Free Quilt Pattern – Call of the Wild Mallard Lake

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Luana
Capture a moment of peaceful calm in this week’s Free Quilt Pattern, featuring a flock of Mallard Ducks flying into the clouds.

This 65″ x 53″ quilt starts with Hoffman’s Mallard Lake digital panel and is framed by our exclusive natural wood grain print. Two Hoffman Hand Dyes and our Fresco tonal are pieced to create a tranquil quilt scene in a marsh setting. Make this as a lap quilt or wall hanging to bring the ambiance of a restful retreat into your home.

…from from the ‘Call Of The Wild’ collection by Hoffman Fabrics.

PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping
when you order the fabrics for this rather eccentric quilt pattern
(orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).

Don’t miss the ‘Star Wars Mandalorian‘ and ‘Fantastic Foxes‘ quilt patterns!

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.

Click Here for a Video Tutorial of the Free Pattern Designer.
Download Instructions for the pattern at the bottom of the pattern designer page.

Luana and Paul Rubin
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Happy Fall!

Posted on September 27, 2022 by Luana
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Happy Fall!

Apparently I have forgotten how to travel. I managed to get out the door on Wednesday with my laptop, but no charging cord. Duh! However I am writing to you from San Diego (with the last bit of battery charge) where I just had a delightful couple days with lots of fiber artists and art quilters, at the SAQA Summit. I was one of the speakers, and my little talk was about Art and Activism. It is always good to hear what everybody is talking about, when the quilt tribe gets together. There were lots of big hugs with friends I had not seen for several years. Many serious topics were discussed, but it was a joyful reunion.

Thursday evening we celebrated the Autumn Equinox with a reception at the Visions Museum of Textile Art, and I urge you to visit the current exhibit if you are in the area. There is an exhibit of quilts by SAQA past presidents, and new work from Paula Nadelstern, and more! Then we all walked a block away to the Threads of Inspirations exhibit in building 202, from the SAQA SoCal/NV regional group. Also a lot of fun with some special pieces hanging. We have sponsored exhibits at the Visions Museums for many years, but can you believe this was the first time I’ve visited the museum in person? Well, the pandemic didn’t help, that’s for sure! I really enjoyed visiting this beautiful Arts District, which used to be the Army Barracks.

Even though it is still warm here in Southern California, I know we have had cooler weather back home in Colorado. I saw the first leaves turning as I rode to the airport on Wednesday. That means the Aspen leaves are starting to turn into rippling waves of gold, and the Fall elk rut has begun up in Estes Park. I plan to spend a day up in the mountains after I return home. It is good to immerse oneself in the colors of the turning seasons. My sense of time is so messed up from the last couple years, I feel like I need to go up in the mountains and have a seasonal reset.

I will be posting photos and telling you more about my trip in the Wednesday Creative Nudge e-newsletter.
Hope you have are having a great creative weekend!

Sharing your love of fabric,
Luana

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Check out our Video pages for interviews and show reviews.

October 17-24 – Luana’s Polar Bear Tour – Churchill Manitoba Canada
Oct 29 – Nov 4 – Houston Quilt Festival
Dec 1-2 – Clinton Presidential Library
Feb 22-25 – QuiltCon – Atlanta
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Free Quilt Pattern – Fox Retreat

Posted on September 23, 2022 by Luana
This week’s exclusive free quilt pattern features a finely detailed, Rustic Retreat Fox panel. These spectacular animals’ red coats harmonize beautifully with an old wagon, hidden in an overgrown field. Coordinating fresco blender fabrics along with tree bark and stone textures make up the borders and corner ‘paw print’ accents.

Nature lovers will adore this generous 66″ x 58″ quilt which can be a youth Bed Quilt, a Double-Snuggle Lap Quilt, or a cabin Wall-Hanging. Make your ‘Fox Retreat’ quilt for anyone who enjoy wildlife, the wilderness and protecting nature.

…from the ‘Wildlife’ collection by Wild Wings for David Textiles.

PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping
when you order the fabrics for this rather eccentric quilt pattern
(orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).

Don’t miss the ‘Star Wars Mandalorian‘ and ‘Little Ones‘ quilt patterns!

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.

Click Here for a Video Tutorial of the Free Pattern Designer.
Download Instructions for the pattern at the bottom of the pattern designer page.

Luana and Paul Rubin
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Free Quilt Pattern – Hand Quilter Christmas

Posted on September 22, 2022 by Luana
Our wildly popular ‘Quilting Santa’ digital-printed panel is the feature of this Free Quilt Pattern – back in stock to celebrate the upcoming Christmas season!

