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What thoughts occur to you when considering the month of June? Perhaps sun, a warm breeze, and those lovely pinwheels children play with in the wind? As you can see, all these are incorporated into our beautiful candle mat for June! And, the beautiful fabrics are from the Quilter's Candy Collection. It’s easy to construct and reasonably within a day from start to finish! Download the June Candle Mat for free and enjoy!

The Gathered Friends quilt is a reminder of how important those we hold dear are to us. Built with blocks that intertwine, they have an appearance of holding one another together as dear friends. The block is a simple 9-Patch with half-square-triangles (HST) in the corners. The block is then set on point with additional HSTs which create a braided look. Truly an exercise in color placement, you will enjoy watching each block unfold and interlock as they are sewn together.

   Vivid Chevron

My favorite fabric in Moonlit Blooms is Vivid Chevron which is used in the outer border. I ...

Yesterday's link for the table runner pattern was incorrect for most of you.  Here is the new link:

Download TC Hop 2013 Table Runner

Sorry for the confusion.

Faye

The Moonlit Blooms collection is an enormous cluster of color amid a sea of black. The combination has great impact! This fusion creates the most stunning quilts whether for a bed, lap quilt or a table runner. Posy Spray is large enough to be a table topper, lap quilt or wall hanging at 54”.

I think I would use it for a table topper in my home. The beautiful flowers would be my table flower arrangement and the checkerboard border would certainly complement most country décor. Moonlit Blooms is so unique; any project from this collection would be striking. They ...

I’ve been thinking about making another one of these so I pulled up my old tutorial.  It needed some updating.  The Whirligig (wonky windmill, whatever you want to call it) was the 2nd quilt I made.

If you’ve never made one, they come together pretty quickly.  I’m think about using a combination of bright fabrics and low volume instead of prints and a solid.  We’ll see… I always have so much on my ‘want to do’ list!

I’ve been thinking about making another one of these so I pulled up my old tutorial.  It needed some updating.  The Whirligig (wonky windmill, whatever you want to call it) was the 2nd quilt I made.

If you’ve never made one, they come together pretty quickly.  I’m think about using a combination of bright fabrics and low volume instead of prints and a solid.  We’ll see… I always have so much on my ‘want to do’ list!

The Baroque Floral fabric from the Moonlit Blooms collection is just gorgeous, simply gorgeous. Sunset Jewels Table Runner does a good job of framing it in and providing the space needed to deliver a beautiful quilt. I think its voice is loud and clear! The colors are so saturated, and the black ground gives the blooms room to speak.

The only construction technique is a Flying Geese border in two sizes creating the two saw tooth edges. I love the angular border surrounding the organic center. Sunset Jewels is an eye-catcher!

I loved this design a great deal, so I ...

This is a free stitching pattern which, when printed at about 122%
will fit within a 6″ block.

You may or may not have noticed that I seem to start quite a few projects that you never see again here on the blog. While it is so that I sometimes enjoy the starting more than the finishing, ever so often my WIP goes into the pattern to be published file. I am sure that the publishing process is different for each designer, but I thought I would share how it works for me.

I've finally managed to get the photos of my trip to Melbourne and the Australian Quilt Convention up- so you can all join in. I love going to Melbourne- with it's cosmopolitan atmosphere and great shopping.It's only about an hour by plane from Canberra. So it's always a really pleasant trip. Melbourne's alleyways are filled with all sorts of cafes and shops. And the shoe shops! Are brilliant. So many! It was raining when we arrived in Melbourne- and sadly my favourite pair of shoes had a hole in the bottom. (Wet feet). So ...

Okay … Here is a list of my current projects:

Quilters Common Projects:

Dear Jane

Main Streets and Back Roads – A twelve month Block of the Month designed by Antoinette which, if the previous months’ block is finished, is free each month.  This is the first month, so I am all set for my free block 2.

Aunt Lucy – A 16 month block of the month quilt in reproduction fabrics with 5 months completed!

Peggy Anne’s  Quilting and Sewing Company projects:

In the Meadow was the 2012 block of the month.  I started the background a a few of the ...

Despite all of the projects I am working on, I could not resist signing up for the Dear Jane quilt group at Quilter’s Common.  I started a Dear Jane quilt a few years ago using reproduction fabrics but I only got four blocks done before I gave up on the idea.

This time around I am feeling more confidant with a few more years of piecing experience and a sewing machine (Bernina 830) that makes it a lot easier to be precise … which is absolutely necessary with these small 4 1/2″ blocks .  I have decided to go with ...

I was looking through my copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013 the other day, and I noticed that Garden Pathways, the quilt I had chosen to interpret for the staff Weekend quilt challenge is displayed in the ‘Weekend Plus’ section. Which I take to mean that there is no shame in taking more than a weekend to finish it. Hooray for me! I think I got pretty far in my first weekend, and I was able to accomplish a lot more the subsequent weekend, too. I’m almost done!

I had mentioned that I almost had all my blocks sewn ...

Caldonia is more of a Block Rock’n Blues name.  I’m a jazz and blues fan and thought this was an appropriate song choice for the series.

“Caldonia” is a jump blues song, first recorded in 1945 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. A version by Erskine Hawkins, also in 1945, was described by Billboard magazine as “rock and roll”. The first time that phrase was used in print to describe any style of music. – Wikipedia

Pretty cool, huh?  It’s also one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock & Roll.  There are several versions of Caldonia on ...

Caldonia is more of a Block Rock’n Blues name.  I’m a jazz and blues fan and thought this was an appropriate song choice for the series.

“Caldonia” is a jump blues song, first recorded in 1945 by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five. A version by Erskine Hawkins, also in 1945, was described by Billboard magazine as “rock and roll”. The first time that phrase was used in print to describe any style of music. – Wikipedia

Pretty cool, huh?  It’s also one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock & Roll.  There are several versions of Caldonia on ...

Yes, I have been published!!

I sent the editor, Jo Leichte, a copy of the tutorial featured in my Bird Applique Quilt article …  and now it is published in the latest issue of Bernina’s on line magazine  Through the Needle!

The article provides all the instructions for programming your embroidery machine to sew around each little applique piece when using raw edge applique for a project.  The article features my Gold Finch applique pattern which is in my Bird Applique Quilt, along with my Blue Jay.

I also made a pillow with my Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal pattern.

Please ...