McCall's Design Star Contest

Hi all.  
I have been working on a quilt for the McCalls Design Star contest. I had to enter as a professional because of my quilt patterns and having sold the Seasonal Mat series to McCall's Quick Quilts. Anyway, here is my entry, number 31 in the professional division.

I think it turned out pretty good.  When I was in college, one day when it started to rain, the many colored umbrellas started popping open like flowers.  That is where I got the idea.  The pattern curved piecing, but could be done as applique.  I have never had many problems with curves.  After mastering the set-in sleeve, for clothing, this seems kind of easy.  

I hope you like it and vote for my entry, there is a link on the right hand side of the blog that will take you there, 

Owl Party quilt

This is the newest pattern I am working on. I have the pattern almost ready for testing. What do you think?

I love scrapy quilts. It was fun finding three related pieces for each owl.

I have just a little of the pansy print left. It is so happy looking.

The body fabric is acually a scale print I bought to make dragons from, but it looks great here.

I love the paisley print for the belly, and the wings are from a scrap of ocean print fabric I had.

If anyone is interested in testing this pattern or the elephant pattern, email me.

I use the freezer paper applique method I show in a previous post for the Valentine's Day quilt.

Trunks Up! New Design

I have just finished the first version of a new design. I should have the pattern ready for testers this week.

I call it Trunks Up! Tradition says that elephants with their trunk up are good luck. I hope so. I loved fussy cutting the paisleys for the elephants. Thier ears are free to move, only attached on one edge. The tails move, too.

I decided to change the name to Lucky Elephants.

I hope you like it.

I used paisley prints for the elephant decorations. When the fabric pattern allowed, I fussy cut the blankets for the elephants backs.

Annie's Dance

I am working on a new pattern I call Annie's Dance. Each block has a central square that is paper pieced in 4 sections, and 4 triangles that are also paper pieced. It is a little tricky with Y seams, but not too hard. I have the first version here:

This is a quilt with 9 12-inch blocks and 5 inch borders.

I am going to do another one with 16-inch blocks to see how that looks.

Winter Geese Pattern

I have a new pattern available at Quiltwoman.com. Winter geese.
This is the EQ6 picture.

Here is the quilt I made. It would be beautiful in golds and oranges for fall, or in Christmas prints.