Best Weekend Quilts Giveaway: Day 2

COVER 6001 235x300 Best Weekend Quilts Giveaway: Day 2Good morning loyal followers, how is your Tuesday so far? How about some free fabric to get you through the week?

Yep, free fabric. We’re promoting our newest special issue, Best Weekend Quilts 2013, and we’re having an entire week of giveaways to celebrate.

Best Weekend Quilts 2013 is filled with 30 projects designed with speed and ease in mind, without compromising style and functionality. Pick up a copy of this issue from your local quilt shop, bookstore, newsstand or online at the Quilt and Sew Shop.

Each day I’ll be featuring patterns from the magazine so you can get inspired to start working on your own weekend quilt.

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Seeing Stars - Tina Curran

Using her classic, bright, scrappy style, Tina Curran created a vibrant wall hanging that’s sure to please. The large, vibrant double sawtooth star blocks contrasted against the black-and-white prints creates a dramatic look. Use your contrasting prints in your favorite palette for a similar effect that’s more your style.

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Buckaroo's Dream by Carol Streif

Using charm squares from Moda’s Home on the Ranch collection, Carol Streif designed this throw with a slight variation on the snowballed block corners to reduce seams that need to match up. Use your child’s favorite juvenile prints and get started this weekend!

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Rosie Glow, designed and made by Janet Jo Smith

Janet Jo Smith’s hand-dyed fabrics create a soft, feminine appeal in this large throw. With such vibrancy, it’s easy to see how this quilt landed the cover of Best Weekend. In the issue, you’ll also find the pattern for Rosie Glow’s sister quilt, Peachy Keen. Just a few changes in color placement will give you a whole new look.

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Ramona Sorensen's Triangles & Diamonds

When Ramona Sorensen was designing this quilt she was fascinated by the many design possibilities that triangles and diamonds offer. Lay your triangles out on a large flat surface or design wall and play around with the different shapes that can emerge for a completely unique creation.

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New Traditions collection from P&B Textiles and Best Weekend Quilts 2013

The prize for the lucky winner today is a bundle of the New Traditions collection from P&B Textiles and a copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013. Inspired by vintage swatches in loosely authentic colors, this collection is both traditional and new and would be a happy addition to any quilter’s stash.

To win this bundle and magazine, leave a comment on this post by midnight mountain time tonight – Tuesday, May 21. One comment per person please. Open to those who haven’t won anything from Quilters Newsletter in the last 90 days.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Best Weekend Quilts Giveaway: Day 1, and make sure you’re following us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram – the best ways to stay updated on our giveaways and everything Quilters Newsletter.

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Best Weekend Quilts Giveaway: Day 1

COVER 600 235x300 Best Weekend Quilts Giveaway: Day 1[Please note: this giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Donna, winner of the Avalon bundle and copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013! Thanks to all who entered!]

Happy Monday everyone! We’re in for a rainy day, but what a nice, sunny weekend we were able to enjoy. Did anybody finish up a quilt? How many just got started?

If you’ve been following our recent blog posts, you’ve noticed that some of our staff members (Mary Kate, Gigi, Susan, Lori and Kath) took on the weekend challenge just to see how much they could get done. Each selected a pattern from our newest special issue, Best Weekend Quilts 2013, and got to work. Click on the names above to read each story.

That being said, why don’t you give the weekend challenge a try? Pick up a copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013 and get started this weekend! This issue is stuffed with over 30 quick and easy projects for every quilter.

To promote Best Weekend, we’re having a week of giveaways! Each day I’ll highlight different patterns from the magazine so you can get a sneak peek at what’s waiting for you inside this issue.

In lieu of the gorgeous summer weather we’ve been finally having , I chose some summery quilts to show off today. My way of saying, “rain, rain go away…”

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Garden Pathways, designed and made by ZJ Humbach

Garden Pathways was designed and made by ZJ Humbach. ZJ made this quilt for her mother’s 100th birthday, wanting to reflect her mother’s love of gardening and sewing. Take advantage of this traditional Irish chain and combine with your own fabrics to make a scrappy personalized quilt.

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Summertime Bed Runner and My Weekend Pillow by Kim Hanson

“Summertime and the living’s easy…” which is true when you whip up this adorable bed runner in just a weekend! Summertime was designed and made by Kim Hanson who embellished the runner with floral print buttons and crocheted flowers from Riley Blake. Throw it together with the Weekend pillow, also designed and made by Hanson, and you’ll have a fresh, summer look all year long.

