Quiltcon Magazine will be hitting newsstands on March 1st and I have pattern in it! I called the quilt “Ripple Effect”:
The pattern is fast, easy and requires absolutely no templates, curves or paper-piecing (how very unlike me!).
It’s loosely based on a mini I designed for a swap (pictured below). The mini had TEENY-TINY pieces, so I am happy to say that the full-sized version went together much easier.
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Do you want to know how to submit a pattern for Quiltcon Magazine next year?
The MQG will send out a call for submissions later in the year, so get on their newsletter list. Last year, it went out in September and here were the submission guidelines. I wrote up a blurb about the quilt and then attached the PDF below with layout options. You can see that the block has a lot of possibilities! In my typical Gemini fashion, I couldn’t narrow the layout down to one option, but I would think one option would be fine too.
Most of my designs are more modern-traditional, but I submitted one of my designs that definitely fit into the modern genre (it’s a magazine for the Modern Quilt Guild, after all!)
A few weeks later, F+W Media contacted me saying that they would like to include my quilt and pattern! They liked option 1, 2 & 3, but requested that I don’t use blue (they already had enough of it in the issue). I decided to go with the aqua in Option 2 (I had fallen in love with it), but I wanted to add more color. Oh, and they wanted the quilt in their office in three weeks, which was October 30th!
Between September and October we sold our house and the move date was November 8th. Kristi Ryan came to my rescue by quilting, binding and adding a sleeve to the quilt, then mailing it off to F+W in time to be photographed. In the meantime, I wrote up the pattern and created the illos (and moved!).
It was all worth it and I feel very honored to be in the magazine.
I was also very happy to finally get to go to Quiltcon and see one of my quilts hanging on display.
I love the use of color and negative space in this quilt. I can definitely see this on my daughter’s bed.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing about your experience.
I love it…great job…..
this is great! i know someone that i can make it for!
Absolutely stunning quilt! Love the different layouts but best is the one you chose! I’m looking forward to doing your splendid sampler block!
Beautiful quilt. I love the straight line quilting you did on it. Perfect for your design – but I see no time to hem up your pants! I can relate.
I started your Gaggle of Geese Pattern and am working on my last circle of blocks, I am loving how it is looking. I am doing mine with all red geese and white background. Thanks for the great pattern. I reduced it to 50% because I like small pieces. I will have to decide soon if I am going to make a circle of circular flying geese around the gaggle, and leave my quilt round or do something else with it here in the next couple days when I get the last 28 blocks finished. Thanks for a great pattern.