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After a busy weekend of concerts, family reunions, first communions and driving to the airport in the middle of the night I decided I needed to just hang out and sew. Here is a shot of my design wall. I'm working on a new quilt that will have piecing and applique in it!
I had a blast sewing these blocks so far.
If you haven't already done so, head over to Judy's blog for your weekly dose of inspiration.
I will be back in a couple of days...right now I need some sleep.
Happy Friday Everyone.Oooh...I just realized it's Friday the 13th...hope you're not superstitious.
As promised here is block 5 of the 2011 Block of the Month My Tweets.
Since these blocks finish at 14” and many of the blocks are asymmetrical I want to talk about printing your patterns. Each pattern has four downloads. Print each of these and tape them together to make your full sized pattern. Here is a diagram for doing this.
We will do this the same way for all the patterns since it allows the patterns to be easily printed on a home printer.
The full sized pattern is here:
The 8.5" x 11" patterns are here:
For those who like to share please go to the FLCKR group at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1604241@N21/
or the yahoo group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erinsquilters/
and join the fun.
Enjoy!
Well I’m kinda doing things in reverse this month but I’m still stitching Block 5 so I wanted to point out a few things.
The Center flower is drawn like this.
BUT it is actually made with individual petals. It is exactly the same flower as in Block 1 so you can use those templates if you saved them.
Also, for the past few weeks I have been having a friend come over to learn to appliqué. As I have watched her make all those leaves in Miss Karen (a very good pattern for learning to do this type of appliqué) I realized that you will get the best results when your template is tight inside you pressed shape.
Here’s a little pointer for the leaves. After you do one side, flip the piece around and hold onto those corners. This will keep the template tight while you press the other side.
Keep holding the corner while you paint starch on.
Hold on to the left corner while you press the right corner. I know this is a little scary since the iron is hot but you can get used to it. Just make sure you have turned off the steam.
My daughter found this calendar in January this year. I have to admit I have spent a LOT of time looking through it and laughing. I've also showed to almost all my friends, well the ones that come to the house that is.
I just discovered that there is a website as well...laugh away.
I'm going to go finish block 5.
When I first started this blog a couple of years ago I had absolutely no idea people would actually read it and what I would write about. As things have evolved I’ve discovered that if I write about quilting and appliqué people will actually READ what I have to say, which is very flattering by the way. Some of you may have noticed that the banner for this blog also has the words photography (my other passion) and travel (my other other passion) in it. Well, it turns out that there are much better people to write about photography than me. It also turns out that I haven’t been able to travel that much either. But since I haven’t found the time to do a new banner I thought I would throw in a quick photography post while I am working on Block 5 of My Tweets.
The other day my daughter had her FINAL high school orchestra concert. Over the past few years I have become the some-what official photographer for these events. I’ve been able to take pictures like these.
Now, as you might have guessed, flash is strictly forbidden during these events. So how do I do it? Well, first off I do have a DSLR. The lens I use almost ALL the time (even for blog posts) is this one.
Here is more info.
It has a very big aperture so you can take really great pictures in low light. If you want to learn more about this in a fun way, Pioneer Woman has some great articles on photography. You can find a short one on aperture here.
Also, this lens takes awesome pictures of flowers too!
Karen B who wrote
"I have already had my dream vacation. I got to spend 2 weeks in Hawaii for our 25th wedding anniversary. I still dream about going back!"
Well, how nie is that!
I hope you all get to have your dream vacations.
Karen, your e-mail is on the way.
Thanks for playing.
Happy Monday Everyone…hope you all had a lovely Mother’s day. I had a fun day with my kiddos, they did homework and I sewed. Can someone please tell me why Mother’s day is in May when it seems every project and test for the whole year is due? My sister-in-law finally said that May was worse than Christmas as far as planning goes. I feel bad for my punks though…hang in there guys, only 3 more weeks.
Sorry for that harangue…I will be back later on with the contest winner. For now, here’s a shot of my design wall this fine Monday. I’m stitching away on my new pattern and….block 5 for My Tweets (can you believe it?)
Head on over to Judy's blog and see what other people are up to.
So, here's the story on Miss Betty. Miss Betty is my Aunt Betty (aka the Easter Bunny). Once I decided on the fabric for this quilt I just knew I needed to name it for her because she loves this color scheme.
Here's a picture of my Aunt back during WWII. A family member had a photography studio at the time and took this picture of her. Isn't she a babe!
I have a copy to give away today. To enter just leave a comment telling us what your dream vacation is.
