The theme for this week’s quilt contest is Halloween Quilts. I’m looking forward to seeing all of your spooooky creations.

Joelle from Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe is back as this week’s sponsor. She’s giving away a Paradise Batik Fat Quarter Bundle (40 pieces) by Moda Fabrics to this week’s winner.

Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe

Everything at Jojo’s is 20% off Everyday, no exceptions, we believe that your supplies should be Great Quality and Affordable.

BONUS SAVINGS: on Wednesday, October 26th we will have a 40% OFF Store-wide Sale starting! Sign up for our e-Newsletter to receive a reminder and be sure to invite a Quilting, Sewing or Craft Friend to the Savings!

Sign up for our e-Newsletter and a Coupon here!

Thank you for the opportunity to give away great fabric again!

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

• Rules and Guidelines
• Submit your Quilt
• Upcoming Themes

Reminder: While I encourage everyone to invite their friends to vote in the weekly contests, please do not post about the contest on web forums not related to quilting/sewing. Check the rules and guidelines for more information.

Last Week’s Quilt Contest

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s Table Runners contest. I enjoyed seeing all of the gorgeous quilts. Thanks also to everyone that took the time to vote. Our sponsor, On the Grain Fabrics, donated 30 fat quarters to the top three winners:

First place: Andi Settlemoir Barney

Second place: Quiltalicious

Third place: Sandy Hembree

Blog It

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

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 for this week’s Paper Pieced Quilts. There are so many beautiful quilts to choose from that voting is definitely not going to be easy! Grab a cup of coffee, some paper and a pen and vote for your favourites. You can select up to FOUR quilts this week.

Our sponsor this week, On the Grain Fabrics have generously donated 30 fat quarters to be split among three winners this week. They carry a gorgeous selection of fabrics in their online shop and this week everyone can save by using the coupon code QGREADER15 at checkout (expires October 31, 2011).

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 Halloween Quilts. Get your cameras out!

• Rules and Guidelines
• Submit your Photo
• Upcoming Themes

Week 6: Super Deals

50% Off LouLouThi Fabrics Fat Quarter Shop

40% Off How the Grinch Stole Christmas Fort Worth Fabric Studio

Just $4.00/each Quilter’s Cookbooks Quilting Gallery

Week 6: Quilt-Along Blocks

Joy By: Sandi Andersen

Christmas in Italy By: Lenna Green

A Border Creek Christmas By: Sherri Hisey

Bonus Block: Christmas Ornaments

Download the Christmas Ornaments tutorial to make this mini quilt or use as a bonus block for our quilt-along.

Thank you to everyone for your lovely comments on my Christmas Ornaments block and mini quilt released earlier today. I’m looking forward to seeing how you make up my design in your own fabrics and quilting style.

Block 18 of our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along is A Border Creek Christmas designed by Sherri Hisey. Today’s Super Deal is the Quilter’s Cookbooks on sale at just $4/each.

How does the quilt-along work? Over a 12-week period, 36 fabulously talented designers will be making 12″ blocks that you can make. You can pick and choose which blocks you want to make. Sash them, add borders, baste it, quilt it, and have it ready to give-away or keep for yourself this Christmas. Or you might want to use some of the blocks for a mini quilt, a table runner, bags, whatever you like.

Make new quilting friends, meet our featured designers, take advantage of our Super Deal bargains, and most of all just have some fun!

Featured Designer: Sherri Hisey

What is your quilting style?

My quilting style is traditional quilts, pieced or appliqued with an updated twist. I absolutely LOVE pieced borders and the added punch they can provide to a quilt. Typically I enjoy designing quilts that look complicated but are straightforward to make. I consider my fabric style varied, although my friends would laugh at that. Currently I am loving the soft coloured batiks and civil war reproduction fabrics – and can’t get enough of them!

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

I started designing projects to satisfy the quilting bug for my wonderful group of students, who are now great friends inside and out of the classroom. The original group (I now have four club classes) have been in the same class for almost 10 years. It began with designing projects that taught a technique or method that they wanted to cover in class and with their creative encouragement it grew into Border Creek Station. All of my club classes still provide much inspiration and opinions on new designs and are always willing to test and help whenever I am in a jam.

Do you have a favourite quilt?

My favourite quilt is usually the newest one I am working on. Currently that is "A Checkered Past" and it is so new there are no photos – but watch for them soon. That being said, I do have some quilts with special meaning or that signify a specific memorable event.

I personally love two colour quilts so "Stars in the Valley" is a favourite and "Autumn Nights" was designed specifically for my friend and mentor Sue Carmichael, owner of Quilter’s Cupboard in Uxbridge, ON who was featured in the BHG Quilt Sampler magazine as a top ten shop in Fall 2010.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: What day is it?
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? Piecing the blocks.
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? Are you ready? Sewing on borders!
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: ALWAYS chocolate! There is no other flavour.
• Favourite super hero or comic book character: Wolverine, especially when they made the movie with Hugh Jackman – yum!
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: Definitely St. Lucia
• Favourite quote or mantra: I have two:

  Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -Mark Twain

  Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth. -Mark Twain

Block 18 – A Border Creek Christmas

Here’s Sherri’s A Border Creek Christmas block. Don’t let it intimidate you, while it might look complicated, Sherri’s tutorial makes it easy peasy. Head over to Sherri’s web site to download the 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 Sherri’s A Border Creek Christmas block to be eligible to win.

Quilt-Along Links

• General Info
• Featured Designers
• Super Deal Advertisers
• Upload your blocks – Flickr Group

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