Blog Fodder: Log Cabin Quilts & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is Log Cabin Quilts. According to the Creative Glossary, a log cabin quilt is ‘a type of quilt pattern in which strips of fabric or logs encompass a center square to create a block’.

Please enter your name and a link to your blog or a picture in Flickr. Link up to your quilts (you may enter more than once) using Mr Linky below and do visit as many of the other links as you can.  You will get some great ideas and may even find new followers and/or blogs to follow.

At the end of each month, all linky entries for that month will be tallied and one lucky winner will receive a charm pack of 20 (5") scrappy squares!  The monthly giveaway is open to residents within and outside the United States.
To win the giveaway, you must

1.            Enter a link to your quilt below.

2.            Be a member of this blog.

3.            Leave a comment.

Be sure to check back each week to participate in a different quilt theme.

Blog Fodder: Cathedral Window Quilts & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is Cathedral Window Quilts. According to the Creative Glossary, a cathedral window quilt is one which “uses a quilting technique that centers a piece of colored block of fabric on a muslin square that is stitched and folded.” It uses a quilt-as-you-go technique that uses an origami style of folding the background fabric to form a window frame and inserting a pretty patch in the center to represent the window pane, and is extremely portable once the background is pieced.

Please enter your name and a link to your blog or a picture in Flickr. Link up to your quilts (you may enter more than once) using Mr Linky below and do visit as many of the other links as you can.  You will get some great ideas and may even find new followers and/or blogs to follow.

At the end of each month, all linky entries for that month will be tallied and one lucky winner will receive a charm pack of 20 (5") scrappy squares!  The monthly giveaway is open to residents within and outside the United States.
To win the giveaway, you must

1.            Enter a link to your quilt below.

2.            Be a member of this blog.

3.            Leave a comment.

Be sure to check back each week to participate in a different quilt theme.

February's Guild Meeting

The highlight of this month's meeting was a lecture and demo on Setting Options for Blocks by Carol Loessel.  She brought in a trunk-full of quilts that she had made over the years to provide us with a visual representation of her techniques.  Carol has published a book called Start with Scraps which she signed for me.

Signed copy

Book by Carol Loessel

The committee members responsible for Charity quilts gave us a Show and Tell of all the preemie, baby and youth quilts that had been made during the month of January.  It's quite impressive how involved the guild is in making quilts for charity.  From their pile of kits, I picked up one that will be donated to Project Linus for a little girl.  It is a pre-printed panel and the backing and binding is provided.  All I have to do is provide the batting, layer the quilt and finish it.  One of the main reasons I joined the guild is to become an active participant in Project Linus.

Kit Instructions

Preprinted Panel

Next month, one of the guild members will be demonstrating how to make an envelope purse. 

Now, that's something to look forward to!

Blog Fodder: Wall Quilts & a Giveway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is Wall Quilts. According to Dawn Pages’ Quilt Glossary, a wall quilt is “a smallish quilted piece designed and constructed to be hung on the wall for decoration. Can contain specialty fabrics and embellishments that are not meant to be washed or undergo strain or wear.”

Please enter your name and a link to your blog or a picture in Flickr. Link up to your wall quilts (you may enter more than once) using Mr Linky below and do visit as many of the other links as you can.  You will get some great ideas and may even find new followers and/or blogs to follow.

At the end of each month, all linky entries for that month will be tallied and one lucky winner will receive a charm pack of  20 (5") scrappy squares!  The monthly giveaway is open to residents within and outside the United States.
To win the giveaway, you must

1.            Enter a link to your quilt below.

2.            Be a member of this blog.

3.            Leave a comment.

Be sure to check back each week to participate in a different quilt theme.

Quilt Your Heart Out

Desi Quilter's January Challenge was to create a quilt for my sewing room that included text.  I came up with this idea.

QUILT

The word 'Quilt' was composed on the computer and then each letter was reverse appliqued. The heart was drawn with the help of a plastic template and also reverse appliqued. The other two pieces of text were free motion quilted on after the quilt was layered.

Tried free motion quilting a stipple on the quilt by machine, but needed a lot more practice, so I hand-quilted dragonflies and stippled the center panel. The borders were quilted in the ditch because I ran out of time. That'll teach me to leave things till the last moment! This quilt was done in four days and just made the extended deadline!

Here is a picture of the back of the quilt.

I'd better get cracking on February's Valentine's Day challenge!

Have a great day!

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Blog Fodder: Landscape Quilts & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is Landscape Quilts. According to Pinterest, landscape quilts are "quilts that are not actually pieced in blocks but look like a picture. "

Please enter your name and a link to your blog or a picture in Flickr. Link up to your landscape quilts (you may enter more than once) using Mr Linky below and do visit as many of the other links as you can.  You will get some great ideas and may even find new followers and/or blogs to follow.

At the end of each month, all the linky entries for that month will be tallied and one lucky winner will receive a charm pack of  20 (5") scrappy squares!  The monthly giveaway is open to residents within and outside the United States. 

To win the giveaway, you must

1. Enter a link to your quilt below.
2. Be a member of this blog.
3. Leave a comment.

Be sure to check back each week to participate in a different quilt theme.

Blog Fodder: Winner of January's Giveaway

Congratulations, Grayson Nelson!  You are the winner this month of a charm pack of 20 (5") scrappy squares.  

All the linky entries for January (I omitted my entries) were tallied and one lucky winner was picked using Random Integer Generator (http://www.random.org/integers/). 

Here is the comprehensive list of entries for January.

Theme	Entry #	Assigned #	Name
2 Color Quilts	6	1	Marelize
	7	2	Tina
	8	3	Nima
	9	4	Elvira
	10	5	Elvira
	11	6	Marcia
	12	7	Nima
	13	8	Grayson
	14	9	Grayson
	15	10	Grayson
Appliqued Quilts	5	11	Marelize
	6	12	Marelize
	7	13	Nima
	8	14	Nima
	9	15	Tina
	10	16	Brinda
	11	17	Brinda
	12	18	Brinda
	13	19	Brinda
	14	20	Nordzie
	15	21	Grayson
	16	22	Grayson
	17	23	Grayson
	18	24	Maria
Baby Quilts	7	25	Tina
	8	26	Nordzie
	9	27	Madhu
	10	28	Shilpa
Bargello Quilts	3	29	Tina
	4	30	Tina

Random Integer Generator

This form allows you to generate random integers. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs.

Part 1: The Integers

Generate 1 random integers (maximum 10,000).

Each integer should have a value between 1 and 30 (both inclusive; limits ±1,000,000,000).

Format in 1 column(s).

Part 2: Go!

Be patient! It may take a little while to generate your numbers...

Note: The numbers generated with this form will be picked independently of each other (like rolls of a die) and may therefore contain duplicates. There is also the Sequence Generator, which generates randomized sequences (like raffle tickets drawn from a hat) and where each number can only occur once.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

9

Timestamp: 2013-02-01 15:52:29 UTC

Thank you, everyone who entered, for participating in this month's quilting themes.  Please visit again for February's linky parties, of which the first quilt theme will be announced soon.

Have a great day!