Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Time for March Madness!

We had so much fun holding last year's fabric Fan Favorite March Madness that we're doing it again! (See last year's winner here.) This year, however, the bracket will be slightly different--you'll be voting on the free quilt patterns for our various fabric collections rather than just the fabric lines themselves. 

Our esteemed internal Selection Committee has chosen 42 free quilt patterns from our website, featuring Benartex, Contempo Studio and Kanvas fabric collections. It's your job, as the quilt-loving voting public, to narrow those 42 patterns down to 16 to get our bracket started. 


Here's how it works:



  • Look through the quilt patterns featured below and leave a comment listing your favorite three. Note: You need to list your votes by pattern name (not fabric collection name) as some collections have more than one quilt featured. We've also included links to each pattern so you can download your favorites.
  • The same 42 patterns are featured on our Facebook page and on our brand new "Sew Interesting" Group page, so you may also vote for your three favorites in those spots if you choose (find details on Facebook voting on those pages). Please vote only once per venue (one comment with your three favorites here on the blog, once on our Facebook page and once on our Sew Interesting page).
  • The voting is open through Friday, March 14th at noon EST. At that point the voting is closed and we'll tally the results and be back here on Monday with the official 2014 Fan Favorite Quilt Bracket, dates and details. 
****THE VOTING IS NOW CLOSED.****
Thanks to all who left a comment! Feel free to continue enjoying the quilts and downloading the patterns for your use, but the voting has ended. We'll be back on Monday with the bracket of 16 selected quilts. 


May your favorite pattern win! 


Here are the nominated quilt patterns:



Ambrosia Star by Tailormade by Design, featuring Ambrosia


Bali Loops by Janet Page Kessler, featuring Tropicana/Rainforest II Balis


Baliwood by Janet Page Kessler, featuring Oceantide Balis


Candy Crush by Audrey Page, featuring Rainbow Bright Balis

Dizzy Geese designed by Jackie Robinson, featuring He Still Loves Me



Far East (in two colorways) by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Imperial Gardens


It's Electrifying by Wendy Sheppard, featuring Electric Feather


Ivory Stone by Janet Page Kessler, featuring Treasure Island Balis


MondianO by Audrey Page, featuring Dots Great Balis


Midori's Place by Wendy Sheppard, featuring Gramercy


Safari by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Caravan


Sagas by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Palindromes


Santa Fe by Janet Page Kessler, featuring Land and Sea Balis


Silver Lining by Wendy Sheppard, featuring Urban Oasis


Sweet Caroline by Tailormade by Design, featuring Sweet Tweet 


Tranquility by Diane Nagle, featuring A New Leaf


April Showers by Audrey Page, featuring Cachet


Black Tulip by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Cosmopolitan


A Blue Moment by Jean Ann Wright, featuring Palm Springs


Jade Maze by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Dwellings


Memento by Stitched Together Studios featuring Vintage Scrapbook


Merchant of Venezia by Tailormade by Design, featuring Venezia


Park Avenue by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Cachet 

Picking Flowers by Lori Hein, featuring Cachet


Salt & Pepper by Tailormade by Design, featuring Cosmopolitan


Sepia Garden by Tailormade by Designs, featuring Palm Springs


Sunset Beach by Diane Nagle, featuring Dwellings


Yellow Sky by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Cosmopolitan


Butterfly Oasis by Tailormade by Design, featuring Sakura 

The Corner of Bauhaus by Ebony Love, featuring Op Art Reflections


Ecco Ecco by Ebony Love, featuring Ecco 


Emerald Glow by Ebony Love, featuring Palazzo 

Everything's Coming Up Rosey by Wendy Sheppard, featuring English Rosey


Fandango by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Bohemian Rhapsody 


Glass House by Stitched Together Studios


Lapis Lazuli by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Ecco


Lemon Squares by Ebony Love, featuring Zest


Luminary by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Sakura


Mixx It Up! by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Mixxoni


Movement in Squares by Wendy Sheppard, featuring Op Art Reflections


The Space Odyssey by Wendy Sheppard, featuring I Want My Space


Woodmere by Stitched Together Studios, featuring Southern Charm

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96 comments:

  1. Far East, Tranquility and Space Odyssey

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  2. Candy Crush
    Salt and Pepper
    Movement in Squares

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  3. My favorite patterns are: Movement in Squares, Glass House, and Woodmere.

