Triangle Quilt

August 25th, 2010

I hope that you are enjoying the new videos showing how to use the SMUP ruler. Square Me Up Ruler that is.

Earlier this year Kerry from New Zealand sent me some of her batik fabric. I used the SMUP ruler to make this quilt. I just love it. Love batiks! I showed it briefly in the second video but I wanted to give you a better look at it.

I used eight different fabrics. 1/3 yard of each.
Cut four 10″ squares from each.
Follow the instructions for the SMUP ruler.
I paired up the same colors of 10″ squares for each. My result was 40 of each half square triangles (HST).
You could also mix and match the 10″ squares. I did have some of my HST left over.
I hope you enjoy it.

Elisa

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Mailing my Quilt

August 11th, 2010

I mailed out my Ida’s Barn quilt.

I was saying goodbye to my to my quilt, almost as if I was sending off my first born to camp.

I was happy, excited, worried and hopeful as I packaged the quilt and mailed it off to tour the world for the next year.

Well, not really the world, just a few quilt shows in the US.

I found this really neat way to package a quilt and roll it up. It is called a One-Piece Quilt Wrap. You create a sleeve to put a foam core or plastic pipe inside, which helps to keep the quilt rigid so that there are no fold marks. This is attached to a piece of fabric. You lay your quilt flat and then just roll the entire thing up and use the ties to hold it secure.

You can see how it looks with my quilt rolled up inside.

And here is a photo showing the label that is attached to the outside with my name, address and the name of the quilt.

Pretty nifty I’d say.

I can’t give you the pattern because it doesn’t belong to me, but I got it out of American Quilter (AQS) magazine, May 2010 issue.

It was one of those times that I read the article and made a mental note, but when it came time to actually make the quilt wrap I couldn’t remember which magazine it was in, so I had to scour through all of my quilt magazines from the last 6 months to find it. I know, such torture.

Maybe you already have the magazine or you can order a back issue. The pattern was by Bonny Brewer.

I can’t wait to get the photos back to show you!

Elisa

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Bright Star Again

August 3rd, 2010

Take a peek at the completed quilt on the Robert Kaufman site.

Here is a tiny sample of the quilt.

You can see all of the yummy batiks used in this quilt.

I enjoyed making this quilt again in these batik fabrics. I think this has become one of my new favorites.

If you have made this or any other of my quilts you can now post them on my facebook page.

Elisa

I would love to see what you have done.

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Beautiful Colors

March 9th, 2010

I couldn’t wait to share with you this beautiful quilt.

It is my Fan Dance pattern but the color choices are spectacular.

This quilt was made by Mary Chin.

The color choices make the fans pop off of the quilt so that it looks 3-D. The quilt actually uses paper piecing to make the fans and then my 8″ Rainbow template to cut out the rest.

Here is a picture of the quilt after it has been quilted and bound.

I love it!

Thanks Mary for sharing.

Elisa

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Color Bridge

December 10th, 2009
Color Bridge Quilt Pattern

Color Bridge Quilt Pattern

I found my pattern Color Bridge in the following blog at Sister’s Choice Quilts, she is calling it Christmas Cactus. Very nice.

You can read about it and see her quilt in her Dec 3rd and Dec 7th entry.
I would have to say that Nicole is a prolific quilter. She has a lot of amazing quilts. And a lot of Christmas quilts. And her house looks so nice.

After looking through her posts and reading the stories about her Christmas quilts, I thought I would count up my Christmas quilts.

It didn’t take me long to count them.
I was disappointed to realize that I have zero Christmas decorations up. And therefore, zero Christmas quilts up. And I own very few Christmas quilts. Then I remembered that I have this tree quilt and I hung it up.

Christmastreequilt

This was made this about 8 years ago with the Square in A Square ruler. The strange angle of the quilt is because it is hanging in a hallway and I couldn’t get a good shot at it. I do not have much wall space in my house. Most of my walls are windows.

Then I found this table runner, Christmas Poinsettia, that I bought at an auction in Arizona in 2002. Made by Julinne Dodds for the MTQ Small quilt auction in Prescott. I love this quilt. Julinne, if you are ever wondering who bought your quilt, it was me.

Christmastabletopper

And then the last one is a table runner made from my In A Spin pattern. This was probably made in about 2002 also.
ChristmasInASpintablerunner

That is it. Boy that is a poor showing for the season. I will have to get busy for next year so that I have at least one larger quilt for the season.

But right now, my excuse for not having done any preparations for Christmas is that my house is torn apart. Literally.
One corner of the room looks like this…

woodstoveinsert

The wood stove is actually downstairs and this is the pipe coming up through the floor, awaiting the return of the installer to finish his part in installing our wood stove and then we have to add the drywall to box it in, and paint it and then clean it all up and put the furniture back into place. And all before our company arrives in 7 days and 6 hours. But who is counting….

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