I’ve been having a great time recoloring all of the quilts from my book Machine Quilting with Style. I hope you’ve been getting inspired by all the possibilities. 🙂
This week, I’m sharing about Broken V. First, here’s the original – a simple modern design made from half-square triangles. I love how the solids really show off the machine quilting, but it would look just as fabulous in prints!
Broken V 60″ x 70″ by Christa Watson. Photography by Brent Kane for Martingale.
Broken V Re-imagined
First of all, I thought it would be fun to change out the background to a dark navy while still pairing it up with bold solids:
I design all of my quilts using Electric Quilt Software.
For the next re-coloring, I thought it would be fun to use Cozy Christmas prints from Lori Holt for a completely different look, perfect for the upcoming holidays:
Click here to purchase Cozy Christmas precut bundles by Lori Holt.
Celebration Giveaway
Each week along with sharing new versions of each quilt, I’m also hosting a giveaway. It’s like a 12 week-long birthday party, celebrating the joy that writing this book has brought into my life after just a year in print!
Last time Jean K. and Lillian K each won a four pack of my quilt patterns. This week I’m going to send one lucky winner a copy of The Quilter’s Planner, produced by my friend Stephanie Palmer of Late Night Quilter.
I was excited to have my Feathered Chevrons quilt included along with 13 other fabulous projects shown below.
And if that wasn’t exciting enough, Stephanie is also throwing in a fun bundle of Blueberry Park fabric for another lucky winner.
How to Enter
Just leave a comment below letting me know how you usually plan out your days. Do you use a paper planner? A digital tool? The back of your hand??? 🙂
I’ll pick 2 US winners next Friday when I reveal the next recolored quilt!
More Inspiration & Where to Buy
My book was published on my daughter’s birthday last year, so she got the first copy!
- Click here to see the rest of the quilts from the book, along with more optional colorways made by my friends!
- Click here to pick up a signed copy of Machine Quilting with Style.
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I use paper lists. Sometimes they get done, sometimes they don’t!
I use both paper lists and a list on my phone for planning.
Since I work full time, I wake up every morning planning on quilting..(after work, sometimes before work) It seems that when i plan my day to much I get ‘down in the dumps’ because something comes up that needs attention. So, my daily plan is the same all the time. Quilt or sew every chance i get. I feel blessed when i can sew all day.
I plan my day in my head. But really important things need to be entered in my calendar on my phone.
My daily planning is paper lists and the calendar on my phone! I would love the Quilters Planner…the quilts look fabulous plus I would love to plan my time better!
I am a paper planner person. Thanks for the chance to win this fantastic planner. My friend bought one and it looks fantastic.
For appointments I use a Filofax an A5 one in the kitchen (aka launch pad) and a small one in my handbag. For quilting I have a master list of all projects on my computer and make a weekly to do list to focus me on household tasks, gardening chores, dressmaking projects and quilting. I love the feeling of being able to use my pink highlighter to strike thru what I’ve done during the week. Long winded, perhaps, but for me it works.
That’s such a fun quilt, and I loved using last year’s Quilter’s Planner. I need a new one. It helped keep some of my projects and to-do lists organized, and I used the graph paper often. It’s a great planner. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win.
My phone calendar is my only plan!! Not great!
I would love to have the giveaway… learn to use a proper method!
Thank you.
Plan, hmmm. I’m retired now so I try very hard not to plan my days. That said I have a lot of activities to work around and so it takes a big calendar on the wall to remind me. If I didn’t go to church every Sunday I would be in trouble. What day is it anyway?
I use the calendar on my phone all the time. I’d be lost without it!
I started keeping everything in a planner. This looks so helpful! Thanks for the chance.
I use my phone calendar for appointments and events. But I make a list of sewing projects in progress and to do’s and post it up in my sewing room. It sorts helps me from getting to distracted on projects.
BTW: I love the Blueberry Park line.
I think best in the shower so that is when I plan my day. I also use my Google calendar to record my events. Don’t want to miss any quilty dates!
I make notes on the notepad on my phone. Although I’m constantly forgetting about them.
I make notes on a calendar and check it daily. It has the important things like appointments noted. If there is nothing noted on the calendar, it is a lucky day because I can devote it to quilting.
Your quilts are always the best, Christa! I’m not the greatest planner, but I do keep track of events on my phone calendar so it’s always with me and I can easily access it.
I plan by putting notes on my dining room table…it seems if I put them away, I forget them. Your book looks great.
I’ve made the switch for appointments to putting everything on my phone calendar. But I make daily to do lists on paper. For quilting I’m on paper I have a spreadsheet of my wips. And a list of projects I want to do. I think that beautiful planner would be wonderful!
My “planner” is a good sized white board that I keep track of my WIP projects, fabrics I want to use next, patterns I’m interested in, and who is on the never ending list of family and friends who need quilts, etc. So far, this method seems to work as I can cross off items as I go or add on easily.
I actually use a yearly planner book that has each month and big squares for me I have so many appointments that I have to keep for my 3 grandkids and my son who is severely delayed. And then I have a larger wall-sized calendar that’s erasable for the school closures and who’s getting paid when and things like that. One year it was so busy I had to have a planner for just the kids and then a planner for my son by himself because he had so many doctors appointments. So I can definitely use a Quilter’s planner. I would love it!
