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Coming tomorrow: “Pushme Pullme Block” Pattern

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Over the last month, I have been working on this block pattern that uses nested arrows.

ThisWayThatWay_Blocks4

Originally, named “This way, that way”, I have landed up calling the pattern “Pushme Pullme”. It reminds me standing at a door and trying to decide, do I push the door or pull the door. I love how the design shows a convergence/divergence in a tessellation like manner.

Tomorrow, I am launching the pattern on Craftsy and there will be a small blog hop and a GIVEAWAY.

A big “Thank You” goes to Susan @ The Bored Zombie who was my first reviewer of my pattern.  Another big “Thank You” goes out to those who tested the pattern for me. My testers have done an amazing job working on the block and validating the pattern. Their projects, using the block, will be part of the blog hop tomorrow.

Ashley @ Wasn’t Quilt in a Day
Kristel @ Work-in-Progress Girl
Mara @ Secretly Stitching
Sarah @ Sarah Quilts

So, stop by tomorrow and be in a chance to win, and check out the projects and my new pattern!! See you then.

Tula Pink blocks + a Shout out

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I am definitely suffering from Quilting attention deficit disorder this week, which is being exaggerated by severe procrastination. I am supposed to be working on my This way, That way quilt. Instead, I have cleaned my sewing room, and worked on everything but the quilt I am supposed to be focussing on.

The only good thing is I got this weeks Tula Pink City Sampler blocks complete, which I have never done in time. In fact I have blocks 1-9 and now 64-66 :-). I am still loving the fabric choice – Spring House. Here are the new blocks:

TulaPinkCitySampler_Blocks64_65_66

Here are the close-ups of the blocks.

Block 64:
TulaPinkSampler_Block64

Block 65:
TulaPinkCitySampler_Block65

Block 66:
TulaPinkCitySampler_Block66

Here is a link of the previous 9 blocks I have made.

I will say the week has not all been frustrating.  I got home Friday night, and I had a package. My first reaction was what did I buy, have I forgotten something?? No, Laura, a wonderful friend I met in blog world, sent me an amazing woolly hat. It was perfect, as it is getting cold here in North Carolina and we had our first frost this week. I was so elated and so taken aback. So here is a shout out to Laura over @ Little and Lots, go over and take a look at her other hats – she has been knitting up a storm.

Woolly_Hat_Gift

Hope you all are having a great weekend. I am counting down….Only 2 weeks until the Triangle MQG sewing retreat, 4 1/2 weeks to Thanksgiving, and 8 1/2 weeks to Christmas!!!

 

New star block design

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I have been playing around in threadbias again today. Growing up in New Zealand gave me an amazing chance to be exposed to a lot of Pacific arts. One of my favorite arts are Tapa Cloths. Here is an example of what a Tapa Cloth is. Can’t you see a quilt design in there 🙂ed875c35d028d0c57343d0792073a8c4

Tapa Cloths use a lot of basic shapes such as triangles, circles and squares. Here is my new design inspired by this art form. This view is using some Lotta Jansdotter print to highlight the simple shapes.

LottaTapaClothStar

What about how it would look as a monochromatic block (1 color)….
GreenTapaClothStar

Tapa Cloths art form fills “in between” shapes with stripes and other fillers. For example, see above, the flying geese have all those stripes in the “in between” spaces. So, I took the same monochrome view of the star block and added some stripes to get this……
GreenStripedTapaClothStar

I am thinking of making these into paper piecing patterns. What do you think…paper piecing pattern or just a block pattern?

Linking up with Lee over at Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday.
WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced