Tulip Mosaic complete and giveaway
Craftsy?
No explanation, just simply stating my Craftsy Store will be removed on the in 10 days. This leaves me feeling very discouraged as I do not know if a buyer complained of my work or …??? Is it just time to do cutbacks? No clue on my end. Have you received the same email? If so, how are you feeling and do you understand this?
I have work to do. First I need to remove Craftsy links from my site and find another platform to sell my patterns. Sheesh.
Do you sell your patterns on your own site and if so, could we talk, give me insight about how this works? If not, where do you sell them?
Now for the winners
All of your comments were appreciated. Your tips were well received. Enzo was a little confused as to what I wanted him to do.
Enzo:My mom came with a camera and I just knew it was time to take more photos on the tulip quilt. But instead she lay this boring hexie quilt down. I was determined I was not climbing on that quilt.
Thats my story and I am sticking to it. She may tell a different version just don’t believe her.
So if you left a tip and your name is below, my mom will send you Xando tomorrow.
Joy
Melfunk
Marti
Cynthia
Sara
Brenda
Bonnie
Lynne
Susan
Farmquilter
Tuna (I know she told me there was Tuna in that bowl to get me on the quilt)
Merry Christmas
Read on below for the latest happenings and the linkups I’ve joined so far this week.
I’ve decided to name this quilt Tulip Mosaic. The quilt design comes from 3 different ancient mosaic pavements that I pulled together to form one nice design. And, I am so happy with this finish. The photos below show the moment I removed it from the quilt frame. Enzo has to have his photo taken with each quilt and that cant happen when I hang them on the house gutter. He must be very pleased with it because he did not want to get off the quilt. It is definitely Enzo approved.
Quilted and bound. . I had planned on taking photos from a couple locations in my yard. The way the quilt cast its own shadow hanging on the gutter I really don’t think I could improve on that. Besides, even though its cold out we still have mud from the rain the last couple
of days.
With some of my remaining fabric I made this bag to carry my suit and towel to the gym. You can find the directions here.
It’s a little larger than I like or need so I may do this again leaving one strip off.
Now for the giveaway
A few weeks back I asked you to think of tried and true longarm or fmq quilting tips. Tried and true quilting tools that you cannot live without. Your tips will be combined with an existing post.
Dec 20th I will be giving two pdf Xando patterns.
To enter, leave a comment below listing your most useful tools and or tips that make your longarm or fmq quilting easier. Your entries will not be judged. Instead, every soul that leaves a tip or trick will be entered into a drawing. If you enter 2 tips, you get 2 entries and so on.
Dec 20 I will pull 2 names from the bucket and announce the winners by email. If there are a large number of entries I just may have to offer more than 2 free patterns.
Over the next 5 days you may enter as many tips/tricks as you like until midnight of Dec 19th. Drawing and announcement will occur the morning of Dec 20. Winners will be announced on this post and by email..
Good luck
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I forgot to mention. I have a Craftsy account and was always going to sell patterns there but never did. I thought perhaps you’d gotten a spam email but I guess not since Karen got one too. Anyway, I sell my patterns on my SquareSpace site–the store is included in my monthly website fee. If you want to talk about SquareSpace, just shoot me an email! I’m happy to help.
Will do so after Christmas. Thank you
What a lovely quilt! I’m so excited you got it done. Thanks for sharing your finish on Wednesday Wait Loss!
Thank you for the platform to share.
OH, my!! Your winner announcement story is hilarious and so precious!!! Very creative and clever and delightful!!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful pattern with everyone and bringing a smile to all. As for Craftsy, I got the same letter!!!! I’m not happy about it either. I was just starting to put patterns out there. It was a starting point and I had high hopes. I have no idea where or how I will sell my two patterns I have so far. Merry Christmas to you and Enzo, from Tu-Na!!
I’m speaking with people who use Etsy. Then I’ll weigh in the woocommerce. It is after all why I switched to a self hosting site
Oh and I am glad you found humor in my story.
Beautiful finish, and love that Enzo approves!
Thank you Susan. Cant wait to see your roses.
I like a longarm ruler that has the same curve on both sides. No more ruler work contortions for me.
I use a self threading needle to bury my thread tails. It’s much quicker and no more squinting. Your quilt is stunning.
Hmm, I didnt know there was such a thing. Looks like I am going to visit google today. Thank you for the tip, the compliment and for stopping by.
For FMQ, I draw it out and practice a few times before starting on the quilt. It is easier to know what I’m doing. I doodle all the time. For piecing, I use leader/enders and when putting the top together, I like to web it so pieces don’t turn on me.
In my first comment, I forgot to tell you how much I like your quilt! I liked the design before it was quilted, and now it is even better. Gorgeous! I hope you are going to enter it in a quilt show.
