Windham Wednesdays and Giveaway

Rotary cut 19" Lone Star from Supersize 'Em Quilts

I have been playing with a new reproduction collection by Windham Fabrics, designed by Mary Koval. Rebecca reflects the designs and patterns from 1840-1870. I took several detours in trying out a variety of projects and then decided to include them all. The GIANT Lone Star above appears as a pattern in my book (Supersize 'Em Quilts), which shows the quick and easy path to rotary cutting these blocks that typically use templates. Here's another one:

Same star as above, but 4 of the diamonds are 4 patches.

"Well, can we see the whole collection so we can decide for ourselves?" you ask. Why, sure!

Lovely fabrics with such fascinating prints

Yes, even more fabrics. You can hardly decide where to start!

The first item I made (not the stars, btw) was a table runner using my Spiderweb ruler to cut the hexagons (yes, you can do that and there's none of the crazy lining up of a whole hexagon template. My ruler will cut any size hexagon, half hexagon and 60 degree triangle up to 6-1/2" unfinished.

Do you remember this design from an earlier post?

Don't you just love how the runner ends are a 60 degree angle?

Back to the Spiderweb ruler. You can see that I used it to cut out not only the hexagons and triangles in the table runner, but I used extra hexagons for my special Folded Hexagon flowers.

My folded hexagon flowers (look for the pattern at the Turning 60 page)

My last project is my "go-to" bag (from the Spring 2010 issue of Stitch Magazine, the Eco Shopper bag). I love it to carry around my yarn for when I want to crochet on the go.

Lined fabric bag embellished with my folded hexagon flower

What's the giveaway? Windham Fabric Blog has the giveaway fat quarter bundle of Rebecca. Go visit their Windham Fabric Snipits Blog and leave a comment saying how you would use these beautiful fabrics. The contest goes from January 14 through January 20.

I would love to have you comment here. I don't have any prizes today, but I do prize what you say!