Thursday, May 30, 2013

Big Quilt Market Giveaway Day!!!

 Welcome to our last giveaway day! You can still go back and enter our other 6 days of book giveaways.

First, what you win:


A signed copy of the new book, Liberty Love by Alexia Marcelle Abegg
2 fat quarters from Heather Ross' not yet released Briar Rose collection
wood spool topped pencil from Wooden Spool Designs
Lecien purple floral tote


4 Moda candy (or mini-charms): Giggle, Comma, Soho Chic, and barcelona
Studio Cat designs measuring tape
Oliver and S spool dog pattern


3 batik fat quarters
Take Flight pillow pattern

There are a few other little swag items not listed that are in there too.

Fun stuff right!? In fact, we had enough for 3 giveaway bundles. I bundled what I thought would fit in a flat rate envelope. The other 2 bundles will be future giveaways so watch out for that.

Now, what do you need to do to win? You have 6 potential entries. For each one you complete come back and leave a comment saying that you follow, like, etc. So, if you have liked our facebook page leave a comment saying "I liked your facebook page". Leave a different comment for each entry.

You have until Monday June 3  at 5PM to submit all your entries. We will then draw a name for each 67 giveaways. We will contact you via email so make sure you are not a 'no comment' blogger so we have a way to contact you.

Here are your 6 potential ways to enter:

Follow us on Bloglovin (see the button at the top on the right)
Like our Facebook page The Quilt Barn
Like our Etsy shop
Follow us on Twitter
Follow our Quilt Barn Pinterest Board
Tweet: Win a Book a Day for 7 Days Giveaway #quiltmarket http://quiltbarn.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Book a Day Giveaway Pillow Pop




Welcome to Day 6 of our Book a Day Giveaway! You can still enter our other book giveaways

Today's book is Pillow Pop compiled by Heather Bostic. The pillow book is a compilation of pillow patterns from you favorite bloggers.. And, like our other books, this book has been signed by the author. This one book was signed to me. This was before I realized we would be getting many books and I would want to share and giveaway most of them.

We will have 6  days of book giveaways ending with a super giveaway on day 7. Make sure  you come back tomorrow

We want to give you lots of ways to enter and you can pick one or all of them. For each entry come back and leave a comment telling us that qualify for that category. You have 6 chances to win.

Follow us on Bloglovin (see the button at the top on the right)
Like our Facebook page The Quilt Barn
Like our Etsy shop
Follow us on Twitter
Follow our Quilt Barn Pinterest Board
Tweet: Win a Book a Day for 7 Days Giveaway #quiltmarket http://quiltbarn.blogspot.com/

You have until 5:00 PM Monday June 3 to enter all our giveaways. Be sure you are not a No Comment Blogger so we have a way to contact you when you win. We are able to ship withinthe US and Canada only.

See you tomorrow for our Final Day, The Quilt Market Swag Giveaway.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Book a Day Giveaway We Love to Sew by Annabel Wrigley




Welcome to Day 5 of our Book a Day Giveaway! You can still enter our other book giveaways

Today's book is We Love to Sew by Annabel Wrigley. We love this book and are looking at teaching some summer kid's sewing classes using this book. Its perfect for young and new sewers. And, like our other books, this book has been signed by the author.

We will have 6 days of book giveaways ending with a super giveaway on day 7. Make sure you come back tomorrow

We want to give you lots of ways to enter and you can pick one or all of them. For each entry come back and leave a comment telling us that qualify for that category. You have 6 chances to win.

Follow us on Bloglovin (see the button at the top on the right)
Like our Facebook page The Quilt Barn
Like our Etsy shop
Follow us on Twitter
Follow our Quilt Barn Pinterest Board
Tweet: Win a Book a Day for 7 Days Giveaway #quiltmarket http://quiltbarn.blogspot.com/

You have until 5:00 PM June 3 to enter all our giveaways. Be sure you are not a No Comment Blogger so we have a way to contact you when you win. We are able to ship withinthe US and Canada only.

See you tomorrow for our next giveaway book.


