Monthly Archives: April 2014

Kathleen Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden is a 6-color, 6-fabric quilt in a horizontal setting. It measures 72 x 72 inches. Originally I used a pastel palette for the quilt but then decided that butterflies and flowers are usually much more colorful. I switched from Northcott’s Toscana line to their Artisan Spirit Shimmer Collection for this quilt.

This design uses the Inklingo 3″ Drunkards Path Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from several Artisan Spirit Shimmer collections by Northcott.

I have a few cousins named Kathleen in my Canadian Duthie and McEvoy lines. There are a lot more Katherines and Katherinas [thanks to some German lines] than Kathleens in my family tree. No Kathleen story to share though as there are none are in my direct lines.

I love playing around with Drunkards Path units turning and twisting them to make new designs. This block is not original but it is uncommon—Like the Kathleens in my family tree.

[WordPress updated their editor and I have to say, I DON’T LIKE IT!! I gave up in frustration trying to post tables copied from MSWord last week. I’m determined to catch up in my A to Z Challenge posts—frustration or not. It’s going to take a lot of chocolate…]

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Kathleen
Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden

72 x 72 inches

The large flowers in the border would be good for machine applique.

20255M-5920255M-59 Shimmer Yellow

20257M-5920257M-59 Shimmer Orange

20257M-2720257M-27 Shimmer Pink

20257M-8320257M-83 Shimmer Purple

20258M-6320258M-63 Shimmer Dark Green

20254M-6820254M-68 Shimmer Blue

Purchase and download:

cover-DP-3-inch-115Inklingo 3” Drunkards Path Collection


Drunkards Path Design Book


The Inklingo Handbook

cheat-sheet
Cheat Sheet

(Download from website
or print from collection)

For more information about Inklingo, click here.

Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet.
To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection.

Fabric

Yardage

Shape

# of Shapes

Cut & Print

Page # in shape collection

Fabric 1
Yellow

B Layout 1 18 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ &
1] 5.5 x 11.75″
3″ DP: 12 & 13
D Square 9 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ &
1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing]
3″ DP: 18 & 19
Outer Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //
Inner Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //

Fabric 2
Orange

B Layout 1 18 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ &
1] 5.5 x 11.75″
3″ DP: 12 & 13
D Square 9 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ &
1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing]
3″ DP: 18 & 19
Outer Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //
Inner Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //

Fabric 3
Pink

B Layout 1 18 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ &
1] 5.5 x 11.75″
3″ DP: 12 & 13
D Square 9 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ &
1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing]
3″ DP: 18 & 19
Outer Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //
Inner Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //

Fabric 4
Purple

B Layout 1 18 1] 5.5 x 14.5″ &
1] 5.5 x 11.75″
3″ DP: 12 & 13
D Square 9 1] 7.5 x 11.25″ &
1] 4 x 11.25″[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing]
3″ DP: 18 & 19
Outer Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //
Inner Petals
[7 Flowers]
28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //

Fabric 5
Dark Green

B Layout 1 144 14] 5.5 x 14.5″ &
1] 5.5 x 6”
3″ DP: 12 & 13
C 9 4] 7 x 13.75″&
1] 7 x 7.25″
3″ DP: 16 & 17
Leaves 112 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //
Flower Centers 28 Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Applique PDF //
Binding Strips 8 strips // //

Fabric 6
Blue

A Layout 1 216 36] 5.5 x 11.25″ 3″ DP: 8 & 9
B Layout 1 36 3] 5.5 x 14.5″ &
1] 5.5 x 9″
3″ DP: 12 & 13
D Squares 36 6] 7.5 x 11.25″
[Can also cut these from 3.5″ strips rather than printing]
3″ DP: 18 & 19
Border Strips 4
Cut length of fabric to avoid piecing
9.5″ wide [Minimum width as some like to add extra for shrinkage in applique] //

Want to check my math? The Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden Math PDF is here.

 Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF.

You can also use the information above to make this quilt using 3″ Drunkards Path Templates. Check the Store tab in my blog header under Rulers for Drunkards Path Template Sets.

Be sure to check my Along a Crooked Path Pinterest board for more quilty Drunkards Path inspiration!

Additional Colorways

Kathleen1 recolor
Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden

Recolor 1

Should the background be the sky or the ground?
Substituting a light green for the blue background.

