Worldwide Quilting Day

 Worldwide Quilting Day is almost here! 

As a shop we decided to celebrate the day with a few tutorials and informative presentations using the video platform Zoom. These presentations will all take place on Saturday March 20. 

Saturday Morning at 10:00 am I will be doing a video tutorial on the Noodlehead Pencil Pouch. This pouch is quick to make and is great introduction to zippers. It doesn't use much fabric at all and fat quarters work really well. I love giving them as gifts to Teachers and friends. 

Their isn't much of a pattern just a written tutorial to follow, but it is free and can be found by clicking HERE.

At Noon Esther is going to be giving a presentation on Backings. She plans to go over what we like to use as backings for our projects and why and also how to determine how much backing you would need for your project. 

At 2:00pm Carrie has a little tutorial for the Moda Love quilt. This is a free pattern download available in 3 different sizes. The pattern utilizes precuts which makes shopping for the fabric fairly easy in terms of what to buy, the hard part is choosing just one to use! She has a few tips on how to trim the half square triangle units, and a few ideas on how to enlarge the size if you wanted to. You can download the Moda Love pattern HERE

All three of the videos are now posted on our Facebook Page, Chicken Feed Quilts

Kayla

National Quilting Day

This coming Saturday is the official National Quilting Day, so exciting that there is actually a day set aside for our hobby. This is the 28th anniversary of this event and if you are interested you can read more about the history of the event here. There are also some links to free patterns listed there as well. 

We at Chicken Feed Quilts encourage you to spend some time quilting on Saturday, even if it is only for 15 minutes. The fact that it is National Quilting Day should be the perfect excuse.

To help motivate you even more we will have a special giveaway for those that spend some time quilting on Saturday. 

I will post a picture of some notions and thread to our Facebook Page on Saturday morning. Your job is to comment on the picture with what project you are working on, and posting a photo of your project would be great too.

I will take everyone's name at the end of the day and put them in a draw, and one lucky quilter will win a gift basket! A photo of your project will gain you an extra entry into the draw. 

If you want a new project to work on or a bundle of new fabric either to motivate you to finish off a another project or just because we have lots of new fabrics and kits in store again. 

 On Meadowlark Pond by Kansas Troubles fabrics, precuts, and kits are here. 

In a completely different color tone we have Little Snippets by Bonnie and Camille.

And a new collection that I am in love with is Pollinator by Leslie Tucker Jensen from RJR.

Will you set time aside to sew on Saturday?

Kayla