Corrections for the BERNINA 125th Anniversary Quilt (for printed directions only)

Posted on July 30, 2018July 30, 2018 by Amanda Murphy — 1 Comment

Hi everyone! This fall I’ll be hosting a We All Sew quilt-along for the 125th Anniversary quilt. Free PDFs will be available at that time but for those of you early birds who are buying printed directions from your BERNINA dealer (either with or without kits), or for those of you have have a kit because you have purchased an Anniversary machine, I wanted you to be aware of a correction page that missed the printing deadline. Your dealer may already be aware of these but just in case someone misses something I’m trying to get the word out there.

YOU CAN FIND THE CORRECTION PAGE HERE!

I hope many of you will join us over on We All Sew in September – I’m filming videos while sewing another 125th Anniversary Quilt now and it just sparkles! A portion of the pattern will be released as a free PDF each month. BERNINA and its family of companies have some amazing prizes lined up for you guys and I can’t wait to see what your version of the 125th Anniversary Quilt will be!

Happy quilting!

Amanda

Free Figure Skater Pillow pattern and a Cricut Maker demonstration!

Posted on December 16, 2017January 12, 2018 by Amanda Murphy — 5 Comments

Hi everyone!

I hope you are having a lovely time getting ready for the holidays. I’ve been working on a few special projects and I’m just loving one in particular – my Figure Skater Pillow.

I love it so much I thought I’d share it with you so that you could make it for a special person in your life. (Quilting tutorial link below too!) You can download the directions for the pillow here.

I used the Cricut Maker to cut out this pillow and learned so much! Of course, you can also make it by tracing the templates directly onto paper-backed fusible web, but I thought it would be great to share what I learned about the Cricut Maker with you in this video. It is my favorite fabric cutter BY FAR now because you don’t have to starch or stabilize the fabric with anything when cutting. Which means I can use SoftFuse without starch – yay! Its teeny-tiny rotary cutter can even cut something as thin as gauze! Amazing, huh?

Once I had all the shapes cut out I fused them down and secured them with a blanket stitch on my BERNINA 780 using Aurifil cotton.

I also filmed a tutorial about how to quilt a wintry background using my Blizzard print from my Winter Games collection from Benartex on my BERNINA Q24 that you can view here.

This was a special request that was made in my Facebook Group, “Quilting with Amanda Murphy” – thanks for the idea, guys!

The Figure Skater Pillow is based off of just one block from my Winter Sports quilt. If you are interested in getting the patterns to make other skaters, or skiers and snowboarders, you can order it (and the SVG files) here.

Also, I filmed a video of how I made a card to go with the presents. I’m not a paper crafter and was amazed how easy it was!

I hope you enjoy the pattern and these videos and have enjoy the holidays!

Happy quilting!

Amanda

December 2017 Aurifil Block-of-the-Month Block

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Amanda Murphy — 4 Comments

Hi everyone!

I’m excited to be participating in Aurifil’s Block-of-the-Month this year. This year’s theme was the rainbow and I was thrilled to get AQUA!!! Do you think I design enough prints with aqua? I’m not sure…

Some aqua SKUs from my most recent collection for Contempo of Benartex – “Winter Games”

And more aqua in “Fa La La Latte”, which is a pattern for placemats and a runner or bed pillow.

I love using feature prints in my work so I decided to make a block that would allow you to really make use of them! I called the block “Tightrope”, because it looked like all the elements were trapeze artists balancing on a rope!

But then I made two more with aqua as the focal point.

Want to sew along? You can get the pattern delivered to your inbox by clicking here.

You can find the patterns for prior blocks by visiting Aurifil’s blog.

If you make this block, don’t forget to post to a photo here because they are giving away a large 12 spools thread collection of Pat Sloan’s to a lucky winner who has sewn the block!

I sewed along this year at a inconsistent pace. Some months I had no blocks, other months I had multiple blocks, but such is life… For my version of the quilt, I pulled from all of my collections this year to make the quilt: Folk Art Fantasy, Meadow Dance, and Winter Games. I chose the grey ring fabric from Winter Games for sashing and I just loved how it turned out.

Thanks to Aurifil for including me in their 2017 Block-of-the-Month! I really enjoyed it.

I hope that you enjoy the block pattern. I’ll be back with another special free pattern for my followers before the holidays – so be watching your email!

Happy quilting!

Amanda