A Vote and a Free Online Quilt Conference

This week's theme contest over at the Quilting Gallery is Scrappy Triangle Quilts. I entered Don't Worry, Be Scrappy! If you haven't voted yet, and like my quilt, I wouldn't mind one of your votes (you get to pick five this week). Thanks!

The other thing I wanted to tell you about is the Inspired to Quilt Expo. It's an online quilt conference that started on Wednesday and goes until this Sunday. How fun is that? All the benefits of hearing and seeing some of the top quilt teachers, like Lyric Kinard, from around the world, from the comfort of your couch (or as in my case, my bed). And it's free! I believe this is the first time somebody's attempted something like this so there have been some technical glitches and some of the video quality is not great, but the teachers are top notch and you can still hear and understand everything. Like any good quilt show, they also have vendor booths. And did I mention it's free? You do need to register though.

How cool would it be if they could do this for the Sewing Summit or the Houston Quilt Show? Ah, a woman can dream!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Honourable Mention for Don't Worry, Be Scrappy!

Doing the happy dance, doing the happy dance, yes, I'm doing the happy dance. I found out yesterday that Don't Worry, Be Scrappy! won Honourable Mention in Generation Q's Scrap Splat Challenge. Woo hoo!

I had seen Kit Lang's Off to Oz piece and Amy's Small Quilt earlier this month and LOVED their work.  The winning quilt, Flaun's White Wedding, is off the charts beautiful. I can't believe my quilt was even as close as an honourable mention, but I'll take it. :)

Generation Q Magazine has posted photos of all the submissions on their Flickr photostream. Go check it out when you get a chance -- it's so cool to see how different people interpret the same challenge.

Thank you to Thomas Knauer and Generation Q Magazine for this fun challenge!

TGIFF! - Don't Worry, Be Scrappy!

Yesterday was one of those days. You know the ones when things just don't go the way you planned -- not at all, not even close. They aren't really bad days, just one little thing after another goes off the rails. I try really hard to just go with the flow on those days and not make it worse. Not so successful yesterday though. Oh well, it all worked out in the end and today is, thankfully, a new day.

My day yesterday just makes this finish all the more fitting. Here's my scrap splat challenge for Generation Q magazine - Don't Worry, Be Scrappy!

Since the colours of the scraps were all over the place, I decided to focus on the values and see what I could do with those. We could only add solids so to help focus on the values, I just added one solid - black. For the quilting, I continued on the value theme. I had a pack of Wonderfil with 8 values ranging from pink to burgundy. I used those for the quilting. Not so sure about the quilting, but I'm going with it. I also tried a facing binding for the first time, using Susan Brubaker Knapp's awesome tutorial. Love this look!

Thank you to the wonderful Erin at Missy Mac Creations for hosting this week's TGIFF! party. I know she had a tough day yesterday too, so head on over there to spread some quilty love and see the fabulous finishes. If you have a finish, you are more than welcome to link up!





Happy Friday!