Bullas Bears Quilt by Nan Baker

Will Bullas is an internationally famous, award-winning  watercolorist. You are sure to have seen, and therefore recognize, his bears from greeting cards and elsewhere.

Nan Baker is  a talented cross stitch, needlepoint, and quilt designer whose patterns have appeared in several magazines. She is also the Marketing Director for The Quilt Pattern Magazine.

This quilt is an adaptation of Will Bullas’ marvellously, delightful bears in quilt form.

Where can I get this wonderful pattern, you ask?

The answer is – at The Quilt Pattern Magazine. Beginning in February and going through November, it will be presented as a BOM (Block of the Month). I’ll bet you are already thinking of whom this quilt will make the perfect gift – and just in time for Christmas, too!

There’s a bonus, too!Order a subscription, then join Nan as she hosts a workshop at The Quilt Pattern Magazine‘s social  network, Pattern Pastiche. There, you can chat with Nan and other quilters, ask questions, share photos of your BOM in progress and just plain have fun!

Subscribe to The Quilt Pattern Magazine,  an online-only publication, for $14.99 a year. That’s only $1.25 a month! Not only will you get the Bullas Bears BOM, you’ll receive 60 quilt patterns, workshops, articles, book reviews, and more.  Also, a free bonus pattern comes with every subscription!

If  you would like to use the same Bali Hand-Dyed Watercolors – Style #1895 by Hoffman that Nan used, visit Batiks Plus who are offering the Fabric Kits for this BOM.

Kreinik Threads is offering a Thread Kit featuring the speciality threads used with this quilt.

Don’t miss out on the fun!
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Give both yourself and a quilting friend the perfect gift this Holiday Season -

a gift subscription to The Quilt Pattern Magazine!

Purchase or renew a subscription, and get another  Free  gift subscription to give!

You will both receive patterns, BOMs, mysteries and access to live workshops at
Pattern Pastiche.

This is especially handy as a last-minute gift because it is delivered quickly via email.

Hurry! This offer expires on December 31st, 2012.

Visit www.quiltpatternmagazine.com to subscribe or renew now!

You’ve read about the The Quilt Pattern Magazine in earlier posts here. I was its editor from January 2011 through April 2012. I am now its editor-in-chief and Karen Gass is its new editor.

We are proud of TQPM for many reasons and one of the major ones is that with Pattern Pastiche (for which subscribers are eligible) we have become a family of quilters. We share photos, discuss our projects, ask questions, exchange sewing tips (like sewing with Minky) and simply enjoy getting to know other quilters. We’re even having fun keeping track of our quilting/sewing New Year’s resolutions. It’s a place where our subscribers can meet our designers and staff, talk with them, and join in on projects and workshops in the magazine.

Now, you have the opportunity to win two free issues!

How? By playing our In Stitches game.

Have fun answering all 10 questions correctly!  Make a mistake? Not to worry! You can go back and replay until you get them all right. This game is not only fun, you can’t lose!

Click on the needle to start playing the game.

Tell all your quilting friends, your guild,  your  family, and everyone you know about the game! They’ll want to win free  issues too!

Second if you want to bid on the quilt (please do ) you can do that here.

My article has been published!

My article on the Trace and Baste method I used for my Labyrinth Quilt has been published in the March edition of The Quilt Pattern Magazine! The Quilt Pattern Magazine is an online magazine and subscription is only $13.99 for 12 issues! That’s got to be great value, don’t you think?

The 46th commenter was Laurie in Maine! Congratulations Laurie. I’ve emailed you and The Quilt Pattern Magazine to inform them. I hope you enjoy the magazine. I’m sorry you couldn’t all win but I hope that you’ll subscribe as you’ll get 12 issues for only US$13.99. That’s got to be a good deal! The first issue is out now.

Square-agonals

Well I can hardly believe it! Still no-one has picked the right number! Someone is next to it and if there’s no clear winner by the end of the day then I’ll pick that person. If you want to have a go here is the link.

More klosjes

I’ve been steadily adding to my pile of klosjes while listening to audio books. It’s very soothing except for my sore shoulder.

Thank you to everyone that checked out The Quilt Pattern Magazine website and commented on my blog these pasts weeks.  I know it’s going to be fun to receive an on-line magazine full of new projects and not worry about clutter or recycling.

Using a number generator, the lucky winner of a year’s subscriptions is:

 M  Rosemary Dempster, Congratulations!

You have until January 31st to claim your prize of a year’s free subscription at The Quilt Pattern Magazine.  To those of you who are not winners, you can still get a great magazine at a wonderful price just by subscribing.

Until next time, Happy New Year!

Susan

However, yesterday we went to visit a family member in ICU in Ryde in Sydney. It just so happens that this is not far from a Quilt Shop I have never visited called Material Obsession. DH suggested he would drive me there after the visit. So while he sat in the car reading the Saturday newspaper I went inside. What a lovely shop! I have to say it is one of the cutest, most vibrant quilt shops I have ever visited.

I found a few goodies there. First off they stocked the batting that is now my official favourite - Freudenberg’s Quilt-Lite. It is 100% cotton and is woven and is very, very light. I used it in my Andalusian Tile quilt. It seems to be quite hard to find so when I heard they had stock I bought 2 metres. (not cheap $21 per metre)

This was offset however by some fabrics that were on sale and that were just too lovely and too good a bargain to pass up. (You know that feeling. ) I bought three fat quarters for only $2.50 each and some other larger pieces of fabric for between $10 and $15 per metre. Take a look.

My favourites are the second one with the three designs on the one piece of fabric and the lovely aqua oval spots. Closely followed by that Japanese one on the bottom.

The klosje guessing give-away

The klosje guessing give-away is still running and you can find it here if you’d like to enter.

The Quilt Pattern Magazine give-away

The  Quilt Pattern Magazine give-away is still running and you can find all the details here.

The Quilt Pattern Magazine is a brand new online magazine that will be available from January 2011. It’s packed full of projects, articles and more. Online magazines are becoming more and more popular with the quilting community for the following reasons:

• You can file your favourite articles and patterns on your computer – no more clogging up your bookshelves
• You can print the patterns you need as, and when, you need them and then organise them easily in a binder.
• You get great value for money.
• You have instant access to the magazine as soon as it’s published. No more waiting for the mail or waiting for the newsagent to order it in for you.

If you subscribe now you’ll get 12 issues plus a free bonus issue for only US$11.95. Less than a dollar per issue that’s a real bargain! What’s more if you visit the magazine’s website and take a look at the preview of issue one and come back here and leave a comment you’ll be in the draw to win a year’s free subscription!

What’s in the first issue?

There are three new projects, 2 BOMs, Valentine Hearts to make and give, an article on Men Who Quilt and a Dynamic Design Challenge.

The Quilt Pattern Magazine Blog Tour

To herald it’s debut in January the magazine has organised a blog tour and you can find details of other participating blogs here. If you leave a comment on the relevant posts then you’ll have other chances to win a year’s free subscription.

The winners

The winners of the Blog Tour Give-Away will be announced during the first week of January. So stay tuned…

The klosje guessing give-away

The klosje guessing give-away is still running and you can find it here if you’d like to enter.