NYC Metro Modern Quilters Guild: Big Rig Quilting

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Lovin' Lotta

I was asked to design a quilt with the new Bella line by Lotta Jansdotter (Windham Fabrics). The quilt Modern View appears in the January/February 2013 issue of McCall's Quilting - and it even made the cover.

Here is a layout from inside the magazine.

Here are a couple of a close-up shots of the quilting - to see more shots of the quilting visit my Flickr Page.

The City Quilter is currently displaying the quilt near the front entrance to the store. They also have copies of the magazine AND - they have the fabric in stock now.

Also, McCall's is offering a kit for this quilt. CLICK HERE FOR INFO

I would have loved to bring the quilt with me to "Show and Tell" on Saturday - but this is the best I can do - to see it in person head on over to The City Quilter. It should be on display for a few weeks.

Finally - I am going to start a monthly e-newsletter. If you would like to sign-up CLICK HERE and fill out the easy form. I plan on publishing in monthly around the middle of the month.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Winding Ways Block

Well, I am working on some samples for a Winding Ways class I am teaching at the City Quilter in February.

As we found out at our last meeting - Templates can be your friend (I can't wait to get my hands on a set of the Five-Point Star Template set from EZ Quilting.) For this project I am using the Marti Michell templates to cut out the pieces - these are a gem. Easy to cut out lots of the shapes in no time at all. So I have been slicin' and dicin'.

Who would have thought sewing the blocks is WAY easier than picking out the fabric. Here are two versions I am working on - not really happy with either - but at least it is a start.

The first is an Amish inspired design

The second is a Kaffe/Westminster inspired design.

When everything is sewn I think I will have a few samples that are well planned out and one that just uses all the rejected pieces - and you know what - I bet I will like the real scrappy one. (yes scrappy is usually best!)