Official Announcement: P2 Modern Solids Quilt Along!!

Patchwork Squared

Modern Solids Quilt Along

by Ryan Walsh & Charlie Scott of Patchwork Squared

Ryan Walsh and Charlie Scott of Patchwork Squared are excited to announce the debut of their design company’s first modern quilt along.  Come join them on a 7 week adventure as they teach you how to construct 9 modern quilt blocks using only solid fabrics.  This completely FREE quilt along will begin Monday, March 28, 2011.  When finished, participants will have assembled a 44” x 44” quilt.  Fabrics used in the patterns will be from the Kona Cotton line by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Fabric kits will be available for purchase through the Fat Quarter Shop soon

All participants purchasing premade Kona Cotton kits or yardage for the quilt along through the Fat Quarter Shop will be given a special coupon good for 20% off their purchase.

Quilters of all skill levels are welcome to join.  Participants who finish blocks and post them to the quilt along’s flickr group page will be eligible for inclusion in giveaways of prizes donated by our sponsors!

You can learn more information about the quilt along by visiting P2’s website or joining the official flickr group.

Patchwork Squared would like to thank the Fat Quarter Shop and Robert Kaufman Fabrics for sponsoring the quilt along.

Until next time,

P2 News

I've been busy working behind the scenes on quilts for Patchwork Sqaured that I can't show just yet. One of our upcoming patterns will be in a quilting e-magazine. I love this quilt. It's so cute. It will use the Urban Chicks new line called Hullabaloo for Moda!

The next quilt that I will be working on will be using Ty Pennington's new fabric line Impressions. I love his use of Chartreuse, Charcoal, Gray and Persimmon

Don't forget that Patchwork Squared will be starting it's first ever solid quilt along at the end of the month. Those who finish blocks and post them to our flickr group! could win prizes.Keep up to date by becoming a member of the group

It's a great feeling to have a few quilts at the quilters and a couple more that need to go. I'll be back later this week with a quick and easy embroidery project that I made for work.

Until next time,

Music Monday

Music Monday today comes from The Killers. Based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, these guys are absolutely amazing. If you get a chance, check out their live performance from Royal Albert Hall in London. So much energy and intensity, just amazing!





Until next time,

Inspiring Stacked Coins

Have you read the Fat Quarterly blog post for today entitled "Amazing Orange?

I thought they had an awesome idea and I wanted to share with you, my readers, all of the great wonderful things you can do with stacked coin style quilts.

 

1. Bobbie's Stacked Coin Quilt, 2. coin quilt  - front, 3. coin quilt, 4. Heather Bailey freshcut stacked coins quilt, 5. City Weekend Coin Quilt, 6. Midnight ~ Pillow ., 7. Red and White Coin Quilt ~ back, 8. quilted coin pillow, 9. Citrus Coin Quilt, 10. Where the wind may blow, 11. Eliza Quilt Coins, 12. patricks coin quilt-6, 13. Stitches Quilt

Which one is your favorite?  Mine would have to be the wonky coin quilt followed by the stair stepped stacked coins in the middle.

Hope these might inspire you to make a project.

Until next time,

Little Bit Of Nothing

Below you will find things that I am working on. I have shown most of this before and that is why this blog post is called "Little Bit of Nothing"

I now have my very own design wall. I've NEVER had one before. This is just one of those cheap vinyl table cloths. The one you can get at Family Dollar or Wal-Mart. I got the largest size I could. I still need to fold the left side under to hide the extra. Best $5 I have have ever spent and works great. I took down the quilt that was on the wall because it's kinda top secret for now. You may or may not find a pic of it in this post.

Don't forget once we have 600 followers of this blog there will be a giveaway. Just four more to go. Sign up is on the right.

Until next time,

Reflections

Cue music

A foggy day in London Town
Had me low and had me down
I viewed the morning with alarm
The British Museum had lost its charm
How long, I wondered, could this thing last?
But the age of miracles hadn't passed,
For, suddenly, I saw you there
And through foggy London Town
The sun was shining everywhere.

It seems every time we have a foggy morning I always think of the George Gershwin song " A Foggy Day". I miss this style of music writing. They just don't write them like they used too.

This morning I woke up and had to go and get the car inspected, because I had gotten a ticket for having expired tags. I never did get a notice from the state saying they were due, but that does not matter. It's up to me to remember. Only five months late.

Once I had gotten the car and tags taken care of I went out to breakfast with my parents. They love to go to the Corner Cafe in Riverside. It's close to the house and they know just about everyone that works there. They even have their favorite waitress that knows what they order each time they come. As we drank our coffee and ate our food we talked about the people of the past. People that we have not seen in years. Not much in my parents life ever changes. You could almost set a watch to their routine. I wounder, when I am old and gray if I will be just like them? I take the time I spend with them for granted, but in reality they are getting up in years and will not be around forever. I need to spend the time I have with them like it is our last.

I have a couple of quilts that I would like to try and get done today, but I'm not sure that will happen. It's a nice goal to work towards. If I can stay off twitter, the computer, and away from the TV then maybe I will get more done than I give myself credit for.

Fresh Modern Bee block for January

Until next time,

Music Monday

Last night was the Grammy Awards and today's artist was a huge winner, taking home five trophies and missing out on Album of the Year to Arcade Fire. Music Monday presents Lady Antebellum with Need You Now....




Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
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Until next time,

Sneak Peek and Book Winner

Since most of the country is snowed in, what have all my readers been doing with their time?

I've been busy doing my own thing. Not much quilting going on here on the home front. I will share this with you, my readers.



It's a sneak peek at KCMQG No Prints Allowed Quilt Challenge. I am just using some black fabric that I found in my stash. I'm not going to buy any fabric for this challenge due to Stashpact1. Good news is, I have yet to buy any fabric. How long can I go?

The Winner of Learn to Make a Foundation-Pieced Quilt book is.......

Congrats Jennifer. Drop me an E-mail with your address and I will get your book in the mail to you. Qubee (at symbol)kc.rr.com


Until next time,

Patchwork Squared | Modern Solids Quilt Along

Beginning March 2011, Patchwork Squared will host its 1st annual quilt along. 

Stay tuned for more details ...

Don't forget about the book giveaway going on. Check out the post here for a chance to win.

Until next time,

Book Giveaway {House of White Birches Sponsored}

Learn to Make a Foundation-Pieced Quilt features six quilt patterns in a 32 page, full-color book. It is available from the Clotilde catalog.

Foundation piecing incorporates a quilt-making techniques that sews patchwork into a foundation following a numerical sequence, with stitching lines drawn into the foundation.

The book opens with general instructions for creating the quilted blocks using the foundation piecing method. It then offers instructions for the entire quilting process, followed by step-by-step instruction for each block design.

A special thanks you to Nancy of DRG Network for providing my readers with a copy of this book.

To win a copy of Learn to Make a Foundation-Pieced Quilt, leave a comment on this post. Only one entry per person, please. All duplicate entries will be deleted.

Giveaway ends on Tuesday February 8th @11:59pm CST

Until next time,