Beflowered

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Amanda Murphy — Leave a comment

I know you aren’t supposed to have favorites, but I do. This is Beflowered.

She is 74″ x 96″ and her Kona rainbow palette makes me happy. Her big, varied, blossoms make me happy. She uses big 8″ triangles (gotta keep it simple somehow) cut using a 60 degree Creative Grids ruler and I love her. Really really love her.

Of course, I had to have Deborah Norris quilt her and love how it turned out. Deborah scattered special little motifs throughout the quilt and I just keep seeing new things every time I looked at it.

I love the solids but can’t wait to see what else you all dream up!

Oh my – look at the little curlicues around the edges!

and the little leaves!

And the curls with the sunny rays! (None of which I am personally capable of executing…)

Sara, from Sew Sweetness, stayed true to her name and was the brave soul who tested this one for me. Thanks for believing in my design idea, Sara, and to plunging in head-first. Sara will be posting her version today and she used black blossoms so go over and see! Oh my – she sent me the sweetest picture of her kids laying out the blocks and it is adorable! But I’ll let her tell you about that.

I entered this quilt in Blogger’s Quilt Festival. Have you been there? There are so many fantastic quilts displayed – makes your mouth water!

The Beflowered patterns are at the printer but will be back soon. To make her, you need:

Background Fabrics – 1/2 yard of 16 fabrics; select 8 colors and chose a light and medium shade of each
Flowers – 4 yards (Kona® 1387 White)
Flower Centers – 3/8 yard (Kona® 1089 Corn Yellow)
Accent Triangles – 2 yards (Kona® 1173 Ice Frappe)
Binding – 1-1/8 yard (Kona® 1009 Azure )
Backing – 6 yards (Kona® 1009 Azure )
Fusible Web – 10 yards (24” Warm Company® Steam-A-Seam 2)
Tear-Away Stabilizer – 10 yards (Sulky® Tear-Easy Stabilizer)
Appliqué Thread – 30 wt. Sulky® White cotton appliqué thread
Triangle Ruler 8” – 60° Triangle Ruler from Creative Grids®

Happy, happy sewing!
Amanda

Beflowered

Posted on November 2, 2011March 23, 2015 by Amanda Murphy — 27 Comments

I know you aren’t supposed to have favorites, but I do. This is Beflowered.

Of course, I had to have Deborah Norris quilt her and love how it turned out. Deborah scattered special little motifs throughout the quilt and I just keep seeing new things every time I looked at it.

I love the solids but can’t wait to see what else you all dream up!

Oh my – look at the little curlicues around the edges!

and the little leaves!

And the curls with the sunny rays! (None of which I am personally capable of executing…)

I entered this quilt in Blogger’s Quilt Festival. Have you been there? There are so many fantastic quilts displayed – makes your mouth water!

The Beflowered patterns are at the printer but will be back soon. To make her, you need:
Background Fabrics – 1/2 yard of 16 fabrics; select 8 colors and chose a light and medium shade of each
Flowers – 4 yards (Kona® 1387 White)
Flower Centers – 3/8 yard (Kona® 1089 Corn Yellow)
Accent Triangles – 2 yards (Kona® 1173 Ice Frappe)
Binding – 1-1/8 yard (Kona® 1009 Azure )
Backing – 6 yards (Kona® 1009 Azure )
Fusible Web – 10 yards (24” Warm Company® Steam-A-Seam 2)
Tear-Away Stabilizer – 10 yards (Sulky® Tear-Easy Stabilizer)
Appliqué Thread – 30 wt. Sulky® White cotton appliqué thread
Triangle Ruler 8” – 60° Triangle Ruler from Creative Grids®
Happy, happy sewing!
Amanda

Bejeweled…

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Amanda Murphy — Leave a comment

Have you ever searched for that perfect project for car trips? Or carpools lines or waits at doctors’ offices? And wouldn’t be great if it was also a project that made great use of scraps?

This is Bejeweled and, at 72″ x 102″, she is all those things. (Fabrics are from Modern Whimsy, by Laurie Wishburn for Robert Kaufman.) I really designed her to be a great-looking bed quilt, but you can easily change her size by adding more columns.

As you can see, she features lots and lots and lots of yo-yos. I highly recommend a Clover Yo-yo Maker to make these yo-yos, but you more coordinated souls out there can also just cut out circles of fabric and make them traditionally. The yo-yos can be made from yardage, charm packs, or scraps. And you attach them to the columns before the quilt is assembled, so even that step is easy to pack up and take on the go. (Here is my secret, this step takes less than 4 minutes per yo-yo and is faster than the actual yo-yo making that my-dear-daughter-who-I-love-and -appreciate-very-much accomplished.)

The pieced columns of this quilt are made from either a 10″ square (layer cake) or 2-1/2″ roll-up, so it is a really versatile pattern. Ohhhh – if you had collections of coordinating scraps from your favorite designer’s collections this would be great.

My mouth waters when I look at Deborah Norris’ quilting. I could not accomplish it, but don’t need to because I know someone who can.

Since you are quilters I will show you the back…

Even better, directions are included for a lap-sized quilt using pieced strips cut from a charm pack. Here is one made from a Kona Brights charm pack with yo-yos and borders in Kona Ash.

Bejeweled will start shipping to shops and distributors late next week, but in the meantime here is what you need for the bed-sized version of this quilt:

Striped Columns – 29 (10”) squares or 29 (2-1/2” x WOF) strips
Background – 4 yards (Kona® 1387 White)
Yo-yos – 3 yards total from an assortment of fabrics (Kona® 1188 Kiwi, 1089 Corn Yellow, 1009 Azure)
Border – 1-1/4 yard
Binding – 3/4 yard for straight grain binding or 1-1/8 yard for bias binding
Backing – 6-1/2 yards
Clover Quick Large Yo-yo Maker (#8701) optional

And for the lap-sized version you’ll need: