The Quilty Fun Sew Along - Week 11 - Honeycombs!!! ...

Good morning cute people!

It's time for another episode of the 

Quilty Fun Sew Along!

Today's feature is week 11…honeycombs.

This episode is brought to you by

 the awesomely talented 

Monica of Happy Zombie fame:)

You can click here to go visit her and 

to get all of this weeks giveaway details.

Monica just happens to be 

a good friend of mine

 and I'm sew happy that she is one

 of the participating bloggers 

in the Quilty Fun Sew Along!

Here are a few of my honeycomb blocks

 that I made for the sampler quilt.

In my book…(Quilty Fun)…

I used this block in my "Calico Hive" quilt.

The honeycomb block is an

 easy peasy scrappy favorite of mine…

of course called a snowball traditionally.

I never get tired of making them…

they are a perfect way to 

use up some scrappy squares in your 

quilty stash:)

Have a quilty kind of day…

and sew it like you mean it!!!

xx

Lori

The Quilty fun Sew Along - Week 10 - 4 Patches!!! ...

I'm so sorry that I'm a day late in posting about the 

Quilty Fun Sew Along!

This week is already week 10…

and we are doing those fun little 

4 patch blocks that look hard…

 but really they aren't!!!

Hosting this week are the lovely Jennie and Clara

from Clover and Violet fame:)

Just look at these adorable scrappy blocks!!

You know that my motto is… 

the scrappiest sewing is the happiest sewing:)

CLICK HERE

to go and visit them and get all of

 this weeks information and the companion pdf.

Make your blocks and load them up to the Flickr page

so that you have a chance to win this weeks giveaways…

Alphabitties 

and a box of my

 Aurifil Happy Colors!!!

Have a quilty kind of day!

xx

Lori

A New Book Announcement - Great Granny Squared - and a Vintage Happy Giveaway!!! ...

I'm so excited to be able to announce the reason for my absence here!

I have been sew busy!!!

I have a new book I have been sewing for …

Great Granny Squared!

by Lori Holt

of Bee in my Bonnet

Available March 2014

If you did my Great Granny Along with me…

you will recognize:)

A few years ago I did a tutorial on 

my easy method to make my

 "Great Granny Block"

(so named because of the 

additional row around the outside)

This really is a traditional block that 

my grandma used to call 

"Album Block"

But us modern quilters of today

 have nick named it 

"granny square"

inspired by the crochet square

 by the same name:)

My tutorial will now be in book form…

along with other projects

and published by 

It's Sew Emma

YaY!

I love working with Kimberly and the girls!

All projects in the book ar

 centered around the

 great granny block and are 

simple and fun to make.

The book will have 4 projects...

along with 2 brand new blocks...

which I have designed for the labels:)

There will be 2 quilts in the book...

a tablerunner...

and a pillow.

This is not really what 

the front cover will look like…

it's just a mock up for the pre-order page,

but this quilt will be on the front cover.

I took several pictures to show you 

while I had it hanging in my front room:)

Next week Kimberly and the girls get here 

for a photo shoot

for the book:)

I will be able to show you every project in the book then!

I can't wait…we always have so much fun while they're here:)

My friend Helen Brutsch quilted this quilt for me…

I love how she did it:)

I wanted it to look very traditional ,

like my grandma and great aunts would have quilted it.

I think she did a wonderful job and I'm so pleased with how it turned out.

Of course I put my 

"Quilty Back Pockets"

 in the corners for hanging:)

Here is the label that I designed for this quilt.

Of course the pattern will be in the book:)

I love to embroider and so I added some

 onto the label for extra stitchy goodness!

I have also designed a new pattern called

"Stitchy Sampler"

The sampler uses my 6 favorite embroidery stitches that I always teach.

If you pre-order the book

you not only get 20% off the retail price of 13.95

but you get my Stitchy Sampler pattern for free!

Click Here 

if you would like to pre-order:)

I will be able to show it to you completed and framed in a few days:)

I'll be blogging more all next week and showing you lots of pics of what's happening during the photo shoot

I'll also be sharing things on

 Instagram as they happen.

Click here

to follow me there:)

I have used my newest fabric collection

Vintage Happy

(which will be released in March as well)

for all of the projects in 

Great Granny Squared

If you leave me a comment telling me 

that you have

 pre-ordered the book

or 

followed me on Instagram

(or both)

and I will pick a winner

 on friday of next week and send them 

 a Fat Quarter bundle of Vintage Happy:)

 I can't wait to hear from you!!

xx

Lori

The Quilty Fun Sew Along - Week 9 - Quarter Square Triangles!!!...

Hello cute people…yes I'm still here:)

I have had several emails asking  me

 why I haven't been posting at my normal rate…

well let's just say I have been very busy with a new project

that I will be able to announce soon…

let's just say it involves another photo shoot here at my cottage next week!

YaY!!

But more on that later…

for now let's have some

 Quilty Fun!!

Today is already sew along week 9!

Hosting this week is the lovely 

Kerri from

Lovely Little Handmades

What a sweetie she is and what a sweet blog she has!

Click here to go visit her and get all of this weeks details…

and of course to see more of her cute blocks!

The quarter square triangles go in 3 places

 on the sampler quilt that we are making…

under the chubby chevron X blocks and 

around the bumble bee block along with 

some baby geese and 4-patch blocks….

you can also see a row of them 

underneath the cute cups:)

I have had some questions about how wide the sashings are

from those who are tempted to jump ahead …

the answer is that there are different sizes throughout…

so it will be best to wait until we are at a point

 when one of the side sections

or the center section can all be put together.

I hope you are all having Quilty Fun with the sew along…

I love seeing your photos on the

 flickr group 

and also on

Pinterest.

Keep up the good work play!!!

xx

Lori

The Quilty Fun Sew Along!!! - Week 8 - Trees!!!...

Good morning cute people!

Happy New Year:)

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday 

full of family and friends:)

So now that Christmas break is over…

It's time to get back to the 

Quilty Fun Sew Along!

Today is week 8…cute and simple trees:)

The tree blocks are hosted by the wonderful and adorable Messy Jesse.

Click Here

to go visit her cute blog and 

see more of her cute trees and of course

 to get all of the giveaway details!

I do love me some tree blocks!

I designed these blocks to go in between the houses

of my Town Square quilt in the

 Quilty Fun Book

They are fun to make and a great way to use

some of the fun greens that are in your scrappy stash:)

This side of the Quilty Fun Sampler is growing!!!...

It's fun to see everyones addition to the quilt weekly…

here on the quilty fun flickr page:)

Here's the sampler quilt before I added the outside borders…

I thought you might like to see it so that you can be

 thinking about which color and print that you will use for yours:)

Seeing it without the borders gives a good visual in 

deciding which color you might want to bring out.

This is a scrappy quilt with many colors to choose from ...

I chose to use aqua in the end because I felt that I had a lot of warm colors

and so a cool tone like a green or a blue would balance it out nicely:)

Of course we will talk more about this when it comes time…

just giving you something to think about

while you are having a 

quilty kind of day:)

xx

Lori