My Cozy Village Pattern Pack Giveaway + Batting Giveaway!

We are excited to be a part of book author Felicia Brenoe's success in releasing her new pattern pack, My Cozy Village! 

In the two different versions of the quilt below, Felicia used Quilters Dream Batting.

Today we are hosting her blog tour and in addition for a chance to win a copy of Felicia's new pattern pack, YOU will also be entered to WIN some Quilters Dream Batting! 

How to enter:

CONTEST CLOSED:

Congratulations BEC on winning the drawing!!

Now that Spring has sprung, in the comment section below.......

Describe your dreamiest, coziest quilting spot.

One lucky winner will receive a My Cozy Village pattern pack, a Dream Green Twin, Dream Pink King and a Dream Orient Double. Entries must be made by March 15th, 2016 (12am EST). Winner will be announced March 16th 2016.

***Please make sure if you are posting your comment anonymously, that you provide a valid email address to be contacted if you win! 

Have fun visiting all the great blogs and websites of the My Cozy Village blog tour this week. Make sure to stick around until the final stop of the tour on March 15 ^th at www.feliciasworld.com for the final giveaway of the My Cozy Village pattern pack.

3/7 C&T Publishing Blog

3/10 Quilter's Dream Batting (additional giveaway of batting at this stop!)

3/11 Quilty Folk

3/12 Live Originally

3/14 Generation Q

3/15 Felicia's World

Happy Quilting,

The #Battgirls

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The Dream Pink Story.

Dream Pink in it's raw form.

Dream Pink is made in the USA.
Packaged with LOVE from our house to your craft room!

The number one question always asked is.. 

"Can you use the Dream Pink when working with white quilts?"

ABSOLUTELY! 

In fact, up and coming modern quilter, Scott Lunt was at McTavish Quilting Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, finishing up his fourth quilt with the Pink. 

Scott calls this the "Plus" quilt and we have to agree. We give him an A++ on this one! 

Our own office #battgirl, Erin, found this pattern from Paper Panache. It couldn't be more perfect to tie in Dream Pink and breast cancer. 

We hope you will join us in our efforts to support patients battling breast cancer. 

Quilters Dream will donate 10% of the gross revenue from the sale of Dream Pink to benefit underfunded medical research for advanced & metastatic breast cancer. 

If you haven't already tried the Dream Pink, what are you waiting for!? Contact your local quilt shop to order or give us a call for a sample. 

Don't forget, we'd love to see your quilt projects and hear your stories so be sure to reach out! 

Happy Quilting

Phone: 888.268.8664

Email: quiltersdreambatting@juno.com

Featured #battgirls (November 2015) Marybeth O'Halloran // White Lotus Quilting

Hi, I'm Marybeth O'Halloran of White Lotus Quilting, on Bainbridge Island, Washington.  I'm a professional longarmer who works on an A-1.  I've finished almost 700 hundred quilts for clients.

This is my tenth year in business and I mostly focus on custom work now.  I've had clients win Grand Champion at our state fair with quilts I've done for them and have had quilts featured on pattern covers for Beach Garden Quilts.  Also I quilted several of the sample quilts in Jane Hardy Miller's fourth French Braid book.

Wish they'd sidelighted those quilts in the pics so you can see the quilting better!

Nautilus

 I also design pantographs for UrbanElementz. .Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville used one of my pantographs, Celtic Curls, for her Celtic Solstice mystery quilt.  This quilt pattern is no longer on her site as it is about to be released in a new book.  But you can see how other quilters interpreted her pattern if you like -- Definitely check it out!

This is a recent custom quilt I finished for a client, with my favorite cotton batting, Dream Cotton Select. This quilt is a lap-sized broken star in soft teals and burgundies, made by Margaret Mathisson of Poulsbo, Washington.  And quilted by me of course!

The feathers are custom designed for the quilt -- usually on a broken star I do feather wreaths in the surrounding diamonds, but the size of these was just short of my 6" minimum for wreaths, so I came up with a different radial feather for the diamonds.  I thought they would go nicely with the cascading feathers on the borders.  Everything is hand drawn as I don't own a computerized system. 

