The fabulous ladies from the Fat Quarter Shop are organizing a silent auction to raise funds for charities helping the victims of the Haiti disaster.

They have 25 fabulous items that have been donated. Head over to the Jolly Jabber blog to see the items and place your bid. The auction ends Jan. 29th at noon (CST).

Here are a few photos of the gorgeous quilts available. You can click on each photo to go to the auction page.

Pennsylvania Dutch Sampler Quilt

Ice Cubes Baby Quilt

The Bunny Run Quilt

Dora S'mores Baby Quilt

Congratulations to Katrien Pattyn of Belgium for winning last week’s weekly themed quilt contest, Winter Fun, with her super cute quilt Let it snow. Congrats too to Shiela C. for her winter fun comment left on the blog post. Both winners win a copy of the Quilter’s Cookbook.

This week’s theme is Two-Coloured Quilts. To enter, read the rules and guidelines, then submit your quilt photo. Voting will start on Friday and last until Sunday night.

This week’s contest is sponsored by Jojo’s Quilt and Gift Shoppe. You’ll be hearing a lot from this company as they’ve agreed to sponsor one contest a month for the entire year. Thank you!

Up for grabs this week is a fat quarter bundle called Metro Market.

About Jojo’s Quilt and Gift Shoppe

Jojo’s Quilt and Gift Shoppe is dedicated to providing top-quality quilt shoppe fabric to quilters worldwide. We are an online quilt fabric shop offering quality 100% cotton quilting fabric, quilting and sewing patterns, heirloom batting, books and magazines. Most of our fabrics are from Moda Fabrics which include quilt designers such as 3 Sisters (Three Sisters Fabrics), Sandy Gervais, April Cornell, Fig Tree Quilts, Brannock & Patek, Blackbird Designs, Minnick and Simpson, Kansas Troubles, Mary Engelbreit, Tula Pink, Tanya Whelan and much more.

Be sure to look at our quilt fabrics on sale when you need a Fat Quarter Bundle, Jelly Roll, Layer Cake, Charm Packs, Turnover or any other pre-cut fabric at a low price. We offer Layer Cakes and Jelly Rolls for $17.50 and $19.99 as well as low priced quilt kits in our Moda Fabric Sale section. We have many free quilting and sewing pattern links on our website.

Our Story:

We understand how important it is to save money where we can when it comes to quilting fabric. We discount our fabric right when it comes through our door. We have been on both sides of Quilting and Sewing, we have been consumers and now an online quilt fabric store. Our experience as a consumer has been the catalyst to creating Jojo’s Quilt and Gift Shoppe.

We know that it can be a challenge to find good quality fabric at a reasonable price on the internet or even at your local quilt store. The online auctions always ended up at a higher price when the auction ended. The last straw was when a specific backing fabric was needed for the finishing of a quilt called "Roman Holiday by 3 Sisters for Moda Fabrics". Of course it was two years later and it was very difficult to find the backing print that would work perfectly. After a long search on the internet, the backing was found! In Australia! Wow, the price and the shipping total was much more than here in the U.S., of course. There was no way around it, every store I inquired at locally and online told me I wouldn’t be able to find more yardage because it was an old print. The purchase was completed but the frustration lingered.

Jojo’s Quilt and Gift Shoppe opened online shortly thereafter and the primary focus was having low prices on a continuous basis. The secondary focus is being a locator of quilt fabrics that are over a year old by Moda Fabrics or any other quilt fabric manufacturer. We would love to help you find the specific fabric or a variation of the line to complete your project. Surprisingly enough when we looked up "Roman Holiday" with Moda, we found 10 different prints available. So our answer to that was, "Let’s take the extra step of helping others to find that special piece of fabric". Contact us anytime at jbeane@jojosgiftshoppe.com and we will gladly search our manufacturer’s inventory for your specific needs. We believe it is always worth the try!

Quality Quilt Fabric packaged with care:

Your order of quilting fabric is cut by hand, we add an extra inch and carefully package your items to ensure a safe delivery to your door. All quilt fabrics are packaged in plastic for protection against the weather. We also ensure that your envelope or box is well secured with tape, we know how those envelopes can fall apart at the seams!

We also know how important it is to save on postage, we are very creative when it comes to packaging, if we can fit more in your package, we will. You can contact us anytime to make a custom fit of products in your package so that you can maximize the use of your postage dollars. Customers are encouraged to send us an e-mail at jbeane@jojosgiftshoppe.com so that we can custom pack your order. We strive to ship your quilting fabric within 24 hours.