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Monday, May 27, 2013

Book a Day Giveaway Modern Quilts from the Blogging Universe


Welcome to Day 5 of our Book a Day Giveaway! You can still enter our other Book Giveaways.

Today's book is Quilts from the Blogging Universe. It is a compilation of quilt patterns from your favorite bloggers and is signed by 3 of the quilt designers. We will have 6 days of book giveaways ending with a super giveaway on day 7. Make sure you come back tomorrow

We want to give you lots of ways to enter and you can pick one or all of them. For each entry come back and leave a comment telling us that qualify for that category. You have 6 chances to win.
Follow us on Bloglovin (see the button at the top on the right)

Like our Facebook page The Quilt Barn

Like our Etsy shop

Follow us on Twitter

Follow our Instagram 

Follow our Quilt Barn Pinterest Board

Tweet: Win a Book a Day for 7 Days Giveaway #quiltmarket http://quiltbarn.blogspot.com/

Also, I realized I left our Instagram off the other book giveaway days. So if you want to get another entry follow our Instagram and go back to the previous days and tell us you now do that too.

You have until June 3 5:00PM to enter

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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Book a Day Giveaway The Essential A-Line Skirt

Welcome to Day 4 of our Book a Day Giveaway! You can still enter our Day One book, Hand Quilted with Love.

Today's book is The Essential A-Line. make 17 Flirty Skirts from 1 Basic Pattern by Jona Gimmalva (and signed by her). We will have 6 days of book giveaways ending with a super giveaway on day 7. Make sure you come back tomorrow

We want to give you lots of ways to enter and you can pick one or all of them. For each entry come back and leave a comment telling us that qualify for that category. You have 6 chances to win.
Follow us on Bloglovin (see the button at the top on the right)

Like our Facebook page The Quilt Barn

Like our Etsy shop

Follow us on Twitter

Follow our Quilt Barn Pinterest Board 

Tweet: Win a Book a Day for 7 Days Giveaway #quiltmarket http://quiltbarn.blogspot.com/

You have until June 3 at 5:00PM to enter



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Friday, May 24, 2013

Book a Day Giveaway Simply Retro by Camille Roskelley


Welcome to Day 2 of our Book a Day Giveaway! You can still enter our Day One book, Hand Quilted with Love.

Today's book is Camille Roskelley's Simply Retro. This great quilting book utilizes precuts. I love me some precuts! Oooh, a little peek at an upcoming book in this picture. We will have 6 days of book giveaways ending with a super giveaway on day 7. Make sure you come back tomorrow

We want to give you lots of ways to enter and you can pick one or all of them. For each entry come back and leave a comment telling us that qualify for that category. You have 6 chances to win.


Follow us on Bloglovin (see the button at the top on the right)
Like our Facebook page The Quilt Barn
Like our Etsy shop
Follow us on Twitter
Follow our Quilt Barn Pinterest Board
Tweet: Win a Book a Day for 7 Days Giveaway #quiltmarket http://quiltbarn.blogspot.com/

You have until 5:00 PM Monday June 3 to enter all our giveaways. Be sure you are not a No Comment Blogger so we have a way to contact you when you win. We are able to ship within the US and Canada only.

See you tomorrow for our next giveaway book.


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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Book a Day Giveaway Hand Quilted with Love


Welcome to the first Day of Book a Day for a Week Giveaway! That's a mouthful.

Quilt Market was an amazing experience. We want to share this experience with you by giving away a book a day for a week ending with a super bundle of goodies on the last day.

Today's book is Hand Quilted with Love by the mega talented Sarah Fielke. I was first introduced to her work with the book Material Obsessions.

Sarah signed the book for us and she was as nice as could be. I have a feeling I will be saying this about all of the authors. Everyone was very sweet.

We want to give you lots of ways to enter and you can pick one or all of them. For each entry come back and leave a comment telling us that qualify for that category. You have 6 chances to win.

Follow us on Bloglovin (see the button at the top on the right)
Like our Facebook page
Like our Etsy shop
Follow us on Twitter
Follow our Quilt Barn Pinterest Board
Tweet: Win a Book a Day for 7 Days Giveaway #quiltmarket http://quiltbarn.blogspot.com/

You have until 5:00 PM Monday June 3 to enter all our giveaways. Be sure you are not a No Comment Blogger so we have a way to contact you when you win. We are able to ship withinthe US and Canada only.

