Favorite Finish Monthly Linkup - June 2021

Welcome to June's Favorite Finish Monthly Linkup!

My favorite finish this month was my book Just One Charm Pack Quilts.  It was so nice to be able to share with everyone all of the quilts that I had made back in 2020.  Here is one of my favorite quilts from the book called Medallion and you can find the book on Amazon and signed copies in my shop.

Medallion Quilt.  Photo by C&T Publications

Ready for the party?  

Here is a reminder of the party details:

• The linky party will open at 12:01am EST on the last day of the month and will be open for 5 days, through the 4th at 11:59 pm EST.

• For instructions on how to link up blog, Instagram, or pictures from your computer (new - there is now a way to just upload a picture without a web link) to the party, click here.  

• If linking a blog post, I ask that you please add a link back to the party.

• Please visit at least 3 other links (and preferably leave comments) to share the love and celebration :)

I hope you join in by checking out the posts or linking your favorite finish of the month!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

 

 

It's Here! Just One Charm Pack Quilts

 

I am so happy to announce that Just One Charm Pack Quilts has officially published :)   I have all of the pre-orders sent out and extra books ready to ship.

JUST ONE CHARM PACKS AT AMAZON

As of today, my book is now published and available at Amazon, you can find it here (affiliate link).

SIGNED COPIES OF THE BOOK

You can also get signed copies of the Just One Charm Pack Quilts book in my shop here.

UNBOXING VIDEO

Want to see the unboxing of the book?  Check it out here on Instagram.

BOOK HOP

In mid-July, there will be a week long book hop where a bunch of quilters will be showing off their versions of the book quilts.  I love seeing everyone's take on the designs and am excited to see what they make.

CHARITY QUILT SEW ALONG

In early July, I will be kicking off a charity sew along for the book.  This will be an informal fun way to make some quilts and give back to the community.  Each quilt made from one of the book patterns and donated to a cause will gain you one entry to win some fun prizes (and help out the worthy cause of your choice).  More details to come...

Macaron Mystery Quilt Staring in Two Weeks ++ Sponsors & Prizes

 

Only two weeks until the kick off of the Macaron Mystery Quilt Along!  I am so excited and I hope that you are too!  You can find out all about the quilt along here including dates, the un-mystery quilt option, and the Facebook group.

Check out all of our generous sponsors and the prizes they are donating. All prizes will be given out randomly to those that enter the final reveal parade (finished quilt tops or finished quilts).  Be sure to scroll to the bottom for an awesome giveaway.

I want to thank all of our twelve (12!!) sponsors for generously donating prizes for this quilt along!  Without further ado, here are the sponsors in random order...

Aurifil

Large Spool Collection - 12 Large Spools

Aurifil is a favorite of quilters for their high quality, wonderful colors, and variety of thread weights.  Aurifil thread is made from the finest cottons grown in the Mako region of Egypt and manufactured in Milano, Italy.

Backside Fabrics

$50 Gift Certificate

Backside Fabrics specializes in wide quilt backing fabrics that are both beautiful and affordable.  I love wide back fabrics so I do not have to piece a backing and Backside Fabrics has the largest selection I have ever seen.  

Busy Hands Quilts

$25 Gift Certificate - 3 Winners

Myra of Busy Hands Quilts makes custom quilts and designs quilt patterns.  Her patterns include instructions for all sizes from wall to king, including two lap sizes, wherever possible.  Clear instructions with easy-to-read charts and diagrams are also a part of her patterns, as well  as fabric requirements using yardage and precuts when applicable.  She loves strip piecing because it saves time and she includes directions for strip piecing if it works for the pattern.  You can find all of her patterns in her shop, Busy Hands Quilts.

Brewstitched

$50 Gift Certificate

Brewstitched is a wonderful online and brick & mortar fabric shop famous for all of pre-orders, new fabrics, and blender/solids.  Brewstitched is a new sponsor (and is having a giveaway below!!) and will also be offering kits for sale for the Macaron Mystery.

