Maltaville countdown

Finished Maltaville Blocks ...or nearly finished

I know you’ve all been so patient, waiting for news of the Maltaville Quilt~ Block of the Month patterns.

I’ve been drafting and stitching madly for the last few weeks and learning all sorts of things about computer stuff (retaining some of it is proving harder than I thought but never mind…practice makes perfect) and thank you to everyone who wrote with paper sizes.

Apart from being indebted to Jennifer at 5foot1quilts for all her techy help I am also grateful to Michele at Betwixt the Betweens who patiently printed off the same appliqué pattern over and over as I tried to clarify in my mind how to write instructions to make sure the pattern pages aren’t shrunk to fit printer margins.  It took a few goes but we got there

The release of the Block of the Month is virtually ready to go, I just need some final assistance in adding the shopping cart to this website (and that is this weekend’s job) so if all goes according to plan I anticipate the release of the pattern by 22nd February which is a little later than I had hoped but I under-estimated how long it can take to get all that other stuff ready.

The release of the Block of the Month will contain all the BOM program details… Cost, Time Frame, Block Placement Map, Fabric Scans to help with your fabric choices and Instructions for signing up to the Maltaville Album Quilt blog.  I have been busy over on that blog too adding extra pages but they’re all hiding in the wings waiting for the pattern release.

It would be an understatement to say I’m thrilled to have now sewn fourteen blocks and have a further four drafted.

Tomorrow it is the Castlemaine Appliqué Group (CAG) and I have a Maltaville block basted and ready to sew, it’s the first CAG for the year so it will be lovely to see what everyone has been doing over the summer hol’s and to spend a relaxing day with friends.

I hope your weekend is a good one too…