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April 25, 2016April 25, 2016

Spa Retreat Recap // March 2016

What’s more relaxing than a day at the spa? Why, getting the spa treatment while quilting of course! We had a wonderful group of women from around the United States as well as a couple from Australia for our Spa Retreat this March. It was one relaxing, fun, quilty time! 🙂

The ladies worked on two quilts, including the Dresden Sunburst and learned some new techniques. We demonstrated how to use the Sizzix for some other quilts as well as some small projects.

Their days were filled with quilting, shopping, massages, spray tans, manicures, pedicures and hand wax dips. It was amazing!

We even had a fun little contest where the ladies wore a facial into the stores shopping. They won prizes if they would shop for 30 minutes with their masks on. People were giving them funny looks in the shops, but most of them stuck it out and got their prize! When in Hamilton…. 😉

Our two retreaters from Australia, Leonie and Kylie, brought a Missouri Star quilt block with them for Jenny to sign as well as Australian chocolates for everyone. Yummy!

It was such a wonderful retreat and many lifelong quilty friends were made. If you would like to attend a future retreat, you can find them here: Missouri Star Quilt Company Retreats and Events Page.

April 4, 2016September 13, 2016

Mini Periwinkle or Mini Wacky Web Tutorial Reboot Featuring Guest Blogger Rebecca Bryan

Revisited Quilting Tutorials from Missouri Star Quilt Co

Hi everyone! I’m Rebecca Bryan, of Bryan House Quilts, and author of Modern Rainbow: 14 Imaginative Quilts that Play with Color (Stash Books, 2015). I’ve been quilting from a fairly young age having grown up around quilting. I’ve always been artistically inclined, and quilting has been a constant way for me to keep creating and discovering.

Today, I’m showing you my mini or table topper version of the Mini Wacky Web/Mini Periwinkle. Some of my favorite quilt designs center around a simple, geometric block. Which is why I chose to use Jenny’s lovely Mini Wacky Web Tutorial. The Mini Wacky Web is perfect for me!

Ready? Quack! Let’s go. 🙂

For my cutting, I used my Sizzix Fabi and Mini Wacky Web Die to cut up my Cotton Couture charm pack. You could also use the Mini Wacky Web Template (Jenny shows you how in the original YouTube tutorial).

Here’s a glimpse of my process. I wanted to choose my colors fairly randomly (but let’s face it, I still like to choose favorites) so I used a ceramic fruit basket to toss the colors about. I made all my blocks just as Jenny instructs. To make a table topper, I decided to make 16 blocks.

At this point, I was loving my blocks. But to make each block pop, I decided to add 1” turquoise sashings and borders.

The unfinished Mini Wacky Web block measures just around 6”. So I cut 2 strips of 1 1/2” widths of fabric from my turquoise yardage. Then I subcut 12 rectangles 1 1/2” x 6”. After I decided on my block layout, I added a 1 1/2” x 6” strip to the right side of 12 blocks. And then sewed the blocks into rows.

Then I added 1 1/2” x 25 1/2” sashing strips between the rows and sewed the rows together.

To finish off the quilt top, I added 1 1/2” x 26 1/2” borders to each side.

Instead of machine quilting this table topper, I couldn’t resist hand quilting with black perle #8 thread. I love hand quilting, especially small projects. 🙂

This was so much fun to make – so bright and happy. Thank for having me MSQC! And thank you for reading!

Click on the button to watch the original tutorial and get all the supplies used in Rebecca’s version!

We want you to make your own, so 2 Lucky Winners are going to get a Michael Miller Cotton Couture fabric bundle! Enter below:

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Here’s where you can find Rebecca Bryan of Bryan House Quilts on the web:

Blog: https://bryanhousequilts.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bryanhousequilts

Instagram: @bryanhousequilts

October 28, 2015November 6, 2015

Victoria Findlay Wolfe and Sizzix Retreat Recap – 2015

We just loved having Victoria Findlay Wolfe here along with Linda Nitzen from Sizzix for our retreat! It was such a blast and such a wonderful learning experience for all. Jenny even sat down with the retreaters and followed along with Victoria’s class she was so enthralled in it!

Laid out on the floor is Victoria’s Large Melon Double Wedding Ring Quilt, isn’t it stunning? The colors and fabrics are marvelous together giving this scrappy quilt so much character.

Did you know you could have so much fun with a Sizzix Machine? Check out these fun little guys below… All you have to do is let your imagination run wild and adorable creations will come!

Linda, the Sizzix Quilting Manager, presented a quilt challenge to the MSQC employees to create a quilt/ quilted item 50×50 or smaller for a chance to win a Big Shot Pro and several dies! Here is our first place winning team!

It’s a sore subject with the rest of the staff, (we are a very competitive group) but these lucky winners sure were happy and are enjoying their prize and their win was well deserving! They created an Interactive Children’s Playmat! All of the pieces were cut from Sizzix Dies and can be removed and rearranged on the mat for a super fun time! How fun and clever is that? 🙂

We were so glad to have these amazing ladies here with us in Hamilton and hope they get to come again soon! Have you ever been to a quilting retreat? Find out about all of our upcoming retreats and events HERE.

January 21, 2015January 21, 2015

Sizzix Quilt Blog Hop // The Arrow Quilt!

Welcome everyone to the Sizzix Quilt Blog Hop! A bunch of us got together and decided to make some really great quilted projects to show you just what the Sizzix Big Shot Pro, fabi Quilting line can do! You’ll get firsthand project ideas featuring Sizzix fabi dies as well as projects made using our newest Bigz Pro Quilting collection with designs by the artist, author and quilter Victoria Findlay Wolfe!

We thought a lot about this project and we just had so much fun creating this arrow quilt, that we wanted to do what we do best and teach you exactly how to make it. Enjoy this tutorial on the Arrow Quilt!

For this project, we used the Bigz Half Hexi Die, the Bigz Small Simple Wedge Die and Michael Miller’s Fairy Frost Crayon Box Layer Cake. Choose some yardage for the background fabric and outside border and you’re set!

We are so excited to announce that we are going to be having a Quilting Retreat with Jenny Doan, Victoria Findlay Wolfe and Sizzix! The retreat will be October 8th through October 11th and sign-up is now live! Find all the details on the Event Page!

Sizzix has turned our templates into dies! You can find them here: All Sizzix products at Missouri Quilt Company

In addition to the amazing projects handmade by each of our spectacularly talented participants, Sizzix will also be giving away a GRAND prize! You can find out how to enter below!

Here is the full list of participants! If you haven’t visited their blogs yet, go check them out and find out what fabulous projects they created with these fantastic Sizzix products!:

January 16th Jamie Fingal

January 16th Tracy Mooney

January 17th Elizabeth Timmons

January 17th Nicole Daksiewicz

January 18th Ebony Love

January 18th Holly Hughes

January 19th Marni Weaver

January 19th Leslie Jenison

January 20th Karin Jordan

January 20th Sue Bleiweiss

January 21st Jenny Doan (that’s me!)

January 21st Victoria Findlay Wolfe

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