Quilting

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Welcome to my stop on the Quilting with Curves Virtual Book Tour!

My friend Daisy Aschehoug has a new book, Quilting with Curves. It is a beautiful book with 20 geometric patterns featuring quarter circle squares. You'll benefit from Daisy's experience sewing thousands of these units as you read about her favorite tools, and best tips for cutting, sewing, and trimming these precise units.

I've admired Daisy's precise piecing and many of these quilts for years as the majority of them have hung at QuiltCon.

Here are a couple of my favorites from the book!

GIVEAWAY: C&T has offered a digital copy of Quilting with Curves for one randomly selected visitor. Please comment below if you'd like a chance and a winner will be selected July 2. THE GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED. Congratulations, Lauren.

Be sure to follow the hop for the next week!

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Welcome to my stop on the Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs blog hop!

When my friend Kelly reached out to see if I could help with the launch of her third book I was excited to participate. In 2018 and 2021, I made quilts when she was launching her first two books, Stash Statement and Scrappy Improv Quilting. Her new book is over 150 pages of colorful inspiration. Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs has 30 different quilt back patterns in three sizes each. And as a bonus you can download 18 patterns of quilt fronts that are shown in the book! And honestly, many of these "backs" could be the quilt front.

It was so hard to choose what to make from Kelly's book. I decided to use one of my latest quilt tops as inspiration for the palette. I shopped my stash for print fabrics in the same range of yellows, oranges, pinks, greens, and blues that I had used in the quilt top and chose Kelly's Coin Strip quilt back design. This was a great option for using even small scraps and I opted not to repeat fabrics in my coins. I paired my pieced coins with Kona Cerise for the background of my quilt back.

Perfectly Pieced Quilt Backs is a beginner-friendly book packed with all the details you need regarding tools and finishing instructions. The book is available everywhere you buy books. You can get a signed copy if you order directly from Kelly's Etsy shop.

Be sure to visit Kelly over at My Quilt Infatuation. She's shared tons of details and photos from the book in her posts over the past couple weeks. And check out the rest of the stops on the hop:

Sandra @ mmm...quilts
Anja @ Anja Quilts
Vasudha @ Storied Quilts
Kris @ Sew Sunshine
Leanne @ Devoted Quilter
Sarah @ Sarah Goer Quilts (You're here!)

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This is my submission for the "Just the Top" category of the Pantone Quilt Challenge 2023.

  • Viva Magenta Confetti
  • 32.5" x 32.5"
  • Sarah Goer, USA

I spent 25 days of daily practice building these improv blocks. Then trimmed them all to the same size block. My background fabrics are pinks, oranges, and yellows, including Kona Pomegranate (my Viva Magenta). My strips are all turquoise/aqua in a variety of values. And my corner triangles are mostly greens in light to medium values. I tipped close to yellow with the inclusion of Kona Acid Lime and Kona Limelight.

I'm linking up with "Just the Top" for the Viva Magenta challenge. Thank you to Sarah and Elizabeth for hosting, and to all the judges and sponsors!