Quilt Blogger's Festival 2015 ~ Original Design Category

I would like you to meet Morgan!

Morgan is my grand-darling Everly's first cousin.

I have been blessed to occasionally take care of this adorable baby boy.

Morgan loves the color red.

I designed and made this red, white and blue quilt for him.  

Morgan and I welcome you to our entry into the

Original Design Quilts

category in the

A big "Thank you!" to Amy @ Amy's Creative Side

for putting this big beautiful online quilt show together for us!

Here is Morgan's Quilt ...

This is my 

Airmail Envelope Quilt,

 an original block and layout designed by me. 

I designed this Envelope Block for this quilt.

Quilt Size:   47 inches by 55 inches

Fabrics: 

Airmail from Moda Fabrics

Aurifil threads: 50/2 Mako Cotton, 

Blue 2730, Red 2250, White 2024 and Gray 2605

Quilted on my home machine, Janome 6600p

back of quilt

The tutorial for this quilt appears in four parts on the

 Bear Creek Quilting Company Blog 

where I was guest blogging.

A free pdf for this tutorial is available at the end of Part 4.

The matching Airmail Envelope Pillow was made with extra blocks and fabric from the quilt. 

A tutorial for this pillow may be found HERE on my blog.

The layout and setting requirements for this quilt may be found HERE.

Layout and fabric requirements for alternative colorways for this quilt may be found HERE

Morgan is very happy with his quilt and sew am I.

We hope you have enjoyed this quilt, too.

May you enjoy the Spring 2015 Quilt Bloggers Festival as much as I am.

Sew many beautiful quilts!

Thank you for stopping my my blog today ...  :)

Almost Time for the Spring Quilt Bloggers Festival!

I love these big beautiful online quilty shows!

<3 There is always so much inspiration in the links  <3

Visit
Amy @ Amy's Creative Side

for all the details.

Hope to see you participating!

:) 

Happy Mother's Day ... and we have a Winner!

Happy Mother's Day!

 We have a winner to the fabulous 

Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway!

Comment # 4 

Congratulations to Lea Anne 

@ 

Podunk PrettiesApril 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM

"....And a blog subscriber"

I am sending and email to our lucky winner!

May all of you have a happy day today with family and friends!

<3

~ My Grand-Darling ~ My best Mother's Day gift ever! ~

<3 

Fabrics N Quilts Giveaway ~ Have You Entered?

Click HERE to Comment for your chance to win!


Winner will be announced on Sunday, May 10th!

Best of luck!

I am featured on Free Quilt Patterns!

My Airmail Envelope Quilt Tutorial on Bear Creek Quilting

is featured on

Free Quilt Patterns

Here is what they wrote:

"We live in a world where email goes instantly anywhere we like with the push of a button, so it's a wonderfully warm nostalgic feeling we get when we see a project like this!  Doesn't this quilt bring back heartwarming memories?  We love everything about this quilt, which was designed and created by Pat of Life in the Scrapatch and is featured by Bear Creek Quilting Company as a multi-part tutorial.  Parts one through three are up for you now and we are sure you will love this wonderful project!"

To read more click Here

My quilt also is posted on the Free Quilt Patterns Facebook site.

Thank you, Free Quilt Patterns, for your kind words and featuring my quilt tutorial.

I love sharing with other quilters!

~ <3 ~

Fabric Magic!

There is "gold dust" sprinkled around the dandelion puffs!

Do you see it here?  

I did not ... looks like gray speckles to me. 

I have been looking and working with these lovely fabrics for several days now and 

when I placed these two fabrics side by side to sew ... 

... magic happened ! 

These are two different fabric lines.

The birdies are from "A Little Bird Told Me"

The dandelion puffs are from "Make a Wish"

I combined these two lines for this quilt because I wanted to add the peach and gold to my new quilt.

 Did you see the message on the selvage ... "threaded with love" ? 

These are quality fabrics ... :-)

My longtime readers know that I wash all fabrics except small precuts due to an allergic reaction 

to the chemicals in the finishing process.

