Let’s start Day 3 right off with Today’s Featured Designers:
1. Deanne Eisenman: snugglesquilts.com
2. Rachel Griffith: psiquilt.com
3. Barbara Groves/Mary Jacobson: meandmysisterdesigns.com/blog
4. Susan Guzman: suzguzdesigns.blogspot.com
5. Lynne Hagmeier: kansastroublesquilters-lynne.blogspot.com
6. Nancy Halvorsen: arttoheart.com
7. Reeze Hanson: katlovesquilts.blogspot.com
8. Dawn Heese: dawnheesequilts.blogspot.com
9. Julie Herman: jaybirdquilts.com
10. Amanda Herring: thequiltedfish.typepad.com
11. Maria Hrabovsky: mariamichaelsdesigns.wordpress.com
12. Sandi Irish: irishchain.blogspot.com
Each one will be giving away a copy of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks. Some will have additional giveaways, too!
Today’s Featured Sponsors:
(we’ve got prizes from both and look for giveaways on both their sites as well)
1. Clothworks
Here are sneak peeks of a few more blocks:
Pinwheel O'Strings by Rachel Griffith, P.S. I Quilt
Hope Blooms by Nancy Halvorsen, Art to Heart
Nova by Angie Hodapp, Quilters Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
Whenever I go back through the blocks, I find several more that I want to make, or try in a certain setting. This issue could keep me busy for months, even years! As you can see above, there are blocks using many different techniques for all skill levels.
Reminders: Each day’s initial post will stay at the top of the blog–so keep scrolling to see what else is going on here at Quilty Pleasures. Watch for the * in post titles to find active giveaways.
How about you? What’s your favorite technique, and what’s your skill level? Leave a comment and on Thursday we’ll pick winners for some of the delightful prizes shown below. Each winner gets a copy of Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, too. We have lots of copies to give away! Three winners have been chosen: comments#15 Laurie, #63 Jane and #173 Delia. Congratulations!
A variety of quilting books could be yours!
This luscious pile of batiks could be coming your way!
A pattern, a kit and a SideWinder may be in your future!
Be sure to come back and leave a comment on Friday, when we’ll have our Big Bundle Giveaway! Loads of prizes to several winners, both U.S. and international. Don’t miss it!
I am a beginner, This books will be amazing for someone like me!
So far, my favorite technique has to be using the Marti Michele templates. I have better piecing skills when I use them. I would say my skill level is intermediate.
I would love to try the string quilt technique . I’ve been wanting to do pinwheels too. I so love Pinwheel O’Strings by Rachel Griffith, P.S. I Quiltand . Now I can do both! So, I need the magazine !
Well, I only just started quilting, but I certainly love it! I have had some fun recently with “sloppy cutting”, and also with making pinwheels. I am loving the string-pieced pinwheel I spotted on the page here! Sooo fun! I never would have thought of it! Those batiks are gorgeous, I’d love to win those especially! I’d be happy with just the magazine, though!
I sure hope I win!
I guess I’m intermediate . I love free motion quilting – I just need to keep practising!!
I am coming back to quilting after a long break away, so would probably say I am beginner/intermediate. I don’t really have a favourite technique. I like mixing it all up for the variety, so one day I will prefer applique, one day paper piecing, another stippling, another straight line quilting…it all depends on my mood and the time of day!!
I love the “Hope Blooms” block by Nancy halvorsen, Art to Heart, and the 3D effect of the “Nova” design by Angie Hodapp, and the “Rising Star” block by Reeze Hanson, and the peacefulness of the “Bird’s eye View” by Dawn Heese. I love being able have direct links to the blogs and the designers who are featured in this issue. It is a great way to meet other quilters. I am new to quilting and would love to meet other quilters in Hilo, Hawaii.
Happy Quilting
My favorite technique is which ever one I’ve just learned .I enjoy always learning new techniques and ideas . I think I’m an intermediate quilter, I never want to stop learning and enjoying patchwork.
This is a veritable feast of designers/artists and their sites that I will return to again and again. Trying to get back into quilting after a long time and find it has evolved in glorious directions. But the skill set has evolved too…I have a lot of catching up to do. Almost overwhelming and certainly humbling. But love love love this quilting world.
enjoyed the tour…thank you see you tomorrrow…will bring coffee and home made biscuits with holiday cheers preserves..
I’m definitely a beginner, and I’d say appliqué is my favorite technique – so versatile in design options.
