Head over to the Moda Bake Shop to check out a quilt that I made with Vanessa Christenson's new fabric line Simply Style. I absolutely love this line and I cannot wait until yardage is available.
Last week I got an email asking if I was interested in the Flower Favorites Blog Hop. Yes! I chose to work with Palm Springs which is a fun, spring-y collection with some adorable tulips. The tutorial is available on the at the Bernatex blog here . And keep an eye out for more tutorials over the next week as the blog hop continues. But until then, how about a giveaway? Bernatex has kindly offered up a fat quarter bundle of the Palm Springs collection to one lucky winner. photo from Missouri Star Quilt Co. For a chance to win a fat quarter bundle of Palm Springs, follow the Benartex blog (either by email or a blog reader) and leave a comment here saying that you're a follower. For a second entry, "like" Benartex on Facebook and leave a comment saying that you do. The giveaway will be open until May 6th. Check out the other tutorials in the Flower Favorites Blog Hop: Day 1 - Debby Kravotil Quilts
A few weeks ago RJR Fabrics contacted me to see if I was interested with working on a project using their solids. I checked out their colors and was pretty smitten so I said yes. And they exceeded my expectations. I mixed them in with some of the prints from Rashida Coleman Hale's new Mochi collection . Since Cotton + Steel is actually a division of RJR fabrics, the RJR solids coordinate perfectly with the collections. The RJR Cotton Supreme Solids have a great selection of pinks (I think good pinks are the hardest to find) and my favorite is actually the neutral-y brown Driftwood color that I used for the binding. It might not be cool to love brown, but I do, and Driftwood (color 297) will be filling a void in my stash. The quilt looks more complicated than it actually is: each of the diamonds is made up of 2 triangles (so there are no y-seams) and I cut the fabric with my favorite triangle ruler . I didn't want the quiltin...
Hello and welcome if this is your first time visiting! My name is Erica and for the past year or so I have documented my quilting and sewing projects here ont this blog. I have been sewing for almost three years now and it has become quite the obsession! These are some of my favorite projects since I started my blog last year: What is the giveaway? When I was considering what to giveaway today, I wanted to choose something that I loved and something from a shop that I love. I decided to purchase a fat quarter bundle of Martha Negley's feathers from Westwood Acres . I just love the colors in these prints, they are gorgeous. How to enter: Just leave me a comment letting me know what kind of quilt or sewing project you really want to make in the future. Is there a particular pattern or technique you want to try? I am looking forward to starting a Marcelle Medallion , I just need to finish up some other projects first. The details: The giveaway wil...
Fantastic pattern Erica! The method of construction is ingenious too - the quilt looks like it would be really complicated to make but it's not.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great pattern! And the fabrics look fun too!
ReplyDeleteVery clever pattern. Looks a lot more complicated than it is.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pattern!
ReplyDeleteyay, absolutely wonderful.
ReplyDeleteSuper cool design Erica!
ReplyDeletewhat a clever pattern! It's definitely on my to-do list. It's really a great optical illusion!
ReplyDelete-Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation
I really love this pattern! Fantastic work! And easy to understand!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a cool quilt Erica!
ReplyDeleteWow, that is too cool! great job!
ReplyDeleteThis quilt is awesome! Looking forward to getting this collection too. :-)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! I can't wait to try out this project :)
ReplyDeleteThis is SO pretty!!! I love it! I will try this out for sure!!
ReplyDeletepretty!
ReplyDeleteI really love this quilt Erica!
ReplyDeleteAmanda
Well done Erica! It is superb!
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That is super cool!
ReplyDeleteLOVE this pattern! One more for the bucket list!
ReplyDeleteReally great pattern Erica and such visual depth. I love this.
ReplyDeleteLove this pattern. If I want to make it larger could I just buy more white and still use the same number of jelly rolls.
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