Please note, Facebook, email subscribers and RSS readers: You need to visit the Quilting Gallery blog to vote and view the quilt photos: CLICK HERE

It’s voting time!! The theme for this week’s contest is Fabric Items For the Kitchen. You can vote for FOUR favourites this weekend.

Guidelines4Quilting.com are back as this week’s sponsor and have donated two gift certificates for the winners with the most votes.

Also, they are offering a 10% discount this week on their Quilt Ruler Connector™ and Finger Guards™. There’s no need to use any discount code. Just place an order on the Quilting Gallery Special Purchase Page.

Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourites!

• Voting is open Friday – Sunday @ 11:59 p.m.
• One vote per person (based on IP address NOT email address), so have your family and friends cast a ballot for their favourite quilt (from home if you send it to coworkers)
• Winner announced Monday!

How to Vote:

• Review the photos and stories below… there are several, so you’ll need to scroll down to see them all. You can also click the link to the slider version to review the quilts in the large format and then return to this page to vote.
• Underneath the photos, scroll down, you’ll see the names of all the quilts with a square button** beside each one. Select the buttons for the quilts you want to vote for. You can select up to FOUR quilts this week.
• Then scroll down, all the way, until you get to the bottom of the names of the quilts. Press the vote button.

** Note: If you don’t see the square buttons to vote, but instead see the voting results, that means someone on your IP Address already voted, or that the voting period has ended, or that you need to refresh the page to see the voting options. Shared IP Addresses are very common in home or work networks.

Slider version: To view the large photos to display all the quilts and descriptions, CLICK HERE. You’ll need to return to this page to cast your votes.

Please Note: If you are not seeing all of the photos, check your browser settings. Go to view, and text size. Make sure it’s set at medium. If you need web sites to be larger so you can read them more easily, then use the browser’s Zoom function, not the text resize. You can also use the scroll bar above, beside the photos, to scroll and see the hidden ones.

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Next Week’s Contest

The quilt contests for the next three weeks are similar. Please do not submit the same quilt more than once. Next week, it is Stars. After that, we’ll do Christmas Table runners and then Christmas. You can’t submit your quilt early. Only accepting entries for the Stars theme at this time. Get your cameras out!

• Rules and Guidelines
• Submit your Photo
• Upcoming Themes

New: The 2012 Themes are now available. Find out how you can be a contest sponsor.

Week 11: Super Deals

40% Off Fairfield Shabby Fabrics

40% Off Panier de Fleurs Shabby Fabrics

50% Off Santa’s Little Helpers Fat Quarter Shop

40% Off Hometown Fort Worth Fabric Studio

Week 11: Quilt-Along Blocks

Merry Christmas By: Lynette Anderson

Let It Snow By: Sarah Fielke

One Special Star By: Jacquelynne Steves

Here’s Block 33 of our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along. One Special Star has been designed by Jacquelynne Steves. Our friends at Shabby Fabrics have two gorgeous fabric collections at 40% off for you to enjoy too.

Super Deal from Shabby Fabrics

Shabby Fabrics is an online quilt shop specializing in beautiful fabrics, quilt kits, patterns, and Block of the Month programs. They are also a pattern design company and currently have over 40 designs in print.

Today’s Super Deal:

Our Super Deal this week is 40% Off Fairfield and Panier de Fleurs. To receive these savings, enter coupon code TURKEY40 on the View Cart page before checking out. Coupon expires December 4, 2011.

The Super Deal this week is 40% Off Fairfield and Panier de Fleurs. To receive these savings, enter coupon code TURKEY40 on the View Cart page before checking out. Coupon expires December 4, 2011.

Featured Designer: Jacquelynne Steves

What is your quilting style?

As a painter, I draw a lot. That carries over into my quilting. I love applique because I always feel like a quilt isn’t complete until it has some sort of little flower or bird on it somewhere. I do a lot of machine applique because it’s fast, and I’ve gotten really good at it. I wish people weren’t so intimidated by it- it just takes a little practice. I have a tutorial on my website.

I like colors that are vibrant and deeply saturated. And I like a lot of contrast in my quilts – I especially love the “pop” of a bright against a dark background (like brown or navy), or a light background (I prefer the warmth of ivory or cream to white) .

