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Sisterhood of the Traveling Quilts – almost finished

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I have had a blast this year, participating in the “Sisterhood of the Traveling Quilts”. I am on the last round, which means this quilt, I not only contribute too, but also put the top together.

This is Ashley @ Wasn’t Quilt in a Day’s rainbow quilt. She has asked each of us to make a row to be done in one rainbow color…ie) a monochromatic row. When I received it, it measured about 40 x 72 inches and the pink, yellow, green, a small teal band and the purple had been completed.

It’s now almost complete and will measure 72 x 80″.  My favorite part, I contributed so far, are the Anna Maria Horner feathers. I added these to build on the small teal HST band, also its one of Ashley’s favorite designers. Ashley’s favorite color is Cerise, which I added in for the quills.

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This weekend, I actually went to Ashley’s house for a sew date and worked on the orange row. These were my low volume and high volume orange fabrics, I chose.

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Top row – L to R: Denyse Schmidt dots; Anna Maria Horner, Mind’s eye toast; Oink a Doodle Moo Tangerine; – ; Mini Pearl Bracelets, Apricot; Chatter Pods in Citrica
Bottom row – L to R: Metro Living Circle; Aloe Vera; Barbell Stripe; – ;Sunprint Text; DS Quilt (Joann’s)

These are the blocks I decided to add for the orange row:
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The quilt currently is 3/4’s complete with just the blue row to be completed, then the blue and purple will be added to the bottom. I am loving it!!

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Contributions:
Pink row – Laura @ Little and Lots
Red row – me
Orange row – me
Yellow row – Laura @ Little and Lots
Green row – Ashley @ Wasn’t Quilt in a Day (starter row)
Teal HST row – Renee @ Quilts of a Feather
Teal Feather row – me
Blue row – me (still to be completed)
Purple row – Jess @ Quilty Habit

I hopefully will have a finish this weekend. Linking up to Lee’s WiP Wednesday over @ Freshly Pieced (button on the right).

 

Give-away Day: Hawthorne threads Gift Card/Books

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Hi All! I love this day each year, the opportunity to give back to the community and say thank you. So thanks to my followers old and new.

For those that are new, you can also find me on Instagram (IG) – ml_wilkie. I have been quilting for 3 years and have loved that I can combine my STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) background and my arts side. I discovered through Quilt Design a Day,  modern quilt designing is definitely my favorite aspect of quilting. Many of my quilts are my own designs.

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This has been such an amazing year from finishes and success. I hope you take some time to look around. The mosaic above shows my finished projects for 2015 – they can be found in the menu above.

Onto the give away!!….I wanted to make sure that I give back to all those who supported me through the year. So, this giveaway combines two things that I love:

  • Fabric – $50 gift card to Hawthorne threads
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  • 3 books I have enjoyed lately (sent via amazon)
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Thanks to all who left a comment. Fantastic suggestions and I had fun reading all the comments. Drum roll….the WINNER is:

Erica – Erica I will send you an email shortly to get all your details for posting the books.

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Book Review Tuesday: Quilting from Every Angle

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It has been a while since I did a “Book Review Tuesday”, but I have a great reason to resurrect it today.

I am so excited to be the first on Nancy’s blog tour for her new book. Nancy is in our modern quilt guild and inspires our members, all the time with her modern quilts. It is so great, that she can share her talents with a wider audience, through this book.

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Review

Title: Quilting from Every Angle
Author: Nancy Purvis
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN: 978-1-63250-086-1

I was totally inspired by this book. Starting with the first section, which does a great job introducing quilt design and design tools to its readers. I love the idea of creating an inspiration board.

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I seldom pick up a book and find more than 2-3 projects in the book that I just need to make. This book offers so many choices that meet my design aesthetic. The projects are well made to show off their modern design elements – each project highlights the design elements, the color, and the quilting choices.

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Some of my favorite projects in the book are:

  • Fossil #fossilquilt
  • Sequoia #sequoiaquilt
  • Mesa #mesaquilt
  • Four Corners #fourcornersquilt
  • Concordia #concordiaquilt (I think I may make this quilt design into a table runner)
  • Vertebrae #vertebraequilt

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I loved this book and so excited to get time to make more of these projects.  I would recommend it to everyone so it is a 5/5:
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You can purchase a signed copy of Nancy’s book and find the updates to her book on her blog.

My Project

The first project I made from her book, was Fossil. I decided I would make it as mini quilt so I can hang it on my wall at work. I shrunk the HST from 3 1/4 inches unfinished to 2 inches unfinished.  I knew immediately that I wanted to use Alison Glass text print and Alison Glass Handcrafted lines.
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The quilt came together quickly. The design offers you several ways in which you can make it your own, either with the fabric selection and/ or quilting.

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I tried to pull the colors from the triangles into the binding by using some of the scraps from the HST’s.
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Blog Tour

Don’t forget to check out others on her blog tour, she has a great line up.

11/10- Michelle Wilkie of Factotum of Arts
11/11- Hillary Goodwin of Entropy Always Wins
11/12- Karen Lewis of Karen Lewis Textiles
11/13- Anna Graham of Noodlehead
11/16- Rachel McCormack of Wooden Spoon Quilts
11/17- Tara Larson of Rad & Happy 
11/18- Jennifer Mathis of Ellison Lane
11/19- Holly Hughes of Holly Gets Quilty
11/20- Nicole Daksiewicz of Modern Handcraft
11/23- Pat Bravo of Pat Bravo Fabric Design and Jesse Maloney of Art School Dropout
11/24- Astrid Slagle of Red Red Completely Red
11/25- Holly DeGroot of Bijou Lovely
11/26- Christopher Thompson of The Tattooed Quilter
11/27- Spoonflower

Give-away

WINNER is Sarah who wants to explore negative space. She wrote “I think I need to challenge myself by incorporating negative space in my modern quilts. Thanks for the chance to win!”. We will be sending you an email shortly.

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Lastly, Nancy has been kind enough to offer a digital copy of her book as a giveaway. I hope you all can enjoy it and be inspired as much as I am with her book. Just leave a comment below answering “What elements of modern design you would like to try in one of your quilt projects”.

There is a second chance to win if you are a follower, just leave a second comment. A winner will be chosen at random next Tuesday November 17th at 6pm EST.

A disclaimer, all reviews and opinions of the books reviewed will be mine, unless otherwise stated. Please note, I may not respond to all comments due to volume and bandwidth.