A little bit of creativity every day!
My Dot to Dot Apron pattern is featured in the latest issue of Generation Q Magazine. Order your copy today! Currently they are only available in Oregon at Greenbaum’s in Salem and The Stitchin’ Post in Sisters, but you can order them directly from Gen Q online.
Happy quilting!
I’m so excited to have one of my quilts on the Generation Q blog! This is my Dot to Dot Quilt and is done with lots of springy-colored dots of all shapes and sizes. And what’s not to like about the sky blue background….yummy! (Hey, is that the sun peeking out through the clouds?) So many dots auditioned for this quilt, and there was a danger that they wouldn’t all be included, so there are dots at the ends of each row as well. My friend, Sheila Sinclair Snyder, suggested I add these end-dots (as I nicknamed them) and I think the end result is absolutely dotty.
Sign up for Generation Q’s blog and order a subscription to their magazine. It’s full of fresh ideas and I absolutely love it! And they’ve posted the Dot to Dot quilt pattern on their site so you can make one. So hopefully you will dive into your stashes and start making one right now….no really…..run, don’t walk to your quilting studio! Dotted fabrics will be flying off the shelf in no time.
I also made this quilt in red and taupe colors (yeah, I used dots – duh!) which I will show you (tease!) in a couple of weeks.
And because there were fabrics leftover from the quilt project, I used the leftovers to make an apron. Who knew aprons could be so fun? Stay tuned for more about that in my next post….
Happy quilting!
I’m so excited to announce that one of my quilts is in the March/April 2013 issue of McCall’s Quilting! And it’s on the cover! Although I’ve been quilting for over twenty years, and longarming for four years, I’ve only recently been submitting quilts to magazines, and this is the first one that got picked up, so I’m very excited about it.
This is a lap-sized quilt with lots of Kaufman solids and Rowan Fabrics (think Kaffe Fasset) so it’s really colorful and bright….and of course happy! I named it “Garden Gradation” because of the floral prints and the color gradation in the sashing strips. I usually make everything scrappy, so left to my own devices I would have made the sashing blocks scrappy, but because I was planning to make this quilt as a pattern for sale, my friend and mentor, Sheila Sinclair Snyder, encouraged me to make it simple as possible. She suggested I use a repeating flavor of colors. And so I thought I’d try to make it “simple” …and I liked it! She also came down to the quilt shop to help me decide on binding, which as you can see turned out really fun. Neither Sheila nor I are one for calmness in our color palette selection! I really can’t say thank you enough to Sheila for inspiring me both in my longarm journey and in my sewing. Thank you Sheila!
If you collect fabric (like I do) you can easily pull from your stash and come up with something similar to Garden Gradation.. But if you want your quilt to look pretty close to this one (and you don’t feel like shopping – what?), then you can purchase the kit from McCall’s.
Of course there are lots of fabulous quilts in the magazine, so run, don’t walk, to your nearest quilting shop that sells McCall’s Quilting, or order a subscription online. I think in the Eugene/Springfield area you can find them at both locations for JoAnn’s Fabrics.
Oh, and the quilting on the quilt is pretty fun too. You can’t really see it in the photo, but I’ll just have to pull out my own photos that I took before sending the quilt off and post those…..soon….so stay tuned!
Happy Quilting!
..and my quilting! Sheila Sinclair Snyder created this wonderful flannel quilt called “Wintergreen” and then decided to give it to me to quilt. We brainstormed on the quilting design together and came up with the large paisley and background patterns (which are hard to see in the photos).
So get out there and purchase this magazine ladies! (Oh, and there are actually some other fun ideas in it too…)
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