When we editors see a quilt made from a pattern we published hanging in a quilt show, we get a little giddy. Remember in elementary school, when the teacher chose YOUR poem to read at parents’ night, or chose YOUR drawing to hang in the school art show, or chose YOUR science fair experiment to use as an example of how to do it right? It’s a lot like that. We publish patterns that we hope you, our readers, will like. But when you like them enough to commit them to fabric and enter them in a show, we know we’ve scored a hit.

Quilter extraordinaire Matt Sparrow (check him out at manquilter.com) just attended the Edmonton and District Quilters Guild’s show in Alberta, Canada, and posted 60 quilt photos on Facebook. I was clicking through them, killing time on a Sunday afternoon, when I came across this one. I don’t know who made it (if it was you, I’d love to hear from you!), but I do know that it was the result of a very special collaboration involving Quilters Newsletter, Moda Fabrics, Barbara Brackman, and the Alliance for American Quilts. The pattern is available in our November 2008 issue. Moda produced thousands of kits and generously donated the proceeds to the AAQ (allianceforamericanquilts.org).

We at QN love to put our heads together with other industry leaders and are hard at work on a second collaboration with Moda and Barbara Brackman. Keep an eye out for the next fabulous repro pattern in what we hope will become a very successful series. It’s coming in our October/November issue!