Riley Blake Fabric Fest 2013 and a Giveaway!....

Come take a road trip 

with me this September...

Destination?

The Riley Blake Fabric Fest of course!...

in Las Vegas

September 9 thru 12.

It's going to be sew much fun!

4 days of quilty celebration and inspiration.

There will all kinds of classes and events...

including a fashion show!

You will be able to sew and create to your hearts content:) 

I will be teaching projects with Bake Sale from my Cherry Bake pattern...

and my stunt double and daughter 

Kassidy Grace will be there right beside me:)

She is so excited too!

Come and sew some Cherry Bake with me...

and you can bet I'll have a few surprises for my students:)

I'm also going to be teaching another class with the

Circle Rulers 

and my collection

"Gracie Girl"

which will be released in September just in time for Fabric Fest!

I have designed a fun and flirty quilt especially for the class.

Above are 4 of the prints just to give you an idea of what Gracie Girl looks like:)

I'll be telling you all about it later but I do want to let you know that it's a line that Kassidy and I designed together!

YaY!

Now onto the giveaway.

A 10"stacker of Bake Sale...

And a set of

 Bee in my Bonnet 

Hexie Half Rulers!

To enter the giveaway...

Leave me a comment and tell me why 

you would love to come to Riley Blake Fabric Fest!

Kassidy will pick a name from the list:)

Giveaway will end Wednesday the 12th and I'll announce the winner on the 13th.

Click Here

to find out everything that you need to know

about the Fabric Fest.

I really hope to see you there so we can have some quilty fun together:)

Below is the list of all of those

 who will also be teaching and blogging

 about RB Fabric Fest.

Visit them on their date of the blog hop 

to see what they will be 

teaching

and to enter their giveaway as well!

Wednesday, June 5

Jina Barney of Riley Blake Designs

Thursday, June 6
Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet

 Friday, June 7

Elizabeth and Liz Evans of Simply Simon & Co

Saturday, June 8

Nancy Zieman/Deanna Springer of Nancy Zieman.com

Monday, June 10

Melissa Mortenson of The Polka Dot Chair 

Tuesday, June 11

Carolina Moore of Always Expect Moore

Wednesday, June 12

Paige Hill of Riley Blake Designs, Jennifer of Tatertots and Jello,

Becky & Kari of U-Create

Thursday, June 13

Amanda Herring of The Quilted Fish

Friday, June 14

Kim Christopherson & Kris Thurgood of My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe

Saturday, June 15

Bonnie Bailey on Riley Blake Designs

 Monday, June 17

Lila Tueller of Lila Tueller Designs

Tuesday, June 18

Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter

Wednesday, June 19

Lindsay Wilkes of The Cottage Mama

Thursday, June 20

Sue Daley of Sue Daley Designs

Friday, June 21

Eleanor Burns/ Sue Bouchard of Quilt in a Day

Saturday, June 22

Jenny, Natalie, & Sarah of Missouri Star Quilt Company

 Monday, June 24

Andrea Goddard of And I Sew

Tuesday, June 25

Becky, Brooke, Jamie, Kirsten, & Nikkala of The Crafting Chicks

Wednesday, June 26

Deonn Stott of Quiltscapes 

 Thursday, June 27

Sandy Workman of Pine Mountain Designs

Friday, June 28

Sydney Haglund of Memory Quilt Maker

The Quilty Barn Along - Barn 8 and "The Water Turn" Block Tutorial!...

Well good morning cute people!

It's Wednesday and that means block 8 in the

Quilty Barn Along!

I drew up this block and chose fabrics in green and aqua

in honor of 

"the water turn"

If you did not grow up on a farm you have no idea what I mean.

But if you did you know exactly what I mean.

No crops would ever survive

 if no sprinkler pipes were moved

or you didn't take advantage of your allotted water share day...

aka...the water turn.

Growing up...

our life revolved around the water turn.

It always seemed to come at the most inconvenient times...

night or day.

As kids we always took our turn helping dad get 

all of the pastures soaked and the water

 running down each carefully planted furrow.

My dad still plans his schedule around the water turn.

He is and always has been a very busy man.

I remember that I had to sing a solo 

in my 9th grade graduation program...

(We've only Just Begun by The Carpenters)

And it was right in the middle of the water turn.

I was worried that my dad wouldn't make it to hear me.

He promised that he would hurry as fast as he could.

As I walked out on stage and looked over the audience

I couldn't see anyone at all because all of the lights were down.

Of course I knew that my mom was

 in the audience but I didn't know if dad had made it.

Just as I started to sing the first line..

I heard the creaking of a door opening in the 

very back of the auditorium.

The lights were on in the hallway so I could see it was my dad...

standing there in his hip boots...

and smiling at me:)

Anyhoo...back to reality and onto the block!

(so sorry for my rambled memory:)

For the easy half square triangles in the corner

I cut 8 - 2 1/2" squares...

4 of the print and 4 of the background.

And ended up with 4 - 2 1/2" unfinished squares:)

If you are not familiar with my method...

click here

for my tutorial.

Make 2 sets of 4 flying geese.

Remember my tutorial for the baby geese row in the row along quilt?

Of course I used my same quick and easy method to make these...

click here

to see my tutorial. 

The measurements are exactly the same for this block.

The center square is also cut 2 1/2".

Sew your segments together until you have a 9 patch formation.

 Sew them together in rows 

and then sew the rows together.

It will measure 6 1/2" unfinished.

Choose your barn and roof fabric...

and for the door and window:)

And build your barn!

Block 8 hanging out 

with bumblebee and cherry:)

I can't wait to see your barns!

Have a quilty kind of day...

xx

Lori

P.S. Fat Quarter Shop 

has announced the winner of their giveaway...

Go over and see if I fooled you!

Blue Plate Special...Get it While it's Hot!!!...

My Blue Plate Special quilt pattern is

 now available and just added to my etsy shop

Of course I used aqua for the plate centers...

bringing me to name it the Blue Plate Special 

which is reminiscent of a favorite hometown diner:)

The quilt is 72" square...

each giant dresden is machine appliqued 

onto a 36" square background.

Even one giant dresden on a 36" background square

would make an adorable table topper!

They are super easy to make using the Thimble Rulers and 10" squares.

For this quilt I used several 10"squares from each of my fabric lines.

The smaller dresdens are made with 5" squares and the small Thimble Ruler.

When I designed this ruler...

I had a vision of making lots of chubby dresdens

 including giant ones...and now

my vision has come true!

Just 9 of them would make a King Size quilt!!! 

And the circles for the small dresden centers

 are easy peasy with my Circle Rulers:)

Also included in the pattern are 4 "Plate Mats"...

these are really fun to make and I love 

the way that they look in my kitchen!

I used 4 fat quarters for the tops...

each placemat has one of the FQ on it...

just in a different area.

I made pockets on the side for utensils:)

And made napkin rings too!

We like to use flour sack dishtowels for napkins at our house...

sometimes we even use vintage ones

 that are a little bit worn but still charming:)

These napkin rings look so cute wrapped around them.

And they are also long enough to 

wrap around a rolled up placemat for a picnic!

Lastly included in the pattern are 

2 Hot "Plates"

You only need 22 - 5" squares and two 10" squares

 for the background and you can make two:)

The backs are a 4-patch and I used my Circle Ruler to make them round!

I'm so excited to be releasing another new Bake Sale pattern...

I love this line so much that 

I seriously can't stop

 making things with it!

The rest of this post shows more pictures of the Quilt...

Plate Mats and Hot Plates...

in no particular order. 

The Blue Plate Special...

get it while it's hot!!!

xx

Lori