This week is pretty exciting for me – I am in Salt Lake City attending International Spring Quilt Market.
(By the way… make sure you read all the way to the end. I’m celebrating big time, and have LOTS of stuff to give away!)
Quilt Market happens twice a year – in the Spring, always in a different location; and in the Fall, always in Houston. It’s where people with things to sell show off all their new stuff, and store owners (and their staff and teachers) come to find out what is new in the world of quilting.
For me, Quilt Market is usually a pretty momentous occasion as I usually have a new design collection to show off. It’s the light at the end of the tunnel, usually after several weeks of hard work and a fair amount of chaos. This Quilt Market is no exception!
So… What’s new? I hear you ask!
The answer is…
GO! Bloom

GO! Bloom – 14 individual designs using 3 AccuQuilt GO! Baby dies. In addition, illustrated instructions to make the quilt shown on the cover, and the four pillow tops also shown on the cover. Let’s take a closer look!

The GO! Bloom Quilt is 40″x40″. Click on the image above (and also the images below) to see a larger photo.
The quilt is created using some very delicious hand dyed fabrics from Ricky Tims – 2 yards of Spanish Moss for the background; 1 fat quarter each of Red Hot Mama, Dragons Breath and Cotton Candy for the applique shapes; 1 fat quarter each of Carribean Queen and Coconut Snowcone for the borders. And this gorgeous fabric will be available in a kit!
Then of course there is the thread. It turned out that the AURIfil Silk Hearts Collection (12 large spools of 50 weight Cotton Mako) contained the perfect colors for the chosen fabrics. So… if you purchased the AURIfil Silk Hearts Collection to make the Silk Hearts Quilt, if you have any left over, it can be used again for this quilt!

GO! Bloom Pillow 1 is 17″ x 17″ (to fit an 18″x18″ pillow form).

GO! Bloom Pillow 2 is 17″x17″ (to fit an 18″x18″ pillow form)

GO! Bloom Pillow 3 is 15″x15″ (to fit a 16″x16″ pillow form)

GO! Bloom Pillow 4 is 15″x15″ (to fit a 16″x16″ pillow form)
The 4 pillow tops can also be created using the GO! Bloom Hand Dyed Fabric Collection from Ricky Tims. (You will need to purchase extra fabric for the backs of the pillows).

You can let your imagination have a field day when finishing the pillows. The 2 red ones in the photo above were finished with a ruffle created using my ruffle attachment!
I’m super excited about this new collection and so I’m celebrating it’s “birth”! That means I’m going to give something away!!!
How would you like to be the recipient of everything needed to make the GO! Bloom Quilt?
What exactly do you need?
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the GO! Bloom design collection of course
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the 3 AccuQuilt GO! dies used in the collection
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a GO! Baby (since they are GO! Baby dies)
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a GO! Bloom Hand Dyed Fabric Collection from Ricky Tims
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an AURIfil Silk Hearts Thread Collection.
One very lucky person will win all of these goodies. All you have to do is answer one simple question:
What are the 3 AccuQuilt GO! dies used in the GO! Bloom Collection?
It’s been really hard to not give you all the answer while writing this post! However, the answer can be found in my online store. So… go check it out, then come back and leave a comment at the bottom of this post with your answer. The winner will be chosen on Wednesday March 25 at 10am Arizona time (that’s Pacific time during the summer months). It could be you!
There’s also a little surprise in store for anyone who pre-orders the GO! Bloom CD during the month of May 2011. You’ll also find out what that is by visiting my store! (Just so you know… if you pre-order the GO! Bloom CD and then discover you are the winner of the whole kit and caboodle – I’ll refund your purchase!)
Many thanks to all of my partners for donating their products for me to give away. And many thanks also to my super faithful quilting buddies at home for helping me to get everything done in time for me to be here at International Quilt Market. Quilters really are wonderful people!