Quilting Around the Block Week 38: New York

 It's Week 38  and we get to visit New York with Dragonfly's Quilting Design Studio

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how to get your free pattern for this block

Where are we headed next?  

April 25 - Maryland (Flying Parrot Quilts)

May 2 - Delaware (Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio)

Join us over in the Facebook Group! 

quilting Around the Block - US Tour 2020  

It's been fun to see people posting their versions of the different blocks! 

 

If you're new to the US Block Tour, 

here is a quick description:

Every Sunday you will find the link here to visit the current 

weeks designer, so you can get the block!

Each week a new block has been designed for a new State. 

Zip back and forth across the country on a unique virtual 

voyage, complete with complimentary 

6.5″ blocks, state & designer 

trivia and stories,  giveaways and bonus blocks too!

Have you signed up to get your free patterns yet?

If not, visit the home page here!

Or subscribe to my blog to make sure you see reminders

of when the next blocks are available!

And don't forget to enter to win some fun raffle prizes!  

Participating Designers

• Charisma Horton

• Faith and Fabric

• Louanna Mary Quilt Design

• Slice of Pi Quilts

• Prairie Point Junction

• Tuning My Heart Quilts, LLC

• Traditional Primitives

• Inquiring Quilter

• A Stitch in Time

• On Williams Street

• TextileTimeTravels

• Stitch Adventure

• Designs by Sarah J

• Blue Bear Quilts

• Usquepaugh Baking Company

• The Quilting Room with Mel

• Orchid Owl Quilts

• Lizard Creek Quilting

• Seams To Be Sew

• Seams Like a Dream Quilts

• Pretty Piney Quilts

• QuiltFabrication

• One Quilting Circle

• Flying Parrot Quilts

• Stitched in Purple

• The Quilted Diary

• Katie Mae Quilts

• Wendt Quilting

• Calico Patch Designs

• Ladybug's Cabin

• Appliques Quilts and more

• KISSed Quilts

• Carolina Moore

• Charlie's Daughter, wool designs

• Quilt 2 End ALZ, Inc.

• Dragonfly's Quilting Design Studio

• Off The Wall Quilt

• Sarah Ruiz Quilts

• Quilt Doodle Designs

• PhoebeMoon Designs

• Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio LLC

• Tamarinis

Quilting Around the Block: Week 36 New Hampshire

  It's Week 36  and we are off to New Hampshire from One Quilting Circle

Where are we headed next?  

April 18 - New York (Dragonfly’s Quilting Design Studio)

April 25 - Maryland (Flying Parrot Quilts)

May 2 - Delaware (Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio)

Join us over in the Facebook Group! 

quilting Around the Block - US Tour 2020  

It's been fun to see people posting their versions of the different blocks! 

 

If you're new to the US Block Tour, 

here is a quick description:

Every Sunday you will find the link here to visit the current 

weeks designer, so you can get the block!

Each week a new block has been designed for a new State. 

Zip back and forth across the country on a unique virtual 

voyage, complete with complimentary 

6.5″ blocks, state & designer 

trivia and stories,  giveaways and bonus blocks too!

Have you signed up to get your free patterns yet?

If not, visit the home page here!

Or subscribe to my blog to make sure you see reminders

of when the next blocks are available!

And don't forget to enter to win some fun raffle prizes!  

Participating Designers

• Charisma Horton

• Faith and Fabric

• Louanna Mary Quilt Design

• Slice of Pi Quilts

• Prairie Point Junction

• Tuning My Heart Quilts, LLC

• Traditional Primitives

• Inquiring Quilter

• A Stitch in Time

• On Williams Street

• TextileTimeTravels

• Stitch Adventure

• Designs by Sarah J

• Blue Bear Quilts

• Usquepaugh Baking Company

• The Quilting Room with Mel

• Orchid Owl Quilts

• Lizard Creek Quilting

• Seams To Be Sew

• Seams Like a Dream Quilts

• Pretty Piney Quilts

• QuiltFabrication

• One Quilting Circle

• Flying Parrot Quilts

• Stitched in Purple

• The Quilted Diary

• Katie Mae Quilts

• Wendt Quilting

• Calico Patch Designs

• Ladybug's Cabin

• Appliques Quilts and more

• KISSed Quilts

• Carolina Moore

• Charlie's Daughter, wool designs

• Quilt 2 End ALZ, Inc.

