Katy/Amy Team square

Katy is still living out of bags and suitcases, so I offered to do her square this month as well. She picked out the fabrics and rough cut them, and I sewed them together. She has a nice mixture of Anna Marie Horner prints for you Doris! I hope you like them. xx

Chris' blocks for Doris

I enjoyed creating these for you Doris and hope they're to your liking. Always fun to add to my stash and now I have some text fabrics. I agree with "Badskirt" that cutting on the bias gives the strongest impact for the cross but seemed to find it tricky to avoid stretching some of my lighter fabrics. It's going to be great to see your quilt come together Doris.

Linsay's blocks for Doris

I spent a very happy couple of hours yesterday cutting and piecing these blocks.  Once I started I couldn't stop.  I didn't have any fabrics with text but I did have some with a music score so I used that.  I just bought a really nice red-on-white fabric with seaside buildings, little beach huts and lighthouses which I have included too.  The next time I am in the patchwork shop I am going to be searching for text prints.  I love this kind of quilt with a strong structure and a wild mixture of different fabrics - it's going to be lovely.
Linsay.

Linsay's block by Chris

After a fabulous trip to Europe here I am back home and reunited with my sewing machine! I was sorry to miss you in Lausanne, Linsay. I've enjoyed sewing again and creating this block for you. Many thanks for your patience.

The cheeky little girl in the middle is by Aunty Cookie, a Melbourne based fabric designer.

Catching up - Micaela's May tree for Shauna

I just completed Shauna's tree last night - luckily she is very forgiving with timing :)

Here it is: I also couldn't resist adding some tiny owls!

I was inspired by Shauna's love of circles and also the fall colours at my parents' cottage - this is an oak just behind the cottage.

We also found out some sad tree-related news when we arrived here last week. The big white pine that we see as we look out towards the lake came down in a storm a few weeks ago. We will miss it.

Here it is in its glory:

I'm also looking forward to working on Doris' blocks - I promise I won't be late on those ones :)

Amy's (Canada) square

Hi Ladies,
So, here are my squares for Doris. I have to admit, I found this really really challenging! The fabric selection was so hard for me. I think I did better with the one on the left. I was trying to choose Doris's favorite designers, avoid brown (hard for me!) and I think I lost sight of the need for contrast. Anyway, I hope these are okay, Doris!

Japanese Inspired July

Hi ladies!  Hard to believe JULY is here already -- not only is July my birthday month, and the month of my awesome annual quilt retreat in St, Cloud, MN, but it's also my month to receive blocks!

I'm asking for TWO 8" blocks (unfinished measurement), and I'm referring you to a great tutorial by Badskirt Amy for the + and x block, inspired by this quilt by Japanese quilter, Setsuko Inagawa.  

To make the block, you will need:

**image from Amy's tutorial

It will be a fun, scrappy quilt.  If you visit the flickr group you'll see what I mean.

PLEASE use a light grey/white/off-white small scale print for the background (see the two photos at the end of my post--it is okay if it has a very small amount of color) or like these blocks have, or this block or the backgrounds used in this mini quilt.  

For the x and the +, sky's the limit, as long as you avoid the dislikes below:

• I prefer BRIGHTS over pastels
• BLACK and GREY over browns
• MODERN fabrics over Civil War or Thimbleberries style prints
• Love Heather Ross, Amy Butler, Anna Maria Horner, Tula Pink
• HATE the color Peach. blech.
• LOVE text-y prints

Below are some of my favorites from Flickr...  if you have any doubts about anything just shoot me an email!

I'll also be sending this to you via email, along with my updated mailing address, THANKS SO MUCH!

Doris

I really like the fussy cut text, novelty prints, and the light grey/white backgrounds

love all of these fabrics!

detail of the quilt below,

**I am asking for the backgrounds to be light grey/white/off white prints like this quilt has:

Love the contrast of the brights and darks against the light grey/off white background...