We’re hopping at QM this week, getting ready for Block Party in Portland, working on 100 Blocks Volume 8, pushing a regular issue out the door and hanging a new gallery show. We love every minute.
I’d invite you to check out some of our most popular posts from the past. Enjoy!
Free Pattern: Little Windmills
Let’s have a giveaway. Leave a comment below by midnight Friday, March 15 telling us which of these posts you liked best. Next week we’ll choose a winner for a little bundle of quilty goodness and announce it here. Good luck!
Congratulations to Jeanette Kercheval (comment #82)! She is the lucky winner of the Quilty Bundle of Goodness!
I loved the quick label method. Good tips and tricks there.
Color Tools for Quilters was my favorite. It was full of useful information.
I love the one about the color tool! I struggle with colors and have been going with prints all from the same collection because I’m afraid of getting it wrong. Good to know there are tools to help with that!
I always appreciate help with color.
‘Little Windmills’ is my favorite. A quick way to make a stunning quilt.
I loved the one about the quick labels. Sometimes that is more of a help than a pattern or a color choice.
The color tool is awesome. Thanks for another giveaway!
Really enjoyed the Quick Label post.
The Color Tool is great. Just looking at the yummy colors makes me happy. Thank you!
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Great posts, one and all! My favorite was the post about color tools. I noticed that you mentioned that Joen Wolfrom has a great color tool. I like that tool too and I LOVE her books which are full of gorgeous photos and inspiration.
‘Little Windmills’ is my favorite too. I want to make it for my daughter.
loved the quick labels
I also loved the quick label method. and thought there were good tips and helpful tricks.
I use this method to do labels; if you save the document; you can go back in and custom write a description for a special quilt.
I like Little Windmills. This is an easy quilt pattern and you can use a lot of different colors in your stash. Good quilt to make for yourself or even a little one.
Sandi Timmons
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I liked the quick label tutorial so much that I saved it to my favorites and printed it off .
“Little Windmills” is adorable!
I really liked the quick quilt label post! Used it the same day you posted it!
Little Windmills are fun, Quick Quilt Labels are are handy, but Color Tools will always help me with my biggest challenge! Now to go find one for myself…….
I’m really bad about putting labels on my quilts, including table runners, for gifts. I really appreciated the label tutorial. Thanks a lot.xx
I liked the little windmills tutorial. It was a well-done tutorial for a great quilt that uses up scraps!
I Love all of 3 of your ideas but I like the color tool the best. I plan to try them all.
love help with color, always a time consuming effort for me! the more I think about it…. the more confused I get!
I likes the post about the color tool best. Sometimes I have such a hard time picking out colors. It looks like the Color Tool would really help.
Love the color tool
I like the quick label post.
I have a hard time with label so any help is always appreciated!
Hard choice! Color tools wins. It might be useful in decorating our new condo.
HI! ‘LITTLE WINDMILLS’ TUTORIAL- IT IS MY FAVORITE!
THANKS FOR SHARING!
I like the labels…I usually hand write mine on muslin, but the computer printed version looks so much neater. Thanks for the chance to win.
I love the post on the color tool. I Need lots of help in that dept. it was very helpful.
I like the “Little Windmills” quilt pattern.
i love this! I make my own labels!! but that is good, i do like the labels!!!
Oh my!! I liked them all!! In fact, I like them all so much, I saved them
Thanks for sharing such useful information! 
Color Tools for Quilters is my favorite…………..
The little windmill tutorial – love small blocks and using up stash/scraps and this pattern is a perfect fit.
Love the windmill pattern. Must have missed that earlier post.
Little Windmills looks like a fun pattern to try!
I love the tutorial on Quick Quilt Labels!
I loved the little windmills pattern. It’s so versatile–it can be done for babies, kids, adults of all ages–and in all colorways. It’s also a stash-buster, which is a fabulous pattern to have on hand.
Definitely the color tool – this is something that I have struggled with and the time and frustration saved would be well worth the cost
The little windmills pattern brought back so many memories. Many years ago my sister in Canada sent me over a quilting magazine with this pattern in it. The article was about a lady whose son was coming back from Vietnam, and she was going to make this quilt for him, as it was quick to make. I was so taken with the story I tried the pattern, and I was hooked!
