Welcome, friends! This is the last day of the blog hop for my new quilting book, the Inspired Free-motion Quilting. I hope you had a chance to visit all the other stellar makers and quilters. I truly love seeing people take the things I teach and make them their own, and I believe that comes through in our book.
Since it’s 2019, a brand new year, a time traditionally spent making big plans, I’ve been thinking about how I can finish up all the things that have been on the back burner for a while. Plans can’t get bigger than that, really. My WIP pile is large really really big ginormous.
How I’ve decided to use Inspired Free-motion Quilting, then, is to make a plan for the unfinished projects! The most pressing is for Valentine’s Day, when I promised the kids last year that I’d make them a special place mat for breakfast. (It counts as a WIP if you made plans and then spoke your intentions out loud, right? Because that’s as far as I got.)
Some of my favorite continuous-line wuilting designs that I developed were all about hearts. I’m not really all that into heaets, but these designs were really mind-bending to do, and I was really proud that I managed to do them in one start and one stop!
Did you know that you can quilt over something more than once, especially if you want it to stand out? Well, you can. I made this sweet little placemat for my sweet little girl for Valentine’s day. Cross one of my projects off my list (wait, don’t I need 3 more? Shhhh…)
Isn’t this the sweetest little thing? I love this little heart design.
I think we can sometimes get overwhelmed with outlining huge projects for ourselves, when sometimes, all we need to do is start small. So, this is my small start on getting things done in 2019!
And now, it’s time for the giveaway!
I am really REALLY excited for this one! Not only is it an e-copy of the book, but the winner can pick ONE of the two available Quilter’s Planner sets you see below!
My hope is that you will use Inspired Free-motion Quilting in conjunction with the fabulous Quilter’s Planner to organize (and realize!!) all your 2019 goals! This is open to ALL, national or international. I will ship to whomever wins! *gulp*
To Enter:
Leave me a comment below with your favorite creative memory. One entry per person, per comment. The Grand Prize Giveaway ends Sunday 1/13/2019 at midnight and will be chosen by Random Number Generator, to be announce on Monday 1/14/2019!
And just in case, there’s still time to enter at some of the other hoppers! Happy quilting!
- January 7: C&T Publishing for the kickoff, Bill Volckening
- January 8: Amanda Murphy of Amanda Murphy Design, Kim Lapacek of PersimonDreams
- January 9: Teri Lucas, Lynn Harris, Stephanie Palmer of The Quilter’s Planner, Debby Brown of Debby Brown Quilts,
- January 10: Robin Koehler of NESTLINGS by Robin, Patty Murphy of Patty Murphy Handmade, Mary Abreu of Confessions of a Craft Addict
- January 11: Joanna Marsh of Kustom Kwilts, and me! Amanda Leins of Mandalei Quilts
My favorite creative moments are when I get to spend time with my Gram, who started me on my crafty journey. She doesn’t see very well anymore, so she doesn’t spend a lot of time at her machine. But every once in a while she asks me to thread it for her so she can sew strips together. Thanks for the opportunity, and BAQS sent me! 🙂
Anytime I was together with my Mom to do a project was a creative and fun time. I really miss her.
Oh by the way, I found out about this from Badass Quilting Society.
My favorite creative memory is receiving a toy sewing, machine when I was a child, and making my doll a quilt.
Thanks for the chance to win! -I’m a proud member of BAQS!
I guess my favorite creative memory was from when my daughter was less than 2. I made something for her and she grabbed it, looked up to me with her big brown eyes, hugged it and said “mine, mommy made”.
My creativity can be my downfall. I struggle to decide on a quilting design every time I am ready to quilt. I guess my favorite would be to take each block and make the quilting match the theme of the block. For example a T-shirt quilt the shirt is from a building mission so I quilted it like a brick wall.
Thank you for the great giveaway. Bad ass quilters society led me to your site!
My creative moment was when my mom would watch me quilt on my APQS machine and would say that she wished her grandma could see this and oh how she would be so proud of me. Can’t wait to see your new book!
