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Gabe’s quilt top finished

July 27, 2012 in Quilting Works in Progress with 15 Comments

Finally got the quilt top finished up! This whole being a parent thing sure is a time suck. But I’m loving and savoring every minute while he’s a tiny lil’ guy… And we lucked out – he’s very easy going and eating and sleeping like a champ.

I love the Monsterz line for a baby quilt and think this design features it nicely. I’m going to use a lot of it on the back too…

In other news – on the parenting front I’ve learned one thing for sure: people love to give your baby shoes. It’s so cute I had to take a photo.

My sister put it best… “Your kid is like freakin’ Imelda Marcos!”

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

We Love Color winner

July 11, 2012 in Other with 4 Comments

The random number generator picked number 92 which means the winner is… Paula K!

Congrats and keep an eye out for an email from me!

QuiltCon catalog released!

July 9, 2012 in MQG Posts with 5 Comments

Did you all see? The line up of workshops and lectures and teachers was aaaaall released today in the QuiltCon catalog! Lots and lots of info in there…

You can download the whole catalog here! It’s all so very exciting!

Will I see you all there?!?

We Love Color blog tour!

July 4, 2012 in Other with 262 Comments

Today is my stop on the We Love Color blog tour.

I blogged a while back about the book and my quilt that is included. The book features lots of beautiful quilts!

The focus of the book is all quilts made with only Kona Cotton solids. I’m supposed to pick my favorite Kona cotton color and that’s incredibly hard to do! Do I go with the one I use the most (Coal) or with a more vibrant fun color?? I guess I’ll go with something more exciting than a neutral and pick the yellow in this quilt because I love it a lot… Butterscotch. It’s a great color!

And did you know that there are 28 great new Kona colors?

As part of the tour we were asked to feature one of the new colors, and mine is Parchment which you can see in the photo above, third from the top on the right. It’s a nice tan-ish, taupe-ish neutral. There are so many great new vibrant colors!

The book tour has been running for awhile now and is wrapping up soon but you have another chance here to win a copy of the book and a bundle of all of the 28 new Kona Cotton colors! Comment telling me what you love about sewing with solid fabrics and I’ll post a winner on July 11th. Good luck!

A baby quilt for Gabe

July 2, 2012 in Quilting Works in Progress with 10 Comments

Finally got started on a quilt for Gabe, made by me! The entire pregnancy went by and I didn’t sew a stitch of a quilt for him… but hopefully I’ll get this start finished up this week.