The theme for this week’s quilt contest is Black and White Only. Shades of grey are acceptable too. I’m pleased to introduce you to a new sponsor this week, Sondra from Contemporary Cloth. She has generously donated three $15 gift certificates for this week’s winners, plus everyone can save using the coupon code below too.

Contemporary Cloth

Hello from Contemporary Cloth!

As a "special hello" to all of you, we are offering 20% off your order for the week! Use code – QG when you check out.

We are so excited to be on the Quilting Gallery web site! We thoroughly enjoyed the recent Blog Hop and met many of you there!

Contemporary Cloth is your place for fresh, modern, + unique fabrics for your sewing adventures and creative pursuits. Our fabrics are used in art quilts, wearable art, wall art, interior design projects, crafts, mixed media, book arts, etc.

Owning Contemporary Cloth Inc. is actually my third career. In my first profession, I was an advocate/social worker for 10 years, then I returned to school for occupational therapy. For the next 20 years I worked as a pediatric occupational therapist.

The concept of C.C. developed in 2000, and we opened it online in 2001. My goal was to provide a resource for interesting, contemporary/modern and retro-look textiles for home or office, at reasonable prices. We have a worldwide customer base that has inspired us to continue on that path.

Our mission is to provide and maintain customer satisfaction through reliable service, to support artists and to donate 1% of our net sales to Dress for Success, Cleveland, Ohio.

We carry a variety of fabrics and notions for quilting, home décor, crafts, mixed media arts. In addition, we have "gently used or new" magazines/books, fabric wall hangings, patterns and stencils.

What is unique about CC? We carry bold, modern prints, Yuwa Japanese Fabrics, organic fabrics and textiles created by fiber artists. Meet some of the artists here:

Marjorie Lee Bevis’ marbled fabrics:

Els van Baarles’ hand dyed batiks, mixed media paper packs + tjaps/wooden block stamps:

Paula Small’s Henry Road original screen printed fabrics:

We also carry Jane Dunnewold’s artcloth, instructive DVD’s + books and Janet Lasher’s hand dyed fabrics.

Modern Marks is a space for my creations on paper and fabric, where I hope to add my own fabric designs soon.

Our New Additions coming soon are more Yuwa Fabrics, Marimekko Remnants, more Alexander Henry fabrics, a modern Kaufman Quilt and Lana Jansdotter’s Echo.

We hope that you will join us! Connect here:

• Sign up for our Weekly Newsletter for New Arrivals, Sales, Clearance Information and more! – look for the link at the bottom of our left sidebar.
• Visit and follow our Blog where we post about our: GIVEAWAYS, New Arrivals, Clearance Fabrics, Sales, Interviews of Creatives, book recommendations, color + pattern ideas, etc.
• Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest! On Pinterest, we have over 100 Boards to provide inspiration for your creative pursuits!

Good health to you,
Sondra + the amazing CC Staff

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 (EST). 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 – Opportunities for 2012 now available – Need a sponsor for next week

Last Week’s Quilt Contest

Thanks to everyone who entered last week’s New Beginnings Quilt Contest. The Fat Quarter Shop donated two $25 gift certificates for last week’s winners. Congratulations to the winners:

agaliegh

Marlene Oddie

New Beginnings Mini Quilt Swap

Registration is now open for the New Beginnings Mini Quilt Swap.

Registration for this swap closes February 1st. Partner information will be sent by February 5th. The deadline to mail your mini quilt is March 12th for international shipments (including Canada/USA) and March 19th for domestic shipments. All mini quilts should arrive at their destination no later than March 30th.

Quilter’s Super Deals

Based on the popular Daily Deals concept in most communities, Quilter’s Super Deals is an opportunity for online quilt shops, designers and authors to offer a unique discount on their products for quilters. Advertisers: Contact me for an information package.

Starting Wednesday, January 18th, a new Quilter’s Super Deal from a favourite online quilting retailer will be featured. The Deal will be valid for one week.

It’s voting time!! The theme for this week’s quilt contest is New Beginnings. Grab yourself a cup of coffee and a pencil to make note of your faves. You can vote for THREE quilts this weekend.

The Fat Quarter Shop has generously donated two $25 gift certificates for the contest winners. Be sure to check out their Designer Mystery Block of the Month program. Here’s a sneak peek so you know what to sort of expect…

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 THREE 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 contest is Black & White Only quilts. Shades of grey are acceptable too. Get your cameras out! To enter the weekly contest, read the rules and guidelines, then submit your quilt photo by Thursday evening (EST). 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 – Opportunities for 2012 now available

Quilting FUN Everywhere!

January always marks the start of many new fun quilting projects. See the massive list of Quilting FUN Everywhere! that I’ve put together. The photo below is for Erin Russek’s new Mini Bloomers BOM.