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These fabrics will make very beautiful quilts!

There’s a free quilt pattern designed by Mark Lipinski!

The pattern looks easy enough except for the center block – it’s paper pieced!
Mark calls this block a spinning star.
There is apprx: 5 1/4 yards of fabric.
Finished size: 60″ x 60″
Block size: 12″ square
Skill level: Advanced
You can purchase your quilt kit tops here:Krakow Quilt Kit 
Not included in kit:
3 3/4 yards for back

Here’s the quilt Mark L. made from Krakow fabrics. 

It was displayed at the Houston 2008 Quilt Market.

Wow! He sure know’s how to make a quilt!

 if you have 3 dogs!

Delilah and Dilelah Wheels a new fabric collection by Johnny Karwan from Clothworks  is very interesting because of the web pictures don’t show the details!

Web picture

Silver metalic ink!

Both  Delilah prints #y0062-1White & y0062-2 black
have silver metalic ink!

Granny picture:

All the Delilah Wheels have silver metalic ink:

Prints Y0066 and Yoo64 backgounds cordinate!

Free Quilt Pattern here:
DELILAH
Finished size: 72″ X 96″

Designed by Rochelle Martin for Clothworks
Two colorways blue or pink.

Skill level – Medium – lots of easy piecing!
The instructions are ok and have pictures.
Directions to make flying geese are great!

I hope this is the coldest it gets this winter!

It was the kind of morning where the dogs didn’t want to go outside and the birds were as fluffy as I ever saw them! I used this picture as the screen saver on my computer and when it’s blown up to that size I think I can see the little Chickadee shivering!

and…. the cardinals didn’t say in the feeder very long!

THINK SPRING!!

Loraine said she finished the quilt last Sunday, Jan 11th. and was probably the quickest she ever completed a project.  She ordered the kit on Sunday the 4th, received it on Wed, the 7th, cut it out that night and finished it Sunday the 11th.  (Plus  didn’t get a chance to touch it on that Friday since because she had grandkids for the day)!!  It turned out great, and she already gave it as  gift.

WTG – Loraine – very cool quilt!!

 Swanky by Chez Moi from Moda

View this compete collection here: MODA
Purchase precuts here: Abbi May’s – Swanky
The description of this fabric group:
Chez Moi has gone uptown. A little more fashion and a bolder palette makes this the most exciting group yet from the watercolor genius of Chez Moi. Swanky is chic and sophisticated with a flare for the dramatic. Bold design and sweet citrus colors are combined to create a plus collection of graphic prints that would suit even the savviest of connoisseurs.

 I received the precuts yesterday and WOW!!!! – did these make my day. It was like looking at my spring garden, the colors were soft sherbert with beautiful flowers, paisleys, dots and a print I haven’t figured out a name for it yet! A picture will never give you the warm and sunny feeling I got when I fondled these fabrics and forgot all about the cold and snow here.

Here’s a peek at these fabrics:
(qty in each) color/print name: 

Color: (9) Peacock; prints Palm Springs 
(this is the print I don’t know what to call it)
  

& Hamptons (small scale spot)

  Color: (10) Envy; prints: Boca Raton (lg scale paisley)
 

Color: (10) blush; prints: Park Ave & Belair (very small dot)

Color: (3) Gold; print Highland Park
(I love those parrot tulips!)

Color: (1) Jade, print: Bel Air

Lis made this cute baby quilt out of five different denim fabrics. It’s made out of 7″ squares and sewn together in strips.  The back and binding are flannel. The finished size is apprx: 36″ square perfect for baby!

Spice It Up by Kathleen Williams. – Pages: 90 – 91 RATED: VERY EASY and fun!!!! Finished size: 61 1/2″ x 79 3/4″

Try this quilt pattern in fabrics from Abbi May’s. It shows off big bold prints.

See below for the large prints I choose from Free Spirit collection, Cloe’s Imagination by Tina Givens. They were perfect for my quilt project!

Big blocks

Sashing and squares

 The big blocks are 14 1/2″ square and the sashing is 4 1/2″ wide – perfect for this fabric!  From cutting to piecing, I made this quilt top in 5 hours! It was so easy – it used 4 fabrics and one bobbin! The blocks are sewn together first in rows and then the rows are sewn together to make the top.

Kits Available here for the Spice It Up pattern includes the fabric in my quilt 
or I can kit any fabrics from my shop.

I got the quilt layered and am going to quilt it today in a very large stipple.
This is the fabric I’m using on the back:

Look at the cookies we had at our quilt guild meeting this week! The “hospitality committee” brings in cookies for us to eat during our break. Thank you gals for this treat, not only were they clever and beautiful - but tasty too!