I liked the windmill tutorial. It sure will help whittle down my mountains of scraps! And believe me, it IS a mountain!
Help with color is much needed, always interesting to hear different views!
I love the color tool. I have always struggled with what colors go well together. It would be really helpful.
I like the quick lable idea. I have not labled a quilt and might try this on the one I am about to finish.
I like the quick quilt tutorial.
I really liked the post on COLOR. Choosing the right colors has always been kind of hit and miss for me, so I need all the help I can get.
I enjoyed the article on the use of the color tool. I had not seen this tool before. (not surprising, as I have not been quilting all that long yet.) Thank you.
The color tool – I always have a tough time “matching” and coordinating colors
Color Tools for Quilters was my favourite.
The past post that I enjoyed the most was the Color Tool for Quilters. I love colors. The post was very informative. Thanks
Color Tools for quilters is the one I needed most! crystalbluern at onlineok dot com.
I love the little windmill pattern. It may turn out to be used for my next charity quilt.
I liked the quick lable method!
Gun, Sweden
The little windmills post! I have a bag of small yellow and blue scraps just waiting for a project like this.
It’s really hard to choose. I like the pattern for mindless sewing because the quilt I am sewing on requires many matched seams. “Little Windmills” sounds wonderful. I haven’t finished a quilt so I have never done a label for one. The techniques seems simple enough for even me to accomplish. Color is my biggest problem. I rely on my friends at my LQS for help in getting fabrics together for a project. Can you tell I am a relatively new quilter? I like all the tutorials. Color tool has maybe a slight edge!
I love the color tool …I always wory about my color choices. I am going to order one next payday. I also love the quick label post. I found it and all the comments so insightful. Thanks..
Little Windmills – great !
I like the color tool always have to be reminded of tones etc.
I think the labels are great and so very important to document our quilts for future generations but my favorite is the Color tool!
I love the quick quilt label post. I can’t wait to try it!
I love the post about the Color Tool – what a great device. I really struggle with discerning the true nature of color and the way they interact. Thanks for the introduction and for the chance to win!
The post on the color tool was most helpful. I have that tool and needed to be reminded to use it when struggling to choose colors for a project.
I liked the quick label method. I make most of my labels this way. Thanks for the vhance to win.
The color tool looks awesome. I have always said I am “Color Illiterate”.
I liked the Quick Label post
My favorite is the Little Windmills pattern. I am new to quilting and enjoy every opportunity to try a new pattern.
I liked the color tool for quilters.
I haven’t labeled my quilts so far, it seem such a difficult task. This makes it very easy, same way I do dresden plate centers. Thank you for the tip
As a beginner, all of these posts were helpful, informative and full of good stuff! I printed out the Little Windmills and the label Tutorial. When next I go shopping for quilt tools (very soon!) the Color Tool is on the list!
Loved the post about using the Color Tool. I have one but have never put it to good use. All that has changed now that I have read your post! Thanks for the great information.
The color tool is great! The quick labels and windmill pattern are too!
I’d have to pick between the label method and the color tools, and color wins. I always have such a time matching up fabrics well…it’s fun, but often very difficult. This is something that I’ll use over and over again, and that will improve the look of my work…what’s not to love?
Like the label part
Color Tool it Is!! Useful to beginners and experienced quilters, creates confidence and encourages experimentation!!
Now I can make labels. Yeah!
Little windmills is my favorite — looks complicated but really simple. My kind of pattern!
I love the pattern, always love new ideas.
My favorite post was “Color Tools for Quilters”, tho they were all good. The “color” post was full of new information for me to use.
I’ve struggled with color and how to use a color wheel. That was the most interesting to me.
Color Tools for Quilters! I like this so much better than other’s I’ve seen so much better. I’m going to look for this next time I shop.
I loved your quick label method. Thanks for the chance on your giveaway.
Definetly the color tool. It is sometimes hard to choose between dark and mediums .
I like the label post. Gotta give that a try!
The color tool I can always use help with color. I think I have the colors right and do that first block and most times I have to change at least one color.
I enjoyed the color post!
Color tools! I always gravitate towards my favorite colors and this is invaluable in helping choose colors that are just a little (or a lot) out of my comfort zone!
I love the one on color tools. I always need help with color
Color is a challenge for me, as well. I stick with colors I know will work together. It would be nice to step out of that comfort zone.
