Show and Tell

I sometimes see blocks/quilts of tutorials I have shared on this blog and I have been meaning to share them.  Just a few today!

Spiders and Webs

Entry for Craftsy Halloween Project

Something Folded Block

Via Flickr

Snowflake Row

via Flickr

Card Trick Block

Via Flickr

Starstrip Block

via Flickr

English Paper Pieced Projects

Quilted Leaf Potholders

 via Instagram (my friend at Toddlers with Scissors)

I have decided to start a Buttons and Butterflies group on Flickr 

A place for those who want to show off their progress or completed projects!  I love when I finish a project using someone's tutorial or block and say "Hey...LOOK!!"  

I want to see YOURS!!

PSSST.:  I also am on Instagram with the handle @buttonsandbutterflies

Always feel free to tag me and also use #buttonsandbutterfliesquilts

My First QAL

QAL is quilt-a-long for my non-quilting followers!

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I have avoided one of these for a long time and the reason I chose this one is because it was based on fabric that I have.

Remember when I bought more fabric than I needed for Hartley's quilt?   Not to mention the fact that I had not a single plan in sight?

Well...I have decided that since I purchased this fabric from the internet...it deserved an internet pattern.

 

I adore Christina's pattern, at Sometimes Crafter, called the Retro Flower.  You can purchase it HERE.

 

Photo from her pattern shop

 

 I have been adoring Rachel's mini-quilt on her blog, Stitched in Color for a while...so what better way than to join a QAL!

I have always been on Flickr but have never mastered it quite yet, and I think this QAL will broaden my computer horizons!  I finally figured out that Flickr is where all of the bees, swaps, and QAL people hang out!

 

I have already found a few new blogs!  Some new to me and some just plain new!  I also realize that I might have motif problems with the fabrics above, so there might have to be a change eventually.  But now I have my QAL Flickr group to give me some advice!

And for my non-blogging followers and close friends that wonder:

  

Why in the world does Heidi find joy in other people's blogs that she doesn't actually know.

The answer?

I finally have some friends that I can email, chit-chat, and commiserate, and bounce ideas off of! 

 I love all of you, my in real life friends and family, but my online friends "get" the crazy crafty/quilting girl!!

 

P.S.  Please don't compare my blog to the ones I have mentioned today...I know I am not at all close to their level of amazing-ness!!!