Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks

Quiltmaker magazine has published a new magazine. I had no idea that this had been published until I got one in the mail. The reason I got one in the mail...

 I sent a picture of my block I created from one of their 100 Blocks magazine. I created this block for the Red, White, and Blue blog hop. Here is my photo in the magazine. It was a big surprise as I was looking through the magazine I got to the last page. I said to myself, "That looks familiar." Funny! I know. Then I realized it was my little quilt. There are some really great quilts that were created from some of the blocks in past issues. Remember my Christmas pillow? I got that pattern from one of the magazines too.

I didn't get around to adding any more bowls to my stack. This the last day of the bowl blog hop but be on the look out for more  blog hops.  The next hop is all about Dots hosted by Quilt Taffy. I am not participating in this one but it should be fun to see all the blocks. I would like to thank Madame Samm and Carol for hosting this blog. And many thanks to Regina for sharing the pattern with us. I can only imagine the work that goes into putting these together. Thanks ladies!

August 28th

Pam R.

Kathy G.
Marina R.
Hildegard C.
Freemotion By The River
Eliswerkstattbericht
Good Earth Quilting
Heikes Quilt
Sparrow In Flight

Madame Samm 

2012 Aurifil Featured Designer of the Month

This past week I worked on getting all the sashing on my Aurifil blocks. I had a jelly roll of these fabrics from Riley Blake. I think it is working perfectly for my blocks. I am all caught up. Unfortunately, no one around here sells the Aurifil thread so I have been using my DMC thread.

I didn't get any more bowls added to my stack but that doesn't mean you can't see some bowls today. Enjoy!

August 27th

Sonja S.

Barbara G.
Petra B.
Marcy
Elfriede

Pippa's Patch

Patchkatze Blog

Verquilt

Billie Bee's

Mice In The Mix

Slow Sunday Stitching

I have been adding French knots to the August Aurifil BOM. This block was designed by Bari J. the owner of We Love French Knots.

I am linking up to Kathy's Quilts. Go by and see what projects others are slowly stitching. I am also linking up to BOMs Away at What a Hoot. Don't forget to go by and see all the bowls too.

August 26th

Julie S.

Angela D.

Kim O.
Martine

Quilts and Pieces
Spoilt Dog Quilts

Quiltenvilt

Traveling Quilter
Gabi Koeln
Sew Sew Little Time

One More Bowl

Quilting Gallery is having a Solids Quilt Contest. I entered my Fiesta Ware bowls table runner. I would love your vote. I know I don't have a chance of winning but you should go by and see the fantastic quilts made with solid fabrics.

Here are the next group of "bowlers."
August 25th

Rosemary B.

Susan H.

Christel G.

Alice
Peggy S.
Suzanne K.
Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc.
Marla's Crafts
Kathy's Quilts
Sunshine Quilting
The Learning Curve Quilts and Such
Glitzy Me

Applique Addicts

Yesterday the applique addicts bee met. We meet for two hours and the time just flies when we are doing hand work together. Now don't faint when you see this first picture of my applique. I know I have not really shown any applique for a while. I just felt like working on other things since spending over a year on my Hop To It quilt. I worked on the centers of the flowers from a free BOM that Dawn Heese had a while back. This is the last block. I guess I should get back to my "passion."

 So I have some show and tell from the group.

 These two wool projects are designs from Primitive Gatherings. Susan is doing the little flowers and Brenda is doing the candle mat.

Bea Bea has a nice stack of hexies she is working on.

 Charlotte is getting ready for fall with this cute wall hanging.

 And Patti has been working on baby quilts. The Sunbonnet Sues are colored with crayons. Cute!

One more bowl added to the stack.

Check out the other bowls for today.

August 24th

Gudrun Z. (no show)
Linda B.

Heidrun P.
Linda M.
Claudia
Elizabeth
Margret's Heritage
Lucky Duck Dreams

Francisca
jatajomi´s stoff-nadel-fadenwelt

Cool Crafty Mom

Free Motion Quilt Challenge

For the month of August the Free Motion Quilting Challenge was brought to us by Wendy Sheppard. Her blog is called Ivory Spring. I read her blog all the time. Her machine quilting is phenomenal. You can read more about Wendy on the SewCalGal blog.

 Our challenge this month was basically to sew a Jester's hat. If you go to the SewCalGal blog you will see what I am talking about. I knew this one was going to take practice on paper first. As you can see I practiced on paper a lot. Front and back. See the scribbly marks. That is my frustration showing up. I practiced and practiced. I just could not get the design down.

