Modern Elegance Coloring Book blog hop and giveaway!

Posted on November 30, 2015November 29, 2015 by Amanda Murphy — 10 Comments

Hi everyone,

Today is the first day of my Modern Elegance coloring book blog hop! Modern Elegance is a compilation of some of my favorite fabric designs – I hope you like it! Every day C&T Publishing will be giving away a copy of Modern Elegance on one of these great blogs! (U.S. winners will be a hard copy of the book and international winners will get an eBook, but all are eligible to enter!) To enter for today, head on over to C&T Publishing!

Modern Elegance Blog Hop Schedule

Monday, November 30

C&T Publishing

Tuesday, December 1st

Benartex

Wednesday, December 2nd

The Little Red Hen

Thursday, December 3rd

American Patchwork & Quilting

Friday, December 4th

Sarah Vedeler Designs

Monday, December 7th

Brewer Sewing

Tuesday, December 8th

Generation Q Magazine

Wednesday, December 9th

Quiltmaker

Thursday, December 10th

Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio

Friday, December 11th

Amanda Murphy Design

Playing with color is one of my absolute favorite parts of the design process. I put together a little video showing you some coloring possibilities using one of my Carina prints.

I can’t wait to see how you guys put your personal spin on these designs – so please post pictures on Instagram with the hashtag #modernelegance!

Don’t forget to follow along to maximize your chances to win!

Happy coloring, quilting, and sewing!

Amanda

P.S. I finished piecing the Carina version of The Free-Motion Idea Sampler this weekend – I hope you got some fun project work as well. Onto quilting!

Quilting BERNINA-Style: Free-Motion Panel

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Amanda Murphy — 8 Comments

Some of you might have caught a glimpse of this on my BERNINA Q 24 Frame just days before BU.

Well, I was sworn to secrecy at the time but now I can tell you! This is the new Quilting BERNINA-Style Free-Motion Panel that I designed to help people become comfortable with free-motion quilting and it will be arriving exclusively at U.S. BERNINA dealers in October! (I’m not sure about availability for international customers at the time I’m writing this, but I’ll let you guys know if I hear anything, ok?) Whether you quilt on a long arm or domestic, I hope you really enjoy it.

I this many of my favorite allover quilting patterns – some of which can be found in my Free-Motion Quilting Idea Book. The coordinating app that is coming soon shows many of these patterns being quilted on a BERNINA.

After you get practice with many of the designs in the outer blocks, you can work on combining them in the central panels.

The panel measures 36” x 54”, so is easy to maneuver both on a long arm and a domestic. There is a smaller panel that will follow, perfect for making bags, pillows, and placemats. I can’t wait to see what you all make with these!

Also, for those of you who have written me, sign versions of The Free-Motion Quilting Idea Book are now available in my shop. Directions for the coordinating sampler will be available as a download from C&T soon, and the app version with video of a lot of these designs being quilted on a BERNINA Q 24 will follow.

Hope you are having a great summer and happy quilting!

Amanda

Spring Market 2015!

Posted on May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 by Amanda Murphy — Leave a comment

Hi everyone!

I just got back from Spring Quilt Market 2015. It was fabulous to see everyone!

This Market I debuted my first line for Benartex – so exciting! (It was also my first Market as a BERNINA Quilting and Long Arm Spokesperson. More on that later.) My quilting line is called Carina and is all about bright colors. It has a lovely mix of feature prints and blenders for those of me who, like me, love appliqué, and it will ship in August/September. I’ll be back next week with new patterns once I have them in my shop but just wanted to share a few photos.

My booth was next to my friend and fellow Benartex designer, Cherry Guidry of Cherry Blossoms Quilting Studio, so we took down the wall and had a party! (Do you think it is bright enough?)

Around the corner next to Benartex was my fat-quarter friendly new "First Crush" pattern. — Around the corner next to Benartex was my fat-quarter friendly new “First Crush” pattern.

I am launching a new Block-of-the-Month designed specifically for this line. Here is a sneak peek but I’ll be back soon with more details once it arrives from the printer.

AMD SpringMarket 2015 04 — “Heart’s Delight”

AMD SpringMarket 2015 05 — This was “Heart’s Delight” mounted on the quilt frame just two days before Market – I was still binding at the hotel! Aurifil thread for both!

Also, you might have caught a glimpse of a quick and easy graphic quilt with just a touch of appliqué – “Bouquet”.

And the last of the new patterns is Romance – a fun little table topper! I had such fun making different variations of this one!

Everything was quilted on the BERNINA Q 24, which is something I’ll be talking about a lot here! Thanks to BERNINA for giving me this opportunity! Please let me know any questions you may have so I can make sure I cover them here or at BERNINA. I’m teaching at BERNINA University this year too and I’ll be back to post about that and new patterns soon. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with some videos of the Q 24 in action!

AMD_Q24_RomancePaisley

AMD_Q24_RomancePebbling

Happy quilting!

Amanda