Congratulations to the repeat QAL winners!

Wow!

It was so thrilling to see all the finished quilt tops pop up on Facebook, Instagram and the linky.

Here are just some of them - you can see more here -

Row 1: Marsha, Kathy, Jennifer, Needled Mom;  Row 2: Anne, Darlene, Karen, Carol
Row 3: Brenda, Brenda, Kris, Muddy Spring;  Row 4: Frances, Daisy and Jack, Nancy

Our sponsors provided wonderful prizes.  Points were awarded for sharing a final quilt top in the linky as well as progress photos on Facebook and Instagram.

Prizes were randomly awarded - all winners have been contacted by email.

Congratulations to:

Karen R -  Aurifil thread pack

Laraine B -   American Made Brand Charm Pack 

Kathy T - $25 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop

Liz, Jenny & Frances - each won a pdf pattern from Busy Hands Quilts

The repeat linky will stay open indefinitely so please come back and link up or send me an email when you finish your quilts.

Want more letters?  (They are kind of addictive!)

Visit my Craftsy store and get your very own copy of the Chunky Alphabet!  Assemble the letters you want into the words and names that are important to you!

Thank you sponsors!!!!

American Made Brand    

(Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram)

Fat Quarter Shop 

 (Website  \  Facebook  \  Instagram)

Aurifil   

(Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram)

Busy Hands Quilts   

(Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram)

Have a wonderful day! Patty

repeat QAL - let's PARTY

It's time to turn your pile of letters into a quilt!!

Share your quilt - quilted or not quilted - into this linky for a chance to win a prize in the random giveway.   The linky will be open forever but only quilts submitted by midnight EST Friday, August 5th will be entered into the random giveaway.

Each entry in the linky is worth 10 points in the participant giveaway.  You can enter more than one quilt top.  Progress photos earn extra points - read more here to find out sharing options!

I really like it when people take a quilt and make it their own so I want to support some variations in finishes if you don't want to make this exact quilt.  So if you are doing your own thing, just make sure your entry follows these guidelines:

• Must use the paper piecing patterns supplied as part of the QAL for the letters OR use the traditional piecing instructions for the word "quilt"

• Contains at least one of the words - quilt, eat, sleep, repeat

If you have trouble with the linky, just email a photo to elmstreetquilts at gmail dot com and I'll update the linky for you!  

A big THANK YOU to our awesome sponsors !!!!!!!!

Go visit these great companies and show them some love.

American Made Brand    

(Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram)

Fat Quarter Shop 

 (Website  \  Facebook  \  Instagram)

Aurifil   

(Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram)

Busy Hands Quilts   

(Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram)

Can't wait to see what you share!!

An InLinkz Link-up

(Note - I may use your photo of your project (finished or in progress) on a future blog post with credit to you.)

Fat Quarter Shop, one of my blog sponsors, offers a tremendous selection of fabric and very beautiful (and tempting!) block of the month offerings.  Fat Quarter Shop offers fabric from many different manufacturers and you can find anything you are looking for there!  A new and exciting product is the Sew Sampler - a monthly subscription box filled with great products.  Fat Quarter Shop is offering a $25 gift certificates for the QAL.  

Aurifil is home to a beautiful rainbow of thread in all weights, perfect for any of your sewing and quilting needs.  My favorite product is the designer collection boxes which coordinate with various fabric lines.  Aurifil is offering a thread set for the QAL





American Made Brand solids, one of my blog sponsors, has a collection of 75 beautiful colors of fabric completely manufactured in the United States - from the cotton to the finished fabric!  The fabric has deep rich color and I love the feel of the fabric (the hand.)  My repeat quilt top was made exclusively of American Made Brand solids.   American Made Brand is offering a fabric bundle for the QAL.





Busy Hands Quilts is offering three quilt patterns from her Etsy store.    You can see more of Myra's beautiful work on her Busy Hands Quilts blog.

Have a wonderful day! Patty

repeat QAL - the STAR plus finishing instructions

We are in the home stretch with the repeat QAL - time to make the star block and finish your quilt!

All the letter blocks should be 5 ½  '' unfinished (5'' finished) tall in the quilt top.

However, I know a few have had some issues with their printers.  To help, the finishing instructions also contain directions on adjusting the filler blocks and the sashing to your actual block measurements.  As long as your blocks are a consistent height, you are good!

Next Monday (July 18th), the linky party will open.  Looking forward to seeing your finished quilt tops - finished or unfinished.   The linky party will be open forever but anyone who enters their quilt top through midnight Friday, August 5th will earn an entry into the giveaway.  If you made more than one, you can earn entry for each quilt.  More on that next week.

Now, let's finish the quilt!

• Download the pattern for the STAR plus finishing instructions.  Note this download has TWO (2) information pages before the actual paper piece pattern sheets so only print the paper piece patterns on your special paper!   The star prints across two sheets of paper.  (This is your personal copy of the pattern.  Please don't share it with others - just send them to my blog and they can get their very own!)

