Friday Inspiration: Little Quilts

The Little Quilts shop owned by Henry Glass designer Mary Ellen Von Holt has fabulous customers. Muriel from the shop sent over this photograph of a gorgeous Lucy Boston Patchwork of the Crosses quilt. Their favorite block is the block that features fabrics from the Pheasant Run by Little Quilts.

The customer used the toile from Pheasant Run as the background as well. Thank you for sharing this beautiful project Little Quilts.

Have a great weekend.

- HG

Applique The Kim Diehl Way

Snowball Blossoms by Kim Diehl

Kim Diehl signature style includes scrappy patchwork, beautiful applique and a stunning palette of prints that she designs for Henry Glass. Her keen color sense is showcased in her latest collection, Gathering Basket. The collection is full of pretty prints painted with Kim's flair for color ranging from luscious greens to fresh purples, reds and yellows.

http://www.henryglassfabrics.com/collection/gathering-basket/

For the release of this collection, Kim has designed a special project, Snowball Basket. This lovely quilt features a simple but gorgeous applique center surrounded by easy patchwork. You can download it for free here.

Kim teaches her special applique worldwide and freezer paper plays a big part of the process. Do you use freezer paper when you applique but find that the paper you buy in the grocery store curls or doesn't tear off the rolls smoothly? Kim teamed up with Martingale & Co. to bring you Kim Diehl's Best Applique Freezer Paper - convenient 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of freezer paper that you can draw on or even print on your inkjet printer.

With the 30-sheet set, you can download the pattern for this sweet quilt, Folk-Art Dish Garden for free following the directions located in the package of freezer paper.

Folk-Art Dish Garden by Kim Diehl

We are excited to bring you a giveaway for a fat-quarter bundle of Gathering Basket and a package of Kim Diehl's Best Applique Freezer Paper. Make sure that you hop over to Martingale's blog for the their giveaway of the same prizes and for some more inspiration from Kim! Double the fun.

Just comment below to tell us what you love about applique.

Good luck! One winner will be picked randomly Thursday, July 16, 2015.

Remember to enter our weekly Let's Get Quilting Giveaway while you are visiting today. Details here.

- HG

Desire To Inspire - June-ish Edition

Welcome to the latest edition of the Desire To Inspire Challenge. We eagerly await this time of the month because it is like Christmas when we open up the e-mail to see what the challenger has made.
Each month we are never disappointed.  If you are interested in submitting your name to us for consideration, see the information below.

Are you ready to meet the challenger and to see her project? We sent her a bundle of Jan Shade Beach's Holiday Magic. Our challenger created some magic herself!

This line features reds and grays with lots of whimsical holiday images. We especially love how she used the panel to make small quilts. Clever!

Name:  

Barb Gaddy

Where do you live:   

Atlanta, Tx

Family:  

I have been married for 36 years.  We have traveled extensively during that time and have now settled down here in Atlanta, TX.  We have five sons, four of which are serving in the Military, two went to Iraq, one is in Japan as of now.  We have two married sons with one couple living just fifteen minutes away and expecting our first grandchild. 

How long have you been quilting:  

When our youngest son turned 12,  I felt the need to redefine myself and I did that by throwing myself into quilting.

What's your favorite technique?  

I have to say that I love, love ... triple love applique.  

Who taught you how to quilt?  My mother was a quilter but I was never interested until I wanted a quilt of my own and saw the prices so I designed my first real quilt using cardboard, a pencil, and ruler.  The answer is self taught with a ton of mistakes a long the way.

Do you belong to any guilds? 

I do not belong to a guild at this time. 

Anything else you would like to share with our readers?  

Quilting keeps me grounded and sane.  You can find me at www.bejeweledquilts.blogspot.com, my patterns at http://www.craftsy.com/user/1079770/pattern-store?_, and if you want to chat you can find me at https://www.facebook.com/barbara.gaddy.9.  I was so thrilled when I received these wonderful fabrics "Holiday Magic by Jan Shade Beach for Henry Glass."   Of course true to most quilters I had to pet the fabric before I could cut into it.  What inspiration.  Thanks so much for this opportunity.

Thank you for participating in the Desire To Inspire Challenge. Congratulations on the wonderful news of your first grandchild.

- HG

Let's Get Quilting - July 6, 2015 Edition

We hope that you had a great weekend. June's Desire To Inspire challenger will be presented tomorrow because we didn't want her beautiful project to be lost in the holiday week.

For today, we are ready to roll with another Let's Get Quilting. Last week's winner is Joyce Mitchell. Congratulations!

This week we are are giving away a bundle of Jan Shade Beach's Holiday Magic. This should get you into holiday sewing! We know that it is going to be 90 degrees around NYC this week. We're trying to inspire you to think "Christmas!" This giveaway has been perfectly timed to the Desire To Inspire project. You'll have to come back to check it out tomorrow.

Tell us what you did for the holiday weekend and you might win Jan's fabric.

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Good luck!

- HG

Let's Get Quilting - June 29, 2015 Edition

Hello Monday!

It's a beautiful morning and time for another Let's Get Quilting giveaway. Congratulations to the winner from last week's giveaway, Kathy E.

School's out and it is time to be outside. Leanne Anderson's Clearwater Critters is a fun collection that reminds of the outdoors. Owls, birds, rabbits and yes, even skunks, are so sweet.

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Good luck!

 - HG

Designer Spotlight: Mary Jane Carey

We visited with Mary Jane Carey owner of Holly Hill Quilt Designs recently and we are excited to see all of the beautiful new designs that she has been working on. She designs many gorgeous quilt designs for her own company but she has also collaborated with Leanne Anderson in a fun club, A Year Of Love ... A Year Of Fun x2. We will show you all of the club fun in a future post.

 

 

 

Have a great weekend!

 

- HG

 



Let's Get Quilting - June 23, 2015 Edition

Good morning! Happy Monday. We hope that you had a great weekend with your family to celebrate Father's Day. Henry Glass & Co. is starting this week off with another awesome giveaway.

Congratulations to Sandy Fort Youngblood. You won last week's bundle. Please contact us with your infomation. This week we are featuring Two By Two by Beth Logan in our Let's Get Quilting giveaway.       

Tell us what you are going to quilt or sew this summer. We'll pick one lucky winner next week.

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Good luck!

- HG