Seasonal Silhouettes by Edyta Sitar book review and giveaway!

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Inspired by nature and seasonal changes, Edyta brings the ease of raw edge quilting into your hands to create one beautiful quilt block at a time, with no limits on the size of your completed project.  Edyta Sitar‘s newest book Seasonal Silhouettes from Landauer Publishing , features twelve inspirational quilts blocks, one for every month of the year, using raw edge applique with five different block settings for you to decide the final size of your quilt.

Edyta has put together a lovely video to show even more of what her book has to offer

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June Designer of the Month Wencke Wolff Hatling

2013 Wencke Wolff Hatling June Aurifil designer buttonHi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator. June’s Designer of the month is the ultra talented Norwegian designer Wencke Wolff Hatling. If you have not yet heard of Wencke you are in for a REAL treat my friends. She is an experienced designer, a very enthusiastic shop owner (who does videos for her customers) and her designs are beyond delightful! I’m been happy to call Wencke my friend and you are going to adore her designs.

I interviewed Wenke on my Radio show on March 5, 2012. To Listen CLICK HERE. then scroll down until you see the Green “Disco” ball. Once the shows load.. scroll the radio player and listen!

She did a video as she toured the Aurifil plant.. CLICK TO  see her video and CLICK HERE to her Youtube channel. Some videos are in English, like her interview of me, and some in Norwegian! She also has one of all her new designs in her booth at market.

EACH MONTH we will pick one random winner that has made a  block from our designers and that random person receives a FULL BOX of my Aurifil thread as the  prize! Winners are all contacted via Flickr email and posted at our Flickr page in the winner topics.


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Let’s meet Wencke! (pronounced Ven-Key)

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WINNER of the Aurifil May Designer of the Month drawing!

May Block Solvi01 winner buttonAre you following along with our Designer of the Month Sew Along?

Each month we select a random person that made a block, For May our winner is Solvi from Norway, who has made all the blocks!

What FABULOUS juicy colors she is working with. Put a photo of YOUR finished block in our flickr group and YOU might win the next box of Aurifil thread.. yes a BOX.. a box worth over $120.00 …. just for showing us your block.  Easy eh?

Flickr group –
http://www.flickr.com/groups/2013aurifildom/

Past Designer of the Month posts CLICK HERE

Pat-Sloan-LogoFinalsmOur June Designer is up next.. stay tuned…. Your Host.. Pat Sloan

 

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day with Aurifil and cupcakes ( updated with winner announcement)

Welcome to another fun round of the fantastic Giveaway Day hosted by the wonderful Sew Mama Sew.  Twice a year, all the best sewing and craft related giveaways  posted in one spot so you can grab a cup of coffee, start up a film for the kids, kick back, browse and enter for a chance to win everything you could possibly want in your sewing stash.

Do you know what cupcakes and Aurifil have in common?

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MARK LIPINSKI!!!!

“What happens when a great Italian thread maker joins forces with a bold American quilter? You get thread with a passion.

Look, anyone who knows Mark Lipinski knows that I speak my mind and have passion for the truth. I’ve based my quilting career on it. So you can trust that when I put my name on a box of Aurifil thread, it’s not for celebrity or money, but for the pure love of the thread.

When you use a quality thread on your patchwork, quilting and embroidery you know it. And there is no better thread than my personal favorite, Aurifil. Here’s the deal: When I sit down to a project, I want to finish with the least thread breaks, without having to change spools, and produce projects that have the flattest seams and less bulk. I also want a smooth thread, one that’s practically lint free, machine washable and colorfast! Aurifil fits the bill.
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May Designer of the Month Jackie Kunkel!

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Hi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator. May’s Designer of the month is the fantastic Jackie Kunkel!

Jackie and I have known each other for many years and when we finally meet in person it was in the ladies room at a restaurant in Houston.. really! I can’t make this stuff up.  What I love about Jackie is her use of color. BOLD use of color. She is a master at combing fabrics and making outstanding quilts.

Jackie is so full of information I’ve had her on my radio show several times. She did a super segment on paper piecing that you will want to listen to! CLICK HERE to listen When you get to the page scroll to the bottom until you find the “Disco Ball Player”. Once it loads, scroll down the list to April 8, 2013 and July 16, 2012,

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EACH MONTH we will pick one random winner that has made a  block from our designers and that random person receives a FULL BOX of my Aurifil thread as the  prize! Winners are all contacted via Flickr email and posted at our Flickr page in the winner topics.

You can make ANY of the 2013 blocks to be in the running (and we hope you make them all!). Share your photos at our Flickr Folder… we can’t WAIT to see what you do!


http://www.flickr.com/groups/2013aurifildom/

Let’s get to know Jackie!

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A rainbow of colors in Prism ( a giveaway)

Michele Scott is a fantastic designer, teacher, author and so much more! Her bubbly personality is very apparent in her work that you can see on her blog The Pieceful Quilter. It is only natural that she would want to design a collection of Aurifil threads that is very similar to her personality, full of all the the colors in the rainbow.

1953_58582186390_5350_nApproximately eighteen years ago, Michele decided to take up a little hobby of quilting to pass the time. Like every other self-respecting “quilt-a-holic”, it quickly became a passion. Machine quilting was of particular interest to her, as it was just becoming a popular and acceptable way of quilting your quilt. Michele was fascinated with the freedom of free motion quilting – especially creating designs that need no marking. Embellishing quilts with a variety of decorative threads was thrilling to her, and she was determined to incorporate as many of them in my quilts as she could! Working with these threads could sometimes be frustrating, so she spent countless hours developing strategies to work with them more effectively. Continue reading

April Designer of the Month is Katy Jones!

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Hi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator. April’s Designer of the month is the creative mind behind Monkey Do and new Quilt book Author Katy Jones! Katy lives in a little village just outside of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. She tells me “There’s not much where I live – some woodland, some fields, some with shaggy brown cattle with horns in and some with sheep.”

Because of the internet not only have I gotten to know the fabulous Katy via her blog Monkey Do, but we have been able to exchange ideas, help each other through tasks and become great friends! Katy takes fabric and makes it sings! She is not afraid of a bold print nor does she shy away from a timid fabric. Katy takes them all and pushes the traditional quilt to the outer limits.

On June 5, 2012 I did a super cool interview with Katy about her work and she shared with me exactly the type of fabric that is missing in our world!

CLICK HERE to listen to my podcast, it’s a fun one!. When you get to the page scroll to the bottom until you find the “Disco Ball Player”. Once it loads, scroll down the list to June 5, 2012!

EACH MONTH we will pick one random winner that has made a  block from our designers and that random person receives a special Aurifil thread prize! Winners are all contacted via Flickr email and posted at our Flickr page in the winner topics.

You can make ANY of the 2013 blocks to be in the running (and we hope you make them all!). Share your photos at our Flickr Folder… we can’t WAIT to see what you do!


http://www.flickr.com/groups/2013aurifildom/

Let’s get to Know Katy!

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