A Pattern Giveaway

Amanda at Fabric Engineer was looking for pattern testers. I volunteered to test her "Don't Touch Me" pattern. I decided I would make my quilt scrappy with a beige background. It is a quilt that only touch at the points and no color touches itself.

Don't Touch Me

 The back of the quilt is called "Hug and Make Up". On the back all colors touch each other.

I quilted feathers in the large triangles and triangles in all the other triangles.

 How would you like to win this pattern? Amanda has been so gracious to offer a copy of her pattern. How would you like to win 10 fat quarters to go with the pattern?

Here is what you need to do to have a chance to win a copy of the pattern "Don't Touch Me" and 10 Christmas fat quarters. Go visit Amanda at Fabric Engineer and tell her how much you love her pattern. Then come back here and leave me a comment. I will pick the winner on Saturday, July 7. Let't see how many comments I can get. If I receive over 50 comments I will come up with another prize. The second prize will be a surprise. That would give you could have two changes to win.

SO SPREAD THE WORD!

Have a sewing day.

Karen

Charm Squares

A true charm quilt is no two pieces of fabric alike.  You cut two charms and keep one and give one to a friend.  You can read more about charm quilts at http://www.quilterstudio.com/ABriefHistoryofCharmQuilts.htm.   Here are the 2.5" charms I have been cutting.  I think mine will be a true charm quilt since my friend gave me all these scrape pieces of fabric and no two pieces are alike.

I plan to make a table cloth for my patio table.  I have been sewing 9-patch blocks together.  I am not sure how many 9-patch blocks it will take.   

I hope everyone is enjoying Father's Day.  I am sure my dad is working on the fire trucks in heaven.

Happy Father's Day Dad.  I miss you.

Happy sewing.

Karen

Lots of Bags and a Jelly Roll

Have you every heard of Beads of Courage?  I hadn't until a couple weeks ago.   It is a program that provides Art-in-Medicine for Children with serious illness.  The beads signify strength and courage.  Beads of Courage needs quilters to make bags for the beads.  You can request from them labels to sew on yours bags.  These are the bags I have made.  Some are not completely finished.





They have been quick and easy to make.  Why don't you check out the Beads of Courage website and maybe you will want to donate bags of courage.









I have been working on my Quilting To Do List.  One item on that list is to make 6 jelly roll quilts as Christmas gifts.  Here is #1 - jelly roll quilt using Kathy Schmitz Full Circle.  I still want to add borders.

I hope you will stop over at Sarah's Confession of a Fabric Addict and check out all the quilts that have been made for Hands2Help Charity Challenge this year.  The challenge is wrapping up for this year but there are 63 awesome quilts that will either go to the NOLA Project or Happy Chemo.

Hope you are have a sewing day.

Karen

It's Whoop, Whoop Friday

This week I finished another I Spy quilt.  I had these 6.5 inch blocks so I decide to make snowballs.   This is # 6 quilt for the hospital gift shop.

I am not doing very well on my second quarter "Finish-a-long".  Hopefully this a holiday week-end I can make some progress.  My H2H charity quilt is finished and mailed.

Hope you have a safe and "sewing" holiday  week-end.

Karen

"Queen Bee" Quilt

I finished this retirement quilt for a coworker.  She has been a cook for 35 years for the school district that I work at.  I made this jelly roll quilt in our school colors.  There are bees in the yellow fabric and our mascot is Yellow Jackets.  Every time she saw one of the quilts I made she liked them so now she will have her very own quilt.  We made a special "Queen Bee" label and all the cooks signed their name on the label.

 I even finished it a week before her retirement party. 

 I think that deserves a "Whoop, Whoop".

Hope you have a sewing day.

Karen

H2H Quilt

I have completed my Hands 2 Help challenge quilt. I am donating this quilt to "Quilty Hugs" and/or "Happy Chemo". If you go to Em's Scrapbag you can see more "Quilty Hugs" quilts. There is still time for you to donate a quilt to H2H charity challenge.

I am also linking up with Sarah who issued the H2H challenge. You can see many more H2H quilts over at Sarah's. The only thing left to do is put the quilt is the mail.

 Happy Sewing. 

Karen

Finishes

I have finished this prayer quilt. I need to attach the label and deliver it. I think these Kansas Trouble fabrics made this quilt look rich. Can you see all the prayer ties for my friend?

I am a member of my local hospital auxiliary. I volunteer in the gift shop at the hospital. There are ladies who donate afghans to the gift shop. I decide I could donate baby quilts. This is quilt #5. The gift shop gets a quilt donation, and the auxiliary gives the revenue to the hospital, and I get to work on improving my free motion skills. I consider this a win, win, win.

I am off to work on a retirement quilt and I think I will stop over at Sarah's to see what everyone else has been working on this week.

Happy Sewing.

Karen