Art and Stitch - Design Day 1

So today's design started out as a very simple doodle

Doodle 1

Did some reshaping, duplication and connecting  = Doodle 2

Then used the Magic Square to come up with Design 1

I went back to doodle #2 and duplicated it

Hit the Magic Square again and came up with design # 2.

Just shows you how a simple doodle can become a cool quilt block design and with some quick moves in Art and Stitch you can come up with a secondary designs - the options are endless from the starting point of one simple doodle!

Art and Stitch designs

I spent two days in Salt Lake City recently where I attended a workshop for the Art and Stitch a digitizing software for longarm quilt  and embroidery designs. Loes and Theo were wonderful teachers and the Handi Quilter folks were great hosts.

Theo on his blog is drawing 50 quilt patterns in 5 months with Art and Stitch and so far he has designed some great designs. Check out his frog, his King Tut, his Jungle Fun also got some great block designs.


Theo's blog posts have inspire me to also post some designs that I have created and as tomorrow is September 1, my goal is to post at least one design each day for a month. This will challenge me to keep practicing with this new wonderful software and also provide me with some unique designs I can use on my quilts.

This should be fun!

More Star Crazy blocks

Three more blocks done today.





Four more to complete this months.

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Star Crazy Month 1 First Block

So of course I had to start experimenting with making the hst with the foundation paper and loved how they turned out.

I started with 2 61/2 inch fabric and the foundation paper, lined them up and sewed along the dashed line:



Then cut along the solid lines:


And then remove the paper and a little iron and here are some 2 1/2 inch hst:



Made more orange and pink hst:





And then assembled them into the first block which is 8 1/2 inched square:




Overall a very productive and enjoyable few hours.

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Star Crazy

So it seems like all I do lately is start projects and here is another one that I am about to start. Eddies had a July 4th sale this weekend and as I had two gift cards I decided to do some shopping. I got a rainbow of 1/2 yards and had great fun picking them out.






Got some nice shades of blue,purple, yellow, orange, pink, green and red and with a nice white and white as the background I am off and running on my another project.

This is a BOM from The Quilt Show and the HST are done with foundation paper which will be a first for me.

Oh and here is what it will eventually look like:

Now I have to decide if tonight I actually start this or continue on with Labyrinth or the Wonky log cabin. 



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And I am a winner again

Oh I am getting lucky lately as I just one another giveaway from a blog buddy. I won this kit

 This was from Dee on her wonderful blog Bitten by the quilting bug.

Thanks Dee for having this giveaway, I have a friend who loves Turtles and this will be eventually made for her.

I wonder if I should do the Lottery tonight as winnings usually come in threes!

More progress

So I finished the rest of the hst and laid out as much as I could on the living room floor and here is the result:




I really like how it has turned out. Today I will start putting the rows together.



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Labyrinth in progress

I have been making a few half square triangles for this quilt since I cut it out last weekend. Laid them out as I took a lunch break from work today and really like how it is turning out. 24 more hst to make and will be able to lay it all out. Will be back with a progress report soon.

More progress on my Wonky Log Cabin

Have finished 4  more blocks with 2 nearly finished and also made a decision to make the blocks bigger - they are all now 15 inches square.

Enjoy!

Oh I am a winner

Got a wonderful email the other day to let me know that I was the winner in the Go! Bloom Giveaway that Sarah Vedeler hosted on her blog.

  

I won everything in the above photograph which includes the following:

• The GO! Bloom CA
• An AccuQuilt GO! Baby
• The three dies used for the quilt: GO! Daisy, GO! Tulip and GO! Fun Flower
• GO! Bloom Hand Dyed Fabric Collection by Ricky Tims
• AURIfil Silk Hearts Thread Collection

I am so excited as I love Sarah's work. I actually own her GO! Be Dazzled CD and so I decided to try out one of the designs today.  Here is the end result:

I really enjoyed the process of applique of my embroidery  machine and the designs are just wonderful. It was my first time also working on a set of designs that needed the fabric on the hoop to be turned when stitching out, I always was nervous of trying that but it worked  great as Sarah's instructions are wonderfully written and really clear.

Looking forward to get my package from AccuQuilt and from Sarah in the near future.