I loved the label post the best. It gave me some great ideas on how to make my labels easier!
I always love a free pattern, but the color tool does look interesting.
I am so clueless on colors. Really appreciated the Color Tools.
The color tools are the best. I always have trouble picking colors that go together.
My favourite post is Little Windmills.
I like the windmill pattern, as I’m always on the look out for easy quick patterns.
My favorite was the easy label post which looks very easy and doable. My next finished quilt project will have a label on it.
I really liked the post about the color tool. Great information and it was fun to see how the tool really helped her pick colors.
Definitely Color Tools for quilters, hands down!
“Little Windmills”. I love posts that break down and simplify a block, especially one that works well with a scrappy look.
I have been really curious about labels so thought the quick quilt label would be my favorite but I don’t have a printer. So I checked out the Little Windmills quilt and I loved it. It made me realize how I could change around a simple pattern and make something different. I am going to try a few experiments. 3bakergirlsgo@gmail.com
the best of prior posts is the little label post … i’ve not labeled my earlier quilts, but i now i do with this helpful tute.
The color tool was great!
I liked the quick quilt label method best. It is a very helpful tutorial. I want to try this.
I liked the quick labels post, and the colour tool one. They both had useful little tips in them.
I liked the quick quilt label post. I’ve bookmarked the page. The colour tool was also helpful.
I like the little windmills pattern–it looks like a lot of fun!
Making a label!!! I need to learn how to do it so it looks just as good as my quilt! Thanks so much for that post – my favorite.
I liked the Quick Labels–I’ve already used it on a few of my labels–very easy and worked great! I liked the facing method–it really helps the label from not shifting as you’re sewing it on! I also added a few small strips of Clover fusible web tape and fused the faced label onto the quilt back–it worked great!
I love the quick labels method. I try to label all of my quilts and this is an easy method to do that. Thanks.
Color tools for quilters. I certainly could have used that on my last multi-color project! I had troubles with the tints.
Oh it has to be the quilt label.
I’ve been making labels by this method since I first saw it here.
Free patterns are always good, but I think that the Little Windmills post contained much more than just a pattern! I love the “Brain-Free” sewing idea – sure can use it on days when I want to sew and not have to think too hard about what I’m doing!
Definitely Color Tools! Even if you’re good with matching colors, this tool would be helpful!
The little windmills post is a quick easy method to use up scraps or a coordinated colorway. The block could be adapted to any size quilt and would make a great leaders and enders project.
They’re all great posts – great easy labeling idea, quick little easy block for those who need something speedy…. but I’d have to say the Color Tool post was my fav! What a handy little tool. SO useful for those who have trouble with color choices…
Thanks for the chance to win this giveaway. Good Luck to all..
Little Windmills is my favorite! I use them for my “leaders and enders” which is Bonnie Hunter’s technique to sew a patch after stitching pieces for the main project that I’m working on. Its also a great way to use up little scraps!
I really like the label article – lots of tips that I should have known (“duh”) but just never thought about. I’ll have to try it on my next label.
thanks!
The color tool post, because no matter how much I read I’m always clueless about getting past choosing a few colors that go together…I still just dont understand how to work with value and hue so I enjoyed refreshing some of the information with this post!
The Color Tool post as I have a difficult time choosing colors. Thanks for the chance at your giveaway.
I like the Color Tool post. That looks like a handy tool.
Thanks for the chance to win.
I loke the Color Tool. I always struggle with choosing colors!
Both the color entry and the label entry are extremely useful. Our quild’s theme this year is color and we get bonus points in a UFO challenge for putting labels on our pieces. Both guild topics have made me stay alert to suggestions.
I really like the Color Tools for Quilters because learning about color is one thing I still need help with.
I liked the quilt lable post and have used it a few times ever since. A label is such an essential part of making a quilt and yet it seems to be the step I skip the most. Not anymore!
The label post is my favorite – not just for the authors’ info but also the original comments from your readers on how they adapt the printed labels. Turning it into a pocket to hold scraps for mending, and adding a picture to the document before printing are great ideas I will try!
I like the quick label post. I like the idea of making some generic lables while doing a special one. Save a lot of waste on the fabric for the printer.
The color post is the best help for me…how to choose!
I loved the color help one – I always need assistance with that. Thanks for the info!
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