I’m a beginner–have only done patchwork so far–am still trying to master that before trying something else.
i would say i am intermediate, i try my best, and love what i do. i like regular piecing, not a huge fan of applique, but i just finished a project with that, and it was rather enjoyable, so maybe my mind has been changed :O}
thanks, i sure hope i win a copy of that magazine.
Although I use and enjoy many techniques, my very favorite is paper piecing. My skill level is between intermediate and advanced. I see many new designs in my future with all these blocks from the magazine to try!
“Hope Blooms” block is amazing…the one I most want to throw my UFO mission aside and start a new project.
I am a beginner quilter. I love strips, 9 patch, and log cabin
I have only made a 9 patch – fun! I am a beginner
Depends on what Im trying to do. Somethings a rank beginner and other pretty good at it. Always more to learn, part of what makes quilting so great!
I’ve made lots of quilts and in some genre, I am pretty advanced, and in others…not so much. I’m a traditional quilter, although I really wish I had the patience to do some of those really pretty applique quilts!
I’m more than a beginner but not an expert by any means! I do a lot of scrap quilts but my heart is firmly with balis – just need to get my pocketbook in line as well
I like to make traditional quils and enjoy doing paper piecing patterns. Looking forward to the new magazine to see all the blocks and make a few.
Thanks for the chance to win!! I’m having fun right now making different quilts with half square triangles. The layouts are endless. I’ve heard the term “confident beginner”. I guess that would be me!
This is a very enjoyable blog tour and a great idea! I am an intermediate quilter and I enjoy traditional piecing and paper piecing. I am starting to branch out into hand applique for some variety and to have a portable project. Thanks!
Judy
I am a traditional quilter – intermediate, I guess I would say. I love piecing blocks and I’m working on free motion quilting with my domestic sewing machine.
I am a intermediate and love learning new techniques! Thanks!
Thanks for hosting another day of beautiful quilt blocks.
I am about an intermediate level. I am basically a traditional quilter, but I enjoy seeing all the new fabrics and patterns.
I’m an intermediate quilter – have been quilting for 20+ years. Am just coming back from a 5 year break (3 babies) and am having a ball! Can’t wait to get a copy of this magazine!
I love curved piecing right now and I would consider myself an advanced quilter.
I am a fan of applique
I am a fairly new quilter. I love learning new things. So much fabric, so little time. Thanks for all the wonderful block ideas and chances to win.
I am just beginning to quilt although I have been sewing for 43 years. What took me so long??? This blog is an inspiration to me. I have made everything from costumes for church plays to clothes to wedding gowns. My quilting skills need to catch up with my creativity.
I only straight line quilt – haven’t had the nerve to try free motion yet. I believe that my skills are at the intermediate level.
I love the liberated log cabin and am just venturing into curves! I consider myself intermediate. Thanks for this great blog tour!
I am just a beginner, but already a fabric addict!!!!!!
greetings from France
Would love to win. Thanks for the giveaway.
I am an intermediate to advanced quilter, but I am always learning, always tryring new techniques and taking classes, and eager to learn more . Can you ever have enough inspiration around you like patterns, books, and fabric. Ohhhh I am drooling over that pile of batiks!!!!
I would say I am an experienced quilter — started teaching in 1974 in preparation for the bicentennial. No matter what techniques I try (and I think I’ve tried them all), I find I still love traditional, scrappy pieced.
I think I would probably condsider myself an advanced beginner, if there is such a thing. So much more I would love to do and try.
I am not good at applique.
I would say my favorite technique is probably just doing simple patchwork. I find it very relaxing and rewarding when i finish a project and simple patchwork is something I can find a few minutes in the day to do.
Thanks
I would qualify myself as a an advance intermediate quilter! There’s still lots I don’t know but I don’t keep that from stopping my creativity!
I’m an intermediate quilter, and I love scrappy projects with a little bit of everything in them. I’m enjoying your blog tour and finding new blogs that I want to visit often. My Google Reader list is growing everyday! I’d love to win one of your giveaways.
This is so much fun. I would qualify myself as advanced intermediate with hand applique being my favorite technique. I love seeing all the blocks that are applique.
I NEED those batiks! My favorite technique is always the one I’m learning. This month it is paper piecing and curves!
