Sweet Stars Sewalong — Let’s Get This Party Started!

Wel­come to day 1 of the Sweet Stars Sewalong!     I’m so excited to be host­ing this sewalong and even more excited to see the beau­ti­ful quilts every­one creates.

Start­ing this Thursday and con­tinu­ing every Monday and Thursday in Septem­ber a whole bunch of fab­ulously tal­en­ted quilters will be shar­ing tips and tricks to make sew­ing the Sweet Stars quilt, and quilt­ing in gen­er­al, a breeze!

There’s still a few days to get ready so no need to worry if you’re only just now hear­ing about the sewalong.  The tips and tricks don’t start until Thursday.   Today, I’ll be out­lining you know how everything will work and, most import­antly, how to make sure you are in the run­ning for a fun prize at the com­ple­tion of the sewalong.

• Sweet Stars Pat­tern: To join in you’ll need a copy of the Sweet Stars pat­tern.   If you don’t already have a copy you can grab one from my online store by click­ing here.   I’ve also added the Sweet Stars Mini to my online store.   PDF pat­terns are avail­able now and paper pat­terns will be avail­able soon.

 

• Quilt Kits & Back­ing Sets: The Fat Quarter Shop has Sweet Stars Quilt Kits and Back­ing Sets avail­able now.  They also have yard­age avail­able for every one of the beau­ti­ful prints in Sedef’s Sweet Orch­ard col­lec­tion (which is what I used to make the Sweet Stars quilt).

 

• Ins­tagram Hasht­ags: Sew­ing with oth­er people online is heaps of fun and a great way to make new friends.   If you’re on Ins­tagram make sure to add the  hasht­ags #sweet­stars­al and #sweet­starsquilt to your photo so that every­one can see your pro­gress and, your fin­ished quilt.

 

• Timezone: I love that there are blog­gers from all over the world join­ing in but the dif­fer­ence in timezones can get a little tricky so to make things easy we will all be mak­ing sure the posts are live accord­ing to the US date/time.

 

• Stay­ing Up To Date: I’ll be post­ing both here and on Ins­tagram through­out the sewalong to keep every­one up to date.   If you’d like to receive updates by email you can sign up to receive my news­let­ter by click­ing here.

 

• Prizes: The lovely folks at Riley Blake have kindly provided a Fat Quarter Bundle and a Fat Eighth Bundle of Sweet Orch­ard by Sedef Imer as prizes for two lucky people who join in with the sewalong.  To be in the run­ning for one of the bundles pic­tured you’ll need to post a pic­ture of your com­pleted blocks by the end of the sewalong on Ins­tagram using the hasht­ags above.   If you don’t have an Ins­tagram account you can send a photo dir­ect to me by email at  shequiltsalot@gmail.com or, much bet­ter idea because Ins­tagram is ser­i­ously great, you can sign up for an account by click­ing here.   (oh and ps there may just be some oth­er prizes and giveaways along the way, but that’s a secret for now!)

A quick note for quilt shops in Aus­tralia.   Mill­house Col­lec­tions has whole­sale kits avail­able if you’d like to stock them in your store.   Con­tact Mill­house dir­ect for more information.

You’re wel­come to join in with the sewalong at any time and you can sew at your own pace.  There is def­in­itely no require­ment to start this week but to be in the run­ning for the prizes you’ll need to make sure that you have your blocks com­pleted by Septem­ber 29.

I’m guess­ing a few of you prob­ably won’t to know about the blog­gers and the top­ics they’ll be cov­er­ing right?    You’ll find that lis­ted just down the page a little bit.   As each post goes live I will update the link to take you dir­ectly to the rel­ev­ant post but, in the mean­time, you should def­in­itely take a look at the fun and excit­ing things every­one has been work­ing on lately.   I’m sure you’ll find inspir­a­tion and eye candy galore!

And finally, if you have any oth­er ques­tions at all please let me know.   I’m always happy to help.