Turning Tiles in McCall's Quilting Magazine!

I'm so excited to be able to share my Turning Tiles quilt with you! This quilt has quite the story behind it!

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The story starts well over a year ago when I submitted a quilt block called "Skyscraper" to the Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine.

Along with my quilt block, I submitted this quilt design for consideration in their "Quilts from 100 Blocks" magazine.

The "Skyscraper" block was published in Volume 16 of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine in November of last year. (You can read about that here.) Then shortly after, both the "100 Blocks" and "Quilts from 100 Blocks" magazines went out of print.

Then in June, out of the blue, I got an email saying the quilt design had been chosen for the January/February issue of McCall's Quilting! (The magazines have the same parent company.)

I digitally auditioned several different fabrics for the magazine version, but ultimately chose Island Batik fabrics from the Lavendula line. The rich purple and bright teal fit well with the "elegance and glamour" theme of the issue.

Now, there are a few important things to note about the timing of this. First, I was in the third trimester of pregnancy. Second, my midwife suggested that I start a no-sugar diet to ward off gestational diabetes. Third, we were remodeling part of our home in preparation of selling it. And fourth, we were getting ready to move across the state. Oh, and I had several other deadline projects that had already been on the calendar for months. But I hadn't planned on this one!

After receiving the fabrics, I immediately had to pack them in a box for moving! Then I kept that box with my purse, as it would have to be one of the first ones unpacked at the new house in order to meet the deadline!

After setting up the dining room table and finding my cutting mat, I began cutting the pieces for the quilt.

Next was to set up the sewing machine and find the box of Aurifil thread.

And about here is where you shout, "Plot twist!" Amid the chaos of moving and remodeling and new dieting and pregnancy and deadlines...I got stress hives. Like, crazy itchy all over my body hives. I'll spare you the pictures. And since I was pregnant, Calamine lotion was all I could do about it. I practically bathed in the stuff. Dr. Google told me the only way for them to go away was to eliminate the stress. So I kept unpacking and sewing.

I sewed and sewed and sewed. With a lot of Calamine lotion mixed in.

Once the top was complete, I loaded it onto the longarm with Warm & Natural batting and 50wt Aurifil thread in Dark Dusty Grape #2581.

I really wanted to do some custom quilting in the aqua squares and low volume diamonds, but the reality was the deadline was approaching quickly. And I still had boxes to unpack. And hives.

So instead, I free motioned a small meander in all of the purple fabric sections.

After binding with more of the aqua fabric, we took the quilt to the lake that is just a half mile from our new house for some pictures.

Boxing up the quilt to send to the magazine felt really good. Or maybe that was the Calamine lotion.

Either way, just a few days later, the boxes were unpacked, the new house was feeling more like home, and my hives went away.

I love how this quilt turned out, and I love that there's such a story connected to it for me.

Be sure to pick up your own copy of the magazine to see The Hives Quilt the Turning Tiles quilt! I've already seen it at my local grocery store! (And yes, I left signed business postcards inside!) JoAnn's, Wal-Mart, Barnes & Noble, Target...the magazine is available just about everywhere books and magazines are sold!

In case you can't find it, you can find the issue digitally here. They also have print copies and subscriptions too. You can even get a subscription on Amazon! (They're no longer available)

I can almost look back and laugh about the hives now. Almost.

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