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!!

Blockheads 3 - Block 3

Star & Crown 

by Betsy Chutchian

You can go to her blog to download 

the pattern by clicking here.

Now, do these snowy pictures

look like the ones I posted last week?

This is really getting old.  

I know it's winter but it doesn't

have to be quite so repetitive about it.

I order plant each year from White Flower Farms

but like a few other colors too.

On that note the BOM pattern for 

"Little House in the Big Garden"

 is our Deal of the Week.  You

can get it from the store by

clicking here.

There are lots of things in the works.

I've started the 2020 Mystery Quilt 

and have the first block almost done.

It's called "Suzanne's Snowmen" so

we're back to lots of white.  

Luckily they wear caps & scarves

and there are houses and trees to add color. 

And of course, stars and moons.

The Winter Tablestand, "Cozy Cabin" came back 

from Lori who did her usual awesome job of

quilting.  I should have the binding 

on soon so if I can get my computer to let 

me into my photo library, I should have lots

to show your next week.

Plus, next week is my week on Blockheads 3.

Meanwhile lets go see what the other

ladies have done with Betsy'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 and let's hope its warmer.

Blockheads 3 - Block 2

And Block 2 is another star - 

Sunshine Star by Sherri McConnell.

We do love our Star blocks, don't we ladies.

You can go to Sherri's blog and 

download the pattern for her

block by clicking here.

Staying inside and working on quilt

blocks seems like a very

good idea about now.

Its really pretty outside

as long as you can

view it through a window.

Winter coneflowers almost look like cotton balls.

FedEx & UPS haven't been able to get here this week

so things aren't coming in or going out,

the chickens are hunkered down in their houses and

things have generally slowed down.

Pep was scheduled for a stress test in Kansas City

today and we made it out to the highway.  

I told him that these test part was getting to

the appointment and back.

I always write my posts the night before and

schedule them to go up at 12:01 on Wednesday

morning and right now, it's about time for me

to go to bed.  It's been a long day.

But first, I think I'll go see what the other

ladies have done with Sherri'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 and let's hope its warmer.

Blockheads 3-Block #1, part 2

Star Chain 

by Corey Yoder

To download the pattern

for the center block click here.

Most of the blocks I do for Blockheads 3

will be 8" blocks but I did Star Chain

in 12" because I want to make it into

a pillow to go with the final quilt.

And since my InDesign program where

I design my blocks and write 

all my instructions isn't on the computer right now 

(we're not sure why it disappeared and have been 

trying for 4 days to download it again.), I'll have to 

show you how to do that later.  

(If you want to wing it on your own, 

the stop border is 1" wide and the outer

 border is 2".)  I cut the batting 6" 

larger than the block and borders 

-3 on both sides- and will put it in 

my hoop and quilt it.  We'll get back to you 

later with better instructions.

Meantime lets see what the other Moda 

designers have done with Corey'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/

Block #1 of Blockheads 3 - - - What a Week!!!!

First,
since it's way past Friday

lets announce the winner of the 

Blockheads book.

It's Katherine who said 

she always loved sampler quilts

so Blockheads was right up her alley.

Katherine if you will email your snailmail

address to Tammie at janpatekquiltsinc@gmail.com

she will send your book to you.

Next
last weekend with
Cullen and Quinn.
Quinn as usual spent the
weekend in front of the computer.
He is our beloved computer nerd.
Cullen spent part of his time outside
taking pictures.

Dobby, our Corgi,  had to help Jeff 

blade the drive with the Kubota.

Jeff couldn't have managed without him.

Cullen took the pictures of the birds 

through the kitchen window.

I just love my cardinals and
the little Snowbirds (Juncos)

Now at long last,
Corey's block-

Star Chain  

She said that it incorporates 2 of her

favorite themes in quilting

Stars and Irish Chains.

I used a dark purple and medium green 

from my latest fabric line

Clover Meadow as well as the ivory solid.

You can get the pattern to make your block from

her blog by clicking here
I can't wait to see hers and yours.
This is going to be a fun quilt.

Did you ever have a week where everything

seemed to go wrong?

Well, I just had one.

First, my graphics program quit working.

No problem, I'll just call Adobe and they'll fix it

it's happened before.  Only this time

our internet (which is always slow - 

we live in the country - way off the information

highway) got even slower and eventually quit

working at all.  At the moment I'm using the hotspot

on Pep's phone which will work for something

small like my blog but not for downloading
a big graphics program. 

And, it being the first of the year, I'm not only working

on Blockheads 3 but also on my 12 month Mystery

Quilt for 2020.  Only right now I'm not working on it - 

I can't even print out my pattern pages.

So Adobe just called me back and we spent an hour
trying to download my program and didn't get
it done.  Tomorrow morning I have to take Pep
to Kansas City to see his lung doctor for a check up.
Then tomorrow afternoon Adobe will call and
we'll try again.
I just love things I have no control over --- NOT!!!

Next thing to go wrong was my
Deal of the Week.
It's 20% off the Cardinal  Mini
from Blockheads 1. The price includes
the little hanger.  The picture won't load.
It says the URL is wrong and it doesn't come
from an url.
Anyway, here's the jpg and you can
get it at the sale price
by clicking here.

I think I'll go shut up my chickens for the night.
That I can control.

I really like the new Mystery Quilt -----
It's called Susanne's Snowmen.
  I'll keep you posted.  

It's been awhile........

.......But the Blockheads are back.

We'll start in full force next week 

To celebrate I thought I'd put the book 

of all the blocks and quilts from

Blockheads 1 on sale this week.  

To go to the store and get your copy 

click here.

I know it's been a long time since

I posted on my blog but

it's been a very long day

and there's lots to tell and see

so I'm going to ask you to come back

Friday so I have time to gather my thoughts.

Meantime here are the Moda designers

that will be joining me in this endeavor.

 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 - ???
Joanna Figueroa - https://blog.figtreeandcompany.com/

Lets start this New Year off 

with a giveaway.   

I'm pretty sure we have a Blockheads book

in stock but if not I know we have Sunny Days.

Make a comment, any old comment between now

and Friday morning and I will

have the Random Number Generator pick 

someone to win a book.

Good luck ladies and see you Friday.