 Cotton Cuts
Cotton Cuts Classic, Modern Maker, or Java Box (US shipping only)

Cotton Cuts is a fabric subscription box that delivers designer quilting fabric based on your preferences.  Cotton Cuts offers subscription boxes for fabrics (large and small amounts), thread, and more. 

Fat Quarter Shop

$35 Gift Certificate

The Fat Quarter Shop features high quality quilting fabric for quilting, sewing, crafters and fabric lovers of all ages. They have all of the latest prints as well as a huge selection of solids, patterns, notions, quilt kits.

Quilt Pattern Mart

$40 Gift Certificate

Quilt Pattern Mart is a digital pattern marketplace made by quilters for quilters containing almost 200 quilt patterns for sale. The patterns range from beginner to advanced and cover applique, paper piecing, traditional piecing and more.

Quilting Jetgirl
2 winners of 2 pdf patterns each

Yvonne of Quilting Jetgirl is back as a sponsor for the fourth year in a row! Yvonne blogs at Quilting Jetgirl. She has been quilting for 20+ years and credits quilting with helping her feel balanced and connected to both her local hometown community and a larger global community. Her patterns are available through her shop.

Quilting by Anne-Marie

$85 longarm quilting voucher

Quilting by Anne-Marie offers custom and digital edge-to-edge long arm quilting services to quilters nationwide. Whether you're modern, traditional, or somewhere in between, Anne-Marie will work with you to select a design to complement your quilt. She strives to provide excellent customer service in a timely fashion.


Prize details: $85 will cover many designs of edge-to-edge longarm quilting of mystery quilt (or equivalent size quilt). Winner responsible for shipping (both ways) and batting.

Sew Colorado Quilting

Voucher for Macaron Mystery quilt quilting (or similar sized quilt)

Sew Colorado Quilting, LLC Voucher for longarm quilting of mystery quilt At Sew Colorado Quilting LLC, I'm focused on collaborating with quilters to finish quilts through digital edge to edge quilting designs. Quality at a reasonable cost is my priority and I love working with a variety of experience levels. I've quilted for fabric designers, first time quilters and every level in between.


Prize details: Voucher will cover many designs of edge-to-edge longarm quilting of mystery quilt (or equivalent size quilt) and batting. Winner responsible for shipping (both ways) and batting.

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InkTorrents Graphics

2 winners - each winning a set of star quilt pattern greeting cards (US addresses only)

Soma of InkTorrents Graphics is a software engineer by trade. She is an accomplished quilter, paper pieced pattern designer, painter, drawer, and photographer.  Soma's beautiful creations can be found in her shop InkTorrents Graphics.

Meadow Mist Designs

2 pdf Patterns - 2 Winners

Cheryl Brickey of Meadow Mist Designs focuses on producing innovative patterns with clear instructions by combining her technical writing and math skills with her love of quilting. She loves teaching computer aided quilt design and basic quilting skills to others. You can find all of her patterns in her shop and she just published her second book, Just One Charm Pack Quilts.

And now who is ready for a giveaway?

This giveaway of a $25 gift certificate is generously donated by one of our newest sponsors, Brewstitched, who is also going to be offering kits for purchase for the Macaron Mystery Quilt.

Giveaway open now through Tuesday June 22nd at midnight EDT.  Open to everyone everyone around the world, ages 18 and up.

To enter the giveaway:  

1. Sign up for Brewstitched newsletter (which includes their free pattern of the month) here. Leave a comment on this blog post saying you have signed up (or are already a subscriber).

2. Follow Brewsitched on Instagram here. Leave a second comment on this blog post saying you are a follower.

** Giveaway now closed - congrats to #94 **

Just One Charm Packs Quilts & Cats

I thought it might be fun to highlight my favorite quilt testers Oreo, Reeses, and Piper today.  They took their job of laying on and messing with every fabric, quilt block, quilt top, and finished quilt I made for the Just One Charm Pack Quilts book very seriously.  

