Blockheads 3, Block #7

ZEST

by Lissa Alexander

You can go to her blog

to download the pattern

by clicking here.

I got last year's Mystery Quilt

back from Lori yesterday and

am sewing down the binding.

I also noticed that when I 

assembled the blocks I

sewed the 5 pointed star in 

upside down.  

Aaargh!

Maybe I'm reverting to my Mennonite

roots and made a simple mistake 

because only God is perfect.  

Well, I certainly am not.  Usually however,

my mistakes are piecing mistakes, not

applique.  

This is Muffin Kitty.  He's our new

Barn cat and is a great mouser.

He just showed up in the barn one day

and made himself at home.

Our vet always chuckles when I say

"barn cat".  He has his own room in the

barn with a heated bed and water bowl, has

dry food on demand and wet food twice a

day.  Not exactly your normal outside cat!!!

And believe me he loves being inside the

barn and getting scritched.  It's turned pretty

cold out there today.

Well, that's enough chit chat for now.

Lets go see what the other

ladies have done with Lissa's 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. 

Blockheads 3, Block 6

Magic 

by Lisa Bongean

As if you couldn't tell 

who designed it by 

looking at all of the 

small triangle squares.

They're one of Lisa's trademarks.
You can go to her blog to
download the pattern by clicking here.

This is the 1st block in the 2020
Mystery Quilt "Suzanne's Snowmen".
To join the fun,  email Tammy at
janpatekquiltsinc@gmail.com.
 tell her you want in and she'll
give you all the details.

And these guys are my Lavender Orpington

chickens.  First lavender fabric, then 

lavender chickens....What's next?

They really are beautiful.  Big Daddy, my head 

rooster is in the lead with his 2 hens behind and

then the 2nd rooster.

My only disappointment is that they lay

brown eggs like my Buff Orpingtons.

My Aracaunas lay blue eggs I would

have loved to have some lavender eggs too.

But life goes on - even without lavender eggs.

Meanwhile 

lets go see what the other

ladies have done with Lisa's 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. 

Blockheads 3, Block 5

by Brigitte Heitland

to download the pattern for 

this very neat block go

to her blog by clicking here

AND THE

 2020 Mystery Quilt

Susanne's Snowmen

66" x 70"

                                                     

Mystery Quilt Club

There's always a new Mystery lurking and you're sure to want to be in on the fun!

Throughout the year, our club members receive, sight unseen, a monthly quilt block. At the end of the year you have a great quilt. The full Mystery is yet to be revealed but with one block you just know the rest will create a wonderful quilt. To make sure that you never miss out on the fun, we send you blocks each year unless you ask us to stop.

The charge for each block is 30.50,which includes the pattern, fabric and shipping and handling. The only time that changes will be when we send the borders and sashing. That is the final block and it will be slightly more than the regular blocks. The 1st block goes out in February, so give us a call at 816-632-7632 and join the Mystery Quilt club (I'll show you a color picture of the 1st block next Blockheads Wednesday so be sure to come back then).

                                         Meanwhile lets go see what the other

ladies have done with Brigette's 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. 

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!!