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  4. It's Electrifying
    Midori's Place
    Movement in Squares

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  5. so many great patterns to choose from, but I got it narrowed down to 3.
    Dizzy geese
    Movement in squares
    Ambrosia star

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  6. Sunset Beach Midori's Place Safari

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  7. Wow so many pretty patterns

    Midori's Place
    Movement in Squares
    It's Electrifying.

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  8. Midori's Place, Santa Fe, Movement in Squares

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  9. Many great patterns --- difficult decision. Movement in Squares, Sante Fe,
    Merchant of Venezia

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  10. AWWWW - I miss the fabric March madness! So many of these patterns , although gorgeous, rely on the fabric and might not translate well to other "looks". Kind of fabric over form, if you will. So, in a way, it's still an emphasis on fabric, I guess. I'll be back next year to see if we're back to voting on various fabrics. Hope so!

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  11. Love many of these so it was not an easy time picking the top 3 but here they are: It's Electrifying, Midori's Place and Yellow Sky. Melody - mlgriego@email.arizona.edu

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  12. Space Odyssey, Safari, Luminary
    mabear29@ymail.com

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  13. Bali Loops, Ivory Stone, and Butterfly Oasis.

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  14. A Blue Moment
    Yellow Sky
    Movement in Squares

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  15. Dizzy Geese, Safari, and Glass House

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  16. Jade Maze, Yellow sky and Space Odyssey

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  17. Ambrosia Star, It's Electrifying, and Space Odyssey

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  18. Dizzy Geese, Safari, Lemon Squares

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  19. Hard to choose, but I will choose Movement in Squares, Memento and April Showers.

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  20. Bali Loops, Movement in Squares, It's Electrifying

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  21. Butterfly Oasis
    Ambrosia Star
    A Blue Moment

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  22. Woodmere
    Movement in Square
    Silver Lining

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  23. Black tulip, movement in squares and mix it up. All great patterns though.

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  24. Corner of Bauhaus, Electric Squares, Everything Coming Up Rosey

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  25. It's Electrifying, Movement in Squares, Black Tulip.
    Soooooo hard to choose!!!

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  26. It's Electrifying
    Bali Loops
    Dizzy Geese

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  27. midori's place, sunset beach, and yellow sky :)

    though it was EXTREMELY hard to narrow it down to three!

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  28. It's Electrifying, Woodmere, Tranqulity

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  29. Movement in Squares, Black Tulip and Merchant of Venezia

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  30. My favorites are Movement in Squares, Silver Lining, and Ambrosia Star.

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  31. That was tough as there were many more I also liked. The three that got tops for me were: It's Electrifying, Black Tulip, and Movement in Squares.

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  32. My favorites are Movement in Squares,Dizzy Geese ,Fandango.

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  33. My favorites are Ambrosia Star, Black Tulip and Park Avenue

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  34. So hard to choose!! I think my favs are Movement in squares, Butterfly Oasis, and Mixx it Up.
    craftyccain@gmail.com

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  35. My 3 choices are:
    Ambrosia Star
    Bali Loops
    Candy Crush

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  36. My favorites are: Dizzy Geese, Movement in Squares, and Sante Fe.

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  37. Movement in Squares, Ivory Stone, and Sunset Beach

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  38. Bali Loops
    Black Tulip
    Movement in Squares

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  39. My three favourites have to be: Ambrosia star simply because I can see the amount of work that has gone into it and it is just so pretty, Bali loops because the optical illusion is mind blowing and Midori's place because it is simply stunning . I just wish I could quilt like that!!!!

