My apologies folks, the email for this post was sent out before it was complete. I forgot to update the time zone since changing back to standard time last weekend.

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

This is our 100th quilt contest!! Can you believe it? Thank you to everyone that enters and votes each week. All of the submissions are truly inspirational and every week I’m so pleased you’ve chosen to share your creations here.

It’s voting time!! The theme for this week’s quilt contest is Remembering Veterans. You can vote for FOUR favourites this weekend.

The quilter with the most votes received over the weekend, will win a package of goodies from Dewberry Lane which includes a patriotic themed applique pattern from Eat Cake Graphics called For the Brave, a 6-pack of Kimono silk threads and Applique sharps needles.

Savings for all: For the month of November, you can use the coupon code “VET20” and receive 20% off any paper patterns or books. Visit Dewberry Lane today!

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 theme for next week’s quilt contest is Thanksgiving/Gratitude. 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 9: Super Deals

40% Off Deep Deep SeaFort Worth Fabric Studio

50% Off Garden PartyFat Quarter Shop

30% Off American Banner RoseShabby Fabrics

30% Off Berkely SquareShabby Fabrics

Week 9: Quilt-Along Blocks

Christmas StockingBy: Benita – Victoriana Quilt Designs

Welcoming FriendsBy: Kimberly – The Jolly Jabber

One Horse Open SleighBy: Sunni – A Love Affair with my Brother…

Here’s Block 27 of our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along. One Horse Open Sleigh has been designed by Sunni Bolger. Our friends at Shabby Fabrics have two gorgeous Moda fabric collections at 30% 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:

The Super Deal this week is 30% Off Moda Collections American Banner Rose and Berkely Square fabrics. To redeem, enter the coupon code 30SUPER on the View Cart page. Coupon expires Friday, November 18, 2011.

Featured Designer: Sunni Bolger

What is your quilting style?

I like to quilt in series. When I made my Ruby Hex quilt, I thought of a dozen different directions I could go and how that would change the overall feel of the quilt. I want to explore all the possibilities of a block or pattern. That’s why I have already started cutting my 2nd and designed the 3rd in this series!

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

My grandma taught me to sew and quilt when I was 7, but I never put it to good use until my oldest daughter was born. I made quilts sporadically, interspersed with the many clothing and crafts I sewed. It wasn’t until I discovered modern quilting and fabrics that I developed a passion for it.

Do you have a favourite quilt?

My favorite quilt is one I haven’t worked on yet. I inherited an unfinished Dresden plate top that was started by my great-great-aunt, passed on to my grandma, and now passed on to me. Most of the blocks are completely handsewn and made from beautiful, original and reproduction 1930′s prints. Losing my grandma was a difficult loss and it has taken me a long time to be able to take it off the shelf in my closet and have it out in my sewing room. I am patiently waiting for the day I can work on it joyfully in remembrance of her!

As for something I have made, my favorite is usually the one I am working on at the moment. This is my Etchings project.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: ever changing with my moods
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? Snuggling under my finished quilt
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? The last quarter of the hand binding. I love it when I start, but by the end, I just want to FINISH!
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: Chocolate covered pretzels
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: Jamaica
• Favourite quote or mantra: “And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

Block 27 – Sunni’s One Horse Open Sleigh

Here’s Sunni’s One Horse Open Sleigh block. Head over to Sunni’s blog for the photo tutorial and to download the applique shapes.

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 Sunni’s One Horse Open Sleigh 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!

Victoria Findlay Wolfe owner of Bumblebeans, Inc. started an amazing quilt drive for BASICS, a non-profit organization in the Bronx, NYC that helps homeless families get out of shelters and back into transitional housing.

Her initial interest in finding a good home for a few of her extra quilts ultimately grew into a global effort when she asked the head of Basics if he could use a few quilts, and he responded, “Do you have 700?” one for each of the families on the waiting list for housing.

Last year her “Call for help” very quickly gathered 300 quilts which were hand delivered to the families. You can see pictures of the events and more info at http://bumblebeansbasics.com/

Victoria is on a serious mission to get 400 more quilts by the United States’ Thanksgiving to meet the 700 quilts she was originally asked for. Can you help by sending a quilt?

If not by Thanksgiving, Keep sending! This is an ongoing quilt drive, and they always need more quilts! Every few months they try to do quilt distribution events to personally hand over your quilts, announcing the maker’s name to the family where the quilt will now live. It is a highly emotional and fabulous event!

All kinds of quilts are needed, from baby quilts to large quilts, what ever they receive they can find a home for. New or gently loved quilts can be sent to:

From Mishka…

Earlier this Fall, Scott Hansen from Blue Nickel Studios asked his quilting friends for quilt blocks so that he can put together some quilts for Victoria’s quilt drive. Here are the blocks I sent:

I’m hoping to send a completed quilt of my own in early December too. I have a few tops done, just need to be quilted, bound and sent.