Pastimes Online’s First Annual Open House (127)

Welcome back to Val’s Quilting…

One More Sleep until the BIG event!! I’m so excited to meet all of you who have the chance to stop by! 🙂

I’m having a small Impromptu Open House and I’m so happy to invite all of you to stop by and enjoy!! 

Saturday July 10th from 10-4 pm, come out, have some refreshments, play and try all of our great tools and hopefully be inspired!!

Also stop at Lorraine Stagness’ Mini Quilt Show in Strathmore happening the same day!!

If you think you can stop by let me know your coming – that would be AWESOME!!

Temari Balls & A Kittens Tale (126)

Temari Balls…”huh what did you say”, Yes I said Temari Balls (wikipedia).

These adorable little balls had me at “hello”.

I found this book which I had to have…You can buy it here. It’s chalked full of all of the info you need to get you started, basics, advanced and so much more!

 Then I had to have this book because of this adorable image

and all of the images inside are so inspiring it was a must buy 🙂 You can purchase it here

A couple of websites for more inspiration and of course

you can google: temari ball images and be blown away.

http://www.temarikai.com/

http://www.japanesetemari.com/gallery.htm

They are small, like the size of a baseball or slightly smaller but you can pretty much make them the size you want 🙂

Here’s the first one I’ve finished and the second one I’ve started:

Don’t you just want to hold them? They make you feel good 🙂

A Kittens Tale Block 5 I’m falling in total love with this quilt, it’s quite involved with all of the piecing and applique but so worth it.

Until next time, have a happy and creative weekend!

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Around the Net: Pinwheel Tutorial (125)

OH MY G!! Sheila has found the perfect pinwheel tutorial and I wanted to share it with all of you.

The only difference between this and your standard method of drawing two diagonal lines on point then sewing is…when you cut the half square triangles apart they finish smaller.

Standard method of drawing the diagonal lines:
2 squares that are 3″ you get 2 half square triangles that are 2.5″

This new method:
2 squares that are 3″ you get 4 half square triangles that are 1.5″

I’m going to for sure try this with the next pinwheel blocks I need done!! Thanks Sheila