Terrific Tuesday Giveaway Day!!!

It's Terrific Tuesday Giveaway Day . . . let's have some fun :)

First, we need to announce the winner from last weeks Terrific Tuesday Giveaway!!   The winner of the Custom Apple Pie and Soda Pop Fat Quarter Bundle  from  The Intrepid Thread is . . .   Number #49 . . . Congrats Crystal!!!   I have emailed you :) 

    

     

    

And on to today's

Today's Terrific Tuesday Giveaway is being sponsored by Fat Quarter Shop.   Fat Quarter Shop has everything you could ever want including a Birthday!!!   Fat Quarter Shop is currently celebrating the 1 Year Birthday of Fat Quarter Style and they are doing it with a bang!!!!  Each day they are sharing new quilts from Fat Quarter Style made by their amazing crew!!!  Check out  their blog to see more!!  So many beautiful quilts!!!!

And for today's Terrific Tuesday Giveaway we are sticking with the Birthday Celebration.  Fat Quarter Shop is giving one lucky winner of Trifecta of books!!!!   One lucky person will win Fat Quarter Style, Quilted Living, and Winter Wonderland!!!  3 amazing books!!!  I have all 3 and love them and I know that you are sure to enjoy hours and hours of sewing with each one!!! 

You have two entry chances, the second being optional, and please leave a separate comment for each.  All Entries are welcome, including International Entries.  Please just be sure to leave an email address if you are a no-reply blogger ;)  

ENTRY 1 - Simply leave a comment that tells me which month you celebrate your birthday in.  I am an August girl and have my own little celebration coming up soon, lots of birthday fun around here :)  

 ENTRY 2 - Show your Fat Quarter Shop love.   You can follow them on   Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, You Tube or at their Blog.  You can Sign up for their Newsletter which will ensure you catch all of their amazing sales, or you can visit The Shop and then share a favorite item ;)   Just be sure to leave a comment of how you showed your Fat Quarter Shop Love!!!

And that's it ;)  The giveaway will be open until next Tuesday, August  11th when I will announce a winner at the beginning of next weeks Terrific Tuesday Giveaway Post :)

Good Luck and Have a Happy Quilting Day!!!

Reunion Quilts

Every year in July, all the Corry's go up the mountain for the Annual Corry Family Reunion.  And each year, Barbara (that's my fabulous Mother In Law if you are new around here) brings up fabric squares that she has ironed on fun coloring designs.   And the siblings, and cousins, and second cousins, and so on, all get together and color, and color, and then color some more.  From Toddlers to Teenagers, everyone has a little color time while up the mountain.   Here are some of my little ones blocks from previous years.

So whenever these blocks start to stack up a bit, Barbara starts making quilts.  And in the last month she has made 5 of them!!!  Aren't they just so fun!!!  Everyone is special and individual.  Some use orphan blocks and some are sashed, and everyone is so cute and so fantastic!!  So let's check out the latest 5 :)

First up, this adorable Play Ball QUilt.   All of the color blocks are fun sport themed balls and Barbara found a bunch of fun novelty sports prints in her stash to offset the colored blocks.  So fun!!

Next are these adorable Wonky 9 Patch blocks offsetting all of the fun flower coloring blocks.   I love all the calming blues and greens in this quilt, so calming ;)

And this was a super fun quilt to figure out how to layout.  All of the bears had been ironed on point so they had to be sewn in on point not to make them sitting on their heads :)  I love how Barbara figured it out.   So fun!!!

And this one is just fun, fun, fun!!!  All of these were leftovers from several strip quilts and Barbara put them together with some simple sashing so the blocks didn't get lost.   Yup, this is some super wild fun!!

And finally, some adorable Granny Squares offsetting colored blocks ;)   Barbara made a granny square for a bee block in January and loved it so much she just kept making more.  Don't they look so fun in the quilt!!!  And I love the subtle rainbow layout, adorable!!

Barbara donates these to local charities and I know they are going to be so well loved!!!  I just think it is so amazing that she finds a way to involve so many of her posterity in these quilts!!!  What a treasure and what a wonderful way to teach her grandchildren the joy of doing things for others.  I am already looking forward to seeing next years batch of coloring blocks ;)   

Oh, and just in case you are wondering, sometimes the adults even get in on the coloring fun ;)

I hope you have a Happy Quilting Day!!!

Unraveled - The Cottage Garden Edition

And it's finished, and just in the nick of time ;)   First, some back story . . .   When I first heard that the Modern Quilt Guild Challenge sponsored by Riley Blake was using Amanda Herring aka the Quilted Fish's The Cottage Garden line I was so excited!!!  I used this line once before for this quilt tutorial and loved it, and I was so excited to return to it once again.  I just love the colors and the beautiful designs!!!   And then, as I explained in this post, inspiration hit and I knew that this fabric line would be just perfect for my Unraveled quilt design from my new book,  Irish Chain Quilts.  And here it is!!!!  Unraveled . . . The Cottage Garden Edition :)

This quilt was so much fun to make once again.  And I just love the way the chain just comes "unraveled" and disappears into the negative space of the quilt.  Such a fun way to add that Modern Twist to a beautiful traditional chain.   And don't you just love those colors of fabric, they just pop off of that beautiful white background so nicely ;)

I really wanted to do something fun and detailed in the quilting as I had so much negative space to work with.   So I decided to incorporate some of my favorite designs and mix them all up to create a beautiful flow or lines.   So there are Swirls, Echoed Paisley's, Pebbles, and Curly Q's.

