Our March/April issue features some beautiful color options, and today we’re hosting a giveaway for three of them. A new quilt top could be on its way to you shortly.
In case you’re not familiar with the idea of color options, for many patterns we create a second quilt top using completely different fabrics and colors. We hope this invites you to imagine the possibilities for that pattern—to consider how it would look if you chose a different color recipe. We show the color option in print, near the end of the pattern.
Here are some examples. The original quilt Around the Town is shown below.
Around the Town designed and made by Dawna Baker.
And here’s the color option made in fabrics from Everything But the Kitchen Sink by RJR Fabrics. We’ll give this one away!
Around Town color option in Everything But the Kitchen Sink fabrics from RJR fabrics.
Here’s the quilt from March/April called Calico Clockworks, made in Timeless Treasures fabrics.
Calico Clockworks designed by Susie Ennis and made by Donna Benham. Fabric: The Pixie Pops by Katie Plitt for Timeless Treasures.
And here’s the beautiful color option made from Covent Garden fabrics from Benartex. This one’s up for grabs too!
Calico Clothworks color option in Covent Garden fabrics from Benartex.
Kay Mackenzie‘s Petal Path is shown below in Memories of Provence fabrics by Monique Dillard for Maywood Studio.
Petal Path designed and made by Kay Mackenzie. Fabric: Memories of Provence by Monique Dillard for Maywood Studio.
And here’s the very different color option in Petal Pushers by Windham Fabrics. You could own this quilt top soon!
Petal Path color option in Petal Pushers fabrics from Windham Fabrics.
We’ll drawn for random winners from people who answer this question by midnight Friday, February 24: What’s your favorite project from the March/April ’12 issue of Quiltmaker and why? You can page through your issue or view the online table of contents. We’re anxious to hear your answers!
The winners have been chosen and notified: Sue, Chris and Margaret. Please check your email so we can get the quilt tops on their way. Thanks to everyone for the great feedback on this issue. Watch for more QM giveaways!
I really like the hidden treasure quilt because I love the way the stars are placed to create other hidden stars. Gorgeous fabrics in the display quilt, too.
I love the Petal Path design especially in Petal Pusher fabric… remind me of my garden with flowers everywhere.
My favorite is chain reaction from the issue. I love how the colors intertwine. I can see this done with black, white and some red or pink . It’s on my “to do” list. My next favorite is the petal pushers. I love flowers! BUT, I have a black thumb! So, I do love applique. I haven’t “killed” any applique flowers yet! LOL
Enjoyed the entire magazine but to choose a favorite I would have to say the Minnesota Homewarming by Pat Speth. I would love to make that quilt as I love the colors chosen, enjoy that type of piecing and in fact, even like the name of the quilt as I have a friend in Minnesota that would love to have such a quilt.
I have to say that I am not a lover of row quilts but I do like Petal Path… but I think that Hidden Treasures would have to be my favorite of the patterns in this issue.
I like Petal Path the best. It’s fresh and springy with nice clean lines. It lends itself to any colorway, and would be pretty even made scrappy.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden the best…love the birds, watering can, and flowers! But I like the Petal Path design, too! I’d love to win one of the quilt tops. Thanks so much!
For me it is a toss up between Chain Reaction and Petal Path. Love the QM’s Scrap Squad versions of Chain Reaction. Love the applique in Petal Path. Thanks for a really great giveaway!
I love the quilt on the cover – the Quiltmaker’s Garden. I’ve made a quilt using a similar cardinal pattern so this cover really caught my eye!
I like the Minnesota Homewarming pattern. Probably in large part because the title has Minnesota in it! haha
Minnesota Homewarming is my favorite, but the entire issue was great.
My favorite is chain reaction. I like the way it makes diamonds.
Well my first pick is the Petal Pushers pattern because my favorite thing to do is applique. I do like the Quiltmaker’s garden too. I actually made the flowers when they came out in a smaller version.
I like chain reaction because of the colors and how great it looks using different color ways. thanks for a chance.
I like both Hidden Treasure and Chain Reaction as they both seem the most scrap quilt friendly… though I am a bit leery of all the angles in Chain Reaction.
My favorite quilt project is Around the Town, followed by a very close second Minnesota Homecoming. I would love to win a quilt top. Thank you for this chance to win.
This was my first issue and I am in love. Great pictures, great ideas, great info. I love this magazine. Can’t wait for my next issue.
Love the Petal Path because of the applique flowers and the fact we haven’t seen anything but snow here. Could use some flowers in my life!
I absolutely love Chain Reaction. I have black/white/grey/yellow fabric that I envision with this pattern. My ToDo list just got longer!
I have to say I would find it hard to choose just one! I love them all! Each brings a refreshing calm when looking at them.
I love the challenges in the magazine. Always wanting to try something new and advance my quilting techiques. All the quilts are beautiful and you have so many choices to choose from. Your simple instructions makes it so easy a beginner can become a pro in no time.
I like the chain reaction quilt. The continuing pattern catches the eye. I belong to a quilting group and one of the ladies did it with a black background and it was absolutely gorgeous. Made we want to get ready to do one.
I am just getting started in quilting, and seem to be drawn to the star quilt patterns. With that, I really like “Grandpa’s Star” quilt. Being able to use up many of the scrap fabrics that I have to create such an eye pleasing quilt would be awesome.
I like Petal Path because it allows the opportunity to use a large chunck of a pretty floral that is too difficult to cut into and coordinate some applique flowers with it. It looks like a lovely pattern for donation quilt that will go together quickly if you use machine applique.
i would truly enjoy winning a quilt top…i would cherish the fact that someone made it with a lot of love for fabric and the outcome of hard work, and be so pretty. wishing everyone good luck, as we would all enjoy a present of this kind.
Calico Clothworks is my favorite..like the movement/colors.
Oh, it is so hard to choose, but I am going to say Petal Path. I really like the vertical design and the simple piecing that allows the applique to really stand out. It is a very upbeat, happy design that has a romantic bent. Plus, it really lends itself to a variety of color ways!
I love the Calico clockwork. It reminds me not only of a clock but also of pinwheels in some ways. I love the colors. I would quilt it and give it to My Very Own Blanket for charity as some child in child services would find comfort in it. You can see the site at MVOB.org . Thanks for the opportunity to win whatever quilt top I could as whatever it is a child in child services will love it.
I love them all, but that is what we quilters do best. Around the Town is most eye catching to me. The colors are beautiful, and looks like a wonderful quilt to display or use.
thanks!
I love all quilts. It would be really hard to make my mind up which quilt I like the best.
Without a doubt, Quiltmaker’s Garden is my favorite, but Petal path is beautiful, too!!! I love the movement of petal path.
My favorite is petal pushers. I love flowers and vines. I hope to make this quilt sometime.
I like the diamond fortune pattern that will be coming out. I tend to buy books and magazines with patterns I couldn’t draft on my own, or ones with techniques I am timid to try on my own. That one looks like one I’d like to try. Also, that garden paths is a nice pattern for a baby quilt I need to make.
I love Minnesota Homewarming. It’s absolutely beautiful plus do able with all my other projects I have going.
I love the ‘Everything but the kitchen sink’ which best describes the quilts I make. 9 out of 10 quilts I make are scrappy ones. It also would be nice to have a quilt that someone else made.
I love Chain Reaction. The combination of bright fabrics with crisp white makes it look fresh and modern.
What wonderful quits you have chosen for this free giveaway. Reading all the comments thus far it’s amazing how we all have different taste. I love the colors chosen for the Pedal Path quilt. I’m a newbie to quilting and am looking forward to trying applique on a future project.
I’m torn between 2…
The Around Town color option in Everything But the Kitchen Sink and the Petal Path color option in Petal Pushers. All are gorgeous.
My final decision is The Around Town option in Everything but the Kitchen Sink. It reminds me of quilts my grandmother made.
Thank you so much.
I love the colors of the Petal Pushers form Windham fabrics. My 5 yo granddaughter would to sleep under this. It is her favorite color, Pink and flowers also. Barb
There are some great ones this month. “Grandpa’s Star” in the Addicted to Scraps column is perfect for me to use the half-square triangles I got from a guild exchange.
I LOVE “Everything but the kitchen sink”. It reminds me of quilts my mother made from scraps left over from clothing sewing. It would be lovely in my home.
I really enjoy being able to use every last “bit” of the beautiful fabrics I’ve invested in over the years and am always looking for creative ways to use them. My favorite quilt piece is “Addicted to Scraps”. Love the original design and color play.
I just love the Minnesota Homewarming. The color choices just seem so fresh and are perfect for any season at all. It is a design that anyone can do – given enough attention. I would love to finish it to give to my son and future daughter-in-law as a wedding gift for their new home. Thank you!
I love the Quilt byLee Heinrich “Chain Reaction”. The modern fabrics “Pear Tree” by Thomas Knauer for Andover Fabrics is so effective in this design.
I can see myself putting this one together. Going to check out the scrappy versions on quiltmaker.com/scrapsquad.
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I have been looking for just the right pattern to make for my daughter. Her birthday is July 4th and so I have chosen Petal Path, Memories of Provence as my choice. What an interesting way to use our countries colors.
My favorite is the quilt “Chain Reaction” -very bright!
I like the Quiltmakers Garden the best. It’s so very different and soft and pleasing to the eye.
I love the cover quilt, Quiltmakers Garden. It employs all the elements that I love about quilting. I love your magazine, and all the opportuinties it offers. Thanks for a great publication!
I have always wanted to make a flying geese quilt so I loved the freebie foundations and the “get your geese in a row”! yeah! This will be my summer project! The quilts are all so beautiful! thanks for the lovely and generouse giveaway!
I love the cover quilt, the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It really made me think Spring is on the way!
Minessota Homewarming is my fav! I love it cause it is so versatile! I will use this pattern now and later
Wow the quilt Quilt Around Town is so my kind of quilt. Such a well thought out piece. I would love to own it. Maybe my name will be the one chosen to win. We are all winners when we see beautiful quilts each day on your site and your publications. Thanks and please keep em comming. You inspire us all.
I really like the Petal Path.
I also liked the bunny pattern, since I collect all things bunny. That one will be on my list of quilts to do for sure. I have collected all the animal patterns you have published, but this one is going to the top of the list.
Everything but the kitchen sink is just my style
How generous!! I love Kay’s Petal’s Path quilt. Always happy to see an article and quilt by her. They are so precious. Hope I win one! And of course hope it’s the Petal Path’s version.
PS: they’re all great.
I think that the workmanship and color placement and design for the “everything but the kitchen sink” deserves a place in my collection of all time favorites! I am a new quilter and have a desire to make something as beautiful and inspirational as this one day. If I won, I would put this on my wall in my sewing room/office/dogs room/ ! so that every day I could gain knowledge, inspiration and aspiration amongst the perspiration that goes into every quilt I tackle! I get scared just looking at it!!!!
Wow! Their all beautiful, but the one I like the best is Kay Mackenzie’s Petal Path in Petal Pushers fabrics from Windham. Perfect for my Granddaughter!
When I saw the Quiltmaker’s Garden in the March/April issue, I immediately wished that my quilting skills were so much more advanced so I could make one for my mother. Besides her love of her family, gardening and quilting are her two passions in life. This beautiful design and the spring tone colors just say “Mom” to me. My mother is so giving in both these areas. She makes so many charity and prayer quilts for others and her basket is always full of fruits, vegetables and flowers to share with neighbors and those in need. She often brings bundles of flowers to our church food pantry with the thought that people need food and shelter, but they also need something beautiful to cheer the heart. If I win this quilt, it will be finished and given to her as a well-deserved mother’s day gift.
My favorite is Around the Town–your magazine is absolutely fantastic. I’ve gotten so many ideas from it and will continue using it forever and ever. Thanks for the chance to win a quilt top.
I like the Petal Patch project. A little different design than I usually make. Plus, I have a lot of left over fabric from other applique projects that I can use for the applique on this pattern. I also like the Minnesota Homecoming design; even though I’m not from Minnesota.
I like the Quiltmaker’s Garden. Not only does it use a variety of blocks, keeping my interest while making it, it makes me think of the warm summer weather soon to be hear and sitting in my Garden looking at all the flowers
I have quilted all my life, but joined a Quilter’s Guild five years ago to try to use all my “stash” in different appealing patterns and techniques. “Around Town” was my favorite project because the stars and beautiful borders are what I am currently trying to master. All of the quilt giveaways just demonstrate what you can do when different colors are introduced. Wonderful!!
I love Petal Path because it can be done in so many different colors and brings springtime in early.
This is so tough. Of course they are all beautiful but I narrowed it down to Quiltmaker’s Garden because I love flowers and Hidden Treasures because I love the color combo. I would have to choose Hidden Treasures as my favorite because it reminds me of the ocean and the whole quilt just soothes my soul, as does sitting on the beach watching the waves come in and hearing them crash on shore..
I like the Around Town quilt because it has a classic look with a touch of new fabrics throughout the pattern. Since I am a beginner quilter, I tend towards the classics as a start and hopefully gain momentum with experience.
Love the cover quilt. Can’t wait to get the magazine!
I love all of th patterns but love the chain reaction pattern the best. God way to
use up some of my scraps
I think the Quiltmaker’s Garden quilt is just gorgeous! I like that it has so many different blocks — wouldn’t get bored making this one. I also love your color option for Petal Path with the lovely bright fabrics.
I absolutely love the Minnesota Homewarming quilt in this issue of Quiltmaker…this is definitely going on my list of quilts to make! Loved the whole magazine as usual…keep up the great work you do on this publication!
The original “Around Town” is my favorite. I love the richness of the colors and the secondary designs that the pattern creates with the colors.
If I win this quilt top, I would like to complete it and use it as a fund-raising opportunity for my guild.
I like the Petal Pushers pattern and love the 2 colorways it has been displayed in the magazine. The red/white/blue combination is a patriotic reminder to me but is also a beautiful summertime combination. The pink colorway reminds me of spring and is such a cheerful combination that anyone could display this in their home at the change of a seasons.
I have to say that my favorite would be the Bunny Patch. I have two house rabbits, so anything bunny related is a wonderful thing for me. My runner-up would be the Chain reaction design.
Of the quilt tops being given away, I would have to say Petal Pushers is my favorite- I love the bright, happy colors and the non-traditional design.
I like Petal Path the best…..scrappy!
I love “PETAL PUSHERS.” I am a color person and love bright colors. I also like the technique of applique and piecing together considering I enjoy doing delicate work (applique & quilting) by hand after quick piecing by machine.
I loved the minnesota houswarming. I like batiks and one day would like to make a batik quilt from all the batiks I have collected. I usually make lots of charity quilts but would like to finish one for each of my children.
Thank you, for a great magazine
Love the Bunny Patch reminds me of all the precious little ones that are born every year
Lovelove the pink petal pusher it is very appealing to my eyes and heart something that would look good on my bed or my couch waiting for metro crawl under and watch tv.
I am always looking for new ideas for quilts. I have only been quilting for a year and a half and my stash is growing quickly so I like to see quilts that have used scraps and how they have mixed them up to create beautiful pieces so Grandpa’s Star is a great example and I love the colors used in Minnesota Homewarming. Keep up the good work with providing us with a wonderful magazine.
My favorite is Quiltmakers Garden because I just love the mix of techniques to make this fascinating and serene setting…I can just see myself sitting there enjoying the flowers and butterflies!
My favorite pattern is Minnesota Hideaway. I love batiks, and this pattern is beautiful in batik. I’m still fairly new to quilting, but it looks like something I could be challenged by. Maybe I’ll be lucky!
Love the Hidden Treasures! I just like the balance of light/dark fabrics and the look of stars and flowers. Love the borders!!
I love around town and petal path in pink. There is so much to lobe in your magazine, it is impossible to choose one favorite thing. Kudos to the best quilt magazine on the market!!!
This is a toughy. There are some wonderful patterns in this issue! However, Around the Town is definately on my “to do” list. I was looking for a quilt to use for a charity auction and flipped back to this one enough times to realize I’d made my choice!
My favorite quilt is the Minnesota Homewarming. (I’m from Minnesota). I do have to admit that I love them all.
I love the Quilter’s garden with all the blocks mixed in. It would be a callenging quilt for me.However, I will probably make All-Around Town. Thank you for you fun patterns over the years.
I like the Chain Reaction project. I can use up my scraps, it has multiple sizes and I am always looking for simple projects to make lap quilts for the patients at our local vet’s hospital. This looks like it fills the bill on all counts and is something a little different.
What a generous give away.
I am not sure, which one to choose, but I love the petal path as well as Grandpa’s Star.
I like “Around the Town”. It reminds me of a quilt I made last year but it looks much easier! I love stars, and maybe I’ll get to keep this one!
I love around town and petal path in pink. There is so much to love in your magazine, it is impossible to choose one favorite thing. Kudos to the best quilt magazine on the market!!! keep up the great work.
I love the Hidden Treasure pattern best. Thanks!
Around the Town is my favorite, because it inspired me to design a medallion quilt with a feathered star center that I had already made. Beautiful!
As always I love most of the quilts in the magazine, but this time my choice will be Minnesota Housewarming, as it makes me want to take out the small pieces and bits of my scraps and start making it! I think I have to renew my subscription!
I am so in love with the Classic Update section. I love seeing pictures of the original and the updated version of the quilts. I hope that this idea goes beyond 2012. I love Chain Reaction, and Grandpa’s Star as well
I just love the Quiltmakers Garden. It is a very fresh and fun. It would be so much fun and challenging to try this quilt. It reminds me of my garden area and wanting of summer to come. Beautiful edition.
I love Hidden Treasures and would put it together with the same color combinations shown in the magazine. I love the turquoise and lime mix and the pattern helps them come together beautifully!
I received my copy of Quiltmaker a few days ago and found the Petal Path pattern. I have a wall space in our home by the sea and this would be perfect for the end of a hallway. I wanted to do some applique so this pattern woks well in all counts.
I love the Calico Clothworks from Timeless Treasures. As a former mathematics teacher I like the geometric effect of quilting and this quilt demostratrates these challenges.
Petal Pushers is so bright and cheerful. I’m thinking Spring.
Since I live in SW Minnesota, and Stars are my all-time favorite, I just love the Minnesota Homewarming, with Around the Town coming in as a very close second. I would make both of these! Thanks for another opportunity to win.
Love – Everything But The Kitchen Sink- It reminds me so much of the quilt my Great Grandmother made for me…
It was so hard to choose my favorite BUT I finally decided on Grandpa’s Star. I’m new to quilting (just finishing my first piece) and this looks like something I would like to try. A dear friend volunteered to teach me to quilt and I am addicted now. I would rather look through quilting magazines than read a book!!!!!
I love the Around Town quilt!! The design looks like one quilt on top of the other! I’ve just started quilting and am looking for designs. This is one I would like to make!
Its always difficult to pick just one Quiltmaker pattern as my favourite, but I’m going to with Hidden Treasures. I know I’m supposed to see beyond the colours shown but I am always drawn to anything in a blue/green colour combo. I work full time and don’t have a lot of spare time so throw quilts are my favourite size to make – big enough to snuggle under but small enough to have a finished project in a reasonable time. Keep up the good work Quiltmaker!
My favorite is chopping block. I love to make baby quilts. I see multiple variations with this pattern.
I was immediately drawn to the Bunny Patch quilt. I have been wanting to make a bunny quilt and there it was!
