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.

Blog Block #2 - Betty's Delight

Blog Block #2   Betty's Delight

I've liked this simple block pattern for a long time.  I didn't know the name of the block, so I looked around and the only name I found was Betty's Delight.  I'm sure it also has some other names - send me a post if you know this block by another name.

I made the block using a simple paper pieced pattern.  It takes two patterns to make one block.  Each block only uses two fabrics.  My block is a three inch finished square.

I had a small sampling of Island Batik fabrics that I loved, and thought I'd see how many blocks I could make out of them. 
Here is my finished mini quilt.  
Aren't the colors lovely!

Give-a-Way Winner

The winner of the Island Batik fabric Give-a-Way is Carol C Thomas!

Carol- please contact me within 3 days with your address so I can get the fabrics sent out to you.

(winner was drawn from Random.org)

Fabric Give-a-Way

Fabric Give -a- Way

Welcome to my first fabric Give-a-Way!  I'm giving away 5 half yard fabrics donated from Island Batiks. These are from the Quilted in Honor fabric line.  Just leave a comment on this post and I will select and post the winner on Nov. 18.  

Give-a-Way open to U.S. and Canada only.  Winner will have 3 days to provide a mailing address.  If no address is received in three days,  a new winner will be announced.