 In my mind I kept repeating "Jester's Hat." I finally decided to try on the quilt layers. Still nothing but big time frustration. My problem came when I had to do the hat up side down. More frustration when I would get stuck in a place and didn't know where to go next.

 I worked on another layered piece. More frustration!

 As you can see I had many glitches. My brain and hand just were not catching on to this design. I really like it but unfortunately I don't think I will be using this design. Sorry Wendy! Your blog will still be an inspiration for me.

Let's go look at some more bowls instead of my pitiful free motion quilting!

August 23rd

Maureen

Silvia L.
Pam M.

Abitato

InGa

Traveling Stitcher

Taschen, Quilts und mehr

Never Enough Stash
From This To That
De Zondagssteek 
Guilitta 2000

Quilting

Remember the scrap bag preemie quilt I made? I practiced my free motion quilting and finished this top. Now to get the binding on.

 Here is some of the quilting I did. These designs are from two past challenges from SewCalGal.

Don't forget to clean your machine when you get done with a project. Pretty dusty in there from the quilting and the sewing of my bowls.

Hey Now! who put that brown bowl with the green bowls? surprise! The stack is growing.

More great blogs with bowls today!

August 22nd

Margaret M.

Monika (mo-pi-de)

Regina M.
Rosemarie W.

Anolisl's Kreative Seite
In Stitches and Seams
Morgaine's 77 Blog
On The Go Quilting
Aus dem Fuchsbau

This and That

I took the time to catch up on the star blocks from Temecula Quilt Co.

 I added one more bowl to my stack. I like how they are looking so far.

 Don't forget to check out all the other bowls for today.

August 21st

Betty

Shelley Lee

Sharmond
Kitty
Doris

Mrs. Pickles Garden

Ninifee’s Kleines Cottage

Quilt-Girlie
Cherry Blossoms
Vogelines Patchwork
Heidi's Patchwork
chchris Quilts

I also won a giveaway at This N That fabrics. I don't really have much Christmas fabric so this will be nice to add to my stash. Thanks! This N That Fabrics. I have to admit I have not bought any fabric from them yet but you should see the selection they have.

Five High

Are you having fun seeing all the bowls with borders? I look forward to seeing each post. Everyone is so creative.

August 20th

Birgit H.
Vicki B.

Monika G.
Scher
Dorothea

Rosa Patch.The Love Of Sewing

Nuclear Knits

Cottage-Quilt

Cattinka
Hill Valley Quilter
Ninis Patchwork

Growing Taller

I hope you are having as much fun as I am checking out all the blogs with bowls.

So much creativity! Check out today's bowls.

August 19th

Nancy C.

Sally K.
Margaret A.
Elisabeth K.
Norma
Busy As Can Be

Yet He Abideth Faithful

Butjenter Quilterin

Co mne baví....
Bitzstiffchen - Patchlissi`s Patchwelt

Number three

August 18th

Ann E.

Jenny
Stekje
Yarn-or-Fabric
Englating

Knotted-Thread
Peanut's Patchwork

Blessings From Our Nest

Number Two

Check out more bowls today.

August 17th

Beate from Gabrielles Atelier
Sharon-Quilt Sheddy

Lilypad Quilting

Searching Out Simple

Scrapbook Chick A Doodle
Ark Angel Creations
Polka Dot Classic

PRSD4Tim2

Little Mushroom Cap

I Have A Notion

Green Bowls

I am going to be stacking my green bowls.

In the meantime go by and see all the other stacks of bowls.

August 16th
Gabi S.
Monique H.
Quilt-N-Queen

Crazy 'bout Quilts

Rita, Crooked Quilter
Geema's Wonderings
UFOs and UBIs
Piece Peace

I Piece 2-Mary
Sew Inspiring Crafts and More

Remember if you would like to stack your own bowls you can get the pattern from Regina.

Wonderful Wool

Looking at all this fabulous wool, can you guess who came to speak to our guild?

 If you guessed Cathi from Shakerwood Woolens, you guessed right! You would not believe all the work that goes into hand dying her wools. Let me tell you it is a lot. What is so neat is that she keeps recipe cards of each color she makes.

 Of course, I had to buy some wool. I am collecting oranges and blacks for a rug that I want to hook in the future.

 Are you having fun looking at all the different bowls? I am! Here is today's schedule.

August 15th

Binks
Robin S.
Trish
Quilting Along Life's Way

Sew Me Something Good

Quilt Doodle Doodles

Happier Than A Bird Quilts

Dizzy Daze

Bee Tree Designs

Daisy Days
A Quilting Sheep