Bloggers Quilt Festival

Welcome to the Spring 2011

Bloggers Quilt Festival!

I designed this quilt as my first honey bun project.  I really LOVE precuts of all kinds!  What a genius idea for us busy quilters!  I am the first to admit, the absolutely worst part of quilting for me is cutting!  I hate cutting all the quilt parts…  it takes me f o r e v e r , too, as I measure like twenty times before I cut so I don’t make a mistake and waste fabric…sigh…

So, designing and sewing quilts with pre-cuts sure does get you past the yucky cutting part quicker and into the fun piecing and quilting part!  YAY!

So, this is my first version of my “Counting By Fives” quilt made with a Mary Engelbreit “Attitude Girls” honey bun.  I used one of my favorite Moda fabrics for the background… “Make Life” fabric with all the fun words on it!!

I am a Mary Engelbreit freak and have been for years…  love her whimsical art and her use of bright colors and black and white…  so really love this quilt!!  I made this one in August and with my mind on having to go back to school (I’m a teacher) in a few weeks, I thought of “Counting by Fives” for the name.

I remade the quilt in “Charlevoix” collection for the Moda Bake Shop.

(Go here to see the directions!)

The beautiful summery crisp colors of this collection just begs for a warm summer day, a picnic basket, friends and family gathered, a great bottle of red wine…

IF YOU SPILL ONE DROP ON THIS QUILT… grrrrrrrrr!! 

There are so many great quilts being shown in this awesome online quilt festival!  Go here to see them all!

Yogi and I hope you like the quilts and please come back soon!  We’d love for you to become followers, too! Happy Quilting!!

 

Finally Done!!

I did finish the binding on one quilt

at bee on Saturday!

 

This is my original “Counting By Fives”

quilt design -

made with Moda’s super fun “Attitude Girls”

by my favorite designer Mary Engelbreit!

At bee, I also finished about half of the binding

on my “Blue Garden Days” quilt made from

the Strip Twist quilt pattern

that is so fun to make

even though it uses partial seaming!  Still fun!!

It took me FOUR nights to compose the design directions for all 5 MBS projects…

MAN!!  That’s a realllllly longgggg post! 

Woo hoo!!  All done!! 

I still don’t know when it will be published, but I’ll let you know when I find out!!

Whatcha working on these days??

 

On A Roll! Woo Hoo!

Yesterday, I quilted my blue strip twist top that’s been sitting in my sewing room for 6 months.  It’s ready for me to hand-sew down the binding at bee on Saturday.  Today after work, I quilted my original “Counting By Fives” design quilt made with a Mary Engelbreit “Attitude Girls” honey bun.

I designed and made the top in August, but it’s been waiting patiently for me to quilt it.  I have lots of patient fabrics, too!! LOL!!

 

So, now I have 2 quilts to bind at bee!  YAY!!  I love to bind quilts, but I admit, it was not always pleasurable to me.  I used to hate it… not sure why it changed, but I am glad it did!!

My least favorite part of making a quilt is cutting it out.  My favorite part… well, that’s a tough one.  I love selecting and auditioning fabrics, piecing the blocks, free-motion quilting, and hand-sewing the binding down.  What’s your favorite part and least favorite part of quilting?

I'm Published on MBS Today!!

My first project is published now

 on the Moda Bake Shop!!

WOO HOO!!   Go HERE to check it out!
Let me know what you think!! :-)