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Quilt Big Blog Tour {& A Giveaway}

Hello and wel­come to my stop on the Quilt Big Blog Tour! Quilt Big is the latest book by my lovely friend Jemima Flendt of Tied with a Rib­bon. I’m super excited to be able to share this beau­ti­ful book with you all. It’s an abso­lute win­ner and is sure to inspire and motiv­ate quilters of all skills levels. 

In Quilt Big you will find: 

  • A whole chapter ded­ic­ated to upsiz­ing quilts and quilt blocks;
  • Detailed inform­a­tion on the tools and tech­niques you will need for quilt­ing in gen­er­al and, on a grand scale;
  • 19 fun quilt blocks to try;
  • 17 stun­ning pro­jects from pil­lows right through to lovely big quilts;
  • 5 quilt backs designed spe­cific­ally for some of the pro­jects in the book

There’s just one thing you need to do.… grab your­self a copy of this book asap by click­ing here!

Log Cabin Quilt

With a bit of help from Jemima I decided to give the Log Cab­in Quilt and a mod­i­fied ver­sion of Jemima’s Log Cab­in quilt back­ing a try. (Ser­i­ously, there are so many great pro­jects in this book it was hard choos­ing just one!)

I’m happy to report that the Big­ger Blocks for Faster Fin­ishes claim def­in­itely deliv­ers. I man­age to select fab­rics (the hard­est bit right?!?) and sew the entire quilt top and back in a single day. Now that really is fast! I could­n’t be hap­pi­er with the result. 

I’m pretty sure it took me longer to decide on wheth­er this quilt needed match­ing or scrappy bind­ing. In the end I decided on the match­ing not least because I think that this Sweet­water Sweet Tea Navy Lat­tice print could well be my most favour­ite fab­ric ever! I quilted this one myself with straight lines on my domest­ic machine.

Thanks Jemima for deliv­er­ing on anoth­er awe­some book. I love it!

If you want to see even more of the great pro­jects from Quilt Big being made my a whole bunch of tal­en­ted blog­gers fol­low along with the tour list below. There are already so many great pro­jects to see!

28th Jan · Jemima Flendt – @tiedwitharibbon – www.blog.tiedwitharibbon.com
29th Jan · Melissa LeRay – @ohhowsweetco – www.ohhowsweet.com
30th Jan · Ange Hamilton – @alittlepatchwork – www.alittlepatchwork.wordpress.com
31st Jan· Nadra Ridge­way – @ellisandhiggs – www.ellisandhiggs.com
1st Feb · Alyce Blyth – @blossomheartquilts – www.blossomheartquilts.com
4th Feb · Lauren Wright – @mollyandmama – www.mollyandmama.com.au
5th Feb · Auri­fil – @aurifilthread – auribuzz.wordpress.com
6th Feb· Aman­da Castor – @materialgirlquilts – www.materialgirlquilts.com
7th Feb · Sam­antha Dorn – @aqua_paisley – www.aquapaisleystudio.com/blog
8th Feb · Shar­on Bur­gess – @lilabellelane – www.lilabellelanecreations.com
11th Feb · Peta Peace – @shequiltsalot – www.shequiltsalot.com
12th Feb · Elea Lutz – @elealutz – www.elealutzdesign.com
13th Feb · Shan­non Fraser – @shannonfraserdesigns – www.shannonfraserdesigns.ca
14th Feb· Saija Kiiskin­en – @saija_elina – www.saijaelina.blogspot.com
15th Feb · Sedef Imer – @downgrapevinelane – www.downgrapevinelane.com
18th Feb · Kate Basti – @katebasti – www.quiltwithkate.com
19th Feb · Minki Kim – @zeriano – minkikim.com
20th Feb · Ayda Algin – @cafenohut – www.cafenohut.com
21st Feb · Eliza­beth Chap­pell – @quilterscandybox – www.quilterscandybox.com

Giveaway Time!

