Scraptastic Tuesday winners and this and that

I have to confess that I am still making it around to read the links at the Scraptastic Tuesday link up, while my partner in this venture, the lovely Nicky from Mrs. Sew and Sow, has been able to visit them as they have been posted. I am so enjoying visiting each link, thank you all for joining Nicky and I in this Scraptastic Tuesday venture.

It's time to award the October link up prizes. Thank you again to our fantastic and generous sponsors:

The prizes and the winners, as drawn using the random number generator, are:

• Fluffy Sheep Quilting - a bundle of beautiful remnant scraps: # 66 Myra from Busy Hands Quilts

• Fat Quarter Shop - a $25 gift certificate: #84 Nepeanquilter from Flickr

• Mad About Patchwork - a $30 gift certificate - # 26 Colleen from Flickr

• Sew me a Song - a $20 gift certificate - #80 Lynley from Lynley Quilts

• Oakshott - a 10" square Autumn Oakshott cotton pack: # 54 Celine from Espritpatch

• Massdrop - a Joel Dewberry Birch Farm fat quarter bundle: #18 Anne via Instagram as limeleaf741

We have sent emails to the winners but if you read it here first, please contact us so we can get the prizes on the way to the winners.

Thank you for joining us and remember the next link will be the second Tuesday of the month - November 11. Please plan to share a scrappy project finished or in progress or your ideas about how to use or organize or deal with scraps with us then, and feel free to join us at any time in the month. Use the hashtag #scraptastictuesday or add our button to your post.

photo courtesy of Christa Watson

In other news, there are some beautiful posts about the Modern Quilt Guild showcase at the Houston International Quilt Festival. Check out Christa's post at Christa Quilts here, and the MQG blog post here. I was not able to go to Houston as I had planned so seeing these posts is a lovely alternative - you can see my quilt Cycles 2 right there in the middle right, what a beautiful display.




I shared my first finished version of my new quilt pattern - the pattern is called Consider - yesterday, for the Bloggers Quilt Festival. Peace is a baby quilt size of the pattern. I will be sending this pattern to pattern testers no later than Monday and although I have some pattern testing volunteers already, I though I would make one more offer, if you would like to be on the pattern testing list please let me know in a comment or by email.

And if you have not yet entered, there is a fantastic give away of the she can quilt blogger's bundle sponsored by Fabric Spark open until 6 pm tomorrow, go here to enter.

Well, I'm off to work and even to the theatre tonight.

Best,

Leanne

Butterflies - Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2012

Let me introduce Butterflies, a quilt I made and showed off this past spring. She is my quilt entry in the Blogger's Quilt Fall 2012. This quilt was made from Kona White and scrappy bits of Terrain by Kate Spain. That picture is after she was crinkly from being washed and dried.



I machine quilted Butterflies densely. First I filled the sashing with straightish lines. Then I free motion quilted the butterfly wings in a swoopy wing shaped motif. The washing and drying really added a lot of texture to the quilt.



I sewed the curves without pins - you can read about my technique and view my video by clicking here.



The butterfly motif is a traditional block made with drunkard's path 1/4 circle curves which are trimmed close to the edges of the curved units. I was first inspired to make this block when I saw this little quilt Megan at Canoe Ridge Creations made.  This block is in Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Quilt Patterns, page 403,  #3364, Fan Quadrille - by Mountain Mist. The blocks look modern and fun with bright fabrics, some negative space and dense quilting.



I put these fun trees on the back as it seemed to me they went together with the butterflies. The print is called Trees by Timeless Treasurers.



That picture is before washing. This quilt is about 44" x 56". If you were putting this quilt in a category for the Festival, I think that it would best fit into the throw quilt category.



The scrappy binding is made from the leftover Terrain fabrics.

Blogger's Quilt Festival statistics:

name: Butterflies

size: 44"x 56"

quilted and pieced: by me

technique: curved piecing

catagory: throw quilt or home machine quilted quilt

There will be hundreds of beautiful quilts linked up for the Blogger's Quilt Festival which is hosted by Amy, from Amy's Creative Side.  I hope you will show one of your quilts too - you have until October 31 to link up. I will be spending some time over the next couple of weeks going to see them - I recommend you do too.

Best,

Leanne