I am a beginner quilter, and in want to learn to machine quilt. Oh and yes I have a Large stash of fabric. Beautiful new fabric calls me, but I need to use up more of the stash. This blog tour inspires me so does the Quiltmaker 100 blocks. Thanks for the giveaway
Oh gosh, the Pinwheel O’Strings block really caught my eye. Very pretty. What is my favorite technique is a tough question. I haven’t tried much at all in the quilting arena yet. I see SO many different types of quilting I want to try. I’ve been studying and reading all I could find online and if a few books our local historical society had on sale last year in an attempt to learn. Now I am ready to put all I’ve read and hopefully learned through all that reading to use. I like the look of hexagons very much and just ordered my first pack of templates just last week so I’ll be trying that soon. I also have an excellent tutorial for two different quilts, one being the log cabin with machine embroidery instructions included in that which came from a wonderful woman with a machine embroidery design website which will I will also be working on soon as well. FIRST, I need to get this cast off my hand so I have use of more than just my left hand. LOL I had hand surgery last week and only have the use of my left hand which I can say is very frustrating to type. Then I can get started and seeing all the beutiful blocks on the blog tour is giving me the itch to try them all. I can’t wait to get this magazine to see all the blocks in print.
I’d have to say somewhere in between beginner and intermediate only because my time is sporadic to work on improving. I have done a few advanced projects and love them too. I have tried strips and paper piecing, but have to say just plain ol’ cutting and sewing blocks together traditionally is my favorite maybe because I work with a lot of little scraps! I definitely prefer working with scraps. I hate to cut into a whole piece of fabric! Loving this 100 blocks blog tour!! Thanks.
I love using Half Square triangles! Some may argue that this is not a technique, but tell that to the quilter’s who hate to use them and avoid them at all costs!
I would also consider myself an intermediate sewer. I like to try new things and have a modicum of success!
I would consider myself and a very advanced intermediate. I love all piecing techniques except sewing lots of curves and applique. I really like paper piecing because of the precision and beautiful points you get. I also enjoy strip piecing, using lots and lots of scraps, and then I love easy, quick to piece quilts!
Intermediate I guess. I like to make quilts that make a statement (“life is too short for dull and boring”), so I’m into strong contrast.
I started quilting about two years ago and it has now become my new creative outlet for designs. My background as a graphic designer comes in handy giving way to new quilting ideas. Be careful, it is a very addictive but rewarding craft!
I’m an advanced quilter – should be by now since I started in the 70′s. I love pulling the colors and designing the quilt. Piecing is fun too.
I have been quilting for a couple years now and belong to 2 quilt guilds. Good times! I like civil war, 30′s, batiks…oh, wait, I love everything fabric! I like to paper-piece and still practicing free-motion quilting! I just love fabric!
I guess I’m sort of a beginner-intermediate! I don’t have just one favorite technique. I’m mostly self-taught and love finding new techniques on blogs and in magazines! Thanks for offering such wonderful giveaways!
I’d call myself intermediate. I love, love, love batiks! I enjoy a variety of techniques – paper piecing for accuracy and strip piecing for speed. Love to keep building my free motion skills.
I usually feel like a beginner because I’m always learning new techniques. I love using freezer paper for applique patterns, double thickness and starching the edges.
I guess I’m intermediate/advanced. I a handpiecer primarily, although I’ve tried my hand a number of other techniques. My machine piecing skills are a bit weak mostly because I don’t like to machine piece! I can put just about anything together by hand though!
I think I’m probably at an intermediate level. I find myself tackling harder and harder things, but then have to demote myself every so often when things go horribly wrong. (But it doesn’t stop me from trying something else soon after!) Thanks for a chance to win such great stuff!
I am an intermediate quilter. I like paper pieceing and doing all
types of star blocks.
I’m a beginner so I like techniques that let me look like I know what I’m doing. My favorite techniques are the ones in the Stars By Magic book by Nancy Johnson-Srebro that let me make complex looking stars using just squares and rectangles.
I’m a self-taught beginner. Been quilting for less than a year. I don’t really have a favorite technique yet, but I love strip piecing for the time saving.
Like most on this blog i think i am at the intermediate level. My favorite technique is the one i just learned! Most recently its a block that my mother taught me, it didn’t have a name that she knew of so she just called it X’s and O’s, or hugs and kisses. I thought i did not enjoy hand work but am finding it very relaxing!
I’m an intermediate, I think. I like to rescue and repair old quilts, gently. I like stars and I think that every quilt I make, I learn something. It is my passion, fabric and quilting. I also enjoy the time I spend with other quilters and quilts shows and on it gos….
