Block 30 of our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along is Bountiful designed by Lisa Sipes. Also, Mad About Patchwork is offering a fabulous 40% off Super Deal for you to enjoy too.

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Featured Designer: Lisa Sipes

What is your quilting style?

I don’t really have one. Since I’ve only been quilting for three years (just had my anniversary!), I can’t say I’ve had a chance yet to develop my own quilting style. I have a certain amount of appreciation for all styles, but definitely have my favorites that I adapt as much as possible to make them more my own. Yet they’re not my own.

Eventually, I want people to be able to look at my work and say, “That’s Lisa’s”! One day. I guess for now the only word I can use to describe my style is “happy”. Everything I do makes me happy, for the most part. That said I have a project that I’m working on that’s really depressing. But I’m getting it all out. And that makes me happy.

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

I still don’t have a good answer for this question. I’m asked so often and I never know what to say. I sort of fell (or was thrown) into it. I’ve held several different jobs in several different fields and I scoffed at the idea of quilting, especially for a living because I had no idea what quilting was all about. However, the first time I got my hands on a longarm, I decided this was something I wanted to pursue. It took me a couple of months after that to finally start piecing my very first quilt and the rest is history.

Do you have a favourite quilt?

My favorite quilt(s) is(are) going to be no surprise to anyone that is familiar with my blog or that knows me. My very favorite thus far is definitely my BeDazzled quilt. Why? Well just look at it!

And my second favorite has to be Sedona Star. It is the Block of the Month quilt for 2012 (yes, NEXT year) for The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. I really didn’t get many good pictures of it before handing it over to them for their booth in Houston. But it’s one of my favorites because it was an extreme honor to be asked to do it to begin with. The fabrics really aren’t my style and I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about the finished product when I started making it. Now that it’s done, I love it!

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: I’m loving orange and grey lately. But my “forever” favorite color is pink.
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? Daydreaming
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? MATH! And marking a top for quilting. That’s why I free motion nearly everything. I hate marking!
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: Oh, come on. Like you don’t know?!
• Favourite super hero or comic book character: Was that in English?
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: I’ve been to a lot of exciting places. I could never pick just one. Before life got so crazy I used to travel a LOT!
• Favourite quote or mantra: Just Keep Swimming.

Block 30 Bountiful

Here’s Lisa’s Bountiful block. Don’t let his block intimidate you. Head over to Lisa’s blog for the excellent 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 two weeks to complete Lisa’s Bountiful 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!

Block 29, All Wrapped Up, has been designed by Kim Lapacek. Our friends at Fort Worth Fabric Studio have a fabulous 40% off Super Deal for you to enjoy too.

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Featured Designer: Kim Lapacek

Family photo - me, my husband Jared, and our three girls - Mercedi (4), Capri (3), Persimoni (6 months)

What is your quilting style?

I like to combine both piecing and appliqué better. I definitely like the freedom more of art quilts but I love how amazing a pieced quilt looks when you choose the perfect fabrics. I’m probably an ‘art quilter’.

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

My grandma still tells the story of the ‘quilt’ I made my brother when I was 5 from my mom’s rag bin – including the old furry toilet seat cover. I was always creating things as I grew up and loved to sew. When I met my now-husband’s mom for the first time, looked around her house full of wonderful craftiness, and I thought to myself, “This woman is going to like me.” We started to go to her house every Tuesday for dinner and I would work on my first ‘real’ quilt AND get a delicious, home cooked meal! I have continued to work with Diane (my mother-in-law) since that time on different quilts and projects, including Project QUILTING. She has been a fantastic quilting mentor – I couldn’t have married into a better family!

Do you have a favourite quilt?

I’m digging my quilt ‘Owl Be Yours’ lately. It was really fun to make and it was definitely a quilt that ‘created itself’ as I worked on it.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: rainbow (as my 4 year old would say)
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? Stepping back and looking at my creation
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? BORDERS!
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: cookie dough!
• Favourite super hero or comic book character: batman
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: Germany
• Favourite quote or mantra: “She was the type of girl who made ordinary things extraordinary” ~ TheDreamyGiraffe

Block 29 – Kim’s All Wrapped Up

Here’s Kim’s All Wrapped Up block done in her trademark wonky style. Head over to Kim’s blog to view and download the photo tutorial. Pssst… this was Kim’s first block tutorial, I think she did a fantastic job!

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 two weeks to complete Kim’s All Wrapped Up 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!