Nordic Sweater Quilt Pattern release

I am very excited to announce the release of my new pattern:

Nordic Sweater Quilt!

If you love your 1/2 square triangles and have that fabric that is just TOO Pretty to Cut Into then THIS is the pattern for you!! 

 It uses LARGE pieces of your favorite fabrics.  

The pattern is available on  Etsy link: Nordic Sweater Quilt

Please note NOT suitable for directional fabrics. 
Another hint - the 'light' fabric can't be BUSY.  Here is my example of what NOT to DO.

The Snowman fabric was a bad choice as it was FAR too BUSY.  The design of the pattern got lost in the fabric choice.

I also used a directional fabric which you can get away with in the baby size BUT could only use 1/2 of my 1/2 square triangles with the snowman fabric to keep the direction correct - so I saved the others for another quilt. 

Super huge thanks to Susie Boots for reviewing and testing this pattern!!!

The pattern is available on this  Etsy link: Nordic Sweater Quilt

Remember to visit my 1/2 Square Tutorial if you have questions about making  8@a time: 1/2 Square Triangle Tutorial

Fun belated baby quilt!

Our friends had a baby a year ago and I finally got a quilt done for them.

This was made with the cutest Crayon fabric using the DNP block.

 I added borders of the primary Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow.

 Found this fun matching Stripe fabric for the back. 

Lisa @ Garden Gate Quilting machine quilted this fun pattern.

Love how it looks like a scribble ;)

One more item off the WIP list! Of course I added 2!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Marie

WIP Wednesday!

It's been a busy week!  I spent last weekend at a wonderful retreat.  Worked on a couple of projects.

I finished a baby quilt top using the disappearing 9-patch with these fun crayon fabrics.  I plan to pick an overall design to quilt this on my machine.  More to follow.

I also continued to work on my Mason's Whirl Wall design.  I plan to have it available in a pattern on Craftsy soon.  Here is the WIP:

I was trying to make it with the background PLUS 4 but I think PLUS 6 will work better.  Going to add a couple of more fabrics and go at it again.  

Here is the pattern as I used it for the ALQS8 in which I used leftovers from a bali pops PLUS 2 backgrounds.  I like the scrappy look best myself.

In 2014 I hope to complete my Free Motion / Crazy Quilt 30 block project that I started in 2011. 
This is the 3rd block:

 This block contains Leah's 21 through 30 designs:

 I really had fun with this one. Loved getting back into working with the stitches.  I am working from Leah's book which you can find on her site in an eBook or Amazon as a regular book.  There have been a couple of blocks that were hard for me to figure out where to start going by the picture, for those I visited Leah's site where I could easily look up each design by there number and see Leah's wonderful videos. 


 
See - Part #1 & Part #2 in prior blogs.  Each block showcases 10 designs.


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Marie