Fat Quarterly Quilt Along post Updated

I've updated the Quilt Along post! Step 4 is putting the quilt top together an their picture is sew pretty! Go check it out!

All the steps are right here.

Happy Stitches,

Anna

P.S. Don't forget to join the giveaway for the rick rack and buttons!

Fat Quarterly Blog Quilt Along

Quilt Along at Fat Quarterly

Hop on over to the Fat Quarterly Blog for Step 3 of the Jelly Roll Quilt Along! This week's step is actually piecing the blocks! Anyone participating? I thought about it last week and planned and planned and never got around to cutting the pieces. Silly me. Too much going on! Maybe this Saturday at the SA Modern Quilt Guild Sewing Saturday I'll be able to work on it some. Missed some steps? Here they are in order.

Step 1 Gather your materials
(This post has a coupon code for CGW for 10% off your order!)

Step 2 Cutting Instructions

Step 3 Block assembly

Step 4 On the Home Stretch
Check back next week for the next step!

(If you are participating, PLEASE leave a post here to let me know! There may be a GIVEAWAY in your fuure!)

Happy Stitching,
Anna

September: Jelly Roll Madness Month at Crafty Girls Workshop

I know it's a couple of days early, but if you happen to be like me you probably appreciate a couple days advance noticed on things. Yep, it's true, I am officially declaring September to be Jelly Roll Madness Month!! That means that all month long I'm going to search out posts around blog land to find great projects and ideas to make using jelly rolls! Mostly this was inspired by the

Fat Quarterly blog's Jelly Roll Quilt Along

and then I saw the CUTE tutorial by Sarah B on Moda Bake Shop for making that

AWESOME Pleated Skirt (plus BONUS applique!)

and of course I just LOVE the

Random Reflections Quilt on MBS (Fandango JR plus a Bella Snow JR).

So right there are THREE great projects to make using a jelly roll! Would you like to play along with all the JR Madness fun? If so, use the cute badge I created to post a link to this post and share your great ideas for JR Madness! You can use the BIG picture I have at the top of this post (please link back here to to my shop) or use this cute smaller one I whipped up. Just right-click and choose Save Picture As... then paste it into a blog post or on your sidebar and link it back here to http://blog.craftygirlsworkshop.com/

I'd LOVE to see what YOU can make with a Jelly Roll!

Also, check out the Jelly Roll page of the Moda Bake Shop blog, this is an index of ALL their posts using just jelly rolls! At the end of JR Madness Month I plan to add a permanent link to all the posts about Jelly Rolls in a new tab at the top of this blog. I want it to be super easy for you to decide what to do with your precut fabrics.

Happy Stitches,
Anna

Jelly Roll Pleated Skirt Tutorial on Moda Bake Shop

Pattern Click Here

Isn't this just the cutest skirt ever? It just uses one jelly roll and the instructions say you can get more than one skirt out of a single roll!  This is one of the FREE tutorials on Moda Bake Shop, which is one of my go to sites for great patterns using precuts. Well, guess what? As of today, we have this EXACT jelly roll, from the Origins line by Basic Grey, in the shop and as an added bonus you can use the coupon code JR10 to get a 10% discount off your ENTIRE order! I think this skirt would be awesome done up in the new Bliss jelly roll by Bonnie and Camille OR the Fandango jelly roll by Kate Spain. The tutorial, a debut by Sarah B of SaraB Designs, is really well written with lots of photos PLUS Sarah gives an added BONUS of the applique pattern needed for that adorable t-shirt on her blog! Thank you Sarah! So why don't you roll on over to the shop and grab yourself an Origins jelly roll to make up this skirt and pick out a second JR to get ready for the Fat Quarterly Quilt Along which starts in September! Don't forget to use the coupon code upon checkout!

Happy Stitches,
Anna

P.S. We have 4 BOLTS of coordinating yardage in the Origins line plus 4 BOLTS of coordinating Fandango yardage, in case you just need a little extra while you're taking advantage of that DISCOUNT!

Fat Quarterly Quilt Along! and New Fabrics from Bliss and Origins

You know my favorite blog Fat Quarterly? Well I signed up for their blog feed so whenever they post new content it goes straight to my e-mail box, and it turns out they are going to have a quilt along in September! Yippee! The bestest part is that it uses a JELLY ROLL and I just finished listing some Brand new jelly rolls from Bliss last night. Yep, YOU can get yours Right now and be all ready to start the quilt along in September. Click the FQ badge to see the details of the Quilt Along.



Then, go visit my SHOP to see all the new JRs that are in or coming in, most likely TODAY including Fandango and Origins! Oh and I just got 4 new Bolts of Origins that are just BEAUTIFUL in the green (they call it kelp) color group.

Aren't these fabrics awesome? Totally in the Crafty Girls Workshop signature colors of aqua and red too! I hope you'll stop by and grab a jelly roll to join in the fun! Or if you already have one or two laying around that's cool too. They do give the option of using fat quarters as well. I hope you'll comment here if you plan to join the Quilt Along. I'd love to know you're joining the fun!

Happy Stitches,

Anna

City Quilts by Cherri House

Check out the awesome interview with Author Cherri House over at Fat Quarterly and leave a comment over there for a chance to win a copy of the book AND a FQ bundle of Robert Kaufman solids! We have some black bella solid on order and it should arrive any day now. I'm definitely getting inspired by solids with this book!

Happy Stitches,

Anna