Green Owl Patchwork Quilt

Back on April 18, I posted our Brown Owl Patchwork Quilt  both of these quilt were supposed to be one quilt or so the Boss (Tanya) told me. When I was cutting the material up and counting the squares I realized that if I put a cute border on the quilt I could make 2 quilts instead of the one quilt Tanya suggested.

As you can see this quilt like its brown cousin, has a random pile of blocks in the middle.  Tanya tries to tell me that when I put too many blocks of the same color together, I am not so random.  But then again you can flip a coin and get the same side over and over so I am good with all the matching blocks in my quilt. 

Because of my change of plan mid cutting, these 2 quilts took longer to finish then originally planned.  They are both quite similar.  They both have a solid 1 inch band around the middle blocks. The green one has the light blue jacks, the brown one has brown jacks on the outside edge. The bindings on both are stripes, a green for the green and a brown for the brown.

We even put matching backs on the 2 quilts.  Well the green of the same pattern and brown of the same pattern.  Other things going on in the background I have one of the random strip quilts on the sewing machine.  I think it looks cute, but it is getting twisted puckers.  I really need to work on figuring out how when quilting to not cause my own puckers.  You can see for example the pink and yellow in the picture looks twisted.  Oh well, maybe it wont look so bad when washed.

Link a Finish Friday #65

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 (May) will win a $15 gift certificate to spend at 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

I get so amazed with art quilts and this one from last week caught my eye.

Fossil Quilt - Terry Aske Art Quilt Studio

Henry Fish - Shush - I'm Quilting

Meet Joanna! - Quilt, Knit, Stitch, Sew, Live - In Colour!

Block Quilt - The Traveling Leotard

Are some of the great quilts and other projects linked up last week. Thanks for all of the great linkups.

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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.

The Last Piece of Hope

Today I am showing off The Last Piece of Hope or at least the last from us.  Last Christmas I bought Tanya Pieces of Hope a Riley Blake fabric line to show hope for those that have or want to support the Autism Cause.  My 2 boys both have Aspergers Syndrome (high functioning autism).  We made 2 lap quilts you can see them Here and Here but we had a little fabric left over and so Tanya made us a baby quilt.

I think maybe I pieced it, but Tanya quilted it and bound it.  I think this is her 3rd to quilt and 2nd to bind.  She told me it looked so ugly afterwords that she could not sell it or give it away and we are stuck with it.  It is not perfect, but it is not as bad as she makes it sound like.

There are some puckers in the back, but hey I can live with it.  Any way I love it and I am proud of Tanya.  As I tell her its practice, practice, practice to get better at quilting.

In other news this is one of the quilts laying around that is almost, but not quite done.  Back in March I finished This quilt for Rebecca for her last year's Christmas present.  It was a larger twin size quilt (while large in my standards of lap and bay quilts) any way when I got done with Rebecca's quilt I had a bunch of left over blocks some were exactly like the one's in Rebecca's quilt, others were made out of leftover material (like that top left bock in 4 different pieces).  Any way this is a decent crib size quilt and it will be for Julia as she shares the bedroom Rebecca is in and they can have matching quilts (once she is big enough for a quilt in the bed).

Work In Progress Wed #38

You know it has come to my attention that I have been slacking on my Work In Progress Wed.  In fact it took so much time trying to find the last post number that I am sitting here trying to remember what I was going to talk about so lets um sit here and dig and see if there is something worth talking about.

Oh yes this will work.  I at the start of this year planed to make a Orange and Gray quilt for my bed (because sadly I still have not made my self a quilt yet) any way I wanted to make a quilt for me.  But then again as normal around my house Tanya vetoed the quilt.  So plans changed.

Tanya hates Orange and Gray but he decided my idea of a scrappy quilt was not that terrible.  So now I am making a brown and turquoise (with a splash of tan). Quilt for my bed.  If any one remembers I made a Richard's Star (yes I know some what conceded naming it after myself but hey I am new at this)  block and giant quilt block.  Heck lets just show you.

Any way Tanya and I plan to do brown and turquoise checker board out of the large 10 x 10 blocks. and then instead of the yellow star in the center it will be out of tans.  Any way that is the plan I think I have 8 or so of the big turquoise blocks, but I am still working on getting enough brown and tan.

Lets see what else is going on.

Oh yes this is a good one and it follows along with my bock (again I could not resist calling it after me) In 2 weeks from now (well week and half) HMQS is going to be held here in SLC, UT.  I have 2 quilts that will be in the show.  My helix quilt will be on display with other quilts from the SLMQG and I have a quilt in one of the contests.  The above is all that I will show for now and will talk more about the quilt after HMQS starts (mostly because I never took a picture of it before I mailed it off) lol. Remind me to take a picture next time before mailing it away.

The last thing I will share is something that Tanya has been off and on working on.  It is a sorta art quilt with a butterfly on it.  She was sewing the butterfly down the other night.  I cant wait to see it when its done.

Any way thanks for stopping bye on this WIP Wednesday.

I have discovered Craftsy!

I have recently discovered Craftsy and started listing some of the Items that I have created there.   For example if you click this link or the picture you will see that I have listed my Orange and Gray quilt pattern for sell there.

My first visit to Craftsy was to view the QuiltCon Lecture Series which is a free class you can take on Craftsy.  I am a member of the Salt Lake Modern Quilt guild and the lecture series is classes that were done during the most recent QuiltCon 2013 sponsored by the Modern Quilt guild.  The reason I am making this post is kind of selfish.  I want to learn better ways to promote my self.  And if possible make a little money to pay for my next stash purchase.

After signing up for the QuiltCon Lecture Series I decided to poke around and see what all it had to offer.  The first thing I noticed is that they had the ability to share patterns.  So I grabbed my Richard's Star and added it as a free pattern.  To my great surprise people downloaded it.  You would think after the fact that people follow my blog I would stop getting surprised that some one might want my patterns.

As you can guess I added the sword and the shield as free patterns.  And blow me away people are downloading them also.  As of last night between the 3 free patterns I have had 99 pattern sales.  With all the success in the free pattern sales I have added the 2 patterns that are quilt patterns for a cost.  The first 2 patterns I put up I listed at 95 cents each my wife laughed at me at such a low cost but I have sold a few already and after Paypal fee's I think I have made $3.06 I think I can afford a new fat quarter or 2 if on sell.

Have any of you been to Craftsy?  Have you listed your patterns or shared your projects there?  Are you having any success?  If you have never been their follow one of my links and go like my patterns or follow me on Craftsy.  If you have been to Craftsy or are a regular their let me know what you feel about it are you successful at sharing your your projects there?