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I'm very excited to tell you that I recently did an interview with Diane Harris from Quiltmaker magazine. You can find the link for the interview in the post about me on the EQ Blog- Behind the Mouse. In the interview I explain how I design blocks and quilts using Electric Quilt software. Don't forget to click on the link for the Scrap Squad. These quilters always come up with awesome variations on the design. I'm always amazed by their creativity! 
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Hi Folks, my good fortune continues with a design featured in Quilty Pleasures Blog from Quiltmaker magazine . The design is called Hip Hopscotch and it's the online sew-along project for their Back to School Party. This is another design that I came up with while scribbling in my graph paper sketchbook. The block is very simple and the layout is not complicated. The magic happens with your choice of fabric color and value placement. As you can see in the examples below the design has endless variations for you to explore. In fact, the bottom three designs use fabrics from the same collection. Watch the Quilty Pleasures blog in the days to come for an interview I did with Diane Harris. On day 5 of the blog you can find the link for the pattern and the adorable quilt label they are offering.       I'm excited to that have another quilt in Quiltmaker magazine. You will find the design, called Magic Stars, in the September/October issue. The designed was inspired by the diagonal designs found on decorative ceramic tiles. I've always been fascinated with repeating patterns. I love the surprise design you see where the corners meet when you connect the tiles. Below, you'll find the design depicted in a couple of different collections now available from Quilting Treasures Fabrics. Below that are the individual blocks from each quilt. If you go to Quiltmaker Blog you can see what their Scrap Squad folks did with the design.         Hi everyone, I'm excited about the July/August issue of Quiltmaker magazine. You can find my new design, Pup Tents, in this issue. This idea was the result of playing with my sketch book. I like to sketch on a gridded surface. Since I'm usually designing quilts or quilt blocks the grid is helpful. it's also helpful when trying scale an image up or down a size. When I came up with this idea it was originally a larger design. In the image below you can see the original idea at the top left. When I finished my drawing I thought it looked like a camp full of pup tents, that's how it got it's name. When I did a mock up in my EQ program I felt that the block was too busy. So I stripped it down to the image at the bottom left in the sketch below. It looked much better with less tents. If you go to Quiltmaker blog you can see what one of their Scrap Squad folks did with the design. Visit Louisa Robertson's blog Louisa Quilts to see what she did with the block. If you go to Louisa's blog you'll see how she constructed the units. I was thinking of constructing the units in a similar fashion. Only I would probably foundation piece the individual units and join them together to form the block. At the bottom of this post you can see a couple more layouts for this block. I also show it in a couple of different collections now available from Quilting Treasures Fabrics.  |
Janice Averill
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