Introducing Folk Art Fantasy (and a giveaway)!

Posted on May 24, 2017May 29, 2017 by Amanda Murphy — 439 Comments

Note: This giveaway is now over. Congratulations to Judy Henly here and to Robyn Randolph Christie over in my Facebook Group! I wish I had a bundle to give everyone but it will be in stores in July so there isn’t long to wait. Patterns will be posted in mid-June.

Hi everyone!

It is now past Spring Market and I can finally show my new collection for Contempo Studios of Benartex – “Folk Art Fantasy”!

Folk Art Fantasy Booth - Spring Quilt Market 2017 — My “Folk Art Fantasy” booth at Spring Market 2017!

This modern collection celebrates the exuberance of and beauty of handmade things. It is happy and colorful – just the way quilting should be! It ships in July and patterns will ship even sooner. (And it coordinates with Sewing Room, which came out last year.)

Without further ado, here are the new patterns…

“Folklore”: A medallion quilt which is the inspiration for this collection. The pattern includes a full pull-out placement diagram and SVG files.

“Folk Garden”: A whimsical applique triptych of mini quilts, also including SVG files for digital fabric cutters.

“Folk Art Lane”: Build a village house by house! This quilt is entirely pieced and can be used as a block-of-the-month, or you can just make one row for a mini!

“Folk Art Flowers”: This one uses 1/3 yard of 12 fabrics for the blocks and is super-easy to piece. I used motifs from my new Traditional Feathers Quiltng Collection to quilt it. (The Quilting Collection will be out in about another month and is digitized both for domestic embroidery machines and longarms! I’ll post more about that next month.)

“All-Star”: Create a dynamic quilt using two colors of fabrics and three sizes of just one block. This one is deceptively easy to piece as it is all built on half-square triangles. There are two color stories of this one and I used the pantographs from my Traditional Feathers Quilting Collection to quilt them.

All quilts were pieced on a BERNINA 7-Series and quilted on the BERNINA Q24 using Aurifil thread, of course!

The patterns will start to ship to shops next week and will be posted to my website mid-June to accommodate my teaching schedule.

If you love what you see, please ask your local shop to order Folk Art Fantasy from Benartex!

Ok, now for the giveaway! Benartex let me take this beautiful bundle of Folk Art home to give to you guys! Just comment below to tell me which pattern you like best. The deadline to enter is at midnight this Sunday, May 28th, 2017. One comment per person please, and make sure that either your profile is public or you leave a way for me to contact you if you win.

~~For a second chance to win, make sure to do the same on the that shows these new patterns in my Facebook Group.~~

I hope you love Folk Art Fantasy and have a great week! Happy quilting!

Amanda

Free BERNINA Rulerwork Zippered Bag pattern and a sneak peek of Folk Art Fantasy!

Posted on April 27, 2017April 27, 2017 by Amanda Murphy

Hi guys! A few things:

I wanted to let you know that recently I designed a free pattern for BERNINA for a Zippered Rulerwork Bag at is now live, so hop on over to BERNINA and get the PDF directions and see the videos!
Also, below is a sneak peek of my new collection debuting for Spring Market, Folk Art Fantasy for Contempo Studios of Benartex. Yes, it coordinates with Sewing Room and I hope you love it! I am having so much fun sewing patterns with these fabrics right now – I can’t wait to show you! For a sneak peek of my FAVORITE print in the entire collection please join my Facebook Group!
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a five day class again at Empty Spools Seminars in Asilomar, CA in 2018 and I can’t wait! This is a beautiful retreat that is really unique – 5 days of intense study in small groups – amazing! I’ve designed a new modern sampler especially for this event incorporating a bunch of different techniques. More information can be found on the Empty Spools website so, if you are free March 18th-23rd of 2018, please join us!

Fireworks Sampler, to be taught at Empty Spools, Asilomar, CA, March 18-23, 2018
While at QuiltCon I had a chance to sit down with Stephanie of Sit & Sew Radio, so if you are interested, hop on over to her site to listen!
Finally, Nordic Holiday fabric and patterns are now shipping to shops! If you don’t have a local shop, you can find the patterns here.

I hope you have a lovely weekend – happy quilting!

Amanda

Pattern testing, Aurifil Block-of-the-Month, and QuiltCon!

Posted on February 22, 2017February 23, 2017 by Amanda Murphy

Hi everyone!

Hope you are having fabulous week!

It is true – I’m leaving shortly for QuiltCon in Savannah and hope to meet some of you I haven’t met before there! Please stop by the BERNINA booth (#201-205), hosted by the Augusta Sewing Center, and say “hi”. I’ll be demoing the BERNINA Q24 and Q20 on Friday and Saturday – so excited!

For those of you that might have missed it, the second month of Aurifil’s Block-of-the-Month pattern is now on their blog. I had such fun piecing “Dutch Treat” by Maureen Cracknell.

“Dutch Treat” in Nordic Holiday for Contempo. (Shipping in April!)

I’ve been doing a ton of teaching lately, but I did finally find time to sew and proof the remaining Nordic Holiday patterns. (I post most of my open teaching events over in my Facebook group, along with quilting tutorials, etc. so please join if you haven’t already.) They are off to the printer today so should ship in about a week!

The current state of my floor… and Nordic Row Sampler. All rows done so almost there! Pieced with Aurifil 50 wt. on my BERNINA 780.

Starry Night… waiting for quilting. I’m thinking a feather border – do you agree?

Thanks for your patience on these – there was a delay in the fabric shipping for this collection which in turn delayed the patterns. The good news is the next collection and pattern grouping will be right on time – I just can’t show it yet! Soon though – Spring Market is right around the corner and I’ll show some sneak peeks in my Facebook group before then. ( It coordinates with both Nordic Holiday and Sewing Room!)

Happy quilting!

Amanda