Fabulous Friday . . . Where Women Create!

 Tis' the season to get creative. FreeSpirit has partnered with the good folks at Ellison and Where Women Create to offer you a chance at winning an early Holiday gift.  Click here to read more and comment about what you would make with FreeSpirit Designer Essential Solids and Dena Design Taza bundles and a Sizzix® Big Shot™ machine and dies. One lucky winner will be selected.

Joel Dewberry Heirloom Featured on Sew4Home

Our friends at Sew4Home have done it again.  Take a look at their Joel Dewberry extravaganza.  An interview with the very talented designer.  Plenty of project ideas using his newest FreeSpirit collection Heirloom. All culminating with a fantabulous giveaway from us, FreeSpirit.  Best part, the projects have a Thanksgiving "feel," just in time for decorating your Holiday table.  Afterall, don't we have a lot beautiful fabrics to be thankful for?  We are also thankful for you, too. To show our thanks, tell us what you are thankful for and we will select 4 random winners to receive cuts of Joel's Heirloom fabric.

Blue Nickel Studio's Uberfest features Nel Whatmore's Sleeping Beauty

Nel Whatmore's Sleeping Beauty is being featured in a Quilt Uberfest happening now through October 16 and hosted by Blue Nickel Studios. A rather impressive list of bloggers are participating. Each day visit the specific site as noted below and find a 12” finished original block designed to work with each other or for you to create a sampler quilt or to simply create what ever inspires you. A Flickr page is set up for you to share your blocks.

In the meantime, take a moment and read about Nel and what inspires her art, fabric and other needlecraft products.

Uberfest Bloggers -- visit, quilt, have fun!
Oct 1 John Adams

Oct 2 Kaye Prince

Oct 3 Karen Linton

Oct 4 Konda Luckau

Oct 5 Amy Lobsiger

Oct 6 Ryan Walsh

Oct 7 Scott Hansen

Oct 8 April Rosenthal

Oct 9 Cara Wilson

Oct 10 Heather Jones

Oct 11 Susan Sobon

Oct 12 Jan Peoples

Oct 13 Erin Singleton

Oct 14 Charlie Scott

Oct 15 Emily Cier

Oct 16 Rachel Locke
If you are going to Uber it up and join in the fun, comment below. We will give away six, one yard cuts of Nel's Sleeping Beauty to two randomly selected commentors. So oomp pa pa your way to your sewing machine and get creative with Nel's Sleeping Beauty, richly colored and dreamy like the fairy tell . . . perfect for a fall Quilt Uberfest!

Back to School Winners

Thanks for your comments on the Back to School Party. Four winners have been selected to receive a Taza, by Dena Fishbein, Fat Quarter. The winners are . . . drumroll please, Debi, Carrie P, Marcia W and Amorette. We will be contacting you by email. Congratulations! We hope your Taza Fat Quarters will inspire you to quilt along!

Back to School Party with Taza by Dena Designs

The kids are back in school and now it is time to focus on what you love; quilting of course. Quiltmaker magazine is hosting a Back To School Party, offering a free pattern in bite-sized morsels and then guiding you with a sew along to create a throw-size quilt called Dozens of Daisies.

Each weekday from Sept. 8 to 16, join Quiltmaker's blog, Quilty Pleasures, for tips and techniques and giveaways galore!

Taza, the newest fabric collection from Dena Designs, will be featured Friday, September 9.

Take pictures of your creation along the way or comment here on the FreeSpirit blog about the fun you're having. We are joining the party too. If you comment between now and September 16, you may be chosen as one of four winners to receive fat quarter bundles of Taza. So, join the party and let us know if you are creating with Quilty Pleasures!