Blockheads 3 - Block #4

My Purple Birdhouse

To download the pattern

click here.

I think the instructions on the pattern
are pretty good but for those of you
who haven't done a lot of appliqué
I'll give you links to a few
of my YouTube tutorials.

For the basics of Freezer Paper Applique
-Jan Patek style- click here.
For points on sewing houses together (large ones as
well as birdhouses) click here.
If you want help with circles like the birdhouse hole which
can be really hard, click here.
Points can be tricky - stars, birds beaks and leaf points.
If you want a little help with points click here.

All of those should get you off to a good start
and feel free to use all of them whenever you need to.

I've always liked purple but
lately I've come to love it.

I used it extensively in my
 50th Anniversary Quilt (93" x 99")
that Tammy Vanderschmidt of Moda
turned into this awesome kit.
You can buy it by clicking here
or put it in layaway
by emailing our Tammie at
janpatekquiltsinc@gmail.com

Our latest Tablestand Quilt 

is Cozy Cabin

(You can get the kit or the

pattern by clicking here)

It doesn't have much purple 

but purple snow seemed to

be stretching my love of purple

a bit far, even for me.

And my little snow guy seems

to be content with green trees so

I let him keep them.

Speaking of Anniversary quilts 

this is the quilt I made for our 25th 

anniversary.  It was published in a book 

called Together Again by Linda 

Brannock and I which is now out

of print.  Apparently there are a few

copies for sale on Ebay for around $900.

Since Humble Quilts is doing a QAL

with the quilt, I've turned it

into a pattern.  It's a huge pattern and quite

a few of the border figures are large

enough that I had to have them specially

copied and printed.  We've started the process 

and you can buy one now by clicking here. 

They probably will ship at the end of the week. 

 Meanwhile lets go see what the other

ladies have done with my block.

Corey Yoder - https://corianderquilts.com/
Sherri McConnell - https://www.aquiltinglife.com/
 Betsy Chutchian - http://betsysbestquiltsandmore.blogspot.com/
 Jan Patek - http://janpatek.blogspot.com/
 Brigitte Heitland - https://www.brigitteheitland.de/blog

 Lisa Bongean - https://lisabongean.com/
 Lissa Alexander - http://modalissa.com/
Laurie Simpson - http://minickandsimpson.blogspot.com/
 Vanessa Goertzen - https://lellaboutique.blogspot.com/
 Stacy Iest Hsu - https://www.stacyiesthsu.com/blog/
 Robin Pickens - https://www.robinpickens.com/
Janet Clare - http://janetclare.co.uk/blog/
 Jen Kingwell - www.jenkingwelldesigns.com/blog
Joanna Figueroa - https://blog.figtreeandcompany.com/

See you next week and lets hope for some warmer days.

And lets keep the snow away for the parade 

tomorrow for our Super Bowl Kansas City Chiefs 

Go Chiefs!!