Peach Patch Quilts

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Blogger Block Of The Month - November

Today is the third installment of Blogger Block of The Month. Presenting today's block is Jennifer of Ellison Lane Quilts She has made a great tutorial on a fussy cut block. It looks like a picture window to me but I will leave the naming to her.
I apologize for the late post today. I am on the west coast and am all screwed up! I didn't think to pick out a give away goodie before I left for the week. So the give away will be a gift certificate this week from the The Fat Quarter Shop. $10 gift certificate to the winner to spend however your heart desires. Give away open until Give away will be open until midnight Thanksgiving Eve Wed 11/21/12. To qualify you must be a follower of the blog and leave a comment with your favorite Thanksgiving dish.

Here is a list of all the participants

Date	Name	Blog
Sept 15^th 2012	Carin & Carol	Margarets Hope Chest
Oct 15^th 2012	Jenny	Sew Kind Of Wonderful
Nov 15^th 2012	Jennifer M	Ellison Lane Quilts
Dec 15^th 2012	Natalie	Craftin Mechanic
Jan 15^th 2013	Stefanie	Little Lady Patchwork
Feb 1^st 2013	Jennifer I	Knotted Thread
Feb 15^th 2013	Sandra	Sharp Quilts
Mar 15^th 2013	Nicole K	Patchwork Duck Designs
April 1^st 2013	Bree	Distant Pickles
Apr 15^th 2013	Tracey	Itching 2 B Stitching
May 15^th 2013	Felicity	Felicity Quilts
June 15^th 2013	Erin	Billy Button Design
July 15^th 2013	Nicole N	Mama Love Quilts
Aug 15^th 2013	Dhia	Peach Patch Quilts

Here is a button you can grab and put on your blog to make sure you don't miss a single post.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Scrappy Stash Quilt Along At Ellison Lane

Jennifer at Ellison Lane host a scrappy stash quilt along. Although I did not need another project to add to my massive list of to do's I started this quilt. I made a couple blocks but didn't think that I would get this finished.

Once I got started I was hooked and the blocks started coming together quickly when I was doing them assembly line style. I decided to keep the feel of a traditional log cabin block by sorting the scraps into lights and darks. The layout I decided on was a fields and furrows pattern highlighting the lights and darks.

Quilt grew and grew and turned out like this lovely. My trusty quilt holder helped me capture some pictures of the finished top.

I struggled with the backing and I honestly bought about 3 different backings. I ended up finding a batik backing that was way more expensive that I would normally spend (12 bucks a yard!!!!!!) I caved cause it was on a little discount but it still was more than $10 bucks a yard and it looked AWESOME with the quilt. And I figured since the front was scraps and technically I didn't buy any fabric for this quilt that I could splurge on the backing.

I kept it very simple in the quilting. Just straight lines from one side to another at random angles. It quilted up very quickly and I finished it up with a green stripey binding straight cut. Here are a couple more pictures of the beauty.

Pay no attention to the man behind the quilt. Woo Hooo look at those seeeeexy legs. He was working night shift and was not happy about the quilt holding request. PS this is why I married a tall man, get over it! I am linking up my quilt here! Still working on a name.....rainbow sherbet quilt, water colors quilts? I'm open to suggestions.....

Monochromatic log cabin blocks

8.5" Squares

6 squares by 6 squares

finished up at 48" x 48"

Friday, November 2, 2012

Follower Friday - Knotted Thread

Look! Look! I'm the featured Follower this Friday. Try saying that 5 times fast! Jump on over to Jennifer's Blog to learn more about lil ole me, Jennifer's awesome blog and her great new fabric shop. Click here! If you follow Jennifer's Blog (and you should) and follow mine too! And would like to be feautured, see below.

email Jennifer at

knot.threads@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

WIP and a winner

I have been sewing and sewing and sewing on my scrappy stash quilt for the Ellison Lane scrappy stash quilt along. Here is the button in case you haven't been over there yet.

Here is what mine looks like as of tonight.......