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

My mom and grandmother taught me how to sew, but neither of them quilted. One day I was out having lunch with a friend and we saw a sign in a quilt shop for a class, and we thought it would be a great way to get out of the house once a week. So it began purely as a social outing, but of course, after just one class I was hooked! I loved all of the pretty fabrics! Being someone who never follows directions, my second quilt was of my own design, and after a while, I figured if I was making up my own designs, I might as well write them down so someone else could also enjoy them. I have painted watercolors for many years, so when the opportunity to design fabric with Henry Glass came along, it was the perfect way for me to combine two things that I really enjoy – painting and quilting.

Do you have a favourite quilt?

That is a really hard question – I like them all for different reasons….. I would say that Spring Fling is in my top 5 because it definitely represents “me”. It has lots of half square triangles and a machine appliqued border. I love the green in it- and it is one of the first quilts I made with the very first fabric line that I ever designed (Sewing Room Social), so that quilt design is near and dear to my heart.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: Red and pink
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? Designing and playing – choosing the colors and fabrics.
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? Cutting!!!
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: all of them. I love them all.
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: I’ve been to England twice to visit my husband’s family, and I loved it! The castles, the countryside, the little villages…… It felt like a second home to me.
• Favourite quote or mantra:
  “People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
  If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
  If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
  If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
  The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
  Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
  For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”
  -Mother Teresa

Block 33 – Jacquelynne’s One Special Star

Here’s Jacquelynne’s One Special Star block. Head over to Jacquelynne’s blog to view the photo tutorial.

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 Jacquelynne’s One Special Star block to be eligible to win.

Quilt-Along Links

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

Please share the Quilt-Along graphic on your own blog. The more participants, the more FUN!

Today’s block Let It Snow is very appropriate here in Ottawa today, as Winter has arrived. I’m happy to report the puppy wasn’t too upset with all that white stuff, just a little confused, but he still did his business outside.

Our quilt-along block has been designed by Sarah Fielke. Our friends at Fort Worth Fabric Studio have a fabulous 40% off Super Deal for you to enjoy too.

Super Deal from Fort Worth Fabric Studio

Fort Worth Fabric Studio is an online quilt store full of fabulous fabrics, bundles, kits, and patterns! You can expect great customer service with special attention to your order. Nearly always, next day shipping and many times, same day shipping! We promise you "online service with a smile."

We are home of the Friday Bundle Batch, an assortment of fabrics that are hand-selected to perfectly complement each other! Check for a new Bundle each Friday!

Today’s Super Deal:

40% OFF all Hometown by Sweetwater for Moda. No special code is required. The discount applies to all Hometown Yardage, Fat Quarter Bundles, and Charm Packs! SALE runs until November 29 at midnight, CST.

Get your Super Deal Savings here!

Featured Designer: Sarah Fielke

What is your quilting style?

I like to make bright, happy quilts, usually traditionally pieced or appliqued with a twist.

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

My mother taught me to sew when I was very small. I started teaching not long after my first child was born 14 years ago, and opened a shop, Material Obsession, 9 years ago. After I left the shop I wrote my third book, Quilting, From Little Things and started designing fabrics (my latest range is called St Ives) for Lecien, Japan.

Do you have a favourite quilt?

My favourite quilt at the moment is called A Wing and A Prayer, the pattern for it is in my book Quilting, From Little Things. I loved making it – it’s hand appliqued and hand quilted which are my favourite things to do. The quilt won a major prize at the Sydney quilt show this year which was very exciting for me.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: green
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? hand quilting
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? basting
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: strawberry
• Favourite super hero or comic book character: Mr Hanky
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: Amsterdam (but I’m going to Africa next year!)
• Favourite quote or mantra: “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no-one alive who is Youer than You.” – Dr Seuss

Block 32 – Sarah’s Let It Snow

Here’s Sarah’s Let It Snow block. Head over to her blog to download the photo tutorial.

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 Sarah’s Let It Snow block to be eligible to win.

Quilt-Along Links

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

Please share the Quilt-Along graphic on your own blog. The more participants, the more FUN!