I am happy to say that these new Lewis and Irene fabrics have passed 

the wash test with flying colors.  

The weave is tight; the fabric thick and nice to touch; 

it does not warp in the wash; shrinkage was minimal and the colors do not run

I have a serious case of fabric love going on here ... <3 <3 <3

This is a new pattern that I am developing and it started Here

It will be another free tutorial on the Bear Creek Quilting Blog

 I am calling this new quilt design "Wish Catcher!"

More soon!

Just keep sewing .... :-)

A Pressing Matter

This lovely Maven would sure make my sewing corner an even happier place!

Visit

 Sew We Stitch

for your chance to win.

Best of luck!

:)

My Airmail Envelope Quilt Wrap-up!

Part 1 ... fabric requirements and overview HERE

Part 2 ... piecing the blocks HERE

Part 3 ... piecing the top HERE

Part 4 - Finishing the Quilt HERE

Here are some alternate colorways and layouts ... 

"Letters From The Coast"
finished quilt size 56" by 64"

I created this alternate colorway and layout for  the

Free Airmail Envelope Quilt Tutorial

Part 4 ~ Finishing the Quilt ~ is up at BCQC Blog!

There is also a pdf for the complete tutorial available on this post

I bought these cute and contemporary fabrics ...

"Coastal" from Lewis and Irene

HERE @ Bear Creek Quilting Company

  

The swirly "Fishy Shoals" are my favorite from this line and I have used the gray for the envelopes, the multi-color on white for the background and the aqua in the narrow inner border (which is a design addition to the original pattern) and for the binding in the above quilt layout.

I used the beautiful dark "Sealife" on navy for the wide outer border.

I bought these fabrics ... it was love at first sight ... with a different quilt image in my head

but the more I look at this layout, the more I want to sew it.

A cute little baby boy I know has a nautical themed nursery and he needs a quilt ... ;)

Here are the fabric requirements for this quilt:

1/4 yard of the following prints for the inside 3" square in the envelope blocks:


.25 yard - Lighthouses on Aqua


.25 yard - Lighthouses on Sea Blue


.25 yard - Lighthouses on Deep Sea Blue


.25 yard - Sealife on Aqua


.25 yard - Sea Plants on Deep Sea Blue


.25 yard - Sea Plants on Light Aqua


1.25 yard - Fishy Shoals Gray for the outer envelope blocks


2.25 yards Fishy Shoal on White for the barkground fabric,
including the setting triangles on the envelope blocks

2.25 yards - Sealife on Navy for outer border

1 yard - Fishy Shoals Aqua  for the inner border and binding ...
cut into 2.5" strips for inner border and double fold binding. 

For all other cutting and sewing instructions please refer to this


One More Envelope Quilt Layout ~ By Request 

"You've Got Mail"

Six Fabric Kona Solid Envelope Quilt Layout 1
finished size 56" by 64"


Fabric Requirements:



1 yard - Kona Bluejay
(includes 2.5" strips for binding)


1 yard - Kona Aloe
(includes 2.5" strips for inner border)


.75 yard  - Kona Buttercup



.75 yard - Kona Wisteria



1.5 yards - Kona Medium Pink
(includes 5" strips for outer border)


2.25 yards - Kona Iron
(includes all background including setting triangles for envelope blocks)

Mail Drop Quilt Layout

Six Kona Solid Fabrics Envelope Quilt Layout 2

*Note: Since I have not actually sewn these two quilts the fabric requirements are copied from my EQ6 design software,  I have added 1/8 to 1/4 yard to all the computer generated amounts so that you should have extra fabric built in for errors and have a few lovely leftovers for scrap projects. Please always follow your own best judgement when cutting and sewing. 

For all other cutting and sewing instructions please refer to this

Airmail Envelope Quilt Tutorial @ BCQC

If you have any questions about these instructions, please email me.
My email address may be found under "Contact Me" in my header.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

If you sew an envelope quilt of your own, I would love to see it!

Enjoy!