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I'm a little late getting this Culcita Box Unboxing posted, but I wanted to make sure to get the post up before the end of the month. This month's box contains Tula Pink's new Spirit Animal prints and as usual, the colors are stunning. The pattern in this box, Staggered, would be great for using up scraps so I am going to add it to my to do list. I am particularly fond of the purples and oranges in this collection and the seals are adorable! I am halfway done piecing the quilt top using this collection and I can't wait to show it to you :) f you would like to pick up this month's box, or subscribe to a monthly  Culcita  box delivery, check out the options on their  website .   September Quilt September Fabric August Quilt August Fabric July Quilt July Fabric June Quilt June Fabric May Quilt May Fabric April Quilt April Fabric March Quilt March Fabric February Quilt February Fabric January Quilt January Fabric

A few weeks ago, one of my customers emailed and said that she was interested in a custom order quilt that only had Anna Maria Horner fabrics. Yes!  I suggested a quilt similar to  AMH's own Color Dive quilt  and got to work. Almost all of the fabrics were from my stash, but I bought a couple of blue and green prints to help fill things in. The quilt is 64" x 76," so it is a very generously sized lap quilt.   I didn't want the quilting to distract from the pattern, so I quilted about 1/2" on each side of the seams.   This was a hard one to put in the mail.  The color combination is so happy! I really love the pink and purple aloe print on the back. Finished size: 64" x 76" Fabric: Various Anna Maria Horner prints Backing: Pretty Potent Aloe Vera Batting: Quilter's Dream Cotton Select

I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!  I have a doubly exciting giveaway for you today - two different bundles from Simply Lovely Things . The first is   6 fat quarters from Josephine by Camelot Fabrics. And the second is   5 fat quarters from Amanda Murphy, four of which are from her Folk Art Fantasy line. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment on this post letting me know which bundle you would prefer.  And take a minute to check out the Simply Lovely Things shop for some super cute and very nicely priced fabric! The giveaway will run through Saturday 10/28 and I will announce the winners here.  Thanks for entering! The giveaway is now closed - the winner of the Josephine bundle is Havplenty and the winner of the Amanda Murphy bundle is Linda Williamson.  Thanks everyone for entering!

I had so much fun making this quilt. The fabric is Menagerie by Rifle Paper Co. for Cotton + Steel and I am in love with it.  The florals, the metallics, and the tigers, it is just gorgeous.  This Menagerie fabrics are from the September Culcita Box  and the solid is a Free Spirit solid called Mist.  It is just slightly off-white in a really pretty, creamy way. I'm sure this block has a name, but I don't know what it is. A few months ago I drafted it in EQ7 and have been waiting for just the right project.  I supersized the block and my quilt finished up at 57" square.   I quilted it with an organic crosshatch, which means that the lines are slightly wavy and are randomly spaced.   The backing is my favorite print from the collection.  Love these colors! The binding is a green FreeSpirit Solid (not sure of the name). The quilt is now listed in my Etsy shop. Finished size: 57" x 57" Batting: Quilter's Dream Cotton Select Collect

A couple of weeks ago my daughter went to a birthday party.  The day of the party I realized that I had forgotten to buy a gift so we decided to make her a pillow. The party was princess-themed and even though my daughter can't stand pink, we decided that was probably the way to go.  I used this tutorial .  And this one for the back. This is a slight variation on how I normally make the pillow closure, but it is my new favorite method because it doesn't involve switching to a zipper foot and it creates a flap to cover the zipper without having to sew on an extra piece of fabric.  The front of the pillow is quilt-as-you-go which helped speed things up, too. We wrapped the pillow up with some chocolate and gifted it to my daughter's friend.   Finished size: 14" x 14"

I have a rule for myself: I don't start a quilt that I am not going to finish immediately. While there are many things that I enjoy about quilting, the process of moving from an idea, to quilt blocks, to quilt top, to basted quilt, to quilted to quilt, to bound quilt, and finally to crinkly-out-of-the-dryer quilt, is my favorite.  When I finished up this Field Study quilt this summer, I completed one of only 4 unfinished projects that I have ever started.  And this week I finished up another one. This is a project that I started in October 4 years ago.  For some reason I got delayed and didn't finish quilt before Halloween so I put the blocks into a box and forgot about them.   The quilt is almost completely made up of Denyse Schmidt prints, I used 1 Lizzy House Pearl Bracelet print and 1 Juliana Horner print.  Denyse Schmidt is my favorite fabric designer and I love how Halloween-y her fabrics feel without actually having anything to do with Halloween.   For the quilting, I d