The Quilty Fun Sew Along - Week 15 - Butterflies!!! ...

Good morning cute people!

I have early spring fever…

 so it's the perfect time to talk about butterflies!

This week in the 

Quilty Fun Sew Along

 is number 15…butterflies!

Hosting this week is the adorable 

Amber from A Little Bit Biased!

Click here to visit her and to get all of this weeks details:)

Here are my butterflies that I made for the sampler.

I chose to use Navy solid for the bodies

 and I like how they turned out:)

We can go ahead and put the right side together now

except for the bottom block…

Cut 8 - 1 1/2" x 13 1/2" strips and

 sew in-between each block section like above…

the courthouse steps blocks are at the top.

Remember that you already have the individual block

sashing strip measurements in each PDF from every week:)

Add the cups next underneath the chubby chevrons...

And continue by adding the quarter square triangles below the cup.

Add your butterflies!

(after you photo them and add to the FLICKR)

Then add the honeycombs and the

 remaining 1 1/2" x 13 1/2" strip underneath.

All you have to do is add the flowers onto

 the bottom after week 18:)

These are Ambers blocks…just waiting for her butterflies.

YaY!

Everyone should be at this point…

 if you have been able to keep up:)

Amber is doing an additional giveaway 

over on her blog…

she is giving away a copy of the book!!!

Thanks Amber…you are a sweetie!

Go over and leave her some bloggy love to enter:)

Have a quilty kind of day…

and remember that

You are the boss of your own quilt…

so get busy!!!

xx

Lori

Great Granny Squared Book is Here!!! ...

Great Granny Squared

YaY!!!

It's here!!!

I'm sew excited:)

Yesterday thousands of copies of my newest book

 were delivered to 

It's Sew Emma.

Chelsey sent me this

 photo of the unloading...

and the opening of the first box!

Kimberly overnighted several copies to me...

and just a little bit ago I got my first peek:)

I love how it turned out and I hope you do too!

The photos for the book were taken here…

inside my little cottage:)

I'll show you pics from the photo shoot next week:)

All of the projects in the book are made from my new collection...

Vintage Happy:)

It will be arriving and ready 

for release in about a week!

YaY again!!!

Fat Quarter Shop is offering kits

 for all of the projects in the book.

Click here 

for more info on the kits

 and to be notified when 

Vintage Happy arrives!!!

I'm so glad the book is finally here…

it is always such a

 labor of love

 creating something new.

Of course…

I couldn't have done it

 without the help of

 Kimberly 

and the girls at

It's Sew Emma…

and a few friends

who helped me with some of the sewing ...

Judy, Shanna and Kim.

And a special thanks to my sweet daughter

Kassidy Grace 

who did the embroidery 

on the quilt labels:)

I hope you enjoy my latest book ...

Great Granny Squared:)

xx

Lori

Notebook Cover…Quilts and More Spring 2014 …Free Download!

Good morning cute people!

I wanted to show you the notebook cover

 that I designed for Quilts and More magazine:)

I designed the notebook with Kassidy in mind…

she loves a cute notebook for school and she likes to switch

them up often.

It's in the spring issue and is on the stands now!

I was asked to participate in the Scrap Lab Challenge

along with the amazing

 Carrie of Miss Rosie Quilt Co.

and

 Patty Young of ModKid

They also asked if they could use some

 FQ's from my Gracie Girl collection to design with.

Patty designed an adorable skirt and Carrie designed the cutest bag!

I've want to sew both of them too:)

My simple notebook cover has a pocket on the inside front cover...

and the inside back cover…

 there is plenty of room for stashing notes and homework sheets ...etc.

The outside has a pocket as well…

perfect for pens, pencils and of course a cell phone.

The cover can easily be slipped off when the

 notebook is full and it can be washed if it gets dirty.

It was so much fun designing this

 simple little project for such a fabulous magazine:)

If you want to make one 

(or two) of your own…

CLICK HERE

to go to All People Quilt…

and download the pattern.

