Tonight’s exclusive eQuilter Free Pattern takes you into Cicely Mary Barker’s magical world of Flower Fairies, dancing and playing in the autumn forest, with lush blossoms & berries, delicate wings, and charming fairy folk.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
We have had one of those glorious Colorado Fall weeks, with brilliant yellow, orange and red foliage against intensely clear blue skies with mild temperatures. I hope you have been enjoying some of your own gorgeous Autumn weather as well. In couple weeks rain and wind will blow all the leaves from the trees, so the Trick-or-Treaters can shuffle through crunchy piles of leaves as they go door to door on Halloween. I know many of you are busy sewing last minute costumes for your kiddos.
This morning I woke up to an other-worldly golden glow in our bedroom. The sun had risen up in that clear blue sky, shining down on our Golden Locust, Ash, Linden and Maple trees in our back yard….and the warm glow suffused the room and awakened me to a dreamlike vision. But it was real! When you work with color every day, these ethereal moments of color magic take on a feeling of heightened senses, and you carry it throughout your day. We hope that as you work with our colorful fabrics, you have a similar experience.
Congratulations to all the Colorado quilters and textile artists featured in the new Colorado issue of Quiltfolk Magazine. Paul and I are so delighted to be included. You will find our profile on pages 100-105.
Are you going to Quilt Festival in Houston? eQuilter is sponsoring 3 exhibits, including the “Women’s Voices” quilts. I will be present in the exhibit on Thursday from 11 am to 1 pm to sign the catalog and talk about our experience at the Clinton Presidential Center last December, when they hosted an artist reception during the Women’s Voices conference. Hope to see you there.
We have had one of those glorious Colorado Fall weeks, with brilliant yellow, orange and red foliage against intensely clear blue skies with mild temperatures. I hope you have been enjoying some of your own gorgeous Autumn weather as well. In couple weeks rain and wind will blow all the leaves from the trees, so the Trick-or-Treaters can shuffle through crunchy piles of leaves as they go door to door on Halloween. I know many of you are busy sewing last minute costumes for your kiddos.
This morning I woke up to an other-worldly golden glow in our bedroom. The sun had risen up in that clear blue sky, shining down on our Golden Locust, Ash, Linden and Maple trees in our back yard….and the warm glow suffused the room and awakened me to a dreamlike vision. But it was real! When you work with color every day, these ethereal moments of color magic take on a feeling of heightened senses, and you carry it throughout your day. We hope that as you work with our colorful fabrics, you have a similar experience.
Congratulations to all the Colorado quilters and textile artists featured in the new Colorado issue of Quiltfolk Magazine. Paul and I are so delighted to be included. You will find our profile on pages 100-105.
Are you going to Quilt Festival in Houston? eQuilter is sponsoring 3 exhibits, including the “Women’s Voices” quilts. I will be present in the exhibit on Thursday from 11 am to 1 pm to sign the catalog and talk about our experience at the Clinton Presidential Center last December, when they hosted an artist reception during the Women’s Voices conference. Hope to see you there.
Today we bring you a Free Quilt Pattern for J. Wecker Frisch’s wildly popular, vintage sewing-themed collection. These exquisite designs utilize antique drawings & loose-leaf paper to emulate the feeling of a collage or scrapbook.
To make this generous 68″ x 80″ eQuilter quilt design, you will combine the two 24″ x 44″ digital block panels with coordinating newspaper ad print and the stunning fashion model stripe. The black sashing makes these extraordinary prints really pop. This quilt announces your love of sewing in a vintage scrapbook style.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
This week I am reaching back to April, to share this beautiful quilt from the Pour l’Amour du Fils quilt festival in Nantes, France. This is from the Quilt Nihon gallery at this French quilt exhibit.
Best of Quilt Nihon 2021 Maker: Toyoko Nakajima – Japan “Hand to Hand, Make a Circle” Floral Medallion, hand-applique.
As you will see on my Asia Travel pages, I started going to the Tokyo Quilt Festival in 2010. I went every year until January 2020, which was the very last time this show was held at the Tokyo Dome. My memories of those years are so precious, and I am glad to have all the photos saved in my online albums. Sophie Quinn came with me to this last Tokyo show, and Covid chased us home. Hard to believe…that was almost 4 years ago. I also traveled to Japan in the 80s when I lived in Hong Kong and was working in the garment industry. Mostly I went to Osaka to source textiles. I miss traveling to Japan.
So you can imagine I was thrilled to see these Quilt Nihon pieces in France earlier this year!
If you have had the chance to admire the workmanship of Japanese quilters, I am sure you share my fascination and admiration of quilts created by these talented meticulous quilters. Here in the US, we have an internationally known award-winning Japanese quilter who continues to win prizes all around the world – Kumiko Frydl. She specializes in miniature quilts and she won the top prize in Birmingham this summer for her intricate mini-quilt. Kumiko has won so many top prizes for her tiny quilts, I have lost count. (Here we are together in Birmingham.)
