Paintbrush Studio New Block Blog Hop & Giveaway! (Day 2)

Welcome to the second day of the 2016 Paintbrush Studio New Block Blog Hop!  

Paintbrush Studio generously sponsored this New Block Blog Hop featuring their new line of solids, Painter’s Palette.  This three day long hop features over 35 new 12" x 12" (finished) blocks by some wonderfully creative quilting bloggers. 

Paintbrush Studio is also generously sponsoring a half yard giveaway of the fabric bundle put together for the blog hop, so don’t miss out on two different ways to enter to win (details at the bottom of the post).

My 12" x 12" (finished) block, called the Chronograph Block, is a combination of a checker board and hourglass units:

FABRICS NEEDED

Dark Blue:
(1) 5 ½” square
(4) 4 ½” squares

Light Blue:
(1) 5 ½” square
(4) 4 ½” squares

White:
(3) 1 ½” x WOFQ (width of fat quarter)

Peach:
(4) 1 ½” x WOFQ

HOURGLASS UNITS

Use 1 dark blue square (5 ½” x 5 ½”) and 1 light blue square (5 ½” x 5 ½”) to make 2 Hourglass Units (4 ½” x 4 ½”) and use 4 dark blue square (4 ½” x 4 ½”) and 4 light blue square (4 ½” x 4 ½”) to make 8 Hourglass Units (3 ½” x 3 ½”) using the method below. You will only use 7 of the 3 ½” x 3½” Hourglass Units.

1. Place a dark blue square and a matching sized light blue square together. Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of the light blue square (shown as the solid line).  Sew ¼” on both sides of the solid line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the solid line and press seam open or towards the darker fabric. Do not trim the half square triangles (HSTs).

2. Arrange two matching sized HSTs such that the seams on the HSTs line up and the light blue and dark blue fabrics are on top of one another. Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of the one of the HSTs (shown as the solid line) perpendicular to the seam of that HST. Sew 1/4” on both sides of the solid line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the solid line and press seam open. Trim full hourglass blocks to 4 ½” x 4½” and 3 ½” x 3 ½”.

CHECKER BOARD SECTIONS

1.  Create a strip set by sewing together 2 strips of white (1 ½” x WOFQ) alternating with 2 strips of peach (1 ½” x WOFQ) as shown below.  Slice the strip set into 8 quad sections (1 ½” x 4 ½”).

2.  Unsew 1 peach fabric square off of 1 quad section to form a W/P/W tri section (white/peach/white).

3.  Create a strip set by sewing together 1 strip of white (1 ½” x WOFQ) and 2 strips of peach (1 ½” x WOFQ) as shown below.  Slice the strip set into 6 P/W/P tri sections (1 ½” x 4 ½”) (peach/white/peach).

ASSEMBLE THE BLOCK

1.  Row 1: Arrange and sew together the following pieces as listed and shown, pressing seams open.   Row 1 should measure 4 ½ x 12 ½”.

2. Row 2: Arrange and sew together the following pieces as listed and shown, pressing seams open.   Row 1 should measure 4 ½ x 12 ½”.

3.  Row 3: Arrange and sew together the following pieces as listed and shown, pressing seams open.   Row 1 should measure 4 ½ x 12 ½”.

4.  Sew 3 rows together to form the Chronograph Block 12 ½” x 12 ½” (12” x 12” finished).

and here is the finished block...

I hope you enjoyed the Chronograph Block! 

 All of the quilt blocks featured this week are going to be assembled into quilts and donated to charity. I hope you check out all the creative new block tutorials that are going to be shared this week!

Monday, March 28th
Host: Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl

Tuesday, March 29th (TODAY!)

Host: Cheryl @Meadow Mist Designs

Kim @Leland Ave Studios

Andrea @The Sewing Fools

Cassandra @The (not so) Dramatic Life

Stephanie @Quilt’n Party

Irene @Patchwork and Pastry

Tish @Tish’s Adventures in Wonderland

Abby @Hashtag Quilt

Sarah @Smiles Too Loudly

Carrie @The Zen Quilter

Wanda @Wanda’s Life Sampler

Jayne @Twiggy and Opal

Wednesday, March 30th
Host – Stephanie @Late Night Quilter

Giveaway!!

