Blog Fodder: Stained Glass Quilts & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party!

The theme this week is Stained Glass Quilts.  The Legacy Quilts’ Glossary of Quilting Terms defines stained glass quilts as ‘a style of quilting meant to resemble a stained glass window pane. Black fabric strips are appliquéd over the edges of fabric sections designed to look like glass, imitating the leading in real Stained Glass windows.’

Please enter your name and a link to your blog or a picture in Flickr.  If you don't have a blog or a Flickr account, email me (hputi01@gmail.com) a picture of your quilt and a brief write-up and I will post it on my blog page called Members' Quilts. Link up your quilts or blocks (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.

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

Blog Fodder: English Paper Pieced Quilts & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is English Paper Pieced (EPP) Quilts.  The QuiltBug Glossary of Quilting Terms and Definitions describes English paper piecing as ‘found in 18th and 19th century English quilts, this method of hand piecing uses paper templates inside the block elements to guide where the edges are turned under.  These papers are later removed”.  Examples of EPP include hexagon shapes in Grandmother’s Flower Garden, and any number of charm or one-patch quilts such as Tumbler, Baby Blocks and Postage stamp quilts. After the required number of units is sewn around the paper templates, they are whip-stitched together to form a block. Once all the edges of a unit are sewn to their ‘neighbors’, the paper template for that unit may be removed. Most instructions advise, however, that the paper templates be left in place until the entire top of the quilt is assembled.

Please enter your name and a link to your blog or a picture in Flickr. Link up your quilts or blocks (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 or block 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: Foundation Pieced Quilts & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is Foundation Pieced Quilts. According to the QuiltBug Glossary of Quilting Terms and Definitions, a foundation pieced quilt is ‘a method of assembling a block by sewing pieces to a foundation of muslin or plain fabric.  Sewing on a foundation of paper is known as Foundation Paper Piecing or FPP".  

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: Mug Rugs & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is Mug Rugs.  Mug rugs are extra large drink coasters or smaller versions of place-mats that hold a cup of tea or coffee with room for a pastry or treat.

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: Strip or String Quilts & a Giveaway

Welcome to this week's Linky Party! 

The theme this week is Strip or String Quilts. According to the Creative Glossary, a strip or string quilt is ‘a kind of patchwork quilt that contains several material strips that are haphazardly sewn together into strip sets. These are then cut into different kinds of shapes and then joined with other shapes to create the top of the quilt.’

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: Winner of February's Giveaway

Congratulations, Kelly Vetch, the winner this month of a charm pack of 20 (5") scrappy squares!

All the linky entries for February 2013 (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 February 2013.

Theme	Entry #	Assigned #	Name
Landscape Quilts	2	1	Marelize
	3	2	Kelly
	4	3	Madhu
	5	4	Madhu
Wall Quilts	3	5	Nima
	4	6	Nima
	5	7	Nima
	6	8	Marelize
	7	9	Marelize
	8	10	Marelize
	9	11	Marelize
	10	12	Kelly
Cathedral Window Quilts	4	13	Nima
	6	14	Gayathri
	7	15	Sandhya
	8	16	Shruti
	9	17	Tina
Log Cabin Quilts	1	18	Kelly
	3	19	Manju
	6	20	Denise

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

Have a great day!