Triangle Swap

 

Recently I participated in a triangle swap with 20 other gals.

I have always been a fan of Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts and her triangle papers.

These papers fit beautifully on fabric approx 7" x 22 making it a 

wonderful project for scraps or fat eighths.

 

Each package comes with enough papers to make 700 triangle sets. The papers are printed on newsprint paper making it easy to tear the papers off once the sets are sewn together.

Once my triangles were sewn and pressed, they  were sorted into stacks to swap.

As I sorted them I had fun entertaining myself by playing with different designs.

Rows of flying geese, anyone?

Cheddars, poison greens, madders, oh my!

Reds, blacks and a pop of royal blue.

Here is what the triangle paper looks like with fabric right sides together.

The sewing directions are easy to follow with arrows all along the way.

Directions are printed on each sheet.

Now the swap has happened and I have thousands of  2" finished triangles. 

So many triangles, so many fabric combinations, so many design options.

Now it is time to make a decision on how to put all the triangles together!!

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Honeycomb Precuts

 After returning from a whirlwind week at Quilt Market one of the trends that was all over the show was my favorite shape, Hexagons.

Just in case you haven't seen how easy the moda honeycomb's (6" hexagons) are to sew together, Kimberly from Fat Quarter shop said I could share this video with you.

I use to be afriad to do anything with a set-in seam, but after sewing these shapes together set-in seams are a breeze. Have you tried the honeycomb's yet? -modalissa

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to market to market

Today is going to be a busy day at the office. We have sales meeting for the Dallas staff, making sure all the sales meeting stuff is ready for Portland and mainly just making sure we have packed everything. 

After sending 2 - 18 wheelers full of booth stuff I would hope we didn't forget anything.

This time of year is kind of like Christmas. 

I am sure you have all been through the late night assembly of toys only 

to find out you need 4 - C batteries that Santa did not include with the package. 

Well, setting up a booth for 40 sales people is much the same. 

If we have forgotten anything at this point we could probably blame it on Santa.

I do not know why I wait until the last minute every year

 but now it is time to pack my own suitcase.

old suitcase - Google Images (clipped to polyvore.com)

The first day of the show we tell all the sales reps what color to wear for our annual group picture.
 Months ago we sent them the color palette for the booth.

  Pretty colorful, huh? 

hexagon shuffle .... quilted by Natalia Bonner

 
We did narrow down the choices  to 10 different Bella colors. It does always seem like these are colors that are not readily available in my closet. I know, I know picking booth colors in all black or all brown would be a bit drab.

Check back for our group picture to see how well we all follow fashion directions.
 

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Friday Funny

I love this song and a four year old singing it is precious!

Have a great weekend. 

-modalissa

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Indigo Trail

It is amazing what I came across as I was packing up things for Market. I forgot to show off one of my favorite quilts. How classic and timely is indigo and yellow?

This quilt is published in McCall's Quilting.

I normally would have used Blue and red. That is so predictable, right? 

So instead I was a rebel and used yellow.

 

The quilt is made from Indigo Crossing by Polly Minick and Laurie Simpson.

 

I love love love this line of fabrics, but WAIT by now you may have

 seen their next line of fabric, 

MidWinter Reds that will be in stores September.

 I think I may have to make another quilt using these fabrics. What should be by rebel color to combine with these?

It is exactly one week until we start to set up our booth for quilt market in Portland, Oregon. The staff at moda has done such a great job and the show should be pretty darn good. 

If you are at market, be sure and stop by and say hello!

-modalissa

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Blogger Girls Month 5

I can't believe it has been a month since my last post.
Boo Hiss- I will make myself stand in the corner!
 I guess I have been in a funk.
Thank you to Monique because being a part of the
Blogger Girl's Quilt Along
has made me have to hop on to my blog, hopefully ending the funk.

As you know from last month I had added some batiks.
Trying to break out of my predictable shell so I tried with several
color options for block 5. Disregard the digital lines.

Month 5 is my favorite block

 You all know that I love polka dots so I couldn't help but throw in this brown and green polka dot from Paint Box by Laundry Basket. I love how strong and graphic 2 fabrics make this block.

 I wanted to see what this block would look like as a positive/negative colorway. I did change the center block out so the block is now 4 sawtooth stars.  

Changing 1 fabric color completely changes the block.

And finally, 

I think my favorite of the 3 blocks. A scrappy block made 

with a combination of prints and batiks.

 

Stop by and see the color options at the other blogger girls.

Monique From Open Gate Quilts - opengatequilts.blogspot.com/

Sherri from A Quilting Life - aquiltinglife.blogspot.com

Thelma from Cupcakes ‘n Daisies ~ cupcakesndaisies.blogspot.com

Lissa from Moda  Lissa  ~ ModaLissa.blogspot.com

Denise from Quilter’s  Window ~ Quilterswindow.com/blog/

Nicole from Sister’s Choice  ~  sisterschoice.typepad.com

Lisa from Stashmaster ~ The-Stashmaster.blogspot.com

Instructions for block 5 can be found at Open Gate.

 Don't give up on me. 

It won't be another month until my next blog post!!

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