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?

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.

Fall Quilt Market Booth Hop!

Join us for the Aurifil Designer Booth Hop {with Prizes}  right at Market! (click card to see all the designers on the hop)

• Pick up a Card at School house, the Aurifil Booth or with one of the 20 Designers on the Hop!
• Visit the 20 Fabulous Designers
• Have them initial your card
• Leave your card in the Aurifil Booth
• 3pm Monday prizes awarded! Main prize is an Aurifil Suitcase… swoon!

Look for these cards in the designer booths, visit them, find cool stuff, and see how they use Aurifil thread!

Schoolhouses at room 372D

Sharon Pederson and Lyn Kenny 1:20 to1:50 on present three new retail programs using Aurifil thread.

Sarah Vedeler 1:55 to 2:10 Find out why selling bundles instead of individual products will increase your sales

Pat Sloan 2:15 – 2:30 on the Booth hop and Aurifil Designer of the Month program.

Aurifil is booth 1356, 58, 1457, 59

Aurifil supports : Quilters Take Manhattan

A Summer Fundraiser for the Alliance for American Quilts

Asheville, N.C., May 16, 201–The nonprofit Alliance for American Quilts will present a special Big Apple fundraiser with three linked events in New York City on August 5 and 6.On Friday night, August 5, attend the event “Modern Stories: Documenting the Modern Quilt Movement” an intimate gathering at a Garment District loft.  The evening includes a panel of in-the-know bloggers, fabric designers and A-list quilters discussing the Modern Quilt movement. Also, witness Victoria Findlay Wolfe (Bumble Beans Inc.), custom quiltmakerand co-founder of the New York City Metro Area Modern Quilt Guild and Bumble Beans Basics charity project getting interviewed for the Alliance’s oral history project, Quilters’ S.O.S. – Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.). Refreshments and door prizes.

Pat Sloan Blanket Stitching with Aurifil 12wt Thread

The Chicago International Quilt Festival was a GREAT show this year!

Loads of People came to see the quilts and do a little shopping… maybe a LOT of shopping!

Hi this is Pat Sloan! I’m excited to share a few things that I’m doing with AURIfil thread this year.

During the year watch for a series of short videos I’m making about AURlfil threads and how I use them.  The first one tells you how to determine the weight thread… super easy as they color coded it for us!

I want to share a bit about the threads in my 50wt KIT Art Box. Picking just 12 ‘Go To’ colors was not easy!  I think you can see why some are in there for basic piecing and machine quilting. I also included a few unique colors in my KIT that you will find very useful.  The Peach #2220, Citrus Green #2920, and the Clove Brown #2372.

Concours des Pays de l’Adour

“Japonnais”  by Annie RESSAN
Aurifil prize during QUILT EN SUD 2009

Quilt en Sud was created in 1997 by a small group of friends who wanted to promote the patchwork and quilting from the Southern countries.Since then, every other year, St Jean de Luz, a charming village by the sea in the Soutwest of France, very close to Biarritz, hosts this event. 

Alex Veronelli and Stefano Pucci traveled to New Hampshire this year to see first-hand Machine Quilters Exposition (a.k.a. MQX)

Easter week in Manchester, NH saw the latest installment of the Machine Quilters Exposition (a.k.a. MQX) at the Center of New Hampshire/Radisson Hotel. MQX’s first show took place in 2003 in the more remote conference center in Laconia, NH, but has since grown year by year in both size and reputation to become the premier exhibition for machine quilters in the United States. Show founders, Janet-Lee Santeusanio and Mary Schilke made their vision into reality to the delight of exhibitors and visitors alike. MQX is a full-featured show and contest, offering quilters opportunities to exhibit their quilts in a dozen categories, or to take any of over 200 classes and lectures from any of 56 teachers. In addition, every year, the show features special exhibits of related quilts and a charity challenge. This year, those included a 40 piece exhibit called Real Men Can Quilt, and another from a 33 member group from the Maine Machine Quilters and a collection by quilter Ronda Kae Beyer.

“Love Letters” an embroidery contest for Valentine Day

For Valentine day, Mains et Merveilles, a French embroidery magazine belonging to the Editions de Saxe, organized a contest based on “Love Letters”.

Aurifil was very proud to participate to this adventure by offering the prizes to the winners.

There were 6 winners total: 3 selected by a jury and 3 selected by the viewers.

The two first prizes won 3 boxes of Aurifil assorted skeins each in Maestoso, Vivace and Allegro, representing the three different weights of our cotton embroidery threads.

The other winners won each 1 box of assorted skeins.

Congratulations to all the winners!

I can’t sing. But if I could, I would belt out the praises of Aurifil thread!

Imagine me singing to the tune of “He’s So Fine.”  I love Aurifil Cotton Mako 50.  Why?  Because…“It’s so-oo fine!”  I started out using it for quilting in the ditch.  It hides in the ditch and you’ll never see it again!  The only problem with this?  Sometimes I’ve done the same line of quilting twice…it hides too well!