Month: December 2013

Pinteresting Party

 My oh my… what fun we are going to have.

Pinterest is a major addiction as many of you know. But have you had a pinterest party? 

Well tonight, as a result of Lisa Calle’s brilliance, we are having a pinterest party at Urban Spools in Dallas.
 Join us if you are in the area, but if not join us online. 
There is  a board on the Moda Fabrics pinterest acct titled verymerrymodachristmas, pin for your favs or add your favorite moda fabrics, dreamy projects, nifty notions, holiday decorations and yummy foods. Use the hastag verymerrymodachristmas as you pin or Instagram. 
We will find you and give away prizes every 15 minutes. 
Some of the United Notions suppliers have sent us goodies to share such as Auriful thread
 0481.00849
  Wrights/Simplicity,  along with  Fons and Porter 
sent some goodies everyone will want in their stockings.

 Indygo Junction sent some of their patterns that perfect to sew up over the Holidays.

Accuquilt sent the cutest dies to use with Moda’s  2 1/2″ mini charms.
Yes, Santa I do have to have one of these for myself!
GO! Triangles in Square-2" Finished Square (55410)

We have some fantastic wool kits,
 patterns and books from Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings. Lisa out did herself as always and sent a lot of goodies so we are going to need giveaway lots! If you didn’t get a chance 
to read her blog post about Joy, please do so here.
 Pineapple Grove
 a prize package from Fig Tree Quilts.

I am obsessed about the 
Beatle Bag from Abbey Lane Quilts, 
 
so they sent us some goodies. 

Of course there will be some moda goody bags.
#showmethemoda
I can’t wait to meet some of my online friends in real life.
 If you can’t be there please join us online.
Seriously, you better pin, becasue there are ALOT of prizes so your chance to
 win is better DARN GOOD
Happy pinning!!

A special shout out to Urban Spools for letting us invade their space.

It’s Friday

Aren’t you glad that is not 
Black Friday
 or
Cyber Monday? 
It is just good ol’ Friday. 
The team at Moda just finished the 
Holiday 2014 catalog 
and it is off to print 
so I am celebrating with my all-time 
favorite holiday song.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
 -modalissa

Lone Star Sampler- Mc Calls Quilting

Rarely does the sun and the moon align just right that 2 of my quilts are featured in different magazines the same month. So February 2014 must be lucky for me.
Check out McCall’s Quilting January/February 2014 
issue to
see my Lone Star Sampler quilt.

I am not much of a wine drinker and I am not a huge 
fan of the color purple, but as soon as I saw the 
Vin Du Jour by 3 sisters,
 I couldn’t resist.

 I set forth to see what I could do with a Jelly roll. 
This collection has the perfect balance of lights and darks. 
Almost exactly half darks and half mediums/lights making the combinations of values endless.
 I  started playing with a lone star block to see how many
 different color studies I could do using the 
light and darks to determine the the pattern.

 Strip piecing the sections and reversing some of the strips makes this quilt look more difficult that it really is.
Which is your favorite star block?
 I am torn between
 block 1, row 1
and block 3, row 2 or
possibly block 1, row 3.

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By the time I had finished the stars I had fallen in love with the grape tonal all over and
had to use it for some of the backgrounds.

Lone Star Sampler: 2 1/2" Precut Jelly Roll™ Strip-Pieced Quilt Pattern
image provided by McCalls Magazine

To read more about this issue, click here. I hope you enjoy this quilt as much as I did making it.