Quilt Market: Moda & Giveaway

Moda is a mogul of the fabric industry. The Moda booth at Quilt Market sprawls, filled with a variety of designers for every style. Let me show you a few of my personal favorites.

Sherri & Chelsi are debuting Summer Sweet, a sorbet array of cheerfulness.




Minick & Simpson merge pretty and patriotic in Mackinac Island. The quilt shown is the Derby House Block of the Month.

Jen Kingwell is a darling, delightful person.

Fine & Sunny is her upcoming collection.

   

Bonnie of Cotton Way and Camille of Thimble Blossoms have toned town their standard primary-colored brights for more subdued, vintage-esque shades of red, green, and grey.

   

Vanessa of Lella Boutique, who also authored Jelly Filled (on Amazon), shared her upcoming Bloomington fabric line.

The gorgeous quit behind her is Cathedral.

Modern Halloween fabric collections are hot this season. April Rosenthal joined the Market crowd to share her Midnight Magic line. The quilt on the far right is called Boo Quilt (simple enough), and there's a kit.

As a mom, I can't resist Stacy Iest Hsu's fabrics. (I'm being totally serious here. There are multiple 13" cubical bins to contain my obsession.) Goodness gracious, now there are frogs having a picnic! I can't be helped. If you need some Sunday Picnic too, let me enable you.

Quilt Market: Benartex & Giveaway

I first met Christa Watson of Christa Quilt's through her blog. Later I met the inspiring industry supporter in person at Quilt Market. She never fails to express genuine interest in helping connect and supporting those new to the business. This year she was one of the Threads of Success presenters, and I can see how she would be a great fit for the new convention. Christa's new fabrics, GeoPop and Gridwork were on full display within her patterns.

First up is String of Pearls.

The Infrastructure Quilt has its own Quilt Along on Christa's blog. Here it is made up in two different fabric styles.

The projects for Christa's vibrant fabrics continued.

Behold the color-changing quilt! Ok, it might actually be two Terrace Tiles quilts.

   

Lynn and Pam of The Stitch TV, created Dapper using Bowtie blocks and Gridwork fabrics combined with solids.

This one is adorable, but I'm uncertain about the pattern information. Turns out "bee" is a problematic search term among quilting websites (quilting bee, queen bee, quilt bee blocks, etc.).

The Bling Quilt is a fun scrappy design.

Let's take an intermission before I show you around the Benartex Quilt Market booth and have a little giveaway, shall we. I'm offering an Infrastructure pattern, a Sample Pack of Benartex Fall 2019 Fabrics, a fat quarter of Geo Pop, some itty bitty 2" squares of Gridwork, and some mini charms of Geo Pop. Enter using the widget below.

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It's no shocker that Christa's corner of the Benartex booth was lovely.

Ah ha! An Infrastructure Quilt sighting!

Amanda Murphey shared her First Frost holiday collection, bringing black into the family of holiday hues as a neutral.

Speaking of the holidays, there was Joy contrasting with summery Choose to Shine by Cherry Guidry.

Mabon by Shelley Cavanna of Cora's Quilts is luscious and deep. The pattern on the left, Apple Blossoms, is completely gorgeous.

What caught your eye in the Benartex booth?

Wonderland Quilt Along Winners

Let's start off this New Year with some fun, shall we? I'd like to share with you our winners of the Wonderland Quilt Along. See the projects under the #wonderlandquiltalong hashtag and in the Facebook group. Pick up the complete pattern on Payhip, and check out my previous Wonderland Quilt Along blog posts for tutorials and tips.

The grand prize winner is Ella Herrera of Throw a Wrench in the Works.

The quilting was completed by Rachel of Stitched in Color with a perfectly suited design.

She will receive 12 large 50 wt spools generously donated by Aurifil Thread, a fat 1/8 bundle of Rifle Paper Company Cotton +Steel, and a couple enamel pins.

Threads included in the prize are #2785, #2715, #2692, #4644, #2890, #2730, #2395, #2150, #1154, #6723, #2479, and #2606. These are also the thread matches I recommend if you are using Rifle Paper Company's Wonderland collection and want to match your threads to your top.

Laura Swenson is the winner of the fat quarter bundle and an enamel pin.

Thank you to all who participated!