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

Our sponsor this week, Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe have donated a Paradise Batik Fat Quarter Bundle (40 pieces) by Moda Fabrics for this week’s winner.

BONUS SAVINGS: Jojo’s Quilt Shoppe has a 40% OFF Store-wide Sale now underway.

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 Travel-Inspired Quilts. Get your cameras out!

• Rules and Guidelines
• Submit your Photo
• Upcoming Themes

Here’s Block 21 of our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along. All a Flurry has been designed by Heather Jones. Our friends at Shabby Fabrics have 30% off three Christmas fabric collections for this week’s Super Deal for you to enjoy too.

Super Deals 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 Christmas collections: Holly-Days Greetings, Makower Christmas, and Holiday Heritage. Use the coupon code SUPERXMAS30 by entering it on the View Cart page. Coupon expires November 4, 2011.

Featured Designer: Heather Jones

What is your quilting style?

I consider myself a modern quilter, and I really like working with solid color cottons. I have a great respect for traditional quilting, and I’m often inspired by vintage quilts, but I love to create things with a more modern, streamlined aesthetic.

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

I’ve always been crafty and I’ve sewn off and on for over 20 years. I began designing and sewing children’s accessories after the birth of my first child and then opened a shop on etsy to offer my handmade goods there. Then, in February 2010, I founded the Cincinnati Modern Quilt Guild, and really started to focus on quilting more. Since then, quilting is all I want to do! I’m currently working on my first line of patterns and I hope to have them available very soon.

Do you have a favourite quilt?

Yes, my favorite one to date is my Yield quilt. I made it in November 2010, and it was the first quilt that I created entirely out of solid fabrics. The design was inspired by, of all things, a painted grid in the parking lot of my local Wal-Mart. I entered it in the Modern Quilt Guild’s Project Modern Challenge, and it was chosen as a winner by Valori Wells.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: hard to pick just one, but probably aqua blue
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? Finishing the top and seeing your design come to life for the first time
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? Quilting!
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: strawberry, for sure!
• Favourite super hero or comic book character: Wonder Woman
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: Greece
• Favourite quote or mantra: Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. —Albert Einstein

Block 21 – Heather’s All a Flurry Block

Here’s Heather’s All a Flurry block. I love it’s simple design yet bold impact. Head over to Heather’s blog for the excellent photo tutorial she created on putting together her block.

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 Heather’s All a Flurry 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 20 of our Celebrate Christmas Quilt-Along is Jingle Bell Flower designed by Thearica Burroughs. 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 Believe Batiks, by Laundry Basket Quilts for Moda. No special code is required. The discount applies to all Believe Batiks yardage, bundles, and patterns! SALE runs until November 1 at midnight, CST.

Get your Super Deal Savings here!

Featured Designer: Thearica Burroughs

What is your quilting style?

Although I have been a traditional quilter since I began quilting, I have began to explore the world of contemporary to modern quilts and one type of art quilts known as crazy quilts. I also enjoy taking clothing and making memory quilts from them.

How did you get started quilting and/or designing?

I tell everyone that I grew up playing under a quilting frame because my Granny Ida lived with us and always had a quilt on the frame! There were 3 of us girls and I am the one who took to quilting. My Granny Ella lived next door and she taught me to sew 9-patch blocks together by hand at the age of 8. For 11 years those blocks sat in a drawer and when I turned 19 she helped me sash them together and then she and I, along with my granddaddy, aunt, uncle and sister, quilted the quilt. I have not looked back!

Do you have a favourite quilt?

My first quilt is my favorite quilt because it tells the story of how I got into quilting. Although every stitch in that quilt is special, my granddaddy’s stitches are the most special to me! My dad was killed when I was 9 and my granddaddy became both granddaddy and daddy to me for the rest of his life. It was like losing double the day he passed away. I cherish all of my memories about that man! When we spent the summers on granddaddy’s farm, he would come in to our bedroom early in the morning and reach under the covers at the foot of the bed and grab our toes and say “Wee, wee, wee..get up little piggies”. Hence, my business name is Cover Your Little Piggies Quilting Studio.

Quick and fun questions:

• Favourite colour: Cranberry Red and Ryegrass
• What part of the quilting process do you like the most? As far as my quilting business goes, I love taking the time to decide on the quilting design. And with my crazy quilting the one thing I love the most is the freeness I feel as the design spills out of my head on to cloth.
  And one more favorite part of the quilting process — RIBBONS!
  
• What part of the quilting process do you dislike the most? I really hate to bind!! I charge an extortion fee for binding just to dissuade my customers from asking me to do it.
• Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, or: Chocolate of course!
• Favourite super hero or comic book character: Comic Book – Scooby Doo!!
• Most exciting place you’ve travelled: Although I would not call it exciting because of the poverty in a lot of places, the most eye opening trip I have ever taken was driving 14 hours down in to Mexico to Nayarit! YES! We drove in our truck! It only takes one trip like this to make you aware of just how blessed the USA truly is!
• Favourite quote or mantra: It isn’t mine but it is the one I live by and it comes from my Granny Ida – “If it ain’t worth doing right, then it ain’t worth doing a’tal!”

Block 20 – Jingle Bell Flower

Here’s Thearica’s Jingle Bell Flower block. Head over to Thearica’s blog to download the pattern and view the excellent tutorial she put together. She’s also hosting a give-away too.

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 Thearica’s Jingle Bell Flower 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!