Wish Upon a Quilt Blog

I just LOVE Kaffe Fassett fabrics and chose them for Wish Upon A Quilt’s Block of the Month quilt last year. This quilt is called “Y Not” designed by Wendy Darby and Cathy McKillip. Customers mastered the Y seam throughout the year and are happy that this year we are making something a bit easier. LOL.

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Bloggers Quilt Festival

Welcome bloggers! I am excited to sponsor a great giveaway for the Fall Quilt Bloggers Festival! Just leave a comment on my blog October 9th-16th and you will be entered to win one of 3 $20.00 gift certficates to Wish Upon A Quilt. In addition, leave a comment on Park City Girl’s blog and be entered to win our prize of Free Amy Butler pattern of your choice and 4 1/2 yard cuts to start your project! But wait, there is more! Place an order at Wish Upon A Quilt using the coupon code: BLOGFEST and receive a Wish Upon A Quilt exclusive gift! Thanks for stopping by! If you are not receiving our newsletter, sign up here. We give away a gift certificate every month!

I almost forgot to share a quilt.  I shared my version of this quilt here, so decided to post an alternate version. Quilt was pieced by Lynne Creasy (a fabulous Wish employee) and quilted by Angela Clark of Thread Waggle Quilting! Fabric is Whimsy by Michael Miller. Pattern is Perfect Ten by Swirly Girls Design.

Ok, I really should be posting fabric to the shop tonight, but I was so excited after I saw Amy Butler’s newest product Softwares that I had to tell you about it.

This is Amy’s first collection of sewing projects on a CD!  Amy partnered with Electric Quilt to make this amazing new tool with 22 unique and stylish projects for quilts, pillows, bags and more – plus 9 bonus projects! You can make the projects as designed by Amy– or customize them in thousands of possible ways using the software’s tools and virtual swatches of Amy’s fabrics.

I bought a copy at Quilt market to try it out and it is fabulous!  You get a skinny version of EQ and 31 projects designed by Amy Butler for $29.95. What a bargain! If you would like to place a preorder of softwares, it will ship out in a couple of weeks.

The other great thing that Amy is doing is celebrating the one year anniversary of Midwest Modern with a contest. Make anything with her fabric, send her a picture and you are entered to win! Very simple. Here are the contest details. Here is a FREE pattern to get you inspired, enjoy and tell us what you are making!

In order to make room for all of the fabulous fabric that I just ordered at Spring Quilt Market, we are having an online BLOWOUT sale at Wish Upon A quilt! Now through May 22, take 10% off any order with the coupon code MAYSALE. Here is a sneak peek of some of the new fabric that was ordered at market…this one is Whimsy by Pillow and Maxfield for Michael Miller, what do you think of it?

I love finding great new fabrics at Quilt Market. I’m on my way back to Raleigh from the Spring Quilt market and couldn’t wait to share pictures of Laura Gunn’s Lantern Bloom. The fabric was created from Laura’s original artwork and is stunning. This is Laura’s debut fabric line from Michael Miller.  Laura was a delight to meet in person and I’m looking forward to more great fabric designs from her in the future. Lantern Bloom will be arriving at Wish Upon A Quilt in June…what do you think?

Ever since Quilt Market, I have not been able to catch up! I know I am not alone with not enough hours in the day but I have really wanted to share these photos from the Quilt Market floor.  I realized after I came home that I don’t have pictures of all of the fabric that I ordered, but here are a few. Let me know what you think of them, they will be at Wish Upon A Quilt between now and March….

From the top left to right-Alphabuddies by Andover Fabrics, the Blank Quilting booth with a fun fabric tree, Citronella by Robert Kaufman (one of my favorites), City Blooms by Benartex, Etosha by Fabriquilt including the zebra, and Sakura by Red Rooster

Wait there are people in these pictures…Remember when I told you about my Mom? Thankfully, she has fully recovered and she attended market with me! She is in the middle on the bottom row, so meet my Mom, Jan….love you Mom! (She will not be happy that I posted her picture)  

Many of you know Janice Pope from Wish…the last picture is Janice with her Two Hour Tulip Purse and Traveler’s Trio patterns by Anything But Boring at Quilt Market! Janice sold out of what she took to market and we are all very happy that she was a big success at the international market. She was one busy lady, she found time to keep all of our vendor appointments with me, work in a booth, and was a Quilt Angel at the Festival.

Not only am I finding FABULOUS to die for fabric at quilt market….I also get to see lots of friends. I ran into Mark Lipinski at the Northcott booth. I am a big fan of Mark’s magazine, Quilter’s Home and loved his first fabric collection Califon. Mark has a new collection coming out in January called Krakow…here is a sneak peek in the blue colorway (behind Mark and I).

I’m writing from Houston, Texas, at the International Quilt Market. Did you ever wonder how quilt shops manage to have a completed quilt on the same day as the fabric arrives in the store? I always did and until Wish Upon A Quilt, I thought quilt shop owners were super fast quilters! Some may be, but for me, my market expedition starts at Sample Spree. This is a crazy event where quilt shop owners pay the vendors to shop for pre-releases of the newest fabrics so that we can get those shop samples made! That’s right….we pay to go in and spend money, lots and lots of money…so that we can buy bundles of fabric in order to make shop samples. And the best part is that we get to stand in this line for hours to get in because the fabric at Sample Spree always sells out very quickly!

I’m thrilled that I was able to get my hands on Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Andover Fabrics. The free pattern for this quilt will be available on their website shortly…enjoy! I think it was worth the wait, do you?