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  40. Here are my favorite 3:
    Lapis Lazula
    Midori's Place
    Ambrosia Star

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  41. My favorite 3 are
    Dizzy Geese
    Silver Lining
    Candy Crush

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  42. So many beautiful quilts - my three favorite are:
    Midori's Place
    Silver Lining
    Everything's Coming up Rosey
    Woohoo!

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  43. Woodmere, Safari and Movement in Squares are my 3 selections.

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  44. They all said, "WOW" to me, especially:

    Midori's Place
    Luminari
    Movement in Squares

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  45. Movement in Squares, Everything's Coming Up Rosie, Ambrosia Star. So difficult to only choose 3.

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  46. Yellow Sky
    Movement in Squares
    Black Tulip
    Thanks for the links to all the great patterns!

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  47. Silver Lining
    Everything's Coming Up Rosey
    A Blue Moment

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  48. Bali Loops
    Ecco Ecco
    Glasshouse
    I am having trouble downloading the patterns.

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  49. Movement in squares
    Santa Fe
    Glass House

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  50. Bali Loops
    It's Electrifying
    Emerald Glow

    momacita22@yahoo.com

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  51. Bali Loops
    Dizzy Geese
    Tranquility

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  52. my favorites are Movement in Squares, Dizzy Geese, and Butterfly Oasis.

    It was so hard to pick, though!
    Sandy A

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  54. MondianO by Audrey Page
    Saferi by Stitched Together
    Movement in Squares by Wendy Shepard

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  55. My Favs:
    i) Silver Lining
    ii) Everything Coming Up Rosey
    iii) Electrifying

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  57. Sweet Caroline
    Bali Loops
    Candy Crush

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  58. Glass House
    Movement in Squares
    Dizzy Geese

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  59. Bali Loops
    Safari
    Silver Lining

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  60. Black Tulip
    Glass House
    Lemon Squares

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  61. Ambrosia Star
    Movement in Squares
    Everything's Coming up Rosey

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  62. Silver lining
    Movement in Squares
    Glass House

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  63. lemon squares Bali loops and dizzy geese

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  64. It's Electrifying
    Movement in Squares
    Spae Odyssey

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  65. Butterfly Oasis, Lemon squares, Lapis Lazuli

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  66. It's Electrifying, Glass House, Momento

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  67. Dizzy Geese
    Tranquility
    Woodmere

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  68. Ambrosia Star
    It's Electrifying
    The Space Odyssey

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  69. Dizzy Geese
    Silver Lining
    Movement in Squares.

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  70. Bali Loops
    Midori's Place
    Silver Lining

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  71. Difficult to choose just 3! Here are mine.
    Jade Maze
    Butterfly Oasis
    The Space Odyssey

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  72. They are ALL lovely, and the patterns are free?! My 3 favorites are:
    Space Odyssey
    Bali Loops
    It's Electrifying

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  73. Bali Loops
    Tranquility
    Movement in Squares

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  74. My favorites:
    Midori's Place
    Electrifying
    The Space Odyssey

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  75. Sagas
    Sweet Caroline
    A Blue Moment

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  76. Movement in squares
    Silver lining
    Midori's place

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  77. my three favs are: santa fe, candy crush and bali loops.

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  78. Baliwood
    Movement in squares
    lemon squares

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  79. Silver Lining, Dizzy Geese and Lemon Squares

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  80. So many choices : but I'm going with Ambrosia Star, Sweet Caroline and Silver Lining

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  81. You didn't make it easy, but Safari, Ambrosia Star, & Woodmere.

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  82. My favourites are
    Mondrian-O
    A Blue Moment
    Movement in Squares

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  83. Bali loops, Ivory Stone, and Baliwood

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  84. My three favourites are:
    Midori's Place
    Mondiano
    Everything's Coming Up Rosie
    Betsey Ryan

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  85. It's Electrifying
    Ambrosia Star
    Tranquility

    Kathlene Prescott

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  86. Glass House
    Fandango
    Sepia Garden

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  87. Black Tulip, Park Avenue, Dizzy Geese

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  88. MondianO, Safari, and A Blue Moment

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  89. Bali Loops, Merchant of Venezia, Fan Dango. I would like to list 5, but I will behave.

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