Tea Roses

Tilde has finished a hexagon top, using the 0.75" shapes from Collection 3.
Size of top : 48 x 66"

It was a fun quilt to make, and making hexagon flowers as rectangular blocks made the joining of them very easy.

Yin Yang Blocks

Cathi of Quilt Obsession is working on two quilts using the YinYang shape collection.

The Yin Yang block is a very addictive one to stitch and it presses absolutely perfectly every time, thanks to the precision of the matching points.

Batik Hexagons

Carol in Panama made this DDG batik quilt.
You can read all about it on her own blog (follow the link that is embedded in her name) and see close-ups of the quilting, and of the design-choices she has made.

Carol writes :
I began this project because I wanted a small portable block that I could stitch by hand on airplanes, in waiting rooms and while watching TV. After laboriously stitching forty two English Paper Pieced hexagons I finally admitted to myself that I hated EPP. Then I discovered Inklingo. No paper templates, no basting, a running stitch instead of a whip stitch, far more accurate than EPP and the stitches never show on the front. The pressing is a dream and the quilt lies perfectly flat.

I couldn't use Linda's English Paper Piecing Rescue instructions because I used a glue stick instead of basting the papers onto the fabric. I put the forty two EPP hexagons away and started over with Inklingo. I has been quite a journey, but I am glad I didn't give up!

Wedding Signature Quilt

Pat B from NY also made this wonderful Wedding Sinature quilt.

She writes :
I used Collection 2 to print all the triangles on the signature-quilt. The block patterns came from two different patterns in McCall's Quilting.

Editor's Note : "Collection 2" is a sold-out collection on CD. Most of the shapes, however, are found in the HST and QST 00B collections, which are downloadable.

Joseph's Coat

Cathy in TN has been persuaded to show her Joseph's Coat WIP to us all.
Remember that this collection was issued on June 18th ! so Cathy has been a busy bee :-)

Cathy writes
I am making a queen-size quilt, about 90 x 110". So far I have 4 rows, which makes the current piece about 90 x 24". I am enjoying it so much. This pattern is just a delight to piece.
On the Inklingo Yahoo-group, she told us that she is using the "Summer Breeze" collection by Sentimental Studios for Moda

Feathered Star

Pat B in NY is fussy-cutting her Feathered Star as well ... but no owls.

She writes :

The Feathered Star is 20" and I used Stack and Whack methods to get the centre and kites.

Looks amazing, Pat

Chinz Circles / Orange Peel de Luxe

Carole has bought Cathi's new pattern for Chinz Circles, and has made a few test-runs.
So now we're all looking forward to seeing where she goes with this.

Uses the Orange Peel de Luxe collection

Feathered Stars with Owls.

Kathy has finished her owly Feathered Star top, and it is, frankly, gorgeous.
She has used the 15" Feathered Star Collection, and some non-Inklingo bits to finish it. You can see the individual Feathered Stars here, and here.

Feathered Star

Carole is making Feathered Stars too, and her version has a lacy (with a c, not a z !), elegant feel to it that I don't think I have seen before. I look forward to seeing more of this project !

More of Kathy's Owls

Another batch of Kathy's wonderful Owls.
This time, I recognize some of the non-owly fabrics, and remember them as being pretty ugly when I tried to use them. Amazing how the right person can make fabrics sing ! because after seeing them being used here, I'm (almost) sad that I didn't get more than a charm-pack of them. Cute blocks with gorgeous fussy-printing.

Sunflowers at Sea

Nancy in Alabama has made this beautiful little wall-hanging.
She writes :
I finished a small Double Sunflower quilt for my breakfast room. I used shapes from the 6" Storm At Sea collection for the border. The Storm At Sea is so versatile

Double Sunflower uses both the 6" and 12" Sunflower collections. And what a lovely idea to use the Storm At Sea shapes for the border.

Project is 16" square.

More Feathered Stars with Owls

Kathi also keeps on with her Owly Feathered Stars. They really are specacular. Notcie the pentagon centre in one ! (and please disregard that I couldn't find my way to turn one of them on its head, even though Kathi asked it). More of Kathi's Feathered Freinds Stars can also be found in this post.