All of the quilts are gorgeous this month but I like bunny patch the best as I make lots of kids quilts.
Love the Minnesota Homewarming. Always am a fan of batiks because of the rich colors and textures
Any and all of the tops are lovely. I love the around town. I love to quilt and spend most of my time looking at quilt magazines and dreaming.
Wow!! What a wonderful prize!! Thank you so much for the chance to win!! My favorite project is definitely Quiltmaker’s Garden!! Beautiful doesn’t even *begin* to describe that quilt!!!! Gorgeous!!!
Oh my! So many pretty patterns and projects, and I can only pick one??? I love all the beautiful spring colors of the new fabric lines too. I suppose if I was going to pick a project to make, it would have to be Hidden Treasures. Love the pattern and also love the colorway it’s made in. Decision Decisions…how I hate to make choices when I can only have one!!
Minnesota Homewarming – Love everything about it – the fabrics (Batiks baby!) you picked, the simplicity, the calmness it evokes. I’ve only made 4 quilts (1st quilt was November 2011) and threw out the window advise about start simple… each one because it spoke to me… and I have learned a TON from each one. I’m happily addicted.
I love the Minnesota Homewarming because everything radiates out from the middle star and I love the colors used.
I liked the CHOPPING BLOCK by Carolyn Beam. I make charity quilts for the hospital and by chopping a simple block, a new and exciting pattern comes alive. I can also use some scraps to make the quilt bright and snazzy.
I love the Around town in the original colors but I think my favorite right now has to be the Petal Path in the pink and bright colors of spring in the Petal Pushers fabric, it gray and damp here and this makes me thing spring will get here with all its flowers and bright colors ( one of these days
Chain Reaction and Bunny Patch are my favorites in this issue.
All the quilts in the issue are great but my favorite is Bunny Patch. I am going to be a great aunt to a sets of twins in July and I have been looking for cute crib quilts. This will be perfect for one of the twins though I will change the borders to shades of blue.
I love the Petal Pushers variation of Petal Path. I love strip quilts and those colors are so cheerful.
Fell in love with that beautiful cover quilt- Quiltmaker’s Garden. My part of AZ is not very green, hard to grow things here except in pots. I plan to make this quilt and display in my home so I have something colorful to see.
I loved the whole magazine. I think Minnesota Homewarming is the favorite one I’d like to make for myself, but am seriously considering sewing Chain Reaction for my grandson. He’s a huge Bronco fan, so I’d make it in oranges and blues. Timeless Treasures Orange rush would be a great beginning!
I love Minnesota Homewarming. It is a stunning quilt that is easy enough to make and has a great, creative border. What more could you ask for? Thanks for the giveaway! Have you ever considered donating your extra tops to Project Linus or Quilts of Valor? There are many quilters (including myself) who would be happy to quilt them and send them on to one of these fine charities.
Although I like several patterns the Grandpa’s Star fits what I am doing right now, trying to reduce the scraps in my stash. I think those things multiply in the baskets!!
Petal Path in R/W/B is my favorite of the tops.
I love them all but my two favorites are
Grandpa stars
Chain reactions.
Chain Reaction.What a modern take on a strippy quilt!
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Kay Mackenzie’s Petal Path design immediately caught my eye and is my favorite. I’m looking for smaller applique projects. That quilt made in the Windham Pedal Pusher fabrics is so bright and cheery and it would look perfect in my pink guest room.
I love the Minnesota Homewarming Quilt. The style and colors are just what I would pick.
Thank you so much for your continuing publishing of Quiltmaker. That magazine has been my favorite for many many years. I love Minnesota Homewarming. Batiks are great fabrics to work with, so tightly woven and crisp. What a great way to downsize my scrap pile.
The chain reaction design looks like a good one to learn how to line up the colors/patterns to make the great chains. That one is my favorite. Thanks for all the great ideas for more quilts.
my favorite quilt is Quiltmaker’s Garden–living in Alaska we’re only beginning to gain daylight and spring seems so very far away–this lovely quilt reminds me that spring IS coming and it will be warm and beautiful again!
Everything But the Kitchen Sink by RJR Fabrics, is my favorite. I love the intricate detail in the different blocks.
I am a new quilter and would love to have something so beautiful to give me that positive inspiration to complete my first detailed quilt. I have done simple quilts with minimal blocks, but I want to complete a quilt that has more intricate designs.
So, this would be my inspiration!
Thankss
My favorite is the cover quilt, Quiltmaker’s Garden. The reasons are: It conveys the promise of spring, uses uplifting colors, and employs a variety of patches and methods. I am keeping this issue on my end table for now because when I look at the cover, I am instantly cheered.
Hard to choose! Probably Chain Reaction! It’s stunning!
I like the bunny. It will be a great easter quilt for the back of my couch but yet a great quilt for some little person.
I like Hidden Treasures because it’s nice to see other ways of doing borders besides just strips added on. And the colors catch your eye too.
I love the addicted to scraps. I enjoy doing scrap quilts. They remind me so much of the ones I have that were made by great grandmother. She truly used scraps from fabric used to make clothing or from used clothing. Today I use beautiful new fabric left over from other quilt projects.
I love Quiltmaker. My favorite in this issue is Minnesota Homewarming, but the Chain Reaction comes in close second. Both have lots of blank space to customize with quilting designs, and both can use up some scraps and smaller pieces of stash.
My favorite is Petal Path. Petal Pushers in the Windam fabrics is so bright and uplifting. I am a flower person and will gravitate toward any pattern with flowers.
I liked the Minnesota Homewarming quilt top because the colors that were chosen seemed to jump out and it looked like it would not be that difficult to make.
Just in love with “Around Town” my home is in country, so this would be something I would love to made.
They are all beautiful, but I think I like the Around the Town one best.
I really like BOTH Chain reaction and Petal Pusher! I could see either in any room of my house.
Would love to learn/make both patterns
I absolutely love the Diamond Fortune! It is so unique and reminds me of a Kaleidoscope. I also like Minnesota Housewarming but would shy away from it for now because I have not made any tops with curves. I just love the whole issue and can’t wait to finish my current projects so I can try one of these beauties.
Leann
Love all the quilts to make in Quiltmaker. Keep up the good work
Oh they are all wonderful but Minnesota Homewarming has to be my favorite. Beautiful borders and colors!!!!!
I think my favorite would have to be Hidden Treasure, but I love Around Town, especially in the vintage fabrics.
I love the original about town quilt. I’ve not made a quilt with that much detail, I think it would inspire me to kick it up a notch in my quilting. Plus it looks so warm and cozy I just want to snuggle under it!
I like Petal Path. I like combining applique and piecing and the striped pattern really appeals to me.
I like the Diamond pattern as I find myself enjoying foundation piecing more and more recently.
I LOVE the cover quilt on the March/April issue-just dreamy!
Petal Path is my favorite in this list of beautiful quilts. Petal Path is gorgeous and in the colors I love have around me.
My favorite is Petal Path. I really like quilts with applique.
My favorite is Minnesota Homewarming with Around The Town coming in a very close second! I love stars and the different uses for them. These two really struck me as patterns I may try.
Around Town is ‘my cup of tea’. Amazing how different they are visually with the change of fabric/color!
My favorite is Around Town. I love scrappy quilts and the colors in this one are warm and inviting.
my favorite is the Around Town made with Everything But the Kitchen Sink fabric….love the pattern and I love making things with that fabric
I always love applique whether it is needle turn or fusible. I admire the cover design but don’t have the time or energy right now to take on a project of that kind.
Well, this was easy to answer, as my cover already had a note on it saying “Minnesota Homewarming, pg. 17″ I plan to make it in batiks or stonehenge fabrics… Scrumptious!
As I am a new subscriber, I have not received my first magazine yet. However in looking at the online index, I would be most apt to do the Calico Clothworks. I do Quilts of Valor and that would be a nice pattern to do in Red, White and Blue. I am looking forward to getting this magazine.
I like the “Quiltmaker’s Garden” quilt. I bookmarked the “Around the Town” when I first got the magazine though. I’d love to win a finished Quilt top! What a Great Give-away. Thanks for the chance
Quiltmaker magazine is always so colorful and just packed with great information. Thanks for this great giveaway. All the quilts are just beautiful. My pick from the Mar-April issue would have to be the Petal Path. It is so pretty, love both the colorways!
Love petal path! Both color ways are beautiful. I may have to give this one a try!
My favorite is always Bonnie Hunter’s Addicted to Scraps column. It is so much more interesting than just repeating someone else’s work.
My favorite is “Around Town” by Dawna Baker as it has a real homey, cozy look to it. I do also like “Petal Path” by Kay MacKenzie as it reminds me of my grandmother’s gardens when I was little.
I love the Grandpa’s Star quilt. Scraps are my favorite!
I love the fresh colors of Pedal Pushers! Beautiful!
While I really like Chain Reaction, my favorite is Petal Play because I could just load it sideways on my longarm and quilt to my heart’s desire. Some quilts just cry out to be quilted a certain way, and Petal Play is screaming to me!
I love making scrappy quilts. I have been sewing for over fifty years and have fabric scraps from my college years and when my children were little and I was a stay at home mom. I have officially been quilting for five years and appreciate the opportunity to use some of that fabric and fondly remember the items made from the fabric scraps. So my favorite is Grandpa’s Star. Plan to make a quilt for each of my children using fabric scraps from things I made for them. Thanks for the idea.
Oops! I meant Petal Path!
I like Hidden Treasure because the colors remind me of the ocean; and that is my favorite place to be in the summer months. I love searching for pieces of seaglass along the shore; and a couple of summers ago…bought myself a pair of earrings made with genuine sea glass. I had been searching for a long time, because most of the shops sell stuff that has been man tumbled to look genuine.
They are all beautiful but I am drawn to Bunny Patch – it is so adorable! It would look wonderful in baby’s crib.
Petal Path is my favorite. I’ve not made a quilt in this way–with bands of “show off” material and applique running along side to bring out the colors of the “paths”. It’s a fun idea.
Loved the quilt on the cover. Beautiful fabrics, colors and whimsical pattern.
Grandpa’s Star – seeing that my absolute favorite quilts to make include as many fabrics as I can scrounge from my stash!! Chain Reaction is gorgeous in the fabrics shown – any one of my granddaughters would grab that one up!! Thanks for all the great quilts!! and for the 100 Quilt Blocks – I’m making a great baby quilt from one of the blocks I fell in love with from your vol. 4!!
I just love “Quiltmaker’s Garden.” The hard part will be waiting for each new installation, but I’ve got enough other projects under way to keep me busy!
The Quilt “Everything but the Kitchen sink” is a great example of what you can do with some of that stach fabric that you bought that did not quite work with the quilt you were working on at the time you bought it. It worked with that other material that you bought with that other project. Clean up that stach and Buy some more.. I would love it. If not the top itself at least a pattern.. I also have a project in mind that some extra quilts tops would be very helpful.
I really
Liked the original Around the Town. I love the triangles and the flow of the design as well as the colors and prints.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite, love them all! I really like scrappy quilts but I guess Petal Path is my favorite today!
I like the pattern “Diamond Fortune”.
too hard to pick a favorite, they are all beautiful
The first one out of this issue I will be making is Diamond Fortune and it will be for my loving husband. The pattern itself and the name remind me of my husband Paul because he IS my Diamond Fortune! He’s held my heart for 26 yrs now. Then I plan to make will be Quilt Makers Garden, it reminds me that these nasty rainy days are almost gone!
I really love Around Town in the first picture, it was my favourite when I looked through the magazine.
I love the “Around Town” quilt! I love the old fashion, homey feeling of this quilt. Definitely on my list of must do quilts! I have a thing for stars and incorporate them into my quilts when ever I can.
I love them all would be proud to win one of them.
Love and enjoy making quilts from the patterns in book.
Also been making table toppers from some of the quilt patterns.
I love all the quilt tops but I think my first favorite choice was the Petal Patch, I like the flowers and it looks easy enough for a beginner, which I am. I also thought the Bunny Patch was cute for an easter gift. Hopefully it is an easy pattern? I think I love all your quilt tops but those are my favorites. thank you .
I like Quiltmakers Garden the best. The colors are nice, and it feels so serene.
I also like random design sometimes, as I have made “picture” quilts for grandkids.
Minnesota homwarming caught my eye as I live in MN, but Quiltmakers Garden wins.
I love Grandpa’s Star because it uses leftover scraps and its very home spun looking! It reminds me of all the good ole days of fond memories.
I like Hidden Treasure.
I like the chain reaction. I can see so many different ways to do this one – black, white, red, or pastels for a baby. I also like the petal pushers one. Love the flowers. Both of these are going to be on my to do list.
My very favorite thing that you do in your magazine is the Color Options. It makes all the difference for me, and I always seem to prefer your softer color choices, or fabric lines. My very favorite quilt in this issue is the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It’s fanTastic! Beyond beautiful – blueRibbonWorthy, even! Of the Color Option quilts, I’m in love with Around the Town – the softer color option immediately caught my attention; made the quilt irresistibly appealing. The March/April issue is Wonderful, btw – so many interesting articles and time-lines. Thanks for this generous contest – I pre-congratulate the Winner.
I love Hidden Treasures- is one of those quilts that is so intricate that you would never tire of looking at. But I think Around Town is my favorite – it reminds me of quilts made by my great grandma!
I love the quiltmakers garden project as it includes piecing and applique. The colors and design are very spring like which would make a beautiful project to work on after a long cold winter. I try to do quilts for ever season/occasion to display on my quilt rack, this would make a beautiful addition to my collection.
I love the Petal Path! I’ve been quilting for many years but I haven’t been brave enough to try applique until recently. Now that I know how challenging it is and how satisfying handwork can be I’m hooked. I think this quilt is just perfect, large blocks of color and beautiful applique.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. Keep these great patterns coming!
All of the quilts are gorgeous but the Petal Path made with Memories of Provence is such an elegant quilt. It reminds me of my mother who I lost this last year. Her eyes would light up when she saw such a lovely work of art and she would have to have it.
She loved quilts and had many made by my grandmother which our family has always cherished as heirlooms. I and my children have grown up around these wonderful quilts and the stories revolving around them. They have always been a source of comfort to our family. Quilting has been such a blessing for me. It is so relaxing to me to work on these quilts for family and friends that can be passed down for future generations and become part of their heritage.
Around Town is the quilt that would be the quilt for me. Being older the more subdued colors, the many old time block patterns would give me the feeling of serenity that makes a quilt give comfort.
I love the petal paths best, but I actually love ALL of them. Thanks for hosting this giveaway! I hope I am lucky enough or blessed to win one of them! Thanks again!
I love the Diamond Fortune pattern, especially in the “Sparkling Gems” color option. To me it looks 3 dimensional and the color variance for this design is unlimited. I also love the challenge of paper piecing.
Love “Everything But The Kitchen Sink”. It is soooo cheerful and bright! Kerrie
I absolutely love the “Pedal Pushers” quilt . It reminds me of sunny days to come in these bleak winter days of Feb.
I very much favor the top [Around Town] for the rich colors and that it looks complicated but I know that it is not. I also like that there is a material list for a queen size quilt listed.
Minnesota housewarming-I have the fabrics and plan to do that one! The issue is great!
I like the chain reaction pattern. Simple and modern. Thanks!
I love Quiltmaker ! I have to say my first favorite is the Cover “Quiltmakers Garden ” the next is 2 are Petal Path and Chain reaction , I love them all because they look challeging and I would use my own colors , I love the applicade work ,the Chain Reaction would be so pretty with other colors on a black background .
Tough choice, but I guess I’d pick Hidden Treasure; love the colors and fabrics, plus it would work in my home decor!
I love them all
I really like the Hidden Treasures quilt. The peiced border really makes the quilt a stand out. The colors in this quilt are so soothing. It would be great to sleep under.
I just love Quiltmaker magazine, you seem to have very different patterns and some of the most talented quilters. My favorite is Grandpa’s star by Bonnie Hunter. I love using up my scraps and Bonnie is so creative with her block patterns and her scrap savers system. I have made several of her patterns. This block will soon be done as a group project at our Scrap Yard Gang club at the local quilt shop.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. I am just learning to quilt and these are the techniques I am learning now. Also, spring is coming and this would look so good in a pastel palette.
I like Quilt maker’s Garden because it show me lots of different patterns and a way to group them together. From seeing this one I can design my own. I love also seeing the way to quilt the top.
I really like “Everything But The Kitchen Sink”. The materials are perfect for this design and give the blocks definition. The center stands out with the darker border and I like the blocks on the perimeter that are also defined by the beautiful materials used.
I like Minnesota Homecoming. It has so many ideas in one pattern. Several older quilters, some of whom have passed away, gave me some orphan blocks. The ideas for wonderful borders found in this pattern have my creative juices flowing to allow me to create something new and beautiful from something old and beautiful. I also appreciate the great skillbuilder, Get Your Geese in a Row. Thank you!
Eileen
Lovin Hidden Treasure! So cool when the secondary patterns jump out and grab ya! Have a great day and thanks for the opportunity!!
Petal Pushers w/Windham Fabrics just is candy to my eye right now. I’ve been starring at ER hospital walls most of this week with my stepdad.
I was so attracted to the Petal Path for many reasons. Its a small enough size that I don’t find it over whelming…I love to think of Spring and flowers and i absolutely love to use buttons on quilts…the colors were great and I can envision so many other color ways. This has gone to the top of my “to do list”
My favorite would have to be the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It is just so springy and so many different blocks to keep my interest and learn new techniques. I don’t know when I will get around to making this quilt, but its on my bucket list. Thanks for all the gorgeous ideas you inspire me with. Just wish I had more hours in my day.
I absolutely love the Pedal Path! It is so whimsical, flowing, and feminine. The pink and orange one would be so perfect for a girl’s room. The red & blue one, which I like the best, also has a somewhat traditional look. Although it’s feminine, I know that my husband would love it as well.
I love Quiltmaker’s Garden. I love the color combinations and all the different types of squares. I love the rose squares, the bird squares, the pinwheel squares and the way it is all put together. I can’t wait to receive all the parts of the series.
It’s hard to pick one thing from the issue. I have loved Quiltmaker for YEARS!!! If forced to chose from this issue, though, I would have to select the Petal Path for several reasons: its beauty, its simplicity and its color. The overall look is great and I can’t wait to make it!
Love all of these quilts, how is a person to choose which is the nicest? LOL
well lets just say I favor “Around the Town”
Just the name makes me think about our court square in Paris TN, and all its history. Around the town looks to have much history within its square borders.
The quiltmakers garden is my favorite. I love to garden and plant flowers. This would look wonderful in my home. Thank you for this chance you have given us. Kudos!
I like Hidden Tresaures. I am always facinated by the way lights and darks create different shapes depending on the angle you look at them. It’s like a party for your eyes!
Kay Mackenzie’s “Petal Path” is just my style! I love the appliqued flowers and curvy vines, the combination of large bold prints and tiny polka dots and the simple structural design of long rows. What a great way to feature a favorite fabric and use up precious scraps at the same time! This is definitely a winner on my list. Thanks for always bringing the best in quilting to me, Quiltmaker!
I absolutely love *Chain Reaction*! I am a sucker for patterns that feature bright patchwork on white.
Around the Town is my favorite hands down!
I would love any of them, but the Quiltmaker’s Garden really warms my heart!