{GIVEAWAY CLOSED — Thanks for all of your entries. Shar­on Aurora was the lucky win­ner ran­domly chosen by my help­er. Con­grat­u­la­tions Sharon!} 

Thanks to Auri­fil I have 2 spools from Jemima’s Auri­fil col­lec­tion to give away. To be in the run­ning all you need to do is leave a com­ment on this blog post. I’ll ran­domly choose a win­ner next week.

I also have a giveaway hap­pen­ing right now on my Ins­tagram account. If you would like to win your own copy of Jemima’s book head there now and enter by leav­ing a com­ment on the Quilt Big post.

Finally, Jemima is giv­ing away a full set of her Quilt Big Auri­fil thread col­lec­tion. Head over to Jemima’s blog for more details on how to enter. 

Good luck!

46 thoughts on “Quilt Big Blog Tour {& A Giveaway}”

  1. Oh, I love those col­ors. If I were to win them, I would have so much fun find­ing the right prints to go with them. I am pretty sure I don’t have any­thing that are in that col­or line. Just beautiful!

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  4. Love the big blocks.
    The valentine bags were so cute.
    I agree with your 2019 post time to organ­ize and get sewing

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  7. The quilt big idea seems like a win­ner for some great quick pro­jects. The back of your quilt is per­fect com­pli­ment to the front.

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  13. Your quilt is great:) I’ve been per­us­ing and enjoy­ing this book. I was par­tic­u­larly look­ing for back­ing ideas as I’ve got a short­age of fab­ric to back my cur­rent project!

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  14. Thank you for chance to win your Give-a-way! 🙂 & Thank you espe­cially for shar­ing about this Awe­some book!! Is now on my Gotta Get List..giggle

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  15. Beau­ti­ful quilt! And I love the look of Jemima’s book, I am a fan of mak­ing big­ger bed size quilts & there are lots of great options.

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  19. Big Quilts, Big Love ! Whats not to love about those pink threads and the thought of big quilt blocks, lov­ing your col­our combinations : )

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  21. Auri­fil Thread is lit­er­ally my favour­ite. I only dis­covered it last year and I can’t get enough of it but unfor­tu­nately it’s hard for me to find. I would os love a col­lec­tion of it pretty pleaaase with sug­ar on top.

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  32. Great to see you back Peta?. Love your work! love this quilt?. Look­ing for­ward to see­ing more of these quilts . Haven’t used auri­fill yet so would live to give it a go . ?

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  33. The col­ors are deli­cious and your quilt looks awe­some!! I have to have some of the Moda Sweet Tea!!
    Thank you!!

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  34. This book looks fab, I’ll have to ask my Birth­day fairy for it! Great Auri­fil col­ours too, thanks for the chance!

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  36. Your quilt is gor­geous! I love the way the nar­row red stripe gives it so much move­ment! The col­ors and design work togeth­er per­fectly. Thanks for shar­ing this!

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  37. I love those col­ors. I am enjoy­ing see­ing all the fab­ulous quilts with big blocks and am lov­ing the idea of it.

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  39. Your quilt is so much fun!! Gen­er­ally I am not a big fan of log cab­in quilts, but I love the Quilt Big ver­sion! Twelve blocks is very do-able, and the back­ing is great also. Thanks for the chance to win! jacklynnsteven@netzero.com

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  42. I’m lov­ing your ver­sion of the mod­i­fied Log Cab­in quilt…it’s per­fect with your choices of fab­ric and col­ors! I spend more time than I’d like when choos­ing fab­rics too and always think I need to buy some­thing else. That gets me in trouble and nev­er lessens my stash! This book seems to be full of great pro­jects and every blog on the hop is so cre­at­ive! duch­ick at gmail dot com

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  44. I too loved her book as soon as I saw it and just received it in the mail this week! Your quilt is won­der­ful and the navy back­ground is gorgeous!

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