Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks, Volume 9 & Giveaway!
You know the ping you hear when an email zips into your inbox. The excitement and anticipation of “who is that” before you click into your mail program. The snail mail equivilant is the thunk at the side door when mail is delivered and the curiosity about what magazine or book has just arrived. Computers are great, but I love paper in my hands!
It is honestly such a thrill to get a great magazine like “Quiltmakers 100 Blocks, Volume 9” and find one of my blocks in its pages. I’m honoured to keep company with such an amazing line-up of quilt designers. In this summer’s issue there is something for everyone: basic blocks, complex blocks, piecing or applique, paper pieced or foundation pieced, traditional, folk art or modern.
When I was designing my block for this issue I was thinking traditional of course and small pieces goes without saying. So I combined my passion for both with my penchant for medallions and clear historical colours. I love the result and hope you do too.
I have two copies to give away. Leave a comment below to be entered and I will draw two winners next Wednesday, July 30, 2014.
Happy Stitching!
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Hi Mary Elizabeth! I love all those little pieces and the way you have put them together! I will miss seeing you at BIQR this year. Take care! Gail
Hi Gail. I will miss seeing you and the rest of the Canadian crew at BIQR too. Will have a long gaze out on the lake and think of you all as I am stitching. Say hi to everyone for me.
I like quilts with small pieces the best! Thanks for the giveaway!
They tug at the heart strings don’t they! Thank you for your comment.
I share your love for medallion quilts and historical fabrics and I love your block, though I suspect I would enlarge it — or use it as a medallion in a larger quilt.
Carol, I want to see it when you are done!
What a great combination of traditional and modern styled blocks. I can’t imagine the thrill of seeing your own block in a magazine, actually highlighted. Congratulations! I’d love to win a copy. Thanks!!
Thank you Terry. It is a magazine filled with inspiration!
I would have recognized that as being your block even if you hadn’t told us. That quilt is one of my favorites in your book.
Thank you Shirley. I guess I have a “style”. (lol … addicted to small pieces!)
Love your block and the Quiltmaker’s 100 Blocks. The blocks are always so inspiring. Thanks
Thank you Donna. There are a number of blocks in the issue that caught my eye too!
Love this block Mary Elizabeth, what a great design for all my HSTs!
Hope you are having a wonderful summer.
Hi Muffie. So nice to hear from you. I was wondering how the HST exchange was going.
Hey! What a wonderful way to use up my ever increasing bits and pieces. I’ve got the other volumes of this mag. I’ll have to go and get this volume too, unless of course you draw my name! LOL!
Hi Renate. Thank you for commenting. I think those bits and pieces multiply in the night!
What a lovely block! Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you so much Melissa. Lovely to see your name pop up!
Hi Mary Elizabeth, you’ve made a beautiful block, it looks like a little doll quilt in great colours.
Groetjes from The Netherlands!
Hi Ingrid, Wonderful to hear from you and thank you for your comment. It would make a lovely doll quilt! I might just have to go and pull out some fabric ….
Dear Mary Elizabeth, I love the block AND the fabrics. Oh, so you.
This fall there will be a big void without BIQR and not seeing everyone.
But I am dutifully working on “Simple Gifts” in 1980″s pastels.
Hi Stephanie, I can hardly wait to see your “Simple Gifts”. I had the window table for week 5 last year. Such a lovely view! Will miss you too.
Thanks for the chance to win your fabulous books.
MazBP
Thank you for stopping by Marion.
I love scrap quilts and this block is just wonderful. I would like to think making it would make a dent in my scraps, but it wouldn’t lol. I can only keep trying.
Thank you Kim! I totally get it about the scraps, lol!
I was busy writing a comment to say how much I would enjoy being the lucky one to receive a copy, when I realised I owned it already. Lovely book.:-)
Hi Sue. With a copy close at hand you can dive right in! Thanks for stopping by.
I LOVE that block. I have some great HST to cut down and work with. I would really like to win that magazine. Pick ME, Pick ME.
Lynda, thank you! Send pics please, would love to see how your block turns out.
I love a block with a lot of little pieces, Mary Elizabeth. You were great on the Quilt Show! Thanks for counting me in.
Hi Debbie. Thanks so much. Alex and Ricky and their whole team were so awesome to work with.
Mary Elizabeth
I find quilts with small pieces so effective, but your use of colour is amazing!! I enjoyed watching your segments on TQS. Congratulations!
Thank you Kathy. I love colour so much! So glad you enjoyed the show.
As a new quilter (but with a long family history of quilters), these books would be a great inspiration!
Debi, yeah for joining “the fold”. Welcome! So glad you stopped by!
Hi Mary Elizabeth. I heard about you from our mutual window cleaner! Yes please laugh!! I mentioned that I have made a few quilts and he told me your name and I looked up your website. Now here you are on sew sisters fb page! If you have mailings for courses and shows I’d love to be on your list! Best Wishes from a “neighbour” with clean windows!
Hi Rita. Okay that is so funny … really. I am chuckling. He and his wife are both so great! So glad you searched me out. You can check my website under “Learn” and then “Schedule”, sign up for newsletters in the side bar of my blog, follow my blog in a reader or follow me on Facebook to keep up to date on courses and shows. I will be at the CreativFestival here in Toronto in October. Hope to meet you.
Thank you. I love looking at your website. The block is so cute!
Hi Karen. You are already a member! Just loving small blocks makes you one and you can proudly put SPA after your name! There is a badge on the SPA Society page and instructions for you to put it on your blog. To become an Honoured SPA Society member, complete a quilt from one of the books or one of the patterns I have published in magazines, send me a photo and your work will be posted on the SPA Society page. So glad you love the quilts!
Lovely block. Congratulations for getting it in this issue.
Love your block and love your books, also addicted to make large quilts with tiny pieces….
I love the itsy bitsy pieces and the whole scrapiness of it all. I think the 100 block
volume 9 would be perfect, I believe I have all of the volumes except one.
I love your block! This would be a great scrap buster! Congratulations on making it into this volume of 100 Blocks. Thanks a bunch for the chance to win. HUGS… and stitches
Thanks for the giveaway. I am intrigued by these small piece blocks.
I love your block. I would definitely give it a try. I made 2″ star blocks last winter and found it a fun challenge. Thanks for the chance to win the magazine.
I am just learning about you and am having a ball looking at my fabric in a different way.I’m glad I’m not the only quilt stalker.ha ha hugs cindy