• Dragonfly's Quilting Design Studio

• Off The Wall Quilt

• Sarah Ruiz Quilts

• Quilt Doodle Designs

• PhoebeMoon Designs

• Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio LLC

• Tamarinis

Quilting Around the Block: Week 35 New Mexico

 https://www.windmillquilts.net/free-patterns/new-mexico-us-block-tour

   It's Week 35  and we get to travel to New Mexico with Liz of Windmill Quilts. 

Next week we travel to New Hampshire from One Quilting Circle

Join us over in the Facebook Group! 

quilting Around the Block - US Tour 2020  

It's been fun to see people posting their versions of the different blocks! 

 

If you're new to the US Block Tour, 

here is a quick description:

Every Sunday you will find the link here to visit the current 

weeks designer, so you can get the block!

Each week a new block has been designed for a new State. 

Zip back and forth across the country on a unique virtual 

voyage, complete with complimentary 

6.5″ blocks, state & designer 

trivia and stories,  giveaways and bonus blocks too!

Have you signed up to get your free patterns yet?

If not, visit the home page here!

Or subscribe to my blog to make sure you see reminders

of when the next blocks are available!

And don't forget to enter to win some fun raffle prizes!  

Participating Designers

• Charisma Horton

• Faith and Fabric

• Louanna Mary Quilt Design

• Slice of Pi Quilts

• Prairie Point Junction

• Tuning My Heart Quilts, LLC

• Traditional Primitives

• Inquiring Quilter

• A Stitch in Time

• On Williams Street

• TextileTimeTravels

• Stitch Adventure

• Designs by Sarah J

• Blue Bear Quilts

• Usquepaugh Baking Company

• The Quilting Room with Mel

• Orchid Owl Quilts

• Lizard Creek Quilting

• Seams To Be Sew

• Seams Like a Dream Quilts

• Pretty Piney Quilts

• QuiltFabrication

• One Quilting Circle

• Flying Parrot Quilts

• Stitched in Purple

• The Quilted Diary

• Katie Mae Quilts

• Wendt Quilting

• Calico Patch Designs

• Ladybug's Cabin

• Appliques Quilts and more

• KISSed Quilts

• Carolina Moore

• Charlie's Daughter, wool designs

• Quilt 2 End ALZ, Inc.

• Dragonfly's Quilting Design Studio

• Off The Wall Quilt

• Sarah Ruiz Quilts

• Quilt Doodle Designs

• PhoebeMoon Designs

• Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio LLC

• Tamarinis

Saturday Share: Lily

 

While not a traditional Easter lily, I decided to share a flower that I did some thread painting on a while ago. This started as a gorgeous panel designed by Stephanie Brandenburg who started Frond Fabrics. With the desire to add art into fabric her designs are a wonder canvas to play on and with. 

After doing some extensive thread work on the flower I appliqued it on to a sun printed batik. 

As I observe Easter, and many of my friends observe Passover 

I hope that we all feel the new hope of spring

and celebrate love and being loved. 

Quilting a Circle of Friends

 My Mom made a quilt pattern called "Circle of Friends" and ask if I could quilt it for her. There was a lot of open space in the quilt and so I knew that it wanted something special. 

The quilt has a pretty modern vibe to it, but will still a call toward the traditional, so which direction to go?

I asked my Mom if she didn't mind if I went a little 'artsy' on this one and thankfully she agreed!

I opted to do a blend of traditional around the outer edges with a little thread sketching in the middle. 

I saw images of leaves in each of the color blocks which made me think of a tree at the center of it all. 

 

It was hard to get good photos of of the tree, but I changed colors as I sketched/quilted it to correspond with the changing colors of the pieced blocks around the circle. The effect is subtle, but I love how it draws the color into the center sketch. 

And thankfully Mom loved it!