Tinker Toys Pattern Release

Yay! Finally, after two long years, I can publish my Tinker Toys design that was in the August 2023 issue of Love of Quilting. I honestly do think that is an exorbitant amount of time to not own the rights to my own design, but, sniff! and hmph! I have not submitted another to them since! You may recall that last fall I did get permission to publish a throw size of the quilt, with my own instructions (they changed them slightly in the magazine) and in a completely different colour scheme. Well, now the baby quilt, throw, and even a cushion cover are all in one pattern. And oh yes, it's on sale all August long weekend!

This perfect spot for a photo, or even a sit😊, which many people do, is the front of The Grove Hotel on Main Street in Kingsville. It's a beautiful old hotel, totally renovated, built in 1854. I think they should have a couple of quilts on those rocking chairs! Might have to approach them...

The quilt uses just two blocks, and, although they appear as if they're on point, they are not. All it consists of is HSTs and squares.

I love that spot as well for quilt shots! It's just a few doors down from the hotel, at one of our optometrist's in town. I used the concrete green tape to stick it onto the metal sign which is one of several murals done by various artists in the Arts Society of Kingsville. I actually bought a mug from them with this mural on it as it has special meaning for me.

Sorry that screenshot has come in a little blurry. The pattern will be 25% off through our August long weekend. Most provinces and territories have a holiday Monday of some sort, so although I didn't originally plan it to release on a long weekend, it works out perfectly. I keep all my patterns at $12CA except for Rainbow Neighbourhood which is a huge pattern with four projects, so it's $14. So Tinker Toys is on sale until Monday at midnight for just $9CA.

Here's another shot of the throw:

And of course the cushion/pillow cover:

Here is a 'one on top of the other' shot for size comparison.

I spent a good amount of time in July working on the instructions for another design which I can't show you yet as it will be in an issue of Make Modern next year. Now that that is pretty much done, I plan to focus on writing up directions for two quilts I designed in the annual Project Quilting challenge. I also have pulled a couple of USO's (Un-Started Objects), one of which is almost at the flimsy stage. I have been feeling another emotion-quilt project prodding me over the past few weeks, so I may succumb to that once this USO flimsy is complete.

Happy long weekend if you're so lucky to have one. I hope you'll pop over to check out Tinker Toys! Susan in Australia made the quilt a little while back and sent me a photo:

She is another quilter who has quilted along with me for many of my annual Quilt Alongs.💖 She followed a similar colour scheme to the magazine quilt, but look at her fussycut centres! Great idea!