Karen's 🌾Meadowland 🌾

My friend, Karen, is a new quilter. When she asked me what quilt pattern to use for a queen size quilt for her daughter in North Dakota, I had one answer: Meadowland!!!

Karen used 1/2 yard cuts. Thirty-six blocks call for 18 half yard cuts, plus background:

👜 The Essential Tote 👜 Number 4 ㆕

Wendy of Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life, and I had a sewing day together and we each made The Essential Tote! I'm making the blue & white handbag for my Mom for Christmas. Wendy is making the sunny yellow version as a tote. She is going to add leather handles. Here's where we were at by mid-afternoon:

I finished later that evening--my finished handbag, surrounded by a few of my Dad's woodcarvings:

🔷 Jewel 🔷 Box 🔷

Missy made this beautiful Jewel Box quilt for her dear friend!!!

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🔀 Twist & Turn 4-Patch ❐

My latest Japanese quilt finish!!!


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🌾Meadowland 🌾Number 2--Rainbow Colors!

"This is the pattern that no one makes just once." ~Meghan of Then Came June, about her Meadowland quilt pattern. I couldn't make just one! Here's my second Meadowland quilt:

Meadowland is the hottest quilt pattern in the quilt world right now. Meghan, attributes it's success to the following points: 

Tula 🎀 Pink ㆔ Triple 🐄 Barnstar🌟Quilt

I heart Tula Pink fabrics! Here's my latest personal finish made from my Tula stash:

Bonnie's 🌺 Wallflower 🌺

If you're thinking deja vu, you're right! My sister, Quilter Bonnie, suggested a sew along using this new pattern and we ended up using the same fabrics, as well! Mine is here. 

  

We considered different quilting than mine. But the scale and design of the figure 8's are so right for this pattern, that I couldn't imagine a different design! So we're calling hers WISHBONES:

Missy's Single 🍀 Irish 🍀 Chain

Missy made this beautiful single Irish chain quilt from Edyta Sitar fabrics!

Such a quilt calls for feather quilting:

🌟 Seeing Stars Sew-Along 🌟

This is a surprise, so don't tell! I made this quilt from reproduction fabrics for my Mom's 91st birthday, coming up on December 2nd. Mom loves everything blue & white and antique, so when Mandi Persell announced a sew-along on Instagram, I thought it was the perfect timing to make a new quilt for my Mom.
  
Mandi set out our schedule and has had weekly prizes:

National Sew a 🍥Jelly Roll🍥 Day 2019

This is the third year in a row that my sister, Quilter Bonnie, and I sewed together on National Sew a Jelly Roll Day. This quilt holiday happens yearly on the third Saturday in September, with it falling on September 21st this year.

The point of the celebration is to take out one of those jelly rolls we've been saving, because they are just too cute to use, untie the ribbon and sew something.

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