“Autumn Song Quilt 1†Free Quilt Pattern designed by Heidi Pridemore from Henry Glass Fabrics
“Autumn Song Quilt 2†Free Quilt Pattern designed by Heidi Pridemore from Henry Glass Fabrics
“Autumn Song Table Setting†Free Patterns designed by Heidi Pridemore from Henry Glass Fabrics
“Autumn Song Table Setting†Free Patterns designed by Heidi Pridemore from Henry Glass Fabrics
“Autumn Festival†Free Patterns from Henry Glass Fabrics
This was the first block of the month (BOM) quilt pattern that I ever designed, and it’s what launched my sister-site, BOMquilts.com. Back when I designed it in 2006, I did it with a different sponsor than the one who’s sponsored my quilts for the past 12 years. And when I released the pattern, she sold out of the kits that she had cut for them. So she cut more kits, and sold out of them. Then she ordered more bolts, made more kits, and once again – she sold out of those kits as fast as she could cut them. She called the secretary of her salesman and literally made her go to their warehouse – all the while keeping her on the phone – in search of more bolts of the fabrics that may have been left on the shelf, got shelved wrong, anything anywhere? Nada. None. Zip.
But the story of my Cinnamon-teen Chocolate Figs & Roses quilt design doesn’t end there. I can’t tell you how many times people have sent me their thanks for this quilt design. I even stopped into a quilt shop in a very large city about an hour away from where live and introduced myself to the owners. When one of the sales ladies heard my name, she came over and asked me if I was the one who designed that quilt. When I said I was, she hurried off to the break room and came back with the quilt that she had made using my pattern!
Through the years, I’ve had various quilt groups & guilds ask for my permission to make my quilt. One of the two things I always say is that in order to use my patterns, you must provide me with a photograph of your progress, or your blocks, or your finished quilt tops or your finished quilts. I have never received any photos from quilt group or guild that I granted permission to use my pattern.
That is until 2018!
The “Maidstone Quilting Squares†quilt group from Maidstone, Saskatchewan, Canada are making my Cinnamon-teen Chocolate Figs & Roses quilt as a mystery quilt instead of a block of the month quilt.
They meet every two weeks in a local church hall. In the winter, they make stone soup for lunch, and everyone brings one item for the soup pot. In the summer months, they do the same with salad. It makes for a delicious and easy lunch and it’s different every time. And no bag lunch this way!
Here is the progress that they’ve made thus far, three months into their mystery quilt program:
Month One
Month Two
Month Three
Stay tuned for the continuing saga of the “Maidstone Quilting Squares” and my Cinnamon-teen Chocolate Figs & Roses quilt!
“Scrappy Stack Mug Rug Tutorial †Free Pattern designed by Jeni Baker from In Color Order
“Mug Rug Tutorial †Free Pattern designed by Britsneezer from Sneezerville
“Oval Mug Mat†Free Pattern designed by Staci from Crafty Staci
“Christmas Ornament Mug Rug†Free Pattern designed by Deb from Northern Deb Quilts
“Hexagon Mug Rug†Free Pattern designed by Deb from Northern Deb Quilts
Our son earned his Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Eagle Award in December 2016 but there’s a whole lot of signatures, paper shuffling and red tape that has to happen before we could plan his Eagle Court of Honor. We finally got the green light toward the end of February 2017, but then we had to coordinate schedules with some key relatives and mentors to our son. We finally set a date for May 2017 and that set the Eagle wheels in motion!
About seven or eight years ago, Robert Kaufman fabrics designed an entire colorway of BSA fabrics (this was before they were sold in fabric shops instead of quilt shops). They had fabrics for both Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. So when the fabrics hit the quilt shops, I ordered a fat quarter bundle of both as well as a bolt of two different Boy Scout fabrics. I had been saving them for a very special occasion, and that occasion happened in December of 2016. Once he earned his BSA Eagle Award, I dusted the fabrics off (I still had the Boy Scout fabric in the plastic shrink-wrap it was sent to me in) and started making him a quilt. A very special quilt, indeed!
I purchased a machine embroidered file of an eagle and embroidered it on one of the official BSA quilt fabric squares.
Then I embroidered a special message on another official BSA fabric square:
By the time it was finished, I had sewn and embroidered the (very busy) quilt top, my husband quilted it on our longarm and my son’s grandmother sewed the binding on the back of the quilt. It was a family affair!
Star Trek Quilt Block
Cutting Requirements for 12″ finished block (precise 1/4″ seam allowance):
Star Trek Quilt Block Diagram
