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{Tutorial Thursday: Quilt block a month #5 : a 2012 goal:}

by on May 17, 2012
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Hello May! How is it May already!?!

With a new month, comes a new quilt block :)

If you have been fol­low­ing my blog, you know about my my Quilt a block a month 2012 goal (or if you are new you can read more about it HERE).

So for this months block,  the fifth block of the year, I have a scrappy block– some­thing to use up all and any of those fab­ric scraps in your stash, and you can find my step by step tuto­r­ial for it HERE from the Fiskars blog

Hope you enjoy it! This is an easy block fo any­body to start with, and yet it is a bit inter­est­ing because of the lit­tle bit of design involved. Hope you give it a try!

Its going to be a lit­tle quiet on my blog front for a while– We are com­pletely declut­ter­ing and rear­rang­ing our entire house. Doing some gar­den­ing. We have had two babies since we bought this house, and it it time to seri­ously rearrange how we live (This is what I am good at doing, and all my life, I have rearranged my room atleast 4 or 5 times a year. Just go and ask my brother. ) - and get rid of  a lot of stuff that we dont need. That means garage sale :) And hope­fully paint­ing the house too. I am also purg­ing out a ton of scrap­book­ing stuff– and will mostly be sell­ing them at the garage sale, but if are look­ing for some­thing to buy, send me an email and I will let you know if I have it :)

I still have lots of projects to share, and have sched­uled blog posts for you all. I just wont be doing any chal­lenges, or face­book and twit­ter. I really havent sat at a com­puter for over two days now, and it feels good.

Be good while I am gone!

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{Tutorial Thursday: Quilt block a month #4 : a 2012 goal:}

by on April 5, 2012
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Hello April! And with a new month, comes a new quilt block :)

If you have been fol­low­ing my blog, you know about my my Quilt a block a month 2012 goal (or if you are new you can read more about it HERE).

So for this months block,  the fourth block of the year, I have a scrappy block– some­thing to use up all and any of those fab­ric scraps in your stash, and you can find my step by step tuto­r­ial for it HERE from the Fiskars blog

 

Hope you enjoy it! This one was a super awe­some block for me. I had orig­i­nally planned another block, but when I got my fab­ric out and set up all my sup­plies, I just had this idea to use just the scraps– and this block came together in 15 min­utes flat (that includes the time I took to stop and pho­to­graph each step!). Love love love this one :) \

I saw this on Chelsea’s blog today, and its such a bril­liant idea!!! Just what I need to get some struc­ture out here…

 

From Tracey­jays blog, here are the rules: Pick three quilting/sewing goals for the month, 3 things you know you can accom­plish.  Then do them.

So here are my goals for April:

1. Start the spring quilt with the house design (that cur­rently resides in my head only!)

2. Make some­thing pretty for the girls room/ or for the girls wear (Kinda bor­rowed Traceyjay’s idea here :)

3. Sew a hand­made gift

Here is hop­ing I get them done!

 

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{Tutorial Thursday: Quilt block a month #3 :
a 2012 goal:}

by on March 29, 2012
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Wel­come to my Quilt a block a month 2012 goal. If you have been fol­low­ing my blog, you know about my block of the month quilt­ing res­o­lu­tion (or if you are new you can read more about it HERE).

So for this months block,  already the third block of the year, I have a tra­di­tional fly­ing geese pat­tern– but I chose to make it a mul­ti­col­roed one, and you can find my step by step tuto­r­ial for it HERE from the Fiskars blog

Hope you enjoy it!

I am eagerly wait­ing to fin­ish up all my blocks and start assem­bling this quilt already!

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{Tutorial Thursday: Quilt block a month #2 :
a 2012 goal:}

by on February 23, 2012
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Wel­come to my Quilt a block a month 2012 goal. If you have been fol­low­ing my blog, you know about my block of the month quilt­ing res­o­lu­tion (or if you are new you can read more about it HERE).

So for this months block,  the sec­ond block of the year, I have an Asym­met­ri­cal log cabin block, and you can find my step by step tuto­r­ial for it HERE from the Fiskars blog

Hope you enjoy it!

PS: My friend Kelly is not big on sewing, so has an awe­some take on my block a month quilt idea… She is mak­ing a scrap­book lay­out based on each months block! You can check out her lay­out for Jan­u­ary here. How cool is that?

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{Tutorial: Quilt block a month #1:
a 2012 goal:}

by on January 23, 2012
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I love quilt­ing. Its one of my big new loves in craft­ing. I love that we can play with color so eas­ily with prints in a color.

But really, I have made only two quilts in the recent years– one for each daugh­ter– and I made those dur­ing the last few weeks of my preg­nan­cies. Because I was in big time nest­ing mode then :)

I really would love to sew more, and have more quilts around the house. I love to hand quilt, as that gives me some­thing to do while watch­ing tv/movies at night with the hubby. I have tons of fabric/sewing/quilting ideas that I love on pin­ter­est. I have seen some amaz­ing color com­bos, tech­niques and pat­terns; and every time I tell myself “Some­day I would love to make a quilt like that!” (don’t we all do that ?)

Well, for 2012 I have a new goal. To sew more. Use that sewing machine on fab­ric rather than on paper (for my scrap­book­ing lay­outs). Learn new tech­niques, design new pat­terns, and in gen­eral explore the quilt­ing world a lit­tle bit more…

Now I don’t promise that I will be perfect.

But for each month this year, I will be sewing an unique quilt block. My take on some tra­di­tional and some not so tra­di­tional block patterns.

To begin with, here is this month’ block: a Chevron pat­terned block (or a her­ring­bone pat­tern) : and you can find my step by step tuto­r­ial for it HERE from the Fiskars blog.

Hope you enjoy it, and sew along with me!

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