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A Quilt-Along – Home Sweet Home

  • Dec 30, 2011
  • 4 min read
Putting together my bee quilt

I saw this quilt by Aneela Hoey over 9 months ago.  I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind – I just LOVE it!

So – here’s what I am proposing – a House and Tree Quilt–Along! That’s right – a tutorial for a block with either a house or a tree (or both) in it will be posted on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s during ‘off’ weeks of Project QUILTING.  Why am I doing this to myself – I seriously LOVE this quilt and ‘house’ quilts have caught my eye for a long time. I figure if I do this during the off weeks of Project QUILTING I should get quite a few people to join along.

To make this work I need some volunteers to design quilt blocks and make up tutorials for them.  If you have a blog – you can post your tutorial right on your own blog.  Once your post is up, I’ll link the block from my website to yours and include a mini bio about you, the designer.  If you don’t have your own blog, just send me a word file with the instructions and photo’s and I’ll post it on my blog with links to you and of course a mini bio about you, the designer.

I talked to Aneela Hooey about my idea since her quilt was my inspiration.  She thought it was a great idea but has too many obligations this year to participate.  BUT she did give me a link to a house and tree tutorial on her blog so you can always start with those and work your own design off there. 

The block you design should be 12.5” x 12.5” (so it’s a finished 12” square).  It has to have a house, a tree, or both incorporated somehow into the block but feel free to add other elements as well (see above inspiration quilt). 

Here’s the schedule Block 1: January 17th – Kim Lapacek – LIVE – My Home Block 2: Januray 19th – Diane Lapacek – LIVE – Lapacek’s Orchard Block 3: January 24th – PamelaQuilts – LIVE – House by the Bay Block 4: January 26th – Quilts By Barb – LIVE – My Tilted House Block 5: January 31st – TerryAskeArtQuilts – LIVE – Two Trees Block 6: February 2nd – Quilties – LIVE – Tree of Life Block 7: February 14th – Quilt Jane – LIVE – Under the Moreton Bay Fig Block 8: February 16th – Kim Lapacek – LIVE – A Wonky Modern House Block 9: February 28th – CraftyMamaD – LIVE – Scrappy Trees Block 10: March 1st – Michelle Foster from QuiltingGallery – LIVE – A Home for the Birds Block 11: March 13th – Prairie Moon Quilts – LIVE – The Happy Tree Block 12: March 15th – Olive and Ollie – LIVE – the little house Block 13: March 27th – Around The Quilt Block – LIVE – three trees Block 14: March 29th –  Melissa Stramel of  Lilac Lane – LIVE – Under the Apple Tree Block 15: April 3rd – Samelia’s Mum – LIVE – A Home for Hoot Block 16: April 5th – Sally’s Ponderings – LIVE – Branch Sweet Branch

Sashing BONUS

Home Sweet Home Template Correct

Template for how I pieced my Home Sweet Home Top

Bonus Sashing Tutorials

  1. Four Rectangles

  2. Scrappy Strips

  3. Stepping Strips

  4. Four Squares

  5. Trees in Blossom

  6. Window Trees

  7. Mosaic Tree

  8. Truffula Tree

  9. Spinning Tree

  10. Hexagon Forest

  11. Diamonds in the Rough

  12. Shoo Fly Sashing

  13. Geese a Flying

  14. Tall True North Tree

  15. Tall Trees

  16. Wild Trees

  17. Eight Rectangles

  18. Branches Wild

  19. Birds in the Bushes

  20. String a Flower Garden

  21. Steps

  22. Let’s Strip

  23. Stripped Squares

  24. Tri-Recs Trees

  25. Hexagon Trees

  26. Strips and Mosaics

  27. Stacked Modern Pine

  28. Suburbia

  29. Tetris

  30. Spinning Pinwheels

  31. Happy Neighborhood

  32. Nine Patch Centered in Red

  33. Drunken Geese

  34. True North Mini Tree

  35. Chevron

  36. Tri Strips

  37. Twelve Rectangles

  38. Zig Zag Pathways

  39. Checkered

  40. Window Panes

  41. Bird House 

  42. Split Hexie Tree

  43. Tall Pinwheel Tree

  44. True North Tree

  45. Zig Zag Sashing

  46. Rail Fence

  47. 36 Patch

  48. Two Rectangles

  49. Stepping Strips 2

***So – I have 16 designers and 16 blocks!  Whoo Hoo!  If you are really wishing you would have signed up for it because you have an amazing idea in mind I’d be happy to feature *bonus* blocks that a person could make to increase the size of their quilt or in replace of a block they’re just feeling.  Just contact me if you’re still interested!  Thanks to everyone that signed up so far!  WOW!

Feel free to add your button to your blog as a reminder of the fun that’s about to start!

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There’s a Flickr Group to post your completed blocks in:  http://www.flickr.com/groups/1850682@N20/

AND we have a prize now thanks to Barb Raisbeck!

Anyone that brings a completed ‘Home Sweet Home’ Quilt to Show and Tell at the 2012 Quilt Retreat Getaway Weekend hosted by QuiltsbyBarb will receive a $10 gift certificate to the quilt shop at the retreat in honor of the 10th anniversary.

One $25 gift certificate to the quilt shop at the retreat will be given to a recipient of the viewer’s choice award decided by the retreat attendees.

Additional qualifications for the above prize:  The quilt must include on the front at least 12 of the 16 blocks from the Quilt Along.  It must also include the blocks designed by Kim Lapacek, Diane Lapacek, and Barb Raisbeck.

 
 
 

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