Friday 8 April 2011

Pinwheel Blocks & Table Runner Challenge & a Link to a Give-away

I have done 36 blocks of Pinwheels using 1930s fabric & WoW this is going for a quilt I am doing the method I used was one that been shown on   Missouri Star Quilt Co   click on it to take you to the YouTube video I really like this method I may change some of the blocks around from this photo
 There is a new needlecraft group open up in the village where I live I went to the meeting last night a very friendly bunch of ladies, there is a couple of them who done quilting, some knit or crochet & some do embroidery or cross stitch it a wide selection of crafts & they will be meeting twice a month 
On my Online Quilting Group  Q4A  I have set them a Table Runner Challenge it is to do a runner which the patter calls Fresh Pears if you  click here   it will take you to a page where if you scroll down you see it.
They can change the fruit, size of it but they must use the rail fence part of the pattern below is what i designed on EQ not what i done lol the 2 are one for summer & other for autumn

Summer

Autumn
May be you like to take up the challenge my group has until end of July to get their ones done if you do the runner please do let me know so I can share it on here.
There is also give-away on at Raggedy Station
Now last but not least my friend Sissy has enter the world of blogging so I hope that you will all take a look at her blog & give her the support that I know you all can the blog is called  Sewing From the Heart  what a lovely name I am sure she will have loads of followers soon with your help of getting the word out 

4 comments:

  1. Your pinwheels are looking so pretty.

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  2. Lovely pinwheel blocks...thank you for the link....for the pear tablerunner...Regards, Lyn

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  3. Love the pinwheels! I like the fruit table runner too. That would work for so many different things.

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  4. Janice, thanks for the kind welcome to blogging on your blog. Happy to have everyone stop by. Soon I will have a few things for sale so hope you all stop back again soon or subscribe to my blog. I like the table runner pattern for our group challenge. Happy Sewing! Sissy

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