Caroline Doyle is this week’s winner. She will receive a Sewline Marking Pencil loaded with white 9mm chalk. It is a nice pencil to use when you need a fine line that you can see. I like it especially for tracing around small templates and circles.
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My friend, Susan Allen, is moving and cleaning out closets. She found this quilt and sent me the picture and the story. I love blasts from the past! Thank you, Susan, for sharing…
Audrey was in 1st grade (she turned 24 yesterday) and I would take her to school and then go home and appliqué for about an hour before going to work. That’s what I was doing when the planes hit the towers. This project kept my hands busy during that uncertain time.
It’s not quilted and it no longer fits my decor style, but I will probably keep it forever because of the history.
I thought I was being so avant garde using a black background! 😂😂😂🤦♀️🤦♀️
The quilt is our Block of the Month, Tulips in the Park. The digital patterns are still available. Click here to find them.
Diane H. has won a Pendant Thread Cutter made by Clover. You can put it on a cord and wear it which is nice for on the go sewing. But you can also stick it in a spool and use it the cut apart chain-pieced units. It’s a twofer (two uses for the price of one!).
I’ll be back next Wednesday with another Giveaway. Happy stitching!
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Barbara J. is this week’s lucky winner. She will receive a box of Clover’s 3/4″ pins. They are one of the 3 pins I use for applique, along with the 1/2″ Sequin Pins and the Smaller Perfect Pins. And it isn’t glamorous, but I like to use these in in my design wall. They are big enough to do the job without being obtrusive.
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Gail G. is this week’s winner! She can use this Zipper Pouch for first aid items, notions, a block in progress, or anything else that needs to be carried with you in a tidy fashion. Made from 95% post consumer recycled material.
I’ll be back next Wednesday with another Giveaway. Happy stitching!
I cannot believe it, but I don’t think I ever blogged about the Bullseye quilt! Honestly, how did that happen?!
Many years ago, when I was a new quilter, I saw a Bullseye quilt like in a book of antique quilts. I loved it but had no idea how anyone could begin to make one. There was no pattern, just a photo. Fast forward to 2017 when I ran across the photo again and I suddenly saw how to make it using foundation paper piecing.
Bullseye Quilts: From Vintage to Modern is the result. It is a pattern pack with an instruction booklet and foundation paper pattern pages that comes inside a pretty, sturdy, book-sized envelope. The loose pattern pages make it easy to make the copies that you will sew on.
The hardest part for me was drafting the pattern and writing the instructions. You might not believe it but the sewing part is easy. All you have to do is sew on the solid lines and everything comes together.
The quilt is constructed in rings. Each ring is made up of smaller segments that are sewn next to each other.
I show you how to set in circles. Once you know how to do it, you will wonder why you haven’t sewn circles sooner. The hardest circle is the one in the center because it’s the smallest. Once you sew it, the rest are a piece o’ cake!
The instructions are clear, with lots of good photos that walk you through each step.
After I made the big blue quilt, I realized that you could stop at any ring to make smaller blocks. I wanted to do that so I drew the corner patterns that fit each ring. They are included in the pattern pack as well.
The Baby Bullseye block, below, is 36″ x 36″ and is surrounded by 1″ x 2″ flying geese (also in the pattern)
I didn’t stop there! I made one more quilt with nine 20″ blocks and 2″ x 4″ flying geese:
And then I made myself stop, even though it was hard :-).
If you would like to know more, click here to go to my website where you will find Bullseye Quilts: From Vintage to Modern. On the same page are links to some very helpful how-to videos. Happy sewing!
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