Reminder - July's $6 Pattern of the Month Ends Tomorrow - Get Nautical News!

This is a last-minute reminder that July's $6 Pattern of the Month is Nautical News!  The sale ends when the clock strikes midnight on Friday, July 31st.  

This #quiltpattern includes 6 sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King - and is layer cake friendly for a quick finish.  I've since learned to not name quilts by their fabric collection as it can limit how people see the quilt.  It looks great in many fabric collections, including solids and scraps.

The rainbow Nautical News quilt above was made from my scrap bins.  It includes 24 different Kona cottons.

The twin size Nautical News quilt above was made by my niece when she was 12.  It's made with a layer cake of On Deck by Bluprint.

This is a mockup of Nautical News in Amish inspired solids.

The original Nautical News in nautical fabrics.  This is a Twin size and was made as a custom order, along with a matching pillow sham.  

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Save 25% off Precuts at Connecting Threads Today Only!

You'll save 25% off Precuts at Connecting Threads today only!  Use code PRECUTS at checkout to receive the discount.

While you're at Connecting Threads, checkout all of my patterns they've kitted right here.  😍  This is Simplicity in Wild Crimson.

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Independence Day Pattern Sale!

Happy 4th of July!  Hopefully sunshine, friends, and food have been a part of your day celebrating the birthday of our nation.

Our weekend has been a working weekend - hubs is building a house on our property for his dad and his wife, and I'm working on a tight quilt deadline - but we did have hamburgers for lunch, an All-American food!

This weekend I'm having the second biggest quilt pattern sale of the year with a Buy More Save More sale! 

• Buy 1 save 20% with code INDEPENDENCE20.
• Buy 2 save 25% with code INDEPENDENCE25.
• Buy 3 save 30% with code INDEPENDENCE30.
• Buy 4+ save 35% with code INDEPENDENCE35.

Discount applies only to regular-priced quilt patterns.  Discount code must be entered at checkout.  Sale ends Monday, 07/06.

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Memorial Day 25% off Quilt Pattern Sale!

Save 25% off all quilt patterns, Printed and PDF downloads, at www.BusyHandsQuilts.com!  The discount will appear in your shopping cart.  Sale ends Monday, May 25th.  

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BLACK FRIDAY Savings at Busy Hands Quilts!

Let's celebrate the official kickoff of holiday shopping with a huge pattern sale!  All patterns, digital and printed, are 30% off through Monday!  While your holiday shopping likely centers around other people {and rightly so!}, take a moment for yourself and treat yourself to your favorite patterns in my pattern shop.  They're at the lowest price of the year!  Go here to save on my patterns.  No coupon code necessary; the patterns have already been discounted.

All quilts in my quilt shop are also on sale with free shipping too!  Click here to save on my quilts.

You will save 25% off almost everything at  Connecting Threads through Sunday!  Yep, that means you will save big on quilt kits in my patterns, too.  :)  That sounds like fun sewing for the upcoming winter months to me!  Use code FRIDAY25 at checkout to receive the discount.  Go here to save.

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Brick Cottage Lane 2 Quilt Pattern Update and Sale!

Brick Cottage Lane 2 quilt pattern cover has been updated and is currently on sale, including a preorder of the printed version!  In addition to a new cover, there were a few minor updates in the pattern that reduced the number of pages, but the bones of the pattern are the same.

The joy of this pattern is that I have figured out how to strip piece this quilt and have worked out all of the math and techy stuff for you.  It would be extremely time-consuming to piece this quilt brick by brick - though not impossible.  To save you incredible amounts of time and sanity, you will sew together strips of fabric into strip sets and then sub-cut segments from the strip sets.  Then sew the segments together as shown in the pattern, and you have saved yourself BOAT LOADS of time.  And that means you'll have time to make more quilts!  :)

You could, of course, cut a zillion bricks and sew them together one by one; there's no judgment in that.  The pattern also includes the traditional piecing this quilt, one brick at a time.

I have made Brick Cottage Lane 2 three times, all in king size.  If you can imagine, I have another one cut out to make another king size, this one in Island Batik British Rose.  That's on the to-do list for 2020.

This one is made with Island Batik Boho fabric collection, made in 2018 as an Island Batik Ambassador.

This is the first Brick Cottage Lane 2 quilt I made.  The fabrics are various Bonnie and Camille collections.

This is Simply Color by V and Co.  All three of these quilts have sold in my quilt shop.

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Happy Veteran's Day Star Quilt Pattern Sale!

