Category Archives: Quilting

Zig Zag Quilt

Zig Zag Quilt

If you follow along on our Facebook Page you know what a free pattern junkie I am. I love finding them and I love sharing them. Facebook is such a perfect medium for stuff like that. Here’s an album of all the free patterns we’ve linked to if you need to catch up. I have…

Countdown to Christmas – Day 18

Windy Days Quilt

Countdown to Christmas – Day 18 Windy Days Quilt by Sarah of SarahB Designs  Pink Chalk Fabrics Handmade with Love 2011 Tutorial Contest - vote for your favorite tutorial through Wednesday, December 21

Handmade With Love Tutorial Contest – Cast Your Vote

Handmade with Love

12/22/11 Update: Winners Announced Handmade with Love – the first ever Pink Chalk Fabrics holiday tutorial contest – is now open for voting (voting runs through Wednesday, December 21, limit one vote per IP address). The Pink Chalk Team selected 5 favorites in each category. Your votes determine the top prize in each category (a…

Countdown to Christmas – Day 15

Oh, Christmas Tree

Countdown to Christmas – Day 15 Oh, Christmas Tree Quilt by Amy of Allie Kat Mom  Pink Chalk Fabrics Handmade with Love 2011 Tutorial Contest - today, December 15 is the last day to enter!

Countdown to Christmas – Day 13

Christmas Truck Block

Countdown to Christmas – Day 13 Christmas Truck Block by Juliana of Sewing Under Rainbow  Pink Chalk Fabrics Handmade with Love 2011 Tutorial Contest - talented makers are adding entries daily!

The Making of a Team Quilt

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The Pink Chalk team quilt began in September. A project to make a group quilt to donate to the Bumble Beans BASICS Quilt Drive. After a bit of discussion on how to go about such a thing, a plan was hatched: block style: improvisational pieced the common thread: a stack of 8 solids block size: multiples of…

Countdown to Christmas – Day 10

Cathedral Window Baby Playmat

Countdown to Christmas – Day 10 Cathedral Window Baby Playmat by Amy Gibson of Stitchery Dickory Dock  Pink Chalk Fabrics Handmade with Love 2011 Tutorial Contest - talented makers are adding entries daily!

A quilter? Not me.

The first time I saw this quilt was shortly after Kathy hired me at Pink Chalk. The Flower Show quilt designed by Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle of FunQuilts.com, appeared in Quilts and More Magazine Spring 2010. It has since been re-released in the BH&G Perfect For Precuts volume 1, 2011. I am not a…

Bumble Beans Inc. BASICS Quilt Drive – Help Make It 700!

Like most good quilt stories this one started simply enough. In 2005, my good friend Jone Hallmark sent me fabrics she had designed for Free Spirit. I made her a quilt. There were extra blocks and extra fabric so I made another quilt. Last year I received an e-mail from Victoria Findlay Wolfe. She told…

Return of the Aurifil Blog Hop Blocks

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I had a great time participating in the Aurifil Blog Hop in February. Nine bloggers created nine original blocks incorporating the same two fabrics sent to us by Pat Sloan (the green on white floral print and the pink/blue/green/yellow stripe print shown in my block above). In the process, I became an Aurifil evangelist. It’s…