My favorite creative moment was in high school (back in those days we all took Home Ec classes if you were a girl!) and I took my granny’s old brocade drapes and made a gaucho pants and a vest from them. Who knew back then about upcycling but that started me on the road to enjoying quilting and sewing and it has been a fantastic creative ride – I enjoy all the fabrics and all the wonderful creative people i have met along the way! churcaeatauburndotedu
I’ve always been a crafter of some sort or other over the many years. But one of my favorite memories is going to be the quilt that I helped my mother make this last summer. Mom is 80, she still lives where I grew up, about 800 miles away from where I’m living now. She wanted to do a paper pieced pattern that I had previously done but in a different colorway. We picked out the fabric long distance, I shopped for her online to find the fabric and had it shipped directly to her. It had to wait until my vacation. We worked on that quilt for a week straight but we got the top done. We did it together.
I came over from BAQS! I have always created things – from clothes for my Barbies to cakes to quilts. Even in my day job in technology, I find creative ways to solve problems. I love creating things for my family, especially my grandson, who at six years old is on his fourth “Nana” quilt. The last one had an outer space theme so I created planets using applique and thread painting. Now he wants a Harry Potter quilt, but I told him that his mom (my daughter) has dibs on the first HP quilt I make.
I just finished a Double Wedding Ring quilt and am looking for achievable designs that I can do on my domestic sewing machine. This book looks like it has great ideas and examples! I would love it!
the placemat really IS the sweetest design! congratulations on your book, and thank you for your generous giveaway!
i have lots of great creative memories with my mom and my grandma, but one of my favourite memories is from my early 20s, teaching my then partner to sew. he was so excited to make his own boxers! the following christmas we decided i would make quilts for our parents, but i of course ran out of time, so i taught him how to piece as well. he saved christmas!
(in the Badass world, quilting is for everyone!!)
My favorite creative memories all revolve around my studio. It is my safe place, my happy zone, my place to be me. I created my first quilt pattern here. I have done lots of secret sewing here. I have enjoyed this blog hop and am looking forward to your book!!
My favorite creative moment — at the moment — is a recent one. I quilt for other people, as well as myself, and I had worried about a quilt I knew was coming. It was a jelly roll quilt, sort of a woven strips design the maker, and I was stumped as to what I’d do that I’d enjoy doing over a fairly big quilt. But the maker wanted something curvy on most of it, and okayed my doing designs on just the scattered rectangles that were solids — and it turned out great. I used spirals on the spaces between and around all the solid “logs” with specific designs, and it was great fun and it looked wonderful – had terrific texture. It’s always fun when something you have doubts about turns out better than you expected.
Thank you BAQS for letting me know about this book and rhe giveaway. My favorite creative moment is trying to explore, practice, and try new methods, patterns, and threads. Your book sounds like exactly what I need to start the new year. Thank you so much for the opportunity!
My favorite creative moment was when I realised that I don’t need a pattern to make a quilt, and that I don’t have to take all the desicions before I start cutting and sewing 🙂
My best creative memory is the happy tears of a customer. She brought in a labor-intensive quilt top that she had fallen out of love with. Said “do whatever”. I quilted it and she was astounded by the difference the quilting made. She fell in love with it all over again.
I remember Thanksgiving afternoons when all of the cousins would get together of create something after the big meal.
Best memory was finishing my first quilt on my mid Arm! It wasn’t very good but I was proud of it!
The moment that I see the person’s face who I spent endless hours working on the quilt for them There is nothing like seeing their face light up at the gift they have just received because they know that it was made from long hours of work BAQS sent me here to share my thoughts on this.
My favorite memory is finding a pieced top my mom made in her yard sale bin and reworking it, putting it in the county fair and winning a 1st place ribbon on it!
My mother conveyed so many tips as she taught me to quilt (when I was in my 40’s!). She also imbued a sense of liberty to “break the rules” to be creative. As she turns 100 next month, I am acutely aware of all the gifts of creativity she passed on to me over the years.
I love making thing for family and friends. I find the time making them to be quilt and calming. Found you through BAQS. Awesome page!!!
My favorite creative moment is helping my mom make a sequined dress she needed for a winter affair. It turned out so classy and pretty!
My creative fun memory would be putting together these two fleece sugar skull pillow cases for my mom and making a mini pillow with the scraps for her chihuahua, which loves to sleep right next to her☺
I remember when my grandma taught me how to knit, when I was 5. It was at her house and they were little bells for Christmas.
My Mom taught us to be thrifty, and make our own when possible. We made a lot of crafts, clothes and quilts.