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09-10-2014

Color My Heart – free pattern!

 

National Sewing and Quilting Month

In case you didn’t know September is Naitonal Sewing & Quilting Month!

Yep, a whole month just for us:)

To show you how much they appreciate you, Fat Quarter Shop created this FREE Color My Heart Quilt Pattern for you!

It makes a HUGE block – 27″ finished! The Color My Heart Pattern is a perfect place for beginnings to start! (Don’t forget to use #colormyheart on social media when you create this quilt!)

Here is my WIP(work in progress):

Color My Heart

I decided to go scrappy with mine….wouldn’t four of these giant blocks made a great quilt!!!

 

Fat Quarter Shop is also challenging some of your favorite bloggers to try a new sewing and quilting project that they’ve never done before all month long! I am excited to be one of the stops along the way. So be sure to visit me back here on Sept. 16th and see why I love quilting and what crazy new thing I have decided to tackle:)

Here are the blogs they will be featuring all month long:

Sherri of A Quilting Life
Charise of Charise Creates
Anne Marie of Generation X Quilters
Melissa of Happy Quilting
Elizabeth of In the Boon Docks
Jana of Jana Machado
Maureen of Made by Marzipan
Barb and Mary of Me and My Sister Designs
Kaye of Miss Print
Natalia of Piece N’ Quilt
Denise of Pieced Brain
Stephanie of Quarter Incher
Jane of Quilt Jane
Heather and Megan of Quilt Story
Cheryl of Quilter Chic
Michele of Quilting Gallery
Allison of Quilting Mumma
Liz of Sew4Home
Leanne of She Can Quilt
Erin of Why Not Sew?
It doesn’t end there….FQS challenges YOU to try a new project ! Share your projects with FQS on their Facebook, Google +, and Instagram using #fqschallenge
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P.S>…..
You still have time to enter this weeks Sassy Saturday giveaway HERE.

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08-18-2014

Jelly Roll Jam II and a GIVEAWAY!

Fat Quarter Shop has another fabulous shortcut quilt for you guys today!

Jelly Roll Jam II

Guess what? This pattern is so quick and easy it is a must do for your quilty list! If you are like me you probably have a stack of jelly rolls setting around dying to become an actual quilt:) Two things I love…..the pattern is FREE and it will make you TWO quilts!!!

Into the Woods by Lella Boutique

I used one of my newer jelly rolls, Into the Woods by Lella Boutique for Moda, you can get one of these cute little jelly rolls HERE.

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Jelly Rolls 10% off at Fat Quarter Shop through Aug. 24, 11:59p.m./CST!

Since the Jelly Roll Jam II pattern makes two quilts I decided to separate mine into two color ways…..Light and Dark. This gave me some pretty combos of pink/green and a red/brown.

Into the Woods by Lella Boutique

This quilt goes together quick! Seriously…..one quilt can be done start to finish in a day, love that!

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

Take 1

The Red/Brown color combo is a different one for me, but I really liked it! I love the hint of mint mixed in there.

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

I tried something totally different for the quilting on this one…..a wood grain design. I really just free-styled it using some organic wavy lines and adding a swirl for the knot in the wood. To fill in around I just echoed around the knot. This design is pretty forgiving…..trees are kind of gnarly anyway, right! So go for it and give it a try.

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

I used a solid on the back so you can really see the quilting.

Take 2

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

Didn’t this one come out so soft and sweet??? Pink and Green is one of my favorite color combos!

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

As always I used my custom made labels from ikaprint! You can make your own HERE, easy and inexpensive.

For my quilting I used an allover stipple or meander, but kept it large so my quilt would still feel soft and cozy:)

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

These quilts finish at 36.5″ x 38.5″….great baby quilts. I suppose you could put all the blocks together and make a throw size quilt.

Jelly Roll Jam II, The Sassy Quilter

Even though I kind of separated this jelly roll…..they sure do look good together too!

Here is the FREE Pattern

or watch the video….

***GIVEAWAY***

Odds and Ends by Julie Comstock, The Sassy Quilter

 

Want to win 20, 2.5″ strips from Odds and Ends by Julie Comstock for Moda so you can make your own Jelly Roll Jam II quilt???

To Enter:

Subscribe to follow my blog by email and leave me a comment on this post telling me you did!

….if you already do, no problem! Just leave a comment telling me you are all signed up:)

The form to follow by email is at the bottom of this post or you can find it on my right sidebar at the top!

Good Luck!

Contest ends Friday, Aug.22 at midnight?EST.

Open Internationally.

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Jelly Rolls 10% off at Fat Quarter Shop through Aug. 24, 11:59p.m./CST!

 

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08-04-2014

Fat Quarter Style Book Tour and a Giveaway!

Fat Quarter Style Book Tour

Welcome to my stop on the Fat Quarter Style Book Tour!

Fat Quarter Style is the latest book by Fat Quarter Shop’s pattern company, It’s Sew Emma. Fat Quarter Style has 12 fat quarter quilts with 4 size options each….love that! I also really liked that it includes both traditional and modern pattern styles.  All super cute! For the book tour each blogger was assigned one of the quilts and we are featuring a block from that quilt. Mine was the pattern, Mosaic, and let me tell you this block was so quick and easy I just decided to go ahead whip up the crib size quilt!

Mosaic

Mosaic Quilt

This pattern only required 9 fat quarters and I paired them with a light grey solid(Kona Silver). It was fun to just pull these fat quarters from my stash! I most often using a collection of some sort.

Mosaic Quilt

I quilted it using an Aurifil, 50 wt. cotton in a light grey(#2600).  I decided to free motion quilting a meander or stipple within the blocks….

Mosaic FMQ

and a loop-de-loop design in the sashing and borders.

Quilt Labels

For my binding I pieced together the leftovers and used THIS machine binding tutorial. I finished it off with one of my custom made labels which you can have made HERE, super affordable and cute!

I’ve got my eye on a few others in here and can’t wait to get started. Maybe I can use up some of this stash that keeps eyeballing me!

Purchase your copy of Fat Quarter Style HERE

Fat Quarter Style Book

Fat Quarter Shop has given me a copy of Fat Quarter Style to give away to one of my readers, yay!

To enter:

Just leave a comment on this post!

For a few bonus entries…..leave a comment telling me how you Follow Fat Quarter Shop and how you Follow The Sassy Quilter!

You can Follow the Fat Quarter Shop on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Blog-The Jolly Jabber, Twitter, or subscribe to their You Tube Channel.

You can find and follow TheSassyQuilter  on Facebook, Pinterest, Bloglovin’, Instagram, Twitter or by email updates(form on right sidebar)!

 

Each stop on the tour will be giving away a copy of Fat Quarter Style, so be sure and check out all the other stops on the tour for lots of chances to win !

Fat Quarter Style Book Tour

#1  August 4th : Paula of The Sassy Quilter
#2  August 6th : Kelly of My Quilt Infatuation
#3  August 8th : Karin of Leigh Laurel Studios
#4  August 11th : Caroline of Sew Can She
#5  August 13th : Jana of Jana Machado
#6  August 15th : Amy of Stitchery Dickory Dock
#7  August 18th : Lee of Freshly Pieced
#8  August 20th : Holly of Bijou Lovely
#9  August 22nd : Ashley of Film in The Fridge
#10  August 25th : Erin of Why Not Sew?
#11  August 27th Kristyne of Pretty By Hand
#12  August 29th : Amy of Diary of A Quilter

Purchase your copy of Fat Quarter Style HERE

**edit- giveaway ends Aug.11th at midnight/EST, winner announced Aug.12th**

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