Winner and follow-up items

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I am so sorry this late post. I have been traveling for work, and just did not get the time to log on.

Coffee Cup Sleeve Giveaway Winner

The winner of the coffee cup sleeve and scraps is:
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who is Sarah C. Congratulations, I will be emailing you tonight to get your shipping details.

Testers Wanted

Thank you for the response for testers. I will be sending an email out this week to each of the testers for both quilts. I have will have 3 testers per quilt, but I will also email those that were interested in testing as I have a couple of other quilt patterns coming up.

Announcement: New Spoonflower Class
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My last Modern Quilting class is happening on the Sunday 23rd November at 2-5pm. It covers everything you need to know about finishing a quilt and various methods; pin basting vs. glue basting, FMQ/Straight-line quilting (walking foot), Machine binding vs. hand binding. If you are in the Raleigh-Durham area you can register for the class here.

Pattern testers wanted

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Participating in Quilt design a Day has been wonderful. It has allowed me to put some ideas down and try out some of those designs.

I am in the process of writing up the patterns for the following quilts and I am looking for at least 2 testers per pattern. I hope to have the patterns written by the end of the month (30th November), and would like to have the feedback finished end of December. Note: Since it is Christmas and all I would be open changing the date mid-January.

“Ranger’s Station”
Technique is all piecing, the middle blocks are 18 x 18″ each. The quilt finishes at 60  x 60″.
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“Celestial Spheres”
Technique for this one is needle turn applique. It currently is written for a 36″ x 36″ finish, but would love feedback for this from the testers.
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I will link up the tester’s projects during the launch of the pattern and their blog. The tester will receive both patterns for free.

Just leave a comment below with your

  • name
  • blog page or flickr or instagram name
  • which pattern you would like to test

if you are interested or send me an email ml_wilkie (at) hotmail (dot) com.

On another note, look at this fantastic quilt from Bethany @ Sew Impressed, she made up one of my designs (week 13) for charity (donating to her local children’s hospital). Thank you Bethany for sharing it with me.

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Hope you all are having a good weekend, I will announce the giveaway winner for the coffee cup sleeve and scrap bag (remember it closes at 6pm today).

Rule breaking!! New Projects

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I know I shouldn’t be starting new projects with all those quilts that need to be quilted, but I am….and loving it!!

I will say, slightly in my defense, I have taken the first step for quilting Phased Circles (my project for this month), picking out my thread. Thank you Aurifil, for the fantastic selection… here are my thread selections (I also have a grey to add to the ones below and have to find a color that will go with wasabi).
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I am also preparing for my business trip next week in New York, of course I am taking a couple of project with me. The two projects will be both hand sewing projects. One is Celestial Spheres (Part 2) “Autumn Equinox”…which I am working on getting the pieces tacked before I leave….
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The second is my next Sew Mama Sew Project..here is the fabric pull; a new all Kona solids project!!
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Lastly, I am cutting up my Autumn Oakshott Cotton Bundle for my Rangers Station quilt and adding some Raisin Kona Cotton. Here’s the color palette:
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Boy, looking at the projects like this, I am definitely on a warm color kick this week. In the meantime my project list expanded a little ;-).

Projects and Progress

Project Target Date Current Status
Phased Circles Quilt  30NOV2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Cheri  30NOV2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Jungle Ave Tapa  30NOV2014  TOP, BACK (UNDERWAY), BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Celestial Spheres
(Part 1)		  DEC2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Celestial Spheres
(Part 2)		  DEC2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Sew Mama Sew
(Project 3)		  29NOV2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Bjorn the Bear  Early DEC2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND
Rangers Station  DEC2014  TOP, BACK, BASTE, QUILT, BIND

Linking up with Lee over @ Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday (see button on the right)