It’s hard to choose but I like Grandpa’s Star the best as it is so wonderfullly colorful and happy. Reminds me of a garden of mixed flowers or a group of people as we are all different in our own way.
i love quilter’s garden…any pattern with flowers and little creatures is terrific in my book.
I love “Around the Town”. I love the look of medallion quilts!
Another beautiful issue and hard to choose, but I especially love ‘Diamond Fortune’ because of the on-point design giving plenty of places for beautiful feather quilting. Also like the other layouts.
I like Petal Path I think the red was the color that cought my eye this time I never
know what colors make one quilt stand out more…………
I really loved Chain Reaction – the angles to be cut adds an element of a challenge and it gives me another option to use all the 2 1/2″ strips that I already have cut and in bins.
You make this so hard to just pick one pattern only. Now with the color options available, it becomes even harder. The color options shown below the pattern is such a great idea. There are so many endless possibilities. I want to make all of these quilts and now I need to choose one. The one I would pick is the Calico Clothworks designed by Susie Ennis and made by Donna Benham. This has a Quiltmaker twist and sure is a classic update to make this quilt pattern easy and to step back in time. Yes, I would like to win this quilt. Why? Because my niece is getting married and this would be quite the gift to give as well as to receive. I really enjoy this blog and look forward to reading it every day. You never know what will be coming next. Thank you for a job well done.
Sandi Timmons
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I’m having trouble deciding between Around the Town and Minnesota Homewarming. I guess I’m ready to do a star quilt. Thanks for the giveaway.
I like ‘Around the town’ because I like star quilts and this one looks like a star is bursting out to become larger. Thanks.
I like the Petal Path color option in Petal Pushers fabrics because it’s so springy and happy!
I love the Around the Block pattern . . . the colors, and how easy it would be to make! Thanks for the opportunity to win . . .
Love chain reaction! Any of the tops would be a welcome addition in my home.
If I had to choose just 1, I would choose Minnesota Homewarming. I LOVE large star quilts and this one is made in such wonderful colors. But, I don’t have to choose just one because you have so many great quilt patterns in each issue. Your magazine is the only one I subscribe to. Always LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!!
I also love the quiltmakers garden but they are all beautiful. I belong to a garden club and love flowers but it is hard to choose among all these lovely quilt tope. I have been a subscriber for many years to Quiltmaker and want to thank you for your darling Project Linus Quilts that you feature each year. I am a Charter member of my local Project Linus Chapter and several of the ladies have made these quilts.
My favorite quilt in Mar/Apr issue is Around Town. My favorites are pieced quilts and I especially like the variety of different blocks used and the medallion setting.
Petal Path and Chain Reaction are both calling out for me to create them. Chain Reaction is speaking louder. Oh, the quilting voices in my head are reminding me that it’s Mardi Gras and Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler!
Petal pushers is the one for me. The hot bright colors are super.
I LOVE Quiltmakers Garden as it allows us to use several different techniques and to “grow” into them. I think it is just beautiful and would be a wonderful quilt to perfect our technical skills. Practice making perfect. Thank you for the opportunity to win a quilt and thanks so much. This is my favorite quilting magazine.
When I received this issue, I fell in love with Diamond Fortune. The color option is stunning also. As are the other quits in this issue. I love the Patch Pals collect also.
I love Quilt Maker’s Garden. Its the only way i can “grow” beautiful flowers!
I love the Petal Path quilt! The colors are so cheerful and the entire quilt makes me feel happy!
I LOVE ! Petal Path in Memories of Provence….it is bright & happy, it is patriotic, and just plain gorgeous. It combines quilting and applique, which in my book , applique always puts things up a notch! And, It looks, actually, quick & easy, which is always a plus !
I love the Bunny! I make a lot of baby quilts and this series is wonderful ….as is the rest of the magazine!
I love Petal Path. It reminds me of the hollyhocks that grow along my fence.
My favorite guild presentations, quilt show displays and magazine articles more often than not show the same blocks or quilts made by different quilters. I’m invariably blown away by how different quilters’ interpretations make such a difference in their final products, and I learn a lot about value, mood and artistic statement from side-by-side comparisons like that. Thank you, Quiltmaker, for showing different colorways of quilts!
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden quilt! As a quilter and a gardener it really was a great pattern for my life
I just love to see how different a quilt will look like with jjust a color change. I can look at one in a muted colors and not like it at all, then see it in a more vibrant theme I just love it. Always appreciate it when I can see a pattern in a different color way. Then I have the juices flowing and wanting to get to my quilting.
I found your site this morning and now I am your newest fan! It is hard to pick one quilt, but I am choosing the Minesota Homewarming. Love the colors and design.
I am all a-twitter for Quiltmaker’s Garden! The soft colors of Spring in contrast to the brighter colors set the cardinal and blue jay a-flutter! I always look forward to the welcoming voices of birds calling me outside to join them in the warmer weather; and, inviting me to plant seeds for flowers from which they can enjoy their sweet nectar! Congratulations – a quilt to delight!
My fav is the Petal Path, I like the vertical stripes (really like it in pink!)
The Around Town design looks like a lot of fun because of the different blocks involved. Neat in lots of colorways.
Wow, I loved the whole magazine (as usual, lol), but if I had to pick a favorite it would be “Chain Reaction”. The variations are endless, and that is just with the white background. Think of the possibilities with a different background. You have to think a little bit when you are assembling the block, but not too much (exercising our brains is always a good thing) And what a wonderful way to use scraps! (but no one has to know it wasn’t planned that way) Love, love this magazine, every issue!!!!
My favorite quilt is Memories of Provence, I love the patriotic colors and because of the flower scheme. I will be making some quilts to send to a unit of troops who are serving in Afghanistan, so I would love to make this one to send to each of them. Each and every one of them would be so humbled and grateful, not to mention a total moral booster to receive this quilt.
Hidden treasure is a quilt design that I would never tire of making in many colors it is such a wow. Love your magazine
Around the Town is my favorite, the bright spring time colors are ageless. I’m redoing my kitchen and living room in a cottage/beachy look. This would look so beautiful, all the colors are ideal, I just cannot get enough color these days! Colors make me so very happy in our upside down crazy world we live in, they make me smile continually!
Quiltmakers garden is my favorite and I will be making it as soon as I have all 5 parts. The last time I started a quilt given in installments I got suck and missed one issue leaving me with an unfinished project for a long time. Never again. I can be patient. I’m also ordering a subscription to your magazine just to make sure I dint miss any of the needed issues. In the mean time I am going to try my hand atDiamond Fortune
I love All Around Town medallion quilt. I’ve alwayswanted to make one and love this pattern. If I win a quilt top, I would quilt it and donate it to Freedom House, our local domestic abuse shelter for fund raising.
I am a new quilter and love the petal path top in pink. I would love to branch out and learn a few new skills with that pattern!!
the most outstanding for me was the “chain reaction” the colors you use could make it look different in many ways and it is so elegant looking. what a great giveaway!
Loved this entire issue! It’s a keeper for future projects. Really liked Around Town. Thanks for lots of new ideas.
As a fan of Monique Dillard’s work I really liked “Petal Path” when I first saw the pattern, seeing the vesatility the color option provides made me even more anxious to make this pattern!
I just love the Grandpa’s Star quilt ! Something about the plaids remind me of flannel shirts ( which I’ve always loved) and make me think cozy and warm!
It’s difficult to choose just one design as the favorite, but I think I’d say the Quilters Garden. I love quilts and a garden!
Love Pedal Path. Flowers are my favorite on a quilt.
my fave in the whole magazine was the calico clothworks quilt but coming in a very close second was the Hidden Treasure quilt on page 22–loved how the stars make a secondary pattern and the border was something I’ve never considered but now I will.
Good morning all, Diane and group, y’all are doing a fine job. Let’s see my favorite in this new mag is Minnesota Homewarming, I love the HST and the secondary star design, true love in the tonal BATIK, which I also use a lot. Every one in this issue is great but yep I love this one best. Oh and the bunny is precious.
My favorite is “Petal Path”; can’t wait to try it. I think showing additional color options is such a great idea and it opens my mind to try new things.
I love the fabrics in Petal Path!
I loooove the Minnesota Homewarming. The colors are just my thing. Hopefully I will beable to make it soon.
No doubt about it! I love Quiltaker’s Garden. It puts me in the mood of spring and anticipation of flowers to come.
I Love the “Petal Path” Quilts…..The Memories of Provence Fabrics are Gorgeous!!!
I’ve always wanted to make a pattern like Petal Path. This quilt looks like the applique would be doable for a newbie like me.
I really like the Quiltmaker’s Garden. I love the gazebo and all the flowers, animals and colors. It’s really beautiful.
I just love Hidden Treasures. I am a big fan of blues and this quilt shows them off perfectly. I looks easy enough for confident beginners and experienced quilters alike.
I Love the Project from Your March/April 12 Issue called, “Quiltmakers Garden”. I am especially fond of Foundation Piecing and love the combintion of applique and piecing w/this quilt!! I love cardinals and gazebos too!!
I love the Hidden Treasures quilt. I love star blocks, so it grabbed me right away, and I love the colors used. I also really love how the block arrangement creates unexpected motifs in the quilt. It’s stunning.
I really love the vibrant colors and pattern of the ‘Minnesota Homewarming’ project. I have a lot of Batik fabric in my stash and I’m always looking for different ways to use it.
How can you pick one quilt over another? They are all wonderful designs. The only logical way to pick one is put the names on a piece of paper, put them in a hat and draw one out. I drew “Memories of Provence”. Life is good!
I really love Chain Reaction and can see it in many color ways.
I like the Petal Pusher pattern because I like to applique as well as piece. It also goes well for quilt-as-you-go. Showing the other color option is awfully nice also.
I like the, Chain Reaction because, even though its made with modern fabrics it has an old fashion feel to it.
I really loved Chain Reaction. I’m in the process of finishing my own Chain Reaction quilt. I used the 1 1/2 inch scraps that were cut off to make a border along the two sides of the quilt to make it larger. Love the end result.
I like Chain Reaction!
In the March/April issue there were many projects I would like to do but, the one that tops them all is the “Diamond Fortune” foundation pieced quilt. With the Foundation Piecing used for the quilt it looks more difficult than it is and it caught my eye and I was ready to charge on it until I remembered the two baby quilts that have to be finished!
I’m digging Diamond Fortune ‘ .I love the colors! Looks like paper piecing or Something OUT OF MY USUAL STYLE. interesting and like yo try new things.
I love Around Town. There are so many color combinations that can be used with this pattern. I appreciated the skillbuilder section on creating flying geese because I could use help in making my geese fly better.
My favorite is Petal Pusher pattern in the pinks. I love to applique and I can also see this being done in a variety of bright spring colors.
wow, I will definatelybe doing the foundation piecing pattern, I love all the different ways to outline this pattern
For me it is a toss up of “Petal Path” and “Diamond Fortune”. I love the combination of a strip applique with a strip of feature fabric Petal Path features, while the almost Petal Path. thanks for a great give-away!
Quiltmaker’s Garden is stunning! Love the contrast of geometrics and flowers and the accents like the cardinal and watering can blocks!
I love Bunny Patch. All of Kay Mackenzie’s designs are gorgeous to me, as well as so many others in this issue. I’m a subscriber and enjoy each issue.
I love the Petal Path quilt. I love applique and I love flowers. It is so cheery. I will make this one day for my sunroom!!
I would have to say Calico Clothworks is my favorite – love the way the pattern seems to flow across the surface. I saw this in the preview and knew I would be making it soon.
I love the Petal Path Quilt! I just love applique and this one seems so fun and adaptable to different sizes. It’s such a happy quilt!
I really like the Hidden Treasure I see it different each time.
Love Minnesota Homewarming – Luscious colors and beautiful pattern. When you look at it you immediately feel like you’re home safe and warm. Would love to snuggle under the covers with this one!
The colors in the Around Town Quilt by Dawana Baker are very eye catching. I love the different brown and green combinations.
I just fell in love with Calico Clothworks on sight. I have been playing around with it in EQ and it is just so versatile. You could make any number of quilts and other things with this and nobody would know that you were just using one block.
Loved more than one topic, but especially liked the Creative Spark, Calico Clockworks update.
Petal Path – beautiful fabrics with a spring and summer flaire.
I like the Hidden Treasures quilt. I like the combination of greens and blues. I really do like the skillbuilder page that is in the magazine. I am always glad to learn something new.
My favorite is the Quiltmakers garden. I love applique, and quilts like this makes it more look like a picture than a quilt with regular blocks
Love the Petal Path (& Petal Pushers) because I’m a great fan of applique, both hand and machine.
I love, and often make, scrappy quilts. To me, they speak of quilting here and now with all the wonderful fabric choices we have, and quilting in the past when scraps were virtually all a quilter had to work with. Minnesota Homewarming is an excellent example of how the modern and the traditional work together. The batiks show up so well against the light background and the border is a perfect, happy ending.
I am really impressed with “Chain Reaction”. I love the original color way – and have seen two of them done by the Scrap Squad loving them both. Amazing way to use up some scraps and make a beautiful quilt. I would love to win it.
I love all types of applique (needle turn, machine, reverse, you name it), and I love flowers so I have to say Petal Path in the bright pink, orange and green is my absolute favorite.
My favourite, hands down, is the Quiltmakers Garden. I love the gazebo and flower garden motifs, and it is nice that one can use so many different scraps of fabric. I really must make this quilt, just for the gardener in me!
I like all the quilts In March/April issue, These are the types of quilts I enjoy making. Hidden Treasures the color is very attractive , Bunny Patch, Home Town,
Chain Reaction.
I love Quiltnakers garden, will be a gift at Christmas for a avid gardner friend of mine.
I like the Diamond Fortune because it is so far out of my “box”. I usually work in brights or 30′s reproductions and with traditional patterns.
I loved Pedal Pusher , the colors are so reminiscent of spring and all that is happy. Would be so much fun to work on this quilt and an inspiration to work in my garden
I love the Quiltmakers Gardern. I love the detail, the softness of the way it plays across the length and width or the quilt. It is a beautiful quilt.
I Love the Around Town Quilt!!! The colors in this scrap quilt is so beautiful it reminds me of the flour and feed sacks that we used to make clothes and quilts from so long ago.
Good quilt pattern. Scrappy Quilts are my favorite!!!!
There are several I want to make, but I’m intrigued with Diamond Fortune. I have a grandson that kayaks. He’s on the Swedish national team. I’ve wanted to make him a quilt that reflects his passion and with some color changes, this might work! I haven’t been able to find kayak fabric, but I think this would work better.
I long arm, so I love to get free quilt tops!!
I love the “Around Town” project. I love the different types of blocks, the flying gesse that go around the center star block and the borders within and around the quilt. I would love to win the quilt made with the different color options!
Love the Petal Path deisn especially in the Petal Pusher color option! Thanks for the chance!
I loved the Petal Path quilt the minute I saw it & thought, oh I’d love to make it in Pink. Well, you did, must have read my mind!!! I love the Petal Path in Petal Pushers. Will have to get some of the fabric…quick!! Thanks for all the inspiration.
The March/April ’12 issue of Quiltmaker is the absolute best one yet! I keep it on the kitchen table to I can pick it up at any time and see something else I want to try that I might have missed earlier. This is my very favorite quilt magazine. Keep it up! — Karen
My favorite is Petal Path. I just like the applique flowers and stems and leaves. It has a very comforting look.
I believe Quiltmaker’s Garden is my favorite. I love getting a quilt pattern with a lot going on and that is released in subsequent issues. This quilt tells me that spring will come, even though we have more snow this year than we have had for a long time.
My favorite quilt in the March/April issue is Minnesota Homewarming. The multiple borders appeal to me and it would be a new type of quilt for me to make. I like the colors in the original but the color option is also very appealing. This magazine is fast becoming my favorite quilting magazine.
The Petal Pushers in the Windham Fabrics speaks to me. I do not do applique so I would never make this quilt on my own, but I do like how the colors flow together and makes a pretty quilt.
I love the Petal Pushers quilt, reaffirms that Spring is coming. It would be goreous on our little girl’s bed, she’s a pink freak.
I like the hidden treasure quilt and the one addicted to scraps. Have way too much of a fabric stash, and anything to do with scraps is more than welcome. Thanks for the giveaways.
I absolutely love the Minnesota Homewarming quilt! Two reasons: 1) I’m from MN but, now live in ID. 2) I love the colors; I am a batik fanatic! Thanks for this chance to win a beautiful quilt! Good luck to everyone!
I really like all of the patterns. Memories of Provence is such a happy quilt & the pattern would allow you to use fabric that you didn’t want to cut. I like this one very much.
Around Town goes with my likes of traditional – what a wonderful pattern. The fabric you chose for this one, well, I collect 30s fabric … what a Treasure.
Calico Clothworks – what you could do with pattern. I really like the fabric that you chose for this this quilt.
But, I would have to say that the one for me , that has a better definition & shows the pattern & fabric the best is the “Memories of Provence”.
The whole mag is great. It is very hard to pick a favorite. I would have to say that the Quiltmaker’s Garden is my favorite. It is such a beautiful breath of fresh spring air. Thank you for the giveaway
I am totally crushing on Hidden Treasures! That blue colorway is to dye for!! And I can see all kinds of quilting possibilities to turn this top in to an award winning quilt! I think I will just have to make this one!
Please enter me for a chance to win!
I like the Quiltmaker’s Garden and the Granpa’s Star quilts because of the down to earth type of quilts they are..
It is like Christmas every month when the new issue arrives. I love looking at all the quilts and I mark my magazine for all those I want to make. I have decided that I will have to live to be at least 500 in order to get all my projects complete.
I love Petal Pushers. I was a teenager during the late 60′s early 70′s and it reminds me of the clothes we wore. Those were fun times.
I like Petal Path because I have always loved the look of applique combined with pieced blocks.
I love the Minnesota Homecoming especially the colors and the way it radiates out from the center
I love both Petal Path and Minnesota Homewarming. Petal Path touches my love for flowers and Minnesota Homewarming my like for traditional patterns. It’s really hard to decide when there are so many wonderful patterns.
My favorite is the Minnesota Homecoming quilt. I love scrappy and the colors are gorgeous. The border is especially beautiful, love the zigzag pattern. It’s a beautiful quilt!
I love the Around Town quilt in the Everything But the Kitchen Sink fabrics. It makes me feel happy!
My favorite quilt from the issue is Minnesota Housewarming, because I LOVE scrappy and batiks are one of my fav. fabric themes. Because I love scrappy, Around Town is my fav. of the freebies!
(Quiltmaker’s Garden is also a delight!)
I love the “Petal Power” quilt because I can see myself making it and it has simple enough lines that can be added to. Applique is not my thing, but recently finished one with hand applique flowers and the self-learning and discipline became a plus.
Petal Pushers was my favorite. I like to use border prints or big prints and this pattern will be great for that. Looks fast too!
Petal Patch in Petal Pusher is a great quilt. I love the bright, bouncy look of the fabric and pattern combined. Tamsyn
How does one choose, but coose I must. I immediately fell in love with Petal Path. I am always drawn to quilts with strips, either plain or pieced, with alternating applique strips. Also, the fabrics used were perfect. Beautiful in color and a great balance between the larger and smaller prints, each one enhancing the design.
