First Stop - British Columbia!

We're off to beautiful BC today!

Our host bloggers for the day are Felicity from Felicity Quilts and Cathy from Blueberry Patch.

Felicity is a "banker by day and a quilter by night" and is an avid blogger. Her work is fresh, modern and fun and she has some great tutorials on her blog as well.

Cathy is an elementary school principal and squeezes her quilting time in on the weekends. It's amazing how much she gets done in those two short days!

Both Felicity and Cathy have chosen lovely fabrics to giveaway so be sure to check out their blogs and enter the giveaways.

Also visit the amazing list of BC bloggers they have on their posts.

Happy Blogathon!

Go here to see Felicity's Post: Felicity Quilts
Go here to see Cathy's Post: Blueberry Patch

Blogathon Canada Kicks Off!

Welcome to Blogathon Canada! 

An online event where you can meets 100s of awesome Canadian Quilters and bloggers!

Travel with us as we go across the country to meet talented and passionate Canadian Quilters. Every day for the next week we are going to meet host bloggers from different provinces and territories across Canada who will share their stories, their work, their inspiration and their love of quilting. Each blogger will also host a giveaway of their favorite goodies from our store so you have a chance to win prizes all week!
 
Kicking of the celebration today is Michele from Quilting Gallery. Michele is a quilter and a web developer and combined her passion and her skill to start Quilting Gallery - a site dedicated to quilters and quilting. The site is a great resource for quilters, offering free projects and tutorials, tips and tricks, videos, guest posts, and even a world wide quilt shop locator!

 A year after she started Quilting Gallery Michele launched the Quilting Bloggers Directory - a way to connect quilting  bloggers from across the globe. The response has been tremendous! In 2008 - the year of the launch - 2800 bloggers from 61 countries joined the directory and now there are over 5500 blogs from 79 countries listed on the Quilting Bloggers Directory!

Be sure to check out Michele's post for Blogathon Canada on the Quilting Gallery Blog and if you have not added your blog to the Quilting Bloggers Directory... we suggest you do! :)

Michele is giving away a Sew Sisters Gift Certificate so be sure to visit her blog and leave a comment for a chance to win. 

Go here for the Blogathon Canada Kick Off!

Stuff your Stocking!

Click here to register and for more details: Stuff your Stocking!

Fundamentals Sew Along - Week 46

Hi Everyone:

   We are at week 46!  Can you believe it.   A block a week for a year and you all will have a beautiful quilt to show for it. 

    This weeks block is called  Treasure Chest.  It goes together quickly in a similar fashion to last weeks block.  Two large pieced triangles and a centre pieced unit, pieced together diagonally.

     First of all you will take your large triangles from colour #1 and #2, piece them together to make a square.  Make four of these.



Sew Large Triangles Together To Make a Square

     Next  center and sew fabric #3 triangle to the pieced square. Notice the fold line on the fabric.  That line is showing me where to line up the point of the triangle so that it is centered.


Center Triangle Before Sewing In Place

   Repeat this step, folding the fabric in the opposite direction to find the center and line up the other triangle.  This should resemble a flying geese segment with an extra triangle on the bottom.


Add The Second Triangle

     Sew the 2 fabric #1 triangles in place creating a large pieced triangle.  Make 2 of these.


Placement For Sewing Triangles

     Set these aside for now.   Lay out the 2 flying geese units with the square in the middle and piece them together.

Two Flying Geese Units and A Square

     There are 3 pieced segments to this block. Layout 3 diagonal rows and sew rows together. 


Sew Rows Together

    Press well to finish.


Stonehenge Treasure Chest Block

30's Treasure Chest Block

 See you all next week!

One Week to Blogathon Canada!

Are you looking forward to Blogathon Canada? We are! I've been putting the list of Canadian bloggers together and it's very exciting. Some of these blogs are treasures! We're so happy we can share them with you.

If you haven't heard about the Blogathon yet go here for all the details.

If  are a quilting/crafting blogger in Canada and would like to add your blog to the host bloggers list from your province please email us at connect@sew-sisters.com before Friday - November 16th.

Submissions to the Blog Lists of Host Bloggers in now closed. Thank You.
Join the party and let's have some fun!