This week’s quilty inspiration comes from Jacquie at Tallgrass Prairie Studio.
This mini quilt really appealed to me because it is so different from the norm. Jacquie titled this “Three Sheets to the Wind”, which I find so funny! I am drawn to quilts that are not your normal block design, which is why I have been looking at applique quilts more and more. I would love to make something like this little mini someday.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
This week’s inspiration comes from Bonnie at Quiltville.
If you have never visited Bonnie’s website, be sure that you do. She has some of the best ideas for making quilts with scraps. I have a thing for optical illusion quilts. I especially enjoy it when, by placement of color and design, the quilt looks way more complicated than it really is. That is why this particular quilt appealed to me. It looks like it is made up of quarter square triangle blocks set on point, but really the blocks are 2 half square triangles set in rows. If you click on the picture there, you will find instructions to make this quilt. It really is super simple, but creates a really eye catching design.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
This week’s quilty inspiration is from Ashley of Film in the fridge.
If you click on the picture above, you will be brought to the free pattern for this quilt from Robert Kaufman. It was designed by Ashley for them. I love everything about this pattern, it is pretty simple to make, but has a great visual impact. I love that it is slightly wonky, and the blocks of patterned fabrics would be a great way to show off any fabric line. I have a few quilts planned for this pattern.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
This week’s inspiration is from A Quilt is Nice.
I really love this design. It is very simple and can be seen all over the web, but there is something to be said about a simple design. It leaves you a lot of room to make the quilt shine just from the choices in fabric more so than the complicated piecing. This particular version appealed to me because the boxes are just slightly wonky. I love a little wonkiness in my quilts because it means I don’t have to worry so much about lining everything up just so. I have never actually made a boxy quilt, but it is on my to-do list once I find the perfect fabrics for it.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
Today’s Quilty Inspiration can be found on Ms. Jan Quilts’ blog.
If you are a reader of my blog, you may well know that I love Halloween. You may not know that I am also in love with jar quilts. So this particular quilt really called out to me. I have been wanting to make a jar quilt for a while, but I just haven’t found the right fabrics for it yet. Someday I will have a jar quilt, perhaps even a Halloween one!
Today is the last day to sign up for my Fall into Fall giveaway. I have to say, you guys have not made this easy on me. Narrowing down my favorite picture caption is going to be hard!! But I have gotten hours of laughter out of the entries, so even if you don’t win, know that you gave me a smile and that is surely worth something! Entries will close tonight at which time I will choose two winners. The winners will be announced on Sunday’s blog post!
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
This week’s quilty inspiration comes from Lady Harvatine
I just love the look of this quilt. The little bits of color are so fun to look at and really have an awesome random feel. If you click on the picture above, she has a tutorial on how to create this look really quickly using long strips of background fabric.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
Winners!!
All the entries were so creative!! I am blown away with what you guys were able to come up with, but I could only choose one as my winner. The reason I chose the winner is because we are a joking family. We are always teasing each other and joking around. A few years ago my husband taught my son to call me ‘woman’. You have not lived a day until you hear your 4 year old say “Woman make me dinner!” LOL Of course this was all meant in fun from my husband, and I think it is hilarious. (Though we have had to have the talk about when it is appropriate to call me this, it’s a little embarassing when he says it in the middle of Wal-Mart!! Oh and that he should NEVER call any other woman this as some may not think it is funny at all.) So with that reason, the winning caption came from Dot:
Hmmm…now, where is the spot that will maximize destruction? WOMAN, KNOW WHO YOU’RE DEALING WITH!
I also used the random generator to come up with the second winner. All comments left counted for the drawing, minus any duplicate posts. There were 309 comments left and the winner of the random drawing is Billie K from Billies Bee Blog with a post of:
Who’s been sleeping on my blanky???
Billie
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This week’s quilty inspiration comes from Victoria at The Silly BooDilly.
This block is called a Wonky Star. When Victoria posted a tutorial for this block on her blog (click on the picture), there was a collection of these blocks being sent to Australia to help make quilts for the Bushfire victims. I thought the block was really fun, and it fit my style really well. I used this block to make a breast cancer quilt for a friend. It was very simple to do, but I really like it because there are no points to line up. The charm of this block is in it’s wonkiness, so you don’t have to worry about being overly precise. I will probably use this block in another quilt someday, it would be a great scrap buster!
I have also signed up for the ‘Fall into Fall Giveaway’ and today is the day! This will be my first giveaway, so I want to make it a good one for you guys. Today I have decided to give away two prizes:
Each of these are a set of 10 fat quarters.
All of these fabrics are from my local quilt store, but I have discovered that they have spent too much time on my shelves. So rather than having them look all sad and forlorn, I want to send them to a home that will make them into something beautiful.
So how can you enter my giveaway? Well I have decided to do my giveaway ala ‘Pioneer Woman’. If you have never visited her blog, do it. She is so funny and her posts crack me up all the time. She hasn’t done this type of giveaway in a while, but I always thought it was so much fun.
All you have to do to enter is give me a caption for this picture that has my kitty, Ciao in it:
It can be long, short, silly or serious, just have fun! If you are not feeling a caption, you may just leave me a regular comment as well, though that’s not quite as much fun!
One winner will be drawn at random from all comments on this post only. The other winner will be my favorite caption as picked by me.
The giveaway will close on October 15th. The winners will be announced on October 17th. The contest is open to all quilters from the U.S. or internationally. Remember this is for fun!
Please feel free to poke around my blog while you are here. I recently posted about how I bind my quilts. And you can see some of my finished and unfinished quilts.
Be sure to visit the Fall into Fall Giveaway blog for lots more giveaways!
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
This week’s quilty inspiration is from Shea at The Empty Bobbin.
I am not sure if this is actually her quilt or not as she was using the picture just to celebrate election day, but either way I love the look of it. I have been meaning to make a quilt where same color scraps are sewn together to make a bigger piece of fabric. I mentioned a similar idea a while back with a candy corn quilt. I think it gives the quilt such a fun and unique dimension.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
This week’s quilty inspiration comes from Bonnie at Quiltville.
Bonnie posted this picture on her page about leaders and enders (scroll about halfway down). As soon as I saw it, I was immediately smitten with it. I hadn’t heard of an Irish chain at the time that I started this quilt, but I was able to see how she put it together from the pictures. I ended up making this now finished quilt, Scrappy Irish Chain, which my husband uses every night. Once I figured out what the pattern was called, I found all kinds of tutorials on the web for it, but it really is not a difficult quilt to make.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
This week’s quilty inspiration picture is from Oh, Fransson.
The quilt is made using Paintbox Blocks. If you click on the picture, she provides a quick tutorial on how to make these blocks. She has also hosted a quilt along on her blog for this quilt. It is done now, but you can still follow her posts to make your own. I really like this quilt because of the vibrant color play going on. It seems like a quick and easy block to make that has a lot of visual impact.
Happy Quilting!
I draw a lot of inspiration from blogs, websites and forums. I like to bookmark quilts as I come across them so I can peek through them when I am feeling uninspired. I thought I would share some of the pics that I bookmarked every so often so maybe you can find inspiration from them too.
This week the picture I am sharing is a quilt I probably won’t make for a long time, but I love the look of it. It comes from the Sew Create It blog.
I know a lot of people use old shirts as fabric for quilts, I have been meaning to find some at a thrift store and try it out, but I haven’t done it yet. This quilt is a fun way to use an otherwise unusable part of the shirt. There is no tutorial with this picture, but I think if I wanted to make one I could easily figure it out.
Happy Quilting!
Rachel