My friend and I are trying to start a garden club in our small community. We have been discussing the possibility of sewing a quilt for a raffle to gain some publicity and raise start-up funds for the club. “Quiltmaker’s Garden” would be a lovely quilt to raffle, and since we are both currently in a paper-piecing class, we are excited about testing our skills on this quilt. Noting that the directions will be spread out over 5 issues, we could certainly make us of one of your give-away tops in a floral motif for a raffle this year with the expectation that we would have “Quiltmaker’s Garden” completed by next year.
I like the Fan Dance quilt would love to win any of the quilts.
I love the quilt around town. I love the pattern and the choice of fabrics.
Around The Town is my favorite. Love the traditional, scrappy mixture of blocks. I like the original fabrics the best, but you cannot beat the RJR option fabrics title “Everything but the kitchen sink!” SO glad to read Bonnie Hunter’s column every month.
I love Petal Path in the Petal Pushers fabric is so cheery that I can’t wait for spring to come! Great colors.
I can’t wait to make Bunny Patch. Mine will have more blue than pink. But I think it will be the perfect quilt for a great nephew that will be arriving in June. Thanks for the opportunity.
I love the Quiltmakers Garden and hope to make this quilt. I also love the various blocks Bonnie Hunter has which show how to use the scrap stash.
It’s hard to chose but Minnesota Housewarming is my favorite. I think. But that could change tomorrow. Lol
With so many beautiful choices it was hard to narrow down just one favorite. I finally chose Chain Reaction, it reminds me of the gum wrapper chains we used to make as kids. I love anything that sparks memories of my childhood
That’s a hard choice, but guess I’d have to pick the Chain Reaction. This would be a great quilt to use up a lot of scraps. Love the magazine and enjoy looking and reading all through it.
I absolutely LOVE the Minnesota Homewarming. The colors you have are some of my favorites. I love how the design flows. I could also see this quilt in Christmas colors.
Petal Path done in red/white/navy is my favourites. Although I love all the
quilts featured in the magazine. without this magazine my life and quilting
making will be very bleek. Keep up the good work.
I really like the Minnesota Homewarming. I love the colors and I tend to make quilts with stars!
Petal Pushers is my favorite — fresh and graceful.
My favorite pattern is Bunny Patch because the majority of my sewing is making quilts for an organization which gives them to needy children from newborn to 5 years old. For sure, this bunny will be cuddled.
My favorite project is “Chopping Block” – This inspired me to try something new. To cut into some of my orphan blocks to create different designs. What fun.
Love the Petal Pushers top but for free would love to win any of them!!
It is very hard to chose a quilt for the colors in each one are perfect for the quilt design. I love Quiltmaker’s Garden the best. The use of a flower motif in the sky gives it a whirling design. The gazebo is in the garden, but it is not the first thing one sees. My eye sees the wonderful roses, birds and butterfly and the greenery helps your eye move around the quilt. It is stunning. Yes, anyone would love to have it.
they are all pretty but my favorite is the blue version of “Calico Clothworks” just because I like that color combination, the other quilts I would like better if they had colors I like!!
I love the Around Town quilt. I’m a fan of the red/tan combinations, and you just can’t beat the star in the center! Absolutely beautiful!
I would love to make the Around Town and hope to do it one day. I also like the Chain Reaction Quilt and the way it is made. My problem is I like too many and don’t have enough time.
I would have to say Minnesota Homewarming and then it would be Around the Town. I love stars and the way they look almost like a scrap or a batik quilt. Hopefully, one day I will be able to make a batik quilt. Thank you so much for having this giveaway.
What a great giveaway! Thanks for offering this. I loved Diamond Fortune. The color choices really work off each other. Usually I like something more scrappy so this was a surprise to me!
This is so nice of you! I really do love this issue. It is hard to choose a favorite quilt, but Hidden Treaure really did catch my eye. I might make it with more colors, but it really is gorgeous. Thank so much for the giveaway!
Hidden Treasures is my favorite! The colors used remind me of beach combing the beaches of my home in Kodiak, AK! Colors of surf, surf foam, and seaweed. I can smell the ocean air when looking at Hidden Treasures!
Hidden Treasure is awesome the stars create flowers and the use of color is awesome!!! Definitely awesome
My favorite in the Quilt Tops for Giveaway is Minnesota Homecoming because every time you look at it you can pick out different designs. Also love the colors. Great job!!!
My favorite quilt is Minnesota Homewarming. I like the interaction of the stars and the borders complete the quilt so it looks “done”. I will do it in blues/greens-lights and darks which will give it a kalidescope effect. This quilt looks warm and homey–a comfortable design for a comfortable quilt!
I love every quilt in each and evey one of your magazines. While I must cofess that I am drawn to the more colorful quilts, such happy, cheerful quilts that there is no way I could ever pick one over the other.
Petal Pusher in the red and blue colors. Very cheerful. Would like to win because it is something I could not make successfully.
In the Quilt Tops for Giveaway I like the Minnesota Homecoming because of the lovely colors, not just for the fact that I am from Minnesota
I really like Petal Path with the Petal Pushers fabric. I can’t wait until the flowers are in bloom and the weather is warm everyday. Petal Path is my replacement til that comes!
This issue is loaded with wonderful options and I was really torn between Minnesota Homewarming and Hidden Treasure, as I really love stars of any variety and I absolutely adore the pieced borders. My final choice as favorite would have to be Minnesota Homewarming. It just feels cozy and comfortable. I can see myself snuggled under this quilt on a cold winter evening.
I love the Hidden Treasures because of its interplay of colors and the secondary patterns that appear once the quilt top is finished.
I like “Chain Reaction” the best. I love color scheme and the twisting design!
I love Chain Reaction. It is beautiful fresh design and the fabrics are delightful.
And totally out of character for me to like this, but the Bunny Patch quilt is charming.
I like the Hidden Treasure quilt (and the petal Path is another favorite).
I love ‘Around Town’ I would hang it in my dining room where it would be the center of attraction. It is so homey! Thanks for the great giveaway!
Always a fan,
Corky
I love anything by Kay Mackenzie and I was really excited to see a project by her in the March/April issue! I hope I win the quilt top using her pattern!!!
I like “Addicted to Scraps” because I have way too many scraps. These eventually turn into charity quilts.
Petal Path is my favorite. Such clean lines and I love the fabric.
I love the garden quilt and the kitchen sink. I love to make scrap quilts. I also liked the idea of the chopping blocks. Have a quilt started for that one.
I loved the Calico Clockworks quilt best. I loved the color variation with the black background and the vibrant spinners because the contrast really makes the colors stand out, and I am a fan of bright colors.
My favorite is Petal Path. I want to do the appliqué in wool. Being from Minnesota, I would have to say Minnesota Homewarming would have to be my second choice. Perfect for the lake!
I love the “Petal Path” in the “Memories of Provence” color way. It is strikingly beautiful.
My favorite quilt in this issue is Minnesota Homewarming. Love all the batiks.
I love the quilt “Around Town” I hoping to start it. But you know how that goes. Hugs
I live in Montana and the Quiltmaker’s Garden makes me anxious for Spring, which is still a few months off. I really like the soft pastels of the background and the gazebo along with the bright bold colors of the Hollyhocks and Roses. The Red Cardinal, Blue Jay and Butterflies add the finishing touches!
I love Around the town and plan on starting this one soon. I like that can be so “scrappy”!
I love the Calico Clothworks color option in Covent Garden fabrics from Benartex. I just love how all the colors come together in it. I love all quilts and love making them and giving them away as well.
I love Around town. It would look great draped over my sofa or as a wall hanging over it.
I like the Quilt,” Petal Path”, the colors are perfect. I do like” Everything but the Kitchen Sink” too. Actually I like all of them and would be happy to have any of them.
love all the quilt tops
I love the “Around Town” quilt. The colors are wonderful and there is so much interesting things happening in it that you can not take your eyes off it.
I love Minnesota Homewarming as it has a pieced border & is done from an assortment of lovely batiks. One day I would love to do such a quilt, firstly from a mixture of batiks (to diminish my stash), then secondly with the addition of a pieced border. This is a new technique for me & I found the additional tips given in this magazine an added bonus. Thanks Quiltmaker!
I love the Bunny Patch quilt. The Patch Pal quilts are just adorable.
I love the Garden quilt from the cover. If I had not seen the article, I would never even dream of attempting to make it. However your magazine makes it seem do-able as always.
I like “Petal Path”. I’m not so sure about the fabric choices, but I love applique flowers.
I love all of the quilts in the magazine..because they hav such wonderful colors in them!
As a lover of blues, I particularly like the Covent Garden quilt, BUT really like them all and would be proud to own any of them. I do like the color options you give with the quilts done in colors/fabrics different from the original. I find it helps me think outside the box when I am not particularly fond of the original fabrics shown on a pattern.
I love the Petal Patch in Petal Pushers farics. They remind me of Florida, my home.
Petal Path looks like a great way to combine easy quilting and quick applique and perhaps quilt as you go? Thanks!
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I like both Minnesota Homewarming and Around the Town. However, if I had to pick one of those as my favorite it would be Minnesota Homewarming. I love the colors in the quilt made for the magazine. I hope to eventually make both of these quilts.
I really liked the article on making Pieced Borders Fit. since my budget is tight I often have to sew with limited fabric so my borders tend to be pieced. thanks for the information on how to make them fit easier.
I really liked the Petal Path quilt. Its been a long winter and this one just says springtime and warmer weather. Gardening runs a close second to quilting, so this one wrapped up both hobbies in one. It looks fairly simple to make so it would give me plenty of time to get out and enjoy the warmer days!
It’s a hard choice between Minnesota Homewarming or Hidden Treasures.
It amazes me how different a quilt can look from someone else’s perspective. We all need to think outside of the box and choose fabrics outside of our comfort zone every once in a while. I won’t be picky – would love to win any of them!
What a great opportunity for us
I especially like the around town quilt top, the colors and prints in the quilt are speaking to me!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Minnesota Homewarming!! I’ve got a stack of batiks just beggin’ to be whipped into a quilt and that one would be perfect!!!
My favorites are Chain Reaction and Minnesota Homewarming. I gravitate to patterns that help me use up my scraps. There always seems to be something in Quiltmaker that appeals to my taste.
Diamond Fortune is my favorite. I like the designs that are a little different from the traditional patchwork.
My favourite is a toss up between Quilt Maker’s Garden, Petal Path and Chain Reaction.
I would love the petal pushers/memories of Provence in the red and the blue. It just strikes my fancy.
Minnesota Homewarming is my favorite, Around the Town is second.
I home Homewarmings center star, and the scraappy-ness of the quilt. It looks so cozy to me.
I really like “Around Town” as it is a good piece to learn different techniques such as half square triangles and flying geese. I may use this quilt as an inspiration for a class I can teach.
I like Around the town it’s looks simple and elegant. It’s one that is on my “bucket list”. The other is the Minnesota Homewarming. It has my colors and would look great in my bedroom.
Love them all but Around Town my favourite
Love them all but Around Town my favourite.
I really love the Petal path. because I love flowers and this pattern really show off the flowers. It would look lovely in my home or even in my office and brighten it up.
What beautiful quilts. Showing them in different colours show just how much difference colour can make. I found it very difficult choosing my favourite but it woul have to be Patel Path in the Petal Pushers colours. As soon as I looked at this design it reminded me of my seven year old niece – so dainty and such a pretty little thing.
I really like the Hidden Treasures quilt. I just recently learned how to do
half square triangles.
I really like Calico Clothworks. It can be made for someone of any age or for a boy or a girl.
I just love Grandpa’s Star. I have lots of scraps that I would love to use up.
I prefer Minnesota Homewarming. I love stars, and the chance to be able to use all my scraps. Thanks for this opportunity. Really do like them all.
I love the Petal Pusher quilt top. The pastel colors are so fitting for spring.
I love Minnesota Homewarming and also Hidden treasures. I love stars in anything and both have stars. I also love patterns that make secondary patterns when put together. I will be making both of them.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It shows how some applique can really add so much to a pieced quilt. The combination is really great.
My absolute favorite is “Chain Reaction” because it is unique and something different to make me step “outside the box.” In fact, I already have my fabrics selected (in shades of aqua and brown) and hope to cut it out this weekend!
I really like Hidden Treasure because stars are my all time favorite! and I love the interplay with the X’s and O’s. Great pattern!
Around the town would be great in just about all fabric categories, Batiks, 30′s, country, florals, etc.
That Minnesota Homewarming has beautiful colors and nice movement
I love the Petal Path project. I have been wanting to do an applique project and this one is the right size. I love the red, white and blue version. Perfect for summer in any color combo however.
Chain Reaction reminds me of a quilt my niece would LOVE. I really appreciate the color options and the chance to win a lovely quilt top. Thank you!!
I enjoy the Quiltmakers Garden. I love gardening as much as quilting. I look forward to seeing each new segment that will be added. I also like the Minnesota Homewarming because I am from MN and I love to sew with batiks. I have made and given away more then 10 large batik quilts to family in the past couple of years.
I love the color options. Petal flowers is bright and cheery in both variations. It’s like getting the same quilt for different seasons. Very inspiring!
Quiltmaker’s Garden is my favorite. I’m not a big fan of “the A-word” but this pattern has just enough applique that I would be willing to take it on.
I love the Chain Reaction quilt. It looks so easy and fun and a great way to use up your stash! It could be done in a variety of colorways and even vary the design a bit. Thanks for all your great ideas!
All of the quilts are beautiful!! I truly love this magazine every issue is fresh and different,and would be happy with any of the choices, petal pushers is made with nice happy spring fabrics that would be my choice, living in Michigan and can’t wait for spring!! PS>keep your magazine coming!!
Minnesota Homewarming…it is an easy choice Minnesota born and bred I am!
My favorite is Around Town by Dawna Baker, because it uses traditional blocks, but has a modern feel, and it can be really scrappy, which I love. Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite is Quiltmaker’s Garden as it combines so well both piecing and applique . In addition, it would challenge me to use a fair number of pastels and perhaps I wouldn’t be so “pastel challenged” by the time it was finished.
I love the Diamond Fortune because it is TOTALLY different from any I have done. There are so many fabric possibilities going through my mind!!
I love the Chain Reaction. It will become either the sashing or border for some circle blocks I just won! I’d love to win one of these quilt tops. My daughter is getting married this summer, and this would make a wonderful gift!
My favorite would be the Minnesota Homewarming by Pat Speth. The colors and fabrics chosen are lovely.
I think the quiltmakers’s garden is my favorite. But the bunny patch is very cute too.
My favorite pattern is the Minnesota Hosewarming. I love all the star blocks and Minnesota is a neighbor state.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It has everything that I love – birds, butterflies, flowers, etc. All of your quilts are fantastic; I look forward to each new issue!
I always love Bonnie Hunter’s blocks, and Grandpa’s Star in no exception. I absolutely love Quiltmaker’s Garden from the cover, and definitely will be making that one. I think I like it because of the pastel colors, and I usually don’t work with such lights. I also saved out Calico Clockworks, but I don’t like either of the color options that are made up. Recoloring that one in Creative Spark is very interesting, especially the one in pinks that brings out the pinwheels. But I like the original design, so I think I have to pick fabrics I like to make it look like the original.
I like Petal Path. I love the flowers. I really like the Petal Pusher fabric.
My favorite is Chain Reaction. It looks very modern with these fabrics (which I love), but can look “manly” when made with darker scraps like what Scrap Squad member Cathy Buel did with her Chain Reaction. Plus, I LOVE that it looks complicated but really isn’t. This quilt is on my list to make!
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It brings back memories of the garden my Mother had planted all along the one side of the house in Massahusetts that I grew up in. I also like the Diamond Fortune too.
I love chain reaction,I love the look of a white background with color mixed in,looks so clean and fresh!
I really love the Chain Reaction project, because it is different & fun. But I also like the Petal Path because I’ve always wanted to try applique but haven’t advanced that far, yet! This may be the easy pattern for me to try. And giving another color option at the end is absolutely wonderful for those of us who can’t “visualize” another color palet in our heads. Thanks sew much. I truly enjoy this magazine.
I am so addicted to quilts.. .I all the projects. BUT if I have to choose just one… Around the Town… the colors are some of my favorites… which I find very warm and inviting for a snuggle!
Hadassah
I just love scrappy quilts so it’s grandpa’s star for me…very old fashioned and charming.
I love the Qulitmaker’s garden. It has everything I love : a gazebo, flowers and birds. I also love that it is completed over a few months.
Scrappy Quilters is making a patriotic quilt for the church, so the Memories of Provence really spoke to me…however, I am also intrigued with the colors and design of All Around Town.
Petal Pushers in Pink is just adorable. Not too hard to make, but bright and cheerful. Just right for when the world outdoors is gray and cold. I think it would be a wonderful way to highlight a pretty focus fabric as well as a chance to use up some small scraps for the flowers,leaves, and vines.
I love them all!
I like Minnesota House Warming the best. I am fairly new at quilting…1 1/2 years and thought I would like applique the best but I find piecing is my favorite thing and free motion quilting as well. I really like her colors and always think that is what I need to do but when I buy fabric it seems to be the pastels and soft calicos. Thanks for the opportunity to win a great quilt because they all are!
I am a more is more girl…everything but the kitchen sink suits me. Always love Bonnie hunter’s designs too. Grandpas star is a winner
Hidden Treasures is a quilt I want to try someday. For some reason, I have been attracted to star designs…make four different ones for our patriotic quilt we’re making to hang in our church. Maybe because our dog is named Star?
The quilt called quasar is really my very favorite in this issue, on the very last page. It is wonderful in both colour ways. Quasar is kind of like a kaliedoscope but really isn’t.
I like chain reaction and think I’ll use it for my next modern baby quilt!
I love all the quilts and reading about the people who make them. I dream of someday owning one.. I have been sewing for over 60 years and think nothing of making a Heirloom Christening dresses But, to cut and sew all those littles pieces of fabric, scares me so much, that I have only made a few simple quilts with squares and strips.
Inspiration is everywhere in your publication. I fell in love with Grandpa’s Star because it reminds me of a quilt my grandmother made in the 60′s with some of my Grandfather’s shirts, our outgrown clothing and fabric she had stashed in the attack.
I am finishing a baby quilt and then my next project will be made by cutting and repositioning the H block or 9 patch which piqued my interest in your last magazine. Thanks for sharing your ideas and expertise with us!
I love Petal Path! The colors are wonderful and cheery! I’m a REALLY new quilter but now it’s all I can think about. It’s great to see professional designs and color choices. So many times what I think will look good does not! They all look professional and cozy but Petal Path jumped out and bit me.
I fell in love with Quiltmakers Garden. There’s so much potential there. I was planning to use the design as a springboard to possibly use up some orphan blocks.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden the best. I can envision this quilt as a hanging quilt used as a headboard with a quilt of a plethora of flowers in every shape and color imaginable on the bed. I may try to make this quilt just for that very purpose. It is extraordinary.
I love the Petal Pushers the best. It’s simple to piece for those of us who don’t have near as much time to piece/quilt as we would like, plus it has applique featured in it. Anything pieced with a touch of applique to me just dresses up a quilt. Plus, I love to applique! The colors will be so much fun to play around with on this one. Great way to showcase a favorite floral.
Love the Around Town in the original colours. Beautiful.