I try to plan my day I really ,do, but to no avail . I don’t allow myself to sew though until one household chore is complete …. making the bed doesn’t count !
I mock up a digital quilt, and then hand write all of the fabric cutting and requirements in a notebook. I have three notebooks on the go at any given time. Hmmm, i might need a planner lol!
Sometimes I write a “to do” list but have the problem of losing it. Sometimes I rely on memory to organize my day but usually don’t get much done. Sometimes I just give up and see where the day leads me. Often times, I end up frustrated that the day has gone by so quickly and I’ve hardly done anything! kthurn(at)bektel(dot)com
I keep a monthly calendar in the kitchen for the whole family to use and then I also use the calendar on my phone.
I write stuff on my monthly calendar but I run out of space.
Hi Christa, I really love the recoloring you are doing with the quilts. So many beautiful versions of the same quilt come to life in so many different beautiful ways. So fabulous! I am also retired. I love the ability to make decisions on the fly whenever my heart desires. And naturally, there are some things that do require scheduling, so for those tasks I use my iPhone/iPad calendar. Otherwise the balance of my time is just whatever I feel like doing. Most of the time is related to quilting. When actually sewing I work on about 5 quilts at a time as well as QAL’s and BOM’s. I feel so blessed to be able to do what I love best. Take care.
I usually write mine out along with lots of lists, I’m sure there is a much more efficient way though.
My planning consists of a lot of sticky notes stuck on my sewing cabinet! I could use a little help with this.
My time is my own now that I am retired (as others have indicated). Unfortunately, some things do take scheduling and I use my IPhone, IPad calendar for those items. When it comes to quilting I just sort of do whatever I want. I do work on about 5 quilts at a time while throwing in quilt alongs and BOM’s. Such a blessed life to be able to enjoy what I love. Take care.
I don’t use a planner, but I make lists and charts. I’d love to try the Quilter’s Planner.
I play it by ear! My health plays a big part. I volunteer 2 hours one day a week and sew at night when I’m in pain for cancer patients so I get outside myself and my reality. Other than that, I roll with it! Flexibility is KEY in my life! I have always had a habit since I was an RN of writing things on my palm of my hand at times. I also have 100 stickies all over as reminders!!! LOL!
I plan all events I MUST do in my phone calendar, that way i see them every morning. I break down the hours I don’t have MUST items on paper or wing them as i go, usually sewing or reading.
For a few years after college I would purchase a planner and would do really well for 4-6 months and then it just got easier to use my phone BUT I would love a quilt planner!
I my own business and am on city council,several other boards. I use my phone for reminding me what’s up for the day and paper for detail. I had a cladding from you this summer loved it.
I am still very much a paper girl. I enjoy having the planner in my hand, skimming the birthdays, dates to remember and little notes or sketches in the margins. And I keep all of my past calendars/planners. Has come in quite handy a couple of times! Thanks so much for sharing.
Now that I’m retired I don’t need to schedule as much–I get to sew and quilt most days. I do have a calendar to schedule retreats, trips and guild meetings (my volunteer jobs).
Love your book
I write out the to do list and put my projects in a bin in order of importance.
I’ve discovered something called the bullet journal. I an do a week at a time and a habit tracker. But I really NEED this planner and the patterns for my quilty life. Thanks for the giveaway chance!
I’m a paper planner. My problem is I put too many things on one list and can’t possibly do everything on it in one day so then it’s another piece of paper. I wish the things I crossed off would just erase themselves and then I could add new things. I know I could do this on my computer but I resist.
Usually, I’m a paper/pencil kind of girl…and I still am. But I also make an old fashioned table in my documents and type away…that’s because my paper list gets written all over and then lost and found and lost again. And you know what? I’m okay with that, but it would be nice to have an actual planner…and I would use pencil 😉
Paper all the way! (Ok maybe sometimes the back of my hand lol) I Love your reimagined quilts ❤️Thanks for the fun giveaway!
I’ve really enjoyed seeing the recoloring of your quilts. I don’t have a method for planning my projects but think I’d like to be better at it. Thanks for the chance to win the planner.
I need to get into a habit of planning again. I retired and stopped with the daily planner use. Most days I have an idea of what needs to be done as well as what sewing project I want to work on. But I occasionally feel disorganized and easily distracted. There’s so many projects I want to start and ones that need to be finished.!
I use a paper calendar and lists. Lots of lists. With work, family and creation time penciled in. Thanks. Grinnie1961 @ gmail dot com
I follow The FlyLady. Have a control journal and try to write everything down on the calendar. Plus write in a daily journal.
I start each day with some hot tea, and my bible for some quiet time with the Lord. Then I like to plan my day with a spiral note pad. I write down what I want to get accomplished for that day.
I am normally using a paper planner, and I would love to try the Quilter’s Planner!
I use a calendar and a list for a week written on large framed picture.
I have a Daytimer plus outlook calendar which helps at work. However, at home when I have “me” time I am less organized. Usually planning in my head instead of on paper which is probably why I accomplish more at work and less at home😁
Well, I still work three days a week, the other two days and some part of the weekend , I quilt!!