Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Moda Blockhead #39

Framed Star by Jo Morton


To download the pattern for the block go
to her blog by clicking here.

The question for this week is
"Have you started your Christmas preparations?
Baking? Shopping? 
Making a gift list for yourself?"

HO! HO! HO!


I did take the Turkey Table Stand quilt off
and put up 


 my Holly Tree Lane Table Stand.
Here you see both sides.

We're out of the kits but we still have the pattern.  You can get one by clicking here.
And if you email Tammie and ask her really nice 
we could probably still cut a kit or two.

Now, lets to see what the other ladies did with Jo's block.

Lynne -


Have a great week ladies and meet me back here next Wednesday for Week #40 of the Moda Blockheads BOW.


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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Moda Blockhead - Block #38

Peace and Plenty
by 
Betsy Chutchian


You can go to her blog to download the
pattern by clicking here.

Question for today:  "What is your favorite Thanksgiving tradition?
Turkey?  Pie?"

Well that ones easy.  
I may have mentioned before that Pep is an awesome chef - 
so is our youngest son, Max.
And I was raised by a mother (my father passed away when I was 8) who
LOVED football - (and basketball, and baseball, and golf and tennis - you get the drift.)
Pep on the other hand went to high school in Hialeah Florida and played
soccer, not football.  He doesn't particularly care for football.
So he cooks and I watch football 
with our sons and sit and stitch.
I do make jello, etc for youngest grandchildren.

My sister Nancy who makes awesome pies comes over 
with a pumpkin pie
and a pecan pie.

That answers the pie part :):):)


Lynne -


Have a great Thanksgiving ladies and don't forget our Black Friday sale this Friday.  Code words BLACK FRIDAY will get you 25% off storewide one day only - from 12:01 am Friday morning until 11:59 Friday night.

Be sure to meet me back here next Wednesday for Week #39 of the Moda Blockheads BOW.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Moda Blockheads - Block #37

Double Delight Star
by 
Lynne of KT Quilts


To download the pattern go to her blog by clicking here.

I love star blocks - appliqué star block, pieced star blocks.
And this one is great.
Thanks Lynne.

Our question for today is
Do you remember your first Quilt Market as an Exhibitor?  When was it?  Was it exciting?  Terrifying?  Both? 

 Linda Brannock and I had just left Red Wagon to start our own companies - 
Star Quilt Co. for Linda and Jan Patek Quilts for me.
We both loved the way antique quilts look but you can't really use them 
so we started overdying new fabric to make it look old.

 I had designed "Coming Home Again"


 and I thought it was pretty good.  

 I bought that red striped fabric at one of Linda's garage sales, removed the color and then overdyed it - 
the blue plaid in the border came from one of Brians' - my son's - madras shorts.

So I told Pep "If I'm going to really do this I need to go to Market and I've never been there".
He told me to get the dates and he'd take off work and we'd go.  
He's only missed one or 2 Markets since - like when he got his hip replaced.  :)

 I told Linda and she and Bob decided to go too.

 We had booths next to each other.  That was in 1995.
Mark Dunn and Cheryl Freydberg of Moda came to us and asked us to 
design fabric.

 Our first line, "From the Prairie" came out in l996 and
consisted of prints and brushed wovens or homespuns.
The rest is kind of history.  We worked together until her death a few years ago.
I have no idea how many lines we did - at least 2 a year.
I still miss her.

 And I never had time to get terrified.

 Now lets go see what the other designers have done with Lynne's block.


Have a great week ladies and meet me back here next Wednesday for Week #38 of the Moda Blockheads BOW.


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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Moda Blockheads #36 - Hooray! Hooray!

Shoo Dat
by Carrie Nelson
made out of my Coral Bells fabric line.


To download the pattern for Carrie's block go to
her blog by clicking here

My - oh my - oh My
We have been having issues with our email address at Centurylink.
A customer called Tammie and said she had gotten a message that there was no such address as janpatekquilts@centurylink.net.
Tammie called and spent hours and days on the phone with them and she could only get our emails by logging into their website.

Our email won't connect to my computer - says the username or password isn't correct.
We changed the password and it still says the username or password isn't correct.
It won't connect to our phones - says the username or password isn't correct.
We changed the password again and it still says the username or password isn't correct both places.

Then yesterday it wouldn't let me into the website - I got an ERROR message all morning.

WE HAVE A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
janpatekquiltsinc@gmail.com.
Please send all emails to that address.

The only problem is my gmail address is connected to my blog and I had to transfer all of my past posts to the new address.
I hope I did it correctly but computers are not my area - quilts are.  
I guess we'll see tomorrow.
Actually it didn't but together we figured it out.

Hopefully you can go from here to see what the other designers have done with Carrie's block.


Lynne -


Have a great week ladies and meet me back here next Wednesday for Week #37 of the Moda Blockheads BOW.



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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Lilac Ridge at Fall Market in Houston and Moda Blockheads, Block #35



Here's my cozy little corner
at Fall Quilt Market
in Houston.


Chock full of quilts made from my Lilac Ridge fabric line.

And here is


 Block # 35 - Northridge
by Lisa Bongean

To download Lisa's pattern click here.

Here is the house block from last week quilted and on a heart hanger.  
The random number generator picked

Sorcha girl who said 
    " Easy to follow directions and pictures will help me applique this charming house block.  "

Now if you'll call Tammie at 816-632-7632 and give her your snail mail info we'll send you your kit.
Thanks to the winner and thanks for all of your nice comments.

If you didn't win but want to buy the kit which includes fabrics and the hanger click here.

And since I just got back from a 14 hour drive this is going to be very short - more next week.

For now, lets go see what the other designers have done with the block.  

Lynne -


Have a great week ladies and meet me back here next Wednesday for Week #36 of the Moda Blockheads BOW.
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