Burlap Brights Winners

Thanks to everyone who followed along in our Burlap Brights Block Hop the last couple of weeks! 

Below are the randomly selected winners from each day of the hop, as well as links to the tutorials in case you missed one. The winners will be receiving a fat quarter bundle of the six Burlap Brights colors we used throughout the hop. We can't wait to see what they make with these texture-look prints!

Congratulations to the winners!

Day 1: Chris from made by ChrissieD

Winner: Kathy D.

Day 2: Mary from Mary on Lake Pulaski

Winner: Dody

Day 3: Alison from Little Bunny Quilts

Winner: Margaret

Day 4: Debby from Debby Kratovil Quilts

Winner: Annie R.

Day 5: Kristen from KD Quilts 

Winner: Jacque

Day 6: Benartex design team

                                      Winner: Sally

Day 7: Stephanie from Stitched Together Studios

Winner: Sophie

Day 8: Julie from The Crafty Quilter

Winner: Donna W.

Day 9: Cynthia from Quilting is more fun than Housework

                                    Winner: Vicki S.

Day 10: Jessica from Quilty Habit 

Winner: Michele O.

Day 11: Wendy from Ivory Spring

Winner: TinLiz

Winners, you'll be hearing from us via email so we can get your mailing address and send these fabric rainbows out to you!

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Moose on the Loose

If you liked Cheryl Haynes' Folk Art collection, we're pretty sure you'll also fall in love with Moose on the Loose. This collection, in Cheryl's signature folk art style and palette, centers around a lovable moose face and has a north woodsy feel. 

Why a moose?

I have a quilt pattern called Moose on the Loose. When I went to Keepsake Quilting in New Hampshire some years ago, I fell in love with the cutest little stuffed moose for my son. That was when I designed a moose face—every time I look at the moose face, I think of that stuffed toy and my trip up there. The quilt ultimately led to the fabric collection.

Tell us about the main moose in the panel.

The panel features the moose facing forward, just like my original pattern. I had a lot of fun doing that—I love the moose head. I even did a punch needle design with the same pattern.

What’s one of your favorite fabrics in the collection?

I love the allover moose head print that mimics the panel. I think it’s really cute. Overall, I love the darker colors of the entire line. And my husband has already told me that he want moose fabric curtains for his camper.

Tell us about the Moose in the Cabin free quilt pattern.

I like log cabins myself. I think they’re easy to make and I love playing with the colors. You can do so many things with them, putting colors in different positions. I wanted something simple and North Woods-ish. The greens and browns in the line worked really well for this. The moose and the trees are just quick fuse appliques; I think they go well with the north woods theme.

If you love the prints in both Folk Art and Moose on the Loose, great news!

One thing I like is that a lot of my lines go together. The palettes are similar. You can take fabrics from different lines and use them together.

Click here to download the free pattern for Cheryl's Moose in the Cabin quilt.
Click here to see the entire Moose on the Loose pattern.
Learn more about her Folk Art collection here.

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Cheryl Haynes: In Love with Folk Art

We're sharing a bit of Americana today with Cheryl Haynes' Folk Art collection. Inspired by a series of quilt patterns, this new line includes many of the classic folk art motifs in Cheryl's signature style. A panel and a patch print of little squares compliment the wide range of coordinates.

What inspired your Folk Art collection?

It’s similar to my American Folk Art Series patterns—six patterns that make up a quilt. I turned the ideas from these patterns into a fabric line.

What’s one of your favorite prints in the collection?

In this line, I really like the pears. I like their folk art look.

Tell us about the patch print.

The little squares, you could do just about anything with. They’re 4” squares. You can cut them apart, add borders, use on things for the kitchen like pot holders, toaster covers, table runners. I try to put at least 1” around everything so you can cut the squares apart.

And what about your panel?

I love the flower pot. I really like the cow and the pig. Of course, I live in the country and see a lot of these things on a regular basis. The whole panel is just kind of all me. You can get a lot of different projects out of one panel.

Let’s talk about your tonal prints.

I do like tone on tone. I personally don’t ever sew anything with solids. I like basic patterns. I like to design with color, not necessarily patterns. So I like subtle tone-on-tones to sew with. They’re really good basics for quilts.

I really like the floral that we used too. It’s small, easy to use, not overwhelming to a quilt, yet it goes so well with the rest of the fabrics.

