Spring Quilt Market – Day 1

05.20.10

After a very hectic couple of months, I am sitting in my hotel room in Minneapolis after my first day at International Quilt Market.

Three weeks ago today I moved into a new home – twice as much space, with a dedicated studio which has really opened up the flow. Still a few boxes left to unpack and lots of sorting still to be done, plenty of room to dance, and I could even lay a king size quilt out on the floor – if I really wanted to!

The project that has taken up most of my time in recent weeks is my new design collection – GO! Be Dazzled – which was introduced to the world at large today in my School House at Quilt Market.

Do you recognize the GO! logo used on the cover? GO! as in AccuQuilt GO! the fabric cutter.

This quilt was created as a Block of the Month to specifically use the dies for the AccuQuilt GO! Each month 2 blocks are created – they can be identical or use diferent fabrics and/or thread colors.

Each month one or more of the following dies is used:

  • GO! Circle 2″, 3″, 5″
  • GO! Stars 2″, 3″, 4″
  • GO! Hearts 2″, 3″, 4″
  • GO! Funky Flower
  • GO! Round Flower
  • GO! Feathers

The title of my School House was:

Embroidered Applique Meets AccuQuilt GO!

Subtitle: A Match Made in Heaven.

It really is a match made in heaven! The biggest challenge that most people have with any applique project is creating the applique shapes. Using the GO! cutter and dies ALL of the challenges go away. No printing of templates, no tracing temlplates and no cutting on the line with a pair of scissors. Simply apply fusible webbing to your applique fabric, place the fabric on the die and crank the handle. Finished in seconds!

I’m pretty excited about my new collection – and I hope you will be too!

Here are some close-ups of the embroidery.

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6 Responses to “Spring Quilt Market – Day 1”

  1. Spring Quilt Market » Kaleidoscope Collections Blog says on May 25th, 2010 at 9:44 pm :

    [...] things now.  Her specialty is embroidered appliqué and her latest design collection is called GO! Be Dazzled. It was created as a block of the month to specifically use the dies for the AccuQuilt GO! fabric [...]

  2. Lisa Steele says on August 30th, 2010 at 8:35 am :

    How do you line up your embroidery after you fuse down you die shapes. is it difficult?

    thanks,
    Lisa Steele
    Bella Fabrics

  3. Sarah says on August 31st, 2010 at 9:40 pm :

    Hello Lisa,
    The first thing to stitch out is a placement line to show where to fuse the applique shapes. The rest of the embroidery then sits right on top. So it’s really very easy!
    Sarah :-)

  4. Christie Baker says on January 22nd, 2011 at 10:44 pm :

    Sarah, I love your Be Dazzled embroidery program. Would you please let me know if it will work with a Pfaff sewing machine. It is the 2144 upgraded to the 2170 model. Thanks for letting me know.

  5. Sarah says on January 23rd, 2011 at 10:51 am :

    Hi Christie,
    Yes – GO! Be Dazzled will work just fine with your Pfaff.

  6. Bernadine Riley says on April 5th, 2011 at 7:23 am :

    HI I just bought an Accuquilt Go and I found your blog. Your pieces are out of this world. So creative. You are very talented. You put art in your work. Wow

    Bernadine Riley
    Anthem AZ

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