And a follow up on my I WANT CANDY fabric swap. The winner of the giveaway is Tanyia. She is also one of the people I am sending fabric to for the swap. So I will be showering her with squares.

TanyiaOctober 8, 2012 9:06 AM

I sent you an email and here is my blog post :)

http://domesticdeficitdisorder.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-want-candy.html

Linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

Have a great night!!!

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Om nom nom.....I still want candy and a finish..

If you have never played the app game "Cut the Rope" I would suggest never downloading it. If you want to loose large chunks of your life then download it right now. The basis of the game is this adorable little monster (I think) called Om Nom.

http://blogginmommadrama.blogspot.com/2011/11/holiday-gift-guide-om-nom-from-cut-rope.html

When you feed him candy he looks like the plush on the left, when you fail he looks like the plush on the right. In any event he is very cute. And it brings me to my next point, the I WANT CANDY fabric swap. The sign ups for the fabric swap ends 10/21 at midnight. To date we have about 20 participants and if you haven't signed up yet you have less than 24 hours and counting.

Candy Candy Candy

So here is what I have been up to this last week. I have been cutting 2.5" squares like its my job. To date I have 500 different squares. I received some squares from a 2.5" fabric swap over at Gnome Angel. That fabric swap inspired me to host one of my own. With the squares I have plus the ones from the upcoming swap I should have about 1000 different fabric squares. Now I just need to decide what I want to sew with all these beauties.

I have been cutting and packaging candy bags for my swap participants.

I have also been cutting the prize pack of 200 2.5" fabric squares for the give away. See more here

I have been working on my scrappy stash blocks for the Ellison Lane Scrappy Stash QAL. I have 5 finished and 9 blue blocks in the almost finished stage.

And last but certainly not least my friend Megan had a beautiful baby girl a few weeks back named Marin.

Even though this little lady stayed in her momma for over 42 weeks I still couldn't get it together to finished the quilt before she was born. Megan didn't find out the gender of the baby before she was born. So I went with gender neutral brights. The baby's grandmother used the same line of fabric 10 little things by moda. I am not bitter at all. Here is the finished quilt top. I hope to have it quilted before the baby starts college.

Night one and all!

Monday, October 15, 2012

Blogger Block of the Month - October

Today is the second installment of Blogger Block of The Month. Presenting today's block is Jenny of Sew Kind Of Wonderful. She has made a great tutorial on a churn-dash block. Go over and check out her blog to see her block of the month and all her other creations. She also has created an quick curve ruler that is on my list of must buys.
While I was over there looking at her website I decided to give away one of her quick curve rulers as the give away this month. Mostly because I am going to break down and buy one for me too! To be entered for the ruler become a follower and leave a comment. Give away will be open until 10/25/12!

Here is a list of all the participants

Date	Name	Blog
Sept 15^th 2012	Carin & Carol	Margarets Hope Chest
Oct 15^th 2012	Jenny	Sew Kind Of Wonderful
Nov 15^th 2012	Jennifer M	Ellison Lane Quilts
Dec 15^th 2012	Natalie	Craftin Mechanic
Jan 15^th 2013	Stefanie	Little Lady Patchwork
Feb 1^st 2013	Jennifer I	Knotted Thread
Feb 15^th 2013	Sandra	Sharp Quilts
Mar 15^th 2013	Nicole K	Patchwork Duck Designs
April 1^st 2013	Bree	Distant Pickles
Apr 15^th 2013	Tracey	Itching 2 B Stitching
May 15^th 2013	Felicity	Felicity Quilts
June 15^th 2013	Erin	Billy Button Design
July 15^th 2013	Nicole N	Mama Love Quilts
Aug 15^th 2013	Dhia	Peach Patch Quilts

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Swaps and give aways oh my!!!!

Hey lovely people!!! Here are some great giveaways and of course my I WANT CANDY swap and give away. Have a growing list of swapper, just waiting on you to join. Enjoy the giveaways and sign up for the swap. Thanks Dhia

Huge 5 plus yard fabric give away!!!!

Scraps!!!

Traveling Stash Boxes

I Want Candy Swap And Giveaway

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