Rowing Along

Happy Labor Day!

With the long weekend, I've managed to finish a couple of the rows from 

EQ7: Seasons Row-Along.

If you visit these blogs, be sure to sign up for all the giveaways!

This is the first 4 blocks from the summer row of the week.

(I have all 6 blocks finished)  

Heart flags and Watermelon blocks.
The background fabric is Northcott's Toscana
(LOVE - it really does feel like silk)

If you would like the pattern, just click below and Doris, The Quilting Queen, has the pattern available for free for a limited time.

The Quilting Queen Online

The next row I've completed is the spring row of the week.
A dogwood branch

If you would like the pattern for the dogwood row, just click below and Marlene over at Kissed Quilts has the pattern.  It's free for a limited time.

Marlene at Kissed Quilts

There are more rows this week that I plan on sewing, but  I've only completed 2 rows so far.

I'm going over to add my rows to the Flicker group page

and

 then I can enter the giveaways for Craftsy classes!

This is the complete list for week 1.

September 1

Marlene Oddie at Kissed Quilts – Spring

Lynn Zydon Provencher at Thimblemouse & Spouse – Winter

Dorice Cotten Rice at The Quilting Queen Online - Summer

Janeen van Niekerk at Quilt Art Designs – Fall

Bea Lee at Be A Quilter – Filler Row

Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row

Week 2 starts tomorrow and there will be more giveaways and rows!

Have a happy week!

EQ7: Seasons Row-A-Long Starts September 1st!

September 1st is the beginning of 

and I don't want you to miss a thing.

Visit these blogs this week for the first rows of the Row-A-Long

and

for a chance to win some great prizes.

Bea A Quilter

Marlene at Kissed Quilts

Janeen at Quilt Art

The Quilting Queen Online

Lynn at Thimblemouse and Spouse

Anneke

More information can be found at the Facebook page:

There will be tutorials about all the wonderful things you can do in

EQ7, too.

I have been using my row in another project and will show a little about this:

I'll be posting my row in a few weeks, but until then I will be sewing rows!

EQ7: Seasons Row-A-Long is Coming Very Soon

Next week begins the EQ7: Seasons Row-A-Long

I've been super busy getting ready.

shhh.  this is a little peek.

But I can't show you any of it

until

September 22nd when I will reveal the row I designed.

Can you guess what it is or what season I chose?

Then on October 6th I will reveal a quilt with select rows from the Row-A-Long.

All of the patterns will be free for a limited time

and there will be tutorials and prizes!

Let me say that again, PRIZES!

OVER $2500.00 worth!

If you would like to follow along with previews and information

join the Facebook group by clicking

Here.

Behind the Mouse

the blog over at

 Electric Quilt Company

has the schedule and prizes 

posted.

The following was written by Heidi  and I am sharing her post with you. 

 The Electric Quilt Company

 has been such a great help to all the designers in preparation for this huge event! 

Marian Pena is hosting a Row-A-Long!

20 great quilt designers are creating quilt rows for mixing and matching! I’ve seen some previews of the rows and they are ADORABLE!

But, not only will the designers provide a pattern for you, but they will also be featuring Electric Quilt tutorials. And, there are TONS of great prizes including an EQ7!

Here is the Row-A-Long schedule along with the season that the designers will be featuring.