• The star block will be trimmed to  11 ½  x 8¾ ''.  (Finished size will be 11  x 8 ¼ '').

To finish the quilt mini, add a 2'' (unfinished) border.  I quilted my quilt mini with matchstick quilting.  (tutorial)

• For overall information on the QAL including any pattern updates, sponsor information and overall schedule, please visit the main repeat QAL page.

• Download a copy of the repeat QAL coloring sheet.

• Fabric requirement and suggested supply list are also available.

• Paper piecing tutorial

Share progress photos in the Elm Street Quilts QAL Facebook group.   Come cheer on others and make new friends.  

Don't use Facebook?  Share your progress on Instagram.  Make sure your tag the photo with@elmstreetquilts and use #ESQrepeatQAL as the social tag.     

Don't use Instagram either?  Send me a progress photo via email to elmstreetquilts at gmail dot com. 



Have a wonderful day! Patty

repeat QAL - Give me r, s, t & l

Having fun paperpiecing your quilts?

The rest of the letters are available for the repeat QAL - r, s, t & l!!!   (And a day early since tomorrow is a holiday here in the US!)

 Links to the patterns for the vowels - a, e, i & u - plus the letters p & q can be found here.)

quilt

eat

sleep

repeat

• Download the paper piecing pattern for the letters r, s, t & l.    Note this download has TWO (2) information pages before the actual paper piece pattern sheets so only print the paper piece patterns on your special paper!  (This is your personal copy of the pattern.  Please don't share it with others - just send them to my blog and they can get their very own!)

• You'll need three (3) t's, two (2) l's and one (1) each of r & s ,  Print one (1) copy of each of the paper piece pattern.  

• The letter r will be trimmed to  5 ½  x 4 ¼ ''.  (Finished size will be 5 x 3 ¾ '' ) 

•  The letter s will be trimmed to  5 ½ x 4  ½ ''.  (Finished size will be 5 x 4 '' ) 

• The letter t will be trimmed to  5 ½  x 3 ¾ ''.  (Finished size will be 5 x 3 ¼ '').

 

• The letter l  will be trimmed to  5 ½ x 2 ¼ '' .  (Finished size will be 5 x 1 ¾ '' ).

If you are making the smaller quilt quilt and piecing the letters traditionally, you can get the pattern for the lt block here..  (This is your personal copy of the pattern.  Please don't share it with others - just send them to my blog and they can get their very own!)

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• For overall information on the QAL including any pattern updates, sponsor information and overall schedule, please visit the main repeat QAL page.

• Download a copy of the repeat QAL coloring sheet.

• Fabric requirement and suggested supply list are also available.

• Paper piecing tutorial

Share progress photos in the Elm Street Quilts QAL Facebook group.   Come cheer on others and make new friends.  

Don't use Facebook?  Share your progress on Instagram.  Make sure your tag the photo with@elmstreetquilts and use #ESQrepeatQAL as the social tag.     

Don't use Instagram either?  Send me a progress photo via email to elmstreetquilts at gmail dot com. 

Have a wonderful day! Patty

repeat QAL - Mind your p's & q's

Time to mind your p's and q's* !   Next set of blocks in the repeat QAL are available!

(*Origin of this expression  seems to be uncertain - I'm going with the care the printer had to take to avoid confusing these letters.  Seems applicable to paper piecing since the block prints backwards and the q will look like a p during assembly.)

Paper piecing patterns are available today for the letters p & q.  Links to the patterns for the vowels - a, e, i & u - can be found here.)

quilt

eat

sleep

repeat

• Download the paper piecing pattern for the letters p & q.    Note this download has TWO (2) information pages before the actual paper piece pattern sheets so only print the paper piece patterns on your special paper!  (This is your personal copy of the pattern.  Please don't share it with others - just send them to my blog and they can get their very own!)

• You'll need two (2) p's and one (1) q so just print one (1) copy of each of the paper piece pattern.  

• The letters p & q will be trimmed to 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 '' and will be 5 x 4 '' in the finished quilt.

If you are making the smaller quilt quilt and piecing the letters traditionally, you can get the pattern for the q block here..  (This is your personal copy of the pattern.  Please don't share it with others - just send them to my blog and they can get their very own!)

                                                   quilt

• For overall information on the QAL including any pattern updates, sponsor information and overall schedule, please visit the main repeat QAL page.

• There was a correction to the letter i pattern - make sure you check it out!

• Download a copy of the repeat QAL coloring sheet.

• Fabric requirement and suggested supply list are also available.

• Paper piecing tutorial

Share progress photos in the Elm Street Quilts QAL Facebook group.   Come cheer on others and make new friends.  

Don't use Facebook?  Share your progress on Instagram.  Make sure your tag the photo with@elmstreetquilts and use #ESQrepeatQAL as the social tag.     

Don't use Instagram either?  Send me a progress photo via email to elmstreetquilts at gmail dot com. 

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Look at all the pretty vowels!

Such great looking vowels have been turning up on Instagram #ESQrepeatQAL and on the Elm Street Quilts QAL Facebook group!