These are all in-progress iPhone pictures so they are not the best photo-wise but it they were too cute not to share.

Reeses on the Nine Patch Challenge quilt top

Piper asleep on the job monitoring Baskets piecing

Piper on Baskets while I was trying to cut batting

Reeses and Piper helping with basting Coin Flip

Piper helping to block the Nine Patch Challenge after quilting

Oreo helping with basting Ships Ahoy

Reeses and Piper wrestling over Nine Patch Challenge

Piper modeling the finished Fishies quilt

Reeses getting cat hair on Baskets as I was trying to de-lint and fold it for shipping

Piper getting cat hair on Baskets as I was trying to de-lint and fold it for shipping

Oreo getting cat hair on Baskets (the other version) as I was trying to de-lint and fold it for shipping

Just as a reminder, my super awesome, signed book bundle pre-sale for Just One Charm Pack Quilts ends tomorrow night (Saturday June 5th at midnight EST).  The bundles includes:

• Signed copy of Just One Charm Pack Quilts book ($25 value)
• Three (3) individual Meadow Mist Designs patterns, printed or digital ($36 value)
• Digital copy of Cathedral Window Pincushions pattern ($12 value). This is a special pattern not available for purchase outside of this bundle.

$73 dollar value for $25 plus shipping

You can find out more about the deal here and purchase the deal here.

Macaron Mystery ++ 1 Month Until Kickoff!

The Macaron Mystery Quilt, a free monthly mystery quilt along will kick off in just one more month on Thursday, July 1st! 

The Macaron Quilt is a free quilt-along that will run from July 2021 through April 2022 with a set of directions revealed the first Thursday of every month.

We will kick off the quilt-along on Thursday, July 1st with the fabric requirements and some helpful hints to pick fabrics and colors (you will have an entire month to gather fabrics before the cutting instructions in August).

Here are some more details about the upcoming mystery quilt...




QUILT ALONG INSTRUCTIONS

The monthly instructions will be posted to this blog as blog posts (and can always be found on the Macaron Mystery Page).  I will be attaching a link to the downloadable, easy to print, pdf versions of the instructions right into each monthly instruction blog post.  There is no need to sign up to get the instructions, they will be posted here each month.

To make sure that you do not miss any posts, make sure that you are subscribed to the blog (here are some links for following... Bloglovin, Email).

PRIZES 

We will have many prizes which will be given out randomly to quilters who submit finished quilts or quilt tops to the reveal parade in April 2022.  I will be posting about the sponsors and prizes in about two weeks.

UN-MYSTERY QUILT OPTION

Want to join in the fun but making a mystery quilt is not your thing? I totally understand and offer a sneak peek of the design!

If you would like to see the final pattern to decide whether to join in or to help pick colors, you can sign up to receive the Un-Mystery Quilt Sneak Peek.  The sneak peek will be sent out on Thursday, July 1st and will contain the sneak peek, multiple colorway renderings, and a coloring page.

Click Here for the Un-Mystery Sneak Peek

• The only rule is that you have to keep the design completely to yourself as to not spoil anyone else's surprise.
• This sign up is only for a sneak peek and will not be used for sending out instructions.
• This is a fresh signup so if you want the sneak peek you need to sign up, even if you had signed up for last year's sneak peek. 

FACEBOOK GROUP

We have over 8,000 members in our Facebook Group (Meadow Mist Designs Facebook Group) sewing together! Join the group today so you can share and see everyone else's fabric, progress pictures, and finished quilts.

QUILT KITS

There is no need to purchase a kit to take part in the mystery quilt along, but for those that would like to purchase a quilt kit, there will be kits offered (more info and links will be posted on July 1st)

PREVIOUS MYSTERY QUILTS

The instructions for my previous mystery quilts are located in the Mystery Quilt tab above (and are always available so you can start them at any time).

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions regarding my mystery quilts you can e-mail me at MMDmysteryquilts@gmail.com or leave your question in a comment below.