Fabulously Fast Quilts!

Good morning cute people!

Welcome to my stop on the

 Fabulously Fast Quilts blog tour:)

The tour is to introduce you to the new book

by my friend Amy...

 called Fabulously Fast Quilts

and I think it's a perfect name for it.

I'm so excited for Amy…

 and her first IS fabulous…just like her:)

Look at the colors of this quilt 

against the chippy aqua background…

so beautiful.

What is exciting to me about this book

 is all of the 

scrappy goodness going on.

If this is your first time visiting my blog,

You know I love me some scrappy quilts

and I use my scrappy stash

 every time that I sew.

All of the quilts in

 Amy's book are perfect

for this kind of scrappy stash sewing.

Amy asked if we on the tour would share a

fabulously fast tip…

and my tip is something that I talk about quite a bit…

How I build, store and use my leftover fabrics.

These are my quilty scraps.

Also known as -

my little bits of happiness.

They are all cut from

 the leftovers 

of my quilty projects.

I use them ALOT!

The reason it is so 

easy for me to use them …

is my fabulously fast tip.

And here it is…

I cut my leftovers into

 use-able sizes.

We all have leftovers that we keep 

because they are too good to throw out.

But really what is the point of keeping them

if they are just in a bin somewhere in your sewing room…

or under your bed?

 I like to cut my leftovers

 into strips and squares

and store them in baskets

 on the shelves of my studio

 where they are ... 

1. Easy to see  
2. Easy to reach

It makes sewing anything 

from a quick little gift to a 

large scrappy quilt so simple!

(and I love making something from nothing…don't you?)

Click Here

 if you want to know more 

about my scrappy stash:)

Go check out Amy's book 

and go check out these other

fabulously fast tips 

from others participating

 in Amy's blog tour:)

Have a quilty kind of day!!!

xx

Lori

Monday April 28

Sachiko Aldous of Tea Rose Home

April Rosenthal of April Rosenthal

Jennifer Mathis of Ellison Lane

Tuesday April 29

Jen Wilding Cardon of Stitch This! Martingale Blog

Amy Ellis of Amy's Creative Side

Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet

Wednesday April 30

Faith Jones of Fresh Lemons Quilts

Melissa Mortenson of PolkaDot Chair

Amy Gibson of Stitchery Dickory Dock

Thursday May 1

Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced

Lynne Goldsworthy of Lily's Quilts

Jeni Baker of In Color Order

Friday May 2

Katie Blakesley of Swim Bike Quilt

Lindsay Conner of Craft Buds

Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life

3 New Vintage Happy Patterns!...

I have been a busy bee playing with my 

newest fabric collection Vintage Happy.

Today I have 3 new patterns listed in my shop.

This first one is called

 Tumble Dry

I used 72 - 10" squares of Vintage Happy and a small amount of

 several matching solids to make the quilt.

I think the blocks remind me of the back of the dryer drum…

or a laundry symbol and so that is how it got it's name!

The blocks are rotary cut and pieced…

then turned into a circle with the help of my large

Bee in my Bonnet Circle Ruler.

Afterwards they are machine appliquéd.

It may look complicated but I promise it's sew easy…

(and easily addictive if I may say so)

I used this fabric from Vintage Happy for the back.

It's called the Vintage Cloth but I like to call it my

Vintage Victoria's Secret print…wink;)

And speaking of Vintage Victoria's Secret…

next up is my quilt of vintage bra's…

appropriately named

"Support Group"

I chose to use a new Riley blake solid 

for the background called Petal Pink…

Don't you think pink is a perfect color for a bra quilt?

I designed four different bra blocks called…

Training Bra, 34B, C Cup and Double D!

I mixed and matched Vintage Happy prints and a few solids...

And finished it off with a scrappy binding:)

The blocks are all rotary cut and machine pieced.

And last but not least is 

this quilt called of course...

 Vintage Camping! 

This quilt is inspired by

 my childhood camping trips.

My parents would load all of us kids

 (there were 10 of us plus our Irish Setter)

in the station wagon and 

off to the mountains we would go!

We were a close family 

inside that station wagon …

whether we wanted to be or not!..hehe:)

Good Times:)

As usual…

everything in this quilt is

 rotary cut and machine pieced as well:)

I started off by making the station wagon...

Then the vintage trailer

And then pieced the letters

 to spell out camping...

And put them all together and sewed lots

 of Vintage Happy squares around them:)

I backed it with this print from

 Vintage Happy…

inspired by vintage sheets:)

I made this for our trailer and

I can't wait to sleep 

warm and cozy under this quilt

on our next camping trip!

I also included this Vintage Trailer pillow in the pattern.

I plan on using this pattern a little later 

to make a quilt with all different Vintage Trailers:)

Each new pattern has just been listed

 in my Busy Bee Inc. 

It feels so good to be able to show you 

some of what I have been up to!

I have one more 

Vintage Happy pattern coming

but it won't be ready 

until Spring Quilt Market:)

Until then…

Have a quilty kind of day!

xx

Lori

P.S. I'm excited to be teaching

 my Vintage Camping quilt 

in a 3 day workshop May 1, 2 and 3rd

at The Quilt Barn in Kimberly, Idaho.

If you are in the area…

Click here 

to see if there is a

 spot available and come sew with us!!!

Great Granny Sew Along - Week Two - Crochet Hook and Yarn Block!!! ...

Tomorrow is week two in the 

Great Granny Sew Along 

If you haven't joined already…

click on the above link 

to find out all of the details

and sew along with us!

Block two is the crochet hook and 

balls of yarn block that go below the basket.

This week is hosted by 3 adorable quilt blogs…

Happy Little Cottage

Lovely Little Handmades

Clover and Violet

Go over and visit them tomorrow

and see their way cute blocks,

to get this weeks PDF companion sheet, 

and to get all of the giveaway details as well!

I am loving all of the 

basket blocks from week one

 that have been showing up on the 

Great Granny Squared flickr group.

When you make this weeks block 

and post a photo (or three or six:)...

 on the group page you are

 entered in this weeks giveaway!!!

I am posting this a day early because

 tomorrow I am posting about 

some of my new Vintage Happy patterns!

Have a quilty kind of day!

xx

Lori

Great Granny Sew Along - Week One - Basket Filled with Yarn!!!...

YaY!

Today is the first day of the

 Great Granny Sew Along:)

This first week is hosted by Pam…

And by Erin…

and also Sherri

Click on their names to see their versions 

of my filled with yarn basket block…

and to get this weeks PDF download.

Also go visit the

 Jolly Jabber blog 

to see Kimberly's and Debbie's

filled basket blocks! 

This is my version of my basket block...

 before it was quilted in to 

"Mama's Crochet"

I hope you are all having fun

 using GG Squared as your manual!

For this week's giveaway…

Fat Quarter Shop 

is generously giving away

3 sets… yes 3!!!…

 of my favorite embroidery scissors and 

my very favorite pink point protectors.

The point protectors come 

in different shapes and sizes…and 

are made for the 

points of knitting needles…

 but I have always used them for

 the points of my pointy quilty tools

like my scissors…

seam ripper and tailors awl.

I love them so much I even did a

 YouTube segment about them:)

So whip up your own basket block 

and load it up on the new

Great Granny Squared flickr group 

so that you can win a set of your own!

I can't wait to see your blocks:)

Have a great granny kind of day!

xx

Lori