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Down the Lane by Vivian Ritter

If you’re one who tends to go for a more muted palette, you’ll love the look of Vivian Ritter’s Down the Lane. Just one block in multiple colorways makes for a tasteful throw that could work great for a gift for the college grad or keep it for yourself so you can snuggle up on those movie days inside.

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Color Chips table setting from Bev Getschel

Bev Getschel’s Color Chips is a simple way to brighten any table setting. Small colored strips let you use up those scraps and it’s a great way to show off your favorite prints against a crisp, solid background. Swap out different tones to match your next party or Fourth of July barbeque.

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Avalon by Fig Tree & Co. for Moda and Best Weekend Quilts 2013

To help you get started on your next weekend quilt, one lucky winner will receive a bundle of Avalon by Fig Tree & Co. for Moda and a copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013. Leave a comment on this post by midnight mountain time tonight – Monday, May 20 – to be entered to win. One comment per person please. Open to those who have not won anything from Quilters Newsletter in the last 90 days.

Be sure you’re following us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram to stay up-to-date with Best Weekend giveaways all week long!

(P.S. You still have time to enter our Hello Sunshine Giveaway today, too!)

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Hello Sunshine Giveaway!

[Please note: this giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Sharon, our randomly selected winner! Thanks to all who entered!]

We seem to have skipped spring here in Colorado. Just a few weeks ago we had at least 6″ of snow on the ground, today we have clear blue skies and temperatures in the 80′s! Half of the QN staff is in Portland, Oregon, for Spring Quilt Market, and the other half is at their desks, trying not to imagine how beautiful it is outside. There’s work to be done!

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Oh, would you like to have this?

So, in lieu of going outside, I am looking at this lovely stack of 19 fat quarters that makes me think of sunshine and picnics on green grass. Appropriately named ‘Hello Sunshine,’ this collection was designed by Virginia Odien, who won Connecting Threads’ first ever fabric design contest. It’s adorable. Here’s more about it from Connecting Threads themselves: The Hello Sunshine collection contains 19 fabrics in cheery shades of apricot, meadow, cashmere blue and more. Connecting Threads director, Teri Stillwell, gushed, “This is one of our most versatile collection to date. By pairing different pattern and color combinations, you can get a look that is very contemporary, a style that is kid-friendly, or simply a fresh, summery look that is great for any room.”

And if you don’t know what you’d do with all that yummy fabric, we’ve got you covered. We’ll include a wonderful pattern book too! 101 Fabulous Small Quilts (That Patchwork Place, 2013) is jam-packed with cool patterns. The best thing about it is you can make the quilts in it just as they are presented, or you can make more blocks for a bigger quilt! Or double the size of the blocks, it’s up to you. So, would you like a chance to have these prizes for yourself?

One lucky winner will randomly selected to win the fat quarter stack and the book. For a chance to win, leave a comment on this post before 11:59 p.m. on Monday, May 20th (Mountain Time). One comment per person, please. Open to those who have not won anything from Quilters Newsletter in the past 90 days. Good luck to everyone who enters!

We announce all our giveaways on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram and of course our website, so follow us to find out about them first!

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Labels and a Graduation Quilt, Too

I had a wonderful visit with a friend from Ohio last week. We were talking about my quilts and she asked about my labels. As much as I nag about labels, I had two hanging in my apartment without them. In fact, I have to admit there are several of my quilts right now that are not labeled. My friend suggested doing simple labels – just lettering stitched in the sewing mode on my machine. Not embroidery – sewing. So the first thing I did this weekend was to make a couple of labels and apply them. I forgot to take pictures as I went along so that gave me the perfect excuse to prepare fabric for another label this morning.

I starch the fabric heavily – not as stiff as cardboard but close. I make my own starch from concentrate, mix it half and half with water and put it in a spray bottle. I spray my fabric with three or four applications and iron it dry after each. Next I mark the fabric, starting with one vertical line which will be where the rows of stitching start. My labels usually include four lines of information so I mark four equally spaced horizontal lines.

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Marked Quilt Label Fabric

Then I program the machine to stitch the wording, layer the fabric over a tear-away stabilizer and stitch. I sew using the marked lines as a guide for the right edge of the presser foot.

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Ready to Stitch

When the stitching is done, I remove the marked lines and the stabilizer, turn under the edges and attach it to the quilt. I do have to tell you that I usually put the label on before I bind the quilt. Then I only have to turn under the edges on two sides. The other two sides are enclosed by the binding.

Here is one of the completed labels. Thank you, Karen, for the name of this quilt.