Love the Quiltmakers Garden but what a great issue in general. I have just signed up and I am waiting for my hard copy to travel across the Pacific to Oz
It’s a tie between Quiltmaker’s Garden and Minnesota Homewarming
Wow, what a difficult choice but I do love the color options in Petal Pushers fabrics from Windham Fabrics. Plus applique is one of my favorite techniques. This would coordinate so well with my master bedroom. Love, love, love Quiltmaker.
I love the petal patch, so cute. I am just getting into applique and it doesn’t look too hard. Thanks
I like Petal Path the best.
I like the Petal Path as I love to applique and have lots of patience for this project.
I’m also new to the quiltmaker but I bought this years first issue as not to miss the chance to make the “everything but the kitchen sink” quilt. It’s just perfect for spring. I’m so looking forward to the next issue hopefully my script is here by then, if no then off to the store I go to get the next one!
I like the Petal path in red and blue. Although I am not crazy about appliqued work that one looks like something I could do!
I love the Quiltmaster’s Garden. My grandfather grew beautiful flowers and had gazebo’s and trellis’s all over the yard. He had 2 1/2 acres and Quiltmasters Garden makes me feel like I am looking out the window looking at his yard.
I liked ‘Everything but the kitchen sink”. It is so bright and cheery. It also gives me a way to use the many scraps I have accumulated – I just sorted through my scrap storage shelf and was amazed how much I had stuffed in there. Being short on storage I will be planning some scrap quilts this summer.
My favorite patterns from this issue are Quiltmaker’s Garden and Chain Reaction. I plan to make both quilts!
My favorite is the Diamond Fortune Quilt. I thought the original colorway was gorgeous, but I like the color option called Sparkling Gems even better, because you can use a stripe fabric for the center strip-pieced patch and simplify the sewing. I have to confess I am also a fan of pure color, as used in the Sparkling Gems colorway. The original colorway is more elegant, but I just love cheery colors!
I really like the Petal Pushers, it is cheerful and I love to do applique. I think the color options given with each pattern are what keeps me coming back year after year.
It is extremely difficult to choose one favourite as they are all incredible but after much deliberation I have selected one. My favourite is the Minnesota Housewarming as it would be a perfect gift for newly weds or someone who just bought a new home.
I am always so inspired with your ideas. Now if I could just find the time to create more of them. Keep up the great work.
Linda
I just love the Bunny Patch. I will add him to my collection . Second is the Around the Town. Like the orignal better than the other version, but usually like scrap better.
I love the petal path. It’s really makes you anxious for spring. I am ready to start spring cleaning & rearranging the house for a new season!
There are lovely quilts in this issue! My favorite is Hidden Treasure because of all the different looks you could achieve by changing around the fabric values.
I LOVE Bunny Patch!!! What could possibly say “Easter” better than this cutie?? My goal this year is to make a year’s worth of holiday/seasonal for our home. This is on the list for sure!!
I love Everything but the Kitchen Sink. I could use all my scrapes up! Very original.
“Everything but the kitchen sink” really catches my eye! So bright and cheery. I love scrap quilts!!
I love the quilter’s garden. I love signs that winter is over and now warmer weather is coming- although I must admit, my winter hasn’t been too bad this year.
I LOVE ALL THREE! I PLAN TO MAKE THE COVER QUILT, EVEN AM RENEWING MY SUBSCRIPTION SO I CAN GET ALL THE PATTERNS, HAPPY B-DAY TO ME 2/24 MAYBE I’LL BE LUCKY I JUST LOVE THE PETAL PATH TOP. NICE CONTRAST TO THE SNOW OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
I love the petal path and I’d love to own one.My friend is getting married and this would be an exquisite way for them to start their married life, snuggled under such a gorgeous quilt!!! Then they can make their own petal path in life!!!
I love the Quilter’s Garden the best. I am a bird watcher along with my quilting. I also like the fact that this pattern has three different types of sewing to make this quilt. I like to be challenged. Also love Bonnie’s scrap stuff.
My favorite is Around Town…I like quilts that are very symmetrical (I think that is the word I would describe correctly) and clean cut lines. This is a pattern on my to do list…which means in the year 2025 I will get around to it!
I just love Around the Town. I like the way traditional blocks are combined in a very compatible way. None of the blocks are that difficult in and of themselves, but the finished quilt looks somewhat complicated!
I love the Hidden Treasure quilt and bought fabric to start cutting the pieces out. I really found the article on flying geese helpful. Thanks for a great magazine again this month.
I think my favorite would be Diamond Fortune. just the movement and the Sparkling Gems colorway is wonderful
My favorite quilt in this issue has got to be Chain Reaction. I love all the possibilities for color combinations along with the fact that the end result looks much more complicated than the actual construction. It is definitely on my to -do list!!
I love the Hidden Treasure quilt, because the colors are so soothing and they blend so well. This is a gorgeous quilt, from a fantastic magazine.
I love Chain Reaction because of the possibilities! The colors! The patterns! The effects! My wallet!
I love the quilt on the cover along with the petal path and Around Town. I love your magazine!!!
I just love all the ideas in your magazine. Look forward to receiving the next issue. Keep up the great work!
I like Minnesota Homewarming. One of my quilting friends has made a small quilt simular to Quiltmaker’s Garden which was very cute, another quilting friend make a wall hanging simular to the Bunny patch which she hangs at Easter and is also very cute. It’s nice to have such a variety to choose from.
I LOVE QUILT DIAMOND FORTUNE. i THINK IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PATTERN FOR A MAN. it is not flowery (like my grandson says) and in beiges and browns is perfect.
Oh, my favorite from this issue has to be THE BUNNY PATCH for sure!! Being the proud Gramma of a darling little girl that turned 2 just 3 days ago, this is my next project for her with plans of having it done for Easter. uummmmm….yes, 6 weeks I should be able to have it completely finished and ready for her!! Totally love it and the colors. Thanks so much for this newest, neatest contest and keep up the great magazine!!
I love the bright colors of the petal pushers. The Chain Reaction seems to be another favorite as I think our quilt guild will be using the pattern to do for a project for donation. I love the bright colors of it. Thanks for the chance!
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden quilt; colors are very nice.
I love Chain Reaction because of the movement the pattern makes. But I love the Petal Path also because of the appliqued strips. I love doing applique and this is a very striking quilt. Actually, I seldom see a pattern in Quiltmaker that I don’t like! It is my favorite quilting magazine!
I love Petal Pushers, first because I grew up wearing petal pushers, second, my favorite colors are red and blue – just check out my dining room! And third, I fell in love with French Provencial fabrics when visiting the family that hosted our daughter one summer. The prints just make you smile and are so fun to look at.
I love 30′s prints so I really like the other option on Around the Town.
Oh gosh! This magazine is just full of beautiful quilts. I really love the Bunny Patch from the patch pals series. I have been following this series and so far this is my favourite. Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite project is Around Town. I especially like it in the “Everything but the kitchen sink” fabrics!
I like the Around Town, but have to be like everyone else, I am bowled over with the Petal Pushers. The colors are so cheerful!
My favorite project here is “CHAIN REACTION”…….for I see the EVER LASTING and continue need to “CONNECT” in the sense of WE as a People CONNECT together in many different colors, fabric of Life…Rainbow of Loving ways, the ARRAY of Goodness that all of us have in showing when as a WHOLE we stick together….a CHAIN REACTION of feelings for one another and how it continues to interwove itself and makes BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS for Generations of the Future to See and LEARN and STAND FOR……..If we STAND TOGETHER like a CHAIN REACTION…..OUR FUTURES are SO MUCH BRIGHTER…….Thanks so much…..this is what I see and why I see it……
Ken from Orlando, FLorida
Petal Path is my favorite. I love applique and I love the colors of this quilt.
All of the quilts are beautiful, but Minnesota Homewarming catches all the colors of our Minnesota home — the clear blue of the water, the green of the trees and grasses, and the golden browns from the Mississippi River bluffs where the eagles soar. These are the colors of our lake home in Frontenac, nestled in the river bluffs just north of Lake Pepin.
Petal Path is my favorite ,quilting and needle turn or raw edge on this quilt would give much pleasure,
Although I really like the Quilters Garden, I would have to say my favorite would be Chain Reaction. It’s colorful and happy. It looks like something I could accomplish in a short time without being overwhelmed.
I love the Petal Pushers quilt. It would look so beautiful in lots of different fabrics and colorways. I love applique, so it would be my first choice as a new project! A great way to practice off those newly acquired quilting skills!
My favorite is Petal Path i love applique and if i had the beautiful fabric of that quilt .It would be first on my to-do list .I would like to give chain reaction a try as will.
I am not usually a fan of row quilts but I do like the color option of Petal Path called Spring has Sprung. I like the applique work and the bright pinks and greens with orange. It would be perfect for my granddaughters! My second favorite in the issue is Minnesota Homewarming because of the central focus of the star and the symmetry of the entire piece. Very nice!
I love calico clothworks, and am thinking of using it for a raffle quilt for my church. Love to piece, allergic to applique (also called ‘appli-phobic!)
My favorite would have to be Quiltmakers Garden because it reminds me of my grandmothers garden gate…a close second would have to be everything but the kitchen sink because it was my answer to the kids question about the contents of the mystery dish that I just put on the dinner table
I have two that I love in this issue. The Petal Pushers is one that I want to make for my daughter and then I want to do the cover quilt and hopefully will keep up with each section of that. It is too cute
I like the fresh, whimsical look of Petal Path – both color ways. Looks like it would be fun to make!
The original Around Town by Dawna Baker has the perfect combination of warm colors to give me the image of my kids and I curled up watching a much loved holiday movie before they go to bed. In this day and age I am always looking for ways to bond my family closer, and this beautiful quilt seems to be a perfect and very inviting way!
I love quilts, quilts, and more quilts. However, my favorite from the mentioned issue is Petal Path. I usually love pastels. Yet my favorite colors tend to be red, white, and blue – a patriotic gal here. The quilt is outstanding and very eye-catching in the red, white, and blue color scheme. Any of the quilts could find a great home here.
I am really drawn to the dark variation of around town. But as a new quilter I would love to try my hand at the applique on petal Pushers, I really like the red and blue together!
Keep up the great work! Love the patterns!
I love Chain Reaction as its a different way to make use of the thin scraps that seem to show up as I trim the edges of a quilt to get ready for bindings. Also great for binding left overs. I enjoy making your quilt designs and have made numerous of them in the last few years.
Chain Reaction – I could make that over and over again!
*I like the Petal Path the best. The red and blue colors with the applique are great.
I was first interested in Around Town, because it is a pattern I would most likely make myself. As I scrolled down though, I came to admire Petal paths because I could not make such a lovely quilt with the pretty flowers appliqued in the panels! I would love to have this beautiful quilt in my pink and blue bedroom!
I liked Petal Path & want to try applique’ for the first time.
I love the Around Town pattern! I have always wanted to do my “own” round robin and this is perfect for it! I also really like the Petal Path, but I like just about any flower pattern and Petal Pushers was the name of the flower shop that did my wedding! Your magazine is always so full of ideas, that we as quilters will “add to our wishlist to do” someday! Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win a fabulous quilt! Any of them would be so taken care of by me.
What a beautiful quilt on the cover, Quilter’s Garden. Another quilt that caught my eye was Petal Path. I love, love, love applique. I really do appreciate there being two different colorways shown in Quiltmaker. I’m very visual so it really helps me to see the pattern a different way.
Thank you so much for such a wonderful and generous giveaway and a chance to win. Keep up the great job with a great magazine!
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O, I love the “Quiltmaker’s Garden” on p39. The minute I saw the cover, I felt buoyed up by the promise of spring represented by the colors and whimsy of this quilt. Of course, I’d love to win any of the quilt tops offered. You folks are such pros and I could learn alot by seeing your handiwork close up.
I think the colors and design of the Quiltmaker’s Garden on page 39 is beautiful. It’s a 5 part series quilt – I’m so glad I have a year subscription!
Oh I love the Petal Path quilt by Kay MacKenzie. Love the color combination. It really pops.
My favorite project would be the Quiltmaker’s Garden because it is the way I wish my garden looked. I’ve never appliqued before this project would make me stretch my quilting abilities.
My favorite pattern in this issue is Hidden Treasure. I love the green, blues and white together; it’s very refreshing. I can easily see it in other color combinations, too. I enjoy blocks, that when set together side-by-side, form secondary patterns. This one is really fun! Thanks for an opportunity to win a top; if I could choose one, my first pick would be Covent Garden.
My choice would be the Around Town, I love the way the blocks are put together with the inside borders. This is one I would attempt to make. Thanks for a great magazine and all the inspiring ideas.
Quilts make me think of home when I was a child. Memories of wrapping up in a warm quilt on a cold winter night are as sweet as memories of mom and dad.
Love the “Around Town” quilt with the traditional quilt blocks combined.
I absolutely love Chain Reaction. Modern and fun and looks much more complicated than it is – all marks of a great quilt!
I absolutely love the Petal Path pattern in both colorways! It makes me smile and realize that spring is not that far away!
I like the Quiltmaker’s Garden on the cover. I love the pastels and it tells a story, helping to aleve my guilt for not being outside in the garden during summer months. I will have to follow along to make sure to capture parts 2-5.
I love Petal Path in Petal Pushers fabrics from Windham Fabrics.With a wall hanging like this to look at would bring sunshine and warmth inside every day even on the darkest day, Looking at it over breakfast would send you off to work with loving thoughts for all you do and over supper before bed with pleasant dreams ahead , this is one for my wish list
I love Quiltmaker magazine! Expecially the alternate color options. I have a hard time selecting colors for my quilts and color options helps me to see the possibilities.
Thanks QM, keep up the good work!
I love the quiltmakers garden. This time of year I want to get outside and start planting, but it’s not quite time. I’m tired of gray, cloudy days, and so ready for spring time, new growth, sunshine and flowers. This quilt makes me feel like spring is really here.
I really like Minnesota Homewarming. I like the overall design as well as the colors in it.
Bonnie Hunter’s Addicted to Scraps, the first page I turn to with each issue.
Chain reaction, great project for those 2 1/2 strips I’ve been cutting and collecting.
Four ways to piece Flying Geese, with explanation of when each application is suitable was a saver!
I love the quiltmaker’s garden quilt the best. As soon as I saw it on the cover, I loved it. I like quilts with both piecing and applique. This one is definitely on my “to do” list.
Hidden Treasures
I would have to go with the Minnesota Homewarming – I love the colors and the design.
I like Memories of Provence and also Petal Path. Your magazine is fantastic.
I like the Quiltmaker’s Garden the best! I like the appliques on top of the overall pattern. Definitely looks like a challenge!
My favorite project in the March/April issue is “Minnesota Homecoming”. It first caught my eye becausde I am a Minnesotan. But I am especially fond of eight pointed Star patterns. They give a logt of possibilities for color combinations, but I lovde the geometric symetry of an eight pointed star. I’d like to make this one in either blues – or red, black and white.
I really like the original Around the Town quilt. I love the large center block, but the smaller blocks all around the edge really make it pop.
Such a difficult choice to pick just one. However, the Quiltmakers Garden would have to be it for me. I like the idea that it is for Quiltmakers” 30th anniversary because this March my husband and I will celebrate our 60th anniversary. It would be wonderful if I could have this quilt to commemorate it. It includes so many different techniques
which makes it so interesting. It makes the cover of the March/April so inviting.
I love chain reaction. I’ve been saving some olive green and sage green, and this is PERFECT. Love it, Love it. Love it. What an interesting pattern, very unique and eye catching.
It’s a toss up between Hidden Treasure and Minnesota Homewarming. I am in love with both of their color schemes.
I love that your magazine gives us the Color Options – and I’m loving Petal Path – love the one you are giving away!!!
I love Chain Reaction. The combination of grey, white and green will make a perfect look!
This is a difficult decision because I love all of Quiltmaker’s designs. My favorite would have to be the Quiltmaker’s Garden because I always enjoy the series quilts. It keeps me focused to finish one section before the next magazine comes. I also love the different techniques in the quilt. Keeps me from getting bored. I am already planning to make the Quiltmaker’s Garden.
I like chain reaction. l like how it looks and the colors used are soft and makes me feel I a beautiful spring day when everything starts to bloom.
I really like Around the Town because it is traditional and can be feminine or masculine depending upon the fabric selection. I can see myself making this quilt time and time again.
SO HARD to choose only one, but I have to pick Quiltmakers Garden … it is the epitome of a fresh and lovely Spring quilt ! Love the design and colors.
Also really like Petal Path and Chain Reaction. Thanks for the chance to win !
Love the color option for the Around the Town Quilt. Love the RJR fabrics used in this one.
I like both Around Town and Quiltmaker’s Garden because I love sampler quilts and these are not obvious. Of the two, Quiltmaker’s Garden is my favorite. I need spring right now.
I am drawn to the colors used in Around Town.
I do try to use a variety of colors and prints, but always seem
to go back to the earth/natural tones.
I love your magazine.
I like Quiltmaker’s Garden, your cover quilt. I made Petit Jardin and really loved doing the paper-piecing, then gave it away in a Relay-for-Life cancer research fund raising event. I might just have to make this one! (and maybe even keep it this time).
How can I choose?!!!!! I love all the articles. And I keep each and every issue. What an honor it would be to win one of these lovely quilt tops. Please pick me.
I love Around Town because of the country colors. It is definitely my favorite for myself. As a grandma of three girls I am sure Petal Pushers has to be at the top of their list.
I love the Petal Path design especially in Petal Pusher fabric. It captures the essence of my three teen-aged nieces. They are bright, energetic, interested, lively – most of all – a lot of fun. AND they quilt with auntie.
I liked the Hidden Treasure – the colors, the doability of it, the possibilities in different colorways . . .
I love Petal Path, but Around Town really appeals to me most because it is wonderful for using scraps… which I have a ton of!!
There’s rarely a pattern That I don’t like in Quiltmaker! In this issue I’d have to say it’s a tie between Petal Play & Bunny Patch. Petal Play is a simple quilt that showcases some nice applique (which I like to do) and Bunny Patch is yet another adorable entry in that collection! What a perfect baby/toddler quilt it is!
I like the Chain Reaction because it is different
I love the petal path. My passion is flowers and these are beautiful flowers in this quilt.
Oh, I love several of them! But, if I have to pick only one it would be Quilter’s Garden. I like patterns that tell a story or have a “place” when you see them.
It is so difficult to choose a favorite–I have subscribed to Quiltmaker for years and years, and I’ve kept most issues. Really all those quilts are beautiful, each focusing on a different level of skill. It would be an honor, a definite treasure to win a quilt top, no matter which one!!
I am really torn between Around Town in the reproduction prints and Petal Path with Memories of Providence fabric. My final choice is Around town. I really like the muted colors.
I really likedPetal Path. I like the applique on the quilt. I think it is so “pretty in pink”.
Around town and petal path my 2 fav’s love everything.
LOVE the Minnesota Housewarming – that’s a perfect wall quilt for a front entry!
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I love the petal path and petal pushers..I like windham fabrics..It’s cheerful… Thank you for entering me….All three of the quilts are a delight….
Covert Garden is so fun. I love the idea of seeing a pattern with the color options. One version I always find as “okay” but then when you give a different option I find that I just want to make one. The garden quilt is fabulous!
I love the Petal Path. It’s simple yet elegant.