My favorite technique is piecing … altho I am really lovin the stained glass WHs I’ve done! I’m a confident beginner, who is conquering my fear of machine quilting, free motion … and I LOVE LOVE LOVE stash and adding to it !
My favourite technique is probably making four patches. I am probably an intermediate quilter, but one of the pointless ones, lol. When I grow up I want to be like my two friends Judy and Carol who get all their points to match.
Oh gosh…., I got a tummy ache reading this post…, it’s all your fault, lol, but I’m not blaming you!!!!, it’s because it really like me!!!, well I’m an intermediate-advanced quilter. I enjoy to work with scraps along with cutting all the pieces all measured and using my cutter, ruler and pad, I love to play with puzzles, that’s why!!!!
I would say that I’m an intermediate. I like to make traditional quilts using many fabrics to make them look scrappy.
I don’t know that I have a favorite technique yet – I’m a new newbie to quilting. Beginner with a capital B.
This is all so exciting! My skill level is very, very, very beginner! I have not made a quilt yet – and am so enjoying looking at all of these wonderful blogs and wishing that I had all of the wonderful fabric – so that I could have a stash! Then I would make my first quilt!!!!
My favorite quilting technique is using the technique I learned from Kim Diehl for freezer paper applique. It’s fast and so accurate – I love it!
My favorite quilting technique is paper piecing, but just simply strippy, scrappy sewing is great for relaxing!
I am an advanced quilter who loves to do scrappy quilts. I use a wide variety of fabric. I enjoy going out on a limb and adding “surprise” fabrics to the mix. Occasionally I will not like the “surprise” and the block will be eliminated but many times the unusual mix is delightful.
I like a variety of techniques. Paper piecing is one of my favorites along with hand quilting. I would consider myself an intermediate quilter. Still very new to it. Thanks for the tour, I’m enjoying it very much.
I’m somewhere between beginner and intermediate:) I love to free piece!
I think I consider myself an advanced beginner! Just love seeing all the different blocks
I still consider myself a beginner, but am improving all the time! I’ve done exactly one paper-pieced block and am looking forward to trying lots more of that technique – it’s fun!
I can’t believe I missed the first days of the tour this year! But I found you now. It’s great!
I love to hand applique and machine quilt. I consider myself to be intermediate
I love hand applique, paper piecing, and would like to learn trapunto . Have just started to do a few blocks on quilts. And embellishment and wool using Sue Spargo’s techniques and wonderful colors and materials.
I would say I’m an advanced quilter, maybe. I love all kinds of quilting but my favorite right now is string blocks and paper piecing!!
Intermediate/piecing
I refuse to peg myself in any particular skill level. I like to challenge myself and take things one step at a time. Except for paper piecing, for me, that’s a lost cause. LOL But I do love machine applique!
I enjoy needle turn hand applique the best.
I am an advanced beginner, I have been quilting for almost a year. I like piecing best.
I am ready to see something new and challeging, thanks
My favourite technique is hand applique – just need to find the time to work on it…
I love to do anything quilting as it is all good!!
I would have to say I am a very experience quilter…no Sharon Schamber…but I can hold my own. I enjoy traditional piecing best…by hand or machine…makes no difference to me.
My favorite technique is fusible applique – I just love to design patterns with different fabric choices!
If pressed I would say I’m intermediate, but that would depend on the project I’m working on! Favourite technique? Mmmh, not sure if I could just pick one
but machine piecing is one I come back to over and over again…so many blocks, so little time!
My favorite technique is just piecing: squares, triangles etc. Nothing real fancy, just basic shapes to make pretty quilts. I would call myself an advance beginner, I quess.
I like paper piecing best; but, I do any machine piecing. I consider myself to be a beginner.
I started with hand applique, then paper piecing, now machine piecing. At the moment my favorite is machine piecing. I consider myself an advanced beginner.
Thanks for the chance to win.
I think I would be called intermediate. I love learning and trying everything and have so much more to go. Right now I’m loving paper piecing, and I’ve been playing with designing my own. I like making 1/2 square triangles with paper it’s so much easier for me.
Probably I’m intermediate. I think I’m loving all types of quilting. I’m practicing paper piecing both regular and english this year. Appliqe is the most time consuming for me, but the most relaxing.
I would say that I’m a beginner to intermediate quilter. Love to try new techniques although my preference is for basic piecing. I’m loving the blog tours and am bookmarking plenty as I go. Thanks for a great magazine – my favourite.
