**NOTICE!!**
THIS DRAWING HAS ENDED!!
Hello!! I’ve been like a kid on Christmas Eve so eager to send my post live for the Quiltmaker Magazine Blog Tour!
If you are new here, please check out the "EASY STREET" tab at the top of the blog -- that is the info for our new November Online Mystery that starts November 23. Come play along! It's free -- just dig into your stash and start sewing.
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I love block designing ---and with 2 issues of 100 blocks being released each year – it’s really tried my brain to come up with something graphic and fun, and of course SCRAPPY---all from working just with my scraps.
I’ve loved all of the blocks I’ve done for previous issues, 3 of them are currently finished as actual QUILTS, and the others are on the to-do list.
Sometimes my inspiration comes from a desire to use a handful of left over units for a previous quilt ---and that is how THIS block came to be. Do you remember my Midnight Flight block fromVolume 4?
I finished that block, along with Winston Ways from Volume 3 and Talkin’ Turkey from Volume 5 into finished quilts, and taught them as classes at Quiltmaker’s Block Part in Williamsburg, VA this past August. I’ll also be teaching them in Portland, OR this coming March! Are yousignedup? I hope so!
Here are the 3 quilts in WIlliamsburg!
The center quilt, Talkin' Turkey, is featured as a whole quilt in my new book String Fling.
I do love my pieced borders, as you can tell. See that crazy thing on Midnight Flight? Here’s a close up:
Completely Crazy Border!!
So yes, I ended up with too many left over units, at the same time that the next block submissions were due ---wheels started turning ----and, Presto!
Say hello to BIG BANG!
This is SO to be a full quilt for me, and is in the line-up! I just love the motion in this block. And all the pieces I needed were already on my cutting table.
You will find this block and 99 more in Volume 6 of 100 Blocks!
Now for the Give-Away part:
Let’s drawTHREE Winners!
Leave me a comment below telling me something about yourself. Be creative!
I’m going to draw for THREE winners, 3rd Place ---who willreceivea copy of Vol 6 directly from QuiltmakerMagazine. 2nd Place –who will receive a signed copy of Vol 6 from me AND a Moda Summer Breeze charm pack, and a GRAND FIRST PRIZE winner who will receive BOTH Vol 5 & vol 6 signed copies and a Summer Breeze charm pack!
((These charm packs are compliments of Moda who sent them to me for last year's Caribean cruises, thank you Moda!))
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I will be drawing our winners on Sunday Evening, Nov 11th. I’ll be driving from Tallahassee Fl after we finish our workshop on the 11th to Albany, GA where I’ll be teaching on Monday the 12th. I should be checking into my hotel around dinner time, will put my feet up and draw then!
The goodies will go in the mail on my return home on the 13th!
The 14th I’m headed to Michigan – Oh is my head spinning, but what fun!
Now that we’ve got all of that covered – head over to the Quilty Pleasures blog to find out about the other designers who are on today’s blog hop! Lots of chances to win going on everywhere!
Happy Tuesday, Folks!