See you tomorrow for our next giveaway book.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Giveaway for Lori Holt Retreat


Quilt Market vendors were generous so we have more things to giveaway before our Book a Day Giveaway.  If you sign up for our Lori Holt Retreat you get your choice of one book, one Moda Candy, and  5 Collage by SUCH Designs fat quarters.

We were able to meet the designer, Carrie Bloomston and told her how much we love her new fabric line and patterns. I am excited that we ordered them. I can't wait to make the Nest quilt.


You can call us to book your space (208-423-5092) or stop by the shop.

I have our Book a Day for a Week Giveaway all ready to start tomorrow. The last day will have a big bundle giveaway.

You can see some of our Quilt Market photos on Instagram. We are The Quilt Barn. You can also find us on our facebook page, The Quilt Barn. Be sure to see the Amy Makes Friends with the Locals series. They are fantastic photos.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Moda Candy Hexagons


I have discovered a great use for Moda Candy, those tiny 2.5" fabric packs. They work perfect with the 1" hexagon papers. I took 2-100 paper packs and 2 Moda Candy (Comma and Happy Go Lucky).

I packed them for our road trip to Portland Quilt Market and blew through the 2 Candy packs in a few hours.
Lucky for me on Day 2 of market we found out if you quietly ask the designers at their booth they sometimes have Candy samples to give you. I ended up with about 8. I am keeping 3 and the rest is going into our Quilt Market Giveaway bundle.

You can see Potluck by American Jane mixed in there. I am so excited that she is rereleasing some of her past prints and we ordered the whole line plus precuts. We all told Sandy Klomp how much we love her fabric lines. She was very kind to our gushing.

I just cracked open the latest by Sweetwater and we ordered that line too.

Below is my handwork bag and it held all my goodies, thread, needles, tiny scissors and papers.  You might remember this bad from a Christmas post I did about bags I made as gifts. I kept a few extras (one for myself and one if I needed a gift).

About our Quilt Market Giveaway; I received about 21 signed books. I will be keeping 3 to make shop samples with and the rest I am giving to you! We will be giving away one book a day for a week and a few will be in our Grand Prize Bundle. The rest I think will be given to people who sign up for our Lori Holt Retreat in June. First come first served.

We are working on how to pull this off and will be starting with our first day this week so make sure you come back. It is going to be lots of fun. And boy, do we have some stories to share.

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Monday, May 20, 2013

We're Back!

The Barn Chicks are back from Quilt Market!  We spent the last 5 days drooling over gorgeous fabric, inspired by awesome patterns, learning so much, and impressed by all those we met.  We're back and ready to sew!  Well....maybe after a nap!


We are going to have lots of fun giveaways, information, and pictures on the blog so be sure to check back often.  Be sure to follow us on facebook and instagram for more information and documentation of our crazy adventures!


Monday, May 13, 2013

Vintage Signature Quilt


I have always wanted to make a signature quilt. I have a small family so it wouldn't be too hard. We got this lovely vintage signature quilt int he shop on consignment and it has inspired me to move forward with my won quilt.

I am thinking it is from the 40's. Anyone know more about dating quilts?

Its has 12 blocks with a pick stitched name and 4 half blocks at the top (no names).


We all read over the names and marveled at the tiny stitches.
We are all fans of orange and the sherbet background was appreciated.


All hand quilted.
Thanks to Laura for another lovely quilt photo shoot.
I have listed this quilt in our etsy shop and it can also be purchased in our store. The consignors proceeds go to The Mustard Seed in Twin Falls.

And a big thanks to everyone who entered our Sew Mama Sew Giveaway and left comments for us. We asked what you would like us to look at, photograph, do while at Quilt Market and blog about. We will be having a post Market Giveaway too so watch for that next week

The winner is Sarcastic Quilter. Congratulations. I will be emailing you for your address

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Friday, May 10, 2013

Teeny Tiny Hexagons


Look what amazing work in progress came in to the shop today. I was given permission to take a picture of her teeny tiny hexagon piece. It was too amazing not to share. I called Heather over to check it out as I knew she would love it too.

