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As much as I love spending time with family on Thanksgiving, enjoying some pie, and hanging out with my kids while they are out of school, I also love that the Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales that let me stock up on quilting supplies.  And I have some great ones for you; they are listed alphabetically so make sure to read all the way through to the end of the post. FabricCadabra Head over to FabricCadabra for 10% off your entire purchase.  They have an excellent selection of Cotton + Steel and Art Gallery prints among other things.  I would particularly love some of these gorgeous arrows for a quilt back. The sale runs from Black Friday to Cyber Monday.  FabricCadabra will be getting Priory Square in stock very soon and I can't wait to snatch some of it up. Fabricworm Make sure to check out the Black Friday sale at Fabricworm for tons of newly marked down fabrics on sale for 30-75% off. Fat Quarter Shop We have 25% OFF the entire store for 2 days only!...

In early October when I was in the midst of the first trimester and was totally exhausted and nauseous and falling asleep every day around 8:30, I decided to make a Halloween quilt. I had a stack of leftover 5.5" squares sitting next to a stack of leftover 3.5" squares on my cutting table and they looked nice and Halloween-y so I thought I'd add borders to the smaller squares and turn it into a quilt.  I even had backing fabric. In the end I only had to cut 10 extra squares to make a nice sized lap quilt so I got started. Only I didn't really feel like making anything and I wasn't very excited about this quilt so progress was painfully so slow.  So slow in fact that it eventually stopped and it has been sitting on the counter ever since. Do you know how many unfinished projects I have?  Just this one.  I hate leaving things unfinished but I just can't find the energy to finish it right now.  Maybe it's a quilt for next year, but for now I will just have to...

The winner of the Kona Charm pack is . . . Congrats Marianne!  I will be sending you an email. Thanks everyone for entering and for stopping by on the 30 Quilts for 30 Years Blog Hop!

A few months ago I was asked to help celebrate Kona's 30th birthday by making a quilt.  The people over at Robert Kaufman are really great and also brilliant because this celebration resulted in some unique and amazing quilts.  You can follow along with the bloghop from November 1st to December 3rd to find out more about each one. When I was sketching out designs for a quilt, I decided that I wanted to focus on the variety of Kona shades that are available. I also wanted to make a quilt that was not too difficult because I knew that it was going to be available as a free pattern and I wanted it to be accessible to quilters of all skill levels. Paintdrip Quilt 56" x 69" Free Pattern Available Here So I came up with my Paintdrip Quilt.  It uses pretty much all of my favorite Kona colors together and is beginner friendly.  The quilt pattern, as well as a list of all of the Kona colors used to make the quilt, is available on the Robert Kaufman website . Giveaway Robert...

The winner of a copy of Quilted Living is . . . Congratulations Jayne!  I will be emailing you soon :)

FabricCadabra is now offering a custom fabric bundle that I put together for my Inspiration Mosaics last month.  It is called the Bonanza Bundle and you can find it here .  This bundle uses some of my favorite prints from this year and not only looks pretty great together, but most of the prints are versatile basics too.   I also wanted to point you over to Sew Take a Hike where FabricCadabra is giving away a bundle of Melody Miller's amazing collection Mustang. And, last but not least, FabricCadabra is having a sale starting today for 15% off all bundles using code BONANZA15.   There are some very tempting options. . .

Welcome to my stop on the Quilted Living book tour. When I saw the quilts in this book I knew I wanted to participate in the book tour and I was particularly excited to try out the Bursting Star cushion. I did want to mix up the colors a little bit and used a few prints from Ann Kelle's Beatbox collection plus a few Kona Cotton colors.  My kids are already fighting over the pillow so I may need to make another one.   The pattern was pretty easy to follow and making piping was just as fun as I remembered (not fun, but worth it).  I stuffed mine really full since I know it will be used and abused by my kids so mine is a little more pillowy than the image in the book.  But it is very soft and comfortable and is currently making its home in my daughter's reading corner in her room.   Despite my cushion being a little lumpy, I am really pleased with how it turned out.  As much as I love making quilts and being able to share those with my family, it is fun to do...

You might have noticed that things have been a little quiet around here.  After having a miscarriage a few months ago I have had a difficult time believing that this is real . . .

A while back I saw that Cloud9 Fabrics was accepting submissions for a Cirrus Solids Block of the Month.  The Cirrus Solids colors are wonderful and work well together so I came up with an idea and submitted it. It looks a little bit crazy, but it is actually a pretty simple paper pieced block that creates some fun patterns when you put the blocks together.  I came up with the pattern below and Cloud9 has some fun options in their blog post .   I also submitted a version of the block in a second colorway.  You can find out more details about the block and download the pattern on the Cloud9 blog . Cloud9 sent me a Cirrus Solids bundle and the fabrics are so gorgeous. I haven't had a chance to sew with them yet, but I am definitely looking forward to it. And they are still looking for Block of the Month submissions.  If you are interested you can find out more here .

Welcome to day 3 of the Winged blog tour!  There are so many fabric lines out there that have great prints, but when I saw Bonnie Christine's Winged collection I fell in love and had to make something with it immediately . Bonnie sent me 4 fat quarters from the collection (which I of course forgot to take a picture of) and I knew I wanted to make a pillow.  These are my favorite prints from the collection because they are gorgeous and versatile.  I think they will be finding their way into lots of future projects. I decided on this design after playing around with some options in EQ7 .  I like how the pillow shows off the prints and how it is very wing-like.  It seemed fitting. I used the 4th fat quarter for the back of the pillow.  You can see that my pillow form was probably a little too big for my pillow (woops!) but it was the closest one I had. I didn't take photos as I made the pillow so I'm not going to write up a tutorial, but I am uploading the tem...

Guess what guys, I actually finished a project!  I have had a stack of Lotus Pond sitting on my desk since it was released and I had no idea what I was going to do with it.  So one day I just started cutting it and making it into flying geese and this is how it ended up. I really, really love these prints.  They colors are bright and perfect for babies.  This quilt used less than half of my 1/4 yard bundle and I am glad to have more left for future projects.  There are several ways to make flying geese, but my favorite is this ruler .  It is easy, accurate, and doesn't produce waste. Plus the ruler tells you how wide to cut your fabric strips and what your finished flying geese size will be.  If you have been afraid of flying geese I definitely recommend this ruler.   The backing and border are one of my favorite Lotus Pond prints and the binding is Kona Mediterranean.   Since I didn't make this for a particular purpose and I am quickly runni...