Thank you very much. Unfortunately my quilting isn’t advanced as my piecing and designing.
For beginning FMQ, like myself, section off the quilt into workable squares. Use a marking pen if you want. Then, within each square, mark an X and free motion following each leg of the X, filling in the free space in each triangle as you go. It will keep you from running into a dead end. martidiy @ outlook.com
If you like to prewash (I try to prewash reds if nothing else), clip an angle off each corner and the fabric won’t ravel much.
In order to post on wordpress, I can’t use a real email address in the slot. My email is martidiy @ outlook.com
This is a trick I will have to try myself.
Definitely have slick easy threading needles on hand to bury those threads quickly. Thanks for sharing your lovely quilt with Oh Scrap!
The quilt is stunning! My most useful tool is my 6.5″ square ruler. It’s the one I use the most.
I use Commando hooks to hang small rulers on the cabinets in my studio. This keeps them nearby but off the counter tops (which always seem to be covered with fabric – imagine that!!!)
LOl mine too.
Instead of drawing lines diagonally to form HST’s, I use a piece of painter’s/embroidery tape placed in line with the center line of my throat plate, directly in line with the needle. Just line up the first corner and keep the bottom corner flush with the edge of the tape. This can save a lot of time!
When making HST’s I like to cut the pieces larger than required and trim to size so that I can have a perfect sized HST! Thank you for the opportunity to win!
My best tip is to relax. Get up and stretch every 1/2 hour. Consciously force your shoulders down! Have fun
I love paper piecing, and I couldn’t do without my quarter-inch ruler to trim seams. That’s my favorite tool. But my tip is about the paper to use for paper piecing. You can buy the expensive stuff, or you can use old phone book pages. I don’t much care for either of those (expense/ink), so I bought a stack of packing paper from U-Haul, and boy, is it ever fantastic!
My second hint for paper piecing is to use your sewing machine to mark the sewing lines. Just staple the pattern to a few pieces of paper (I use 8, maximum), and with no thread in your machine, ‘sew’ along the stitching and border lines. Bingo! You have 8 copies of the pattern with no mess, no laborious marking. :o) (An added benefit of making patterns this way is that it’s extremely easy to make mirror images of your blocks … just sew on the ‘wrong’ side of the pattern pieces!)
Finally, I wrote a post that contained “Tu-Na’s Tried and True Easy Guide to
Fabric and Color Selection for Quilt Blocks” which can be found here https://tunaquilts.com/2018/07/23/tu-na-quilts-fall-into-a-qal-block-six-released-today/ and covers variety is the spice of life which contains hints how to pick fabrics to add interest to your quilts. I spent a lot of time researching and writing this summer. I hope you find the posts helpful.
Then I wrote a post containing Tu-Na’s Tried and True Easy Guide to
Fabric and Color Selection for Quilt Blocks which can be found here https://tunaquilts.com/2018/07/09/tu-na-quilts-fall-into-a-qal-block-five-released-today/ and includes hints such as learning how to use the color wheel, and Tu-Na’s Three Easy Hints to Selecting Colors for a Block/Quilt (Choose a good focus fabric. Look at the selvedge edge. Buy a pre-selected bundle) and of course lots of other good tips.
This summer I wrote a post which included “Tu-Na’s Tried and True Easy Steps to Making Accurately Pieced Blocks.” You can find the 8 steps here https://tunaquilts.com/2018/06/25/tu-na-quilts-fall-into-a-qal-block-four-released-today/ which includes things like practice makes perfect, cutting with accuracy, and achieving an accurate seam allowance.
I am a newbie quilter, so I really don’t have any tricks or tips to share other than make sure you really want to become a regular quilter before investing in a lot of fabric and notions.
When using squares to stitch Corner Triangles as in Class 4, stitch just a thread on the side of your diagonal drawn line. This allows the fabric to fold over the stitching line and should lay even with the fabric piece below
When trimming Half Square Triangles or Hourglass units, place the 45 degree line of your ruler directly on top of the unit’s diagonal seam line.
When you figure out the perfect layout of your quilt, take a picture of it before you start putting it together – helps you remember what goes where when all your blocks are not identical.
When sewing triangles or bias-edged fabric, use small dots of glue in the seam allowance to hold the pieces together instead of pins to avoid distorting the fabric with the pins.
When cutting fabric, use the same brand of ruler so your measurements stay the same.
If you like the “body” of unwashed fabric but like to pre-wash your fabric, after taking your fabric out of the washer, hang it up, spray with your favorite starch and let it dry.
I tried pre washing once. The result was a knotted mess.
If you are piecing small block pieces, use a stiletto to feed them under the needle.