OK all you others using this fabric, where are your pictures?

I really want to try one of these patterns . . . . . someday!

Has anyone fount this fabric anywhere? I went to Joann's Monday in Tallahassee and they don't have it.

If you have a WalMart with fabric, try there. It is a $4.44 fabric.

I just cut out my octagons yesterday. Will start sewing in the next couple of days :)

My applique is part fused on part pinned - will show when done!

Found fabric in my wal-mart.......Ready ,sit,sew.......

Hoorah! Any pics yet? :mrgreen: :lol:

I have been trying to figure out how to connect them. I made all the blocks, I saw a video and it looked like she was sewing the other half of the blocks as she goes? I sewed the three together to make the half then connected the two halfs together. Are you suposed to make half rows and add on as you go? Any tips would be much appreciated. I am stuck.

You do NOT sew the 2 halves together as you go. You pin them together in order to not lose track of what goes with what. You need to make all your half blocks and pin the halves as you go. Then put them on the design board (or lay then out somewhere that you can leave them) in the pattern that you like.

What will happen is a half from above will be sewn to the half below it by a single triangle side. you keep going down the row like that and you will end up with a row of halves. Sew the next row of halves together by the ends. Then the rows will sew together matching up the halves again.

If you don't have the book, it certainly would make a difference!

Here is a link to Cutebuns tutorial on OBW.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-92503-1.htm

And here is mine on the design wall.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-99523-1.htm
If you enlarge the pic you can see the rows more clearly. I'm a visual person so it helps to see an example. Just remember, you are only working with half a hexagon in a row.

I just plowed ahead and sewed most of my floral hexagons together, THEN read the tutorial and found out about the half bit. So, my blocks sat for several weeks and finally I ripped them apart during one of those weeks I was iced/snowed inside. Now my rows are all sewn together and waiting for the borders. Another lesson learned. Heh, heh, heh.

Hope this helps.
Linda

Someone else is also using our fabric for a OBW! I'm still just so amazed at this considering I bought mine several years ago....lol

We are working from the book by Maxine Rosenthal - One Block Wonders. YOu can't make this without it. If the video you refer to is mine posted here, it is only intended to be a guide in sewing the rows together and pressing seams open. It is ny no means intended to be a full 'tute' - you need the book. :-D

Thanks, I think I will start over. I live in WV and would love to find the floral master fabric, I am looking for it. I will be watching all of you who know what you are doing. Can't wait to see how they are coming along.

Thank you, I am learning some of this the hard way. I will not give up. So I think I will start over.

LOL. That's the way I learned. Then I bought the book. And you can tell I've really used it. Once you get the hang of it, the rest is easy and you will be able to make the next ones without using the book.

OK I ordered the book from Amazon. Looking forward to all this. Thanks

Excellent! Another victim!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

The beginnings of my octogons :)

I have several projects going so I'm only doing one ramdomly while doing others. Makes life more interesting to work on several at a time and switch up all the time. Occasionally I'll sit and work on the same thing for hours!

JTapp....just flew through this post and looked at all your pics from your last OBW and found it very interesting. It is a very busy quilt and I personally love it!!! Just looking at your latest hexagons and those too are going to be just lovely!!!
And I am crazy about OBW's so there is NO bad one.

Julie, your half hexs are just pinned together, not sewn together yet, right? I can't tell from the picture. But the need to be in halves to assemble the OBW. They look great BTW

My floral masters are sewn, BUT they are NOT hexs. They are octogons so they are supposed to be sewn together. I understand that if I were doing hexs they would only be half hexs :). That's what my first OBW was (hexs).

Can't wait to see more pictures of others work! and some of that applique you are working on k3n.

Julie those octos look gorgeous! They're much more spinny than the hexes if you know what I mean!

OK Gai has already had a sneaky peek at the applique and it won't be attached fully til the thing is quilted so I guess I'll give a sneak peek here too. The butterfly is appliqued to fusible batting and interfacing and is just pinned on at the moment. I'll sew it on by hand after it's quilted. The caterpillar is getting embroidered antennae, beady eyes, seed bead legs and little black beady feet - but again, when it's quilted. He's going to be gazing wistfully up at the butterfly, wishing he were that lovely! :mrgreen: I'm calling it 'Metamorphosis' :D

All of your OBW's are so pretty!! I've wanted to do one for a long time, but I'm intimidated by it. It just looks so hard.
Love all your quilts!!

They are so pretty, I hope my book comes today,so I can play too.

Don't be afraid of OBW's! They are really very easy and go together very fast. Deciding on your final arrangement will prob. take the longest chunk of time.

Guess I forgot to comment :oops:

I absolutely LOVE those appliques! They are so beautiful and I love the name :thumbup:

Can't wait to see it all completed :mrgreen:

I thought you might enjoy seeing the OBW cousin, Kaleidi. This is the quilt I'm making for my niece. My floral master quilt is going to her mom, my sister :)

My purple blender is almost taking over the focal print. I'm still learning when it comes to putting color values together :?

Come on now! k3n wasn't the only one making one of these...where's everybody elses? :)

I'm still trying to find that material.

love the jewel tones in this going to be beautiful when finished

Still trying to find time to cut them.working full time and long arm quilting when I get home.yikes busy season...

Well, I finally finished the OBW top I was working on using the Oriental Fabric. Thought I'd post two pics here. I'll post better pics after it is quilted and bound. I think Julie made one using this fabric also.
Linda

that is soo nice

I love how you put the row of blocks across the bottom isolated in the black. Great idea!

Quilty. your quilt is lovely. The row of isolated blocks is different. Love how it all turned out.

That is really cool!

That turned out absolutely lovely! I haven't finshed my quilt. I have done the hexes but I still need to border it and quilt it. I didnt think to get extra fabric so i have about a 1/2 yard that I will probably put on one back corner or something like that.

Yours really is awesome and I love the cubes and all the different details :thumbup:

I've just got the wadding (batting) for mine and am ready to quilt, once I've got a couple of other projects out of the way. Meanwhile, it's great to keep this thread alive with the occasional pic of another OBW - Julie and quiltykitty, those are both beautiful. :-D

I finally got time to sew my rows together. So I am posting my progress picture.

I also have a question...do you cut the excess off now...those little ears so it reduces the bulk a little or doesn't it make enough difference?

I need to shop for some border fabric. I don't have enough left over to use as a border as I hoped to do.