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Monday, September 18, 2017

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Fall 2017 - Minions


Size: 54'' x 70''
"Minion's Minions Quilt"

This is my version of a fun QAL that was hosted on Fandom in Stitches a while ago.
I added few blocks I designed, and I set the blocks in a fun layout, to form a quilt on a quilt :)
The binding is a fun two colors binding, following Susan's tutorial
After washing it, the quilt is sooooo soft and scrunchy because I have high loft batting!!! 


This is my second entry for the Blogger Quilt Festival!
My first entry is here.





If you are new around here, WELCOME!
If you have been around for a while, THANKS AND WELCOME BACK! :)

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If you are new around here, let me just point you to my main addiction: designing and sharing for free tons of paper piecing patterns :)


As you can see from one of my old headers arrangement, I design patterns for Disney characters, Peanuts and Snoopy, Downton Abbey, Alice in Wonderland but I have many many more (Maleficent, The Simpsons, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Betty Boop, Minions and more)!! Some of them have to be tested, some of there are tested. You can find them just navigating the different tabs or just typing the character name in the search box at the top of the page.

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The other thing I love is to host EVENTS for us quilters!
An event coming up on this blog: the Fall edition of my "Art with Fabric Blog Hop"!!


and a FREE QAL for 2018... it's not too early to sign up as I started sharing more information about it already!!


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If you have any comment about my quilt, I would love to hear!!!
And check out more wonderful mini quilts over at blogger's quilt festival!!

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Fall 2017 - Heart of Jade

Size: 18'' x 18''
"Heart of Jade"

This is another mini for my collection of mini Pantone Color of the Year 2017 (Greenery... which for me is not just a single color because it reminds me of all the greens in nature, thus the super scrappy look)

The pattern is by a friend (Yanicka), who developed this new technique to make these super cool and modern design: it is NOT paper piecing, it is much much simpler! For the pattern and more information, visit Yanicka's blog!

This is my first entry for the Blogger Quilt Festival, Mini Quilt!





If you are new around here, WELCOME!
If you have been around for a while, THANKS AND WELCOME BACK! :)

--
If you are new around here, let me just point you to my main addiction: designing and sharing for free tons of paper piecing patterns :)


As you can see from one of my old headers arrangement, I design patterns for Disney characters, Peanuts and Snoopy, Downton Abbey, Alice in Wonderland but I have many many more (Maleficent, The Simpsons, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Betty Boop, Minions and more)!! Some of them have to be tested, some of there are tested. You can find them just navigating the different tabs or just typing the character name in the search box at the top of the page.

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The other thing I love is to host EVENTS for us quilters!
An event coming up on this blog: the Fall edition of my "Art with Fabric Blog Hop"!!


and a FREE QAL for 2018... it's not too early to sign up as I started sharing more information about it already!!


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If you have any comment about my quilt, I would love to hear!!!
And check out more wonderful mini quilts over at blogger's quilt festival!!

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Slow progress is good progress (and a link party)

This September has been quite crazy and tiring at work, so I find very little energy to sew... but I managed to make few blocks, so go me!!


The Ongoing Project List:
  1. Growing Up QAL - completed all my blocks, finishing up the patterns for the year!
  2. Starry Bright Sky QAL (2018) - shared layout and working on making the blocks!
  3. Art with Disney QAL (2018) - no progress
  4. Splendid Sampler - no progress
  5. Charity quilts - no progress
  6. SK project - no progress
  7. Molli Sparkle's "The Honey Pot Bee" - no progress
  8. En Provence QAL - no progress
  9. Journaling into my new Leuchtturm 1917 - loooove it, I will share updates next month!
  10. the 70273 Project - no progress
  11. Book binding - no progress
  12. Twilters! Bee - no progress
  13. Pencases and zipper pouches - designing many fun ones, after the horror story of interacting with a rude designer few weeks ago
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I joined another QAL, because this looks so fun and easy! It's all done with the same block, and it's super perfect for all the tiny scraps I have, from all colors of the rainbow!


This is my block
I decided to go with black background and scrappy aqua/teal/light blue as secondary!!

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I completed the blocks for my Twilter's Bee Block swap: aren't these little birds cute?


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And last, but not least, last week I announced the Art with Fabric Blog hop, which will run for a week in October. Check the line up of fantastic artists at this link!!


