Flood Quilts Needed

Attention all quilters.......  Toni alerted us to the flooding that has taken place in Ireland .  Please pop over to this LINK to find out how you can help.

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Linked

Here's a great paper-piecing site of various sizes. Enjoy!

Linked

The Wackies are starting something new......again....LOL
Every now & then, we run across interesting sites, sales, books, gadgets & such that we want to share with you. We've titled this sharing....... "Linked" so that each time you check our blog, it will be easy to find that particular post.

Here's a site worth seeing.

A Wacky Tutorial

Greetings Wacky Fans. Pop over to Rhonda's blog and view her tutorial on "shadow blocks." This method has been used by her many times with great results. Here are 2 examples. It looks difficult but it really isn't.

Retreat

Getting set up at Alford Inn, Van Alstyne, TX!

This Old Quilt

This old quilt was one of my first ones from a great book - "Quilts Without Corners" by Cheryl Phillips. This particular quilt is Hopi Sun. This is not a great picture of it because you can't really tell that it's a round quilt. I used a nine degree wedge ruler & I hand quilted it to accomplish this stunning quilt. It took me about a year to choose and purchase the fabrics which I thought was the most fun. The quilt measures approximately 45 inches.

If you're looking to try something different in your quilting world, try something like this.

This Old Quilt

This old quilt, we titled, "The Blue Quilt" for obvious reasons........blue & beige blocks. We donated it to our local Quilt for a Cure fund raising organization 3 years ago. Each "wacky" made 2 blocks each then we had a sew-in to put it together and Kathy L. machine quilted it for us. Note the border applique` of a vine with stars, leaves & red berries and a two-toned blue ribbon. This little extra really tied the quilt together.

This Old Quilt

This old quilt is actually a quilt top that Kathy L. put together at one for our "Wacky" retreats. She said that it was fun choosing the scraps and easy to put together. She used one of E. Burns' quick methods. This is a fairly large quilt measuring approx. 72"X94".

143

143 down 357 to cut. Just look at all those tiny, little squares.

If you're wondering what this is all about, it's all about "Charm" quilts. The Wackies decided on the next challenge for the fall. Well two of us cooked it up, the rest kind of nodded in confused delirium.......LOL..........our goal is to cut and bag 100 different fabrics measuring 2 1/5 inches for 8 participating Wackies. Even though I was not in the original "cooking up" part, I have been cutting my little buns off. I've bagged the allotted sets of 100 and am now cutting the rest of my own goal of 800 tinny, little squares!!!!!!!!!! Molly, Annie, Kathy and Kath have begun but I'm trying to get there first.......hehehehehehe