Home Is Where the Heart Is! BOM Block #2 Novemeber

November's Block 2 - Home Is Where the Heart Is! by Barbara Douglas (Stone Cottage Designs ) is now available at The Quilt Pattern Magazine.
You can still get a 4 month Free Subscription thru Nov 30.


This will get you started on the blocks because if you sign up by November 30 You will also get Block 1 as a bonus because October's Magazine will be posted thru November; this is on top of Nov, Dec, Jan, & Feb issues of your Four Free Months Subscription.
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November Houses Block #2


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There is a real ‘Housing Boom’ going on over at The Quilt Pattern Magazine with my pattern: Home Is Where the Heart Is! Block of the Month. 

 

Subscribe to The Quilt Pattern Magazine to start YOUR neighborhood, today.  

Each month a new “set of house plans” is revealed. You will build two houses each month using that month’s plan.  Each new set of plans provide exclusive windows and landscaping but you can make your neighborhood uniquely your own by mixing up the landscaping as months go by or adding your own unique touches. 

 

Once you subscribe to The Quilt Pattern Magazine, and begin downloading “Home Is Where the Heart Is!BOM, pattern and templates, come on over to Pattern Pastiche to the Home Is Where the Heart Is! group. This is our ‘neighborhood community center’, were you can ask questions, get help, and share photos of your finished blocks, or even your ‘in progress’ blocks!

 

Psst…. You can start your neighborhood with a Free 4 month subscription to The Quilt Pattern Magazine, but you need to act quickly because the offer is only good through November 30, 2013.

No strings attached!

This is what you need to know to obtain your 4-month subscription:
  • Your group code: BD13
  • Your group name: QUILTER
  • Please Note: This offer is for new TQPM subscribers only.
With this information ready, go to our website at http://www.quiltpatternmagazine.com and click the
red pincushion.

 Many thanks to Debbie Fick -pattern tester  for TQPM, for letting me share the  photo of her quilt top!  (Photo above)

Stay tuned for November's Block!!!!

 

 

                       Block # 1 October 2013
                      Home Is Where the Heart Is!

Choices

Peacock Affinity

I have an affinity for Peacocks.  I love the live birds, though their crowing can be a bit disconcerting if you have never heard one before.  
I also love to look at artist renderings of Peacocks, from cute cartoon images, abstract images, art deco jewelry and I especially love Peacocks rendered in stained glass.
I have been working on a series of Peacocks. The Peacock design is the same, but the size and layouts have changed.

Peacock, An Art Deco Glory, was the first in the series. It is a 28" x 34" applique wall hanging.

 

Peacock Glory is a Queen Size quilt 80"x 98" made for my mother-in-law.  It will soon be a pattern.

 

Close up of the center medallion  

 

 

This little gem is embroidered using Presencia metallic threads. 

Here Metallic Peacock is in the Presencia America's brochure.

Saying Goodbye Is So Hard to Do!

Not much Quilting Work done this weekend, just a little editing work for  The Quilt Pattern Magazine (TQPM)  

From Saturday to Tuesday our walls were bursting with family. Children and grandchildren.  A party to say goodbye, and then a couple of days with our daughter while they were 'homeless' in Michigan, waiting for our grandson to turn 16, and able to get his long-awaited driver's license, then head west to Colorado to Dad and their new home.  (Boy everyone was missing Dad!)

To make this quilting related, while packing suitcases to put into the truck my daughter and I had a conversation about how they really don't have enough quilts. Everyone in the family tries to hog the wedding quilt, while trying to watch TV.  (And it really should be on the guest bed.)  It didn't matter that  my  Maisy Daisy quilt was borrowed to outfit our granddaughter's bed for the house showings, and after the house sold:  "Please, Nana, can I keep it?"  Well, yes of course!  Or that Daddy had his college graduation quilt, or brother and sister each have a few other kid quilts.
There was still this tremendous NEED for a couple more large 'couch potato' quilts.

 So I dug through the quilt boxes and found several quilts no longer used for trunk shows or classes, which gave my daughter a variety to choose from.   But then she batted her eyes at me and smiled ever so sweetly, asking for the one from MY guest bed! Which she promptly pulled off the bed and folded up onto her suitcase.  But as she opened up quilt after quilt she changed her mind several times, finally settling on two; one that will coordinate nicely with the color scheme of her new home and a second quilt in colors that she reallllly loves!   So now the family is outfitted to be cozy in their new home. And I feel comforted that they were sent off with love and comfort from our home.

 

 Goodbye my loves until we see you this summer!

 

It takes a Goodbye Party, to get a picture of our three children together with us!

 

 

Pine Needlers Guild- Traverse City Michigan

So after Tuesday night's trunk show in Midland, I packed my bags and headed north to beautiful Traverse City, Michigan and the Pine Needlers Quilt Guild, for a Wednesday night trunk show and then on Thursday a workshop from my book Singular Sensations .
Pine Needlers was another warm friendly and welcoming guild.

I  want to thank my Janome 6500/6600 buddy, 'MayAuntie', for encouraging Pine Needlers to invite me to show my work and teach.

Remember NEVER to leave home without your hair dryer or you get to teach class with 'au natural' hair.  Not that anyone cared except for me.

 

Everyone seemed to have  a great deal of fun, if the laughter was any indication. I probably had the most fun of all.  This was a truly inspiring week for me!

Thank you Pine Needlers!!!!

 

 On the left are Mother/Daughter owners of the Quilt-n-Bee Quilt Shop  in Traverse City.
A really cute shop. I had to stop in after the workshop, because my car just happened to turn the wrong way going out of the drive. LOL

Such a fun group to be a part of.  Thank you - Thank you!!!!

 

 

 

Quilters Squared Guild-Midland, Michigan

How much fun can one quilter have in one week?   Well let me tell you, she can have a HUGE amount of fun ! It all started when I had the privilege of sharing my quilts and love of quilting with Midland's own 'Quilters Squared' guild.
What a warm and welcoming group.
I am ashamed to say that I did not know much about Quilters Squared, which is the guild in my home town, but I sure did know a great many people. They were all so gracious!  Guess who is now a member of Quilters Squared?  Ah! This Gal -Me!  I am not quite sure how it happened, but they made it so easy for me to join them with their warm welcome and encouraging words.
Here is a sampling of pictures from "our" guild that I took before the trunk show.  Thanks for having me Ladies!!!!!! Both for the trunk show and in the guild!!! 

A demo each month of a handy quilting tip or technique.

 

 Tall volunteers holding up Show and Tell Quilts

Part of the "Dare to Dream" challenge for this year's Quilters Squared - 'Pass the Tiara Quilt Show'  Pass the Tiara
April 26-28 at Heritage Park, Carriage House Hall 3200 Cook Road, Midland, Michigan