Julie Pieri from Quilted Pleasures writes a great monthly newsletter, The Sewing Gazette filled with news and information from the quilting and sewing world.

I’ll be a guest for the November issue. Sign up to receive the newsletter and read my interview.

Geta Grama has put together some great tips in her free motion quilting tutorial.

I definitely have to try her hand position to see if it helps with the back pains.

UPDATE: I did try Geta’s hand positioning recommendation on a smaller wall hanging this past weekend. It really did help, though the big test will come with a much larger quilt and more experience of course.

Terri Stegmiller and Sue Bleiweiss of Two Creative Studios are doing a free Mystery Block of the Month project on their web site. Block Two was posted last week.

What I love about this project, besides the fabulous blocks and great colours, is that they’ve included multiple ways to complete each block. You can choose from paper piecing, rotary cutting or template cutting. Fabulous idea.

Block 1

Block 2

The files are available in PDF format so you can save them to your hard drive or print them out too. Visit the main BOM page. If you’re like me and need a monthly reminder, you can sign up for their newsletter too.

Congratulations to #21 Billie K. for winning Jenny Wilding Cardon’s The Little Box of Baby Quilts.

This week’s give-away is for a hand dyed fat quarter set of your choice from Vicki Welsh’s Fabric Palette collection. The Fabric Palette collections are sets of 5 to 8 themed hand dyed fat quarters. Some are color family sets, like Pink Petals, and some are image inspired sets, like the Bluebird Fabric Palette.

Vicki Welsh has been sewing, quilting and crafting almost since birth. She got into fabric dyeing literally because her best friend made her spend part of their annual Craft Week in 2001 dyeing fabric. By the end of the week she was hooked. The fabric dyeing passion grew as she embarked on a study of color theory. Vicki has developed an extensive color recipe book and specializes in dyeing fabric in custom colors. She opened her hand dyed fabric shop earlier this year.

Vicki carries the Fabric Palettes, Hand Dyed wide quilt backs, selvage-to-selvage gradients, hand painted fabrics and lots of one of a kind yards and parfait packs. She also has line of tie-dye t-shirts specializing in dyeing custom colors, such as sports team colors.

Be sure to visit Vicki’s very active blog, Field Trips in Fiber. She always has a lot of projects going on and she has a regular Field Tripping the Web feature highlighting fiber eye candy from around the web. She offers free tutorials and is hosting a monthly fabric postcard challenge and the prize is some of her yummy hand dyed or painted fabric.

You can Follow her on Twitter or Facebook and check out her Etsy shop for some lovely fabrics for your next project.

To enter the give-away, please leave a comment below. The contest closes November 1, 2009. One lucky winner will be randomly chosen to win.

UPDATE: This contest is now closed. Congrats to #148 Jan who won Vicki’s fabulous fabrics. A new Friday Give-Away will be available November 6, 2009. Check back then.

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I’ve moved up the Fall swap registration deadline to this Saturday. No late additions will be accepted, so please register now if you want in. Partner information will be released by the 28th.

The Inchie Ornaments Swap has been extended until November 5. Again, no late registrations will be accepted. Most partner information has already been sent. Final partners will be released Nov. 7th.

Come join the fun, try a new technique and make new quilting friends.