Craftsy Featured Designer and #1 Best Selling Craftsy Quilt Pattern !!

I have to share my excitement with you that I am the Craftsy Featured Designer right now!

It all started around 10 pm last night when I was starting to get ready for bed.  I checked my e-mail and noticed a large number of paypal e-mails from people buying my On a "Jelly" Roll quilt pattern from craftsy.  I was a little confused by this so I went upstairs to my computer to the craftsy site and found out that my pattern had made the top 20 quilt patterns as number 18!  [insert silly happy dance here]

I took a screen shot to immortalize the moment and by the time I had saved the picture went back to the craftsy site my pattern was now #16!  Needless to say, I sat at the computer for the next hour refreshing it every minute or so watching my On a "Jelly" Roll move up the charts to #12 until I really had to go to bed. 

This morning my pattern has been continuing up the chart.  At 10 am it was number 2 and right at 11 am, On a "Jelly" Roll reached the Number 1 Best Seller spot and I was shown as the Craftsy Featured Designer! 

I am completely floored by the response to my pattern!  If you have a chance, check it out here because I don't know how long I will have this spot :)

I am so excited right now I had to share (it is seriously impacting my patent drafting abilities right now :)

I hope you are having an excellent, excellent day!

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Pink Broken Herringbone Quilt

It's time for Blogger's Quilt Fest - Fall 2013!

The second quilt that I am entering in Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival is my Pink Broken Herringbon Quilt in the baby quilt division.

 

My sister asked me to make a modern quilt for a friends' soon to be born baby girl.  She wanted something more than  just patchwork but still wanted it to be simple and classic.  I have loved the broken herringbone design for a while so this was my excuse to make one :)

I pull all sorts of reds and pinks, many from my 5" square scrap pile and set about making some HST.  I love how many of the colors of the prints do not "go" with each other, but when all placed together with a scrappy arrangement on a background of white, they all kind of go together.

I quilted the broken herringbone quilt using straight lines echoing the vertical, horizontal, and diagonal seams.  I used a favorite pink and white stripe fabric for the binding.

Quilt Stats:
    Quilt Measurements:  approx. 40" x 40"
    Quilted by…Me on my home machine, my Bernina.
    Category – Baby Quilt
    Link Number: ___

Thank you so much for taking a look at my quilt! I hope you stay awhile and have a look around the rest of my blog :)  My first quilt entry, the Pi Quilt, can be found here.

Cheryl

Linking up toAmy's Creative Side, the Blogger's Quilt Festival, and the Baby Quilt Division

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Pi Quilt

It's time for Blogger's Quilt Fest - Fall 2013!

The first quilt that I am entering in Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival is my Pi Quilt in the lap quilt division. 

Both my husband and myself are engineers so for his birthday I knew that wanted to make a special math type quilt for him, thus design for the Pi Quilt was born.  I wanted to paper piece the numbers and could not find a pattern of numbers I liked so I set off to make my own. 

The resultant quilt contains 49 digits of Pi (including the period) with the numbers formed from over 700 individual pieces of fabric (and yes, about half way through I realized how insane this was!)  I sashed the numbers in Kona white and added some borders with the Architextures line from Carolyn Friedlander.

For the quilting, I added a swirled vine pattern to the sashing to make the numbers stand out and a sharp line meandering pattern to the borders.

 

For any other math lovers / nerds / engineers out there (or a quilter with one of those in their lives), I have the pattern for the Pi Quilt listed for free in craftsy.  The pattern works with any 3" x 5" numbers, but I also have my paper pieced numbers pattern (including three different sizes of numbers) listed on craftsy and etsy.
Quilt Stats:
   Quilt Measurements: 51.5" x 61.5"
   Design by: Me (Meadow Mist Designs)
   Quilted by…Me on my home machine, my old Singer.
   Category – Throw Quilt
   Link Number: ___


Thank you so much for taking a look at my quilt!  I hope you stay awhile and have a look around the rest of my blog :)  My second quilt entry, the Broken Pink Herringbone Quilt, can be found here.

Cheryl

Linking up toAmy's Creative Side, the Blogger's Quilt Festival, and the Throw Quilt Division

 

Dash Churn Quilt Finish and Celebration Etsy Sale

Happy Friday!!

My finish for this Friday is my aqua and orange dash churn quilt.  This was my work in progress last Wednesday (Oct 16th) blogged about here. 

 
I decided to quilt this quilt echoing the straight lines so that I could try out my new walking foot for my Bernina.  It is so much less stressful trying to quilt straight lines with a walking foot and machine that actually work! 

I might be doing more of this straight line quilting even though it does take longer than my favorite meandering.  I love the look it gives, it almost makes little "pillows" in the quilt.

 

For the back of the quilt I used an fun gray slightly wonky grid print.  This baby quilt is now listed in my etsy shop.

Now onto the celebration!

This fall I launched two new patterns, Arrows All Around and On a "Jelly" Roll, started this blog, and reached 100 admirers on etsy so  I feel a need to celebrate!  How about a special Meadow Mist Designs etsy sale? 

Please use the code Celebrate from now until November 15th for 20% off everything in the store!  Get a jump on your holiday shopping for your loved ones (or yourself).

With the 20% off, you can choose any three Meadow Mist Designs digital patterns for $14.40 or get a three piece sewing accessories set for $32 (the coupon works on custom accessories too).  I hope you take a look around my shop and get a head start on your holiday shopping :)

I am linking up to Link a Finish Friday, Whoop Whoop Friday, and Finish It Up Friday

 

 

WIP Wednesday and a Giveaway!

First up, if you look up I actually have a logo!  It was designed by Inkblot and I love it.

Today I would like to show you a quilt I am making for a friend for use on her dining room table.  I made a granny square quilt using the red and greens of the Nature's Christmas collection by Sandy Gervais for Moda and added a sashing and border of one of the cream prints.  I love how the different arrangements of light and dark fabrics produces such different looking blocks.

The plan is to back this quilt with a simple ivory fabric, quilt it using a meandering stitch (I love how it gives quilts that crinkly vintage look) and bind with my favorite print from the line, a bias plaid in red and white.  The quilt is 75" x 75" which makes it a little difficult to get a good picture of it.

 

I actually made the same quilt design for the same friend earlier this year using Boho Girl by Insights (shown below).  She liked the granny squares so much she choose the same pattern for her Christmas quilt.  I usually do not make the same quilt design twice, but it is really kind of cool to see the same design in multiple colorways.

I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced's WIP Wednesday!

And now for the giveaway!!!!

My super quilty friend Katy from Lethargic Lass was kind enough to test my Arrows All Around and blogged about it here.  She made the most wonderful pillow using the pattern (is below).  She is giving away a copy of the pattern so hop on over and say hi to her for me :)