Welcome to the Henry Glass Designers Holiday Project Parade!

We are excited that you are here. Our designers have been working hard to bring you some awesome projects, wonderful stories and great giveaways. This event will run from Dec. 1-7, 2010. Each day, there will be several designers posting her holiday stories and her free project. The participating designers are:

Day 1:
Heather Mulder Peterson of Anka’s Treasures at http://ankastreasures.wordpress.com/
Linda Lum DeBono at http://www.lindalumdebono.blogspot.com/
Little Quilts at http://www.littlequilts.blogspot.com/

Day 2:
Amy Hamberlin of Kati Cupcake at http://www.katicupcakequiltingco.blogspot.com/
Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie’s Quilt co at http://www.lavieenrosie.typepad.com/
Kari Ramsay of Fresh Cut Quilt Patterns at http://www.freshcutquilts.blogspot.com/

Day 3:
Jacquelynne Steves of the Noble Wife at http://www.thenoblewife.blogspot.com/
Jill Finlay of Jillily Studio at http://www.jillilystudio.blogspot.com/

Day 4:
Laurie Bird of Rose Cottage at http://www.rosecottagequilts.blogspot.com/
Barbara Jones of Quilt Soup at http://www.quiltsoupblog.com/

Beth and Liz Hawkins of Lizzie B Creative at http://www.dreamlaughcreate.blogspot.com/

Day 5:
Chelsea Anderson of Pink Fig Patterns at http://www.pinkfigdesign.blogspot.com/
Brenda Pinnick of Brenda Pinnick Designs at www.brendapinnick.com/blog/

Day 6:
Leanne Anderson of The Country Caboodle at http://www.thewholecountrycaboodle.blogspot.com/

Dana Brooks of Lazy Daisy Cottage at http://www.lazydaisycottage.blogspot.com/

Day 7:
Kim Diehl at www.henryglassfabrics.blogspot.com
Janet Nesbitt and Pam Soliday of Buggy Barn at http://www.buggybarnquilts.blogspot.com/

http://www.henryglassfabrics.blogspot.com/

for seven days.

Grand Prize Giveaway

At the end of this unbelievable week, we are going to select a Grand Prize Winner in our giveaway.

What will you win? Henry Glass will send the lucky winner an assorted bundle of the latest fabric PLUS each designer will send you a small gift. Merry Christmas!

How do you win?

Each designer will have a special holiday word in her post. You have to collect each word [17 in total] and post it here on our GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY POST on the Henry Glass blog anytime from Dec. 7-9, 2010 [contest closes Dec. 9th at 8 p.m. EST]. COMMENTS WILL BE CLOSED SO YOU WILL NOT SEE YOUR COMMENT. PLEASE DO NOT POST MORE THAN ONCE. Only one entry per person. Please post your full name so that we can easily identify the winner.

Good luck and be inspired!

Little Quilts Blogs for HG!

A customer of Little Quilts wanted to get rid of her stash (YES! We took her temperature!). So, Little Quilts sold it for $5 a lb (about $1 a yd). This customer even had quilt tops she made but did not really like. We finished and sold them, as well. The efforts raised $450. The quilts will be auctioned in March.

Little Quilts is a participant in the Henry Glass Designers Project Parade December 1st - Dec. 7th . We will be a featured designer on Wed. Dec. 1. Visit http://littlequilts.blogspot.com/ on that day for a Little Quilts prize giveaway.

Little Quilts
770-578-6727
FAX: 770-509-9748
www.littlequilts.com
www.littlequilts.blogspot.com

HG Designer Blog Hop Dec 1-7th- stay tuned for more info!!

Coming Soon HG 1st Designer Blog Hop! Dec 1-7th check out your favorite HG designer’s blogs for more information. Prizes and free projects!!

Some More pics from Quilt Market and some HG NEWS

Our Henry Glass Booth

Karen Junquet & Barbara Jones of Quilt Soup

SAVE THE DATE!!
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Blog Tour - Day One Of Fun!

