Rosewood Lane Lap Quilt in True Colors | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

Welcome to Finished {or Not!} Friday where you can share what you're working on and see what others have been making!

Finished {or Not!} Friday is back!  My Finish is a Rosewood Lane lap quilt in True Colors, one of my favorite fabric collections!  I love the colors and designs in this collection!

Rosewood Lane includes 6 sizes from wall hanging to king and is fat quarter friendly.  

I am in love with this quilt and have enough blocks left to make a queen size quilt for my bedroom!  I rarely keep quilts I make, so you know how very much I ♥♥♥ this one!  It's just so bright and happy!

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Rosewood Lane

Fabric:  True Colors by Anna Maria Horner

Size:  54" x 70", large lap size

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton poly

Backing:  Honestly, I don't know!  I'm writing this post away from home, so I can't go look at the selvage!

Quilting:  Maze on Gratitude in gray thread

This quilt is for sale in my quilt shop!

I've made Rosewood Lane four times now, two of them with completely random fabric placement, and two of them with the same fabric in opposite corners of each block.  Here are the other three!  

 

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If you'd like to make quilt blocks for donation quilts, Covered In Love will be announcing their new block drive at the end of the month.  

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Be sure you check out Craftsy's End-of-Year Sale where you will save up to 70% off Kits and Supplies!  Now that the holiday rush is past, hopefully you will have more quilting time!

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Busy Hands Quilts' Best of 2018 Quilts!

2018 was a super busy year for me.  Sixty quilts made their way from an idea and fabric to a completed quilt.  I have many favorites among them so deciding how to narrow them down to 5 quilts took some thought.  

My Best of 2018 list includes goals that I met in 2018.

Printed Patterns!

Diamond Dance was the first quilt pattern I had printed.

Wholesale Quilt Patterns!

Picket Fence was my first pattern sold wholesale.  I now have 9 patterns selling wholesale to quilt shops.

Craftsy's 2018 Quilt Along!

Can you imagine my surprise and delight when my quilt design, Glorious Dawn, was selected as Craftsy's 2018 Quilt Along?!?  A dream come true!  This is Glorious Dawn in Botanical Hydrangea,  the quilt I made for the pattern.  It's a queen size at 94" square.  The quilt kit comes in 3 colorways in 3 different sizes each.

New Patterns!

Most Stunning Quilt I Made in 2018!

Whirl is a paper pieced quilt pattern.  While I didn't enjoy the process of making the quilt because I struggle with the visualization part of paper piecing, the quilt is truly stunning.  This quilt sold in my quilt shop.

My Favorite Quilt of 2018!

A Rosewood Lane lap quilt in True Colors.  I went OOC (that's Out Of Control) when making the blocks and have enough blocks left to make a queen size quilt and a baby or lap quilt!  I will be making a queen size for our bedroom this winter.  Rosewood Lane is a pattern of mine that comes in 6 sizes from wall hanging to king and is Fat Quarter friendly.

Thanks for taking this trip down memory lane with me!  If you'd like to see every quilt I made in 2018 in one place, hop over to my Instagram feed, where I've been featuring the 60 quilts I made in 2018.  You do NOT need an Instagram account to look at them.

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Merry Christmas From Busy Hands Quilts!

Merry Christmas!  I hope today brings you happiness!  I am enjoying a warm-ish Arizona Christmas in Yuma with my parents, enjoying the company of 60 of our friends.

This Log Cabin Christmas Wreath quilt is made in Island Batik fabrics and was gifted this holiday season.  One of my sons said it was a good thing the red didn't swirl the other direction, otherwise it would be a swastika.  Kids!!

If you'd like to see the 60 quilts I made this year in one place, quite of few of which have not been blogged about yet, check out my Instagram profile, where I've been posting them during the month of December.

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Glorious Dawn Quilt Kits on Sale!

This year I had the privilege of designing Glorious Dawn for Craftsy's fall 2018 Quilt Along with Angela Walters!   

This is a great time to spoil yourself {or a friend!} with a Glorious Dawn quilt kit!  There are nine different kit options, and they're all on sale!  The quilt kit comes in three different colorways with three different sizes in each colorway - throw, twin, and queen.  

This is Glorious Dawn in Hydrangea - and that there is the quilt I made!!!  It's a queen size and uses a FQ bundle and layer cake plus black background fabric.



This is Glorious Dawn in Sea Spray in twin size.  It's made from a FQ bundle and a charm pack plus a marshmallow white background fabric.

This is Glorious Dawn in Solids Spectrum in throw size, made from a FQ bundle plus a medium gray background fabric.

The quilt pattern includes detailed instructions for fabric placement so you will be able to create your quilt with the exact layout as the cover quilts.  No guessing which fabrics to place where! 

Angela Walters created Glorious Dawn Quilt Along videos over on Bluprint, so you can get video instructions to help you with each step of the process.  

If you'd like to make Glorious Dawn in your own fabrics, the standalone pattern is available to all Bluprint subscribers.  And now is the best time of the year to become a Bluprint subscriber!  There are two deals currently running - the difference is what you receive with the deal - one is a quilt kit and $25 coupon, and the other deal is 12 Craftsy classes to own for life.

The Ultimate Quilt Package gets you an annual subscription along with a free quilt kit, 50% off all Craftsy-exclusive items until 12/31/2018, a $25 Craftsy coupon, and Free Shipping for the entire subscription year!  This deal expires on 12/26/2018, so check it out!  Here is one of the quilt kit options (there are two)!

Go Here to get the lowest price of the year on an annual subscription plus 12 Craftsy classes to own for life, 50% off all Craftsy-exclusive items until 12/31/2018, and Free Shipping at Craftsy for the entire subscription year!  This deal expires on 12/31/2018, so check it out!

