Glorious Autumn Block Party With Prizes!

This week is our week on the Glorious Autumn Block Party and I share the week with Sandi and Faith and many wonderful sponsors.  Please make sure you take the time to visit each of our sites on our perspective days.

Tuesday, Oct. 30 Richard and Tanya Quilts

Wednesday, Oct. 31 Sandi - A Legacy of Stitches

Thursday, Nov. 1 Faith - Fresh Lemon Quilts

Today we would like to share my block Richard's Star.  Richard is a fan of star's and created this using the quilting program Electronic Quilt 7 or EQ7 for short.  When I created this pattern, I wasn't quite thinking it would involve such small blocks.  As it turns out, the 9 patch in the center is under 2 inches per block and my hands are a tad big.  My wife (Tanya) laughed at me working on my little blocks and she told me that maybe I should have made my block a little bigger.  If you spend any time poking around Richard and Tanya's quilts, we try to have a little fun.  So what did I do?  I went bigger.

I made it a little bigger.  Its hard to tell the perspective on this with just the single block, but the above block is a 45 inches by 45 inches.

To put the blocks into some perspective, I had my daughter Rebecca  hold them up together.  Now I don't suggest that every one do it this way, but with my wife laughing at me about my small block I could not resist  going big!

I have created a PDF with instructions on my star and also give you a easier version if you want to save yourself from all the little tiny piecing in the middle.

Please download my PDF and if you make one of my stars don't forget to link up at on the flicker group.

Glorious Autumn headquarters:

http://quiltinggallery.com/quilters-fun/autumn-block-party/

Flickr group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/autumn-block-party/

It is now time for prizes.  Regardless if you make my block or not, if you put a comment on this post you will be entered into a drawing to win a charm pack "French General Favorites" from  Fat Quarter Shop one of my sponsors.  If you need a idea to talk about, Tanya would love to know your favorite fall activity and she promises to answer every comment personally! (I will also)  This drawing is open until Tuesday, November 6th. 

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Amelia Minky Quilt

This week is our week on the Glorious Autumn Block Party and I share the week with Sandi and Faith and many wonderful sponsors.  Please make sure you take the time to visit each of our sites on our perspective days.

Tuesday, Oct. 30 Richard and Tanya Quilts

Wednesday, Oct. 31 Sandi - A Legacy of Stitches

Thursday, Nov. 1 Faith - Fresh Lemon Quilts

This baby quilt is a simple square block quilted by echoing the lines and rows.  It is made out of Amelia by Me and My Sisters.  This is one of Tanya's favorite designers.  She has made multiple quilts out of this and Twirl which is another line of fabric from the same designers.

We took this quilt to the International Peace Garden to get some cute pictures. 

Halloween is on its way!

This week is our week on the Glorious Autumn Block Party and I share the week with Sandi and Faith and many wonderful sponsors.  Please make sure you take the time to visit each of our sites on our perspective days. Did I mention that I am having a giveaway on my day?

Tuesday, Oct. 30 Richard and Tanya Quilts

Wednesday, Oct. 31 Sandi - A Legacy of Stitches

Thursday, Nov. 1 Faith - Fresh Lemon Quilts

Well it must be time for Halloween.  Yesterday Rebecca brought me her vampire pumpkin.  I had to ask her to translate as I did not understand.  The top says Vamp and the things in the middle are Eyes! Like I was suppose to understand it.

Tonight Jared came upstairs wearing this.  Mom (Tanya) has been busy for the first time sewing/modifying  a costume  (she says second, something about gluing a costume together).  This is a first for us modifying instead of buying a costume.  For those that are lost, Jared is going as a creeper for Halloween. Creepers are monsters in a 8 bit graphic game called Minecraft.  Jared is holding a Creeper we won in a give away many months back.

Tanya is not yet finished with the costume, she still needs to sew the 2nd set of legs on, he was just modeling it to see if I could tell what he was.

Julia decided she would get into the Halloween costume thing, can we say Oscar the Grouch? Or dirty laundry.  She is getting to be a busy child, 7 months old today and she thinks she can stand up on her own.  It won't be long until she is walking I think.  She still only commando crawls, but she moves fast now.  Nothing is safe any more, the vacuum is now self propelled.

Isn't she so cute!

Link A Finish Friday #38

It is now time for Link A Finish Friday.  Today I would like to start with a big thank you to Fat Quarter Shop who has offered to Sponsor our Link A Finish Friday with Prizes.  This month's winner (October) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend on Fat Quarter Shop.

Please remember to thank our sponsor by visiting their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

The 2 most visited links last week was Ragtime Friday from My Imperfect Life

And Halloween Goodies! from Just Something I Made

Next Tuesday Is my day on the 

Glorious Autumn Quilter’s Block Party

Don't forget to stop by that day and check out the block I am sharing.  And did I mention Prizes? Oh ya Prizes!

So for the rules.

1) Who likes rules. Toss them out.
2) Add a link to your finish blog or where ever you show off your finishes (Not limited to quilts but I like them the most).
3) Visit a few of the finishes and comment or encourage them on.
4) Monthly random winner picked from all of the months linkups to $15 gift card from Fat Quarter Shop.

Not required but fun to do

1) Follow my blog.
2) Follow the blog of all those that link.
3) Link back to my blog.
4) No finish, go quilt and stop reading the web.

Tanya's Been Working Wednesday

Tanya has been showing off this week.  She has made not 1, not 2, but 3 rag quilts.   While they are not completed.  They are sewn together, but only one has been cut.  I have been busy the last few days programming and have not spent enough quality time quilting this week, so I think she is trying to make up for it.

Each of these quilts are different,  Some of them big, some of them little.  

But each of them cute, because each of them were created by my wonderful wife.  Now I guess I need to stop talking and start sewing.