Diane who blogs at
Butterfly Threads Quilting makes the most wonderful scrappy quilts! I'm always inspired by her combination of bright colors and fabric patterns to design such a variety of patterns. When she published her first book:
Scrap Book Secrets, I devoured it, reading it cover to cover and taking note, especially as I read her chapter of Quilt Making Basics. And now she's done it again!!
BOOK TWO!
I quickly volunteered to be part of her book release blog hop as I've had this tote of 30's repro fabric strips that I had cut into two inch strips about five years ago to to stitch English Paper Pieced
Hexagons. When my book arrived, I literally dumped the whole tote out, mixed up the large variety of colors and patterns....
...and started just grabbing and sewing the strips together.
After a few email exchanges with Diane and then referring to the index of the quilts by strip size ranging from 1 1/2"-3 1/2" found at the back of her book, I decided to make her Vortex pattern as most of my strips were already two inches wide...exactly what the Vortex pattern called for.
So I got busy sewing strips...which as you can imagine provided some easy chain piecing.
I chose black as my block centers and cornerstones. I found the block assembly quick with Diana's easy to follow, step by step directions and am learning to perfect my partial seam. BTW, Diane also offers four alternative quilt sizes (crib, twin full/queen and king) and a coloring sheet for each of the fifteen patterns included in the book. I love that! So much bang for your buck!
So even though I still have a bunch of strips to sew together:
Here's a peek at what they are looking like as they come together as a finished 9 1/2" block:
A GIVE-AWAY!
This give-away is closed. The winner was announced here.
For the chance to win a copy of
Strip Quilt Secrets by Diane D. Knot, comment on this blog sharing with us your favorite "
sewing" time entertainment. For example, I often find myself just enjoying the quiet, but will every now and then find a good NCIS marathon or something on Netflix.
(Anything that does not require a lot of my attention.) I will draw a winner on Friday, January 11, 2019 and announce the winner here on the blog as I also share my progress being made.
NOTE: If you are a no-reply (Right now I have had 26 no-reply comments) so please leave your email so I can contact your for your mailing address. Due to shipping costs, this give-away if only available to US residents. Good luck!
Also if you missed Diane's blog series highlighting the five main strip techniques highlighted in her book, click
HERE to get a closer look at those and learn how much her book has to offer.
BLOG HOP!
I hope you have fun visiting everyone else on the hop and you'll also increase your chance of winning your own copy of Strip Quilt Secrets! Our blog hop runs all week.
Here are links to all the quilters who are participating:
Saturday January 5 - Tanya
Sunday January 6 - Val (You are here!)
Thursday January 10 - Susan
