Nancy Rink Blog

Here is our booth. On the far left wall are quilts fron Strip It Three Ways: Series 2. On the back wall, left to right: Playa Del Sol, Bloom Love, Flowering Hearts, Color Love Block of the Month, Amish With a Twist (Lightens Up color way).On the table is a quilt from Strip It Three Ways: Series 3. Playa Del Sol, Bloom Love, Flowering Hearts, and the Color Love BOM are all made with fabrics from...

Okay, so a while back I showed off my upcoming Color Love fabric collection from Marcus Fabrics with a sneak peek at an applique block. Since we leave tomorrow for Spring Quilt Market, I thought it might be a good time to show a few images of the Color Love BOM quilts. The reason I say "quilts", plural, is because there are two versions of the same quilt: an applique version and a pieced version. The...

Color Love--that's the name of my newest fabric collection with Marcus Fabrics.  Here's my sample yardage all laid out on my cutting table, ready to be put to work. Oh, my pretties! So there is already a plan for Color Love--a block-of-the-month quilt also called Color Love. Yesterday I worked on the  applique' blocks.  It was so easy to just peel and fuse the shapes in place and then buttonhole stitch around the patches. Now, mind...

COTTON PATCH QUILTERS OF KERN COUNTY is pleased to announce "Kaleidoscope of Quilts" February 8-9, 2014 Kern County Fair Grounds 1142 South P St, Bakersfield, California. Cotton Patch Quilt Guild's Opportunity Quilt"Kaleidoscope of Color"Designed, assembled and center Lone Star by Cindy Seitz-KrugLemoyne Stars by Carol Smith, inner Saw Tooth border by Janice JacksonLynn Brown & Juliet Granger made the outer Saw Tooth borderApplique blocks by Lois Campise, Celia Ho, Jenifer McNees & Corey StarkeyCeCe Westerfield did...

It's always so thrilling to see something I made in print! And on the cover! Can you see it peeking out from under the quilt on the far right?Here is Clara's Pride which is in the Jan/Feb 2014 edition of McCall's Quilting. The blocks are large so they go together relatively quickly and there are only nine of them. The finished quilt is 70 1/2" square.