Sunday, September 11, 2011

Lava and Broken Dishes!!!

First let me thank all of you for my Boken Dishes Neptune Style blocks.  I also belong to the BEE Neptune Bee and had them make the same block for me.  I plan to put it all together first chance I get.  I know this block was no challenge at for all of you but simple is sometimes nice.  This is going to be a great quilt!











Here are Toni's Lava blocks.  Hope they are not too wonkyfied for you!  I didn't try to make them uniform at all so how they came out was just as they were when I cut them.  I had to put some purple lava in there.  Lava is sometimes purple, right?  Anyway I hope you like them Toni.  Your quilt should be fabulous.

Toni's Bullseye Block for September

I'm glad I joined the group this year.  This has really taught me to think outside STEPH'S BOXY NOGGIN!!!! All the blocks so far I've never done before and this Bullseye block was fun.  I like the whimsiness & simplicity of this block!!!  Can't wait to see the final outcome of the quilt...should be way cool!!!
E N J O Y !!!!

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Bulls Eyes for Butterflies!


For September you guys were given a 'box of inspiration' ... 
I will be making a "Butter Fly Garden" Quilt with my Round I blocks .... 
Round I were fantastic Wonky Butterflies ... 
Round II i am asking for the BULL EYE Blocks ~
I finally got a 'tutorial' up on my Blog & links ... hop on over and take a peek -
If you have questions .. let me know,
But Butterflies are Free ...and so it is with the BULLS EYE BLOCKS
I'm giving you guys the freedom to CREATE & have fun...

Friday, September 9, 2011

Advice on Toni's blocks

Here's a pic of the back of a block. Be sure to trim away to 1/4 inch of the underside of the circle after you sew each new circle on. This keeps you from having 4 layers of fabric, which would make quilting more difficult.


Understand?



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For Toni in the kc scrappy bee

I don't know about you guys, but I can never sleep after a KCMQG meeting. Last night, I decided to whip out Toni's blocks before going to bed. I made a daybed quilt out of these years ago with some of my 30's reproduction fabric. These are one of my favorite things to make. So forgiving, so liberated. With the black background, they're really cosmic. I love em. A lot.

Enjoy, Toni! Thanks for a fun assignment this month!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Playing Catch up!

Oy vey! ... where does the time go?! We did get to enjoy our family a wee bit ... But now that  Youngest 2 kiddo's back to school, and i'm not gonna lie, we survived the worst summer EVER! -- i want to thank you all for your patience and kindness while my 'old man' was recouping ~ Over the last few weeks i have finally been able to carve out some time for sewing therapy ... and have FINALLY gotten the pictures downloaded & uploaded ... etc.

Just wanted to share with you what happily keeps me up at night!

Parthena's Wonky House!

Beth's Flying Geese
Quake Quilt for Nikki
 Concluding Round I 
& Beginning Round II
... & bringing US current thru August! 
I really have enjoyed playing with the different Ideas! 
Thanx Ladies!


Spiderweb Quilt for Caitlin
Paula's Broken Dishes
PS. ~ ladies:
PLEASE post updated photos of your  Block "collections"!
I wanna SEE
SEPTEMBER: BULLS EYE BLOCKS ... (stand by for NEWS!)