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Friday, June 29, 2012

Nine Patch Quilt-A-Long Tutorial

I have been trying to find new ways to use up my scraps & make fun quilts for my Quilted Hugs Project!

Today I counted and so far I have 13 finished Quilts!!
I also have 18 finished quilt tops!
That makes a total of 31 quilts! WOW! I cannot believe that I have made so many already.
Go me!

After finishing sewing the binding on my last few quilts today I decided to find a way to use more scraps and make some more quilt tops.
I have enough fabric to make another Stringy Quilt.
Those come together soooo fast!

I like changing things up. I can not seem to make more than two quilts in any one pattern or method before it just seems boring.

SO....
I decided to do a Quilt-A-Long (QAL).
I have tons of strips of fabric in my scrap basket and they seem to be constantly multiplying.
I don't like to use any strips larger than 3 inches, so those tend to sit on the bottom of the basket and just get in my way.
I decided to pull them out and see how many I had.
I was very surprised that I have sooo many large and long strips of fabric 3 inches wide or larger.

SEW... I decided to do a Nine Patch-A-Day QAL!
These are so easy and it's not hard to make one nine patch per day.

The fun will start on July 5th!
That gives you a week to get your fabric together, match up fabrics, cut any scraps to the required size, etc. (Note: If you have a jelly roll feel free to use that. Your blocks will finish a little smaller, but it will still turn out GREAT!!)

Here is a quick tutorial on how to make a nine patch for our QAL...

Materials Needed:
Aprox 3 yards of
Scrap fabric 3 inches by at least 18 inches long
(You can also use a jelly roll and your blocks will turn out smaller. Just make sure to cut your pieces
2 1/2 inches wherever it says to cut 3 inches in the tutorial.)

1. Sew strips aprox. 9 inches down the length of the fabric, right sides together.

You should end up with this.

2. Cut sewn strip into Three 3 inch sections.

3. Out of the remaining fabric cut two 3 inch squares out of fabric A and one 3 inch square out of fabric B

4. Sew the 3 inch squares onto your pieces making three alternating sections. (See picture above)

5. Press seams towards the darker fabric.

6. Sew the three sections together to make a nine patch block. Make sure to match your seams.

7. Press open seams.

Your yield should be one nine patch block that finishes at 7 3/4.

I am going to make one block per day for the next 36 days.
That will give me enough blocks to make a nice lap quilt for my Quilted Hugs Project!

Please join me and leave a comment to let me know that you are playing along.
I would love to see your progress so please follow my blog and then post about this fun Nine Patch QAL!!

I will post soon about how to turn these blocks into a quilt top.

Hugs,
Lisa

Monday, April 30, 2012

How to Use the Easy Circle Cutter

Here is a Quick Tutorial on using a Easy Circle Cutter Ruler.

This is a really neat tool to include in your quilting supplies.

I started with a 7 inch Square fabric.

I folded my square in half.

Then I lined up the fold on the dotted line of the circle cutter.

The hardest part of this whole process was cutting the circle out without moving the ruler.

I should have used the mini rotary cutter.

The result is a perfect circle to use in your quilting.

This circle will be appliqued on top of another fabric square and then the fabric square with the hole will have a piece of fabric placed behind it.

I will stitch it down and have two apparent Fabric blocks with only one cut!

I will be posting my results soon.

Hugs,

Lisa

Monday, April 23, 2012

Make a "Serendipity" Quilt (2 quilts for the price of 1!!)

I have been enjoying watching tutorials from the Missouri Star Quilt Company!

I am trying to get some more ideas for my Quilted Hugs Quilts!

I want each child to get a quilt all of their own and I wanted to try some new patterns.

I hope that you enjoyed this tutorial as much as I did.

I will show you the quilt that I made out of it when its finished...

but first I have to start the quilt!

Go check out the Missouri Star Quilt Company and see all of their great tutorials, fabrics, patterns, etc.

Hugs,

Lisa

Saturday, April 21, 2012

FABRIC SALE!!!

Last year Lisa S. and I went to a quilting club at the First Baptist Church in Mount Dora.

Neither of us are members of the church, but who can resist a quilting club??

We were only able to attend about a dozen times because of our busy schedules, but we just LOVE the other ladies there.

The leader of the club called me this week to tell me about a fabric sale they were hosting.

There was a lady in the church who passed away from cancer and they were helping to sell her fabric to raise money for the medical bills and her funeral service.

This lady had more fabric than some quilt shops!