Note: The winner of this giveaway is Mary, who loves nature-inspired collections with dark colors mixed in. Congratulations Mary and thanks for commenting everyone! I am underwater with prep for BERNINA University right now so haven’t gotten to respond to all of your comments but I did read them. Thanks for the GREAT ideas! – Amanda
Hi everyone!
My 4 new Feathers & Flourishes patterns will all be in by the end of the week! I’m so excited I thought we’d do a giveaway for a full set of patterns! (All were pieced on the BERNINA 780 and quilted on the BERNINA Q 24.)
Here’s the rundown…
Plume! A 10”-square-friendly design that can look wild different by switching out just the border and background prints.
Posies… a fat-quarter-friendly quilt on a dramatic blue background. This is a 1-block quilt with strip-pieced sashing.
“Starstruck” – a 2-1/2”-strip-friendly design. (And my personal favorite this time.)
Last, but certainly not least, Flourishes, a fusible appliqué design with an SVG file option.
If you like the patterns and fabric, if you would ask your local shop to order them I’d really appreciate it. They listen to you guys!
For those of you who don’t have a local shop, the patterns will be up in my shop, but will not ship until early next week ’cause I need folding time! Also, you’ll notice my shop is in a bit of a transition and some of my patterns and books are shown. I’m rebuilding it so that I have the ability offer PDFs so international customers and I’ll be adding items back over the next few weeks.
Ready for a chance to win a full set of patterns? If so, tell me what type of style or theme you’d like to see in my next collection by commenting at the bottom of this post. (If you buy a set of patterns before you win, you can opt for other patterns in my line instead so no worries.) You may have to click on the title of the post to see the comment area at the bottom. Limit one entry per person please and make sure to leave a way for me to contact me if you win if your email settings are private. The deadline to enter will be two weeks from now so end of day on June 30th. Also, if I don’t respond to all comments like I normally try to do, I apologize. I have new projects and fabric due for BERNINA University in July so things are crazy around here!
For another chance to win, head over to Brewer’s blog and follow the instructions to enter! Good luck!
NOTE: The winners of this giveaway are Donna B. and Roberta Lottino, both of whom who liked Plume! Congratulations, ladies – send me your snail mails please. I’m sorry I don’t have more precuts to give to all of you, but we’ll have another giveaway later this summer!
Hi everyone! I haven’t blogged in SOOOO long! It has been busy here with (in the spirit of Quilt Market) secret sewing stuff, but I’m finally getting around to writing about what I have been working on. Since pictures speak louder than words I’ll try to keep words to a minimum.
My booth at Spring 2016 Quilt Market…
My new collection for the Contempo division of Benartex is called Feathers & Flourishes and it is shipping in July. It is inspired those shapes that we see so often in the quilt world. This time my goal was to create a collection that allowed people to really experiment with color. So I have added a deep navy and vibrant red, along with the greens and aquas that I love. Consequently, each quilt can look dramatically different depending on the proportions of the prints used. Here you can see a wider view and a little of my friend Cherry Guidry’s booth next to mine as well.
I have 4 new patterns that will be released with this collection. They will be on my website as soon as I get them back from the printer, probably in a few weeks. The first is Plume. This is a REALLY simple medallion quilt. The blocks are made from a stack of 10” squares so you just change the borders and background to get an entirely new look!
“Plume” – Special thanks to Traci Adams and Joanne Leonard for piecing the color variations hanging on the sides of the red version!
The next quilt is called “Starstruck”. This one almost never made it off of my computer screen. It was one of those that really sang in person and even more so once it was quilted so that the secondary diamond pattern came out. It was probably the “hit” of my booth so that shows you how much I know… haha! Oh – and it is made from a couple 2-1/2” pinwheels and two background fabrics.
“Starstruck”
The third quilt is called Posies. You can only see a little of it here because it is folded up due to limited wall space. Posies is a fat-quarter friendly quilt and the flowers are on-point – I’ll show you more once I have the patterns back. I love how different the prints look against the navy background!