Tell us about your Bobbing for Apples quilt.

I love apples. My parents were both teachers, and teachers get apples, so we always had lots of apples. I also like the reds in the line and this was a good way to use them—I think there are a lot of fun prints in this folk art.

 

Click here to download the free pattern for Cheryl Haynes' Bobbing for Apples quilt.

Click here to see the entire Folk Art collection.

Click here to download the free pattern for Heidi Pridemore's Country Pickins quilt, which uses the patch print.

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Thank you

On Memorial Day, we'd like to take a moment to thank all the men and women who have served and sacrificed for our country. Thank you! 

Here's our latest version of patriotic red, white and blue--the Celebrate III collection from Kanvas:

Click here to see the entire Celebrate III collection from Kanvas.

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Burlap Brights Blog Hop: Day 11

Welcome to the eleventh and last day of our Burlap Brights Block Hop! We hope you've enjoyed the eleven block tutorials our designing friends have been sharing here this week and last week. Be sure to stop by each day to see a new block and have a chance to win some Burlap Brights for yourself!

Today, Wendy from Ivory Spring is sharing her block. Check out her tutorial and then scroll to the bottom of this post to enter for a chance to win a fat quarter bundle of the six Burlap Brights prints featured in our hop.

Hello Everyone, this is Wendy from Ivory Spring.  I am brightly happy to be participating in Benartex's Burlap Brights blog hop.  It's always fun to be part of Benartex's hops.

So the idea is to use 6 colors from the fabric line to construct a 12" block.  Because I am kind of on a personal quest to see how many ways I could doctor and use the sawtooth star block, my block is a sawtooth star variation block.  I am calling my it Happy Go Around Star!

Supplies and cutting:

For this block, we will be using all 6 Burlap Bright fabrics and 1/8y of white ground fabric.

From white ground fabric, cut

4 (4" x 4") squares

6 (3 1/2" x 3 1/2") squares

4 (1 1/2" x 3 ") rectangles

From blue, green and purple fabrics, cut 

1 (4" x 4") square

From red fabric, cut 

1 (4" x 4") square

1 (1 1/2" x 1 1/2") square

From yellow and orange fabrics, cut

1 (3 1/2" x 3 1/2") square

2 (2" x 2") squares

Block assembly:

1.  Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of all the colored squares, except for the (1 1/2" x 1 1/2") red square.

2.  Using the green square as example.  Place (4" x 4") green square, right sides together, on 1 (4" x 4") white square.  Sew 1/4" away from, and on right and left sides of drawn line.  

Cut along drawn line.  Open and press to yield 2 half-square-triangle (HST) units.  

Repeat for the red, blue, purple (4" x 4") as well as the yellow and orange (3 1/2" x 3 1/2") squares, using white squares of corresponding sizes.

3.  Lining up the diagonal line of the HST units against the 45 degree line of the ruler, trim the red, purple, blue and green HST units to measure 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" raw edge to raw edge, and yellow and orange HST units to measure 3" x 3" raw edge to raw edge.

4.  Making Block Center.

Sew 1 yellow HST unit and 1 orange HST unit to the opposite long sides of 1 (1 1/2" x 3") white rectangles.   Repeat to make 2 pieced rows.

Sew 2 (1 1/2" x 3") white rectangles to the opposite sides of 1 (1 1/2" x 1 1/2") red squares into a pieced rows.

Sew the rows together to complete block center.

5.  Sew 1 green HST and 1 purple HST together into a pieced column.  Repeat to make 2 columns, and add to the right and left sides of block center.

6.  Making Corner Unit.

Place 1 (2" x 2") yellow square, right sides together, on 1 (3 1/2" x 3 1/2") white square.  Sew on drawn line.  Trim 1/4" away from sewn line.  Open and press to reveal yellow corner triangle.

Repeat to make a total of 2 yellow and 2 orange corner units.

7.  Arrange and sew together 1 yellow corner unit, 1 orange corner unit, 1 red HST and 1 purple HST into a pieced row.  Repeat to make 2 rows, and add to the remaining opposite sides of block center to complete block.

Quilt Option:

You can easily make a number of these blocks, and sew them to make a quilt. 

My husband walked by my work station, and commented how he liked the block!  So, I will be making a few more blocks myself to turn it into a quilt!

