Hi Bag of the Month Club members! We've been working really hard at getting your prize sponsors organized for you and I'm proud to announce that our 9 wonderful sponsors have been VERY generous to us and we are lucky enough to have 14 PRIZE BUNDLES to give away.
If you are a Club member, please have a look through the prizes and link up your completed bag photos to the FLICKR GROUP. If you are not a member, it's not too late to join, just CLICK HERE and you can read all about it. The past month's patterns will be sent to you. Sew much fun ;)
** You can enter as many bags as you like by July 15th. Please give us a couple of clear photos of your bag so we can see inside and out. (The judges are yet to be designated, but the designers will not be judging their own pattern.)
Our Sponsors and their prizes:
January Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Castle Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Minerva Crafts
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Sew Sweetness
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread
2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics
February Pattern
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Castle Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Minerva Crafts
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Emmaline Bags
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread
2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics
March Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Southern Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Minerva Crafts
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Sewing Patterns by Mrs. H.
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread
2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics
April Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Online Fabric Store
20£ Gift Certificate from Village Haberdashery
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Betz White
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread
2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics
May Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Online Fabric Store
20£ Gift Certificate from Village Haberdashery
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Noodlehead
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread
2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics
June Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Crimson Tate Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Village Haberdashery
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Chris W. Designs
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread
2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics
Random prizes:
1st Prize:
50$ Gift Certificate Fat Quarter Shop
12 Spools of Aurifil Thread
2nd Prize:
50$ Gift Certificate from Fat Quarter Shop
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread
Our Sponsors!! I'm so proud to be part of this amazing collection of designers in the Bag of the Month Club, but I have to say - I am most excited about giving all of these wonderful prizes. We couldn't do it without these wonderful sponsors. Thank you to them!
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| Aurifil |
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| Crimson Tate |
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| Fat Quarter Shop |
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| Minerva Crafts |
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| Online Fabric Store |
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| Pink Chalk Fabrics |
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| Pink Castle Fabrics |
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| Southern Fabric |
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| The Village Haberdashery |
Now who's sewing? Do you want to make win some prizes? Join up some nice clear photos in the FLICKR group. Enter as many you like.
May all of your bags be handmade ;)
In between desperately needed (and much procrastinated) attempts at vacuuming and cleaning house today, I put together my Cathedral Window Pincushion that I will be demonstrating at the UFO sewing days our quilting guild is having this weekend.
I used some Amy Butler "Lark" scraps for this and I just LOVE the way it turned out. Funnily enough, I was cutting up the orange print, and grey linen scraps for it, and half way through I tossed them aside and grabbed the Amy Butler out of the scrap bag. So glad I did!
I'll be using the orange/grey pieces already cut for my "step out" for the demonstration. I want to show it in a couple of stages so I don't take up to much time demonstrating.
It's really so easy and took about 30 mins. I honestly spent more time picking out the grey and orange fabric.
I used a great tutorial by Susanne Klemm from Quilt it Out, found on the Riley Blake website HERE for this pincushion. She uses an alternate method than the traditional way, and I found it very accurate. Give it a try!!
AND THANK YOU!! Thank you so much for all of the lovely comments and support yesterday when I shared my bag pattern in Quilter's Connection magazine with you! I'm so lucky have you all following my blog, and even luckier to be getting to know many of you so well. Thank you so much, it means a lot to me.
I used some Amy Butler "Lark" scraps for this and I just LOVE the way it turned out. Funnily enough, I was cutting up the orange print, and grey linen scraps for it, and half way through I tossed them aside and grabbed the Amy Butler out of the scrap bag. So glad I did!
I'll be using the orange/grey pieces already cut for my "step out" for the demonstration. I want to show it in a couple of stages so I don't take up to much time demonstrating.
It's really so easy and took about 30 mins. I honestly spent more time picking out the grey and orange fabric.
I used a great tutorial by Susanne Klemm from Quilt it Out, found on the Riley Blake website HERE for this pincushion. She uses an alternate method than the traditional way, and I found it very accurate. Give it a try!!
AND THANK YOU!! Thank you so much for all of the lovely comments and support yesterday when I shared my bag pattern in Quilter's Connection magazine with you! I'm so lucky have you all following my blog, and even luckier to be getting to know many of you so well. Thank you so much, it means a lot to me.
The Spring issue of Quilter's Connection, a Canadian Quilting magazine is out and I'm proud to say that I'm sharing a "modern quilted" bag pattern in it. This is my first time being featured in a mag so I am pretty thrilled, to say the least.
This issue's theme is Modern Quilting and I think the cover looks fab and I can't wait to try this quilt.
Here is the pattern I submitted, The Spring Sling. It's basically a sling for spring.... ha ha. Sorry, couldn't resist. This is an easy to make bag, constructed using byAnnie's Soft and Stable. It's got an adjustable strap, an internal zipper pocket and binding that goes on just like quilt binding. If you can make a quilt, you can make this bag - but faster ;) Writing the bio was the hardest part. I really just bragged a lot.
I'm really happy with how my digital drawings turned out in the magazine. The instructions look great. Heather and her staff at Quilter's Connection do amazing work and I'm proud to be part of this Canadian circulation.
If you would like to find an issue for yourself, go to the Quilter's Connection website to order a print or digital subscription, or to find one at a quilt shop near you. Also available at select Chapters/Indigo/Coles.
I have to show you this darling wall hanging from the magazine. It almost makes wish I had a wee one with a bedroom to put it in. Wait, no.... Maybe a grandchild some day instead ;)
I'm a happy girl!
This issue's theme is Modern Quilting and I think the cover looks fab and I can't wait to try this quilt.
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I'm really happy with how my digital drawings turned out in the magazine. The instructions look great. Heather and her staff at Quilter's Connection do amazing work and I'm proud to be part of this Canadian circulation.
If you would like to find an issue for yourself, go to the Quilter's Connection website to order a print or digital subscription, or to find one at a quilt shop near you. Also available at select Chapters/Indigo/Coles.
I have to show you this darling wall hanging from the magazine. It almost makes wish I had a wee one with a bedroom to put it in. Wait, no.... Maybe a grandchild some day instead ;)
I'm a happy girl!
