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New Patterns in the Shop

The Sewing Circle Tote and Simple Iron Cozy patterns are now available in my shop! Use the discount code SEWWITHFRIENDS to take 25% off your order of 2 or more patterns. The discount code will be good through Friday, April 5, 2013.

Jacquie's Traveling Quilt

This post is about The Traveling Quilts bee/round-robin. You can see my earlier posts about The Traveling Quilts here, here, here, here, and here. 

As I start to get these quilts later in the process, it's becoming more challenging to decide what to do with them. It's a fun challenge, but a challenge nonetheless!

This time, I was excited to get to work on Jacquie's quilt, which arrived at my house looking like this.

Iron Cozy

I mentioned the other day that my friends had been pushing me to finish the pattern for the Sewing Circle Tote. This is another pattern that I've been asked to publish, and I'm happy to say that both the Iron Cozy and the Sewing Circle Tote patterns will be available on Monday, April 1.

Sewing Circle Tote

After several years of juggling my sewing supplies in multiple, not-quite-right bags to and from sewing circle, I finally decided to make a single bag specifically for that purpose. 

Modern Patchwork: Back-as-Front Fire Drill Variation

This is part of a series of posts about the quilts from Modern Patchwork. I'm highlighting a different quilt each month, and will be remaking each of the book quilts in some way. This month, I'm making a variation on the Fire Drill quilt.

Last week, I talked about my plan for making a "back-as-front" version of my Fire Drill quilt. The quilt top I ended up making is still based on the back of Fire Drill, but I switched things up a little bit (including going with a white background instead of the linen I had planned to use).

Text Pillows

I finished a couple of samples this morning and I like them so much that I had a hard time leaving them at Modern Domestic!

I'll be teaching a text quilts workshop there this Spring that will cover two methods of adding letters to your quilt projects. I'll post again when I have exact dates for my upcoming classes but, in the meantime, I just couldn't wait to share photos of these pillows!  You can read about the classes here.

A Winner and an Alphabet Song Quilt

Thank you (all 1,009 of you!) for entering my QuiltCon goodie bag giveaway. The randomly-selected winner is Anne, who is making knit pants for her toddler boys. Congratulations, Anne!

QuiltCon Swag Bag Giveaway

I'll eventually have more to say about QuiltCon but, in the meantime, does anyone want to win a fabulous goodie bag from the event?

Modern Patchwork: Fire Drill

This is part of a series of posts about the quilts from Modern Patchwork. I'm highlighting a different quilt each month, and will be remaking each of the book quilts in some way. 

I am a bit behind on my Modern Patchwork project, but I'm picking it back up this month with Fire Drill, which is on Pages 52 - 61.

Honey in Space Quilt

It's been hard not showing photos of the construction of this quilt on my blog! This is my Honey in Space quilt, which I made specifically for the QuiltCon show. It measures about 72" x 72".