It's a giveaway!

Have I mentioned that I'm so excited about being published in a national quilt magazine that I'm hosting several giveaways this week?  Well I am! Many of you know that I teach quilting classes and that I design many of the quilts I teach, so I thought it would be fun to give away one of my other patterns. 

This is the popular Circle and Spin quilt...make circles without headaches or fear! It is one of my favorites because the blocks are quickly put together and you can use a variety of fabrics. I love it made with batiks, but have also used asian fabrics. I have taught it numerous times, most recently last weekend,  and  have made several, including one for each of my three daughters.

 Starflower Cascade is a newer design that I made last summer to enter in a contest. I really love the ombre effect this quilt has and think it would be so pretty made out of bright colors for a kid's quilt.

I have several for sale on Craftsy. Just visit my Craftsy store for more views of each one and see which one you like!

 Miss Tess  is my newest design and is fun and easy to make! It's a great design to use up fat quarters you've been collecting!

 Which Way is Up is a fun quilt with geese flying in different directions. Another great scrap quilt.

 Peas in a Pod  is easy enough for a beginner, in fact I have been teaching a version of it to beginners the past few weeks.

Tangled in the Kite Strings is stringpiecing at its best.

Twisterweave was a mystery quilt originally too...It's hard to tell where one block ends and the next begins in this one!

To enter, all you have to do is follow me here or like me on my Quiltinjeanie Designs Facebook page and leave a comment after this post telling me which pattern you want if you win! It's that easy. I will pick a winner on Sunday, March 9. Feel free to share this giveaway with your friends!

Lovely L and some Sew-in finishes

I quilted a few rows on my daughter's quilt this morning. As I unrolled it to drape til next time I could see the end about 24" away! I planned on having it done by now, but the terrible heat has kept me out of that room. Maybe in the morning I can get up there early and get it finished. 

Lucky for me, Letter L was much easier to accomplish than K...I like my L...very likable, lovable, linkable L. Today is Lynne's birthday, so pop over there, using the nice linkable link, and wish her a Happy Birthday!

 I forgot to mention the reason I put my J and K together yesterday was because they are my initials. By the time I got it downloaded, I had forgotten what I wanted to say. Can't wait to see how we make M tomorrow.

 Dianne worked on her Kaleidoscope quilt on Tuesday. It is so bright and pretty.

Betty was quilting her Twisterweave Mystery quilt last week, and brought it completed to show us on Tuesday. Another pretty mystery quilt finished. Everyone is excited to be getting so much finished on these Tuesday sew-in days.

Twisterweave Mystery Quilt revealed!

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Today was the last session of the Twisterweave Mystery class, so they got to see how all the pieces they have been working on will come together to make this quilt. You might remember when I quilted it back in May. It isn't bound yet....more about that later.

Here are a couple of guesses to what the finished quilt would look like. Jane was pretty close!

I'm sure there are probably other settings that would look good too. It's fun to just play around.

The ladies that were here today had all their pieces ready to put together, so they got a lot of sewing done. There are just 2 different blocks to make, then when you put those blocks together, you see a different pattern as well.

Kim is making hers as a baby gift, it has colorful dinosaurs all over it. She has a cute dinosaur border print that goes with it too.

 Jane has a cat scene print that she is using for a border.

 I think that Eileen's would make an adorable baby girl quilt.

Don't you love the dots? Dianne said that was all she could see when she looked at hers, but I think the pattern shows up well too!

Two of the students couldn't come today, so I am looking forward to seeing their quilts too.

I have decided that I am going to have to have a binding week or a binding day every week or some way to get bindings done on my quilts. Sometimes I am in a hurry to get a quilt hung on display for class, so quilt it (it looks so much better) but don't bind until later (this is one of my excuses). Most of the time I sew the binding on both sides by machine as it is so much faster.  I even have the binding made for three of them. Does anyone else have this problem? What do you think? binding week? a day every week to bind? I don't actually know if I could stick to a day a week, but I need to do something and get them done!

I went to the Omaha Quilt Guild's Quilt Show with friends yesterday. It was fun and inspiring to see so many pretty quilts. I took some pix so will post some later. Lots of great vendors too, though I managed to keep my wallet in my purse! We drove up to Country Traditions quilt store in Fremont, NE afterwards and I did buy a few fat quarters there. It was a great quilty day.

Twisterweave Mystery Class

 The Twisterweave Mystery Class met for the 2nd time to work on their 2nd clue Saturday. When you are doing a mystery quilt, you have to think a lot about how the colors will relate to each other. You don't know what you are making, so you have to go by the color suggestions you are given. In this mystery, there has to be one fabric that is definitely dark compared to the others. Then you need a light to work as a background, 2 that are medium in color (which I think is the hardest to decide), and a light.

 I gave them a color chart that has the colors I used on the pattern, so they can tape snips of the fabrics to them. That way it is easier to keep on track using the correct fabric in the correct place.

As I took pictures of everyone's Clue 2 pieces, Jane was busy playing with her pieces from Clue 1 and mixing them with Clue 2 to see if she could figure out the mystery.

Hmmmmmm.......

This clue uses their dark, a medium and their background/light.

 Will she figure it out?

 I think all of their color choices are going to work out well.

Maybe she will figure out something else that is just as interesting...
They will find out next Saturday how their clues come together to make this quilt!