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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Spring 2013 Quilt Market - Recap #3

I'm off to the airport to head to Sisters Oregon to teach for the next week. I have a few blog posts scheduled for you while I'm gone. To keep up with my live posts from the show follow along via Facebook or Instagram.

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My photos from Days #2 & #3 of the show floor of Quilt Market

Recap Post #1
Recap Post #2

With Cherri House of Cherry House Quilts

Looking at social media with Tula Pink.

Rashida of I Heart Linen's Booth

Pink Chalk Studio Booth

Some of the #tula100 crew. Sara - Emily - Me

Emily's booth for her new fabric line, Technicolor

Mo Bodell's booth for Full Moon Lagoon

Angela Walters doing quilting demons in her booth.

Susan of the Village Quilter in NJ. I miss my local shop!!

Vanessa of V&Co

GenQ's wall of faces... of course I took a photo of the wall that didn't have my face!

Molly - Me - Angela

Hanging out with Elyse from Freespirit in Tula Pink's booth. I'm rocking a dress I made from The Staple Dress pattern by April Rhodes.

Market was in Portland... so Heather Bailey "Put a bird on it!"

Angela Walters & Tula Pink I owe so much to this unstoppable duo.

Cozy Quilt Designs - One of my SoCal local quilt shops.

Echino

Melody Miller

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Two collages of the 8 quilts I had at Quilt Market.
3 Snack Time quilts & Lotus

2 Tiny Dancer, 1 Science Fair & 1 Northern Lights

Monday, February 25, 2013

Sweetheart Quilt Kit Giveaway Winner

It's time to announce the winner of the Sweetheart Quilt Kit Giveaway. {Sorry for the delay in announcing the winner... I've been sick twice this month! No fun at all.}

The winner is...

Erin N please contact me with your info so we can get your kit out to you! Please let us know if you want pastel or bright for your fabric bundle too.

Thanks to everyone for entering.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Sweetheart Quilt {and giveaway}

Happy Valentine's Day!

It just so happens that I have a very sweet quilt to share with you today... my Sweetheart Quilt!

Quilt Details

Fabric is Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss, Rainbow colorstory for Robert Kaufman

Pattern - Sweetheart - Found in the Spring 2013 Generation Q Magazine

Quilted by me

Started on 11/2/12

Finished on 11/6/12

Quilt measures - 40" x 46"

The Sweetheart Quilt pattern is in the Spring 2013 issue of Generation Q Magazine. It just started popping up in Quilt Shops a few days ago and will be on newsstands soon. The pattern uses my Hex N More Ruler & I also included templates in the magazine too.

I originally designed and made this quilt for Aliyah. It was supposed to be a present before her new baby brother arrived. You'll have to read the article in GenQ to find out how they ended up with the quilt!!

I couldn't resist photographing it with our Radio Flyer wagon. The wagon is forever a classic just like the book Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss!! I love that book and look forward to giving this quilt to Aliyah.

To make this quilt you need 9 fat quarters, background fabric & binding. I used the 9 fat quarters in this bundle and saved the panel for another project.

Giveaway time!!

One lucky reader will win a kit to make their very own Sweetheart Quilt!!

The kit includes...

1. A Hex N More Ruler.

2. A copy of the newest issue of Generation Q Magazine including the Sweetheart pattern.

3. A Fat Quarter Bundle of Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss provided by Robert Kaufman. You can choose the pastel bundle I used in my sample or the bright bundle.

That is over $65 of goodies!!

To enter leave a comment and tell me what your favorite Dr. Seuss book is and why!

The Rules

1. Leave ONE comment to enter. Make sure your contact info is in your profile or that you leave it in the comment.

2. In your comment tell me what your favorite Dr. Seuss book is and why!!

Example Comment:

My favorite is book is Oh, the Places You'll Go because it inspires me and reminds me that with hard work I can do anything!!

3. Simple as that!!

~~You have till 9PM PST on Sunday the 17th to enter.~~

Giveaway now closed. Winner announced soon.

Winners will be selected by True Random Number Generator.

