Wow, just wow.

I knew it had been a long time since I had posted, but 3 years? We all know what happened to 2020. January 7th of 2021 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Chemo, surgery, radiation. My surgery was September 7th 2021. The chemotherapy got all the cancer, so there was not even any left in the tumor or lymph nodes that were removed. That day marks me cancer free. 2022 was still recovery and re-evaluation of my business and life. February 2023 was a wonderful vacation with our son and his wife, and our daughter and her partner. Many memories made and photos taken. 2023 brought us closer to retirement. We went "just looking" to an RV show, and you guessed it, bought a 29 ft Class C Motor Home. It just barely fits beside our house. It's tough to spend the money you have been saving all your life - for THIS on THIS. After taking several weekend trips in the new Motor Home, we took a long weekend to meet my brother from Indiana, in West Virginia. Lots of hills (mountains!). Great to spend time with family. Last week was a quilt retreat in a beautiful Inn located in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia. OK, you know it as Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville Inn. Old and new friends. Dedicated time to finish one quilt center, and make progress on a long-term project. That's the short and sweet update. Till later Bunnie

Designer tips & techniques Day 2

Designers 

12:00 Jen Frost https://www.facebook.com/faithandfabric

1:00   Diane Harris https://www.facebook.com/stashbandit/

2:00   Annette Ornelas     https://m.facebook.com/southwind.designs/

3:00   Lynn Kane https://wwwfacebook.com/puppygirllynn

4:00   Patti Carey https://www.facebook.com/Pattis-Patchwork-464368707643825/

5:00   Kathleen McCormic https://www.facebook.com/kathleenmcmusing

6:00   Heidi Pridemore https://www.facebook.com/heidipridemorewhimsicalworkshop/

7:00   Annie Smith http://www.facebook.com/anniesmithqs

8:00   Tammy Silvers https://www.facebook.com/tamarinis

Designer tips & techniques

Hello!
Hope this finds you safe and well.
I am joining with a great group of quilt pattern designers in a Tips and Techniques virtual show for three days on Facebook Live!
My slot is Thursday at Noon.

Here is the schedule of presenters:

Tuesday, July 7th

12:00 Teresa Weaver https://www.facebook.com/yoursewingfriend

1:00   

2:00   Cherry Guidry    https://www.facebook.com/CherryBlossomsQuiltingStudio/?ref=bookmarks

3:00   Nancy Scott https://www.facebook.com/MasterpieceQ

4:00   Charisma Horton  https://www.facebook.com/charismah

5:00   Marlene Oddie            http://www.facebook.com/kissedquilts

6:00  Sue Griffiths https://www.facebook.com/duckcreekmountainquilting/

7:00   Jennifer Fulton  http://facebook.com/inquiringquilter

8:00   Ebony Love      https://facebook.com/lovebugstudios

Wednesday, July 8th

12:00 Jen Frost https://www.facebook.com/faithandfabric

1:00   Diane Harris https://www.facebook.com/stashbandit/

2:00   Annette Ornelas     https://m.facebook.com/southwind.designs/

3:00   Lynn Kane https://wwwfacebook.com/puppygirllynn

4:00   Patti Carey https://www.facebook.com/Pattis-Patchwork-464368707643825/

5:00   Kathleen McCormic https://www.facebook.com/kathleenmcmusing

6:00   Heidi Pridemore https://www.facebook.com/heidipridemorewhimsicalworkshop/

7:00   Annie Smith http://www.facebook.com/anniesmithqs

8:00   Tammy Silvers https://www.facebook.com/tamarinis

Thursday, July 9th

12:00 Bunnie Cleland https://www.facebook.com/TriangleFrenzy

1:00   Kate Colleran  https://www.facebook.com/SeamsLikeaDreamQuilts/

2:00  Monique Kleinhans https://www.facebook.com/ladybugscabin/

3:00   Andi Stanfield http://www.facebook.com/Anditruebluequilts

4:00   Terri Vanden Bosch https://www.facebook.com/lizardcreekquilting/

5:00  Geeky Bobbin  http://facebook.com/geekybobbin

6:00   Swan Sheridan http://www.facebook.com/swanamitystudios

7:00   Reed Johnson https://www.facebook.com/BlueBearQuilts/

8:00   Raylee Bielenberg  https://www.facebook.com/sunflowerstitcheriesnquilting/

Hope to see you in my comments!! Come say hi

Bunnie Cleland

Triangle Frenzy

Digital Downloads

What's new at Triangle Frenzy®?
Digital Downloads!
This is especially exciting if you have been watching from overseas, waiting for shipping costs to go down.
Currently all my patterns now have Digital Download variations. They are the same as my Printed versions, just enlarged to fit the 8 1/2'' x 11'' pages as most people would print out the patterns.
The exception is the Triangle Frenzy Orchid Parasol that was already formatted to the right size as a booklet.
The larger size is also screen friendly, so no printing is required.
Have you been waiting for Digital Downloads?
Tell me what you think of them.
Have a Frenzy day!
Bunnie

Something New at Triangle Frenzy®

What's new?
Seems like an innocent question.
You have one or more of my patterns, you like it, so you want more. What's new?

