New Discovery about Accuquilt Dies

Accuquilt was making all sorts of cute Dies for Go cutters.  I spotted (2) Dies I wanted that were designed by Edyta Sitar but they were for the Go Die and then I discovered Accuquilt made a Die Adapter for the Studio cutter, so I ordered the adapter and the 2 Dies last week.  One was the Dancing Umbrella and the other has flowers, leaves and a bird.  I'm looking forward to using those too.  I really like how large the umbrella turns out.

Go Die Umbrella by Edyta Sitar

  

Week-end Projects

Several months ago, I brought home too many pre-printed panels that I thought looked cute.  The panels were part of the donated fabric from R.J.'s.  It was time to create a couple of tops.  The first one up was the cats.  I added the blue strips.  The red checks top and bottom were donated along with the panel.  It made a nice size top, great for a teenager.

Project Linus Cats panel



The next panel I chose to work on was a bunch of flowers on a green background.
To bring out the color of the flowers, I added four different strips around the flowers and then
added a 7 1/2" purple border to increase the size of the quilt top.

The top needed a little extra something...

so, I appliqued an umbrella on either side of the panel and here is what it looks like.

Quilt top with umbrellas  July 6, 2014




 

Design Wall Monday

Cobblestone Quilt top complete.  Hooray!!  I had a difficult time choosing the fabrics, so it took way longer to make the top.  I used scraps and many charm squares cut in half.  All pieces were cut 2 1/2" x 5".
My first post about this quilt was on June 16, 2014.  I do like how the center is medium in color with light fabrics surrounding the center and darker pieces on the outside.

Cobblestone Quilt Top

The quilt can be found in Edyta Sitar's book, Scrappy Fireworks Quilts.  Her quilt was much larger and of course, I loved the fabrics she chose for her quilt.

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Potato Chips

Potato Chip top is done.  The quilt will finish at 43" x 53.75" with no borders.  It will be sandwiched with batting and a back and then tied.  I'm happy with how it turned out.  I used all the large floral fabric that I had cut from our sewing group's stash and then the 4 corner blocks from my stash.

I have many more pink strips left over from this project and discovered a large stack of 5 1/2" squares of a smaller floral, so I may begin another Potato Chip quilt to use those scraps.

Potato Chips

Design Wall Monday

Making Potato Chips....
After all these years of quilting, I have never made a Potato Chip quilt.  Our weekly sewing group was given several large boxes of fabric to use.  I chose to cut this floral and found several solids that matched.  When I wasn't sure what to make, my friend Bonnie suggested the Potato Chip quilt.  I can't wait to see how it turns out.  I've already run out of the green fabric scraps.  I have 3 different shades of pink and 2 shades of blue.  The goal is to use up the solid scraps from the donations and my stash.

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Potato Chips

 

Design Wall Monday

Last year, TVQA (Tennessee Valley Quilters Assoc.) hosted our annual meeting of Guilds.  Our speaker for the day was Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts.  If you ever have the chance to see Edyta and hear her stories about the quilts she designs and makes, be sure to go.  She is amazing!

The quilt strips I have on my design wall are from her pattern, Cobblestones Quilt, in the book, Scrappy Firework Quilts.  Her finished quilt was:  66 1/2" x 72 1/2".

I chose to make my quilt smaller in size to accommodate the width size of the backing fabric and batting, which our group uses for Project Linus quilts.  My plan is for the quilt to be 40.5" x 50".  Since I have many pre-cut charm squares, I chose to cut each one in half to create the cobblestone.  I'm hoping to have the top done by tomorrow. 

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Creative Girl Tote Bag

Back on May 5th, 2014, I wrote about Carrie Payne's unique Creative Girl Art Quilts as featured in the November 2013 issue of American Quilter.  I fell in love with all her art quilts and the delightful way that Carrie portrays each Creative Girl in her wall hangings.

Today, our Quilt Guild had a challenge using floral denim to make a tote bag of our choice.  I chose to include my version of a Creative Girl on the front of my tote bag.