In which I ramble on about quilt retreat, The Project of Doom and other quilty goodness!
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TTMT #102 – Not The Dungeon
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Tree Trimming Kit
I’m happy to share with you all that I will be participating in the Austin Area Quilt Guild’s 2011 Gift of Quilting! I will be representing Honey Bee Quilt Store and offering my Tree Trimming class as part of the program.
With the help of my friend Osie, who also works at Honey Bee, I put together this new color combination especially for The Gift of Quilting. As an added bonus, the kit is available not only to those participating in GoQ, but to anyone!
You can order online directly from Honey Bee or you can stop by the store to pick up your kit.
The $22 kit includes the Tree Trimming pattern, all the fabric to make the quilt top as well as the binding. All you need is batting and backing fabric!
Honey Bee Quilt Store
9308 Anderson Mill Rd #300
Austin, TX 78729
Do you prefer to use your own fabric? You can also purchase just the pattern! It’s just $8 for PDF Instant Download from my E-Junkie Shop!
Tree Trimming PDF Instant Download $8 
Or, if you prefer to have a hardcopy version of the pattern, but would like to use your own fabrics, you can purchase a copy from my Etsy shop and I will send it right to your door!
As always, happy quilting!
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Pre-Treat Thoughts
It’s early (for a Saturday morning) and I’m giving myself this much time *holds up fingers* to try and get caught up before today’s Linus meeting.
I’m in hardcore pre-Retreat countdown mode. It’s kind of like going to a conn, the excitement, the planning, the lack of sleep…the big difference is there’s no hotel bill and the only costuming are our pjs.
Common interests? Check. Something to do every second of every day? Check. Food? Check! Fun? Check, check, check!
I’ve been putting together a list of what I’m taking and it just keeps growing. I think a couple of my UFO projects that I’m feeling kind of ‘meh’ about might stay behind.
So far, this is my list (you can several of these on my 2011 UFO post):
To finish:
- Bear Paws
- Christmas Quilt
- HP Swap Quilt*
- New York Beauty
*I have taken the HP swap blocks to the last two retreats and not touched them. The real problem is that I have no idea how I want to lay them out, so they just get transported back and forth. If I have time before Wednesday, I’m going to import all the photos into EQ7 and play with layouts. Maybe I can get inspired…
To Be Cut/Pieced:
- POD blocks to be made – pre-sorted with fabric ready to go
- LotR x-stitch gifted from Shae with mock-ups done in EQ7 so I can decide on the final layout
- Green swap squares plus purple for 10 Minute Blocks
- Churn Dash Blocks + shirting (need!) and red or brown fabric (also with EQ7 mock-ups)
- 5 @ The Hive BOM blocks
Needs to be quilted…might take:
- Wingless Wyrm
- My Kitchen Window
- Classic Film
Other:
- Rope & Bag O’ Selvage for basket making
- Secret Pattern and Fabric for Secret Project
- Take triangles from exchange…just in case!
EQ7 Mock Up Layouts for LotR X-Stitch and Churn Dash:
I have a whole set Churn Dash blocks that look similar to this one:
These are some of the layouts I’ve thought about. The first one is my favorite, especially if I can find some shirting I like in the quilt shops we visit on the way down to Canyon Lake.
Any opinions or suggestions on the layouts? I’d love to hear them!
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Fabric Friday
Last weekend, some friends and I visited Dallas for the Quilter’s Guild of Dallas‘ Quilt Celebration 2011. It was a fun time full of wonderful vendors (fabric, fabric, fabric!) and gorgeous quilts.
The lovely batik you see above is a fat quarter that I found at one of the plethora of vendors we visited. I did buy more, but I think this one is especially worth sharing. I just love all the different stars!
I, of course, took oodles of photos at the quilt show. There isn’t a photo of every quilt, but I did get pictures of the ones I found interesting or especially striking. Sometimes it was just the fabric combinations that caught my eye. You can see all the photos I took in Dallas here.
Tomorrow, I’ll be at the monthly meeting for The Linus Connection. Stop by if you’re in town!
Happy quilting everyone, and have a great weekend!
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St. Patrick Shamrock!
Are you wearing green today? Even more importantly, do you have green fabric?
Good, because I have a brand new free paper pieced pattern to share with you!
I thought a fun and simple Shamrock pattern would be just the thing to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!
5″ paper pieced Shamrock Pattern
After years of hand-drafting all my patterns in Photoshop, I’ve been learning EQ7. The learning curve is finally getting smaller and I still prefer to color and number my own patterns in Photoshop, but I have discovered that one of my favorite things to do with EQ7 are fun quilt layouts! This one is super simple, but I hope it inspires you to create a little Shamrock quilt of your own!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day…and happy quilting!
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PoD week 10
Just a reminder, The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).
The Week 10 pattern is live…and we are officially 1/3 of the way through our weekly blocks!
Want how other quilters are interpreting the PoD patterns? You can see related photo posts here.
If you participate, and you’re part of the hp_paperpiecing community (it’s easy, you just need a Livejournal account), you’ll be eligible for awesome prizes every month! There are details on the site…so GO!
*PoD pattern posts go to the PoD page, with the actual block behind a link to keep it a mystery!
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TTMT #101 – Today and Yesterday
UFO Update – Black & Red Afghan
Remember this, when I posted about the UFOs and such I’d like to get finished in 2011? Well, the end of February saw me finishing these blocks above into this afghan below!
The black/red squares came from a Twilight Crafts swap in 2009. I made all the white ones to give it a checkered effect and to help the black/red blocks really stand out.
I crocheted all the blocks together with white yarn, then crocheted around with black. Once I changed to white yarn, I crocheted evenly around and then continued with the border, most of which is done in hdc. The finishing row is a reverse sc (aka crab stitch), which adds a really awesome ridged texture.
I really like the finished product and have decided that I will keep this one for myself. Quite a few of my friends participated in this swap and it makes me happy to have a little piece of their craftiness!
Remember the stairs? I will have something to share about those very soon!!
14 days until my bee’s annual quilt retreat!
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Project of Doom Week 9!
Just a reminder, The Project of Doom, A Harry Potter Block of the Week Mystery Quilt, is taking place over on Harry Potter Paper Piecing (hp_paperpiecing on Livejournal).
The Week 9 pattern is now posted! This week makes a fun change and I do hope you like it!
Want how other quilters are interpreting the PoD patterns? You can see related photo posts here.
If you participate, and you’re part of the hp_paperpiecing community (it’s easy, you just need a Livejournal account), you’ll be eligible for awesome prizes every month! There are details on the site…so GO!
*PoD pattern posts go to the PoD page, with the actual block behind a link to keep it a mystery!
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TTMT #100 – Viable For Syndication
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- First, very awkward, TTMT (before it was called TTMT!)
- Post-Retreat TTMT 2010
In which I discuss what it feels like to be 100!
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