Oh, Fransson!

The Practical Guide to Patchwork: Now with 100% more umlauts!

I was so thrilled to receive a copy of the German translation of The Practical Guide to Patchwork, or Die Grundlagen des Patchworks.

From Kansas City With Love

As some of you know, I spent the last 5 days in Kansas City attending Spring Quilt Market. Quilt Market is a trade show, and I was there to do a presentation for shop owners, aka Schoolhouse, about Modern Patchwork, and to participate, along with fellow contributors Weeks Ringle and Jacquie Gering, in the Schoolhouse for We Love Color . Along the way, I also did a book signing for Modern Patchwork, filmed a brief bit about We Love Color with Kyle from Robert Kaufman, saw some amazing new fabric (Echino Decoro, I'm looking at you!), stayed out much too late, and just generally met a ton of great people.

We Love Color Winner

The winner of a copy of We Love Color is Julie, whose favorite Kona colors are Ash and Tangerine.

Thank you all so much for playing! Things are going to be quiet around the blog this week as I prepare for and go to Spring Market, but I'll have all kinds of fun stuff to talk about when I get back!

We Love Color

I received my contributor copies of We Love Color today!

Madrona Road Winner

Thank you so much to everyone for entering the giveaway and for your nice words about the quilt and Violet's fabric.

The randomly-selected winner of the Madrona Road/Cotton Couture charm pack is Berley, whose favorite print is Haystack in Slate. (Berley, I've sent you an e-mail asking for your mailing info.) 

Thank you so much to everyone who entered! 

Madrona Road Neighborhood

I wanted to show you a quilt that I made for my friend, Violet Craft, to show off her new collection for Michael Miller, Madrona Road. 

Halogens, Non-Metals, and Metalloids

More elements have joined the quilt!

Traveling Quilts Progress

Remember when I posted this? At the time, the rules for this bee/round-robin were that we couldn't share photos of what we were working on. Since then, curiosity has proven to be too much for us all and the rules have been relaxed, which means that I can share some photos. Yay!

This is Amber's quilt so far. Before I received it, here's what happened: Amber made the blocks on the top and bottom left. Then she sent them to Alissa, who made the block in the middle of the left and sewed everything together with some Essex cotton/linen. What I received in the mail was basically the left half of what you see in the photo above.

Elliot's Space Invaders Quilt

I finished the binding on Elliot's Space Invaders Quilt this afternoon and Margaret and Lily were nice enough to climb up in Lily and Elliot's playhouse and hold it for me while I took pictures.

Modern Patchwork Preview

That sounds that you hear? It's just me squealing with glee over receiving my advance copy of Modern Patchwork today.