Sunday, November 29, 2020

Live, Love Quilt International Quilt Along

 


Hello, Friends!

 

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and weekend!

 

I'm participating as a guest designer in an international quilting sew along, coordinated by Ellen of Ellie's Quilt Place, to announce her new fabric line, Tomorrow's Heritage. And I'm inviting you to sew along! To participate, just join the Facebook group "Live, Love, Quilt QAL" by clicking this link:

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/livelovequiltqal

 

There are several "mystery designers", who will be introduced periodically, and each has designed one block for the project. The free patterns will be provided soon for the blocks in the Facebook group. A PDF with the fabric requirements was posted on the Live, Love, Quilt Quilt Along Facebook group page on November 24th, for two different options to use the blocks. The blocks and finishing instructions will be available as free downloads in the 'Files section' as of February 2021.

 

One option to use the blocks would be to make 10 different mini quilts:

 


 
The other option would be to use the blocks to make one quilt:

 


You can use the fabrics from the Tomorrow's Heritage collection (available in stores starting January 2021), or use fabrics from your stash.

 


 

 

This is my first time participating in such a project, and I hope you'll join me! I love the block I designed, and I hope you will too!

 

The first mystery designer was announced yesterday:

 

https://www.facebook.com/ElliesQuiltplace/posts/3862286393782699 )

 

Until next time!

 

Martha

 

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Prairie Patchwork; Treasured Quilts and Tales of Time

Prairie Patchwork: Treasured Quilts and Tales of Time is my newest book, published by Martingale Publishing, and just released last week! First of all, it was such a pleasure to work with all of the staff at Martingale. It is a very professional bunch, and my book was put together all along the way with the utmost care!

That being said, I'm extremely proud of the result!


 

Prairie Patchwork


You'll find patterns using a variety of techniques for making the quilts in Prairie Patchwork, from hand piecing to machine piecing, foundation piecing to strip piecing. You'll also find a variety of sizes as well: bed quilts, wall quilts and doll size quilts. A pattern for a sweet little wool applique needlebook is also included.