Wish Upon a Quilt Blog

The staff at Wish Upon A Quilt took a little field trip recently to see these fabulous art quilts! We are so fortunate that Christine Hager-Braun likes to hang out and work with  us! Not only is Christine a very talented quilt artist, she is fun to work with. If you get a chance to go to Christine’s exhibit, you will not be disappointed…here is a peek, but these pictures do not do these quilts justice. You have to see them in person – they are amazing. By the way, Christine teaches classes at Wish too! A recent student said that “I left Christine’s class feeling empowered and that I actually could do free motion quilting on my home machine – thanks Christine!”

Here is our latest class of first time quiltmakers and their gorgeous quilts. They did a fantastic job on the Slide Show pattern. If you want to make a quilt in 4 weeks, join our next class! Great job ladies, you all were so much fun – I miss you!

Can you believe that it has already been a week since our Fabulous 4 celebration? Looking at these pictures makes me smile – I am so fortunate to have  all of you in my life. Thank you for sharing my love of quilting! The winning quilts went to 4 fabulous ladies and one lucky online winner (so really 5 quilts were given away). Ina was the only winner present for the 4 -$50.00 gift certificates. Congratulations to all the winners! See you soon!

I was talking with Valerie Luberecki,- a local Raliegh quilter over the weekend, and found out that she has a quilt featured on the Modern Quilt Guild’s 100 days of quilts. Here is a link to Valerie’s blog – check it out! Congrats Valerie!

Meet Janice – our fabulous web processor at Wish. Janice makes sure that our online orders are shipped fast and accurately. She decided to brighten our office with this great quilt made from Kaffe Fassett fabrics.Thanks for all you do Janice!

We are excited to be the sponsor of this week’s fabric giveaway on KoolBeenz. Hop over there and enter to win 8 fat quarters in the colorway of the gorgeous quilt behind Christine Hager-Braun. Good luck!

I’m so fortunate to work with such fun and fantastic women! Here is the whole gang after a recent staff meeting having fun putting together the block of the month kits. Thank you ladies! Pictured from left to right – Christine, Kris, Nancy, Cindy and Mame.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! We are celebrating by giving away 8 Fat Quarters from our collection of Dr. Seuss fabrics. To win, hop over to our Facebook page and leave us a comment about what you love about Dr. Seuss. We will randomly draw a winner on Monday evening. While you are there, be sure to like our Facebook page for more fun! Be sure to sign up for our email news - free pattern links in every one and savings galore!

Words do not adequately express the appreciation I have for all of the quilters that helped make this beautiful quilt. Wish Upon A Quilt was selected by Moda Fabrics to create a quilt from some of the 14,000 blocks that Moda received from their Just One Star program. All of the quilts from the Just One Star program will go to the Quilts of Valor foundation to be given to a service member as a thank you for their service to our country. We asked our customers to help put the blocks together and Angela Clark of Thread Waggle Quilting generously donated the quilting. Backing and batting was provided by Wish. The names of all the customers who helped on the quilt are on the label. I’m sure the recipient of this quilt will feel loved when they receive it. Thank you all and Happy Valentine’s Day!

We just loved the quilts from the Quilts on the Go trunk show! We had to send them on to the next lucky shop, but in case you missed them, here is a sample. We still have a few of the exclusive patterns – you can only get these from a shop that has booked the trunk show. We have put them on our website for easy access. Be sure to check out Exact Change, Crossroads and Time for Blooms.  All of the patterns are on our website here. The designers of these great patterns are Swirly Girls Design, Plum Tree Quilts and Kari Patch Designs.

Be sure to stay tuned for the next great trunk show to arrive!