require electricity.

I chose to open the curtains in the studio and sort through the blue scrap bins for fabrics to use in my scrappy Bow-tie quilt.

100 different blue fabrics is needed. (2) 2" and (2) 1.25" of each print. Somewhere around 70 fabrics the power was restored.

It didn't take long to find the last 30 prints. There's ...

added by Podunk Pretties 10 months ago. under back porch , bow-tie quilt

Oopsies Happen from Podunk Pretties

"The true measure of a quilter is not how perfect the quilt but how well they hide their mistakes"

Even the most seasoned quilters make some of the most common mistakes from time to time. I think it's important to share the mistakes and how they were fixed.

Sometimes the fix is pretty simple like this one. These were sewn together wrong.

The fix was to rip out the stitches and sew them together correctly.

And sometimes the fix is more about hiding the mistake. In the picture below I accidentally sewed my flippy corner onto two background squares ...

added by Podunk Pretties 10 months, 2 weeks ago. under bow-tie quilt

Bow-Ties, Tomatoes And SPIDERS from Podunk Pretties

In my quilting lifetime I've heard many quilters say they don't like scrap quilts. How is this possible? To me they are works of art even if it's a just a bunch of squares sewn together. The joy of a scrap quilt is seeing the different prints.

Let's be honest, they are a pain to make. It's understandable why someone would not like them for that reason alone. Digging through the scraps to find the right size fabric pieces. Pressing and cutting tiny pieces. It takes 10 times longer to make a scrap quilt. Cutting ...

added by Podunk Pretties 10 months, 2 weeks ago. under bow-tie quilt , canning

Ready, Set, GO! from Podunk Pretties

That's right, it's pedal to the metal time. The last of the red Bow-Tie quilt blocks were cut yesterday and they are ready to be sewn together today.

By my estimation these should take about three hours to complete. Since underestimating is a problem for me, let's bump that three hours to five or six. The first set of blocks are on the design wall in front of my sewing machine for inspiration. It's my way of telling myself to keep stitching.

The top drawer of my sewing table has been pulled out and a design ...

added by Podunk Pretties 10 months, 2 weeks ago. under bow-tie quilt

Starting A New Scrap Quilt 3 Inch Blocks! from Podunk Pretties

Hi Quilty Friends! I'm so excited today to share my newest quilting adventure. Three inch finished Bow-Tie blocks.

The plan is for a 90 x 90 quilt. That's 900 Bow-Tie blocks.

Assembling the blocks is a breeze. The challenge is digging through the scraps. It's going to be 100% scraps, even the background fabric. You see, I have this large tote of white scraps. Different shades of white fabric and a few white on white fabrics. If I had to guess I would say there's about 12 years worth of fabric in here.

For the white ...

added by Podunk Pretties 10 months, 3 weeks ago. under bow-tie quilt , free scrap quilt pattern , scrap quilt

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