Oh, Fransson!

Modern Patchwork: Neon Honey Quilt Top

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'm skipping ahead in the book this month to the Honey Quilt. This is the one that's on the front cover. I also made a larger version, Honey in Space, for the QuiltCon show. 

You can dance.

I'm a big fan of sparkle and shine, but I've been slow to get on board the sparkly fabric trend. I love a challenge though, so when I started seeing Michael Miller's Mirror Ball Dot fabric pop up in my local shops, I thought it was a good time to give it a try.  

April Classes and Alphabet Song Progress

There are a few spaces left in my Text Quilts and Machine Quilting at Home classes coming up on Saturdays April 20 and 27 at Modern Domestic. Come join me and learn something new!

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!