I’m an advanced beginner building up the confidence to be called intermediate! I am still trying different techniques but applique and paper piecing are at the top of the list right now.
Favorite technique? Hmm, must be applique. I love hand work, even sewing the binding on. Skill level, intermediate. Thank you for the generous offer of prizes! I’d love to get a copy of that magazine!
I agree with Jill who sees 1/2 square triangles as a technique. There’s so many ways to create them and you can do much with with them once they pile up. I’m a pinwheel fanatic, so I use plenty of them.
I love piecing and applique, have done paper piecing a few times, but I wouldn’t say that I love it. I think I’m maybe in the beginner to intermediate group, I have been quilting for about 8 years, but there are still somethings that I’m too chicken to try, like templates and y-seams… that just scares me….lol
I would say I am an intermediate quilter. I really love pieceing but I have been trying my hand a hand applique and am really liking it.
I would say I am a confidant intermediate quilter. I love paper piecing and hand quilting.
I’d say I am an intermediate level quilter. I don’t really have a favorite technique, but I do love the leader-ender method of incidental quilt making!
I am just beginning to quilt although I have been sewing for 43 years. What took me so long??? This blog is an inspiration to me. I have made everything from costumes for church plays to clothes to wedding gowns. My quilting skills need to catch up with my creativity.
My favourite technique right now is foundation piecing (making my second Judy Niemeyer quilt) and I consider myself an intermidiate sewer. I love making quilt tops, but never seem to get them quilted. I think it’s a family trait because I have some Dresden Plates pieced by my grandmother in the ’40s, whip-stitched on to blocks by my mother in the ’80′s and now I’m trying to decide how to finish them into a top. Perhaps my daughter’s will end up quilting it! Can’t wait to buy the book!
my favorite is scrap quilts. i just love them. all year i’ve been making them & giving them to Project Linus.
I am a rank beginner, but I’ve been bitten bad! lol
The books, fabrics, or accessories would all be a blessing to me. I’ve acquired my stash backward, buying most of it from a resale place, so I have all scraps and not hardly any yardage. (except for what my co-worker/enabler has given me!)
Really enjoying following the blogs around!
I’m a beginner, and will enjoy these great prizes!
my favorite technique would have to be applique. i don’t do it very well, am just a beginner really, but at every quilt show i absolutely drool over the gorgeous applique masterpieces
I think my skills place me an intermediate. I love machine quilting and sewing the binding on a lovely finished quilt. Wish me luck.
I am intermediate in skill. Love a scrappy theme . I enjoy strip piecing and free motion quilting. 100 Blocks Volume 2 will provide many ideas. Thank you for the opportunity.
My favorite technique is anything that I do NOT have to do by hand. Just not a hand piecer or quilter. I like that it can be done on the machine, as I have a 3 year old AND a fulltime job.
Would love to give these products a home if I win.
Thanks.
Marilyn
marilynjw1971@gmail.com
I would classify myself as an advanced quilter. My favorite technique of the moment is paper piecing. I am currently working on a NY Beauty quilt. I had made a wallhanging that someone admired….then she asked me to make her one in queen size! It’s a good thing that I’m still lovin’ this block! This is such a great contest – thanks so much for the chance to win a copy of your wonderful magazine!!!
I’d rank my skills in the intermediate range – I come from a “sewing clothing” background. But the techniques question is more difficult to answer because I LOVE it all – traditional piecing, paper piecing, applique. If it’s out there, I’ll try it LOL!
I love to hand applique on an intermediate level.
I think I can say I’m intermediate at this point. I haven’t tried paper piecing. I like most to make traditional blocks, and love vintage type fabrics.
I would consider myself an intermediate quilter. I thoroughly enjoy piecing and applique. I enjoy the creative process.
Wow I bought last years 100 blocks and it was great. it looks like this years 100 block is another must have. I guess I’m an intermediate quilter. as for my favorite techinque — I like piecing but I like to try everything. makes for a good challenge
I’m intermediate and love applique. Love working with bright colors and hand stitching. Hope I can give home to those batiks!
I’d have to say that my favorite is machine applique. I love the look of hand turn, but haven’t tried it yet. So, I guess I’m admitting that I’m still a beginner, maybe an advanced beginner
I love paper piecing! Guess my skill level is intermediate – I’ve done some of carol Doak’s 6 inch blocks but have never tackled any thing with tons of tiny pieces like Linda Hilbert’s Wee series. Someday…………………
I’m enjoying the blog hop – thanks.
