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Welcome back for round 2! Edyta Sitar’s new pillows from Pillow Talk:  25 Lovely Pillows for Your Home Sweet Home, sparked the idea for a fun contest and we’re rolling on with our second pair of contenders – Elise Baek and Jen Van Orman!

In our Pillow Talk Pillow Fight two contenders go head-to-head each week with their creations based on the patterns in the Pillow Talk book. This competition among friends is accompanied by weekly voting, plus a monthly roundup with the chance for prizes and glory for that month’s winner and one lucky voter. At the ...

We’re ready for our 7th Annual Charity Quilt Along, Bloom-Topia! We’re diving into this year’s quilt along with the fabric requirements for this beautiful quilt!

If you’d like to make your quilt like ours using the Summer Sweet collection by Sherri and Chelsi for Moda Fabrics, we have Quilt Kits and Backing Sets available. If you’re sewing with something different, here are the fabric requirements to make this year’s charity quilt. Click the bar below to download fabric requirements.

Also, be sure to read to the bottom for information on the extra settings we ...

We’re really enjoying this new gem of a ruler lately… The 60 Degree Diamond Ruler from Creative Grids! The ruler is 60 degrees of perfect and has us making sew many dazzling new patterns, we thought we’d share them with you!

Quilt Designer Krista Moser of The Quilted Life developed the 60 Degree Diamond Ruler and the 60 Degree Mini Diamond Ruler for Creative Grids to help you make sharp and accurate diamonds, hexagons and more. Krista stopped by the Fat Quarter Shop studio to deliver these rulers and show us some eye-catching patterns to quilt up with ...

The 2020 KONA Color of the Year is here and we have sew many quilts ready for it! The gorgeous color is one of our new favorites and reminds us of rich, emerald jewels! This year’s color of the year is Enchanted, a beautiful, deep color we cannot keep our eyes off of and cannot wait to start using in our quilty projects! Robert Kaufman’s quilting cotton line, KONA Cottons, identifies one color every year to make their color of the year and designs free patterns and projects to display the bright color chosen to represent that year ...

Welcome to the kickoff of our 2020 Sew Colorful Fat Quarter Club! It’s a new year and the start of a new decade! A lot of things may change, but not our love for fabric. It’s a source of inspiration that feeds our love for quilting and sewing throughout the year.

A fun way to satisfy the fabric bug is with a monthly bundle of color-coordinated prints from the Sew Colorful Fat Quarter Club. It’s a sampling of fabrics from new collections, with a new color to enjoy each month.

On the first Friday of each month ...

Are you ready to rumble? Edyta Sitar’s new pillows from Pillow Talk:  25 Lovely Pillows for Your Home Sweet Home, sparked the idea for a fun contest and we’re kicking it off with our first pair of contenders – Kimberly Jolly and Edyta Sitar! 

Edyta Sitar worked with Kimberly Jolly and It’s Sew Emma to bring the Pillow Talk book to life!

Starting today, we’ll have ten rounds of the Pillow Talk Pillow Fight here on the blog and on Instagram! Each week, two contenders will go head-to-head with their creations based on the patterns in the ...

It’s Sew Emma is thrilled to introduce their first book with Melissa Corry of Happy Quilting! Charming Baby Quilts brings 10 original baby quilts to life, featuring the classic 5″ square charm pack precut. Each design uses one, two or three charm packs, making this an essential book to have on hand for gifts and celebrations.

With the ease of charm packs, this book is fabulous for beginners. Melissa’s passion for feel-good quilts can be felt on every page and in every stitch, and we know this book will inspire a whole new generation of little quilts for ...

How do I love thee? Let me “count” the ways. The Quilty Love cross stitch pattern by Lori Holt is an expression of all the feels for Valentine’s Day with hearts and stars aplenty! Quilt blocks and cross stitch create a charming design, and adding lovable buttons and sweet trim makes it even more memorable.

Next week Kimberly is kicking off the cross stitch along with the Quilty Love Cross Stitch pattern on Tuesday, January 14 at 9 AM CST on our Flosstube channel. The stitch along will continue weekly through to February 12, wrapping up in time for ...

We’re celebrating 2020 with the Fat Quarter Shop Rewind of the Decade! This rewind consists of the Top 5 YouTube videos of the decade. If you are not subscribed to our YouTube channel yet, be sure to SUBSCRIBE so you can stay up to date with all things FQS. We even have channel membership where you can view exclusive content (outside of our regular content on our channel) and behind the scenes!

Here is the full list of all of our top videos from 2010-20:

2010-20 FQS Rewind of the Decade

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It takes a bit of ‘flour’ to whip up something deliciously sweet! No we didn’t actually include flour in your January box but it is the only hint we are giving you this month. Any ideas? Comment on this blog and let us know.

If you are not yet subscribed, and want to join, currently our membership is at capacity but we have started a waitlist for Sew Sampler Box. Sign up to be notified if space in this club becomes available.

Imagine a garden of reproduction fabrics growing and blooming all over! From January through June 2020, we’re hosting the Esther’s Bloomers Stitch-Along Block of the Month. You’ll sew up a 70.5″ square quilt that radiates outward with blooming blocks of reproduction fabric from Kim Diehl for Henry Glass Fabrics. The program ships around the 8th of each month for six months. Let’s take a look at this beautiful quilt!

This gorgeous medallion quilt is sewn with Esther’s Heirloom Shirtings by Kim Diehl for Henry Glass Fabrics. You’ll also want to pick up the ...

Looking back on 2019, I sewed at least a dozen quilts, most of them on a deadline, then turned them over to be photographed for books or other projects. I don’t usually see my quilts much after I’ve sewn them, and sometimes it’s hard to remember what I make from year to year. For that reason, I’ve started making scrap quilts to remember my quilting by.

Last year, I wanted to find a creative way to use up my scraps AND create something memorable that would capture moments from my projects throughout the year. That was ...

We’ve sewn right through another month of the Farm Girl Vintage 2 Quilt Along! It’s been quite a ride and there is still a way to go! We’re sew excited to see your progress. There are 45 blocks of the Farm Girl Vintage 2 Sampler Quilt and we are 18 in! This much-anticipated sequel to Farm Girl Vintage features 6″ and 12″ quilt blocks, inspired by Lori Holt’s rural roots. She has also designed 13 new projects, including quilts, pillows and a pincushion that use these cute-as-can-bee blocks!

We covered Weeks 2 though 6 last ...