Alycia Quilts - Quiltygirl: Orange you Glad Blog Hop

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Friday, August 20, 2021

A Quilt of Valor and!!! Finished ( Or not) Friday

Happy Friday!!!

We got a tiny little bit of rain this week - so we are all happy dancing around here and pretty much praying for more. People tell us Colorado is not in a drought - but they sorta forget our county when they say that - and we are!!! So any little bit of rain is good.... except... with that and the smoke - my poor little rural internet just doesn't know what to do !!

I had Two Finishes this week!

This one : I finished quilting. My Friend Ethel made the top - and I quilted it all up for our next QOV sewing meeting. She will take it back and Bind it.. oh ya!! Easy on me!

I had fun!! I quilted Eagles in the triangles and eagle heads in the corners...

and for my Second Finish!! I participated in the Orange You Glad Blog hop by Creatin in the Sticks - and Wednesday was my day.... So I showed off my Orange you glad - and!!! I did a little block tutorial ( go me!!)

You can read that full story on this post:

https://alyciaquilts.blogspot.com/2021/08/orange-you-glad-and-block-tutorial.html

You know the drill:

Link up your DIRECT post to your Finished ( or not) post

Link back to this post

and Visit the blogs - I do all of them .. but commit to at least three! Share the love

And have fun!

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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Orange you Glad!!! and a block tutorial

Today is my day on the Awesome ORANGE YOU GLAD Bog hop!!

I saw this one and said "Self!! Go outside your color range and join in!" and then I got to planning... and looking at my fabric and I said "Self!! you sure have a lot of orange-ish fabric.... why haven't you dug in?"

So this !! totally got me going!!

Let's just jump in with the Final Product - and then, we will go to the Block Tutorial

Are you ready? Sure? Alright?

I am not going to tell you how old these fabrics are - but I am pretty sure they are at least 12 years old. I must have loved them and had a plan - and then - put them in a hiding place! I am so glad I found them - there is Orange, shades or orange and pink in them - I loved them even more this time!

Because I am a machine quilter ( and was a machine quilter first!! haha) You just have to see the texture this panto creates.... I love it!! and I think... its pretty modern.

I decided that this quilt needs to live in my house - and I love Flannel Backings and I had the cutest puppy dog print - so ! This is the back!!

Now for the individual Block!!!

That's just a fun one right? I can see it in a lot of colors - and way more scrappy that this....

The block is 12 1/2 inches - so my 30 blocks made a 60 x 72 ish Size quilt.

Just so you know - when you open your colored pencil pack and you have the 72 pencil pack - you will be surprised at the lack of Shade Difference from the Oranges they have in there..... I think kindergarteners everywhere are going to be sad when they realize this... I had to have a piece of chocolate to stop my sadness!

Ta da!! Now you can make your Own Orange Block!!

As I worked through this Quilt I kept thinging - you have made orange quilts before.... Haven't you? and then I searched my photos... you know photos - always tell the truth right????

and look I did!!

and I did!!!

and the last one!!

Apparently I like Orange more than I thought I did!!

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