September 1

Marlene Oddie at Kissed Quilts – Spring

Lynn Zydon Provencher at Thimblemouse & Spouse – Winter

Dorice Cotten Rice at The Quilting Queen Online - Summer

Janeen van Niekerk at Quilt Art Designs – Fall

Bea Lee at Be A Quilter – Filler Row

Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row

September 8

Lorna McMahon at Sew Fresh Quilts – Fall

Carol Steely at Fun Threads – Spring

Amy Heaton at Country Junk’tion – Summer

Marian Pena at Seams To Be Sew – Winter

Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row

September 15

Reeze Hanson at Morning Glory Designs – Summer

Marian Pena at Seams To Be Sew – Winter

Jennifer Ofenstein at Sew Hooked – Spring

Carol Swift at Just Let Me Quilt – Fall

Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row

September 22

Carla Henton at Creatin’ in the Sticks – Summer

Patti Carey at Patti’s Patchwork – Winter

Nancy Myers at Patchwork Breeze – Spring

Marian Pena at Seams To Be Sew – Fall

Linda Franz  at LindaFranz.com – Filler Row

Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row

September 29

Amy Warner at Sew Incredibly Crazy – Summer

Darlene at Quilt Shop Gal – Winter

Marian Pena at Seams To Be Sew – Spring

Loreen Bogdan at Miss Loreen’s Schoolhouse Quilts – Fall

Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row

Heidi Kory at the EQ Blog – A Tutorial On Combining Rows

October 6 – Show and Tell Day

Marian Pena at Seams To Be Sew

Dorice Cotten Rice at The Quilting Queen Online 

Amy Warner at Sew Incredibly Crazy

Carla Henton at Creatin’ in the Sticks

Carol Swift at Just Let Me Quilt

How about some prizes?

Electric Quilt – an EQ7 to one lucky winner!

Northcott Fabrics – each featured blog will give away a bundle of 6-8 yards of fabric

Fat Quarter Shop – 25.00 gift certificate to each blogger to give away

KLIC-N-KUT- Zing Air basic package

Craftsy – 3 winners will recieve a class of their choice

Sulky – 2 6-packs of their newest 30 wt cotton threads

Hobbs Batting – 5 bats

DreamWorthy Quilts – a pattern of the winner’s choice

Cherry Blossoms Patterns – a 25.00 gift certificate

Aurifil – several designer packs of cotton thread

Connecting Threads – 2 $25.00 gift certificates

Nancy’s Notions – 2 $10.00 gift certificates

Therm O Web – the following  to one lucky recipient: 7 colors of  iCraft® Deco Foil™ Transfer Sheets, 1 can of  iCraft® Deco Foil™ Fusible Spray Adhesive, 1 bottle of  iCraft® Deco Foil™ Liquid Adhesive, 1 pack of  iCraft® Deco Foil™ Hot Melt Adhesive Sheets, 1 pack of  HeatnBond® Ultra 1 yard pack, 1 pack of  HeatnBond® Lite 1 yard pack, and 1 pack of  StitchnSew™ Interfacing 1 yard pack

More great prizes from the Row-A-Long designers!

Lorna McMahon at Sew Fresh Quilts – her Fox and Friends Pattern

Linda Franz  at LindaFranz.com -  5 $20.00 Inklingo gift certificates

Janeen van Niekerk at Quilt Art Designs – an eBook of the winner’s choice

Marlene Oddie at Kissed Quilts – her latest book “You Can Quilt”

Loreen Bogdan at Miss Loreen’s Schoolhouse Quilts – a  quilt kit for her row patterns

Jennifer Ofenstein at Sew Hooked – BOM Paper Piecing Vintage Pattern


Thank you, Heidi for the post of all the designers and prizes.
Thank you Marian for answering my questions and putting this all together.

Sawing Logs - Log Cabin - A Focus Through the Prism Project QUILTING Challenge, July

Well, hello there.  I am still here and ready to start entertaining you again.  

Sorry for the absence.  

My real job (hair styling) has really been keeping me busy.  (Which is super fantastic!!)

But, oh how I've missed this creative outlet.

I have been keeping up with

 Kim over at Persimon Dreams

for the

Focus Through the Prism Project Quilting Challenges

and have finished July's challenge:   Log Cabin

"Sawing Logs"

The Challenge:  Log Cabin

• Each final project should read predominantly as one color in the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, or violet. You may not use the same color as you used in a previous challenge.
• A ROYGBIV hand-dyed color bundle of fabric must be purchased from Cherrywood Fabrics.
• You must use ONE fabric from the ROYGBIV challenge bundle in each quilt which should correspond with the color you want your quilt to ‘read’.
• Any other fabrics from your stash may be added.
• You must use the month's block as your inspiration.
• Quilts must finish 20” square.
• Share the story behind your quilt and how the block ‘Log Cabin’ was the inspiration.
• Your quilt must have a name.
• Pictures of your FINISHED 20” square quilts must be LINKED UP  by 10:55pm CST on Friday, July 31st.

