Archive for the ‘Quilt designs’ Category

I couldn’t sleep so I played with quilt blocks for a while last night. I like both of these ideas and will be using them in quilts.

For a long time I didn’t call or consider myself a designer, after all I just take traditional blocks and arrange them in ways pleasing to me and make quilts … we could probably all call ourselves designers based on that criteria.  So I asked myself, is it being published that makes a designer official? And if so, doesn’t my website count as being published? Or is it only being published and having people pay for your designs that make you a designer?

At any rate, there’s a new set of instructions posted on my website. As requested, instructions for a half log cabin quilt that I drafted (designed?) for my Aunt.

It’s simple but SO pretty. I’m thinking I’ll probably make one without borders as a donation quilt.

With these blocks on my design wall looking sadly neglected, I had no business playing but I just had to take a look and see if an idea I had would work for me.

I’ve had a fan quilt on my list of quilts to make for a very, VERY long time and with the Accuquilt GO, the cutting is easy. With one pass of the die, I cut enough blades for 4 blocks.

I don’t like to be interrupted while I’m working so I’m killing time today waiting for some electrical work to be done and decided I’d write up the instructions for my Tessellating Pinwheel quilt.

Most of the time I work up a quilt in a colorway but don’t take the time to make the drawing scrappy. So here’s the drawing for the instructions.

Here’s my block just to “test” my GO dies. The quilt uses the 4.5 inch half square and the 4.5 inch quarter square triangle dies but I included rotary cutting instructions too.

Which lead to me to stop and think how I’m going to make this quilt scrappy — do I want to make each block using just 3 different fabrics like my test block …. or go scrappier. I’m pretty sure I’ll go with the scrappiest version like this one using many fabrics in each block.

Of course, I’m doing a lot more drafting of quilts than actually piecing them these days as I try to work through quilting and binding the ones I have here but a girl can dream!

What do you do? Earlier I was reading while waiting for Chris but I’m not to the point in my book when I can’t put it down so….I worked up instructions for a QOV I want to make one of these days. When I get home, I’ll use EQ7 to write rotary cutting directions and then post them on my Maryquilts.com but here’s the iPad version

Tessellating Pinwheels (I’ll make this scrappy with lots of reds, whites, and blues)

Quilt without borders 40×56
Quilt size with borders is 52 x 68

8 inch finished block (8.5 with seam allowances)

Using my 4 inch finished half square triangle and 4 inch finished quarter square triangle Accuquilt Go dies

Inner border cut 2.5 inches
Outer border cut 4.5 inches

Which pinwheels do you see? The red,white, or blue ones?

How about a BearPaw? It’s on my list of quilts to make one day. I’m still playing around learning to use the TouchDraw app on my iPad.

I mentioned that there was no quilt design app for the iPad the other day and I had found a way to as least capture my ideas when I wasn’t near my laptop and EQ but I’ve continued to search apps and today I found a great drawing app that allows me to design a quilt….at least a pieced quilt.

It’s called Touch Draw and look what I did on the plane!

Do you remember this little quilt I designed for Mom? She finished the top and since I wrote up instructions for her, I went ahead and posted them on my MaryQuilts.com site. It’s a cute quilt to work up using a focus fabric.

While they’re working upstairs, I’m playing in EQ7. How’s this for a scrap buster?

This is the quilt I almost started a couple nights ago … before I realized that if I ever wanted to make half the quilts I had ideas for that I was going to have to cut back on some of the donation tops I accepted. So instead, I’ve been piecing backs, binding, and quilting …. but soon I’ll have more time for piecing.

I plan to use my Accuquilt GO to make this one — the bricks are 3.5×6.5 (with seam allowances) and the framing strips are 1.5 inches finished. I’ll play some with the borders once I actually make the quilt because I’ll probably use leftover bricks and cut them in half … which of course will keep them from being exactly square….or maybe not, I forgot I had the 3 inch finished square die just recently purchased but not yet used.