Thank you for stopping by!  I hope you have liked my Happy Go Around Star block.  The colors sure make one happy, don't they?!

Even more so, I hope you have enjoyed seeing the other designers' creatively designed blocks!

Have a great day!

For a chance to win your own rainbow bundle of Burlap Brights, make sure you're signed up to follow our blog (through a blog reader or by email; both options are in the right hand sidebar). Leave a comment letting us know that you are and tell us if you've ever made a rainbow colored quilt. 

Make sure you check out each day's tutorial!

Day 1: Chris from made by ChrissieD

Day 2: Mary from Mary on Lake Pulaski

Day 3: Alison from Little Bunny Quilts

Day 4: Debby from Debby Kratovil Quilts

Day 5: Kristen from KD Quilts 

Day 6: Benartex design team
Day 7: Stephanie from Stitched Together Studios
Day 8: Julie from The Crafty Quilter
Day 9: Cynthia from Quilting is more fun than Housework
Day 10: Jessica from Quilty Habit 

To see the entire schedule, click here.

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Burlap Brights Block Hop: Day 10

Welcome to the tenth day of our Burlap Brights Block Hop! We hope you've been enjoying the eleven block tutorials our designing friends have been sharing here this week and last week. Be sure to stop by each day to see a new block and have a chance to win some Burlap Brights for yourself!

Today, Jessica from Quilty Habit is sharing a wonky improv block using all six of the rainbow colors. Check out her tutorial and then head over to her blog to enter for a chance to win a fat quarter bundle of the six Burlap Brights prints featured in our hop.

Hi, I'm Jessica Skultety of Quilty Habit, and I'm excited to be a part of the Burlap Brights Blog Hop! I'm a teacher and lecturer of modern and modern traditional quilting, long-term blogger, writer, commission sewist, and home machine quilter. I blog several times a week and you can also check up on me on Instagram daily - @quiltyhabit. 

These Burlap Brights textured solids add a bit of "oomph" to what could just be a solid (I love solids, too, but that's beside the point). I can't wait to add these to my fabric stash, which is sorted by rainbow color. I use bright colors the most in my sewing, and I also love improvisation. Put both together and you have magic! That's why I decided to write a tutorial for an improvisational block, which I'm calling Wonky Piano Keys.

Wonky Piano Keys Block Tutorial

1. Cut a strip 5" wide x 18" from each of your rainbow fat quarters.

2. Cut 6 strips from each color between 2.5 inches and 1.25 inch wide. 

You can layer them for faster cutting (usually I would place them directly 

on top of each other but I have both showing here, so you can see). 

3. Decide how you will lay out your block in three horizontal panels. You 

could mix it up and go completely rainbow scrappy for the whole thing, 

or you could separate colors. I decided to make two panels of cool colors 

and one middle panel of warm colors. 

4. Sew strips together at a slight angles, with a quarter inch seam allowance. 

You can vary it up - just make sure the width of your overall strip doesn't go 

less than 4.5 inches. I decided to alternate the colors and the sizes. 

5. Trim after sewing each strip.  

6. Press the whole strip when it gets between 12.5 - 13" long. Press individual 

strips in the same direction. 

*Note: You may have to cut more strips of fabric from your 5"x18" pieces, 

based on the size of your angles. 

7. Repeat steps 4-6 for two more panels.

8. Trim all strips down to 4.5".

9. Sew together using a quarter inch seam. Press both long seams. 

10. Trim block down to 12".

 

Enjoy your new block! A whole quilt of these would be fabulous. 

If you sew it up warm vs. cool as I did, you could even alternate for the 

next block (cool in the middle, warm on the outsides). I hope you are 

inspired to experiment with improvisation!

Thanks Jessica! Head over to Quilty Habit to enter to win a fat quarter 

bundle of the six Burlap Brights she used to make her block.

Make sure you check out each day's tutorial!

Day 1: Chris from made by ChrissieD

Day 2: Mary from Mary on Lake Pulaski

Day 3: Alison from Little Bunny Quilts

Day 4: Debby from Debby Kratovil Quilts

Day 5: Kristen from KD Quilts 

Day 6: Benartex design team

Day 7: Stephanie from Stitched Together Studios

Day 8: Julie from The Crafty Quilter

Day 9: Cynthia from Quilting is more fun than Housework

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