It’s a Moda Bake Shop Day!! Giveaway too!!

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE GIVEAWAY HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR THIS PROJECT.  YOU CAN FIND THIS PATTERN ON MODA BAKE SHOP HERE.

If you are new to the blog, welcome.  We typically put up new blog post twice daily so there is always something new and fresh here.  We host lots of giveaways too.  Click HERE and see what’s new today…

I am so excited to show you the latest Moda Bake Shop quilt, Sophie’s Bouquet, and to tell you about the great giveaway the Fat Quarter Shop is sponsoring right here on my blog.  First things first…If you are new here WELCOME.  I so glad you stopped by.  I am a busy gal who loves sharing the antics of my fun, quilty, silly, crafty, and mostly happy life with daily blog posts.  If you stop by, you can bet there something new or different here.  Without further ado….Here’s the newest quilt!

Never fear….Gracie didn’t loose her spot in the family.   I just decided to try to get a photo of a quilt with a different background so to the barn we went and along came our farm dog Pepper.

Our daughter, Kelli, was trying to help me get pictures.  I am under the quilt trying to hold it up but Pepper’s weight is pulling the quilt down.  In the meantime, I have no idea how the picture looks..Trying to get pictures was totally a hoot!

We started out having me sit under the quilt and were going to try to get the dogs to sit by it.  We thought you’d see the design best that way but Pepper didn’t like the idea and neither did Gracie.  I started talking to Kelli while I was under the quilt and that was where this location ended.  Neither dog was willing to sit on a “talking quilt”.

Then Kelli insisted that she was going to take my picture and I am yelling no…my hair is awful from being under the quilt…she snapped it anyway.  Pepper was all excited to learn that she wasn’t crazy and there are no such things as talking quilts that she decided to nuzzle and almost tickle me!

Then we  moved to a new location that looks the same to you but we wanted better lighting.  I decided to hunch over and hold the quilt this time.  The lighting was better…but look.  There’s my hand.  UGH.

Now Gracie is bothered that she isn’t in the photo so she joined.

Neither of the dogs would look at Kelli because just behind Kelli was a baby kitten.

Oh…I’ve heard it said that actors should never work with children..I don’t think quilt photographers should work with pets!!

I finally shoo-ed the dogs away and snapped this photo.  If you’re wondering…this fabric is Chez Moi’s line Sophie for Moda.  I am so in love with the blue floral setting squares.   I love the pink fabric in the blocks too.  When laying this quilt out, make sure that the pink squares make vertical lines across your quilt.

When I first designed the quilt and sent it in for possible submission, I didn’t realize that the floral bouquets in the blue were so large.  When the fabric came I contemplated fussy cutting the fabric so each each square would have a floral bouquet in the middle of it, but then wasn’t sure I’d have enough fabric.  I decided to just cut them and not worry about it.  I think it turned out fine.  If you would want to fussy cut the squares, you’d need to add more yardage.

Chez Moi is my favorite bright colored fabric designer.  Most of the collections are a softer bright rather than the neon bright.  I loved the Charisma line…I made this disappearing nine patch with it and this quilt.  Kelli made this quilt with the line to.  I made another quilt with it too but I don’t have pictures of that quilt.  I have loved the Hunky Dory line too.   I have a couple charm packs of that waiting to be sewn into a Schnibble.  Here’s a quilt from the Swanky line too.  Here’s a quilt from the Boutique line. Are you convinced I love Chez Moi??  Sohpie is my favorite Chez Moi line yet!  I am totally in love with the blue…or should I say turquoise fabric.

I machine quilted it with a free hand loopy flower.  This is one of those quilts that it was really hard to pick a thread color to do the machine quilting.  I opted with a light tan that you might describe as camel.

Originally I thought about adding borders onto the quilt too…I ended up with just the blocks and setting triangles.   If you want it larger, borders could easily be added.

Here’s a little tip that helped me when making the quilt.  I finished one complete block.  I positioned that block next to my sewing machine to use a reference so I didn’t get the half square triangle pieces turned or twisted.

I bet you’re probably reading along wondering…I thought she said something about a giveaway….I did.  I’m just trying to build the anticipation.

Kimberly over at the Fat Quarter Shop offered to sponsor giveaway here.  She has a Sophie Jelly Roll up for grabs.  The Fat Quarter Shop is fully stocked with all the fabric from the line and you can find it here.

Here’s a little heads up…if you are thinking about making this quilt…order the blue setting fabric, pronto.  Earlier this year, my quilt, Chain of Faith, was featured on Moda Bake Shop.  I am still getting email from people wondering if I know where they could find the red border fabric.  I have helped people search on line for it….it can’t be found.   Being this quilt needs 4 3/4 yards of the blue floral it is sure to sell out quickly.

Back to the giveaway….We don’t want to make you jump through a bunch of hoops to be entered.  We both value your time.  You don’t have to like Jo’s Country Junction or Fat Quarter Shop on Facebook.  You don’t have to subscribe to Jo’s Country Junction or to the “Jolly Jabber” (Fat Quarter Shop’s blog)….but you sure can, we both would love to have more company.  I’d love for you to pop over to Moda Bakeshop and let me know what you think about the quilt.

Just leave a comment here…tell us if your prefer online fabric shopping or store front quilt shopping and why.  I’ll pick a winner on Monday.

Oh…one more thing before you go, if you haven’t heard I am hosting a “Crumb Along with Me” quilt along.  We are making a “crumb” quilt….Check out my post from Monday and you can see if you’d like to join…it’s not too late!

Today I am hooking up with Confession of a Fabric Addict…can I get a Whoop-Whoop?