There is a fantastic Mother's Day sale going on at the Fat Quarter Shop through May 14th. I like to use this opportunity to buy a large gift certificate and then buy things throughout the year.
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...
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
Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Today we are lucky enough to have a giveaway AND a sale from FabricCadabra . This is a fat quarter bundle of Buck prints in various colors. I LOVE this print and I am so glad that Art Gallery printed it in additional colorways. I have already used this print in one quilt and now I think I need to use the new colors :) To enter the giveaway, just leave me a comment on this post. If you would like an additional entry into the giveaway, just follow FabricCadabra on Instagram or Facebook and leave me a comment letting me know that you follow them. The giveaway will run through Saturday evening. You can also head over to Mommy by Day Crafter by Night to enter a bundle of Allison Glass' Handcrafted Indigo prints. And February 3-6, FabricCadabra will be running a 20% off sale on all bundles. I think I am going to need to stop by to pick up some of these pretty Fleet and Flourish fabrics or ...
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