And then I played with the scale of those designs.   In the bottom left corner they start out small, and then midway through the quilt they move to more large, and where the chain starts to unravel the design gets large and fills in all that beautiful space.   It is kind of hard to see, but I also quilted in the missing chains with the same double arches as the chains.  I love how they blend in so you don't notice it right off, but then you see it and it's like, Yes, the Chain does finish ;)

And look at all of that super yummy quilt texture ;)   Oh that just makes me smile ;)

Unraveled measures 63" x 75" making it perfect to snuggle up with on the couch with a good book.  And since I just started a new book, I just might do that this afternoon ;)

And that is Unraveled - The Cottage Garden Edition.   I hope you love it as much as I do.   And if you make this or any of the quilts from my Irish Chain Quilts book I would love to see them!!!  You can email me a picture at happyquiltingmelissa@gmail.com or use the #irishchainquilts in social media and I will find it ;)

I hope you all have a very Happy Quilting Weekend!!!!

Linking up this finish to Amanda's and Sarah's ;)

Playing with Scale in Quilting

Yesterday was an all out long arm quilting kind of day.  And, oh I had so much fun!!!   Majority of it was spent on my Unraveled Quilt Top for the Modern Quilt Guild Challenge, yup, due tomorrow :)   Like the original quilt in Irish Chain Quilts, I decided to once again play with the scale of the design.  Only this time, I added a few more designs.  Some of my favorites, Swirls, Echoed Paisleys, Curly Qs, and Pebbling all combined to just flow beautifully over the quilt top.

Playing with scale in your quilting is such a fun way to add a lot of interest.  All three of these next pictures cover the same amount of space in the quilt and you can really see how much the scale changes from

Large

to Medium

  

And down to Small

Love it!!!   And it really is a fun way to quilt as you can keep changing things up.  I just used my spray and disappear blue pen to mark the guidelines of where I wanted each size.  My favorite places to quilt is where it transitions from one size to another ;)   I just have to get the binding on now and I will share the finished quilt tomorrow.   So excited!!!!!

And I was on such a roll when I finished my MQG quilt, I decided to throw on this little secret Christmas project as well.   I know, not much of a sneak peek, but I can't wait to share it next week!!!  Don't you just love the way tiny pebbling looks like lots of little snowballs.  So fun!!!

   

Wishing you a Happy Quilting Day!!!!   I am off to finish some binding ;)

Terrific Tuesday Giveaway Day!!!

It's Terrific Tuesday Giveaway Day . . . let's have some fun :)

First, we need to announce the winner from last weeks Terrific Tuesday Giveaway!!   The winner of the That Patchwork Place 2016 Quilt Calendar is . . .   Number #133 . . . Congrats Amanda Best !!!   I have emailed you :) 

    

     

    

And on to today's

Today's Terrific Tuesday Giveaway is being sponsored by The Intrepid Thread!!  Julie is currently hosting her Christmas In July Sale!!!!   You won't want to miss out on these amazing good deals!!!  You can find all of the details and links for the sale here!!    (Can we say super sale on Free Spirit, Art Gallery, and Holiday Fabric!!!!)   Sale will last until Midnight 7/29 so don't be late ;)  

   

Today's  Terrific Tuesday Giveaway is for this stunning Custom Apple Pie and Soda Pop Fat Quarter Bundle  that Julie crated just for this occasion!!!  Isn't it just so happy, makes me totally want to go to the park for a picnic!!!  And oh,  I just love those apples!!!  Oh, and it also comes in a Half Yard Bundle :)  

You have two entry chances, the second being optional, and please leave a separate comment for each.  All Entries are welcome, including International Entries.  Please just be sure to leave an email address if you are a no-reply blogger ;)  

ENTRY 1 - Simply leave a comment telling me what kind of apple is your favorite.   We love Granny Smith Apples around our house ;)  

 ENTRY 2 - Show your The Intrepid Thread love. You can follow them on Facebook, Bloglovin,  or Instagram.  You can Sign up for The Intrepid Thread Newsletter (right side bar) ,  Follow Their Blog, or you can Visit the Shop and then share a favorite item ;)   Just be sure to leave a comment of how you showed your The Intrepid Thread love!!!

And that's it ;)  The giveaway will be open until next Tuesday, August 4th when I will announce a winner at the beginning of next weeks Terrific Tuesday Giveaway Post :)

Good Luck and Have a Happy Quilting Day!!!