Last night I had a fun visit with the Paris Quilting Bees. What a great group of enthusiastic quilters! I was so wrapped up in the moment that I forgot to take a picture of them to show you. But I did get a photo of their guild banner before I started talking ... I just love a block sampler!I have some exciting news to share...
I have been sewing the Aurifil blocks of the month this year and have really enjoyed each one. Well, guess what happened?!? This month I won the draw for a box of Aurifil thread! Yes I did! I am so excited and can hardly wait for it to arrive in the mail. I have always looked at the Aurifil thread collections and coveted them... and now I'm actually going to have one of my very own!
My block from last month is even posted on the Aurifil blog... OMG... check it out here. And I got an email from Pat Sloan to tell me that I won... that was exciting enough! But did I mention that I'm also getting new thread too! I'll show you as soon as it gets here.
And in the meantime I sewed my 9th block, which is called "Into the Blue". I think my version will be called "Into the Red". You can download the pattern here. There are 72 pieces in this 12" block. I'm not totally thrilled with how the stripes lined up in the centre, but I'm leaving it anyway. You can see more variations on this block at the link up here.
Here are all my blocks together on the design wall. We've finished 9 blocks so far and have 3 more to go to the end of the year. It will be a great sampler quilt! But wow that is a lot of red!
Apparently I love red!
Here is how many spools of red thread I already have to machine quilt this project when it's done! I ordered a box of it from Tristan a long time ago. I have no idea why I thought I needed that much red thread!!
I love your block of the Month.....especially in red....my favorite color.
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Congratulations on your wonderful win!! Your blocks are so lovely--you certainly have no problems with using "red" (LOL)
ReplyDeleteI think I have finally settled on Connor's quilt using red as an accent...hugs, Julierose (and enjoy your thread)
Congrats! Red is my favorite color.
ReplyDeleteExciting times in your life and we get to share in it on your blog. Congrats on the win...who can't use new thread. I am sure you will use up all that red thread at some point.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the win. I think you need to make more red quilts to use up all that thread!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your win. I hope your new thread isn't red. : )
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you are prepared to quilt anything red that may come your way!
Congratulations on your win!! I adore Aurifil thread, there is nothing better for piecing. I have a lot of reds waiting on the perfect project. I'll get to them at some point!
ReplyDeleteThat is a nice win! I just love the red blocks. Yes.....you do have a lot of red threads.
ReplyDeleteI had to smile at your collection of red threads...I tend to do that with socks! Thanks for the link to Tristan, I had not heard of them before, but it's wonderful to have a Canadian thread supplier, and the prices look amazing.
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