To make this 51″ x 62″ eQuilter exclusive quilt design, you will start with the gorgeously detailed 36″ x 44″ panel. Santa is focused on needle and thread, with a library in the background lit by a glowing golden lamp. Lace curtains frame a window with a cold snowy night outside, and a basket full of sewing supplies tumbles open in the foreground. You can almost hear Santa humming a Christmas carol as he stitches away.

There are so many fun details to look at in this image, we just know it will bring lots of smiles for whoever is the lucky recipient. Maybe you?

…from the ‘Christmas Holiday’ collection.

Don’t miss the ‘Star Wars Mandalorian‘ and ‘Little Ones‘ quilt patterns!

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.

Click Here for a Video Tutorial of the Free Pattern Designer.
Download Instructions for the pattern at the bottom of the pattern designer page.

Luana and Paul Rubin
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Quilt Backing Bonanza

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Luana
You know every Wednesday I try to bring you some Eye Candy to give your creative juices a boost midweek. This week I want to share one of my favorite quilts from Danny Amazonas’ gallery at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham UK. (You can see all the quilts in his gallery, plus many others, at this link.) I’ve known Danny and his wife Pat for many years now, in fact you might enjoy this video interview we did at the Tokyo Quilt Festival in 2016.

Danny’s monumental collage quilts were very popular in Birmingham, and I was excited to view so many new pieces since I’ve seen him last, especially this Tiger portrait (above) and the huge underwater scene. You will notice (especially in our casual video) that he loves to use the bold prints from the Kaffe Fassett Collective and Philip Jacobs.

Danny and I have much in common and we always have lots to talk about, because we both lived in New York, we are avid travelers, and of course the time I lived in Asia gives us much to discuss. On top of that he is just a really nice human being and has a great passion for his creative work. He and Pat have visited our office (pre-pandemic) and we’ve met up at many shows around the world. He is one of the great talents of our quilt art movement.

As you know, I love meeting up with fellow quilters and artists at events around the world. Tomorrow I am flying to San Diego and will be speaking about Art and Activism at the SAQA conference Thursday, and eQuilter is hosting the reception at the Visions Museum of Textile Art that evening. I know I will see many of the art quilt tribe at that event. I hope you’ve been able to get out this summer and enjoy some quilt exhibits and festivals. It is good for the creative soul!

Sharing your love of fabric,
Luana and Paul

* The image above is Danny Amazones’ Tiger quilt which was at the Festival of Quilts, plus a collage frame of eQuilter fabrics.

See Luana’s Flickr Photo Pages for travel images, watch our videos, or follow us on Facebook.

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Quilt/Travel/Sponsor Calendar:
Sept 21-23 – SAQA Conference – San Diego CA
October 17-24 – Luana’s Polar Bear Tour – Churchill Manitoba Canada
Oct 29 – Nov 2 – Houston Quilt Festival
Nov 4 – Intl Quilt Museum – Lincoln NE
Feb 22-25 – QuiltCon – Atlanta
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Free Quilt Pattern – Star Wars Mandalorian

Posted on September 21, 2022 by Luana
(Cue the ‘Mandalorian’ moody theme song….)

Dear Fellow Sci-Fi Nerds –

We can only assume that you share our love of All-Things-Star-Wars…so for you we offer
this eQuilter exclusive Free Quilt Pattern featuring a famous moment in the series. Remember the first time you saw Baby Yoda!?

To make this 65″ x 57″ quilt design, you will start with the stunning 36″ x 44″ digital printed panel. You will fussy cut the corner vignettes of Baby Yoda (Grogu), and then piece 2 Hoffman Hand-Dyes and 3 texture prints to create the earthy border, alluding to the desert planet Arvala-7.

You have plenty of time to finish this quilt and hang it in your screening room, before the next season premieres in February 2023. In the meanwhile, you can work on this quilt while reviewing the first 2 seasons. (Because…that is what Star Wars Nerds do…)

…from the ‘Epic Lucas Films’ collection by Thomas Kinkade Studios TM & © Lucasfilm Ltd. for David Textiles.

PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping
when you order the fabrics for this rather eccentric quilt pattern
(orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).

Don’t miss the ‘Spirits Of The Wind‘ and ‘Little Ones‘ quilt patterns!

Your Free Quilt Pattern – Star Wars Mandalorian – Free Shipping
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.

Click Here for a Video Tutorial of the Free Pattern Designer.
Download Instructions for the pattern at the bottom of the pattern designer page.

Luana and Paul Rubin
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Free Quilt Pattern – Little Ones

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Luana
This week’s Free Quilt Pattern captures sweet portraits of woodland creatures, in soft neutral tones. The central image of the newborn Fawn has particularly stolen our hearts.

To make this 52″ x 60″ quilt design (perfect for a new baby!) you will start with the 24″ x 44″ panel. Use the 2nd block panel to make the side sections. Then use the coordinating woodland stripe and Kona Solid “Doeskin” to create the border.

