A Scrappy Challenge

This is a scrap challenge for the yahoo quilting group Quilting For Dummies. In the group I am the issuer of this challenge. I had started another quilt complete with pictures but in the life of a mother your attention gets turned and things get put on the back burner. Then the children take those things off said back burner and pictures get erased. Upon finding that you are upset about it they look at and say:"Were those really important????". To which you respond "Is your allowance really important??????????".

Any-hoo, here is the second challenge quilt I started. In loo of digging more cotton scraps out of the storage shed I decided to use some very special fat quarters that I have been saving. About a year and a half ago I traded a box of vintage lace to Diane Knott for these and have been waiting for that very special project.


The fabric being used is: Kitchen Memories by Diane Knott for Clothworks.

I pull out a piece of paper. I usually use Printing paper because that is the only unlined paper in my house. I know that some people like to use graph paper. Use what ever you are comfortable with.



Next on the list is to draw out the design. Since this challenge is a four patch challenge I just did a simple design. You do not have to use the pattern that I am using. Use what you want to do. There are all types of four patch patterns out there.

As you can tell from the picture my lines are not straight. When I am in the planning stage I free hand all my drawings. Its not a big deal as you will use the ruler to measure your patches to cut.


My four patch blocks are going to have 1 inch x 1 inch patches. So I cut my templates. I use cardboard for my templates. I know that there are lots of short cuts but this is the way my grandmother taught me and I have been doing it this way for a long time. I like the short cuts but I never remember to use them. I just fall back on old habits. That is just what is easiest for me. Do what you feel comfortable with.


I cut out my square patches.


Now I am ready to start piecing.

The piecing part is for another post so stay tuned!

TTFN

Printer Fabric

( The above picture is a 5 generation picture. That is me as a baby, my mother, my grandmother, My great-grandmother(my grand mothers mother), and my great-great-grandfather(my great-grandmothers father).)

I have a fascination with printing on fabric. I have yet to do it with just cotton quilts. I have been doing it with my CQ for quite some time now. My DH for mothers day one year bought me a great HP printer/scanner/copier in order to do this with.

I have been wanting to print up pictures of my family and do some GREAT CQ things with them. What about the cotton memory quilt??? I have been thinking about that here up late. With my grandmother dieing(my fathers mother) I had started thinking about that. You know to wrap up in a beautiful cotton quilt with all your loved ones on it. It would almost be like being hugged by them even though they are not around any more! I have not worked in cotton for years. Well....not until recently when I mad the top for my daughters teacher's baby. (We will finish the quilt this weekend then show it off!)

May be it is time to do so! I am starting to see the end of my first CQ quilt called "Seanes". It has been a long process. It was allot longer than any of my cotton quilts. Of those I have many. DH is curled up in one now......................

See y'all in the next post!

TTFN

Welcome!!

I would like to welcome everyone who is dropping by for my first post! I have been quilting for years now. First I started out with traditional quilting and now I have a passion for Crazy Quilting. You can see more of that on the Quilting Lion.

Here up late though I have been going to a lot of quilt shows and am involved with an on line traditional quilting group. I needed a place for my traditional quilts. Here it is The Lions Cotton Patch! I hope to be giving you more eye candy in the future!

The below picture is of one of my antique quilts! I have it hanging on my living room wall.

TTFN