I you know me, you have witnessed my play on words many times.  I just love it.  "Sawing Logs" incorporates the traditional pieced log cabin block with appliqued "pieces" of logs falling to the bottom of the quilt once they've been sawed off.  The middle square, "dream," plays right along with the name.

The quilting is a mix of wood grain on the logs and a stippling design with zzz's.  Again I'm playing on the "sawing logs" theme. That's just how I roll...lol

Here is a picture of my May- "Righty Tighty,"  June-"Light Through Friendship," and July- "Sawing Logs" challenge quilts.

"Sawing Logs"

A Focus Through the Prism Project QUILTING Challenge, July

Made by Carla in Dodge City, Kansas

http://www.createinthesticks.blogspot.com/

Size: 20"x20"

Prism color:  Green from the ROYGBIV fabric bundle by Cherrywood Fabrics

Piecing and  applique

Quilting- stippling and wood grain quilting by me on my domestic machine

It's unbelievable but I have over a week before the next challenge is announced.  Maybe I'll go catch up on some swap blocks.  I do have a big quilt in the works, but that is a secret until September.

  Don't you hate secrets...

I do, so here is what I'm working on:

This is going to be such fun.  There are going to be SO many giveaways, not to mention free patterns for the rows. 

(I've seen the rows and they are awesome!!!)

 The list of prizes keeps growing so you won't want to miss this.  Plan to sew (row) along with the designers in September.  

Light Through Friendship - Friendship Star - A Focus Through the Prism Project QUILTING Challenge, June

It's taken me all month to stitch up this little 20" quilt for a challenge from

 Kim over at Persimon Dreams

for a

Focus Through the Prism Project Quilting Challenge

You see, I'm a very slow stitcher...

The Challenge:  Friendship Star

• Each final project should read predominantly as one color in the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, or violet. You may not use the same color as you used in a previous challenge.
• A ROYGBIV hand-dyed color bundle of fabric must be purchased from Cherrywood Fabrics.
• You must use ONE fabric from the ROYGBIV challenge bundle in each quilt which should correspond with the color you want your quilt to ‘read’.
• Any other fabrics from your stash may be added.
• You must use the month's block as your inspiration.
• Quilts must finish 20” square.
• Share the story behind your quilt and how the block ‘Friendship Star’ was the inspiration.
• Your quilt must have a name.
• Pictures of your FINISHED 20” square quilts must be LINKED UP by 11:55pm CST on Tuesday, June 30th
• 

When the challenge was announce it made me think of all the wonderful friendships I have made through quilting and blogging.  That was my inspiration along with the theme I had last month with the monkey wrench.  I wanted to incorporate a tool and shining a flashlight felt right.

I hand embroidered the world map while trying to make it look like the star was shining on it.  

Here is a picture of my May and June challenges.

"Light Up the World with Friendship"

A Focus Through the Prism Project QUILTING Challenge, June

Made by Carla in Dodge City, Kansas

http://www.createinthesticks.blogspot.com/

Size: 20"x20"

Prism color:  Yellow from the ROYGBIV fabric bundle by Cherrywood Fabrics

Piecing and reverse applique

Quilting- stippling by me on my domestic machine

I had to wash this one before I could photograph it.  I am a mess and had a few spots on it before it was all embroidered.  I also have carried it with me everywhere I went this month so it's no wonder it had a little mess on it and yellow doesn't hide anything...lol

I have one day of rest before the next challenge is posted.  

I have NO plans to embroider the next one!!!