Color Inspiration

The colors of Christmas always inspire me!  Here's just a sample of my Christmas decorations.  This is an easy way to get color inspiration for a quilt.  Find a photo or image that you like and pull coordinating fabrics to match.

Here are a few fabrics I pulled to go with the photo above.  So easy - fabrics are ready!  Now need to decide a pattern...

Hope everyone has a wonderful- colorful Christmas!

Give-a-Way Winner

The winner of the e book Take 5 Fat Quarters by Kathy Brown, is Mary Ebert!
Mary, you will be hearing from Martingale's soon about how to download your free ebook.
Enjoy!

(winner was drawn from Random.org)

Book Review & Drawing: Take 5 Fat Quarters

photography courtesy of Martingale

This book:  Take 5 Fat Quarters by Kathy Brown. has a nice variety of 15 easy patterns.  The first thing I do when I see a new quilt book is look at the patterns and the fabric colors.  Then I go through again and look at how the quilting is done.  I liked the patterns in this book and I also liked that each quilt had a unique and different quilting design.  See two of the projects below and notice the nice quilting detail.

photography courtesy of Martingale

photography courtesy of Martingale

Martingale is giving away a free ebook  of Take 5 Fat Quarters to one lucky winner!  Leave a comment with your full name and email address and I will choose a winner on Dec 15.

Free Published Project - Winter Snowfall

Photo courtesy of
Quilter's Newsletter

This quilted table runner I called Winter Snowfall.  It uses Winter Wonderland and Baker's Dozen Sprinkles fabrics from Island Batiks.  These fabrics worked wonderfully to give the feeling of snowflakes flying in a winter sky. The curved flying geese are paper pieced.

This is a free web extra pattern from Quilter's Newsletter Magazine - Dec/Jan 2015 issue.  The size is:  30" x 10".

 Go to:  www.QuiltersNewsletter.com to find the free instructions under the Webxtras.