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How about you? What are YOU up to?
Link it here and share it with me!!


Sunday, September 10, 2017

Mostly working on secret projects (and a link party)

Finally I have been working on something I can share... a lot of secret sewing for events that are coming up, so I have been busy even if I do not share :)


The Ongoing Project List:
  1. Growing Up QAL - completed all my blocks, finishing up the patterns for the year!
  2. Starry Bright Sky QAL (2018) - shared layout and working on making the blocks!
  3. Art with Disney QAL (2018) - one more block (see below)!
  4. Splendid Sampler - no progress
  5. Charity quilts - no progress
  6. SK project - no progress
  7. Molli Sparkle's "The Honey Pot Bee" - no progress
  8. En Provence QAL - no progress
  9. Journaling into my new Leuchtturm 1917 - loooove it, I will share updates next month!
  10. the 70273 Project - no progress
  11. Book binding - no progress
  12. Twilters! Bee - no progress
  13. Face scrubbies and other crochet sponges - completed a while ago, finally pictures :)
  14. Pencases and zipper pouches - designing many fun ones, after the horror story of interacting with a rude designer few weeks ago
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I have been making great progress on my quit for the Art with Disney QAL 2018.
I actually completed 3 blocks... one will be shared as my piece for the Art with Fabric blog hop next month... a second one will be shared as my piece for the Enter if U Dare blog hop. The third one is not connected to any future event, so let me introduce you


Daisy Mondrian (20'' x 20'')

The quilting design is inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian :)
As usual for these blocks, I envelope turned it, quilted it, added blanket stitching and crochet all around, and I will use this to join all the blocks in a fun and different way of QAYG method! :) This is an experiment, but it is working fantastic with the quilting, since the piece is relative small but not too small (so good practice) and joining the pieces won't require struggling to fit big heavy pieces through a machine, since crochet can be done from the comfort of my couch!! :)

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I completed this set of crochet face scrubbies and sponges that I gifted for a birthday.
They are super easy and quite practical, since they have been reducing my waste of make up removing wipes: I use them, throw them in the washing machine and they come back as new! :)


I haven't tried the pouf or the soap saver myself, but they look as they work just fine :)

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And last, but not least, yesterday I announced the Art with Fabric Blog hop, which will run for a week in October. Check the line up of fantastic artists at this link!!


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How about you? What are YOU up to?
Link it here and share it with me!!


Saturday, September 9, 2017

Art with Fabric blog hop - Fall 2017 edition

Today I am happy to announce the FOURTH edition of the Art with Fabric Blog Hop!


Every quilted project is a unique piece of art, full of love, creativity and inspiration.

However, have you ever thought about how "traditional" art could be reinterpreted in a quilted piece?
(by "traditional" I mean anything that a non-quilter will label as art, like paintings, drawings, sculptures, architecture from all countries and all time periods).

To explore the endless possibilities of art-inspired quilted pieces I decided to organize another edition of this Blog Hop!

This edition has a special theme...

MOTHER EARTH!

Our amazing artists can pick can pick an inspiration piece that shows a landscape, plants and flowers, animals, the universe or humans...  how they include or interpret the theme is completely up to them!! I am sure we will be amazed and moved by the pieces from this hop!

This is the current schedule: look how many AMAZING artists are going to join!!

Monday, October 9th, 2017

Tuesday, October 10th, 2017 

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 

Thursday, October 12th, 2017 

Friday, October 13th, 2017 

If you want to see the amazing pieces we had in the last two editions of the blog hop, 

If any of you want to join the event, please leave a contact below with your email address and I will get in touch with you and add you in the list of artists!

I cannot wait to see what everybody will make for this special edition of the blog hop!!
If you want to spread the word about this hop, grab the button below!!

Art with Fabric blog hop @ tweloquilting.blogspot.com

Saturday, September 2, 2017

When personal communications go wrong (and a link party)

I planned today's post to be different... but then a weird thing happened and I want to share...


I planned to title this post "zip, zippity, zippity" because I was planning to share all my zipper pouches projects that I have been making in this past month.

Instead...

I will share the weird experience I had with the designer of one of those zipper pouches I made. I won't name the pattern or the person... so I will call it "the-pattern-which-must-not-be-named" from here on :)

Ok, before going down the rabbit hole of the story, let me share one zipper pouch that I made without a pattern...


