Moda Block Heads 4 - weekly block sew along

 This week the Block Head 4 sew along started. This is a sew along that will give a new block every week and this is my first time joining. This year there are 2 different block sizes. You can choose one of the sizes or do both. I am going to try and do both, at lease of some of the blocks. I will see what my time allows and just how tiny the pieces are. 

The first block is put out by Lynne Hegmeier of Kansas Troubles Quilters. She chose the Square Wheel Block.

I am using 2 layer cakes. The Compositions line from Moda, funny because it is a Basic Grey line, which was one of my favourite scrapbooking paper lines. The three bottom fabrics are from the layer cake.

The blue and black fabric is my background fabric. It is City Lights from Northcott.

Pieces cut and ready to assemble.

These are for the 9" block. The pieces for the 4.5 inch block are going to be TINY!! 

This is the 8.5 inch block. 

This was fun to put together and good practice for a kit I have that is completely this block.

Below is the smaller 4.5 size. 

I added a playing card and the dime to show JUST how tiny some of these pieces were to work with. This block, this was a challenge!

I have to say, Lynn Hagmeir had some great tips to make this block a little easier. The pressing with Best Press and putting some weight on the seams after pressing definitely help create a flatter block. This in turn helped get the correct size in the end. Thank you Lynn.

 Now that I have found my Blog again, I had better start updating it. 

This morning I went through some links, deleted the ones that were no longer relevant and added in my Quilting interests. I added a couple blogs and  I will add more as time goes on.

 I added some amazing CANADIAN online quilt/fabric stores. There are some wonderful online stores in the U.S. but the shipping to Canada is completely outrageous! So, just incase anyone ever reads my blog and is looking to support Canadian, I hope these links lead you to some fun shopping.

I still do my best to support my favourite pattern designers from around the world by going to their stores and purchasing their digital downloadable patterns. I think this is important as they have put the work into designing the pattern, creating a finished product to test their idea, and they spend hours writing the pattern in a way that is easy for us to follow. Some designers even provide multiple methods to achieve a certain block unit. By purchasing directly from them, they get more of the proceeds from that purchase.

Now, to add some visual interest to this update blog post, I will add one of the quilts I finished before Christmas. This one was for me and I used the Tula Pink flannel collection called Holiday Homies with a few added pieces to get the quantity of fat quarters needed. This is a  Gudrun Elra pattern called Teen Spirit. This was fun and easy to put together. and with Flannel backing, it is SO warm on our cold winter Canadian Winter days.

Finally found my blog again!!

 

Wow, 2014 was the last time I posted! I have tried many times since then but couldn't get back into my account! 

Today I was checking out Lynne Hagmeir's Kansas Troubles Quilters blog for the details on the Moda Blockhead's first Block for BH4 and low and behold, I noticed I was signed in!! Taking advantage of this by creating a blog post.

A lot has happened and my blog needs an overhaul. I am no longer scrapbooking, am now quilting. I started 8 years ago and have MANY projects to post about going forward. 

Some of my favourite quilt designers are Gudrun Elra of GE Quilt Designs, Bonnie Hunter (Quiltville), Tula Pink, Tim Holtz (Fabric designer for Free Spirit)(YES he has amazing fabrics that are the same as his scrapbook deigns)and Jackie Kunkel. There are more but theses are the few that came to mind first. 

Now to get my photos off my phone and onto my computer so I can add then to my blog😀