I love their website:)

Have a quilty kind of day!

xx

Lori

The Quilty Fun Sew Along - Week 14 - Neighborhood Houses!!! ...

Yesterday was week 14 on the

 Quilty Fun Sew Along…

we are getting closer to the finish!

This week is the neighborhood houses...

And is hosted by my friend

 Amy from Diary of a Quilter.

Amy is an amazing person…

she is a fabulous quilter and I'm sure

 you have all visited her blog

to get this weeks PDF and

 the giveaway info…

thanks Amy!

Here are a few throw back pics of 

some of my neighborhood houses…

back when we were doing the row along.

The neighborhood houses turned into my 

"Town Square Quilt" 

which is one of the projects in

Quilty Fun!

I love me a square quilt…

they always look great on the wall or any size table

or even just folded over the back of the furniture.

But anyhow .. back to the 

Sampler Quilt for our Sew Along!

We are finished with all of 

the blocks on the left side…

 so let's sew them together!

In all of the PDF's for each block…

you already have the measurements for each individual block sashings...

so all you need to do is

 Cut 4 - 1 1/2" x 9 1/2" strips 

and join the entire left side 

blocks together like this.

YaY!!!

Make sure to press towards 

the sashing strips for less bulk:)

Have fun making your neighborhood houses this week 

and don't forget to load them up on the

 flickr page  to enter the giveaway!

I love to see everyones fabric and color choices for the blocks…

you are all doing sew amazing!

Have a quilty kind of day…

xx

Lori

The Quilty Fun Sew Along - Week 13 - Fall Leaves!!! ...

Good morning cute people!

Are you ready for some quilty fun?

I sure am because today is

 Quilty Fun Sew Along Day!

We are now into week 13…

the cute and colorful fall leaves:)

This week is hosted by my sew sweet friend Jodi at Pleasant Home.

Click here

 to get this weeks details…

 and to see her cute version

 of my fall leaves quilty:)

This is Jodi and Sherri in my studio a few weeks ago:)

Jodi and I live far apart (I'm in Utah and she's in Oregon)... 

but we met through blogging and we soon became fast friends 

when she and her husband came to visit me here 

and we shopped and talked quilting all day 

while Mr. Honey took her husband fishing.

Now they are fast friends too!

Since then Jodi has visited several times.

Jodi and Sherri stopped by for lunch and a visit 

2 weeks ago on their way to Quiltbliss:)

What a fun afternoon!

My friend Sherri lives in Nevada

 and by the way…

she will be hosting week 16 of our sew along

 over on her blog A Quilting Life.

Okay…back to the fall leaves:)

You will need to make 4 leaves only for the Quilty Fun Sampler...

Here are mine that I made for my sampler while on retreat last year at 

My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe in Logan…what a fun place!

I hope you are all having sew much fun making the sampler…

I love seeing all of your pictures on the 

Quilty Fun Flickr Group 

and 

Pinterest

and 

Instagram

Have a quilty kind of day…

and sew it like you mean it!!!

xx

Lori

The Quilty Fun Sew Along - Week Twelve - Spring Tulips!...

Happy Monday morning cute people!

I hope you all had a great week and 

are all caught up and ready for todays

Quilty Fun Sew Along:)

We are into week 12…Spring Tulips!

This week is hosted by the adorable Penny

from Sew Take a Hike.

I'm so happy that she is participating.

That girl is so talented!

She usually paper pieces most of her amazing projects…

 and it makes me feel sew good that

she switched to rotary cutting and piecing for an afternoon…

just for little ol' me:)

Thanks Penny!!!

Click here

 to visit Penny and to get all of this weeks details.

To me…the tulips from the book are always fun to make!

They were fun to make using solids in my "Tulip Patch" quilt:)

I'm looking forward to seeing your tulips on the

 Quilty Fun Sew Along Flickr!

Good luck with the contest this week and happy sewing!

xx

Lori