Congratulations to Susan Wood of Shelley, ID. Her Bear’s Paw in the Cabin design won the Viewer’s Choice in the Quiltmaker/Electric Quilt Design Contest.

Viewer's Choice: Bear's Paw in the Cabin by Susan Wood

Susan wins gift certificates from both ShopQuiltersVillage and Electric Quilt.

Check out a larger image of Susan’s quilt and just the quilting plan in the Quiltmaker/Electric Quilt Contest Gallery.

Congratulations Susan!

Since we’ve got so many friends dropping in this week for the blog tour, I wanted to let you all know the special offers going on at ShopQuiltersVillage.com with Quiltmaker product this week. Plus an announcement below about our reduced shipping costs.

1. Early Bird Special: Buy QM’s 100 Blocks at 10% off until Nov. 16.
   

   QM's 100 Blocks

2. Buy any QM Kit, get an issue of QM’s 100 Blocks free. Use promo code 100B as you’re checking out. Good until 11:59 pm EST Sunday, November 15.
   

   Happy Holly Days Wall Kit

   

   Happy Holly Days Twin Kit

   

   Flock of Dreams Kit--Purple

   

   Flock of Dreams Kit--Blue

3. QM Fall Patterns for 50% off. Buy this special combo of Falling Leaves, Autumn Splendor and Turning Leaves for only $12.00.
   

   QM Fall Pattern Special

4. Buy 6 QM’s Quilting Motifs, get Vol. 7 free. These classic QM books make a great addition to any quilter’s library.
   

   Buy Volumes 1-6, Get QMs Quilting Motifs, Vol. 7 Free

Good news about shipping costs from Quilter’s Village: We listened to your concerns. Shipping costs have been reduced, plus we can now ship to international customers! We’re still “rearranging the furniture” on the new ShopQuiltersVillage website, but it is ready to take your orders securely!

It’s a new contest from Quiltmaker and The Electric Quilt Company! You design a quilt in Electric Quilt 6 and use quilting designs from any of the Quilting Designs Volumes 1-7.

Grand Prize: Quiltmaker staff will select the winning design–we will make a quilt from that design and the pattern will appear in an upcoming issue. The winning designer will get to keep the quilt, plus will receive a $200 gift certificate from The Electric Quilt Company. There will also be an EQ Staff Choice and a Viewer’s Choice. Keep reading to find out more.

Great quilting designs can do so much to enhance our quilts. In every issue of Quiltmaker magazine, we give you several new, original motifs. We’ve been collecting these motifs into books for years, and have seven volumes of inspiring motif books.

EQ has been converting our motif books into software and just released volume 7 earlier in October. Read an interview from EQ staffer Andrea Bishop who has recreated each of the 4,425 designs in all seven volumes. Each volume of the software corresponds to a book volume of the same number. The Quilting Designs CDs from Electric Quilt can be used two ways:

1. First, no other software is needed. If you don’t own Electric Quilt 6, you can resize any motif and print it out.
2. Or the Quilting Designs software is compatible with EQ6. You can link the quilting designs to an EQ6 project–where you can combine, modify and resize the designs. Read more about Using Quilting Designs with EQ.

For the Quiltmaker-Electric Quilt Contest, design your quilt in Electric Quilt 6 and incorporate quilting designs from any of the seven volumes of Quilting Designs as described in #2 above. Designs will be judged on originality and the creative interpretation of the quilting designs. Entry forms are due by midnight on December 1, 2009. We can’t wait to see your creations!

Read on for more details, see all the prizes and find the entry form.

Have you been thinking about buying any Quiltmaker product? Now’s the time! Free shipping for all domestic online orders until August 19 at Quilter’s Village.

• Sept/Oct ‘09 featuring Any Witch Way, Winding Road, Great Ball of Fire and Part 2 of Bonnie Hunter’s Christmas Lights Mystery

• Quilting Motif books (volumes 1-7) available individually or in cost-saving sets

• QM’s Exclusive Patterns including Turning Leaves, Construction Zone, Cat Nap and more

• Back issues (2005-2009) available individually or in bundles by year

Plus this offer includes all products from other CCG titles: McCall’s Quilting, Quilter’s Newsletter, Quilter’s Home and Quick Quilts.

The offer code to use is FREE-SHIP-OFFR. Start shopping!