It’s the fourth day of the 12 Days of Best Christmas Quilts Blog Tour and it feels like we’re still just getting started! We’re having a great time ‘touring’ the blogs of designers who contributed to Best Christmas Quilts 2012, currently on sale at your local quilt shop, bookstore or newsstand, and at the Quilt and Sew Shop online. Filled with so many clever gifts and eye-popping projects, you’ll have no shortage of gift ideas for everyone on your list this year.
Today we’re excited to be featuring Amanda Murphy of Amanda Murphy Design. Amanda is a wonderfully talented quilt and fabric designer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Amanda’s quilt patterns have a modern look, without taking away from her vibrant floral prints. We’ve featured a few of Amanda’s quilt designs in various issues of Quilters Newsletter and are always anxious to see what she’ll share with us next.
Sparkling Ornaments, 60" x 76", by Amanda Murphy in Best Christmas Quilts 2012
While the playful applique in both Sparkling Ornaments and the Winter Wonderland table runner speaks to Amanda’s style, it’s her creative use of nontraditional Christmas colors that really catches your eye. Look closely and you’ll see that these are all blenders, with not a single Christmas print to be found in either project. Her color choices remind me of a retro, mid-century palette while still being completely current. Full-size applique patterns for both projects are included in Best Christmas Quilts 2012.
Amanda Murphy's Winter Wonderland table runner in Best Christmas Quilts 2012
So head on over to Amanda’s blog to read more about her Christmas designs; click here to visit her blog. If you leave a comment on Amanda’s blog before midnight Mountain time tonight — Thursday, August 23 — you will be entered for a chance to win a bundle of free fabric from Robert Kaufman Fabrics, including some of the blenders you see above, and a free copy of Best Christmas Quilts 2012. Comments left on this blog will not be entered for a chance to win the prize.
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The table runner looks like fun to make so I will have to make a few for my mother and sisters.
Love everything so far –I have a habit of converting all of these in my head to red quilts
beautiful quilt! can’t wait to get this issue
Love the table runner
Would be fun to make the table runner and beads on the trees!
Love the table runner and would love to make it. Maybe I’ll be a lucky winner. Thanks for allowing me to participate.
I love the table runner, so cheery.
Would love to win…love the colors.
I really like the quilt with the ornaments. I am thinking of it in shades of blue and crisp white.
Love it! What a bright and beautiful quilt and the table runner is so cute! I love the blue!
Jen
Love, love, love the fabrics you used on these two projects. They would make any home feel warm and comfy with their bright, beautiful colors.
I love it. So inventive and festive too.
Love the colors and designs!
É muito bonito, parabéns.
Gostaria de ganhar
I love the colors of the fabric — they are so new — lovely tablerunner and quilt !}
Festive and fun without being in your face.
This would look great on my dash in the Motor Home. Would love to win the fabric. Thanks Cathy
Love the table runner. I can see it on my coffee table this Christmas. It looks like it would be fun to make. Love the quilt also. There is just something about snowflakes that make me want to snuggle under a quilt.
I usually go the more traditional route with Christmas colors, but these are really beautiful!
I love the table runner. I like to enter these give aways even though I will probably never win, can hope , can’t I?
I love the Blog Tours, it’s nice to learn about all the fabric designers out there and see some of their fabric lines too. Thanks for the tour, I amlooking forward to getting the Christmas magazine.
Gotta get started soon
OMG … Christmas is right around the corner … love the ideas!
love Christmas love quilting great combo
table runners are such fun things to make and put on the table for dressing up.
I am so excited to learn about your blog and webpage. What wonderful patterns and ideas! Thank you.
This quilt is sooo cute. I would love to make it for my mom!!
I have been wanting to make the big dahlia using reds to make a big poinsetta as a bed quilt.