I will be posting my 50 quilts from 2018 over the next few weeks.  Be sure to become a follower for some quilty goodness!

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Island Batik Wonky Star Twin Quilt | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

Welcome to Finished {or Not!} Friday where you can share what you're working on and see what others have been making!

My Finish is a twin size wonky star quilt in beautiful batiks!  Island Batik Ambassadors are given monthly challenges for projects to create with batik fabrics, and December's challenge is whimsical or wonky.  I settled on wonky stars because I had the perfect 10" square stack and some coordinating yardage for the star centers, border and binding.

While wonky stars may look easy peasy, free from rules, I found that was not the case.  I had to rip out many star points because when I folded them back they did not cover the white square underneath.  My dimensional visual skills are apparently lacking, because I really struggled with this.  

This could explain why I do not enjoy paper piecing; eyeballing whether a piece of fabric will cover the area it needs to is difficult for me even with folding it back and checking.  I breathed a sigh of relief when the stars were done - fortunately there were only 12!

Twice a year Island Batik Ambassadors are provided a HUGE box of fabrics to play around with and make the monthly challenges.  Some of the fabrics in this quilt were provided to me by Island Batik, and some I purchased myself.  

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Wonky Stars

Fabric:  Island Batik Bursting Blooms

Size:  68" x 85", twin size

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 cotton poly

Quilting:  Stars and starburst flowers on Gratitude in white thread

This quilt is for sale in my quilt shop!

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Home Awaits Quilt Pattern | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

Welcome to Finished {or Not!} Friday where you can share your projects and see what others are working on!

My apologies for not hosting Finished {or Not!} Friday last week!  Around noon on Friday, I asked my kids what day of the week it was, and they said, Friday!  Oh no, I completely forgot Finished {or Not!} Friday, I said.  The schedule change with the Thanksgiving break had me all confuzzled!  But FONF is back!

My finish is a new quilt pattern - Home Awaits!  This pattern includes 6 sizes - Baby, Small and Large Laps, Twin, Queen and King - and is made from 10" squares for the smaller sizes and 10" squares and 2.5" strips for the queen and king sizes.  As per my usual, this pattern includes strip piecing to speed up the process.

This quilt is too long to hang on the clothesline for an outdoor shot, so it is hanging on my living room wall.  Yep, my living room wall is huge enough to hold a queen size quilt with room to spare.  Here's proof.  

My family likes having a quilt on the wall again after I took a break from quilts and hung chicken and cow art work.  So that leads us down the rabbit hole of exactly what chicken and cow art work I am speaking of.  Here ya go.

I have ordered navy and white woven gingham fabric to make new curtains for the living room windows.  These wild and crazy curtains must go.

One of my boys loved the cow canvas when I got it, so I bought him his own so he won't steal mine can be reminded of his mom when he moves out.

And my daughter dislikes this fried chicken sign, so I have hung it next to where she hangs her car keys so she can see it everyday, several times a day.  :)  As you can tell, I have interesting tastes in living room decor.  Zip zap zup... we're back out of the rabbit chicken and cow hole and back to Home Awaits!

Home Awaits is on sale at an introductory price through this weekend!  You'll save in my pattern shop right over here.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Home Awaits by Busy Hands Quilts

Fabric:  Bloomsbury by Moda Fabrics

Size:  89" x 102"

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom Cotton

Quilting:  Moulin Rouge on Gratitude in white thread

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The winner of last week's giveaway - a Boundless Botanicals Orange FQ bundle - is Kat and Cat Quilts!

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Christmas Log Cabin Wreath Quilt | Finished or Not Friday Linky Party!

Island Batik Ambassadors are given monthly challenges using Island Batik fabrics, and November's assignment is log cabins.  I love log cabin quilts but actually rarely make them, so it was good to visit this timeless block again.

An internet search led me to this design, a Log Cabin Christmas Wreath.  With the generosity of Island Batik in providing fabrics for projects, I had just the right fabrics on hand for this quilt, most of them from the Alpine Jingle collection.

The Christmas Wreath quilt really needed some holiday quilting, so this beautiful holly and berries design seemed the perfect fit.  I love the white stitching on the red backing.

Inside the quilt is Hobbs Heirloom Wool batting to give the quilting more definition and also to reduce the number of fold lines since it is a wall hanging that will likely not be displayed all year long.

This quilt has a hanging sleeve attached.

Quilt Stats:

Pattern:  Christmas Log Cabin Wreath by Jessie Fincham found in Quilt Now Issue 4.

Fabric:  Island Batik Alpine Jingle and other collections

Size:  41.5" square

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom Premium Wool

Quilting:  Holly and Berries on Gratitude in white thread

This quilt is for sale in my quilt shop!

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Stepping Stones by Kathi at Run N Stitch

A T-Shirt Quilt by Katie Mae Quilts!

Giveaway!

The winner of last week's giveaway - a Boundless Botanicals Green FQ bundle - is Karen from Tu-Na Quilts!

This week I'm giving away four yellow/orange Boundless Botanical fat quarters.  To enter to win, link up your Finished {or not!} Friday project(s) in the linkup below.  You're not limited to one entry, but please, only projects from this week!  Sorry - US addresses only due to postage costs.

The Big Sale is Happening at Connecting Threads!

And if you've been on the fence about Bluprint, Craftsy's renamed video subscription service {and so much more!}, here is your chance to get access to Bluprint for $1 for one month!  Yep $1...!!

One of the many benefits of Bluprint is free patterns every month, and I'm on the design team!  Two of my designs will be arriving in the Bluprint platform very soon!  It's a great time to get access and see what the Bluprint excitement is all about!  Why don't you sign up today!

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