Thank you to all veterans of the armed forces, this Veteran's Day 2019.

In celebration, all Star Quilt Patterns have been deeply discounted for today only.  You can see the star quilt patterns in my shop right here.  Here are two of them - Night Sky and Sunnyside, both available in multiple sizes and fat quarter friendly.

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Printed Quilt Pattern Sale!

The few remaining quilt patterns with old covers have been further discounted in my pattern shop!  Most of the discounted patterns have just a few left in stock, and some have already sold out. 

Don't worry - the insides of the patterns with old covers have all of the deliciousness that a pattern with an updated cover will have. 

I offer FREE SHIPPING on orders $35 and above. 

The sale ends on Monday!  You can save right over here.

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Year-End Sales You Don't Want to Miss!

There are some great year-end sales going on that you don't want to miss!

At Craftsy's Year-End Sale, you will save up to 70% off Kits and Supplies.  It's a great time to stock up on some quilting projects for the coming cold months and dark evenings!

Today is a great day to join Bluprint at the lowest price of the year!  A Bluprint subscription offers many benefits such as free shipping all year long at Craftsy, free monthly patterns (I've designed two of them that will be released in early 2019!!), among other goodies.  Check it out today to see if it's for you!  

And here are the two patterns I wrote that will be given free to all Bluprint subscribers in early 2019.  

Mad For Plaid lap quilt.  This quilt is for sale in my quilt shop.

Also a Mad For Plaid quilt, just with different fabric placement.  This quilt sold in my quilt shop.

All Zipped Up in Va Va Vibrant, a layer cake friendly pattern that whips up into a twin size quilt.  This quilt sold in my quilt shop.

Connecting Threads' end-of-year sale is 30-50% off over 1000 fabrics!  The sale includes a wide variety of fabrics from floral to modern to tone-on-tone blenders and includes many extra-wide backing fabrics!  There is something here for everyone!

Fat Quarter Shop has over 1500 items on sale up to 50% off!

You'll also find a boatload of fabric on sale at Etsy!  This link will take you right to the fabrics on sale.  So many sellers, so much selection!

I hope you find something just for you!  Here's to lots of quilting in 2019!!

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I've Found a Quilt Backing Sale for You!

Backing - the thing we all seem to need even if we are sewing as much as we can from our stash.  Here's an opportunity to stock up and save at the same time!  Yep, there's an amazing backing sale going on now over at Connecting Threads that you don't want to miss!  

Don'tcha love the fabric swatches up there?  I sure do!  Bright, fun, happy ... a rainbow!  But maybe you need backing that isn't a rainbow.  You will find backing in many other themes as well - modern, civil war, neutral, and more.  This sale ends soon, so shop while the selection is best!

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I Found a Sale on Extra-Wide Backing Fabrics!

Because Gratitude is currently on vacation at the longarm hospital (definitely an unpaid vacation for her), I have been pumping out quilt tops right and left.  There are now 6 quilt tops hanging from her rails awaiting quilting and several more in progress.  Quilt tops need backing, and I love my extra wides so I don't have to piece them, don't you?  Extra wides are usually cheaper than regular yardage, and getting a good buy in a cute print that coordinates well with the quilt top are my goals.  That led me over to ... 

Connecting Threads where all backing fabrics are 25% off, which on top of their already low prices is a great buy!  The Connecting Threads backings I have used have always been so soft, something that can't be said of all backing fabrics. 

I made that cute graphic up there out of samples of the actual fabrics that Connecting Threads currently stocks.  You'll find a large selection in other colors and prints.

You'll also find that all batting is 30% off, and tools and notions are up to 35% off.  Shop today for the best selection before I buy out all that red check!

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Quilting Books Under $4

We used antique blue canning jars as the flower centerpieces at my parents' 50th wedding anniversary celebration.  They're were super sweet with daisies and babies breath!  If you love blue canning jars, here's a deal for you.  Annie's has real Ball blue canning quart jars on sale for just $4.99 for a set of 4!  These are the real Ball jars!  I don't know how long the sale lasts or how much inventory they have, but I do know this is a great buy!

When looking through patterns at Annie's, I found all of these books less than $4!  These aren't single patterns either; they're actual, printed-in-color books!    I love the idea of quilts from 3 yards of fabric or 6 fat quarters.  

Annie's is also having a Super Sale with 30% off over 750 pattern downloads.  Use the keycode SOAKUP to be sure you get the discount.  {the discount likely doesn't apply to books on clearance}  This discount ends August 16th.

Let me know which books you pick up!

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