Wish Upon a Quilt Blog

It’s May and another block in the Y Not? Block of the Month program is available. We have another fun mosaic.

Batik participants be careful with the placement of your fabrics. The light green is your background and the dark green is your frame. Don’t pair the dark green with your accent green pieces. Keep referring back to the finished block image so you don’t get the pieces turned around.

Kaffe participants, have some fun with the stripes before you sew your rows together. Try aligning them and mixing them up. Go with the orientation you like the best.

The demo video steps through the assembly instructions and then offers some good tips on how to trouble shoot half square triangle unit issues.

Don’t forget to pick your blocks up before the 10th or you will have to pay a late fee. Have fun playing!

We recently sponsored 10 new hand quilters at the Cameron Village Library. One of our great customers, Clare Bass, approached me about the idea a couple of months ago. She would do the teaching and Wish Upon A Quilt would supply the fabrics. It is so fun to share our passion of quilting with new people and from the looks of these photos, they are off to a great start! Have you shared your love of quilting with a newbie lately? Tell us about it!

I would like you to meet Loanne Bartholome a.k.a. “Nutty Nana”. Loanne has TONS of children and grandchildren, enough to drive anyone “nuts”. Now that her children are growing up, Nutty Nana is creating gorgeous clothing for her grandchildren and has developed her own pattern business.  The Knit Yoke Twirl Skirt and Child’s Apron patterns are pefect for your little one. Both are quick, fun and easy to make. Do you have a special little one that would love these? 

Browyn is one of our loyal Australian customers. She used the Nest pattern from Tula Pink to make these great quilts for her niece and nephew- Monique and Andrew. They received the quilts at Christmas time and loved them! Thank you for sharing, Browyn! Cheers!

 

 

I love the story behind every quilt. Amanda is a fairly new quilter and made this fabulous quilt. She then donated it to her church for an auction where it brought $375 for the cause. Great job Amanda! Quilter’s make such a difference in the lives of others. Please send us your quilting story at wishuponaquilt@bellsouth.net We would love to hear about what you are working on!

 

Quilts make me so happy. I love seeing the gorgeous quilts  and projects that our customers show us. Each one is made with love and has a special story behind it, thank you for sharing them with us. If you are not a local customer and would like to post a picture of your quilts, send us a picture at wishuponaquilt@bellsouth.net  and we will share yours too! Have a happy quilting day!

At each Cut Up Club, we give prizes for show and tell. Look at these fun quilts! Cut Up Club is open to everyone, come join the fun!

We are so lucky that we get to see your beautiful works of art up close and in person. Thank you for sharing your quilts and allowing us to share them with others. Click on any picture for a larger view. Let us know what you think of our online quilt show!

This month’s block is a 16-patch with no y-seams. Everything is a straight seam in this block. However, you do need to pay attention to seam consistency to insure you get a 12 1/2 inch block in the end. Don’t forget to come in to Wish Upon A Quilt to pick up your block before February 10th to receive your next kit. How are you coming along with your blocks?

Jeanne made a good point. I did gloss over what I meant by fanning out the seam because I covered it in last year’s videos. However that does you no good if you didn’t participate in last year’s program. You can see a more detailed explanation in the demo video for 2009′s January BOM, towards the end of the four minute movie. Here is the link for last year’s post.

I must say that I have neglected blogging over the past couple of weeks. Not because I did not want to post, just not enough hours in the day. What has been keeping us so busy? We were exhibiting last weekend at the Quilting and Fiber Arts Marketplace. It was great to see so many of you there but for our non-local customers, I thought you might enjoy seeing what we have been doing. Here are a few pictures from our booth.

The best part of any show for me is meeting so many great people. It also gives me a chance to show some of the things I have made. One of my favorite bags is Amy Butler’s  Birdie Sling , can you find it? My new favorite quilt pattern is the Perfect Ten  and my latest quilt features fabrics from Heather Bailey’s Nicey Jane, see it all the way in the back corner? My good friend Susan Emory of Swirly Girls Designs loaned me the Megabits quilt using Sandi Henderson’s Meadowsweet, it was fun to hear all of the wonderful ooohs and aaahhhhs as people looked at the quilts.

Everyone at Wish contributed to making the booth a big success but Janice Pope and Cindy Massey had the great fun of joining me at the show! Janice is the owner of Anything But Boring and her Two Hour Tulip purse pattern was the top seller at the show. We also had her College Bound, Jewel Box and Circle in Square quilts in the booth. All of Janice’s quilt patterns are designed to be quick to put together but not boring! How do you like them? 

The Jewel Box quilt is the one in the left corner with a white background and 5″ batik charm squares. The College Bound quilt is behind Cindy and is made with 10″ and 5″ batik pre-cut squares. Yes, we have these in the store

 

 

 If you haven’t seen the Accuquilt Go! in action, stop by the store sometime and take a test drive. What is on your sewing table today?