20254M-67
20254M-67 Shimmer Light Green

Kathleen2 recolor
Kathleen’s Butterfly Garden

Recolor 2

This is the original pastel version

9020-51 Toscana Buttercup9020-51 Toscana Buttercup

9020-57 Toscana Salmon9020-57 Toscana Salmon

9020-262 Toscana Lip Gloss9020-262 Toscana Lip Gloss

9020-221 Toscana Make Me Blush9020-221 Make Me Blush

9020-720 Toscana Granny Smith9020-720 Granny Smith

9020-60 Toscana Reflection9020-60 Reflection

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Inklingo Drunkards Path Video

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How to Rotary Cut Curves Inklingo Video

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Sewing Curves Without Pins

This is how I sew curves. (I dislike pinning!) I use a 3M Command Strip pasted along the side of my presser foot to help as a guide also. You need to be sure to use your 1/4″ presser foot if you are going to use a Command Strip as a guide. When I am done sewing curves, the Command Strip removes easily from my machine bed.

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Jane Jane’s Baskets is a 3-color, 4-fabric quilt in a horizontal setting. It measures 85 x 85 inches. My inspiration for this quilt is an antique quilt I saw on an online auction website. I pinned it to my Basket Quilts board on Pinterest. You can see it here.

This design uses the Inklingo 6″ Basket Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana by Northcott.

This quilt is named for Catherine Jane [Cormode] Williamson. Jane’s family lived near Ramsey on the Isle of Man. She was baptized 13 April 1828 at Kirk Christ Church in Lezayre. Jane was my second great grandmother. I haven’t been able to find out exactly when the Cormodes arrived in America. The earliest record I have shows them living in Rochester, New York in 1844. Sometime around 1848, Jane married William Henry Williamson. Jane and Henry had at least eight children together. Both died in their 50th year—Henry in 1875 of cholera and Jane in 1878 of albuminuria.

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Note that the Applique Border PDF was updated 29 January 2015.

Jane

Jane’s Baskets
85 x 85 inches

9020-49 Toscana Patriot Blue
9020-49 Toscana Patriot Blue

White with blue print
Dotty or Bluework fabric or something similar

9020-78 Toscana Pine9020-78 Toscana Pine

9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence

Purchase and download:


Inklingo 6” Basket Collection


The Inklingo Handbook

cheat-sheet
Cheat Sheet

(Download from website
or print from collection)

For more information about Inklingo, click here.

Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet.
To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection.

Fabric

Yardage

Shape

# of Shapes

Cut & Print

Page # in shape collection

Fabric 1
Blue

Handle Pieced[Optional – Not necessarily needed if back-basting] 64 10] 5 x 11″ &
1 5 x 7.75″
6″ Basket: 38 & 39
HST 1.5 Layout 1 320 13] 7.75 x 10.25″ &
1] 5.25 x 5.5″
6″ Basket: 46 & 47
Straight [center] Petal
Print @ 75% of original to create freezer paper templates]
304 Print an 8.5 x 14″ [Legal Size] Flower Back-basting page @ 75% of original on freezer paper to make applique templates 6″ Basket: 37
Left Petal
Print @ 75% of original to create freezer paper templates]
44 Print an 8.5 x 14″ [Legal Size] Flower Back-basting page @ 75% of original on freezer paper to make applique templates 6″ Basket: 37
Right Petal
Print @ 75% of original to create freezer paper templates]
44 Print an 8.5 x 14″ [Legal Size] Flower Back-basting page @ 75% of original on freezer paper to make applique templates 6″ Basket: 37

Fabric 2
White with blue print

HST 1.5 Layout 1 128 5] 7.75 x 10.25″ &
1] 5.25 x 5.5
6″ Basket: 46 & 47
HST 3 Layout 1 64 8] 8.25 x 8.5″ 6″ Basket: 50 & 51
.75″ Circles 65 1] 6.75 x 9.25″ &
1] 6.75 x 8.25″
Circles: 28 & 29
.75″ Half Circles 44 Use freezer paper templates from Flower Back-basting page printed for petals  //
Binding Strips 9 strips  //  //

Fabric 3
Green

3/8 to 1/2″ Bias Stem 450″
[generous estimate]
Jane’s Baskets Applique PDF //
Leaves 60 Jane’s Baskets Applique PDF  //

Fabric 4
White

Combo 1 Background 64 sets 32] 8.5 x 11″ 6″ Basket: 20 & 21
Cornerstones 49 3.5 x 3.5″ square [minimum size – some allow extra for shrinking during applique]  //
Sashing 112 3.5 x 6.5″ rectangle  //
Border Strips 4
[Cut length of fabric to avoid piecing]
8.5″ wide
[minimum size – some allow extra for shrinking during applique]
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Want to check my math? The Jane’s Baskets Math PDF is here.

Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF.

Be sure to check my Basket Quilts board on Pinterest for more quilty basket inspiration.

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Isabella Isabella’s Star is a 2-color, 3-fabric quilt set on point. It measures approximately 83 x 83 inches. Feathered Stars are really quite easy when you follow the directions for sewing them that Linda has provided in the Inklingo Feathered Star Design Book.

This design uses the Inklingo 20″ Feathered Star Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Stonehenge by Northcott.

Isabella was a popular name in my Williamson line. The first record I have for an Isabella is a baptism in 1832 in Lancashire, England. She was the second daughter and fourth child of Thomas and Margaret [Pollitt] Williamson. Sadly she died and was buried on 2 May 1833. Shortly after her parents emigrated from England to America in 1836, they had another daughter and named her Isabella. For a time in subsequent generations, there were one or two more daughters named Isabella in the Williamson families. It makes me wonder if I won’t find another Isabella back even farther in my Williamson or Pollitt lines.

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Isabella

Isabella’s Star
83 x 83 inches

3954-169
3954-169 Stonehenge

2980-44
2980-44 Medium Blue

2981-30
2981-30 Beige

Purchase and download:


Inklingo 20″ Feathered Star Collection

cover-FS-design-115 Inklingo Feathered Star Design Book

 
The Inklingo Handbook

 cheat-sheet
Cheat Sheet

(Download from website
or print from collection)

For more information about Inklingo, click here.

Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet.
I don’t have a copy of the 20” Feathered Star collection so I couldn’t finish filling in the chart below but you can use the information from the collection to figure the sizes to cut and print. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection.

Fabric

Yardage

Shape

# of Shapes

Cut & Print

Page # in shape collection

Fabric 1
Dark Blue

  Feather HST 312 Cut & layer with Beige fabric – No need to print 20″ FS:
Diamond & Square Combo
OR
Squares
Diamonds
13 sets
OR
104 squares
104 diamonds
If no Combo is available in the 20″ Feathered Star Collection to print  Diamond & Square sets, print each shape individually. 20″ FS:
Diamond 1 52 3] 7.5 x 11.5” &
1] 7.5 x 4.25”
6″ Dia/Sq/Tri: 16 & 17
Binding Strips 9 strips

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Fabric 2
Medium Blue

  Kite 104   20″ FS:
Diamond 1 52 3] 7.5 x 11.5” &
1] 7.5 x 4.25”
6″ Dia/Sq/Tri: 16 & 17

Fabric 3
Beige

  Feather HST 312 Print and layer with Dark Blue fabric. Sew to make HST units. 20″ FS:
Feather HST 104 Print & cut out 20″ FS:
QST 52   20″ FS:
Corner Squares
[16 replace QST in quilt layout]
68   20″ FS:
Large QST
[See Linda’s note in the Feathered Star Design Book about this shape.]
20   20″ FS:
Combo 1
[Square/QST sets]
13 sets 6] 8.5 x 9.75” &
1] 4.5 x 9.75”
6″ Dia/Sq/Tri: 38 & 39
29.5″ Squares 2] squares cross cut into 8 Large Setting Triangles [QST]

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15″ Squares 2] squares cut on diagonal for 4 Corner HST

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Want to check my math? The Isabella’s Star Math PDF is here.

Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF.

Linda’s Inklingo Triangle Tips PDF

Additional Colorways

Isabella1 recolor

Isabella’s Star
Recolor 1

I thought this would look nice with a Toile fabric in place of the beige.

Red, Green, Blue, Black Toile

Red, Green, Blue or Black Solid as coordinating fabric

White with Red, Green, Blue or Black as coordinating fabric

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My focus in 2017:

Sewing in 2017

  • 1 Year of Stitches embroidery project
  • Hexiflowers (aka Grace's Garden)
  • Death Star pillow
  • Tonopah Nevada topographical map
  • 1855 Wales Center map
  • Winnie the Pooh map
  • Ethan's Quilt
  • Thea's Quilt
  • Rachelle Fae CQ block
  • Machine quilting with a walking foot

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