I just added a 2.5'' strip to a zipper and stitched it on a thick plastic bag (one that you get when you buy curtains or something similar). Now I have a nice and sturdy clear pouch to carry around my beautiful planner :) 


Ok, story time!!

First of all, a little context: I found the free tutorial for the-pattern-which-must-not-be-named on line. It was a downloadable pdf with instructions and a step by step tutorial on her website.

Fantastic! I made the first pouch... I really enjoyed the design because it's very unique, the instructions were great, but I saw an opportunity to change something and I decided to get in touch with the designer.

I sent her a long email where I thank her for the wonderful pattern, I told her how much I enjoyed making it, I told her that I will be making many many more of those as they will be my handmade Xmas present for all the people on my list.
Then I told her that I thought that the pattern could benefit from slightly changing the measurements with more precut friendly measurements, so that one could use all those leftover precuts pieces that we all have from making quilts!!
I also proposed that I could write up a little companion cutting guide that would list those different measurements and then provide this on my website with links to her actual tutorial for all the instructions.
I finished the email by saying again how thankful I was for her sharing this pattern online for free, and that I was waiting for her input on my proposal.

One month went by and I didn't get any reply...

Ok.. summer, life, things, of course, people are busy, let's try to reach out again (I told myself).

I sent out another email, with more thankful and positive comments (because in the meantime I made 3 more of those pouches) and I asked her again about the proposal of a companion cutting chart, more precut friendly.

Her response was short, cold and quite surprising.

She said

"if you think your pattern is better than mine, go ahead and publish it"
"you cannot mention my pattern name, you cannot copy my words or images or schematic, that is copyright, everything on my site is copyright"

That's it.

Ok....
Well...
Sorry, what??

1.  I never said that my pattern is "better" than hers. I didn't even mention that I have a pattern... I don't have a pattern, I just have different cutting measures!

2. I never mentioned that I would copy words, or use pictures, again I just said that I would provide different cutting measures, and link back to her blog

3. thanks for not even acknowledging that I am one of your followers, that used your pattern, appreciate your creativity and support you...

4. thanks for not even acknowledging that I reached out to you to ask permission of something that doesn't need permission (see next point). And that I asked TWICE.... most people just download free patterns and never contact the designers... I wanted to reach out to her and build a personal connection but apparently throwing unfounded "copyright" threats is a much better way to interact

5. you cannot mandate that people don't use your pattern name as a link back to your site: this is shared for free on a free accessible website. Sure, one cannot use the pictures or the exact words, but putting together a different document and linking to her site is not a copyright infringement of any kind. To make claims on the name of the pattern, that would need to be trademark, which is different than copyright and I don't think that she trademarked the very simple name of  the-pattern-which-must-not-be-named (oh, should I trademark that? :) :) sarcasm :) )

6. thanks for not having an open mind and a open heart. She will never know what kind of collaborations or links or business opportunities would have come from answering positive to me on such a small thing... I was planning to share each of the completed bags in all the future events I am participating in (bonnie hunter qal, sewhooked qal, bag it at elmstreet, blogger quilt festival, enter if u dare, art with fabric blog hop, and many more). All these events drive new people to all blogs... maybe people would have loved my zipper pouch project and downloaded her pattern and she could have more traffic and new opportunities that she cannot even imagine. Now I will never link to her blog, I already unfollowed her on all social platforms and I won't even mention her name

7. thanks for actually getting ME a wonderful unexpected inspiration... as a great quote by Charlamagne Tha God that I heard on a recent podcast "Sh*t is the best fertilizer". She mentioned a "better pattern"... well I don't have a better pattern YET... however I believe that my idea has merit, so I am now designing a complete series of small objects patterns (zipper pouches and other kind of bags) that will be easy, cute, and precut friendly. More on this in the next few months, but this is the point: when you treat people badly, you never know what you awake in them :)

So what do you think about this experience?

Do you think that some people today are just so afraid of sharing that the first reaction to any request is just a door slapped on someone's face? 
Have you ever had a similar experience? Or did you have a wonderful experience that lead to something amazing and unexpected?

Share your stories in the comments below, I would love to read them (and if you want me to reply, please leave your email if you are a no-reply blogger :) )

How about you? What are YOU up to?
Link it here and share it with me!!


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