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Fields of Star Flowers

Posted on January 6, 2012 | 6 comments

I am still in Michigan visiting my daughter and her family (and loving it), but I do have my laptop with me. And I do have ‘me’ time.

So I thought I would try the Love the Lines Inklingo contest. Here is a photo of my first effort (created in EQ7):

Although there are Inklingo sizes in the quilt, there are not enough for me to enter into the contest. Clearly, I lost sight of the rules while designing. Oops.

There is a ton of piecing to do if one were to actually sew this design, and it is a busy design. But I like it anyway.

Click here for the Love the Lines contest rules.

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Orca Bay Mystery Quilt – Part 3

Posted on December 9, 2011 | 12 comments

For Bonnie Hunter’s Orca Bay mystery quilt – Part 1, click here.

For Bonnie Hunter’s Orca Bay mystery quilt – Part 2, click here.

This isn’t WIP Wednesday, but I finished Part 3! Yay!!!!

The clue? Make 350 (1.5″ finished) half-squared triangles (HST). Whoa! That’s alot! But, as mentioned in Part 2, Linda Franz and her Inklingo make this clue easy peasy to accomplish.

I am showing printing on both a light fabric and a muslin fabric just for comparison. You can easily see the printing (on the wrong side of the fabric, by the way) on both of these fabrics.

I cut the fabric 8.5″ x 11″…the same as copy paper (only because my dinosaur printer doesn’t do custom sizes) and I still get little waste. In fact, I get 30 HSTs per printing. Cool! This is a real timesaver!

Sew on the diagonal dash lines.

Cut apart on the solid lines.

Almost finished already!

Pressed open and trimmed! YeeeHawww! That was easy!

Cute little guys, aren’t they?

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Orca Bay Mystery Quilt Part 1

Posted on November 30, 2011 | 14 comments

I have joined an online mystery quilters group. Like I needed another project, especially during holiday season. I’m nuts! But I’m having fun! And the online group of quilters are fun to be with. So what am I doing? I dunno…it’s a mystery! Here is what I can tell you:

It is my first mystery quilt.

I am generally a ‘controlled’ quilter. I hope this mystery quilt helps me to be more random. In other words, to loosen up and mix it up.

I am a fabric petter. I buy it to gaze at it lovingly and stroke it gently. Sheesh! It is time to make good use of it!

Head on over to ~~Bonnie Hunter’s Quiltville~~ to join the Orca Bay mystery quilt.

Part 1…make 448 triangle pairs for 224 hourglass (2″ finished) blocks. What! 448!? 2 inches!? Now is the time to get comfortable with Inklingo! Linda Franz makes this a breeze! In the photo above, you are looking at light fabric squares layered (right sides together) with dark fabric. These are all printed and ready to sew. The photo below is a closeup of a light fabric printed with red ink. For most of my lights, I chose to print with a yellow ink.

In general, the process involves choosing a shape (in this case quarter square triangles, also known as QST) and ink color. Cut fabric, iron it to freezer paper, and print. It is that easy. No measuring folks! The math is done for you! Linda Franz has been more than generous in offering a ton of information, how-to and ideas on her blog and Inklingo website. Anytime you need help, just ask her. She’s pretty friendly.

The above photo shows that the diagonal dash lines have been sewn. How hard is that? Just follow the lines! The photo below shows some of the rotary cutting done. Again, just follow the lines, only this time the lines are solid.

Inklingo is capable of custom sizes, so there is very little waste, if any. However, I have a dinosaur printer that is incapable of custom sizes (but it prints well…I have no jamming issues). No matter…I cut my fabric the same size as my copy paper (8-1/2 x 11) and printed anyway. I had some waste, but it is worth it to me. And I have extra QSTs.