The theme for this week’s contest is Hexagons and Other English Paper Piecing Projects. Valerie from Pastimes Online is back as this week’s sponsor. She’s giving away two issues of Vignette for this week’s winner.

Just to clarify this week’s theme, if your quilt is made up of shapes traditionally done with EPP, then it’s appropriate for this week. You may have constructed the quilt by machine, that’s fine. If you are unsure or have questions, please email me or leave a comment below.

Pastimes Online – Boutique for Quilters

Hi All, it’s Valerie from Pastimes Online bringing you another Weekly Contest prize…this week is all about hexies and English Paper Piecing which I LOVE, I can’t wait to see what’s entered and be inspired by YOU!

Here’s a tutorial on English Paper Piecing on my site based on our Quilt Aid Project. If you care to have a gander and pickup a needle and thread and give it a try :) It’s the perfect “take with you” project.

Please come on over and visit me at my BLOG: Val’s Quilting and drop me a comment with your blog name as I’d love to stop by and see what you’re up to.

Check out our new Block of the Month clubs this one Vintage Sewing Machines is super fun with simple stitching and easy peasy patchwork – you’ll enjoy all of the steps.

Also check out this Block of the Month, Butterfly Garden, you get all the cottons, all the silks (raw edge applique), all your pins, needles, floss (to get you started) and sew much more…in all of our block of the month clubs.

I thought since my last weekly sponsor the magazines were so well received I thought I’d do the magazines again…so here’s Issue 3 and Issue 4 of Vignette, the most incredible magazine by Leanne Beasley. The photos are superb and the detail and thought that have gone into this is exceptional …I hope you enjoy!

We also have a quarterly NewsLetter, The Times if you’d like to sign up for that – it’s chalked full of our blog highlights, shows we’ve been to, what new in the shoppe – and so much more.

Good luck to all the entries, and I look forward to seeing who wins this week!

Valerie
Pastimes Online

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 (EDT). Voting will start on Friday and last until Sunday night.

Weekly Quilt Contest Links

• Guidelines
• Submit your photo
• 2012 Themes, Winners & Sponsors
• Sponsor a contest – Check available dates – only a few left for this year!

Last Week’s Quilt Contest

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s Quilts for Babies contest. What a fabulous collection of quilts and many very lucky babies too. Thanks also to our sponsor, Fat Quarter Shop, and to those that took the time to vote. Congratulations to:

Vicki Purnell

Blog It

Please share the logo below on your own blog. The more contestants, the more exciting the contests!

It’s time … for our Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Quilter’s Blog Hop. We have more than 120 bloggers participating in this party. I hope you’ll visit all the participants, check out their blogs and enter their give-aways.

If you’re new here to the Quilting Gallery .. welcome! I’m Michele Foster, aka Mishka, your hostess for the blog hop party and owner of this web site. I hope you’ll spend a few minutes checking out the various sections of my site including:

• Quilting Bloggers Directory – with more than 6,000 quilting friends from around the world.
• The Learning Center – hosted by Pat Sloan with great tips and advice for beginner and intermediate quilters alike.



• Quilt Shop Locator – a unique map-based directory of quilting retailers and professionals.
• Quilt Guilds Directory – find guilds around the world.
• Quilter’s Market – search for the latest in quilting books, patterns and notions.
• Hundreds of free quilting projects
• Inspiring guest bloggers and charity quilting projects and events.

I also host swaps and other various events which you’ll find in the Quilter’s Fun section. Each week I host a weekly themed quilt contest too. Vote now for the Baby Quilts or enter the Hexagons contest for next week.

You can keep in touch by subscribing to my weekly newsletter or our Facebook group.

Give-Aways

I have two give-aways for you to enter. First, head over to the latest post from the Learning Center, Fabric Styles, and enter the give-away of a Moda Fat Quarter Bundle donated by the Fat Quarter Shop. Share your fabric style and enter this give-away here!

Second, I’m giving away five copies of Melissa’s Twirling Around pattern. This is a PDF file, so you’ll receive it right away once the winners are selected.

There’s a story to this pattern. It’s Melissa’s first published pattern and all proceeds are being donated to charity. But, that’s not all, this pattern is being sold exclusively by Julie of The Intrepid Thread and Julie is matching all proceeds and donating to charity too. I just love this… quilters are so very generous. I wanted to contribute, so I purchased five copies to give-away to you, my blog readers.

Now, because it’s for such a good cause, I do want to encourage you to purchase Twirling Around too. It’s just $6.00 going directly to charity and with Julie matching the proceeds, that’s $12.00 to help others in need. If you should win a copy from me, you can give it to a friend or give it away on your own blog.

To enter the give-away: leave a comment below telling me if you have/had any special plans for St. Patrick’s Day. Five random winners will be selected March 24th. The give-away is open to everyone.

Blog Hop Party

Visit the participating blogs in the blog hop by clicking the image below.

Winners have been notified and sent the PDF pattern. Congratulations to:

#145 PJ
#37 JudyCnNC
#10 Avis
#58 Lone Jakobsen
#176 Shirley Pearce

It’s voting time!! The theme for this week’s contest is Quilts for Babies. There are many, many fabulous quilts to inspire you. Grab yourself a cup of coffee and a pencil to make note of your faves. You can vote for SEVEN quilts this weekend.

The Fat Quarter Shop will be giving away a fat quarter bundle of Sesame Street to one lucky winner.

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 SEVEN 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 of 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 Quilt Contest

The theme for next week’s contest is Hexagons and Other English Paper Piecing Projects. Get your cameras out!

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

Weekly Quilt Contest Links

• Guidelines
• Submit your photo
• 2012 Themes, Winners & Sponsors
• Sponsor a contest

The Learning Center

In the Learning Center this week, Pat Sloan is talking about fabric styles with many different photos for illustration.

What is YOUR favorite Fabric Style? Enter the give-away here to win a Moda FQ bundle of your choice from the Fat Quarter Shop!

Blog Hop Party

Our St. Patrick’s Day Quilter’s Blog Hop Party starts this Saturday. Have fun hopping around and meeting new quilting friends and entering their give-aways.