Designing A Quilt On A Mac - Lesson 1

Hello Everyone,

If you remember back on this blog post (click here) I spoke about designing quilts using several different mediums.  One of which I talked about was designing on a Mac.

There was a fantastic response to that, and many of you asked me to do a tutorial on it.  What I decided to do was a series of lessons that I will be posting here and on YouTube.  We will create a quilt together!

Your feedback will be important, as I hope to tailor some of the lessons to what you want.  This is the first lesson in the series.  Please take the time to view it (if you are interested) and then please either leave a comment with feedback or send me an e-mail.

I will have them listed on my blog on the left sidebar under tutorials for future reference and you can also access them on my newly created YouTube channel by clicking here.

I am having fun making them and hope that they are helpful to you and bring out your inner designer!

Enjoy!

Until Next Time...

Designing A Quilt On A Mac - Lesson 1

Do You Know Generation Q??

Hello Everyone,

If you don't know Generation Q here is your chance!  

Generation Q is a new online quilting magazine.  It is fun and has tons of wonderful articles daily!

When I was at Quilt Market I had the opportunity to sit down with two of the editors and have a chat.

Meet Jake Finch and

Melissa Thomson Maher.

They are both fun and talented ladies and it was a pleasure interviewing them both.

You can now listen to this in depth interview on my Podcast Episode 31.  You can click either here or here to listen directly from your computer or you can go to the iTunes store and download it to your iPod or MP3 player by searching for Jackie's Quilting Chronicles.  As always they are free!

In the meantime, you can visit Generation Q by clicking here.  Please stop by and tell them I sent you to say hello!

If you haven't yet entered my giveaway for 11 fat quarters of Kaffe Fassett Aboriginal dots, click here to enter... there is still time!!

Enjoy!

Until Next Time...

Do You Know Generation Q??

The Makings of A Mug Rug and a Celebration Giveaway!!!!

Hello Everyone,

Today was a good day!  I got the urge to do some paper piecing, a small project, a mug rug.

So I dug into my scrap bin and pulled these fabrics out.

Some brights with white on black fabric.  A bold and bright combination!  Just my style.

Grabbed Unit J.  This is a paper foundation from Cappucino a Judy Niemeyer pattern.  The pattern can be found here.

I then lined up the fabric in the order that I wanted to see them appear on Unit J.

Pieced them in place.

Put batting and backing on and then quilted it with simple straight lines.  Mind you I usually quilt on a long arm, so don't look too closely at the quilting as this was done on my domestic machine.

Then bound it, by machine with more white on black.  Then VOILA!!

Tea is served!  This was a fun little project and took just about 1 hour.

You read the title of this post correctly, there is a giveaway!!

I am giving away 11 fat quarters of Kaffe Fassett's Aboriginal Dot fabric.  You can find this fabric  in my shop by clicking here.  

Why the giveaway?  My daughter turns 18 today and I wanted to share our celebration with you!

To enter the giveaway you must visit my friend Sherri at A Quilting Life.  Just click here and tell her that I sent you!

Hurry, the giveaway is open through Sunday night!

Until Next Time...

The Makings of A Mug Rug and a Celebration Giveaway!!!!

Oh The Possibilities...

Hello Everyone,

Many of you who know me, know that I love SILK!!  So what I am about to show you is something that I just could not pass up...

Let me introduce to you Radiance.  This fabric is a silk and cotton blend made just for quilters! The color palette above is Harvest.  Of course, when I was at Quilt Market... Miss Amy twisted my arm ever so slightly to purchase it for my shop so that all of you can give it a try too!  You can find it by clicking here, in other color ways too!  They are 1/2 yard bundles.

But that is not all...

I also purchased Kaffe Fassett ribbons for all of us to try too!  Aren't they gorgeous?  You can find them by clicking here.

But look at this...

Ribbon #1... Fabulous!

Ribbon #2... looks great with the fabrics too.

As does ribbon #3!

And ribbon #4!

Are you in the Christmas spirit?  Add a little green.

Then I saw this table runner done in the silks with ribbon...  Hmm... a project in the making, I think.  This pattern I don't have in the shop yet.  Hopefully soon.  But if you can't wait....

Just click here.

Tell me your thoughts on this fabric and ribbon.  I think it is elegant looking and so soft and silky to the touch.  I wish you could just feel it through the computer.  All I can say is YUM, I feel a new project coming on! 

What would you do with Radiance and Ribbon?

Until Next Time...

Oh The Possibilities...

Quilt Flashback

Hello Everyone,

This weekend I am having a little quilt flashback!  I am at my parents home and decided to document the quilts that I have made over the years and have given to them.  Come along with me for the ride...

First up is Winning Hand otherwise known as Card Trick.

This was made for my Mom in 1995.  She loves these colors.  I used Eleanor Burns' Quilt In A Day book, Winning Hand.  Her method was quick and easy. 

Mom uses this at the foot of the bed and it looks quite nice in the room.

The next quilt is a King Size and is a Courthouse Steps.  This was made for my parents in more "manly" colors.  This one was also made by using Eleanor Burn's book Courthouse Steps.  

I completed it in 1996. 

This is the quilt that drove me to long arm quilting.  It was big and cumbersome to put through my little domestic machine.

The quilting was very basic stitch in the ditch and simple straight line quilting.This was the last quilt that I quilted on my domestic machine.  I could dress it up a bit and take it back to do some more quilting.  Maybe just maybe!

The next quilt was made for my dad in 2002.  I had seen this great golf fabric.  Both my parents love to golf!  So, I had to purchase some fabrics that played well with the golf fabric. 

I used Terry Atkinson's pattern Yellow Brick Road and created this quick little lap quilt for Dad.

This is a great pattern for a gift, quick easy, and very practical.

When I saw the fabrics and this quilt pattern, I knew I had to make this for Mom.  It was a quilt kit, but perfect for her and her decor.

This is just a log cabin pattern, but because of the fabrics and how they are placed, you get a color wash effect.

Again, this is a perfect quilt for my Mom and graces their sofa in the family room.  I completed this one in 2003.

In order to take these photos in good light, I needed to take the quilts outdoors onto the deck.  But look what I had to battle....

This little guy was waiting by the door for some nuts.  So of course, I had to wait too.  But it was worth it, I really wanted to share with you these quilts from "back in the day" as my kids would say.

Until Next Time...

Quilt Flashback

Celebrating 22!

Hello Everyone,

22 years ago today, I married the love of my life!  We have laughed, cried, grown, loved, and learned more together than I had ever dreamed.

We have had fun too!  (Note:  this is not our car, but it belongs to a very good friend who entrusted us to have a little fun)

Here is to AT LEAST 22 more years!  I love you!

Until Next Time...

Celebrating 22!

In The Nick of Time...

Hello Everyone,

Whew!  I made it and with no time left to spare. I finished up my November block for the Two's Company Bee last night!  It will be on its way to Jessica today.  Luckily she lives only one state away, so she may have it by Saturday!!

Jessica, so sorry it took so long, but after all it took me almost two months to complete Shelly's block...

Anyway, Jessica's two color quilt is brown and blue and made up by starting with...

a pile of these... HST's!  I used my own method for which I have a tutorial.  You can find the tutorial by clicking here.

These HST's came out to 4.5 inches unfinished.  Now to trim and do the layout.

This looks like a good layout.

Joined together and spritzed with a little bit of Mary Ellen's Best Press so it lays nice and flat...  Voila!  I hope you like the fabrics that I chose, Jessica.  This is going to be a fabulous quilt!  Enjoy!

Until Next Time...

In The Nick of Time...