 On this quilt I love how the Dream Cotton Select (midloft) gives just enough to show the detail of quilting but is still supple enough for good drape, even with lots of quilting!

On most quilts I use just a single layer of batting but for applique I love to use two layers: a thin cotton for structure and a Wool or Silk top layer to lift the appliques.  If you quilt densely next to the appliques they fill with the loft of the airy batting and look a bit like they've been trapunto-ed.

Here's a few pics of a recent applique quilt done for a client in Arizona, Linda Nelson:

I am inspired by the crazy mad skills of the quiltmakers I get to meet through their piecework, including those long forgotten patchworkers who made vintage quilts.  I love finishing vintage tops into quilts with modern backs -- they're like little time travelers! 

Like this recent vintage quilt I finished for a client, Sally Kuhn of Bainbridge Island, who owns Sash Mercantile.  I put the soft paisley on the back.  The pattern is Joseph's Coat, it was hand-pieced, and I believe some of the fabrics can date to the late 1800's or early 1900's (the indigos and mourning-style prints).   I quilted stylized curved cross-hatches on this one.

Quilters are the most amazing people, always there to lend a hand, to comfort, to reassure, to encourage and inspire.  They perform the most profoundly and deeply touching acts -- to help others, often strangers, feel less alone in an increasingly impersonal world.

Like most quilters I donate time and energy (and fabric) to several charities, including two quilt guilds, our local Rotary chapter (who has a 6-acre rummage sale in the summer), and the American Heroes quilt organization.  Our small sewing group donates about 1 quilt a month to American Heroes.  My cousin John Priestner died in Iraq several years ago and it's something I participate in to honor his memory.  Every year during our island's outdoor quilt festival hosted by the Bainbridge Island Modern Quilt Guild, I host a community sew-in to benefit American Heroes.  We recycle old dress shirts and telephone book paper and use improvisational methods that just about everyone can try, on my collection of three-quarters sized vintage sewing machines.

 Instead of ending with a selfie, I'm going to include a pic of a commission quilt that took me four years to finish and won best machine quilting and viewer's choice at our last guild show.  The small spiked lone stars are from Karen Stone's book and the lonestar is by Quiltsmart, and it is an original layout.  The fabrics are vintage ties -- some 80-100 years old -- and the background is Italian pinstripe shirting.  I designed the quilting and hand-drew it all with my machine.  Somewhere I have a pic of this with me in front of it and if I find it I'll send it along!

Sincerely,

Marybeth O'Halloran of White Lotus Quilting, Bainbridge Island, Washington

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Keep up with Marybeth!

Check her out on....

Website

Flickr

Wordpress Blog

Atomic Quilting Blog

Facebook

In need of quilts for ALS patients!

We are excited from the success of our 7th annual Hopes & Dreams Quilt Challenge for ALS, which began on August 1st 2015. We would love for you to be a part of this wonderful Challenge too!

The staff here at Quilters Dream hope that you, your guild or quilt shop will consider donating finished quilts to the Hopes & Dreams Quilt Challenge for ALS for the 2015-2016 year. 

Each year, the Hopes & Dreams Quilt Challenge for ALS collects hundreds of quilts to be given to patients living with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), to raise awareness about ALS, and to raise money with 100% of the proceeds being used to fund research toward a cure for this terrible disease.  As special thanks to the wonderful quilters who donate quilts to the Hopes & Dreams Challenge, generous companiesdonate tax deductible prizes and awards to help bring fun, excitement, and success to the Challenge.

Our staff works with the ALS Association chapters all over the country who have joined us in our efforts to help distribute quilts to ALS patients.  

We were recently contacted by a chapter who currently has 700 patients and unfortunately receives 7 more each month! They received quilts from us earlier this year and were hoping to deliver more to their patients for the holidays. 

With your support we can provide quilts for ALS patients while raising awareness and much-needed funds for ALS research. We thank you for being a part of the generous quilting community and for considering to give back with us this holiday season! 

For more info on how you can help, please contact us! 

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