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The Red Quilts Label

And here is the other label. This is the quilt I started way back in January. The last time I talked about it was in my February 4 blog post.

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Riley's Luck Quilt Label

It’s a graduation present. I couldn’t tell you it was a graduation quilt when I was working on it because this granddaughter is on Facebook and I didn’t want her to see the quilt and spoil the surprise.

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Opening the Present

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Riley's Luck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I must get busy. I’ll be leaving for the International Quilt Market in Portland, Oregon (trade only), Wednesday and have several things to clear off my desk in order to be ready to go.

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Double Without Trouble

My weekend quilt has taken me longer than a weekend to finish, but it’s still coming together faster than any quilt I’ve made before. I finished the top pretty quickly, according to my standards, so I was pretty motivated to keep going and I’m glad I did. I’m in the process of quilting, mostly in the evenings during the week, and I am excited to get it done already!

I had mentioned that I changed the original pattern to suit my fabric, in that I doubled the size of the blocks. I encouraged others to try the same. I later realized that if someone who is new to quilting followed my advice, they might double the wrong measurement and get frustrated when it didn’t work. So I’ll explain how I went about it. For this pattern, especially, and any pattern that just uses squares and rectangles, it’s pretty straightforward. It gets trickier when diagonals are introduced, and perhaps I’ll go into that in another post, but for now I’ll just cover the very basics. This may be obvious and redundant for some, but I hope it will help some people, too.

If you want to double the size of a block, you’ll have to double the size of the patches within the block. But you cannot just look at the rotary cutting diagrams and double the measurement you see there. That would cause all kinds of problems down the line. The measurement that must be doubled is the FINISHED size, not the cut size. So, you’ll need to do some simple arithmetic. It’ll be fun!

If a patch is cut at 4”, that means it finishes at 3 ½”. Do not double 4”! You need to double 3 ½”, which of course is 7. THEN add the seam allowance, which would make your new cut size 7 ½”.  It wouldn’t matter what measurement is doubled if every patch in the quilt is the same size, but that is rarely the case.  In my example, I demonstrate what will happen to a theoretical block if you double the cut size vs. double the finished size. And since the difference between cut and finish size is relatively small, you won’t notice it’s incorrect until a fair amount of work has already been done. You don’t want that.

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Sad face happens when you double the cut size.

I was going to cut and sew some patches to demonstrate, but I think the information is clearer drawn on graph paper. Each of the squares on the paper equals 1″, so you can see the exact proportions of the patches.

 

This first example spells out what will happen if you double the cut size. I apologize if you can’t read my handwriting, but the pictures can explain my point pretty well. The joined A’s are now 1” longer than the B they are supposed to attach to! That would make me have a frowny face, too.

 

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Doubling the finished size, then adding seam allowance is the way to go!

 

 

Now, here’s what happens when you double the finished size and add the seam allowance to the doubled finish size. It works out perfectly! Assuming that all your 1/4″ seam allowances are perfect. I’m sure they are.

So, hopefully some of you will attempt to make an existing quilt pattern all your own using the doubling technique. You could also multiply the finished measurement by any number, like .75 or 3, as long as it’s consistently applied to each patch in the pattern.

I like the way that the large blocks I made work with my loud and large-scale print, but that’s not the only reason to double block size. It also involves less cutting, fewer patches and simpler sewing because there are less pieces of fabric to keep track of. And it looks cool!

Like I said, diagonals are another can of worms, so if there is any interest I can go into that some other day. In the meantime, let’s meet up on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter and our website to obsess over quilts. Have a great weekend!

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A day at the museum

A couple of weekends ago I took my young daughters (a preschooler and a toddler) to the Denver Art Museum. The DAM is amazingly family-friendly, but my motivation was to catch a temporary Georgia O’Keefe exhibit before it closed. I’m all for getting the kids out of the house to do things that interest them, but mommy needs her culture fix occasionally, making the DAM a perfect destination.

hero spun A day at the museumIn the What’s New section of the April/May 2013 issue of Quilters Newsletter we reported on the upcoming DAM exhibit Spun: Adventure in Textiles that officially opens May 19. However, a few of the many exhibits associated with the campus-wide exhibition were already open in late April, so I got a preview that has me itching to come back to take in the entire thing.

One gallery we passed through all-too-quickly on our way to get something to eat (because as we know, parents ignore hungry toddlers at their own peril) was one featuring textiles and garments by mid-century British designer Jacqueline Groag. Two things occurred to me as we sped past the exhibit: 1) I can’t wait to take my time in this gallery some other day, and 2) Has any current manufacturer licensed these designs for quilting cotton? Because I’d love to have some of this in my stash.

