A few of my lovely pinks from the scrap box.
Until next time "Quilt out of your Comfort Zone!"
Lea
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Pink is my favorite color...
Yep, I love it. I've tons of it! Dominates my stash and my scraps. So I'm linking up with Angela at Sew scrappy. Yesterday I finished one block for the baby quilt and called it day. Today I'm doing a bit a hand sewing on an older project. Anyway back to the baby block. It's 8 1/2, so that makes those pink pieces 1 1/2, Yikes! I've been taking pictures along the way hoping to make a free pattern on my blog when I finish.
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Friday, January 4, 2013
Square it up
The units are to be square at 2 1/2. Lining up my block unit at the 1 1/4 then cut.
Turning to cut the other two sides, line up again at the 1 1/4 mark and cutting
TaDa! Perfect 2 1/2
Only 79 more to go!
Until next time "Quilt out of your Comfort Zone!"
Lea
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Pocket full of Posies
Last year was a year of trying to quilt. Due to so much illness in the family I became a taxi service for several friends and family. Not that I'm complaining. Every time I thought it was okay to take a commissioned job something would come up. So I ended up turning down several. Well the cloud has lifted and it seems that there's light again. Recently a friend of a friend contacted me needing a baby quilt. Her requests were simple...
1. It must be pink, mint green, and cream
2. It must have posies
3. Just as long as it's done by March or April
Pretty easy guidelines. With the help of EQ7 I came up with around 30 different quilts. But I only sent her pictures of 4 and the fabric I choose, letting her know that it was okay to reject these and offer suggestions. Believe it or not she picked one! So easy.
This first one is my pick out of the four
She likes the one above
No need to fabric shop she loved what's on hand, all pulled from the stash.
Now I'd like to talk a little bit about EQ7 because I'm asked often if I think it's worth the money. For me its a handy tool and more often than not I go to EQ to help with the designing process. I'm a visual person so seeing it makes all the difference. And now that I can scan in my own fabrics its even better. However EQ doesn't tell you how to put the quilt together, it will give you templates for piecing, you can print out paper piecing, and rotary cutting directions and yardage. I find this to be the most helpful. Normally I'll print out the yardage and the rotary cutting directions just for reference, and to scribble ideas and measurement on. So if I need to make a flying geese it's not going to tell me how to do the quick method of 4 at a time. But it will give me a measurement for the flying geese so I can do the math for myself. For this quilt I'll also print out a template for the Posie. So is it worth the money, I think so, it cuts a lot of time off the design process and makes it easier to show a customer what their quilt will look like.
However I still from time to time use the old fashion method of paper and pencil. Sometimes its just easier.
Until next time "Quilt out of your Comfort Zone!"
Lea
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1. It must be pink, mint green, and cream
2. It must have posies
3. Just as long as it's done by March or April
Pretty easy guidelines. With the help of EQ7 I came up with around 30 different quilts. But I only sent her pictures of 4 and the fabric I choose, letting her know that it was okay to reject these and offer suggestions. Believe it or not she picked one! So easy.
This first one is my pick out of the four
Now I'd like to talk a little bit about EQ7 because I'm asked often if I think it's worth the money. For me its a handy tool and more often than not I go to EQ to help with the designing process. I'm a visual person so seeing it makes all the difference. And now that I can scan in my own fabrics its even better. However EQ doesn't tell you how to put the quilt together, it will give you templates for piecing, you can print out paper piecing, and rotary cutting directions and yardage. I find this to be the most helpful. Normally I'll print out the yardage and the rotary cutting directions just for reference, and to scribble ideas and measurement on. So if I need to make a flying geese it's not going to tell me how to do the quick method of 4 at a time. But it will give me a measurement for the flying geese so I can do the math for myself. For this quilt I'll also print out a template for the Posie. So is it worth the money, I think so, it cuts a lot of time off the design process and makes it easier to show a customer what their quilt will look like.
However I still from time to time use the old fashion method of paper and pencil. Sometimes its just easier.
Until next time "Quilt out of your Comfort Zone!"
Lea
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Making progress
Theres been a little progress on Nostalgic Christmas. As hard as I tried not to I had to steal a couple of ideas from Lynn. You can take a look at her version here Lots of SITD! But the most wonderful thing is no thread change! Its all the same color. This is quite possibly my favorite quilt. Even though it's a christmas quilt I think I'll still hang it in my sewing studio for awhile, maybe put on the bed in the spare bedroom. 
Until next time "Quilt out of your Comfort Zone!"
Lea Pin It
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