You can have two entries on this blog to win a half yard bundle of the Ocean Sunrise palette:

1.  Follow the Inspired by Fabric blog (either by email or blog reader) and leave a comment below with how you follow.  

2.  Follow Paintbrush Studio on Instagram (@pbstudiofabrics) and leave a second comment saying you follow on IG. 

The giveaway is open to everyone (international entries welcome), and the giveaway will be open through Friday, April 2nd at 8:00 pm EDT.   (If you are a no-reply blogger please include your e-mail address, if I can't reach you, you can't win.)

Inspired by Fabric is also hosting a *separate* giveaway today, so don’t forget to visit and enter to win there as well!

**Giveaway now closed, thanks for entering! **

2014 New Quilt Blogger Blog Hop

Hi! Welcome to the first day of the 2014 New Quilt Blogger Blog Hop and to my little corner of the blogging universe.  Thank you so much to Beth over at Plum and June for setting up this fun blog hop for all of us. The hop is a great avenue for us newish bloggers to connect up with others, as well as find lots of new blogs we might otherwise not find!

Tell us a little about yourself.

My name is Cheryl and I was born and raised in New Jersey and spent some years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Rochester, New York before moving down to Greenville, South Carolina with my husband almost 9 years ago. Here is a a picture of me that my wonderful sister had taken in an surprise photo shoot for my birthday.

I have a 7 year old son who loves legos, minecraft, and sports and a 4 year old daughter who loves dancing, coloring, and anything having to do with the Disney princesses.

I am a chemical engineer, now working as a patent agent 3 days a week for a textile and chemical company.  Most of the inventions I file patents for are technical woven and knit fabrics (ballistics, composites, tires to name a few). The work is very interesting and the occasional free fabric is a plus.

Why did you start your blog and where did your blog name come from?

I started blogging because I want to be able to better connect with the online quilting community and join in on all of the fun linky parties. I was sharing on Flickr and found that I wanted to write more and more in the descriptions.

I came up with the name Meadow Mist Designs for my blog because I live on Meadow Mist Trail and always loved the sound of it.

When did you start quilting and who taught you?

I started quilting about 3 years ago because I wanted to make a toddler quilt for my then 1 year old daughter, and have not look back since. I have learned almost everything about quilting from the online community (thank you all so much!).

I started quilting at a spare desk in our office and have seen taken over the guest room and converted it into my studio. There is much more room for fabric now that I have kicked the queen sized bed out :)

What do you sew on?

I started sewing on a 1980's slant shank Singer my mother had given me. Last year, my wonderful husband gifted me with my Bernina 710 for our ten year wedding anniversary present.


Favorite parts of quilting?

I love the design aspect of quilting along with all of the quilty math (I am an engineer after all) and fabric selection. I also love piecing blocks and the quilt top.


Least favorite parts of quilting?

Making quilt backings. More quilts than I would care to admit have Target cotton sheets as the backing so I don't have to do any piecing.


Random favorites:

• Movie: The Princess Bride 
• Color: Blue 
• Animal: Cat 
• Season: Summer 
• Food: Berries and all desserts 
• Part of blogging: Meeting new and wonderful quilters :) 

Some of my quilt finishes:

A quick quilting tip - An Alternative to Thimbles:

I really don't like thimbles, they seem to always fall off and they make my finger really hot.  I have found that a simple, inexpensive band aid gives my finger enough cushioning and stays right where I want it to.


I hope that you decide to join me on some great quilting adventures!  In addition to this blog, you can find me hanging out on:

Instagram

Pinterest

Flickr


Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today! Please take some time and hop over to some of the other blogs in the New Bloggers Blog Hop

Jen @ Bower Bird Patch

Afton @ Quilting Mod

Jessica @ One English Teacher

Barbara @ Suzy Homemaker

Cynthia @ Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

Mary @ See Mary Quilt

Laurel @ Drowning In Fabric

Linda @ Talking Lunch Box Quilts 

Rebecca @ One Wee Bird

Anne @ Hudson Valley Quilts

Diana @ Red Delicious Life

Terri @ Childlike Fascination