It’s the last week of our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along. I’m sorry to see it end. It sure has been great fun meeting so many fabulous designers and seeing all the gorgeous blocks they’ve designed and that you’ve created in the Flickr group.

Block 34, Snow Cristal, has been designed by Joanna of Shape Moth. The Fat Quarter Shop also has a fabulous 50% off Super Deal for you to enjoy too.

Super Deal from the Fat Quarter Shop

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Today’s Super Deal:

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Featured Designer: Joanna – Shape Moth

What is your quilting style?

It depends on the project. I like modern quilts with simple, geometric shapes and bold colours or rainbows. On the other hand, I create art quilts and use batiks there. In my projects I use a lot of raw edge appliqué, paper piecing and sometimes embroidery:

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

It was purely an accident. I did my first quilt in May 2010 for my friend’s baby. And since then I can’t stop.

Do you have a favourite quilt?

That was my first try on raw edge appliqué. I love wolves and this one became special to me.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: rainbow (my moods for colours change quite quickly)
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? Sewing the binding. In an art quilts – creating the appliqué. It’s similar to puzzles.
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? Free motion quilting. Itself it’s not so bad, but I have really tiny sewing machine and quilting bigger projects can be a nightmare.
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: chocolate. Lots of chocolate ;)
• Favourite super hero or comic book character: I’m more an anime/manga fan, and my favourite is Alucard from Hellsing.
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: Paris.

Block 34 – Joanna’s Snow Cristal

Here’s Joanna’s Snow Cristal block. It will look gorgeous in many different fabrics. Head over to her blog to download the paper piecing pattern and learn how to put together this unique block.

Share Your Photos

Upload your completed blocks to our Flickr group for a chance to win some adorable buttons from Button Mad – Incomparable Buttons. One winner for each of our quilt-along blocks will be randomly chosen. You have three weeks to complete Joanna’s Snow Cristal block to be eligible to win.

Quilt-Along Links

• General Info
• Featured Designers
• Super Deals for Quilters
• Upload your blocks – Flickr Group

Since I can’t enter my own Weekly Quilt Contests, I’m always thrilled when I have a quilt to enter in one of SewCalGal’s contests.

My entry for the 2011 Christmas Quilt Show contest, is my Christmas Ornaments wall hanging/table topper I made as a bonus block for our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along.

It’s available as a free download too. The ornaments block finishes at 12″ and the mini quilt at 19″. If you make the block/mini quilt, please share in the Flickr group… I’d love to see it.

I was told, in order to enter, I must include a photo of Milo in a Santa hat. I haven’t been able to find a hat small enough to fit him yet, so here he is with Santa.

Head over to SewCalGal’s site to see the other entries and enter a quilt yourself. The prizes up for grabs are awesome!

The theme for this week’s quilt contest is Stars. Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe are back as this week’s sponsor and have donated three Moda Candy bars for the winners with the most votes next weekend.

The quilt contests for the next three weeks are similar. Please do not submit the same quilt more than once. After this week, the contests will be Christmas Table Runners and then Christmas. You can’t submit your quilt early. Only accepting entries for the Stars theme at this time.

Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe

About Us:

We sell Top Quality Pre-Cut Quilting fabric, we provide Fast Shipping and free Custom Order Coordination for customers, which helps them to maximize their shipping dollars. In this economy we want to keep Quilter’s Quilting without having to break the bank. We want to be your “One Stop PreCut Shoppe”. We specialize in Pre Cut Fabric such as Fat Quarter Bundles, Jelly Rolls, Charm Packs, Layer Cakes, and more at 20% Off everyday.

What makes us unique:

We also go the extra mile for our customers, we order fabric for their quilt Backing (over 6 yards) when the customer is ready to finish their quilt a year or two later. We are a direct link to Moda Fabrics – We will search high and low for that difficult to find fabric, we will even refer them to a competitor if needed.

Moda Candy Bar: Each box contains 4 collections of 2 1/2″ by 5″ fabric strips and a project sheet. You get your choice of Milk Chocolate or Dark Chocolate. Milk Chocolate comes with lighter fabrics including: Fandango, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Bliss and City Weekend, Dark Chocolate comes with some darker but, still just as beautiful fabrics including: Clermont Farms, Collections For a Cause-Hope, Remembrance and Luna Notte. You will love them!

We look forward to serving you.

Joelle Beane
Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe
We Strive to Make Your Favorite Pastime “Affordable”

Enter the Contest

Get your cameras out! To enter the weekly contest, read the rules and guidelines, then submit your quilt photo by Thursday evening (EST). Voting will start on Friday and last until Sunday night.

• Rules and Guidelines
• Submit your Quilt
• Upcoming Themes

The 2012 Themes are now available. Find out how you can be a Contest Sponsor.

Last Week’s Quilt Contest

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s For the Kitchen contest. Thanks also to everyone that took the time to vote. Our sponsor, Guidelines4Quilting donated gift certificates to the top two quilters with the most votes. Congratulations to:

Liza

Julia