Saturday Special

Hello All,

It's almost time for our Saturday special on the Q&N forum. I hope you are planning on joining us for a fun day of sewing!

Here is my pattern, minus the simple border....I ran out of fabric for it, and can't find anything other in my stash to go there. lol

This is my Pats Gems pattern. It will be a free event, just come to the forum, sign in, and chat with us as we all sew together. I'll have the pdf up early in the morning (Pacific time), Saturday, May 18th. The pdf will stay up for one month, then I'll take it down.

It's an easy pattern, and goes together fairly quickly. Lots of chain piecing.

Here is my good friend Pats' lovely version! She was one of my testers. Thank you Pat.

Hope to see you there! Oh, and I have a button over on the right side of my screen. You are welcome to put it on your blog.

Have a great day.

 

Pats' Gems

Hello Everyone,

I'm finally getting around to posting pictures of my 4-patch quilt. I've called it Pat's gems.

I sent it to my best friend Carol for Christmas. Here Mom's name was Pat. Pat had owned a jewelry store at one time and loved her jewelry.

Pat passed away early last year. Every time I pulled this top out to work on it, Pat and Carol popped into my head. So I knew it had to go to Carol, as sort of a memorial quilt.

Here's part of the back.

 

Carol says she loves it, and uses it everyday :)

I will be doing a follow along to make this quilt....when I find the time. lol

Have a great day.

 

4-patch top is done

Hello everyone,

I finally got some pictures of my 4patch top for you.

I don't think it's big enough though, still, for a nice lap top.

It's 42x58, what do you think? Should it be bigger?

 

And if so, should I take the borders off and add more to the top? Or add another border? Or should I just leave it alone?

I'm thinking without the pieced border, it would be a great size for a crib quilt. And would look darling in some cute baby fabrics.

Speaking of baby fabrics, I was following along the Henry Glass Summer party last month, and I won a cute FQ bundle!

This is a  flannel set, the line is Buttercup Babies by Beth Logan of ArtStuff Ltd.

It will be fun to come up with a pattern for these lovelies....another quilt to keep Isaiah warm this winter :)

The Henry Glass blog is fun to follow. The have fun blog hops, designer tid bits,fabric news,  and of course, giveaways. 

Hope you have a great Labor day weekend!

I'm linking up with Jenna today.

More 4 patches

Hello Everyone,

I got my little lap quilt all pieced and decided I wanted it bigger. It's the perfect size right now for a baby quilt. Done up in baby fabrics, it would be adorable.

But I want it bigger. So am going to put a solid white border first, then add more 4 patches. These are the fabrics I dug out of my stash. They go pretty well with the shades of same color in the top.

This weekend I am distracted by the Mystery quilt going on over on the forum. Here are the fabrics I choose to make mine with. It's going quite fast too. Can't wait to see what the top looks like when done!

I'm sorry, I wont be showing you the finished mystery top though. That would ruin it for anyone who wants to do it :)

 Have a great day!