Sunday, December 23, 2012

2012 GenQ Addicted Stitcher Survey

The folks over at Generation Q Magazine have asked me for a favor and I’m happy to pass it on. Last month they launched the GenQ 2012 Addicted Stitcher Survey to gather all of those facts and numbers about us! Please take a few moments and answer the survey through the link below. The information gathered would help our wonderful industry people to support and create new products that we want. Oh, and there’s a bribe in it for you as well.
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We last poked and probed into your fabricky lives in late 2011, with our GenQ Modern Quilters Survey. And now it’s time to do it again with the GenQ 2012 Addicted Stitcher Survey. (New name, same mission.) We’d like to count noses, pins, rotary cutters, whatever it takes to grab a detailed snapshot of this niche in the sewing and crafting world.
Some of you have pained expressions, and you’re probably sighing with annoyance at yet another attempt for the corporate q-niverse to stick its demographic-hungry noses into stuff that just isn’t its business. The truth is that all of us stitchy types thrive when our industry answers our needs. And that’s what this survey does. It helps to provide information to the industry so our needs, and wants, can be better met.
Please take a few minutes to whip through the survey (it’s shorter this year) and tell us all about you. And there could be swag in it for you. The survey will be live until the end of the December 2012, and on Jan. 1, 2013, we’ll choose FIVE lucky survey-takers who will each receive a box of fabric, books and small stitchy goodies valued at $50.
Just use this link to find your way to our 2012 Addicted Stitcher Survey. And please freely post it far and wide, encouraging your friends and sew-pals to also participate! Thank you so much for being a part of this second annual survey! And if you want to know more about what we do, check us out at GenerationQMagazine.com.
Stand up and be counted!

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Generation Q - Blog Tour & Giveaway

Welcome to the Gen Q Blog Tour!

I was SUPER excited when Gen Q posted that they would be launching a print format filled with the same spunk & humor as their very popular blog. They raised the funds needed through a Kickstarter campaign just a few months ago.

You can connect with Generation Q in many ways!

Gen Q is on Facebook

Gen Q is on Twitter

The Generation Q Blog has new content all the time.

....and the print issue I'm going to tell you about today is on sale in quilt shops now!

One of the awesome things about Gen Q is its size. It is smaller than most magazines. Here is is next to my iPad for a direct comparison. Since it's small you can easily toss it in your bag to read on the train, while waiting in a doctors office... basically anywhere!

My iPad is rocking a Tula Pink GelaSkin. I recommend getting a GelaSkin since they are fun and protect your device.

I was honored to be asked to have a project in the debut issue.

But after that... something even cooler happened.

See that?... Look closely.

Yup. My brother Brad & I teamed up to do most of the photography for the debut issue!

I loved visiting Rose Hughes home!

This piece of art was a favorite of mine. I love fun uses of typography.

Jake was there to art direct & we had a laughter filled afternoon.

Here is my table runner pattern that is featured in the issue. I wanted to create a manly table runner so I used the Urban Grit fabrics from Michael Miller.

Yummy Stone Beer.

My On Tap table runner is now being used to display an amazing T-Rex sculpture by Adam Homan.

I had no idea this photo was going to be used. To me it was an outtake!! I arrived at Quilt Market and found out it had been used!

It was very windy & slightly chilly... but we had a great time searching out fun places to photograph the quilts.

Photographing the issue was fun & exciting.

Don't forget to check out all the other stops on the tour!

June 25 Kaye Prince

June 26 Carrie Bloomston

June 27 Cara Wilson

June 28 Heather Jones

June 29 Melissa Peda

June 30 Rose Hughes

July 1 Bari J

July 2 Fat Quarter Shop

July 3 Emily Cier

July 4 Blue Nickel Studios

July 5 Jackie Kunkel

July 6 Cheryl Arkinson

July 7 Amy at Amy's Creative Side

July 8 Jaybird Quilts

July 9 Megan Dougherty

July 10 FabTalk blog

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Want to win a copy?? Leave a comment and one lucky person will get their very own copy of the debut issue.

THE RULES 1. Leave ONE comment to enter.
2. Tell me what you would like to see in Gen Q.... I'm curious!
3. Simple as that!!
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~~You have until 9pm PST on Wednesday the 11th to enter.~~ Giveaway now closed. Winner announced soon. Winner will be selected by True Random Number Generator.