Bag It Sponsor and Prize Announcement (Day 1 of 3)

The Bag It is a fun event and a super opportunity to get started on making handmade for the holidays. Support from our fantastic sponsors kicks the fun up a notch offering added incentive to play along! Today we will meet three of our wonderful sponsors -

Fat Quarter Shop, ZipIt Zippers and OLFA

Come back on Tuesday to meet BagMaker Supply,  Green Fairy Quilts and Auriful.  Return on Wednesday to meet our featured designers - byAnnie, SewDemented™, Sew Sweetness and Fat Quarter Gypsy.

For more information on the Bag It 2017 event, see the main event page.  The fun begins on September 18!

Fat Quarter Shop offers a tremendous selection of fabric and very beautiful (and tempting!) block of the month offerings.  Fat Quarter Shop offers fabric from many different manufacturers and you can find anything you are looking for there!  Fat Quarter Shop is offering $25 gift certificate to three lucky participants.

Visit Fat Quartershop on their website, on Facebook and on Instagram.

OLFA® cutting tools get the job done for quilts and crafters, professionals and hobbyists. With OLFA ® cutters, you get the job done quickly without sacrificing accuracy.

OLFA® is offering a great prize package to three lucky participants -  the Splash 45mm Rotary Cutter , a 17 x 24 folding cutting mat, a 6-1/2" Square Frosted Acrylic Ruler and the new 45MM Endurance™ Rotary Blade.  

Visit OLFA on their Website, on Facebook and on Instagram.

Zipit , an Etsy store, sells all kinds of zippers at wholesale prices.  I have been buying my zippers from Zipit for years.  Shipping is fast and the selection is amazing.   Zipit is offering a $25 gift certificate to three lucky participants. 

Zipit is also offering a coupon code for everyone participating in the Bag It event - just use BAGIT2017 on your next order now through December 15, 2017.  

Visit Zipit on  their website, on Facebook and on Instagram.

Prizes donated by sponsors are awarded randomly to participants who make and share bags during the Bag It event period.  Read the participant guidelines to understand how you can join the fun!

Thank you Fat Quarter Shop, OLFA and ZipIt for supporting the Bag It 2017 event!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Hitting the Books

Back to school for kids across the country and time for me to learn some new tricks too!  I'm busying studying and practicing various walking foot and fmq designs.

I've been reading books by the greats - Angela Walters, Christa Watson, Jacquie Gering and Natalia Bonner - and caught several videos during Crafty's watch for free day.

I am thrilled with my FMQ of stars across this baby sized quilt.  (Quilt reveal in 2 weeks.)

And I've been working on improving the accuracy of my straight lines with my FMQ foot.  One of these was done with my FMQ quilt and one with my walking foot.

 Can you tell which is which?

Pink or green?


Have a wonderful day! Patty

Small Blocks and Scraps

                                Click here to visit One Monthly Goal September link-up

Each year, Fat Quarter Shop hosts a QAL and the proceeds from pattern sales go to a charity.  (The QAL for 2018 has been announced and it is gorgeous - see it here.)

I've been making these blocks as my leader / ender project and sewing them slowly as I work piecing other blocks.

I've caught up on July - the Propeller block - and August - the Rolling Nine Patch block.

These blocks will be 5'' finished.   I'm using leftover scraps from several Bonnie & Camille lines.  Just love all these colors together.   The final layout will include a 1'' sashing around each block.

Here are the January through June blocks.  (One block was missing for the group photo but has sense been found!)

You can find more information here.

Have a wonderful day! Patty