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New York Beauty Block

It has been quite awhile since I played with Electric Quilt.  So I had an early shower, put on my pajamas, and cozied up on the couch with my laptop.

New York Beauty is an old file (like many, many moons ago) that I thought would be fun to spend an evening with.  This block can offer up so many variations; one can play for hours!

New York Beauty Block

New York Beauty 2

New York Beauty 3

New York Beauty 4

I made a New York Beauty quilt several years ago.  I made it by the paper piecing method.  I love the quilt, and it won The Harpist’s Award at the Washington State Quilters – Spokane Chapter quilt show (I’m sorry I don’t have a photo for you).  But removing paper is tedious.

Linda Franz, over at Inklingo, has made this very easy (no paper piecing here).  I have no affiliation; but I recognize a good thing when I see one (I wish I had seen this sooner.).  She has created a great New York Beauty design (not like the one shown here) that has shapes that can be printed directly onto fabric.  Check it out by clicking here and here and here and here (all different posts with lots of inspiration).

Happy quilting!

Finger Pincushions

Head on over to Linda Franz’s Inklingo Blog for a treat!

Linda and Monkey have a fabulous 70 second tutorial on how to make these fun and utilitarian finger pincushions.  That’s right…70 seconds is all it takes to learn how to make these.

Use ’em for yourself and make extra for gifts for all your sewing/quilty friends!

Double Wedding Ring

I love following Judy Butcher’s  and Linda Franz’s blogs!  They are creative, consistent and quite inspiring!  And they are encouraging me to get familiar with EQ7.

The following design was simple to create in EQ7 and I really like it.  I may play more with it, just like Judy would, but for now, it is enough to follow in her footsteps and show the design as it is.

Double Wedding Ring

A color variation…it is so easy to switch colors:

Double Wedding Ring2

I wish I could say that the pieces could be printed out with Inklingo (I wanted to enter the design in Linda’s Love the Lines contest), but they can’t.  However, Linda does have a Double Wedding Ring Collection. 

EQ7 is quite capable of printing out templates and rotary cutting directions.  Cool!

If you want to make a Double Wedding Ring quilt, I suggest playing with EQ if you are a blessed owner of this great design program, or checking out Inklingo.  Linda Franz is full of helpful ideas and inspiration!