Am enjoying the blog hop – and I consider myself an intermediate quilter…
I am an intermediate quilter and I love piecing. I prefer big, easy, fast quilts, but I’m also working on a few intricate paper pieced ones. I guess anything goes!
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Love piecing and applique. I’m enjoying the blog tour, thanks!
I think I am about an intermediate quilter … as far as technique .. I just like to cut and sew
I would say that traditional piecing is my favorite. I am really getting into designing lately and so this is wonderful inspiration! I guess I would call myself an intermediate level.
I would call myself an intermediate quilter. Scrappy quilts are my favourite but really there are aren’t too many quilts I don’t like!
This looks like a great book. Is volume 1 still available. I think I need both!
I would say I am an intermediate quilter. Have loved paper piecing but have started to applique and now love those quilts even more.
I am an experienced quilter, 34 years worth, I love to cut out a pattern and pieceing and teaching. I have many unquilted tops.
I really enjoy quilting. I prefer paperpiecing or applique qwith vliesofix. I love to use bright colours. At the moment I’m thinking about a quilt in pink and brown
I love regular piecing, paper-piecing and machine applique…it seems I rotate back & forth among the three. Even though I love the look of hand applique, or I should say hand-anything, I find myself rushing through to finish. So, to conclude
I love quilting by machine 
And oh so much, I would love to win a copy of your #2 magazine.
I can’t make out all the titles of the I’m Sure fabulous designers, BUT I am real interested with the one on the top by JudyL! It’s on my Christmas Wish List. Are they signed? Ohhhhh would that be an extra worth drooling over.
My technique…is just simple piecing but it must be scrappy. Would love any of the new quilt books. I could use a fix.
My favorite technique is making flying geese with the Quilt in a Day Flying Geese Ruler. Makes squaring them up super easy. I would consider myself to be an intermediate quilter. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Forgot to mention I’d be in the advanced sewers group, well except maybe when it comes to curves…
I would consider myself an advanced self taught quilter (not a beginner and not intermediate). I love traditional quilting and have started to incorporate some embroidery and applique to my quilts…I am always up for learning new techniques!
I think I’m in the mid-beginner group, I’ve been quilting for years, but there is always something new to learn! I love piecing flying geese the no-waste way. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I love the mixed media quilts – piecing with applique included as I love doing both techniques. Not fond of “art” quilts – love to admire but will never make them. My skill level always will be that as a student of learning – I love everything about quilting, especially the joy from achieving.
I have been having alot of fun with HST blocks lately! I think I am still a beginner. I was deathly afraid of Triangles, but then I joined the Schnibbles QAL last year, and the first schnibble was full of flying geese!
I would say I am in the intermediate group. I love to try new things. I do mostly traditional peicing and machine applique.
I like traditional piecing the best & would say that I am an intermediate quilter. I also like to combine hand embrodiery with piecing.
I guess I’m an advanced beginner. I love paper piecing, but also traditional.
I love traditional quilts. I’m an intermediate quilter. I’d love to learn to make a New York Beauty block. Probably, need to make it a goal for 2011. Thanks for this wonderful blog hop!
Wow! I’ve been ill and missed yesterday so I have some catching up to do. Great fun though.
I am having so much fun visiting this site everyday… yeah! Enjoy following up on the designers! Thanks! Gail E
What a fun blog tour.
I am an advanced beginner I guess. I love the way HST’s turn out!
I would say I’m an intermediate. I love traditional blocks, but I love playing with color and design to make them my own. I prefer machine piecing, and I adore my walking foot for straight-line and gentle curve machine-quilting….but I just can’t seem to do free-motion quilting well. So I’ve decided hand-quilting is my best bet for motifs, decorative quilting, and background quilting. Right now I’m quilting my toddlers’ baby quilts. My favorite technique right now is Peggy Martin’s “Quick-Strip Paper Piecing” book. I adore it! It has taken practically all the guess-work and headaches out of paper-piecing (I can’t think backwards well and all the flipping and picking out makes me dizzy, so her method really makes sense to me). And, it’s quick and easy and there’s a rhythm to it when you’re paper-piecing lots of the same pattern. I’ve used it for her patterns in her book, and lots of other patterns on quilts I’m working on, like “Snowflakes” from Quiltmaker. It’s important to me to be able to do things quickly the first time, without a ton of thought, because I don’t have much time with my two busy boy toddlers.