To make this extra snuggly, you might consider a Flannel backing.

This is a Quick and Easy quilt project for an upcoming birth or baby shower!

…from the ‘Little Ones’ collection by Dawn Rosengren for Henry Glass & Co.

PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping
when you order the fabrics for this rather eccentric quilt pattern
(orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).

Don’t miss the ‘Spirits Of The Wind‘ and ‘Fantastic Foxes‘ quilt patterns!

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.

Click Here for a Video Tutorial of the Free Pattern Designer.
Download Instructions for the pattern at the bottom of the pattern designer page.

Luana and Paul Rubin
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Houston Winners – SAQA Summit in San Diego

Posted on September 17, 2022 by Luana

We have so many new products every week, it is hard to stuff everything in this weekly New Product newsletter. If you love cheerful Thirties prints (who doesn’t?!), I want to make sure you don’t miss all of the “Picture Perfect” precuts that came in this week – by American Jane for Moda.

This coming week I am traveling to the SAQA Summit in San Diego, to speak about Art and Activism. I will also be at the reception Thursday night, at the Visions Museum of Textile Art. Hope to see several of you there!

The winners of the International Quilt Festival in Houston were just announced, and we want to give a special congratulations to Roberta Lagomarsini, the winner of the $5000 eQuilter Master Award for Contemporary Artistry. Because the winners were announced so early, it means that there will not be an awards ceremony on Tuesday night before Festival opens. (In case you were wondering.)

In addition to sponsoring the $5K Master Award, eQuilter is also sponsoring these special exhibits:
A Celebration of Color
Deeds Not Words
Inspired by Washington DC (I have 2 quilts in this exhibit!)
Follow this link to our blog, for more information.

It has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster week. After attending a funeral early this week, I found out another friend had died, but then heard that my international opera singer friend is at Carnegie Hall in November. (He debuted at the Met last Fall.) So we take life one day at a time, and celebrate when we can. I am sure you can relate.

I have posted more photos from my trip to England last month.

You may enjoy these recent photos of travel and quilts.

Sharing your love of fabric,
Luana

Visit eQuilter’s Instagram, Pinterestor Twitter pages for Color and Design ideas.

See Luana’s Flickr Photo Pages for travel images, comment on our blog, or follow us on Facebook.

Check out our Video pages for interviews and show reviews.

Quilt/Travel/Sponsor Calendar:
Sept 21-23 – SAQA Conference – San Diego CA
October 17-24 – Luana’s Polar Bear Tour – Churchill Manitoba Canada
Oct 29 – Nov 4 – Houston Quilt Festival
Dec 1-2 – Clinton Presidential Library
Feb 22-25 – QuiltCon – Atlanta

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Announcing Houston Winners!

Posted on September 17, 2022 by Luana

The winners of the International Quilt Festival in Houston were just announced, and we want to give a special congratulations to Roberta Lagomarsini, the winner of the $5000 eQuilter.com Master Award for Contemporary Artistry.

Because the winners were announced so early, it means that there will not be an awards ceremony on Tuesday night before Festival opens. (In case you were wondering.)

In addition to sponsoring the $5K Master Award, eQuilter is also sponsoring these special exhibits:


A Celebration of Color


Deeds Not Words


Inspired by Washington DC (I have 2 quilts in this exhibit!)


Follow this link to Quilts.com, for more information on the International Quilt Festival in Houston Texas this Fall.

We thank you again for supporting our business, which allows us to support events such as the Houston Quilt Festival. We hope you can attend the event and enjoy the quilts in person!

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Free Quilt Pattern – Christmas Cuddles

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Luana
This week’s Free Quilt Pattern captures a sweet Christmas Eve scene, with two children and a puppy, sitting in front of a cozy fireplace next to a Christmas tree. The details in the central panel are what makes this special – from the little girl’s carefully braided hair – to the colored lights reflected in the gleaming wood floor – and the 4 embellished stockings hanging from the mantle.

To make this 60″ x 54″ quilt design, you will start with the exquisitely detailed 36″ x 44″ central panel. The inset starry blocks are set on point in a white snow-textured print.

This charming quilt may remind you of Christmas past, but will definitely be an heirloom for future holidays as well!

…from the ‘Children’ collection by David Textiles.

PLUS – you’ll receive Free USA / 50% off INTL shipping
when you order the fabrics for this rather eccentric quilt pattern
(orders $100 and over, no coupon needed).

Don’t miss the ‘Spirits Of The Wind‘ and ‘Sun and Sea‘ quilt patterns!


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.

Click Here for a Video Tutorial of the Free Pattern Designer.
Download Instructions for the pattern at the bottom of the pattern designer page.

Luana and Paul Rubin
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