Upcoming Blog Hops

I am participating in two upcoming blog hops. 

Black & White in January 

and 

Dust of a Quilt Book in February 

I am busy working on the projects.

Black & White (hosted by Carla of Creatin' in the Sticks) starts on January 21. I have a woven basket filled with black and white printed fabrics I have collected over many years. 

When I saw Carla's post asking for participants, I knew this was the time to dig into that basket! I wanted to start using my AccuQuilt dies more and thought this was a good place to start. I choose the Go! Triangle die #55002  for this project. It is designed for 6" quarter squares, but I chose to sew two triangles into 4" half triangle squares. 

Cutting the triangles with the GO! Fabric Cutter was so quick! I had 160 triangles cut in no time. But I still have lots of black and white fabric in the basket!

This is where I will leave you until I reveal my project on the Black & White Blog Hop. I've added some more interest to the quilt. (We're waiting on the final schedule before posting; but my day is tentatively set for January 23.) 

I have a left-over project I made with the black and white scraps. MUG RUGS, of course! 

The mug rug on the left is finished. The other two need the binding and I hand sew it to the back while "watching TV" in the evenings. 

The Dust Off a Quilt Book blog hop is hosted by Bea of Beaquilter. The idea is to make a project from an old quilting book or magazine that we have never made a project from, or one we haven't gotten back to in years! I chose one off my books that has a publication year of 1977-one year after I started quilting! Yep, it's been a long love of mine!

This book was on the freebie table at the quilt guild meeting quite a few years back, I liked the nostalgia of the patterns. I won't tell you what my project is just yet, but I am using some of the Island Batiks I have left from when I was an Island Batik Ambassador. That will be one twist in the pattern. My scheduled post day is February 20. 

Thanks for visiting today and I hope to have you visit during the blog hops.

Garden Lantern Quilt Pattern Released

I am happy to announce that my newest pattern, 

Garden Lantern Table Runner, 

published by Cut Loose Press has been released!

Ask at your local quilt shop if it's in stock.

After designing the pattern and sewing one scrappy runner,

I made two more runners to test the pattern step-by-step.

This is the one I chose for the pattern front.

The other runner I gave to a very dear friend in thanks for her kindness 

while I recouperated from foot surgery; and I forgot to take a photo!

It was quite a good feeling seeing the Facebook post from Cut Loose Press

announcing the release of the pattern.

I want to make a few more runners using seasonal fabrics. 

The pattern is easy to sew up and the pieces are easy to cut. 

The Creative Grids Half-Square 4-in-1 Triangle Quilt Ruler

is nice because it helps make those HSTs using any method you like.

(I am not compensated.)

What fabrics would you use? Let me know!

If you make the runner, please send a photo. I would love to see it!