Click on the Link to Read More:

http://lindalumdebono.blogspot.com/2010/11/quiltmakers-100-blocks-blog-tour-day.html

A few pics from Houston Quilt Market.

Here are some great pictures of our booths and some of our HG Designer's Booths at Quilt Market in Houston 2010.

Carrie Nelson from Miss Rosies Quilt Company

Jill Finley of Jillily Studio

Jacquelynne Steves of the Nobel Wife

Lazy Daisy Cottage’s booth by Dana Brooks

Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company Blogs for HG

Hello… wait. What am I supposed to call you? The Hip Hop Henrys? The Henry Hotties?

Hey, I like that one!

So let me introduce myself. My name is Carrie and I’m one of the new girls in the Henry Glass neighborhood. I work for the Divine Miss R. Now that Rosie has her name on the selvage of some fabric, she’s decided that she deserves a more appropriate title.

Speaking of titles, I’m an informal kind of girl so please call me “Carrie”. And just so you know, I won’t hold it against you if you call me “Rosie”. Everybody does.

The folks at Chez Glass have asked me to come by and introduce Fresh Palette, the first fabric collection from Miss Rosie’s Quilt Co. and Henry Glass. The finished fabric has finally arrived and oh my, it sure is pretty.

I have to confess that I don’t know which part of the fabric arriving on my doorstep was the most exciting. Seeing the finished fabric or just getting the box itself! It isn’t every day that I get a big box from South Korea ~ even the FedEx man thought it was exciting. Then again, maybe he was just humoring me… that kind of thing happens a lot around here.

But I’m here to talk about Fresh Palette, right? It came about from a piece of vintage fabric, a very large scale floral print in tan, rose and a creamy beige sort of shade. Well, that’s how the print on the fabric got started. This all started with an idea for the kind of quilt I felt like making, a quilt that I couldn’t find the fabric for. Don’t get me wrong, I could find all sorts of beautiful fabric but nothing that was “just right” for my imaginary quilt. I felt a little like Goldilocks.
So I did a little bit of “reverse engineering” and tried to picture what the fabric in my imaginary quilt would look like. The color came first, then the prints. And that’s how Fresh Palette came about. I didn’t have a specific quilt design in mind but I wanted something simple. This went to the quilter this morning.

As for the name, that was the hardest part! I wish I had a story for it but it comes down to this – these are the words I kept using to describe the color scheme and the “feel” I wanted the fabric to have. But I’m getting better at this naming thing, the next collection is going to be called “Nine Dots”. It has a story. And you’ll have to wait a little while to hear it.

See you next time. For More information about Carrie Nelson and her designs check out her website at http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/

Blog from HG Designer Bev Proulx

Time to include my excitement about "Posies and Puppies"! The fabric line is in and will soon be in the stores. Here I am, on a very hot July 1 here in Minnesota, plotting and planning how to use the fabric. I know all of you will enjoy the line just as much. I will have a small quilt ready soon, and I will have a picture to share next time.

I am almost finished with a quilt I long hoped to make, using the chain-link block from the newspapers' Nancy Page column in the 1930s and the prairie points needed for the edge on a large queen size quilt. I did use my three lines of 1930s reproduction fabrics. Yes, I will have a picture to show all readers as soon as I get the knife edge finish stitched on the back of the quilt.

I hope all of you interested in our Henry Glass & Co. fabrics are also looking for quilt patterns for these fabrics. Nothing can replace the visual of a quilt made from the fabrics we all love.
I am currently on a summer break of sorts. My lecture schedule picks up again in August, when I begin my visits to groups throughout the upper Midwest. Meanwhile, I am designing patterns and piecing quilts as quickly as I can. For all of you, enjoy my "Posies and Puppies"
and keep stitching!

Check out Bev's complete line of Posies & Puppies on our Henry Glass website www.henryglassfabrics.com