I absolutely love the Chain Reaction quilt. I can see it sort of scrappy, or it would be really pretty with the chain pieces in a monochromatic color scheme- like red chains with a white, cream or gray background. I just love how at first glance I saw x’s, then I saw the chain. So cool!
Love Petal Pusher in the red/blue. I want to make this quilt!
I just love the Minnesota Homewarming quilt project because of the scrappy look of colors and borders. Increasing my skill with accuracy in cutting and piecing, especially with triangles is my goal and I think this project will be a great motivator.
Always love to see the different color combinations. The quilts look soooo different with various color schemes.
Each of the quilt tops touch my heart as quilting is so precious to me.
I have two favorites. I love, love, LOVE the Quiltmaker’s Garden quilt because it’s so fresh and ‘springy’ looking. I also like the Around Town quilt very much though…it’s so homey and comfortable looking that I just might have to make one (in the original colors) to snuggle under while watching TV.
I love “Petal Path”! It’s just so pretty and I love red, white and blue. But the project I will actually make is by Bonnie Hunter, her “Grandpa’s Star” is so perfect for my next quilt, which is going to be one from scraps. Her addicted to scraps is my favorite page in every issue.
I like the Chain Reaction pattern and each quilt that the scrap squad has previewed so far. Yet, I also like the Around Town. Thanks for the chance to win one of these wonderful quilts, as would be honored to have any one of them.
I love the Petal Pushers.. I love bright colors reminds me of Spring..
Absolutely fell in love with Quiltmakers Garden—–other than quilting, I love gardening and belong to a garden club. It would also be a hit with one of my 8 granddaughters. Makes Spring feel just around the corner.
They ALL are beautiful! No way I could pick one over the other.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It would make me feel like it was spring all year long. Obviously, spring is my favorite season here in Florida.
My favorite is Bonnie Hunter’s Grandpa’s Star. I love the scrappy. Of the three you are giving away- I’d love any!
They are all beautiful, but my favorite is Petal Path! Makes me think of the upcoming Spring!
I love your magazine. My favorite in this issue is Quiltmaker’s Garden. Would love to be able to have any of the giveaways.
I am a novice quilter who just subscribed to 3 quilt magazines and I have to say that by far Quiltmaker is the most accessible and fun! Both the Minnesota Homewarming and Hidden Treasures look doable for my skill level, but I am fascinated with the Classic Update of the Calico Clockworks and am going to try that one.
And thank you so much for giving those great instructions on the 4 different ways to put the Flying Geese together! I have a feeling that Quiltmaker and I are going to have a long and fond relationship
My favorite is Grandpa’s Star. I have been faithfully saving those “bonus” triangles for something, and since I love star quilts, this one really caught my eye. It will definitely be a project on my to-do list!
I like the Quiltmakers Garden. I am ready for warm weather and can’t wait to start gardening again.
I really like Around Town. Love the flying geese and the blocks. I was planning to make that one. Enjoy the magazine lots.
I love the Petal Path Project – just learning to hand applique and I love it.
I love the Quilter’s Garden, and especially how you did it in the other fabrics version. It POPS! To me it shows vibrancy, and new possibilities, like Spring.
I also love the bunny quilt pattern~ it is AdOrAble!!
Love your magazine~ always stirs my creative juices.
Diamond Fortune is my favorite of these shown, but I am not good a paper piecing. I hope to learn to do it better one day soon.
I am thinking of trying the Around Town pattern. I really love the colors. thank you
I am a beginner quilter. I helped my mother quilt when I was growing up and she belonged to the quilting bee
at church. We always had a quilt on the frame. However, I never learned to make the stitches like these ladies
did. I like the quilt Around Town and Everything but the Kitchen Sink.
I really like Hidden Treasure. It is a pattern that I could easily make and I love the fabric selections used on the sample.
My favorite is the Quiltmaker’s Garden. I love the variety and the way the vine climbs up and over the gazebo drawing your eye around the quilt. Beautiful!
The Quiltmaker’s Garden is my favorite. Very stunning. I like the asymmetrical design of it, and all the different blocks and techniques. I have been thinking about creating a “garden/flower” quilt for some time. This gets me motivated to pursue it further than just thoughts in my head.
I love the Minnesota Homewarming. It’s just really vibrant and pretty.
The Hidden Treasure quilt really caught my eye. Love the colors! But more importantly, every time I look at it I see it in a different way.
I love the traditional blocks in different sizes in Around Town, but I found so many quilts I would love to make in this issue.
Petal Path is my favorite … I follow the artist’s blog and really enjoy her style and techniques.
The freebie foundations seem to be the answer to a problem I’ve been having with an orginal design I’m working on because a light bulb went off and now I can see how to get exactly the size flying geese that I need. I like the various quilt patterns but right now I’m space challenged and unable to work on larger quilts.
Loving Addicted to Scraps, because it build up ways to use up the scraps. Also, the basic illustrations presented are both challenging and encouraging for Chain Reaction. Love the way it is presented in different colors.
My favorite quilt pattern is the Quiltmaker Garden. This quilt reminds me of spring in full bloom. I enjoy sitting on my patio and watching all the birds in my back yard flying and showing off for a mate. My backyard comes to life after the long cold winter.
I really like Around the Town……..because I LOVE stars. Thanks for a great magazine!
It was love at the first moment I took the issue from the mailbox! I so want to make the cover quilt, Quiltmaker’s Garden. It combines my two main passions, quilting and gardening. I have had to force myself not to start on it immediately but instead complete my long overdue Christmas 2011 gift to a friend. It’s almost done and then I willstart on creating my garden.
I love Lee Heinrich’s CHAIN REACTION – I have never seen this pattern before, it caught my eye as soon as I turned the page. This quilt has a very nice refreshing look. I can envision all of my grandchildren loving this quilt -when it comes to color options the sky is the limit!
Thank you for the opportunity to win one of your beautiful quilt tops.
I LOVE the Quilter”s Garden – it has all the things I love beautifully arranged. Just might have to arrange time to make this one.
My favorite is the “Around Town” quilt. It looks complicated until you look closely to see the blocks repeated. What a great pattern for using some of my stash!
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. Just love the colors and the beauty. Makes me think Spring is here and everything is in bloom. Makes me smile.
Definitely Petal Play!!!! Those colors set my creative juices flowing! Thanks for the chance to win it!
Oops – I got so excited I missed the correct name – Petal Path!!!!
I just love quilts! I love the history of quilting and the story that they tell.
I think scrappy quilts are my absolute favorite because they remind me of my grandmother’s quilts.
My favorite is Everything But the Kitchen Sink, the colors of the fabric and the pattern remind me of my grandmothers quilts.
I guess I’d have to say “Bunny Patch” is my favorite; at least it is the 1st of the several that I plan on makingfrom this issue. In fact I plan to make at least one of each of the Patch Pals Collection. Some for my soon to be here grandchild, and the rest for the Linus Project.
I love the Everything but the Kitchen Sink. It just hits my fancy! Hoping to get a free top of this quilt!
oh, it has to be minnesota homewarming! after all, i live there, and right now, the home could use some warming. no snow doesn’t mean it’s warm, here, yet. love the warm feel the colors give the quilt–it is charming!
My favorite is the Minnisota Homecoming. It reminds me of when I was a kid and received kalidascopes for Christmas. All the different colors and shapes reminde me of simpler and wonderful time in my life. My second favorite is the Petal Path. Plants and flowers are afraid of me, so I like to make my quilts with a lot of flowers, that way I can’t kill them and can have my own garden.
My favorite quilt is Around Town, I love the traditional blocks. I am a true lover of star quilts so I also have to put a vote in for Hidden Treasures. I love the way you can see the secondary stars as the blocks come together. The border work just set the quilt off. It makes me want to pay more attention to my borders. Thank you so much for a great assortment of quilt options in each magazine. Great work from the staff at Quiltmaker, I look forward to each issue.
I would choose either the minnesota homecoming or around the town. I am not a very experienced quilter and have nots done many quilts with alot of triangles. I can see minnesota homecoming as different shades of blues and greens and highlighted with a few darker colors like grey or dark brown. For the around the town I would like to try pastels alternated with bolder colors, like baby pink/red, etc row by row/ I think it might be fun!
Becky
I like Minnesota Homewarming. It just pops out at you. Love the colors but can imagine it in my own colors too. I love the magazine and look forward to it. Keep up the good work.
I like Petal Path best of the three but I like Grandpa’s Star for the use of many colors. It would use up a lot of small pieces of fabric. Thanks for a wonderful magazine.! I scan the patterns I like into a file on my computer, burn a disc when it gets big and give the magazine to my quilting friends.
The only thing bad about this that I had to choose just ONE! I love stares so the Hidden Treasure was one option, then the Around Town is just awesome, and so is the Quiltmaker’s Garden. Oh my, what to do? Oops I left out the Minnesota Homewarming, but not really as it is my choice for this special occasion. I love the main color and the option color, they just look warm, cuddly and inviting. Winning any of the tops would be such an honor. Thanks for having this contest, this is one of the reason I love the Quiltmaker, you think about the people reading and learning from your magazine and in this day and time this is wonderful.
I love “Around Town color option in Everything But the Kitchen Sink fabrics from RJR fabrics”. It is such a happy quilt. Bright, beautiful, color that brings the reminder that spring is just around the corner.
I liked all of them! But since I need to choose one…
I liked “Everything But the Kitchen Sink” it reminds me of a scrap quilt
and using the extra fabric left from other quilts.
I love the quiltmaker’s garden quilt; it reminds me of my gazebo; the place that I go to help resolve my life’s problems and find serenity. And it was also the place where my best friend had her wedding, which had a wedding quilt hanging over the altar.
I really love the Pedal Path quilts, particularly in the red,white and blue. I am new to quilting and have never tried applicae but am hoping to do so soon.
I fell for the Bunny Patch and for the Chain Reaction. I would like to do the Chain reaction for my self. But the Bunny Patch is so cute!
My favorite is Bunny Patch. Just perfect for my 9 month old granddaughter.
I love traditional blocks. Having a scrappy look makes it more exciting….I love to make scrappy quilts! This would be fantastic to win.
My favorite quilt is Petal Path in pastels. It is such a happy quilt and speaks to me of the joys of springtime, just around the corner.
Around Town would be my favourite.
I desire Modern Makeover, my favoite color combination, black, white and red. My eyes only see those colors in a store or magazine
I also like the petal pusher one. the mystery quilt is a favorite too. love the whole magazine. thanks for all you do carol.
I like Petal Path because I am a gardener and it reminds me of my garden!!!
I desire Modern Makeover in black, white and red, my very favorite color combination. My eyes only see those colors in shop or magazine. Wow!
MY FAVORITE PATTERN FROM THE MAR/APR ISSUE IS “PETAL PATH”, I LIKE THE OVERALL LOOK OF THE QUILT AND THINK IT WOULD BE FUN AND INTERESTING TO DO BECAUSE YOU USE DIFFERENT SKILLS TO COMPLETE IT AND THE PATTERN COULD BE USED WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF FABRICS.
I really like the Calico Clockwork pattern. I liked it when it was origanally published so many years ago, and especially like it now that it has been simplified some. I have also been following the scrap squad patterns and look forward to each new magazine to see what is new.
“Quiltmaker’s Garden” is my favorite because it brings back memories of my mother and her yard full of flowers. She passed away on Thanksgiving 2011 at 95 and I think this would be a good quilt to make in her memory.
My first choice would be Quiltmaker’s Garden. I really like how such a unique design is put together with basic blocks. I also like Around Town in the alternate colorway. Thank you, Quiltmaker staff, for continuing to give us such nice patterns.
Sue Corless
For me, it’s a toss-up between Bunny Patch and Chain Reaction
I like Chain Reaction and plan to make it at our upcoming retreat.
I love the Calico Clothworks designed by Susie Ennis and made by Donna Benham. Fabric: The Pixie Pops by Katie Plitt for Timeless Treasures. I love the motion and the thoughts of summer picnics I can visualize when looking at it.
I have to say, Petal Path by Kay Mackenzie from the fabric: Memories of Provence by Monique Dillard for Maywood Studio really blew me away. I was so impressed by the fabric, both sophicated and simple. The quilting is beautiful and is exactly the style I’m striving to learn.
around the town would be my favorite because it has a scrappy look to it and it says it is easy but it looks great in design. Lots to keep the eye interested. I would like to make this quilt. Janita
I especially like the Grampa’s star block! I love getting something for nothing! Of course you can make the half square triangle just for the block but it’s neat they come from connector corners. Also I like that the sashing is in the middle of the block. Now that’s thinking INSIDE the block. lol
Such a difficult decision, but I have 2 favorites…(1) is around the town because of the scrappy look that I adore and (2) petal pushers because the vertical stems and flowrs remind me of my grandmother’s green thumb, always growing flowers. Both are gorgeous!
My favorite is Petal Path, although I love them all! Would love to win any of them and would be proud to display them in my home. I also like the Around Town quilt. There are not any that I do not like!
I really like Chain Reaction, but I choose Around Town by Dawna Baker as my favorite because I really like traditional blocks like Churn Dash, Flying Geese, Puss in the Corner. This could be a great quilt in any colors combination of scrap quilting, which has become my favorite way to quilt.
Hidden Treasures is my favorite because of the clean look and the creative use of the fabric.
I love the Scrappy Quilt. It reminds me of the wife of the home making do. She uses all that she has to give her family the warm that is needed for the home. It also displays as a conversational quilt…… A baby’s gown, a piece of a daughter’s/grandmother’s wedding, or some other precious fabric that will trigger memories. What precious memories to have pieces of fabrics that symbols past quilts you make. It allows you to feel warm inside as you snuggle under your scrap quilt remembering the people and stories of quilts your made and lives your touched.
I love the Hidden Treasures quilt top. Blues and Greens are my favorite colors and so much white background really shows off the pattern. Actually, I like all of your quilts, but that one is my favorite.
My favorite quilt is the Quiltmaker’s Garden. You could not have chosen a more perfect quilt for the cover of this issue – I love everything about it!! From the softness of the color theme, to the smallest detail of the watering can, this quilt trly makes you yearn for springtime. Just a beautiful quilt!!
LOVE all of the color options. If I won any of them, I would donate them to my guild’s ongoing charity project. These look like the perfect size. I adore scrap quilts, but, sometimes, it’s nice to only have several fabric quilts. My usual motto is the more fabric the better!
I love Hidden Treasures! The pieced border reminds me of jumbo rick-rack which I’ve never outgrown. I think it would be awesome in Christmas prints as well with the stars.
The Bunny Patch is my favorite. I have a two year old granddaughter and she already has three quilts from me so a cute holiday wall hanging only seems fitting.
Bunny Patch is my favorite – perfect for my new greatgrandson!
I really like the quilt makers garden. It brings spring into the room!
Loved “around town”, those are my colors! I’m already dreaming of this quilt in baby colors, it seems like every female I work with is expecting. I never have time to make a quilt for myself.
The quiltmakers garden is my favorite. It joins up my two favorite hobbies. I love to garden and sew. This quilt combines all of the different methods and I could not wait to start it. The day after I got the magizine I went out and brought the fabric to start it. The colors are so pretty and they remind me of my gardens. When I had my house I used to have 9 different gardens in my yard. I am fairly new to quilting, but I have been buying supplies and saving old clothes to use for quilts for years.
I really like Petal Pusher. It really is so colorful and springy.
I love the Minnesota Homewarming quilt!! wow…and it would go really well in my piano room…..!
Minnesota Homewarming! I love batiks and the colors are among my favorite, its a beautiful quilt!
I love Kay’s Petal Path, that would be a fun one to do for spring.
Debbie
It is so hard to choose just one.It would be easier to tell which of my children is my favorite.I really like the scrapy Around Town.
I would say my favorite project is the “Bunny Patch”. It is very cute and looks very easy to make. I plan on making the quilt for my 2 year old great granddaughter, in browns and off whites, the same colors of her pet rabbit. The reason I brought the March/April 12 issue was because of your two articles the “Chopping Block” and the “Get Your Geese in a Row”. I have a hard time making the flying geese block and this article will help me a lot.
I love Petal Path. It fun, quick, easy. And…you could work on it away from your machine. I like projects that I can take with me to do on a trip.
I love the “patch” quilts featuring the bunny in this issue. I look forward to each month to see what animal is next. I have made the turtle and making the bunny in the near future for a toddler quilt.
I would have to say that Quilt Makers Garden would be my favorite project in this issue. Thank you for the chance to have a surprise arrive in my mailbox!
I really like the Calico Clockworks. There is SO much movement to this quilt pattern!! I clicked on the link to the different colorways. I am so excited to get this issue so I can start working on some new projects. This almost looks like an entirely different quilt when all you do is simply change the colors! I think that’s what makes this art so amazing. It’s a good pick for this issue because it reminds me of those spinning pinwheels that you stick in the yard when you are planting flowers with your Mom on the first days of Spring. It brings up a lot of good memories. That’s why I love to do quilting.
Minnesota Homecoming is my favorite. I love stars and this would be a good stashbuster to make for Quilts of Valor for our Military Veterans! I also like the chain quilt among others.
Around town in the above colors really swept me off my feet. It say’s classic home so elegantly so it just jumped to my attention. I don’t usually go for this type of classic pattern but this one is done just so, that I have to pick it. Sure hope I win it that would be so nice.
I love the Minnesota homewarming pattern. It’s got great colors and the design is beautiful with the colors.
Absolutely love Quilmakers Garden. Love the vines, birds, the windmills, Everything about it. Am planning on making it in the future. So will be saving the magazines so I can.
Hi!
thanks for the giveaway for the Newest magazine!
I was going to say the cover quilt, Quiltermaker’s Garden was my favorite, but on reflection, I’m going to have to say Petal Pathway! I am an applique fanatic, so I have to go with Petal Pathway!
Take care, Leslie
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It has both applique and patchwork. This kind of quilt fulfills my need for variety and order. The garden theme is one that I really enjoy.
I thought all the quilts were wonderful but my favorite was the Covent Garden fabrics from Benartex.
It sure was hard to choose!!!
As a new subscriber, my favourite would be the Around Town quilt.
Thanks for this opportunity,
Barb
Oh, they are so pretty, but Petal Path stole my heart!!
I have already marked “Chain reaction” for my to-do list. A great scrap quilt!
I grew up in Minnesota, so I liked that quilt. I also liked Hidden Treasures because the tonal color scheme makes it seem like a two color quilt.
i would love to have a new made up quilt for my new home. And they are beautiful
I like Minnesota Homecoming. Just beautiful.
The one that I bookmarked was Around Town.
Love, love, love Petal Path! As a long time subscriber of Quiltmaker, I never fail to find several patterns to make
I love Diamond Fortune. The movement is wonderful. I love the depth of the pattern.
I loved Petal Path, especially in the red, white, and blue.
Wow, thats a hard choice! Its a great issue. I think my #1 is Quiltmakers Garden. Love the colors and the brigh happy feel. And it is interesting, not alot of the same boloc over and over. I like the Petal Path too, easy and fast and pretty. So many of the projects this month I love the fabric choices and colors. Good job ladies!
I love the Hidden Treasure quilt, love the stars with the ocean themed colors.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. I need the feel of spring that the flowers and birds give. I am tired of our long and dark Alaskan winter. Thank you. sandi
I can’t wait to start my own Chain Reaction!
