I am feeling really charged up about quilting. I know that sounds silly because quilting is pretty much my life outside of family and home, but I do have moments when the excitement waxes and wanes. It is definitely on an upswing at the moment!
I think I am really excited about my sewing at the moment because I feel really fresh! I stopped taking on magazine projects a couple months ago in preparation for starting school, so I am now wrapping up all of my previously-made obligations. This means I am waiting (impatiently) to share some great quilts, but it also means that I feel really free to start some new things!
One of things I have made as a goal is to clean up my sewing supplies, and shed things I am finished using. When I looked through my bookshelves I found some books that I thought I would share with you readers. The first is perfect for right now: Granny Quilts, vintage quilts of the ’30s made new for today. It is colorful, sweet and fresh right when we need it most (hello, single digit temperatures!). Would you like to give this book a new home and make some fun new projects?
I am loving how this one book offers so many different projects. Are you ready to try some new shapes? how about diamonds, triangles, fans or dresden plates? Patterns are all here. One idea that has been percolating in my brain lately is a quilt design using diamonds. I have never made anything with diamonds, I am kind of fixed on that right now. It really is fun to experiment with sewing different shapes.
You have probably noticed the recent craze about English Paper Piecing. If you have wanted to try it, here is a classic: the Grandmother’s Flower Garden. There are about a million things you can do with these little hexagons and it’s fun to have a hand project to take along (I love the comments from people who see me sewing at my kids’ soccer practice….)
If you would like to own this book, leave a comment on this post. Is there something you are really excited about right now? What shape would you like to try in your piecing?
Now, I need to take advantage of this energy! I’ll be sewing…
Sharon
HELLO,Thanks for a great giveaway!
The Grandmother’s Flower Garden is beautiful! I’ve never done any Hexies+I’d like to! HAPPY STITCHING!
I love hexies ,They are so colorful that remind me sunny and warm days.I love play with one inch hexies and handsewing them.I would love to try sewing machine hexies.Thanks for the fun!
I would love to try Dresden plates as well as curved piecing! Haven’t gotten to those yet but want to. I love old crafting books like this!
This looks like such a fun book! I’d definitely like to try to hexies!
Hexies are nice, but I’m just not into all that handwork right now.
Yes, yes, yes…those all look like great patterns! The 9-patch stars quilt looks so pretty – I’m looking for a pattern that I can make in 3 different color schemes for the new triplets my daughter will have in a few months!
Thanks for the giveaway!
The book looks awesome! I am just learning and everything looks fun and exciting!
Looks like some great quilts
Looks like some great quilts
It always feels good to clean out – need to do some of that myself. I have to admit when I first scrolled through your email, I tought you were showing us a book you were putting out, I got super excited because I really, really want to make a quilt like the first one you have pictured. That quilt has been on my bucket list a long time. So, even if I don’t turn out to be the lucky winner, perhaps the winner would be willing to share that pattern with me. Wow, my post is way longer than anyone else’s.
I would love to start with hexies. This looks great.
I love a good quilt book
What a great giveaway! I love 30s patterns & would love to give this nook new home! Thanks for the chance to win!
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Very nice
This looks like a great book and I’d love to win it. Thanks for the giveaway and good luck with going to school, so exciting!
30’s quilts are my favorites. I love Hexagons and I haven’t done anythiing with them in ages. This will be a must have book.
My granny’s favorite quilt shape must have been hexies….she left so many beautiful quilts that had hexies in them. I would love to give your book a good home.
I´m excited about yellow color and the spring! 🙂
would love to do any of the quilts
I would love to give that book a new home. A Diamond quilt is high on my bucket list.
This looks a great book – I’ve only tried hexies and I’d like to try other shapes!!
Just this weekend my daughter sent me a picture of an antique crazy quilt. I am going to have to start that for her. Thanks for the great giveaway.
Actually, you inspire me to clean up my sewing area. I am excited about improving my accuracy in piecing- getting back to basics!
I am not sure about a new shape because I have really not mastered the triangle or half square triangle to be exact. I just have this fear that some times (no matter the method)when I get to the pressing and squaring up they look all wonky. I really want to try to improve my outcomes on that shape. 🙂
I’ve been excited about crafting and sewing! I have a baby on the way so I’m trying to make some things before she gets here.
I love traditional quilts! I would put this to good use quick!
My grandmother made a lot of the quilts in the book. I have seen several of her quilts and they had been loved a lot. This book would be wonderful to have and I could do some of the quilts my grandmother made.
Looks like a great book-I’d love to try my hand at the quilts featured. I’m excited about taking classes at my local quilt shop since I’m a beginner.
I’m a new-ish quilter so there are lots of things I want to try– I love the quilt pictured right below the cover shot. Thanks for the chance to win!
Am fairly new to quilting, only simple things so far! 🙂 But looove Hexi’s…and are definitely on my “Gotta Make!” list…but think before those, I want to learn curves…as in Apple Cores, or Drunkard Path.
I would love to use the book. Thank you!
When I get to a bigger town I am going to buy a paper punch of the hexie shape, and start a quilt!!!
I am looking to work with a larger hexagon shape. The smaller ones are too fiddly and you need tons of them to make anything.
I have been wanting to try hexies, along with triangles. So many patterns, so little time.
Hexies are the only paper piecing that I’ve tried so far and I used them in small projects. Would love to try the the Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt; it’s beautiful. Thanks for the chance!
I am excited about a sampler I’m making right now — I am learning lots about rotary cutting and trimming.
I’m excited to try hexxies and curves! That book looks fabulous! Thanks for a great giveaway!
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I have never done any English Paper Piecing but I just found a pattern for a pentagon baby ball that I am eager to make for my 6 month old grandson Beckett. I Love the book you are giving away – thanks for the chance to win it. I am happy for you that you are really stoked with energy to sew and sew and sew. Have fun.
Pauline
Newbie quilter so sticking to basic shapes at present but looking for some inspiration for the future. Fancy trying some pentagons or hexagons next x
I have been thinking of diamonds lately and what quilts could be made with them! The cold is crazy– we are longing for single digits here in Minnesota where it it minus 11 this morning. Thanks for the giveaway!
As a granny to 3 wonderful granddaughters, I would love to make these quilts for them. I also had a granny who was special and did special things for us.
I want to try piecing various cat shapes. I also want to try making my first hexagon quilt.
I am really excited about our sons wedding coming up in May 2015 We have all been sewing up a storm and probably will until the day before. I would love to learn circles and hexies. After the wedding is over.
I would like to try hexagon shapes in my piecing and I have quite a bit of vintage fabrics I have not used yet. This would be perfect! Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!