Remember to visit us first for the best selection of Online Quilt Fabric from an affordable Online Quilt Shoppe. 20% off all New Arrivals daily.

Don’t Miss Out on the opportunity to Win a $25 or $50 Shopping Spree! Click here for details.

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Thanks to all that entered their quilts in the Weekly Themed Quilt Contest. This week’s theme is Winter Fun.

Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner with the most votes will a copy of the Quilter’s Cookbook.

• Voting is open Friday – Sunday @ 11 p.m.
• One vote per IP address (NOT email address), so have your family and friends cast a ballot for your favourite quilt (from home if you send it to coworkers)
• Winner announced Monday!

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P.S. You can also leave a comment here for a chance to win a copy of the Cookbook.

P.S.S. Next week’s theme is Two-Coloured Quilts. Get your cameras out.

Registration is now available for the Winter Time Mini Quilt Swap. Some of the rules have changed, so please read the guidelines page carefully before you register.

Registration closes January 31st. Partner information will be sent by February 2nd. The deadline to mail your mini quilt is March 1st for overseas shipments and March 8th for domestic shipments (and Canada/USA).

Looking for some inspiration? Check out these fabulous mini quilts made for the fall swap. Such fabulous work and amazing creativity.

Don’t forget to enter this week’s contest. The theme is Winter Fun.

I’ve been quilting since 2003, when my Aunt-in-law, Karen took me to her Guild Potluck, I was so inspired and in aaaw that I signed up for every class and bought hundreds of dollars worth of the “must-haves”. I was married in 2001, and I thought once I got married, my DH would entertain me…I was in for a surprise :) So, I went and took a sewing class with an old Kenmore passed onto me from my Aunt. I LOVED it and then I took 2 or 3 more classes. It ended up that my sewing teacher was part of this aaaaw inspiring guild and I’ve been a member ever since.

I love to try new techniques and most of the harder ones like paper piecing, cotton theory, free motion quilting (which I still need to practice), I’ve learnt from books and magazines on my own late at night lol. I have, however, taken many classes and probably always will. I’ve taught a few classes and will be teaching more as I love to inspire and share quilting to all ages and levels of experience.

I’m originally from Jasper (area), Alberta, Canada (where my grandparents owned this resort). I grew up in the mountains and, as a kid, I definitely took it for granted but now as an adult I LOVE the mountains especially in the Winter and my roots. Some of my Aunts are sewers, stitchers (mostly) and my Mum has sewn since she was 10. So, I must I have the gene. I’ve always liked to be creative either by decorating something or knitting and now sewing and quilting.

I started blogging in 2007 but seriously blogging in 2009. Val’s Quilting is a true collection of my thoughts, quilting projects, UFO’s (don’t we all have a list), tutorials (some mine and some I’ve collected), friendships and more. I blog about Quilting in Alberta which is based around the two guilds I belong to and local events. I truly like this blogging world because you get to connect with like-minded people all over the world and they with you. I’m not sure I will ever go to Belgium never-mind if I did, have the time to find a quilter & become good friends with her while I’m there – blogging it’s fabulous! I’m very active on Facebook (personally and for my business fan page) and Twitter .

A tool I can’t live without is my Gingher Scissors and this is all thanks to Kim who introduced me to them years ago. These are by far the best scissors I’ve ever owned, they feel nice in the hand, they look great and the best thing about them is they stay sharp!

For 2010 I would like to finish my UFO’s, more e-interviews (if you want to be interviewed email me), more vid-casts and maybe start a podcast (I’ve had a few requests), spend more time with friends, design more, learn new techniques, save more memories by taking photos of everything, plan a few retreats (to come). I want to go to Houston this year maybe once if not twice (anyone want to join me?) and soak it all in.

I’ve always wanted to own a quilting store but the one I wanted to own wasn’t for sale sooo…this past fall I took the plunge and opened an online boutique style of shop, Pastimes Online Ltd. where I specialize in higher end quilting notions, projects, dupioni silks, block of the months , neat items like Quilters Tea (yum) etc.

Thank you for reading my entry as a Guest Blogger, now its your turn!! Thanks Michele for making this site so fantastic!

(All pictures taken by me, I love any type of flower and my cat, Tig)

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