Me and My Sister: Day #2 Book tour....

Visit Me and My Sister for another chance to win!

These amazing ladies have put their spin on my Lantern Lights block!

Large-block Quilts Blog Tour Starts Today!!!

Today IS my day to kick off the blogger's book tour.

I have a great group of friends and

 I am super excited

 to have them participate in my book tour.

Remember there are 10 participating blogs...

talking about Large-block Quilts.

10 chances to win a copy of the book!
And each of them will be making a block
from the book.
Will it be easy?
Fast?
or
just Fun?
You'll have to wait and see....

4/20 Me! Vickie

4/21 Me and My Sister

4/22 Natalia Bonner

4/23 Kathy Brown

4/24 Jen W 

4/25 Carol's Craft Blog

4/26 A Spoonful of Sugar

4/27 Kate Spain 

4/28 Stefanie R.

4/29 Stitch This!

Here is the block I chose for today....
Ice Cream

Turns out it was easy, fast AND fun...

Want to make this block too?
Just leave me a comment on this post.
I will be choosing a winner at random on May 1st!

But wait....there's more....
today is my 1000th blog post.
seriously.
so in addition to choosing a book winner
I am going to choose
another winner for a special 1000th post anniversary!!!
Make sure you leave just one comment on this post to enter.
Good Luck!

Large-Block Quilt Blogger's Tour

Before I published my own quilting book,

I was a blogger and quilter like all of you.

I LOVED having the opportunity to win a new quilting book from a blog tour.

It was exciting.

 I knew that once my book was published,

 I would host my own book tour.

 That you could have the opportunity to win like I have!

so.....

the Large-block Quilts Book Tour begins April 20th!

There are 10 participating blogs...

10 chances to win a copy of the book!

I will be starting off the tour on Saturday....

4/20 Me! Vickie

4/21 Me & My Sister

4/22 Natalia Bonner

4/23 Kathy Brown

4/24 Jen W 

4/25 Carol's Craft Blog

4/26 A Spoonful of Sugar

4/27 Kate Spain

4/28 Stefanie R.

4/29 Stitch This! 

So stop back on the 20th for your chance to win a copy of my book!

Collecting, finding and hoarding low volume prints....

 

I've really been bitten with a bug to collect low value

aka low volume prints.

I've raided my stash recently and

dug up some goodies that I had forgotten about.

I bought the 3 fabrics at the top of the bundle 

when my husband and I took a trip to Alaska about 4 years ago.

It sat for 4 years?

{hoard much?}

what have I been thinking?

I am not sure what quilt I will make with these

but they have moved to the top of my pile of 'to use next prints'.

Do you have a pile like that?

I have like 10 of those piles.

But I have QADD ( quilter's attention deficit disorder)

so I am constantly bouncing projects.

Like this project below

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I made a 'hidden basket' block with Liberty Stile print

 and a bunch of scraps of low volume text prints I have been collecting.

 

 

So now do I make more?

I have quite a bit of Liberty fat quarters....

I'll let you know.

 

If you are looking to collect low volume prints or

text prints in small 'batches' these

are some of my favorite online fabric sources:

 

Fat Quarter Shop

or

Pink Castle Fabric

or

West Wood Acres

 

Join Me...

Join me in Lyndhurst, Ohio at J'Ellen's House of Fabrics
 on Saturday April 20th from 11am- 1pm.

I will be there signing books, chatting, and
demonstrating how I make 1/4 square triangles
such as the ones used in my Quaint quilt from the book.

I hope to see you there!