Credit to: Kathy T & @needledmom (top row), Kathy T and Kaholly (middle row), and Brenda and @opal.august (bottom row).    (Note - links are to either their instagram feed or their Facebook page.)

Come join the fun and get ready for the letters p and q blocks on Monday!   Miss a post, get caught up here.  Plenty of time to make the quilt - linky will open from mid-July to mid-August.

And make sure you read through yesterday's post in case you need to correct (or remake) your letter i block.  Also discussed the issue some are having getting the darn block pattern to print to proper scale on some printers.  Not to worry on that one - as long as it printing blocks to a consistent height, it is going to come together just fine.

Sharing progress photos on Instagram, in the Facebook group or emailing them to me will earn you some entries into the giveaway.  Read more about this here!


Have a wonderful day! Patty

Correction for the letter i block

Two important things for the repeat QAL.

First, I know some people are having problems with their printer getting the pdf pattern to print to the proper scale.  As long as the blocks are a CONSISTENT HEIGHT, don't worry about it.  The finishing instructions will help you adapt.   Your finished quilt might be slightly smaller but still gorgeous!  However, it would be helpful to me to know how much variance there actual is out there. Can you take this quick survey - just answer as many or as few of the letter measurements as you want!

Second, the letter i.  Sigh.

Late Wednesday, someone brought to my attention that the letter i block was incomplete - it was missing it's bottom background piece!  (How embarrassing for me and the poor letter i!)

In the process of creating the pdf, I pulled in the wrong block.  So sorry for my error!

It has been corrected and everyone who received the incorrect letter i block received an email from me with the updated block attached.  (The new i block is constructed slightly differently as well - a bit easier to assemble.)

The new file name is called Elm Street Quilts repeat QAL - letter a i u UPDATED.  If you haven't made your letter i block yet, you can just download a new copy.

And if you did make it already, I'd recommend making it again.  It is a quick block.  But if you'd prefer to fix what you got, keep reading!

Sometimes in the printing of pdf patterns, they loose their calibration a bit and what started out as an inch, is slightly less than an inch.   Just in case this happened to you, we are going to work this correction off an actual finished block that you have.

Measure distance between the background piece at the top and at the bottom of the letter u block.

Add 1/4 '' to that measurement and measure down from the top of the main part of the letter i block.  (Don't include the 'dot' part of the i.)

On your letter i block, mark a line that measurement down from the top.

Lay a piece of background fabric rough cut (to be trimmed later) at 2 1/2 '' square ; right sides together where the edge of the fabric is against the line you just drew.  

 Stitch your quarter inch seam.

Flip and press.  Compare to the letter u block - see those 'vvvvvvvv' in the photo below.  If all is good, then go ahead and cut aware the excess letter i fabric and trim.   (If not, recheck your measurements and repeat.)

Now that your center bits are lined up and fixed, you may need to trim a smidgen off the top.  My correction was less than 1/4''.

Whew!  All done!

Thanks much!  See you back here on Monday for the letter p and q!



Have a wonderful day! Patty

repeat QAL - the rest of the vowels - a, i, u

Time to make the rest of the vowels for your repeat quilt.   I am so excited that you are quilting along!  (For overall information on the QAL including any pattern updates, sponsor information and overall schedule, please visit the main repeat QAL page.)

Paper piecing patterns are available today for the letters a, i & u.  The letter e was available last week.

quilt

eat

sleep

repeat

• Download the paper piecing pattern for the letters a, i & u.    Note this download has TWO (2) information pages before the actual paper piece pattern sheets so only print the paper piece patterns on your special paper!  (This is your personal copy of the pattern.  Please don't share it with others - just send them to my blog and they can get their very own!)

• You'll need two (2) a's and one (1) u and one (1) i in the quilt so just print one (1) copy of each of the paper piece pattern.  The letter i and u are on the same pattern sheet.

• The letters a & u will be trimmed to 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 '' and will be 5 x 4 '' in the finished quilt.

•  The letter i will be trimmed to 5 1/2 x 2 1/4 '' and will be 5 x 1 3/4 '' in the finished quilt.

If you are making the smaller quilt quilt and piecing the letters traditionally, you can get the pattern for the ui block here.  (This is your personal copy of the pattern.  Please don't share it with others - just send them to my blog and they can get their very own!)

                                      quilt

• For overall information on the QAL including any pattern updates, sponsor information and overall schedule, please visit the main repeat QAL page.

• Download a copy of the repeat QAL coloring sheet.

• Fabric requirement and suggested supply list are also available.

• Paper piecing tutorial

Share progress photos in the Elm Street Quilts QAL Facebook group.   Come cheer on others and make new friends.  

Don't use Facebook?  Share your progress on Instagram.  Make sure your tag the photo with@elmstreetquilts and use #ESQrepeatQAL as the social tag.     

Don't use Instagram either?  Send me a progress photo via email to elmstreetquilts at gmail dot com. 




Have a wonderful day! Patty