Piecing of any kind is my preferred technique, though I have a small hand applique project to take with me when I travel. My skill level is intermediate/advanced.
I love piecing and needle-turn applique. I have also started adding simple embroidery to blocks which is lots of fun. I am somewhere between intermediate and advanced in skills.
I like the free-motion technique although I really need to work on it!!! My skill is intermediate.
I think I’m somewhere between an advanced beginner and a intermediate quilter … hard to define, as I’m better at some things than I am at others. I love to needleturn applique, but am only a beginner at it. I also love to paper piece.
I’m a beginner quilter, I have the first 100 Quilt block mag and love all the designs and am looking forward to this book as well. I really like applique.
I love this blog hop! I don’t know that I have a favorite technique. I love piecing quilts. I’m not a huge fan of applique, although I have done several projects. I would consider myself intermediate.
I love to machine piece and I’m learning to love needle-turn hand applique. and I’m better at liberated stuff than precision, altho I can manage that too. I’m in the middle — not a newbie, but not incredibly experienced.
I love to piece but the cutting is hard BUT I’m getting a go so hope that will help me finish more quilts— had a year when I did 13 once but that was a long time ago!
I consider myself an advanced beginner. I have made several quilts, but still have lots to learn!
Thanks for another great event!
SheilaC
I like piecing traditional quilts best but want to try more art quilts. I’ve been a Rabid Quilter for 15 years so I’d have to call myself ‘advanced’.
Diane Steele
My favorite is applique, because of the freedom it gives me to change my mind.
I was an advanced top maker, but my skills have diminished from lack of practice. My quilting is still just a bigger in my eyes.
I guess I am tired and can not spell at this point today. I feel like I am a beginner as far as quilting skills (stitching the layers together)
I would guess I am an intermediate quilter – I am not so fond of applique or paper piecing, but I enjoy challenging myself with each quilt to do something new and different. I like projects that have a lot of chain piecing, as I work on things in the late evening and sometimes need mindless projects.
I like doing PP for miniatures and think I am probably at the expert level.
Plain old-fashioned piecework. I love traditional quilts.
snuginmyden@yahoo.com
My love anything done on my sewing machine, it makes doing applique easy with the buttonhole stitch. I would love to win any of the prizes. I consider myself and intermediate quilter. I need the magazine to partner with last years copy I own.
I got bitten by the quilting bug a couple of years ago and love taking an idea then twisting it to make it my own. I have just started free motion quilting and am at the bottom of a very steep learning curve!!
My favorite technique is freezer paper piecing flowers like Ruth M. My second favorite is machine piecing geometric shapes (polygons). My skill level is beginning intermediate. I try difficult things sometimes, though do not necessarily execute that great. Thanks for the giveaway – hope to win something.
Applique is my favorite kind of quilting to do. I would rate me as an accomplished beginner – I’m always learning ways to improve my quilts.
I have been quilting for a little over 2 years and I started with a tough quilt, though I didn’t know it at the time since I was clueless. However, it taught me so much and started me off with a bang. I have been doing some (I suppose difficult blocks) for samplers but I haven’t branched out yet to paper piecing and applique, two things I want very much to learn. Now that I finally have my own sewing room (at 60 years old it’s time huh?) I feel organized enough to try something new and wonderful. Thanks to you folks for all the fun and excitement this week holds. It is crazy fun!!!
My gosh, what a lot of great prizes. It’s very generous of you all. I can’t wait to get ahold of the magazine; I was just at Barnes & Noble today but they weren’t displaying it yet.
I love Applique. I guess I would I’m at an intermediate level.
I’ve only just started quilting, so I can’t say that I have a favourite technique yet. They’re all new to me!
I am an intermediate quilter and paper piecing is my favorite.
I’m a beginner, and I like piecework.
I am a beginner, but I have stitched a couple of quilts both handd and machine. My favorite type of quilting is “love” quilting. I put all my love into each stitch that i stitch.
Even though I have been quilting for several years some days I feel like a beginner – always new things to learn – Today I love the scrappy quilts – and trying my hand at hand quilting and trying really hard to like it -
I love to work with applique, and I guess I’m an intermediate quilter, I’m having fun with this hop party, and I’d love to win, please
I need to get my copy! Can’t wait!
I enjoy piecing of the quilts; and have done a little machine applique. I would consider myself to be an intermediate quilter….have been doing it for 5 years; but not alot, because I usually don’t do any quilting during the warmer months.
