100 Blocks Blog Tour!

http://www.quiltmaker.com/blogs/quiltypleasures/

 

This is one of my most favorite blog tours: Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Magazine. Quiltmaker's Magazine chooses 100 designers who create new and exciting quilt blocks. This week I will be visiting all the designer blogs to see their blocks and to try to win a copy of Vol. 7!

Years ago I won the first volume of this wonderful edition of the magazine, and I used many of the block patterns to create this Christmas Quilt (that still needs to be quilted...)

 

Have some fun with me and click on the link to join this really fun blog hop and possibly win a copy of the magazine or a fabric bundle!

Charm Square Zig Zag

A couple of months ago I spied this charm pack at Tuesday Morning.

Take a look at what it is....100 squares.

And the price?   99 cents!!!     SOLD!

 There are five different fabrics, 20 squares of each. I added 20 white squares...

 ...to make a zig zag quilt top! This one is constructed using half-square triangles.

 Size: 42"x50"

It will be another donation quilt after it gets quilted.

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On Friday the third block in the Virtual Quilting Bee was posted.
http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/2013/04/virtual-quilting-bee-block-3.html 
Here is mine!

I was afraid the yellow would be over powering, so I added two other very bright solids and I think the yellow fades into the background.

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And how about a few last patriotic blocks?! I was thinking of making this block for the exchange, but I struggled with getting it up to a 12.5" square. These are just shy of that size, so I will keep these to put into my own sampler quilts.

These little pinwheels are 4.5". I made five of each one, and sent four of each along with the exchange blocks. I will get 24 different pinwheels back!

Enough with the patriotic already! I don't think I will do anything more red, white, and blue until the end of May, when my exchange blocks come back in the mail!

Finished with the Patriotic Blocks



I created a small pile of leftover scraps from the patriotic blocks I've been making.

 I randomly sewed pieces together....

 ...until I had this large 16 inch square of  "made fabric".

 Here are the blocks!

 I am now finished with the six sets of blocks for the swap!

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I also made the second block in the virtual quilting bee.

(http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/p/the-virtual-quilting-bee.html)

I loved the solid colors I chose,

 but I was not as happy with the block. The yellow steals the show.

I knew better, but it is such a soft yellow that I hoped it would be o.k. I thought about remaking it, but since this is a learning experience in solid colors, I will leave it as is.