Field Trips in Fiber - Adventures in quilting, hand dyed fabric and fiber art.

Bloggers' Quilt Festival

It's that time again! Twice each year, concurrent with Quilt Market, Amy hosts a quilt festival for the rest of us. This year I am not entering a quilt because I'm sponsoring one of the Viewer's Choice prizes.

All you have to do to enter a quilt is post it to your blog or photo sharing site and post a link here. Viewer's Choice prizes are valued at $75 and there are LOTS of other prizes. So go enter your quilt and don't forget to vote. Here's the schedule:

• May 18 – 21 Festival begins!  (Linky is open)
• May 22- 25 Nominations are made
• May 26 – 30 Vote for your favorites
• June 1 – Winners announced

 

Visiting Sew Many Ways

 

Are you familiar with the blog Sew Many Ways?  Karen runs a very popular blog with tons of great content. If you don't look at anything else, be sure to check out her sewing room! Karen hs tons of sewing, quilting and craft tutorials and she hosts several great link parties. Go on over and check it out.

Today I started sponsoring the blog and we are hosting a special contest for Sew Many Ways readers. Check it out and enter to win!

Quilting Gallery Weekly Contest

Quilting Gallery is a great web site with all kinds of resources for quilters. One of the most popular is the weekly quilt contest. This week the weekly contest theme is "Wind, Earth, Fire and Water" and I'm the contest sponsor. Be sure to go and enter your quilt for a chance to win some hand dyed fabric and a Goddess Pressing Sheet from Mistyfuse.

Pat Sloan's Focus on the Center blog tour

It's a big day here on the blog. I am very happy to be one of the last stops on the Pat Sloan Blog Tour!  It's all to celebrate Pat's new book, Focus on the Center.

If you've never heard my voice and have any interest in that you can check out a little video that I've posted on Pat's blog giving you a little tour of my dye studio. Check that out but be sure to come back here so I can talk to you about the book and you can enter to win a copy of the book!

As you can tell from the title, Pat's book feature medallion quilts. She has 8 great medallion quilt patterns and they are all simple enough for a beginner but also interesting enough for accomplished quilters. 

I selected one of the patterns to share in my Monarch color palette. The quilt, Blue Lagoon, is, as you would expect, done in blue fabrics in the book. I like seeing patterns in different color palettes so here it is in a couple of versions of Monarch.

I love the effect of the gradient border breaking up the block pattern. In the original that wide border is a beautiful blue floral fabric.

Pat is a lovely and creative person and overflowing with energy. She has her Monday radio program, she's a pattern and fabric deigner and a great friend to so many people in the industry. I think you will enjoy her newest book. 

Now for the exciting part, Pat's publisher, Leisure Arts, is allowing me to give away TWO copies of the new book! In fact, every person on the blog tour is giving away 2 copies of the book. That's 20 free copies. So be sure to visit everyone else and enter to win there too. Here are the other stops on the tour:

Tuesday May 1

• Carrie http://lavieenrosie.typepad.com/lavieenrosie/
• Vanessa http://www.vanessachristenson.com/

Wednesday May 2

• Bonnie Hunter http://quiltville.blogspot.com/
• Michele http://quiltinggallery.com/

Thursday May 3

• Victoria http://bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com/
• Rachel http://www.psiquilt.com/

Friday May 4

• Jackie http://cvquiltworks.blogspot.com/
• Dana http://www.oldredbarnco.blogspot.com/

Saturday May 5

• Vicki Welsh http://vickiwelsh.typepad.com/
• Faith http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/
   make sure to go check them out as well because you get a chance to win there as well!

To win one of my copies just add a comment on this post answering this question:

What are the colors of the next quilt you are planning to make?

I will draw the winners names on Wednesday, May 9 so be sure to enter soon!

Drawing winner

Thanks to everyone who posted on my "comment" post Saturday. I got exactly what I needed - some detail feedback from about 8 people who could not post. Now I have what I need to share with Typepad. I also got 147 "good" comments from everyone else! I decided to do 2 drawings, one from each group.

From the good comments the winner is Mary in CO and from those who failed at commenting the winner is Peg S. I'll be in touch with both of you to coordinate your prizes!