Diamonds

I love all of them but the building blocks is also my favorite... I would also love to know where to find the pattern..

fish

I love your first quilt and would like to make one. Can you tell me the measurements of the pieces and how you get the corner blue triangles on the large white block? I saw one like this at the quilt shop in Long Beach, WA that used other colors in these triangles--some red and others. It was also stunning. I can try to put this on graph paper, but maybe you can give me some tips. Thanks

ShellyQ

Thank you so much for the encouraging comments :D , as far as the building blocks Patt goes, I drew this up myself. I started by playing with the whirligig patt on isometric graph, moving lines around and colouring bits different to see what would happen. I have posted a diagramme on the second page of this thread.

I have recently seen examples of this quilt on the web, It seems to be most often called Honeycomb Waffle, I'm not sure how this works for copyright, as I came up with the patt independantly, I feel quite comfortable using it in any way I see fit for myself, but am not sure how it would affect sharing and on public forums such as this.

I have searched and searched to find some instructions for this quilt to answer your questions. I remember some one posting a link, but can't find it. All I've been able to find is a book written by a Sara Nephews so here is the link for that anyway http://softexpressions.com/software/books/BigBkBuildBlocks.php if I do find anything else I'll post it here

Fish: The triangles on the larger square are made using the sew and flip method, so you start out with a square the same size as your alternating 4 Patch and 2 smaller squares, each half the finished size of your larger square plus 1/2". Place the smaller square onto the corner of the large, square and sew diagonally across the small square from corner to corner. Press top layer of sm square towards edge, presto finished triangle, no triangle cutting :P You can pretty much make it any size you like. Thankyou so much and I'm so pleased that you liked it

ShellyQ

Am adding a couple of my other quilts I thought you might like, including the whirligig I mentioned previously. It is one of my earlier quilts made about 12 years ago, the patt came from a class I took to learn more quilting techniques. It is random scrap, very hard to do, lol I kept wanting to sort them. Except for the backgrond so I call it a semi-scrap :lol:

ShellyQ

And a couple of Minis, the snails trail quilt I called Sea Snails cause the colours of the fabrics gave it a coral/sea look. Both quilts are foundation Pieced

PamH

OMG Shelly those are all so beautiful, I couldn't pick a favorite. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :lol: :lol: :lol:

lin

Wow! Shelly I don't think I even need my coffee this morning, those woke me right up with their bright colors and pretty designs. I'm speechless. You do the most awesome work. You must have a heck of a scrap basket going there girl! :lol: I love your work. :D

moreland

ShellyQ--thanks for giving the citation to the book--I'm looking forward to getting a copy of it. All your quilts are really great.

annmarie

Wow Shelly, those are beautiful. Bright & colorful. You're a fantastic quilter. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Riversong

Those are fabulous!!! I especially like the dimensional block ones..