I asked myself; which one would I like to have in my home? It would be Hidden Treasures. I love a symmetrical look that is well balanced with shape and color. This quilt would be easy to decorate around and easy to use as a theme. It is versatile and can be used in a family room, bed room or displayed as a piece of art work.
Hidden Treasure if more my typical style, but Petal Path is oddly appealing. Hmm…does this mean I am changing? Or just ready for Spring?
I really like Chain Reaction. Think a grey, black and red would be fun.
I love the petal pushers fabric option with Windam fabrics. I often stick to warm fall colors when making quilts, but this is a fresh alternative. Makes me feel playful and young.
Such beautiful patterns it is hard to choose. I know, though, that my grand daughter would love Quiltmakers Garden as she is a beginning gardner. However, Minnesota Homewarming is the colors that I most love. Would really like to win a quilt top.
I had a hard time deciding which would be my favorite. I really like Petal Pushers and Around Town. I am starting the cover quilt for now though. Sure would like to win one of the others. Thanks for the chance.
Marilyn
I love the Quiltmakers Garden. The colours are beautiful and to me that is what a quilt is all about, interesting and lots of different aspects to look at. Really, really beautiful
I like them all but Petal Path is appealing.
I see I am #723 and while I did not read all the responses before me I would guess that Petal Path is the favorite…or is it the Petal Pusher fabric by Windym that grabs us all. As a younger person I NEVER would have chosen a pink and orange combination, but today it is so “now” and I love it!
It was a tough choice, but I would have to say my favorite is Quiltmaker’s Garden. It would go great with my country cottage theme in my guest room. The colors are so vibrant that it would make the whole room bright & cheery…perfect for putting the occupant in an instant happy mood. A great wy to start the day!
If someone else made it I would love the Petal Path. I am not an applique person, so would love to win one already made. But for piecing I liked the Around the Town.
My favorite project from this issue is Quiltmaker’s Garden. I have recently tried both paper piecing and needleturn applique and discovered that I like both techniques. This quilt has it all and the colors are wonderful.
Petal Path is my absolute favorite pattern!
Petal Path is so beautiful and cheerful. Calico Clock works is charming also. Around the town is a gem of cheerful colors. I’d be honored to win any of them. It would be an inspiration to continue my quilting to a greater level.
I LOVE the Minnesota Homewarming……my favorite patterns are those that lend themselves well to a scrap palette. ….. this one not only would have a great scrapbag look but the pieced borders are an extra asset. This is a beautiful pattern I would make over and over in different colorways.
I like Hidden Treasures, especially the colours!!
I love all the patterns they are all beautiful! And for you to want to give one away is a wonderful thing for you to do..Thank You. I like Minnesota Homewarming. But my favorite would be the Petal Path. Made with alot of spring colors…Beautiful quilt
I love the Calico Clothworks Covent Gardens because if I won this it could be used as a giveaway for the Quilts of Valor solders. I have been participating in this & proud to be a part of this wonderful venture for our solders!
Since I am an avid piecer Minnesota Housewarming is my favorite from this issue. That is what I like about QM the most, there is ALWAYS something for everyone’s taste. The colors in this top reminds me of the woods around our house. It is very calming and peaceful to me.
I especially like the Around the Town and Minnesota Homewarming quilts, but I really want to do the Chain Reaction in bright colors for my granddaughter’s room. It looks like such a fun quilt.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden quilt on the cover–I love flowers and gardening and spring, and that quilt combines all my loves in one! That is definitely going on my list of quilts to make!
Petal Path in the Petal Pushers fabric line is my favorite because it reminds me of a breath of springtime.
I love all the quilts in this issue but since I’m from Minnesota, Minnesota Homewarming is my favorite. I hope I’m lucky enough to win one of your lovely quilts. Keep up the great work.
I love Calico Clockworks and the techniques used. Any fabric would work to make
a great quilt.
I fell in love with the chain reaction pattern in the March/April issue. In fact I purchased some white, blue and purple material to make this quilt for my sister in law who is getting married in July. Those are her wedding colors. I plan to give her fabric pens, so she can have people sign the white areas of the quilt during her wedding reception. If I do win one of your quilt tops that would be a great top for me to long arm quilt and then send it to a missionary or a women’s shelter.
I love Memories of Provence – I love both piecing and applique. it’s amazing how different this quilt looks just by changing the colours. I think that is my favourite part of quilting.
I love the petal pushers in the pink color way. What is not to love about a pink flower quilt ?
Petal pushers is my favorite….flowers and pink what else could you want?
Minnesota Homewarming is my favorite because I like the different borders that appear. Thanks for the chance!
I love White Labyrinth. I am partial to log cabin type quilts and this one is so unique that I already had the magazine open to it (so much so it doesn’t want to close) trying to decide if I really needed to figure it out and start another quilt. And I would also love to win one of your quilt tops. I have been thinking of making quilts for the local women’s shelter and this would give me a great headstart.
My favorite quilt is “Around the Town”. It has a scrappy look to it, and I love, love, love scrap quilts!
The quilt makers garden has to be my favorite. I love flowers and have made several of the quilts from which elements were chosen! What fun to see those elements reused in such a beautiful creation. Keep up the great work.
My favorite is the Anniversary Quilt, Quiltmaker’s Garden. I especially like it because it combines several different techniques so beautifully. Love your magazine!
I really like the petal path with the simplistic design and flexibility to change colors makes this my favorite
Hi,
I really like Petal Path by Kay Mackenzie in the red, white and blue color way. It has great contrast and an appealing design. Plus it feels patriotic.
I like the one on the cover of the issue “Quiltmaker’s Garden”. It is something different with many challenges and comes together for a beautiful top for a daughter or granddaughter’s bed. I may hve to try it and use up some of my stash…..and oh ya….buy more fabric. I never need an excuse to “buy more fabric.” Love the magazine.
It’s hard to choose a favorite, they are all so great, but I’ll pick Hidden Treasures. I’d try making it in homespuns and earth tones. Thanks for having this contest.
From the current issue I like the Bunny Patch quilt. I like to do small quilts to use as seasonal decorations for a throw on the back of my living room furniture. This one fits the bill for Spring and I have time to make it. I also like the option for the Calico Clothworks quilt.
Thank you
While I love Petal Path because I love the color and appliqued flowers, my favorite is the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It fascinates me how the design within the design provides many interesting blocks to which my eyes are drawn. Then when you step back from the quilt, the beautiful overall design appears. It, also, appeals to me because I find it boring to make 30 of the same block.
Quilter’s Garden is wonderful! I would love to make a quilt like that someday – something that is not symetrical.
I love Kay MacKenzie’s Petal Path! I love appliqué and piecing together and this has such pretty colors!
I love the “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” quilt because a scrappy quilt looks so homey, and Home is where the Heart is.
I like Around the Town because I like stars and it has just the right amount of stars and the dimensions are great.
I love Chain Reaction. I like the interlocking diamonds of different sizes. I REALLY liked the taupe color option. I’ve looked for something to showcase the taupe fabric lines that have been popular for awhile & this is the first one I’ve seen that I think really shows them off. Good job on this issue & all your issues. It’s my favorite magazine.
I like the “Diamond Fortune” design as I think it is quite unusual, and should look different from various angles when covering the curves of a bed. In addition, the brown/beige colors are neutral enough to go with most bedroom motifs, yet the pattern allows for customization when matching the interior greens and yellows.
I love anything scrappy so there are couple there, but I always love to see the addicted to scraps blocks.The anniversary quilt is beautiful…love it!
Thanks for the giveaway
I love Petal Path, by Kay MacKenzie. It looks so like Spring, my favorite time of the year. The colors in your version are so light and gay, just makes me smile to see them. I can imagine them on my bed or as a wall hanging in my room. Love, Love, Love it!!!!
My favorite from the magazine is “Minnesota Homewarming”, because I’m such a sucker for anything with stars. And since the medallion setting creates a star effect, that’s why I’d love to win the “Around the town” quilt. And the colors in this quilt are just a reminder that spring is on its way!! Thanks for the chance wot win!!
Quilter’s Garden is my favorite project for this issue. Thanks for the opportunity to enter your great giveaway!
It is difficult to choose one favorite project from the March/April issue! I settled on Minnesota Homewarming. I love the complex look of the quilt as well as the colors. Due to great instruction, I can see that the quilt will not be too difficult to attempt. I also love the colors and the stars in this quilt.
I ruled out the cover quilt, which I love, because it spans several issues so technically it is not just a March/April project. :0) I also loved Chain Reaction! The main reason I continue to subscribe to Quiltmaker is that there are almost always multiple quilts I want to make.
My favorite column is Carol Beams Design Studio! I have great fun trying her ideas and they always spark interesting projects!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the Quilter’s Garden. It incorporates the 2 techniques I love-paper piecing and applique. I also like asymetrical quilts. I love the magazine but out of all the great choices, Quilter’s garden is my favorite for March/April.
I think my favorite is Chain Reaction. I like the fact that easy piecing yields results that look so much more complicated. The colors used in the sample are pretty for this time of year and make me happy!
This a great issue, I like many of the quilt patterns in this one. I really like the Chain reaction, Petal Path and Grandpa’s Star block patterns. But I think my favorite is the Around Town pattern. I’ve been collecting civil war reproduction fabrics and this would be a perfect pattern for displaying those.
I just like the whole 9 yards, the whole book, all the patterns are great and the colorways are good and the extra colorways help those of us that have a problem with the color sellections of fabric. The only problem I have is that some fabric manufactures do not produce enough bolts a certain fabric and the shops run out and we cannot get the fabric we see in the quilts for out own quilts ; then its hard to find one to match certain colors.
I love the Around the Town quilt done in 30′s fabrics. I’ve “rediscovered” them lately and have done several quilts with them. Our Country Crossroads Quilt Guild did a block exchange last year and it revived my interest.
I really like the Petal Pushers pattern! Love your magazine!
I love all the new projects but my favorite is Petal Path in the Petal Pushers fabric by Windham. This makes you want to gather a picnic and head for the park.
I love the Petal Path. I love the look of applique, but when I have tried it, it never looks quite right. The Petal Path applique just pops out and looks beautiful. Keep up the good work with your magazine. It’s one of the beast.
Petal Path! I love applique and this quilt just makes me happy. It is that simple.
I love the Bunny Patch. I am a beginning quilter and I think that I can handle this one. I just found out that I am going to be great aunt to 5 new babies this year so I had better get quilting.
All the quilts are lovely but the Petal Path quilt is my choice quilt.
When I look at the Petal Path quilt it reflects back to me the sense of joy I feel within.
It reminds me that each step we take in life offers us another oportunity to flourish, bloom and flower. The Petal Path quilt also gives a genuine message that life does not have to be complicated or complex to be the wondorous delight and beauty that it is.
My favorite is the ‘Hidden Treasure,” because of the crisp contrast between the white and the blues. However, I also love “Calico Clockworks” and “Around the Town” – the original colors! You won’t be surprised that I have MANY kits and collections of colors in my queue because I can’t choose JUST ONE!
I too enjoyed the whole magazine, as always, but I really like Grandpa’s Star. I love scrap quilts and all the variety of them!! Generally they are one of a kind quilts.
The Around the Town block is a very cheerful block, in many of the favorite colors I like to use. And, of course, the stars are another favorite theme. Would love to make this block, will have to try.
I like the Petal Path. This lifts my spirits and makes me feel good.
I love the way you always show the quilts in a second colorway. It is so inspiring. That is one of the reasons I love taking a class where everyone is making the same quilt top but out of different fabrics the quilts all look so different.
The enjoy all the quilts but the garden quilt is so whimsy and happy it’s my favorite for this issue.
I love Hidden treasure – The Stars are just beautiful. I enjoy seeing hidden stars when looking at different views & I love the colors !!!
I really like the Chain Reaction quilt, and I’m considering making this one. The fabric choices are perfect for Spring, and would look great in my guest bedroom.
I love them all but love Around the Town and Petal Play. I love the reproduction fabrics used in Around the Town. I am an avid Appliquer and am always drawn to applique. I would be proud to own either. Thanks for doing a give away for these quilts. What an opportunity.
My favorite is Chain Reaction. I like unusal looking quilts and this one sparks my imagination.
Petal Path is my favorite. I love applique and this is simple and easy to adjust to different colors.
petal path is my very favorite pattern from the march isssue, for it’s applique panels. the applique is gorgeous, yet simple and easy to do. i would love this top!
I am leaning towards Grandpa’s Star as a quilt that I will probably do. What an inspiration to use all the half-square triangles that I have been collecting for years. I really like the design.
Favorite is Petal Path using Provence fabrics, I love appliqué but have not mastered the technique. (I need to retire so I can quilt MORE!) Secondly, the Calico Clothworks in the Covenent Gardens fabrics is well done and the colors suit me. However, the Around the Town pattern is striking in both color ways, either way these will be absolutely beautiful hand quilted.
I just love the Petal Path in the Petal Pushers fabrics! Such lovely colours for spring! (Besides, the original looks like a patriotic American version- and I am Canadian!)
Quiltmakers’s Garden is my favorite. So bright and cheery.
My favorite design is Kay Mackenzie’s Petal Path. I love the applique. The colors in the magazine are wonderful but I can see how it could be beautiful in several colorways. This is a project I’d love to be doing in my sewing room. =!=
I love the Petal Path. It is very beautiful. The colors are awesome, lots of different possiblities.
I think my favorite is QUiltmakers Garden. You can almost smell the flowers growing up the gazebo. I really liked the petal path too. Can see lots of possibilities and variations. Can’t wait for the retreat in Williamsburg
I love the Calico Clockworks! It is remarkable the way the pattern changes with different colors. I really like this feature of your magazine.
Around the town because I love geometrics!
I love Around the Town. I like using classic quilt blocks with the fabrics and creating an updated classic quilt. I am always drawn to quilts made from classic blocks.
Oh my! My personal favorite, (by far!!!) is “Around the Town” in the “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” by RJR fabrics, colorway. I admit it; I’m a bit different. I’m more traditional in my choice of quilts, but love the more contemporary lines of fabric. So I am quite intrigued by this mostly traditional looking pattern that has been updated with those fabulously modernized prints! I love this fabric collection and this particular pattern. I’m seriously considering buying a subscription to your magazine and seeing about making this quilt for myself. (I think my new DDIL might even like the it – I promised her one for their wedding!)
Thanks for touching/combining both of my seemingly disparate desires into one beautiful quilt.
I just love the Minnesota Homewarming. It gives more than one block designs. Each time I look at it I see another block.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. It is so bright and joyful and speaks of spring!
I love to quilt and enjoy gardening when I have time.
RAH
I love chain reaction! I’ve been looking for a simple quilt to make up for my newest nephew and this jumped out at my immediately. I’m planning on piecing it in blues and greens with Kona Snow as the background.
Around the town in civil wars is ery appealing, but loving the Petal Path.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden cover quilt for its beckoning to spring–it really brightens up a wintery day. Would love to receive any of the tops! Chain Reaction looks like a fun thing to do with the TONS of scraps I’m still saving and adding to. As always, there are several quilts in the issue that call out to be made. So much fun, so little time…
My favorite is Diamond Fortune. It’s very different and I love paper-piecing. Hidden Treasures and Chain Reaction were next on my list. The whole magazine was very interesting this month.
Quiltmaker Garden is my favorite as it reminds me that spring is just around the corner and I love a variety of colors.
Petal pushers in Memories of Provence.
I like Pedal Pushers . It is bright and cheerful, just the thing to fight off the winter blues. A great project for these drab days.
I love Around the Town. That has such design and different shapes and the colors in this is so beautiful.
When I saw “Quiltmaker’s Garden” on the cover, I knew immediately that you had used some block designs from the last 30 years, because I have been a subscriber since the second issue (I missed the first one but looked for it for years). I loved looking at the blocks in “Quiltmaker’s Garden” and remember seeing them in older magazines. I linger over every issue when it arrives, and sometimes go back and look at copies of the older ones, too, and try to adapt them to today’s rotary cutting techniques. I have made so many quilts from designs in QM, and this quilt will be one of them, too.
Quiltmakers Garden
I never met a quilt I didn’t like, but I especially like the Petal Pushers by Kay. It is so cheery on this dull day.
Calico Clothworks (in Covent Garden fabrics) is my favorite. The color palette is nice and I love the movement.
My vote is everything but the kitchen sink. I’m a huge fan of any fabric that is or looks like vintage. If I were to win this quilt I wouldn’t have to go through my stash and pick fabric. LOL Love the quilt!!
My fave is the Minnesota Home Warming. I love the colors, the big pieces and the traditional pattern done up in more modern batik. It would go perfect in my house without even painting any rooms!
My favorite is Petal Pushers by Kay. It makes you smile just looking at it and I long for spring to come with my kaleidoscope of color tulips bring me!
Chain Reaction would be my favorite. Thanks for the great quilting magazine!
My favorite is the quilt on the cover. I am not sure if it is the color choice or the design that is calling my name but this quilt is definitely on my “to do” list. I love the combination of pieced blocks, paper piecing and applique. It would be the perfect quilt for me to make because it would allow me to stay in my comfort zone with piecing and to step out of the box with paper piecing and applique. In my opinion, this is the best cover quilt in many issues.
Too many favorites but if I had to choose just one, it would be…Around Town. I like the block designs used in this quilt and how it looks equally fabulous in both color ways ( particularly the Color Option!!!-I love vintage fabrics)
I also have to mention the “Patch” series. It is so wonderful. My sister & I made Beary Patch for the first child of a neighbor near our father that really helps him out. We made it from reproduction prints. I will submit a photo of it. It came out beautifully!
Quiltmaker’s Garden series is my favorite, it uses a variety of blocks, it looks challenging, it’s colourful, showy and will be interesting to quilt on my long arm. I would love to win any quilt tops; I will quilt them to provide warmth and love to the hundreds of families who lost their homes and all their belongings to a wild fire in Northern Alberta last summer.
Love the “Around the Town” original pattern…love it. All those earthy colors….just warm, earthy, and welcoming….
My favorite would be Petal Pushers, when my magazine come in the mail I started putting my pinks and purples together to start this quilt for my grand daughter, she is so into pink that she would like nothing better than this pretty quilt.
I just love the whole magazine, but if I had to chose it would be the quilt ” Around Town”. It would make a good scrapy quilt. Also “Petal Path” in pastels caught my granddaughters eye, so it’s on my list to make. Thanks for a great magazine.
I love all of these tops. I gifted myself with a Handi Quilter Sweet 16 so I’m practicing and will be ready to finish one of these should I be so lucky as to win!
I love the Quiltmakers Garden as it is already Spring here!
I love all of the quilts, but I think that my two favorites are “chain reaction” because of the use of fabrics and the way it “flows” and “pedal path” in the fabric option, petal pushers. This quilt reminds me of the “flower power” of the 60′s and 70′s. It also gives me inspiration to try more applique, which I always seem to shy away from.
I adore all of then but if I had to choose one then it would be Quilt maker’s garden.
Petal Path is my favorite. It fits the Country theme I am decorating my home in.
Petal Path in “Petal Pushers” would look fabulous in my granddaughter’s room.
I have fallen in love with the Petal Path. So colorful and happy. A must do!!
I live in Minnesota so I have to pick Minnesota Homewarming! It is a beautiful quilt with so many interesting elements.