The quilt above is a symphony of appliqued blossoms and trapunto stitching. The lighting was not ideal, but I hope the image gives you a sense of the mastery expressed in this piece. I will be at the Houston Quilt Festival in a couple weeks, and I promise I’ll be out there with my camera recording the new quilt masterpieces to share with you. It has been 4 years since I went to Houston and I am anxious to see the artistry on display.
eQuilter is sponsoring 3 special exhibits. I’ll tell you more about these next week.
Sharing your love of fabric… Luana and Paul
* The photo above was taken by Luana Rubin at the Pour l’Amour du Fils quilt festival, in April 2023.
To make this 60″ x 68″ quilt design, you will start with our exclusive 36″ x 44″ panel. Then piece the set-in diamond inner border with Steampunk pocket watches and ornate keys, and Kona Solid Black. You’ll also use our exclusive slate wall print for the inner and outer borders.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
Sometimes the news of the week is so blinding and incomprehensible, there are no words. My heart hurts. My head hurts. I just don’t understand how humans are capable of so much destruction in more than one place. The fact that children are caught up in the violence more than ever, just says that the human race needs to take a hard look at the hatred and racism that has brought all of us to this place. It not happening to ‘others’ somewhere on the other side of the world. These are our children also. These Jewish children, these Palestinian children, these Ukrainian and Azerbaijan children, they belong to all of us. We cannot just turn off the TV and pretend it is not happening. All I can say is, we all need to speak up for peace and healing, because nobody wins in war.
I am at a quilt retreat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains today. It is peaceful here. The air is clear and chilly, and there is a dusting of snow on the mountain peak towering outside our windows. The friendship and fellowship of our quilt group is a balm, but it does not take away the pain that any empathic person, any human being must feel knowing about the current conflicts. The earthquake in Afghanistan would normally be at the top of the headlines, but it is eclipsed by war. Know that if you choose Doctors Without Borders as you check out, your 2% of your purchase will be heading to one of these humanitarian disasters.
Thank you for supporting our family-owned business, and our commitment to help those in need. We have surpassed $2 million raised for our list of non-profits, and we continue to send money to help those in need.
Stitching is one of the only ways I know, that I can clear and calm my mind at times like this. For those of you who are also empathetic to these events, I invite you to join me … to pray for peace and some kind of cease fire. When we send our monthly eQuilter donations out, it is also a comfort that somewhere, someone suffering will receive help.
Travel to the back country of Northern forests with this week’s Free Quilt Pattern, with a scenic panel featuring a landscape-within-a-landscape and a Brown Bear on the move.
To make this 62″ x 51″ exclusive quilt design, you will start with the 33″ x 44″ Hoffman panel. Piece the Bear Claw corner blocks and complete the borders with weathered wood paneling and tree bark prints, a Hoffman Hand-Dye, and Kona Solid Black.
Brown Bears are fat Coastal Grizzly Bears who feast on up to 90,000 calories of spawning salmon per day, during the salmon run. Have you heard of Fat Bear Week? (The winner was just announced) This is a fun countdown to pick the chonkiest Brown Bear in Alaska. This year’s winner is a Katmai female bear named Grazer. Long live Mama Bears!
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
This week I am sharing another paper-pieced quilt from the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK. This very clever original quilt (Top-Center) highlights the story of the Fox and Hare, with a vertical mirror image featuring the fox on the top, and the leaping upside-down hare on the bottom section, separated by colorful interlocking Star blocks.
Maker: Leah Walker “Turning of the Seasons – The Fox and the Hare” Original design, celebrating a beautiful and whimsical celebration of the British countryside.
We’ll have our first snow in the Foothills Thursday, so when I drive up to Allenspark for a guild quilt retreat Friday and Saturday, I’ll be relishing the snowy peaks of the Continental Divide. My Red Maple has taken a dramatic turn in the last couple days, and I know our new puppy Rosie will be romping in crackly fragrant piles of leaves very soon.
Sharing your love of fabric… Luana and Paul
* The photo above was taken by Luana Rubin at the Festival of Quilts in the Uk, in August 2023. It is framed by a selection of fabrics now in stock at eQuilter.com
To make this 60″ x 68″ quilt design, you will start with our exclusive 35″ x 44″ digital printed panel vignette. You will piece the set-in diamond inner border with Steampunk pocket watches and ornate keys, and Kona Solid Black. Use more of our exclusive Steampunk collection to finish the outer border with Steampunk Gears.
PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping when you order the fabrics for this exquisite quilt pattern (orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).
Order the pattern as configured, or customize it to your liking with any of our thousands of fabrics. Just place your desired fabrics in your Wish List, and these fabrics will appear in the Fabric Selector below the pattern.