Circumstances have conspired to keep me from having something new for a while,  but after a whole week at a quilt retreat, I have come up with something new. Plus a few more ideas.

I'm afraid you will have to wait for the photos.
Suffice to say there are triangles and stripes. Lots of triangles and lots of stripes.

What's new with you?

Pixelating Blog Hop

My good friend Toni (Quiltoni) Smith has introduced me to an amazing side of quilting.
She quilts while streaming on Twitch. (I don't mean what happens to your eyes when someone calls a quilt a "blanket".)
Twitch started out as people broadcasting playing computer games and has expanded to, among other things, broadcasting working on creative things like quilting, knitting, crochet, wood, metal, jewelry, and I haven't even scratched the surface. 
Imagine sitting beside someone doing a creative craft, talking, interacting, and learning!
Quiltoni makes pixel quilts, and has published a book on how to make them yourself.

my favicon

I just had to try one of my own. I just needed a pixel image or sprite.
Eventually I decided upon my favicon, 
That's the tiny little image that shows up next to the name of a website in the bookmarks.


Using the techniques in her book, I skipped ahead and started to design my quilt with 1 1/2'' squares that I already had precut. Until I figured out that I would need six of these for the design I wanted to make.
Thatsa lotta squares.

The first design

 I went back to the cutting table (not the drawing board) and started over, actually following the directions in the book.
I drafted my quilt using Electric Quilt 8, then drew squares and rectangles over the parts that would be combined into squares and rectangles.
 This looks more like the instructions in the book.

Making equilateral triangles into squares

Then I found a roll of tone on tone fabrics already cut into 2 1/2'' strips.I sorted them into 3 groups of 7 fabrics - that's how many colors fit into my design.

Three groups of seven fabrics

Following my diagram, I cut the strips into squares and rectangles.

cutting...

I laid them out on my horizontal design wall/board in vertical columns.

Design wall layout

 You may notice what I quickly realized. This was not an easy strip quilt. The 60 degree angles required different seams, and several partial seams where the "triangles" came together.

Partial seams

I loved this part of figuring out how to put the pieces together. I was very happy knowing that I didn't have to write the instructions for the sewing sequence.

The puzzle in progress

 I used black to raise the design off the background, then added the strips to square up the sides.

My mid-arm quilting machine made quick work of the quilting, and my machine made quick work of the binding.

Machine Binding

 The finished pixel quilt was done in time to send to Quiltoni for her booth in the Fall International Quilt Market in Houston.

My pixel quilt.

This shows the scale of the quilt.

Just a little secret to share here, It may look like I added the black border to lift the design off the background, but actually, I ran out of that black and could to only outline half the design. Sometimes things work out better with a little imagination.

Here are the rest of the bloggers in the Pixelating Blog Hop.

Nov 27 - Quiltoni - Welcome and Introduction of Bloggers and Giveaway https://quiltoni.blogspot.com/ 

Nov 28 -   Kate Colleran Designs, LLC -   http://seamslikeadream.com/blog/ 

Nov 29 -   A&E Gutermann -   http://www.seewhatmaterializes.com/blog/ 

You are here today

Nov 30 -   Triangle Frenzy LLC -   https://trianglefrenzy.blogspot.com/ 

Dec 1 -   Desert Bloom Quilting -   https://www.desertbloomquilting.com/blog/ 

Dec 2 - Quiltoni -   https://quiltoni.blogspot.com/ 

Dec 3 -   Tamarinis -   https://tamarinis.typepad.com/ 

Dec 4 -   The Fat QuarterGypsy -   http://www.fatquartergypsy.com/Lex-Luther-Blog.html 

Dec 5 -   Around the Bobbin -   https://aroundthebobbin.com/blog/ 

Dec 6 -   Quilting Affection Designs  -   http://quiltingaffection.blogspot.com/ 

Dec 7 -   Muppin Inc -   http://blog.muppin.com/

Dec 8 - Winners Announced

We are having a drawing at the end of the blog hop, so check out out instagram and enter the giveaway.
See you next time
Have a Frenzy Day!

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Row By Row 2018

I made patterns for two shops this year for the Row by Row Experience ™.
One was for the shop I did last year,
Quilting Sew Easy in Gaffney, South Carolina.

The other is Atomic Fibers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Photos to follow.