Triangle Quilt Along

I am participating in the Triangle Quilt Along.  You can find a link to it on my side bar.  I am planning to use this bundle of Wishes that my wife bought for me.  Cant wait to get started.  I am linking up to the start page at http://www.sassyquilter.com/triangle-quilt-along-fabric/  If you plan to also join in you may want to quickly pick out your pattern and get started.

Link A Finish Friday #110

Today I have to say sorry for being a slacker (no not in quilting, but in blog duties)  Here is what I completed today just before making this post just to show I am not slacking.

Back in Early Febuary I should have anounced and turned in LAFF Friday for January.  But I had excuses I was busy worying about my knee just around time for knee surgery.  While I am well into recovery and for the most part have bounced back well.  But then Febuary went buy and I again missed anouncing the winner.  So today I have fixed that issue.  In January we had LAFF #99 - 103.  With random.org I picked #100.  Then with the help of random I picked quilt #31

My Garden Party - Val's Quilting Studio

I have emailed Val to let her know.  Next I used random for LAFF # 104-107 and picked #104 and then again Random and got Quilt #13 and emailed Janeen  Thank you for all that linked up and congrats to the winners.

Lips - Quilt Art Designs 

Now on to last weeks link up's

In Progress - Alycia Quilts

Swooning - Adventures in Life

Labyrinth - Sue Daurio's Quilting Adventure

Star Light Star Bright - Kathy's Quilting Blog

These are some of the great quilts linked up last week.  Link up your finishes and don't forget to visit some of those that linked up.

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Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

Spines Mini Quilt (Wall Hanging)

Last week I went though a paper piecing kick.  Part of which was instigated by my modern quilt guild.  They are planning a training on paper piecing tonight and I figured I needed to figure it out before hand.  I believe we plan to do a challenge but I don't remember for sure.

I created the pattern for this block my self on EQ7.  Some one on Pintrest commented that it looks like the top of a pineapple.  I made 4 of my blocks and toyed with how I wanted to put it together.  As you can see above and below was my 2 choices.  I of course chose to point them in.

To me it remines me of a trap with spines on it that you could stick your hand into and get caught in.  I know not a great name but hey I was not going for a name but rather going for trying something a little harder then the last paper pieced block I made.

The back of the quilt I sewed 2 triangles on to use to hang it up.  One interesting thing on this quilt is I also free motion stitched it in the ditch.  And of course the back is made from scraps.  All of the material in this project was just left over stuff in the stash.

The method to my madness

Sometimes I wonder what the method to my madness is.  I jump from project to project and some I have a clue what I plan to do with them others are just random scraps of fabric sewn together.

I take many more pictures then I actually post.  I really should show more of these things in progress.  These are some of the things that are sitting on my desk to finish.  Some are tops and others are quilted and only missing bindings to be complete.

And some are completed quilts that are just waiting for time to get a post of their own.  But today I just wanted to show some of the random things sitting on my desk waiting to be finished.

Diagonal Quilt and Pattern.

Today I would like to share my newest Diagonal Quilt.  I created this using my newest pattern. This is my 3rd Diagonal Quilt.  If you go to Crafty and put a comment on the pattern and come back here and leave a comment I will send you a copy of the pattern for free. Please make sure your email is available so that I can send you the pattern.  I have recently had 2 people comment but they are no-reply bloggers so I can not send the pattern.

My first Diagonal Quilt was made using a neat ombre material (yes I had to look up that name it even stumped me) Above is the back of my newest quilt.  At the time I made the back I had recently read a comment from one of my blog posts that talked about a log cabin block made similar to the style I used in my quilt (sewing into long rows my material and then re-cut it).  So the block in the back is just that.

For the pictures in this post I decided to take the quilts to the park.  I took the easy job of watching Julia play, while I stiffed Tanya with the picture taking.  She had a fun time first starting with taking pictures on the grass and then on a rock and then on a bench.  The above was done over a pull up bar.

Out of all the rock pictures I like this one of the back of my quilt the best.  I almost think I should make a pattern for the back of the quilt and sell it as the front of the quilt.  I put my square in the middle with diagonal lines going across above and below it.

Above is the first picture I made after the quilt was washed.  It is the only full up and down shot which I think is needed of any quilt, but it is not my favorite shot of the quilt.

I do think that I like this picture of the quilt on the grass.  It is not the best color wise but it is a fun picture of the quilt all the same.  If you visit my quilt pattern on Craftsy and put a comment on it (or on one of the quilts attached to it) I will email you a copy of the pattern for free.  Make sure to put a comment here so I get a email to reply too with the pattern.