I’m a beginner, and I just made a pinwheel quilt and loved it so I guess I would have to say piecing. Thanks for the giveaway
With a learner personality, I’m always interested in learning a new technique (or an old one, interpreted in a new way). If I had to choose one, it would probably be improvisational piecing, which is such a freeing experience.
I am a tried and true scrap quilter. I am an intermediate quilter and not afraid to try new techniques!!
I’m an intermediate quilter, love trying new techniques but probably piecing is my fav technique. Lately I seem to be drawn to scrappy quilts
debbie
I am an intermediate when it comes to quilting. I love seeing how other people put colors together. I love machine piecing and want to try curves.
can’t wait to see the magazine
I’m an intermediate quilter. Right now I’m enjoying combining my piecing my embroidery.
I love to rotary cut. Thank you so much for the chance to win.
I like to make half square triangles using Triangulations. I consider myself an intermediate quilter.
I guess intermediate. I love all styles and like to try different things.
I’d like to try a quilt as you go technique, but being a newbie, it’s a bit intimidating!
nsue21702 at gmail dot com
I love the “Hope Blooms” block by Nancy Halvorsen, Art to Heart. My skill level is between intermediate and advanced. I enjoy piecing and appliqué.
Alda,Fl
I am an intermediate paper piecer an traditional piecer, a beginner at applique, would love to work with wool applique, just introduced to modern quilting, and love adding stitchery and beading (and buttons) to quilting projects.
I love to do traditional piecing! I only do raw edge appliqué . But I love to learn new techniques. I like to use modern, country, and reproduction fabrics. My mood usually dictates what style of fabric I use! I love all the new blocks in this magazine. Can’t wait to see it!
I am beginner to intermediate level quilter.Still have a lot to learn!!!I love traditional quilts especially scrappy quilts and string quilts.!!!Just subscribed to Quiltmaker magazine and got my first copy a few weeks ago!!!
I am an intermediate quilter. I enjoy everything about quilting – choosing fabric, cutting, piecing or applique, quilting and even hand sewing the binding.
I love the challenge of piecing miniature quilts, sometimes not so successful but I like the challenge.
I’m an intermediate quilter. My latest obsession has been english paper piecing – so easy to do just about anywhere. Thanks for the opportunity.
I consider myself to be an intermediate quilter. My favourite technique is applique and I prefer the English method of basting over paper but I also use freezer paper and blanket stitching depending on what I am doing.
Debby
I’m mostly a traditional block piecer but I would like to expand into some applique.
I am a newbie, so my favorite learned technique has been making HST
Also, a quilter mentor once showed me how to nest seams together – that was invaluable! Thanks for a chance to win ~
I’m a beginner. I don’t really have a favorite technique. I’m having fun trying different things. Thanks for a chance to win your great prizes.
I love machine piecing, and consider myself intermediate.
I love both applique (only a beginner) and piecing (intermediate). Thanks for your giveaway.
I am a intermediate to advanced quilter, depends on the technique (-; I like paper foundation piecing and machine quilting. Thank you for the chance to win.
I’ve just got to grips with curved piecing and I love the effect it gives.
I think I am an intermediate quilter. I love trying new patterns. The easiest quilt I made was using the foldy stuff technique. Paper piecing is fun and I have some paper piece stamps that I have used to make a batik cat quilt. This month I started a kit using wool felt. I am seriously addicted to Fat Quarters. I am planning my next quilt to be made from yellow and blue fabric and have collected a stack of different color shades so far. I love reading and reviewing all the Quiltmaker magazines and look forward to the newest 100 Blocks Magazine. Thanks for providing so many choices of patterns in them.
I love to hand applique and paper piecing and scrap quilting and Civil War fabrics and batiks. I guess I love it all. I am an intermediate quilter.
I guess I’d be an advanced beginner, and I love paper piecing.
I’m a beginner and love something simple that I can quickly finish.
I consider myself intermediate…I enjoy paper piecing, applique, machine piecing, *adapting* patterns and liberated styles… I love ALL of it!
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I finially figured out how to leave a post on the blog.. yeah !!! LOL.. this is my first blog post ever… I love quilting and I love this site .. thank you for all your great ideas and insperation
I am an advanced beginner quilter that has so much to learn. I’m anxious to see your latest magazine because I will learn a lot from it. The next quilt I’m attempting to make is a pattern with stars. It looks difficult to me, but I’ve been told it’s easy. Thanks for doing this giveaway.