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Jacqueline Groag, Untitled, about 1956. Dress fabric, printed cotton. Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III Collection. Photo from the book Jacqueline Groag: Textile and Pattern Design, published by ACC.

The “Material World” exhibit of modern art was also already open, which included No Rain, No Rainbows, a massive work made from repurposed stuffed-animal “skins”. Up close it was hard to see the pattern and placement; a little distance revealed the artist’s design.

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No Rain, No Rainbows, made of stuffed-animal textiles, 16' x 9.5', 2011, by Agustina Woodgate

And then there was the interactive Transposition, which features elastic ropes illuminated by software-driven video projections and accompanied by electronic music. The empty gallery is deceptively tranquil when you first enter, but as you approach the far wall the projections and music start to respond to your movements. My preschooler cowered behind me when we first checked it out and would not go near the installation. So we left to go do something else. Later on she insisted we go back to see the “big screen.” “Are you sure?” I asked, and she was. She laughed at the antics of some teenage girls who were running along the wall to make the projections go crazy and the music swell but still wanted nothing to do with it herself. Maybe if we return she’ll be willing to take it on.

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Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza, Transposition. ©Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza.

The centerpiece of Spun will be “Cover Story” in the new permanent textile gallery. It will also include a drop-in Quilt Studio and Weekend Artist demonstrations during the duration of the exhibit. Maybe I should have gotten that family membership after all…

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Springtime Giveaway!

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Alchemy by Shell Rummell for Blend Fabrics

It seems Spring has finally made its way to Colorado and that has us in a good mood! So let’s celebrate with a fabric giveaway just for our loyal QN Blog and Facebook followers! Alchemy by Shell Rummell for Blend Fabrics was featured in Staff Picks in the April/May 2013 issue of Quilters Newsletter. In fact, we even offer a free quilt block pattern featuring this fabric on our website.

And now we’re offering you a chance to win this fat quarter bundle of Alchemy. Leave your comment below this blog post telling us how you would use the fabric. Comments must be posted by Midnight Mountain time Sunday, May 12, 2013. One comment per person. This giveaway is open only to those who have not won anything from Quilters Newsletter in the past 90 days.

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Quilt Shows are Inspiring!

This past week I went to the Denver National Quilt Festival not once but twice. The first time was on Wednesday before the show opened. Quilters Newsletter presented an Editors’ Choice award to one of the many fabulous quilts on display. Our whole team viewed all the wonderful entries and selected our winner, Samurai, the Archer by Wendy Knight of San Diego, California. It was not an easy task. There were so many wonderful quilts.

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Samurai, the Archer by Wendy Knight of San Diego, California

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Sunday, my husband and I returned to take in the whole show: the quilts, the special exhibits and the vendors. It was super. I loved being able to spend as much time as I wanted looking at a quilt. It was also fun to see the names of the quiltmakers, which were not available to us when we were selecting our prize winner.

Here are some other quilts that caught my eye.

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Bloom Where You're Planted by Nancy Staton of Clearwater, Kansas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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California Sunflower Fields by Gail Dentler of Victoria, Texas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I Give You My Heart by Dawn Siden of Somers, Montana

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not Your Grandmother's Nine Patch by Sherry Pryor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to encourage you to go to a quilt show. It doesn’t matter if it is one of the huge ones or one of the smaller ones. You’ll love most of what you see. There are traditional quilts, hand-quilted quilts, machine-quilted quilts, art quilts; you name it. There are quilts done with foundation piecing, applique and every other technique imaginable. You’ll see things that will spark an idea whatever your style.  It doesn’t matter if you are a beginner or an expert or anything in between, ideas are everywhere.

Then there are the vendors. You’ll find patterns, fabric, sewing and quilting machines and tools of all sorts. I always walk the vendor aisles with a sense of excitement, wondering if there will be something I haven’t seen before. I didn’t buy anything quilting related at this show but I did find a killer piece of jewelry.

A show you’ll certainly want to consider attending is the Georgia Quilt Show in Atlanta at the Cobb Galleria Center September 19-21. If you enjoy entering contests, this show offers more than $25,000 in cash awards; $10,000 for Best of Show.

Meanwhile, here are all the prizewinners from the Denver National Quilt Festival VIII.