POTC-Hexagons

Kathi has started making these lovely blocks, using her collection of Owl Fabrics. Must be a huge collection. She is using the 150 % POTC collection, that is, the larger size of the 90-degree hexagon shape that is also used in the Patchwork Of The Crosses. Try clicking on the individual pictures to see more details. It is worth it.

Winding Ways

Barbara made this quilt. She writes :
I think I have mentioned before that I was making a Winding Ways quilt for my daughter who married last November in Germany.
The wedding celebration was May 14th in Dalldorf, Germany, and I finished the quilt just in time !

Absolutely gorgeous, Barbara ! I hope the young couple appreciates your work.

Carol used the 9" Winding Ways collection, and the quilt is 72 x 81"

Candied Hexagons

Annie is making Candied Hexagons, a patter based on the (Australian) Frederica Josephson Quilt. She is - in part - using the hexagon-designs found on the Inklingo Sampler blog.

Looking real good, Annie!

Tumbler Fish

Elly made this 'quiltlet' with the Tumbler Collection and a wee bit of applique.
Finished size : approximately 10 x 12".
... yes, I know, cute :-)

Snack Quilt

Ruby in Nova Scotia made this wonderful quilt last spring.
She writes :
I made this Grandmother's Flower Garden last spring for my mother's 91st birthday. It is hand pieced and machine quilted. Here it is hanging at our local guild's quilt show.

I used the Snack Quilt pattern and 1.5 inch hexagons from the Inklingo CD #3 collection.Ruby in Nova Scotia

Size of finished quilt : 48 x 68"

Pickled Clamshells

Jeannette from South Australia is (once again !) quietly finishing one beautiful quilt after another. This one with Pickled Clams and Flying Geese.
Jeannette writes :
The Clams are all hand pieced and the Flying Geese are machine pieced. The Geese measure 1.5 x 3". I used 1.5" HST from Collection 2 [ed. sold out, but the 1.5" HST is in the 00B HST collection too] and 4.25" unprinted squares for the Geese, and 9" Pickle Clamshells.
I am very happy with the way it all went together. It was easy peasy.

Size of quilt 49.5 x 63"

Insanity

The Insanity fever is not abating. Rather, the tops begin to finish up.
Carole is making one too !
Remember, when you see these, that they are made using hexagons that are 0.5" to the side, that's right, half-an-inch to the side.

Looking good, Carole !

Chair Cushions

Pat B from NY has made these wonderful Chair-cushions using the 9" Winding Ways collection.
'They went together very easily' she tells us.

And they look wonderful, Pat !

Patchwork of the Crosses - POTC

Shirl has finished her POTC top. Here's her story :

I just wasn't sure if I was going to have the 'AHA' moment when I first started this quilt so I just picked out some of the reproduction fabrics (Charlestown III- blues, browns, creams, beiges) I was using for my Dear Jane (I live in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia so Civil War stuff is really big here).

Like us all, the light bulb lit up and off I went; what I found out though was there weren't that many directional fabrics and consequently this quilt doesn't have that 'kaleidoscope' look. THE NEXT ONE : ))) will be brighter.... now the fabric shopping tips written in the POTC book make more sense and I see fabric with different eyes. You probably can't see it in the picture unless you zoom in, but 1st and 2nd row, 4th block over, all of the 3rd row, and 4th block in rows 4,5,6,7 & 8 have lighter bkground border blocks and all the little crosses bordering these blocks are solid; (same color as the connectors) the thought being that a subtle big cross would show. Next step is quilting the quilt and picking the design to help the big cross pop.

Wish me luck on my Dear Jane... the plan is to finish by the 2013, the 150th anniversary..... I put it down for the year I worked on POTC... I know I'll get tons of questions re Inklingo when I take it to Show & Tell. I have to figure out a way to make a teeny weeny POTC name tag block and put "Inklingo Rocks" right in the middle [VBG].

Thank you again ladies, I am so enjoying this journey !

Shirl

And what a gorgeous quilt it has turned out to be, Shirl ! Congratulations.