“Posies”, an adorable tuffet from Tuffet Source (thanks for putting it together, Mom, and a cute little in-the-hoop bag from Pickled Pie Designs
And my final set of patterns is called “Flourishes”. It is a set of 3 designs that can be finished as a tryptic of min-quilts or a pillows. There is an SVG option on this pattern as well and Hill Creek (now Just Another Button Company) is producing a button pack for both the white and navy versions.
The white version of “Flourishes”
The navy version of “Flourishes”, finished as a pillow and peeking out from behind the precuts and a quilt made from one of the free patterns for this collection.
To the left of “Flourishes” you can see the free embroidery pattern for this collection that I designed. The embroidery collection is put out by OESD.
You can see more embroidery from Feathers and Flourishes here…
In another corner of the booth you can see a peek of my other free pattern for this collection called “Cinema” – more on that soon!
I almost forgot! For the first time I’ll be coming out with a quilting collection to coordinate with my fabric collection! So excited as it will be well-timed with the arrival of the Q-Matic system for the BERNINA longarm. The Feathers and Flourishes Quilting Collection is undergoing testing in June and will be shipping in July.
Here is my friend Cherry Guidry’s booth next to mine. Isn’t it pretty?
So that was Market! I can’t believe it is over. You prep for months and then it goes by in a blur. (Maybe even more of a blur considering we had an emergency evacuation of the hotel the night before we left due to a water pipe break which, when combined with a red-eye home, made for a very hazy couple of days!)
My booth at Spring Quilt Market 2016 – a final view…
If you love this collection I’d love for you to ask your shop to order it – thanks!
SO if you have actually lasted through all of these pictures (hi Mom!) it is TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY! Did you see those precuts sitting on the chairs at Market? I snagged a couple for you guys. I have a stack of 10” squares and a bundle of 9 fat quarters to give away so leave a comment below telling me which new pattern you like best – Plume, Starstruck, Posies, or Flourishes? Please only enter once and leave me some way to reach you if I can’t see it through your profile. The last day to enter is Tuesday, May 31st.
Thanks for letting me share and have a wonderful Memorial Day!
Just wanted to let you guys know that the instructions are now on newsstands for all three quilts in the APQ Quilt Along. They can be found in the current issues of Quilts and More and American Patchwork & Quilting.
I made some progress on my Easy Addition quilt (featured in Quilts and More actually) earlier this week. I’m sewing it in Sparkle, my holiday line for Benartex – which should arrive in stores in March/April. (If you are working on this project remember to follow along on Instagram using the hashtag #APQQuiltalong !
My favorite Sparkle color combination…I like it so much I made it twice!Another favorite…
But maybe I just like the wreaths?
Easy Addition is made in such a clever manner – all four outer corners are cut from one simple square-in-a-square block which you pre-piece and then cut. Which means, if you are using directions prints, that you get all four corners with the prints oriented in the right direction automatically!
Also this year in APQ they are running a quilting series where Angela Walters, Leah Day, and I all show you ideas for quilting a particular block. This month it is the split rail fence. Fun to see that everyone comes up with something very different and unique!
Finally, a lot of people have been joining our Free-Motion Quilting Idea facebook group, which is awesome! We are talking about all things quilting over there. I try to loosely screen membership requests to make sure are all quilters or at least crafters so, if your membership request hasn’t been accepted, chances are that you might need to change your settings so I can see something about you – or message me so I know who you are. If your feed is in another language that is ok, but just make sure that I can see some pictures or posts that indicate your interests so I can tell you aren’t a spammer, ok?
Also, I had so much interest in my last quilting tutorial on swirl feathers that I’ll be working another free quilting tutorial for you all in time for Valentine’s Day – stay tuned!
So that is it – I hope you all have a wonderful week and get in a few minutes of sewing along the way!
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