June Designer of the Month Wencke Wolff Hatling

Hi 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.

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

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

WINNER of the Aurifil May Designer of the Month drawing!

Are 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

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

 

May Designer of the Month Jackie Kunkel!

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,

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!

April Designer of the Month is Katy Jones!

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!

Are you Caught up on your Designer of the Month blocks?

Be sure you have put your finished blocks into our Flickr group. That puts you in the running to win an incredible thread prize!

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

March Designer of the Month is Jeni Baker

Hi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator.

March’s Designer of the month is fabric and pattern designer Jeni Bakr. I have been following Jeni’s work at her site “In Color Order” for a long time. She is a great pattern designer and very generous with many free tutorials at her website. Her instructions and explanations are wonderful, and I think we have all made her bag pattern above! Plus I go to see ‘George the Bunny’… yes.. Jeni has a pet bunny and now I want a pet bunny.. so sweet! (shhh.. she doesn’t know I snagged the George photo.. it’s our secret.. don’t tell her I’m obsessed with George!)

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 meet Jeni!

2012 Designer of the Month Block Setting Pattern

Hi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator. Every month in 2012 one of our fabulous Designers created an adorable stitchery using our 12 wt threads.

At the end of the year their stack of blocks were all at MY house.. I’m so lucky!!

Sherri Falls created the rough draft of the setting and it was my job to use the Moda’s “Sassy”  Layer cake that I had to set the blocks. This was GREAT fun! To be honest it’s a bit of a challenge to use just one fabric line sometimes, but the design team did such a great job with their blocks that it was easy to create a super cute layout.

CLICK HERE if you are missing any of the patterns

Want to see?

January Designer of the Month is Erin Russek

Hi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator. I’d like to give you some background on our challenge this year.

Pat Bravo at Art Gallery designed a wonderful line of fabric called “Rock and Romance”. She has given each of the 12 designers a 10″ x 18″ cut of each of the 6 fabrics above. What a yummy set of fabrics to play with!

Each Designer has been challenged to use some of these fabrics PLUS one other fabric of their choice to create a pieced block.  The pieced block needs to be inspired by a Rock and Roll song!  How fun is this?

I have the six fabrics above with yardage of the Large floral, medium floral, Peach and the the two additional fabrics above. (my yardage below)

Many of you would love a supply list, but since this is a challenge. I don’t know how much yardage to tell you as I don’t know what fabrics each designer will use.

What I can give you is this… if each designer used the same 10″ x 18″ in their block. Then I would approximate 1 yd. to be used of that most popular fabric.

If you want to stash build.. buy 1 yd of each of these. THEN you will add something from your stash, like the designers are, to compliment the blocks. What you don’t use can go into your stash or be used for the back.

• RR-4409 Femme Metale Chrome
• RR-4401 Stardust Dawn
• RR-4405 Vinyl Charms Scarlet
• RR-4403 Haze of Rock
• RR-4404 Rebel Cherie Kisses
• RR-4406 Ashen Rose Smoke

I can’t design the setting until I start to see the blocks and which fabrics are used. What I don’t use for the setting will go into a pieced back. This is the yardage I have (some duplicated from above) to use for setting and binding the quilt.

• 2 yds RR-4400  Wild Heart Daring – I will use this one for the border
• 1.5 yds RR-4503 Haze of Love
• 1.5 yds RR-4508 Stardust Midnight
• 1 yds RR-4401 Stardust Dawn
• 1 yd RR-4409 Femme Metale Chrome – I will use this one for binding

CLICK HERE to see the full fabric line

Erin Russek of “One Piece at a Time” is truly an amazing designer. She often works in applique with lots of pieced touches.  Her work is very symmetrical and perfectly laid out. I covet her skills, really I do!! Erin blogs about her quilting adventures and she has a new full time job at McCall’s magazine, a dream job don’t you think?

Erin participated in our Aurifil Blog Hop and her block is in the center of the quilt she is holding above.. so pretty! (you can find that quilt pattern on the Aurifil FREE pattern Page)

EACH MONTH we will pick one random winner that has made a  block.. that person will receive 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 Meet Erin!

Announcing the 2013 Aurifil Design Team!

Pat Sloan here to announce the 2013 Aurifil Design team!  This is going to be a very exciting year. We have 12 Designers creating an awesome PIECED block ….did I just hear a HUGE CHEER!!!…  We are using Pat Bravo’s amazing fabric line called “Rock and Romance”…

Let’s see who is on the team!

Left to right…

Row 1

• Erin Russek http://erinrussek.typepad.com/
• Marie-Claude Picon-Iperti http://www.lessecretsdemarie.com/
• Jeni Baker http://www.incolororder.com/
• Katy Jones  http://imagingermonkey.blogspot.com/
• Jackie Kunkel http://cvquiltworks.blogspot.com/

Row 2

• Wenche Wolff Hatling  http://northernquilts.blogspot.com/
• Polly Minick and Laurie Simpson http://www.minickandsimpson.com/
• Jill Finley jillilystudio.com
• Kimberly Einmo http://www.kimberlyeinmo.com/

Row 3

• Allison Harris http://www.cluckclucksew.com/
• Laurie Tigner http://ontheqt-quiltingtangents.blogspot.com/
• Lyn Stalowy http://www.bigforkbaycottonco.com/quilting-blog/
• Pat Bravo  http://www.patbravo.com/
  
• Pat Sloan  http://blog.patsloan.com

And this is a peek at “Rock and Romance” CLICK HERE to Art Gallery to see the entire line.

Are you ready for a Rock and Roll year? We are!

December Designer of the Month Liz Hawkins and Beth Hawkins of Lizzie B Cre8ive

 

Hi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator. For December our stitchery series is from the incredible Lizzie B Cre8ive design team duo, Beth Hawkins and Liz Hawkins. Who are not sisters, do not live in the same state, but they did marry brothers way back when… before they even quilted!

Beth and Liz have an incredibly playful style which shows up in their quilts, their fabric and