Petal Path inspired me to subscrib_e to the I’mmagazine. Can’t wait make it!
My favorite would have to be the Quilt makers garden , I love the fact it has the pieced background with appliqué . Just beautiful !
I love the Petal Path quilt. It is a simple design dressed up with applique.
I really love Quiltmaker’s Garden. I hope to try one this year. Thanks for the chance to win a quilt top.
I’m sew in love with Quiltmaker’s Garden! Thanks for the chance to win one of your beautiful quilt tops!!
I had to run out to buy this issue – before I even knew that I could win a quilt top – because it has my friend, Kay Mackenzie’s Petal Path pattern in it. I would love to win this in the Petal Pusher colour way, so please enter me in the draw to win this one. It’s my favourite in the issue. Thanks!
Petal Path–I love this type of strip quilt with the applique flowers. Both colorways are charming. Lots of potential.
LizE
I love the Hidden Treasure quilt, and how the borders use pieces of the blocks from the center of the quilt. Great Idea! It really has my creative juices flowing!
I love the Everything but the kitchen sink quilt top. I love everything about it…the colors, the patterns. It just speaks to me…how beautiful!
I just love Minnesota Homewarming I love Pat Speth’s beautiful designs that come from simple piecing. It is stunning in the batiks but you could make it work with Christmas fabrics as well.
I LOVE the Petal Path quilt! I have always loved quilts that have both applique and piecing but my true reason for voting this my favorite quilt is plain and simple. It’s got CLASS!
I love Petal Path. I am all about flowers and springtime, and this quilt makes me happy just to look at it.
I am redoing my bedroom completely, redoing the walls, painting the furniturem redoing the chairs and all of it is inspired byQuiltmaker’s Garden. It is breath taking. Every where you look there is another treat to look at. It is soothing and wonderful. I am going to make this so I have my own little hide a way from all of my life’s happenings. I also loved the Jogger story, just think a great story to inspire me in other aspects of my life. Chopped saved me when I found myself in a little procrastination pickle. I am in a BOM swap and had brain freeze, I didn’t have alot of time to make a block and needed to get one in the mail ASAP. I came across chapped, whipped up a block in no time, loved it so much I made 3 more the next afternoon. Thank you for the Magazine, always a pleasure.
I am new to this web thing and quilting. I really am excited to learn to quilt. I love the chain reaction and all the colors.
I flagged a few things in this issue: the Chopping Block, Chain Reaction, and because I love paper piecing, Diamond Fortune would have to be my favorite!
My favorite is Quiltmaker’s Garden because it combines two hobbies I enjoy– gardening and quilting! Also, the different flower motifs can be used to make pillows in different shapes and sizes.
Petal Path gets my vote!! Love love love the colors in the bright version. Okay I like the original to
It’s just a cool looking quilt!!
I love your magazine. My favorite from this Mar/Apr issue was Chair Reaction. It looks so hard but I can tell the directions make is come out easily. What a great pattern. I can also use it for some scraps I have been saving up. I have 4 quilts to make for Spring and this one will be one of them. Thanks again.
P.S. I always love the scraps articles. I have so many scraps in my closet. Thanks.
I like the chain reaction. I find the colors appealing and the design interesting.
I really like Petal Path. I love flowers and I am really looking forward to spring. I would like to make one for one of my nieces. Thank you for such a great giveaway. I would love to win one.
My favorite project is Diamond Fortune for two reasons. I love paper piecing and the pattern reminds me of a kaleidoscope. I have already printed 36 pattern pieces. Friday I visited one of my favorite quilt shops and picked up several Batiks. I can’t wait to start working on it this weekend!
My favorite project is Petal Path, I am a new quilter and I was gifted some wonderful border prints and large print fabrics that I have been wanting to find a way to use. I just took an applique’ class last month and have been looking for a new project to use my new found skills. So this one project fills the bill for both areas.
Love the quilters garden quilt, it combines my two loves.
I like seeing all of the quilts in two colorways. It shows me how different each would look in another color group, and encourage us to do them in different fabrics too. We learn that not just one color group will work with a quilt.
I’m not partial to strips, but really like Petal Path made in the Memories of Providence colors, but know that my granddaughters would like the Petal Pushers color way the best as they love pastels. I could see doing this quilt in three different main colors. One of the twins loves pink, and the other is all about purple. Their older sister gave up on pink when one of the twins said she likes it, so hers would be in the blue family, maybe in the aqua side of blue. I love to do applique, so this quilt really speaks to me.
Love the cover quilt. Can’t wait to get the magazine!
I would have to say Quilter’s Garden! What’s not to love it’s gardening and quilting! It’s beautiful and it makes you smile.
There are four quilts in this issue I like and will add to my list – Around Town,
Chain Reaction, Petal Path, and Quiltmaker’s Garden. To pick my favorite it
would be Quiltmaker’s Garden because I have subcribed to Quiltmaker from
the very beginning and I believe I have every issue in my magazine library.
I remember when you used parts of this quilt in past quilts like the birds, and all the various flower blocks. Thank you for 30 wonderful years of quilt ideas and instructions.
I really love them all , but I’m a Kay Mackinsey fan ,and I love this quilt.
i like the petal project because it reminds me of spring and all the flowers and birds that come back after a winter’s nap
I love the colors of the Hidden Treasure quilt. The hidden patterns that happen when you mix the different blocks together make the quilt much more interesting.
They are all beautiful. I have never seen a quilt that I didn’t like.
Petal Path is definitely my favorite; it’s so spectacular. I love applique and have been wanting to make a top combining piecing and applique. Excited about making this one and getting the magazine. I just subscribed because I saw this wonderful quilt in it.
I love Hidden Treasure as I like the way different patterns emerge as you look at the different colours.
I’d have to say Calico Clokworks is my favorite. I like a quilt that looks difficult but is easy to put together.
Giveaway…OMGoss!!!! I like them all!
Whoops hit the button too soon. My favorite is the” petal pushers” in the pink but again I like them all
I have to say petal pushers! I have three daughters and we all love anything pink and lime green! My poor husband is totally out numbered! I like how the applique flowers pull out the flowers in the fabric.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite…but I think the Petal Pushers will be my choice. I am sooo looking forward to spring and this brings a bit inside. The weather keeps teasing us going back and forth from warm, sunny days to cold, rainy and windy. Fabric doesn’t do that, it lets us keep our mood however we want it! Sunny fabrics and flowers, here I come!
I love the cover project. It’s easily broken into BOM size portions, and I always like a project with different blocks so that I can do it as my own personal BOM.
I really love the petal path. After a long winter, I am so ready for spring.
I love the Petal Push quilt. Especially since spring is right around the corner!
I appreciate Minnesota Homewarming by Pat Speth. I’m drawn to the all-over pattern and the color contrast. I’m new to quilting and am just learning what I like for myself – I like this one.
Hi
Took awhile to get the pictures to come up of the quilts.
Like the Hidden Treasure, stars and waves. but mostly like the Petal Path
by Kay. Made me want to go out and plant a garden and walk in one.(will go out now to look for Monarchs). and I would normally never pick that fabric as like brighter, but
it is very nice and grounding . Thank you for the learning .
Diamond Fortune might like in teal,purple and blues.
Thanks
Lynn D
I like calico clockworks in convent garden fabrics because blue and white are my favorite quilt color combination. I have been working on a blue and white star quilt for several years. The red in the clockworks quilt is a nice touch.
I Love Around the Town but right now I have some wonderful teal & white zebra print fabric from Henry Glass called OuLaLa I think and I can’t wait to use it in a quilt for my Grandaughter using my favorite for the month “Petal Path” with the companion fabrics it will be SOOOOO cute.
Thanks so much for the amazing work you do – Quiltmaker is TOPS!
I LOVE the pedal path with the windham bright fabrics. Love those colors and they make me think of the upcoming spring happy colors
I enjoy using scraps and I found the Chain Reaction pattern a great home for those “special” fabrics that needed to have “friends”. I have already cut the strips, just need to get the background cut. There were several other quilts in this months magazine that I hope to get made. I look forward to every issue of your magazine.
I love the petal path, so pretty and lovely.
The March/April issue was my very first issue of Quiltmaker. I thoroughly enjoyed paging through all the various quilt patterns and I love the color options which really helped me imagine a lot of possibilites. But my very favorite quilt was the Quiltmaker’s Garden. This quilt made me feel like I was in a beautiful English garden. A gazebo covered in flowers has always been something I’ve wanted to build in my own yard and this quilt actually looks alot like the one in my imagination. I’m pretty sure having this inside the house will be easier than building it outside. I’m thoroughly enjoying this magazine and can hardly wait to try my hand at some new patterns.
I love Petal Path.
LOVE Petal Path and Kay MacKenzie, but my favorite would have to be Chain Reaction simply because my daughter and daughters-in-law prefer more modern quilts and Chain Reaction would be perfect for one of them. Thank you for your wonderful magazine and the opportunity to win a quilt.
I have recently retired and am enjoying spending extra time quilting. I love making quilts for my grandchildren and I am anxious to try Bunny Patch.
I have to say that one of my favorite patterns (although I like them all) is Around the Town. There’s just something about stars that make my heart sing! I’m eager to give it a try. Thanks for entering my name to win a quilt top!
I would have to say the different size paper piece geese as I am just starting to fall in love with paper piecing
Hidden Treasures is definitely my favorite in the issue. The zigzag inner border and the checkerboard outer border add interest, and I love star designs, too. I also like designs that seem to morph according to the particular block one focuses on. Such a beautiful quilt.
I like the Quiltmaker’s Garden because it is so soothing to think of being outside in the warm air quilting. Oh my, what could be better unless you had someone to quilt with you. I am pretty much still a “Topmaker” but I have started putting some stitches in our guild quilt. I get so many quilting magazines and I love almost all of them.
My favourite project is Petal Path because I love applique and also because this quilt lends itself to bright, summery colours. What could be better!
I loved the quilt Petal Path! I am looking forward to spring so much. I love the applicques of flowers.
Love the ‘controlled’ scrappy colouring in the Minnesota Homewarming. Lots of cool blues/violets/green with the warmth of golden accents. And I just love batiks of all sorts and will aim for a similar colour palette when I do it.
Have to go with Petal Path, I am going to try to do one of them, would love to win it, of course, who would not? I love Quiltmaker Magazine…
I really like the colors in Hidden Treasure. So that is my favorite one from the magazine. my second favorite is Minnesota Homewarming- love batiks.
Bunny Patch is just too cute!!! I mostly make baby quilts which I give to friends and family when a new addition to their family is expected. Think Bunny Patch would be perfect for a little one to treasure.
I love the Around Town. I always loved Stars of any variation. Thank you for a chance to win.
First of all I opened my magazine today! Love it!! My favorite item (if I have to pick just one) is CHAIN REACTION!! I am getting ready to do a lap quilt for a very dear friend who is donating a kidney to her husband and what an appropriate name!! I have started it this evening with paper piecing but am not very exprienced. I checked out the squad but could not find any info of any of them paperpiecing…..left a comment on one of their blogs so am anxiously waiting for a reply. Hate to switch to piecing now as I already have my pattern sheets printed!?!?! DID I say I TRULY LOVE THIS SITE!!!! Back to sewing!!
I am very fond of the Around the Town quilt. while I am not that much of a traditionalist, I liked the way the classic blocks came together differently with different fabrics.
Petal Pushers has pushed my joy button! It reminds me of spring and the renewal and bursting forth of new life that takes place. A quilt like this could light up heavy hearts.
I usually don’t like the row quilts but I love the Petal Path because of the the applique dressed it up so much and could be very fun to make for our 2 granddaughters. I love the petal pusher quilt in both color and was thinking of our 2 granddaughters when I saw it in the pink shade and I could add a ladybug or butterfly as well. Gave me the idea of make a purple one and a pink one for our girls for their Christmas. I love the original quilt of Around the Town in it’s Southwest colors and how rich it looks but the second one made like it, lost it appeal to me with the color change that was made to it. To my eye the Around the Town has wonderful possibilities in darker color tones only since it has first glance it has the S.W. look. So I have to say to me the Petal Path is my favorite because it works well in all color tones and has lot of different possibilities.
Chain reaction has an interesting appeal to me as I see it as a board game, snakes & ladders. The colors used have a swirl in a darker color, that remind me of the snakes on the game board. Some of the prints give you the impression of the ladders in the game. The colors give you that spring feeling that make you want to get outside and enjoy the sunshine.
My favorite is Minnesota homewarming quilt. I have always wanted to try that several stars block.
My favorite is Chain Reaction! I’ve never seen this pattern before and just love how it looks like X’s and O’s. Very cool quilt!
That’s a tough question. I LOVE the series of Patch Pals, really love them. They’re all appealing and fun. Being a avid gardener, I am attracted to the garden theme and chain reaction appeals to my clean, fresh modern thoughts. I like the others, but these 3 are my faves.
They are all so beautiful but as my favorite I’d choose “Petal Path”. I just love the colors, the fabric used and of course the applique flowers! I hope that someday I will be such an accomplished quilter.
This issue has really put me in the mood for spring. I love the color choices. Sometimes I get a ‘block’ in trying new colors and fabrics, but I am inspired to get out of my box and try something new. I learn something new from every issue. Thanks.
It’s Quiltmaker’s Garden for me. I love the applique and the soft, pastel colors! Great for spring and Easter!
I love the “Chain Reaction” quilt & would enjoy making i.
The Hidden Treasures quilt was wonderful. I liked how each step in the design process was explained. I just ordered it. Reminds me of beach glass.
I love Pedal Pushers the colours are just amazing
I am so tired of winter and snow and just need the Quiltmakers garden – perfect- I feel better already.
I love the Covert Garden by Berntex fabrics. The color red seems to just pop out at you.
There were many quilt patterns that had appealed to me but if I had to choose one to start with, it would have to be the Quilter’s Garden. Welcome Spring after a long winter just feels right!!
I love the Calico Clockworks pattern. I can’t wait until I can start playing with color placement and values. If I’m right, there is a completely different look hidden in it. I love your patterns, and have made several of them for gifts.
I love the bunny Patch. I think its adorable and I am going to make this for my neice’s next baby. (Planning ahead)
I really like the Petal Path quilt (Petal Pushers alternate color also) because it brings back some really great memories of a trip my daughter and I made through France after her college graduation — and to think she asked me to go along ! I would like to make this for her as a “memory” of a wonderful trip together.
I love the Quiltmaker’s Garden. The colors are lovely, and the design would brighten any winter day!
Oh I so love them all!! I have to say though, were I granted a Quilty Wish should a tiny fairy pop from my golden thimble, the quilt I would choose would be the Quilter’s Garden. An immense amount of peace and contentment could be found loosing oneself in such a beautiful little “quiltscape.” I have come to love combining a variety of sewing and piecing techniques in one project. Surely, to work on this quilt one would feel like a butterfly flitting from one beautiful section to the next. Happy Spring Everybody!
I’m looking forward to regular additions to the Quilter’s Garden quilt. It’s always interesting to see new twists on old patterns, creating an all new look!
What a hard decision as I love them all. Hidden Treasure is probably my favorite followed by Around the Town but they all would be wonderful to win.
My favorite project from Quiltmaker #144 is Around The Town. I love that the quilt looks so complex, but an easy difficulty quilt.
I love Quiltmaker’s Garden because it reminds me of spring and the flowers that will soon be blooming everywhere.
I like Modern Makeover. Black, white and red is my favorite combination, When I shop, I only see those colors.
love addicted to scraps and grampa’s star great use of all the scraps I have
Quilter’s Gardern! Makes me think SPRING!
If I were to choose a pattern to start today from this issue, it would be Minnesota Homecoming. I like those colors and just love doing stars.
My favorite is Minnesota Housewarming but Diamond Fortune, Bunny Patch and Petal Path are not far behind. I could see me making all these quilts!!
I like chain reaction. I like things that look compicated but the actual construction is not. It is also very versatile for different color ways and fabric collections.
I enjoyed reading about the QM’s history in this anniversary issue. I also liked the Quiltmaker’s Garden pattern…it is very creative…a stray from the usual blocks used to put together a quilt.
I really like the Calico Clothworks in the Convent Garden. However, I love the Petal Pushers in the Petal Path color option! I love the bright spring colors, they just seem to pop off the screen!
I like Petal Pushers best because it combines the simplicity of the old strippy quilts (and the great opportunities they give for fine quilting) with the graceful, undulating blooming vines.
Oops! I meant “Petal Path,” not “Petal Pushers,” in the above post.
I was struck by the simplicity of Flowers from Provence and am considering making it a bit bigger and using it for a charity quilt for kids who have cancer that we send quilts to at their camp! Would love to have the little top for me to look at and love!
For me it’s a toss up between Hidden Treasures and Minnesota Homecoming. I am drawn to the jewel tone colors of these quilts.
Minnesota Homewarming spoke to me. The colors were absolutely fabulous. And the design, you see stars, but not really….Wow!
I like Petal Patch. I love applique so I’m drawn to it.
I just renewed my Quiltmaker subscription today. I don’t think I will get the current issue in the mail. After viewing the contents and patterns online, I will have to go and purchase this issue! I love paper piecing. I like the Quiltmaker’s Garden pattern. I like the small flowers that remind me of the Petite Jardine pieced design. Last summer I made the Over By The Pond pattern from a Quiltmaker back issue since I love frogs! I am starting a new quilt for my husband. It is the Finish Line pattern he picked from the May/June 2000 issue.
I love the Minnesota Homewarming quilt. It is hard to choose with so many beautiful quilts in this issue. I would love to be the winner of one of these tops.
I love HIDDEN TREASURE. I love the Rick Rack effect in the border and the colors are wonderfully peaceful but yet the fabric is fun and fanciful. I like the free form quilted leaves and loops! I would probably get stuck in a corner trying to quilt is so randomly!
I love the Quiltmakers Garden. It reminds me of my mother in her flower gardens when she was younger and watching the birds. She’s 82 now and doesn’t get into the garden anymore but can still watch her birds.
I like the Quiltmakers Garden the best. I am planning on following along and making it. I love the flow and the colors.
I love the Minnesota Housewarming quilt with its gorgeous colors and layout:)
I liked the petal pathway extremely well. I know a lady is heavyily involved in Quilts for Valor. This would suit any lady soldier! I would like to make this and help my friend out. She needs 40 quilts soon!
Love Petal Pushers, the flowers are fun and colorful. Reminds me of a garden in springtime.
`Growing a garden’ is devine – I dreamed of laying upon a beautiful bed of flowers 1 day. This would be a lovely version. The butterfly’s,birds, gazebo & flowers…the colors
oh my!!
second -`Petal Path’ Memories of Provence is wonderful~Love the applique & the drama of the lines.
I HAVE to mention the Bunny because my dear bunny would give a good *thump* and eat the magazine if I don’t (~.~) cute quilt. love bunnies
The Garden is simply a work of art. I love to garden & paint when I am not sewing. I can imagine all these images floating into a wee floral garden. I can see the tones and sky & light- you have set the stage for it.Ohhh what a sight!! Thankyou Such a glorious quilt-to capture a snapshot of a `garden day’. I can almost smell it. :>)
I love the chain reaction, simple but effective
Grandpa’s star–I absolutely love scrap quilts
Petal Path is my favourite. Looks great in the different colour ways.
I love to quilt and I love flowers.