Also, for those of you who have asked about our offices, check out Quilters Newsletter TV, the Quilter’s Community this week for a look behind the scenes. And don’t forget to keep an eye on what else is going on in our world online and on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

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Weekend Plus

I was looking through my copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013 the other day, and I noticed that Garden Pathways, the quilt I had chosen to interpret for the staff Weekend quilt challenge is displayed in the ‘Weekend Plus’ section. Which I take to mean that there is no shame in taking more than a weekend to finish it. Hooray for me! I think I got pretty far in my first weekend, and I was able to accomplish a lot more the subsequent weekend, too. I’m almost done!

I had mentioned that I almost had all my blocks sewn up last Friday, so the first order of business was to get rid of that ‘almost.’ It did not take long. The nesting seams on this particular pattern make it so you don’t even have to pin, since the seams and seam allowances are pretty much exactly where they need to be. It makes sewing the blocks really fun.

On Saturday, I sewed my blocks into rows then joined the rows together. I hope I’m not the only one who takes longer at pressing as the quilt gets larger. It takes a while to maneuver the quilt onto the much smaller ironing board without undoing all the pressing I’d done so far. Anyway. I got everything joined and pressed, and decided on some dark borders made with leftover scraps. I used two different wood prints and this cool print with mixed textures and motifs to get four symmetrical and matching borders. I had just barely enough of each fabric, so I was happy with how it worked out.

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Quilt top done!

When the front was complete, I gathered up all my scraps and strips that didn’t make it onto the front, and combined them with fat quarter segments and remnants. I had a few random fractions of yards of some coordinating prints so I threw those into the mix as well, in order to make a Lori-inspired pieced back. On Sunday, I started joining pieces of similar size. When the pieced strip got long enough for the back, I started on the next strip. I didn’t really plan anything, but the idea was to avoid waste. Here’s how it turned out!

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Pieced back

Please excuse the wrinkles, as I had gotten it layered and basted by Sunday evening, then folded it up in order to get it out of the way and think about how to quilt it. I realized later in the week that I might want some photos, so I unfurled the quilt and took some very quickly, without really looking at them. Oh well. Not the best photos, but the point is, all I have to do now is quilt it!

Quilting is always the most challenging and time-consuming part of the process for me. I want to do something at least a little bit interesting or unique; I’m still thinking about what quilting I’d like that is also within my ability. But I love how fast this came together. And I think doubling the size of the blocks is a really fun alteration, so I hope some of you try it! I also hope lots of people make weekend quilts; they are incredibly satisfying projects! If you do, we’d love to know how it goes.

I hope to get this quilted as soon as possible, just so I can have it done in record time (for me). I’d be grateful for any quilting suggestions, but wish me luck in any case!

If you haven’t already, pick up your copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013, or you can enter to win one along with several other great prizes. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram for all the latest!

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It is (finally!) time for a Twitter Super Giveaway!

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[Please note: this giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Elaine and B.J., our randomly selected winners! Thanks to everyone for their support and participation!]

We here at Quilters Newsletter are active participants in this crazy, fast-growing world of social media. As the editorial assistant for QN, I keep track of the number of followers on our Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram pages. One of the first trends I noticed in the collected data was how quickly our Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram followers were increasing and how painstakingly slow our Twitter numbers followed.

It may seem a strange thing to have a Twitter account if you’re not constantly updating the world on everything you’re doing. But let me just say this: it’s fun! I love posting random questions – about quilting, the weather, pets, food, anything really - to our followers and seeing what different quilters have to say. It’s also a super easy way to stay in the know about our giveaways and blog posts.

With that being said, THANK YOU to everyone who has followed us, we appreciate the support! We finally hit our 600-follower goal (but we’ll take more!). To show our thanks, I’ve put together two pretty great prize packages I think any quilter would be absolutely smitten with.

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Apologies for the terrible glare, but you could hardly see a thing without the overhead light!

Yes, that is one of the prize packages. The other one? Identical. Two lucky quilters will each win a copy of Best Fat Quarter Quilts 2012, a copy of Best Weekend Quilts 2013, a bundle each of The Gathering and Earth Dancing, – both by Mary Fisher for Troy Riverwoods – a fat quarter bundle from Maywood Studio, two packs of charm squares and a roll-up from Robert Kaufman, two packs of Clover needles and two Kanzashi Flower Makers, also from Clover.

To enter to win please leave a comment by midnight mountain time on Sunday, May 5. One comment per person please, open to those who haven’t won anything from Quilters Newsletter in the last 90 days.

As always, make sure you’re following us on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram and Twitter to stay up-to-date with your favorite quilting magazine.

Good luck!

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