The paper pieced hexagons are very tiny. A quarter was put on there for perspective. And look at the yellow flower head pin for perspective too.

Have you ever seen anything like this? We jokingly asked if she was making a queen size quilt. This piece will be a wall hanging and the pattern comes from the book Quilts from Grandmother's Garden.

I don' think I will be making hexagons this small anytime soon but it has given me ideas on taking a paper piecing kit on the drive to Portland next week.


Today is the last day to enter our Sew mama Sew Giveaway. Click here for a chance to win Noteworthy fat quarters.

We are filling up for our Lori Holt (Bee in My Bonnet) Retreat in June. I found out what we are making and will be updating with the new info soon. This is going to be a great retreat!!

I'm linking up to Finish it Up Friday
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Summer Retreat Savings!


It's the perfect time to book your next getaway retreat with the Quilt Barn!  We've got a fantastic new retreat center "The Coop" that will fit your entire group of friends - 18 beds!  It has work/sewing tables for everyone and enough space to spread out and be able to work comfortably!

But The Hen House and Coop aren't just for sewers, it would be great for your next scrap booking marathon or if you need a little extra room at your family reunion this summer!

Be sure to call us at (208) 423-5092 if you have questions or are interested in booking a retreat!

Half down for deposit is required at time of booking.

We have Lori Holt coming in June to teach 2 quilt patterns, one being released at Quilt Market.
It is June 20-22. The cost includes all the materials for your projects, all meals, and lodging. Just $350! This is an exciting event so sign up soon as spaces are filling> Give us a call with any questions and reservations  208-423-5092

Monday, May 6, 2013

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day!


Our Giveaway is now closed. Our winner is Sarcastic Quilter

Welcome to our third go around of the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day. We love this week so big thanks for stopping by.

We are giving away a fat quarter bundle of Noteworthy (6 fat quarters).

We just signed up with Bloglovin (sad face for Google Reader going away). If you would like to keep up with all our fun stuff we would love for you to join us on Bloglovin. Our button is at the top right.

Now for the Giveaway details:

-we will ship internationally
-you have until May 10 at 5PM to enter
-we will pick a name and email the winner by May 12. I am sorry, we shut off anonymous comments due to the huge amount of spam
-the Barn Chicks are going to Quilt Market so leave a comment telling us what you would like us to do, see, and then blog about while we are there and you will be entered (we will be hosting a giveaway of Market finds when we get return so come back for another giveaway)
-make sure you are not a no-reply blogger so we can reach you

Go check out all the other giveaways going on this week and Good Luck!

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Scrappy Trip Quilt


We really jumped on the Scrappy Trip Around the World bandwagon. I made a twin size one for my daughter, Jenele made a queen size one for her spare bed, and Heather and many Quilt Barn friends made this one.
We had a sewing day and our friends helped out to make this quilt for our new retreat center, The Hen House.


I would make another STATW quilt in a heartbeat. They are so fun and easy. You can find the tutorial here.
If you have made one I would love to see it. Link to your scrappy trip in the comments so I can visit.

Also, today is the last day for our National Zipper Day Giveaway. Pop over to the post and enter to win.



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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

New Precuts!

We love precuts around here!  They are so convenient to use and I love how you get every piece in the line.  They just create a fun scrappy feel to quilts!  We got in some awesome bright fabric!  Just in time for spring.  We got in jelly rolls, layer cakes, and charm packs of Snap Pop by Sandy Gervais. 


Light and airy and perfect for a summer baby blanket!


We also got in some Happy-Go-Lcuky precuts by Bonnie and Camille.  Their fabric never disappoints!  This time they added in a good dark blue, not quite a navy that really gives it some depth and helps it stand out from their past lines. 


We got in charm packs.


And also these adorable new precuts that are called Moda Candy!  They are 2.5 inch squares and give you just a taste of the fabric.  I'm thinking though that just like candy you can't just get/eat one!!!

Don't forget about our Giveaway for National Zipper Day. It ends this Friday