Showing posts with label The Fiona Quilt Block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Fiona Quilt Block. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Help! & Tidbits & News & Old & New

Help! I bought these handkerchiefs on eBay a few years ago and have been trying to find out WHO these kids are! Jennie, Mortimer, and Jerry. Ring any bells? I was sure I would find they were movie or radio characters.



A friend found this in her mother's sewing room. She wondered what it was. 
 It is marked "Pat. May 22 1900".
I Goggled it and found one that sold on Etsy. The seller had attached information from the patent. It was a seam ripper! Read an article about the inventor and how it was used at American Scissor Stories. Now I want one.

Sunetra from my weekly quilt group made Woven Rust from The Fiona Quilt Block book. She loves it and wants to make another.
I bought two handkerchiefs from eBay, both mint with tags and minor age stains.



Pine Woods Press is writing a book about Lake Superior light saving stations and found my post The Shipwreck Coast, Girl, and a Lamp. My husband's grandmother spent time at Crisp's Point and Vermillion Lighthouse when a teenager. She helped with the children. She received a post card of Capt. James Scott, the Crisp's Point life saving station keeper, and it will appear in the upcoming book! Meantime they are sending me their first publication Storms and Sand about Big Sable Point shipwrecks.
Capt James Scott, dated Sept. 1911
My Shiba Inus both are getting older. They have heart murmurs and now Suki is showing elevated levels for borderline kidney troubles. Poor dears. Suki is about 14, and Kamikaze about 11. Both spent their early years as breeders in puppy mills before being rescued and adopted by us.
Suki
Kamikaze
March has brought snow....the snow we were supposed to get in January. Sigh. 

Meanwhile I finished a quilt started in 1996. I made the Biblical Block Sampler  by Rosemary Makham before I had the skill set for it. It didn't fit together. Several years ago I took it apart and turned it into two smaller pieces. This part was the central Pine Tree.


Friday, January 8, 2016

The Fiona Quilt Block by Carolyn Perry Goins

Quilters have a saying, "The one who dies with the most fabric wins." Quilters also make the same New Years resolution every January 1: "I will use up my fabric stash." (Only because we need to justify buying MORE fabric over the coming year!"

Carolyn Perry Goins knew that quilters needed patterns to showed off the amazing fabrics they have collected but was simple and quick to make. A pattern that could look funky or sophisticated, modern or traditional. So she invented a new quilt block! Used with various settings, sashings, value contrast, and thoughtful layout, this block will suit everyone's style. And she offers the block in 4", 6' 8", 10" and 12" !

Goins book The Fiona Quilt Block  offers fourteen projects, each with a full color photo of the block and the completed quilt, fabric needs, and illustrated step-by-step instructions. A photo gallery of quilts using the block and resources are included.

I really liked the project Woven Rust! It inspired me to use pink, white and black fabrics I bought two summers ago.

Woven Rust from The Fiona Quilt Block
I made 6" blocks all had the same fabric in the center, but laying my quilt out I decided to make more blocks with different fabrics in the center.
Fiona blocks with same middle fabric
I don't do a lot of piecing. And I rarely make scrappy quilts. But I was having so much fun and liked what was happening that I made even more blocks for a lap quilt.




I finished the top with a solid pink border and a pieced border using all the fabrics in the quilt. The only consideration I made in laying the quilt out was to alternate horizontal and vertical blocks.
My husband liked how the same fabrics sometimes border each other in what he called a 'crazy quilt' style.
The blocks were super easy to make. I shared the book and my quilt with my weekly quilt group and it generated a lot of interest.

Visit the Schiffer Publications website to see inside the book:
http://www.schifferbooks.com/the-fiona-quilt-block-14-projects-from-sassy-to-classy-5884.html

I received a free book from Schiffer Publications in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.

The Fiona Quilt Block: 14 Projects from Sassy to Classy
by Carolyn Perry Goins
Schiffer Publications
$19.99 soft cover
ISBN: 978-0-7643-4981-2

Carolyn Perry Goins has been quilting since the 1970s. Her company CPG Designs produces beginners quilt patterns and she has been featured in Quiltmaker's magazine series "100 Bocks by Today's Top Designers."