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Any good four-fabric quilts?
I actually went with 3 friends to an honest-to-goodness quilt shop on
Saturday and we had a BLAST. It is such fun picking colors--not only fabric for my dear mom, but helping pick things for a friend's quilt and another friend's patchwork shirt. (I LOVE spending other people's money!) Two yards of a yummy print followed me home. From a galloping horse, it reads as dark blue, but it's really a navy background with red, yellow, and cobalt flowers. (RJR's Chasing Butterflies collection, though it's prettier in person than on line.) This fabric wants to share quilt space with red, cobalt, and yellow Moda Marbles. Anyone have any favorite 4-fabric quilts? I'm entertaining all ideas, though I think I'd prefer something with few to no triangles, since most of my projects had/have them and it's time for a switch. There's a great quilt in a book I bought called "Patchwork Showcase" that is just about right, but it calls for more fabrics than four and would need tweaking. Maybe some sort of multistranded, stunning Irish chain? Whatever it is will have to wait until the three stitches come out of my finger. Today's lesson: being organized and cutting beef for the crockpot before you are properly awake is not really a time-saver in the long run. Monique in TX where it RAINED yesterday and today!!!! |
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http://www.quilterscache.com/G_I/HuntersStarBlock.html
check out Amys pix on here. shes used 4 fabs. might work for ya. eeeeeeeeeeeeek, blood and stitches. time to break out that secret chocolate stash or go buy some. think of all the housework you can now get out of doing til fully recovered. great time for perusing those mags/books and maybe drafting up new designs... oh what the heck, go have some s.e.x. as consolation. have fun!! jeanne -- san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz nzlstar on yahoo msg'r http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar "monique" wrote... snipped Anyone have any favorite 4-fabric quilts? I'm entertaining all ideas, though I think I'd prefer something with few to no triangles, since most of my projects had/have them and it's time for a switch. There's a great quilt in a book I bought called "Patchwork Showcase" that is just about right, but it calls for more fabrics than four and would need tweaking. Maybe some sort of multistranded, stunning Irish chain? Whatever it is will have to wait until the three stitches come out of my finger. Today's lesson: being organized and cutting beef for the crockpot before you are properly awake is not really a time-saver in the long run. Monique in TX where it RAINED yesterday and today!!!! |
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In article ,
monique wrote: I actually went with 3 friends to an honest-to-goodness quilt shop on Saturday and we had a BLAST. It is such fun picking colors--not only fabric for my dear mom, but helping pick things for a friend's quilt and another friend's patchwork shirt. (I LOVE spending other people's money!) Two yards of a yummy print followed me home. From a galloping horse, it reads as dark blue, but it's really a navy background with red, yellow, and cobalt flowers. (RJR's Chasing Butterflies collection, though it's prettier in person than on line.) This fabric wants to share quilt space with red, cobalt, and yellow Moda Marbles. Anyone have any favorite 4-fabric quilts? I'm entertaining all ideas, though I think I'd prefer something with few to no triangles, since most of my projects had/have them and it's time for a switch. There's a great quilt in a book I bought called "Patchwork Showcase" that is just about right, but it calls for more fabrics than four and would need tweaking. Maybe some sort of multistranded, stunning Irish chain? Whatever it is will have to wait until the three stitches come out of my finger. Today's lesson: being organized and cutting beef for the crockpot before you are properly awake is not really a time-saver in the long run. Monique in TX where it RAINED yesterday and today!!!! Ouch, Monique! I hope you heal quickly! As for your quilt, what about a Drunkard's Path? Each block is usually only two colors, but you could mix up the combinations or even piece both "halves" of each block to use four colors. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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http://tinyurl.com/a8p7c
heres a nicer 4 colourway of the hunter star. i also like sandys idea of the drunkards path. jeanne -- san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz nzlstar on yahoo msg'r http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar |
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http://tinyurl.com/7qcmr
ok, i must be on a roll, sorry, just surfing and finding stuff thats fun and cute and seasonal too. this page has links to a cute halloween 'spiderplacemat & napkin rings' pattern.... with legs and all. also a sweet as could be 'precious peeps' pattern for a baby quilt. also another 4 colour 'Missouri Star Tea Garden' pattern. also a 'crazy quilt xmas stocking' pattern. argh, just checked the link and each time that page opens it shows different projects. must find the right one, sorry. argh, the full page of projects is huge. http://tinyurl.com/9spez well at least someone might have fun looking thru these from the full page of links there for free projects. sorry again for all the nonsense. jeanne going to hang out first load of laundry while i got a sunny day, i'm sooooo far behind -- san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz nzlstar on yahoo msg'r http://community.webshots.com/user/nzlstar "Sandy Foster" wrote in message ... In article , monique wrote: I actually went with 3 friends to an honest-to-goodness quilt shop on Saturday and we had a BLAST. It is such fun picking colors--not only fabric for my dear mom, but helping pick things for a friend's quilt and another friend's patchwork shirt. (I LOVE spending other people's money!) Two yards of a yummy print followed me home. From a galloping horse, it reads as dark blue, but it's really a navy background with red, yellow, and cobalt flowers. (RJR's Chasing Butterflies collection, though it's prettier in person than on line.) This fabric wants to share quilt space with red, cobalt, and yellow Moda Marbles. Anyone have any favorite 4-fabric quilts? I'm entertaining all ideas, though I think I'd prefer something with few to no triangles, since most of my projects had/have them and it's time for a switch. There's a great quilt in a book I bought called "Patchwork Showcase" that is just about right, but it calls for more fabrics than four and would need tweaking. Maybe some sort of multistranded, stunning Irish chain? Whatever it is will have to wait until the three stitches come out of my finger. Today's lesson: being organized and cutting beef for the crockpot before you are properly awake is not really a time-saver in the long run. Monique in TX where it RAINED yesterday and today!!!! Ouch, Monique! I hope you heal quickly! As for your quilt, what about a Drunkard's Path? Each block is usually only two colors, but you could mix up the combinations or even piece both "halves" of each block to use four colors. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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How about Snail's Trail with each snail a different fabric? or a square
in a square in a square in a ... ? non quilty advice -- drink coffee before cutting meat for crock pot :-) Anne in CA annerudolph AT comcast DOT net "It's not having what you want; it's wanting what you've got." -- Sheryl Crow http://community.webshots.com/user/annerudolph3 monique wrote: I actually went with 3 friends to an honest-to-goodness quilt shop on Saturday and we had a BLAST. It is such fun picking colors--not only fabric for my dear mom, but helping pick things for a friend's quilt and another friend's patchwork shirt. (I LOVE spending other people's money!) Two yards of a yummy print followed me home. From a galloping horse, it reads as dark blue, but it's really a navy background with red, yellow, and cobalt flowers. (RJR's Chasing Butterflies collection, though it's prettier in person than on line.) This fabric wants to share quilt space with red, cobalt, and yellow Moda Marbles. Anyone have any favorite 4-fabric quilts? I'm entertaining all ideas, though I think I'd prefer something with few to no triangles, since most of my projects had/have them and it's time for a switch. There's a great quilt in a book I bought called "Patchwork Showcase" that is just about right, but it calls for more fabrics than four and would need tweaking. Maybe some sort of multistranded, stunning Irish chain? Whatever it is will have to wait until the three stitches come out of my finger. Today's lesson: being organized and cutting beef for the crockpot before you are properly awake is not really a time-saver in the long run. Monique in TX where it RAINED yesterday and today!!!! |
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