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We are headed to quilt market in Portland, Oregon today to find more great fabric and notions to share with you at ShopQuilty.com. Check back often to see what’s new.

Quilty May/June will be on sale May 21st. Get a sneak peek of all the inspiring quilts in the issue before the magazine comes out! Get Quilty at your favorite quilt shop or at ShopQuilty.com as a print or digital issue.

Rainbow Baby
Offset available as a quilt kit
Taggy Blanket
Modern Pinwheels
Super Star available as a quilt kit
Circle Circus
Stamped
Butter
Losing My Marbles
Petaled Bloom available as a quilt kit
Tree Everlasting available as a quilt kit
Play a Card available as a quilt kit
Ocean Front
Doll Quilt

As a thank you for checking out our quilt pages and for being such dedicated readers, we are giving away a fat quarter bundle of Hoffman California Fabrics Bali Handprints in Bubblegum. To enter the giveaway, tell us what you love most about Quilty magazine in the comments section below. One lucky winner will be chosen at random. The contest will close at midnight on May 29, 2013. Good Luck!

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Midsummer Solstice available as a quilt kit
Power of 4 available as a quilt kit
Washington Island Poppies by Marianne Fons available as a quilt kit
Non Sibi Sed Patriae
Twilight available as a quilt kit
Pomegranate Mountains
Homespun Honey
Emily’s Wedding Quilt by Liz Porter (Includes free instructions for Aunt Gracie’s Garden)
Curvy
Antique Kaleidoscope–Free Pattern
Strawberry Skies available as a quilt kit
Spring Radiance–Free Bonus Quilt Pattern
High Street–Free Bonus Quilt Pattern available as a quilt kit

Sew Easy Lessons: Sashing Alignment and Using Tri-Recs™ Tools

As a thank you for browsing through our online quilt pages, we are giving away a fat quarter bundle of Flirt by Moda. To enter the giveaway, please tell us which quilt inspires you the most for summer quilting. Two lucky winners will be chosen at random. The contest will close at midnight April 24, 2013.

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This contest is now closed, congratulations to our lucky winners:

Janet Walters: Spring Radiance looks great! I would enjoy making it.

Michele Timms: I love Emily’s Wedding Quilt…but it wasn’t an easy decision.

Kaffe Fassett–A Life in Color
The Fashion and Textile Museum, London
March 22 – June 29, 2013

Kaffe Fassett is widely acknowledged as a visionary textile designer in his explosive use of color. This retrospective, designed by Sue Timney, celebrates Fassett’s extraordinary life and career from his revolutionary knitwear for Bill Gibb in the 1960s, to his work with needlepoint, mosaics, rug making, tapestries, yarn and fabric design, costume and set design, and quilting. Now in his seventies, Fassett continues to produce new work which also features in the exhibition.

Boxed In available as a quilt kit
School Girls in Red available as a quilt kit
Fabrique Foursome available as a quilt kit
Fresh & Fruity
Summer Duet available as a quilt kit
Easy as 1-2-3- Baby Quilts available as quilt kits
Punch & Judy
Adam’s Rib
Enchantment available as a quilt kit
Elephant in the Room
London Tube
Curious Cats available as a quilt kit
Petals available as a quilt kit
Lavender Fields
Hello, Hello available as a quilt kit
Windmills

Sew Easy Lesson: Quick Triangle-Squares and Hourglass Units
Sew Easy Lesson: Windowing Fusible Appliqué

Enter the Easy Quilts Summer Contest for a chance to win $425 in Prizes.

Take a look at the projects featured in Easy Quilts Summer. Then, enter to win a fat quarter bundle by telling us, in the comment section below, which project is first on your quilting to-do list.  We will choose 2 lucky winners. The contest will close at midnight on 3/27/13.

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Congratulations to our Winners:

Joey: Boxed in. I love the colors!

Carol Rose: I like Windmills and Lavender Fields. I like all the colors involved with them. Besides, my lavender granddaughter would be so happy with her new quilt.

Quilty March/April

Quilty March/April is on newsstands today. This issue features 13 easy modern quilting projects for the beginner quilter.

Click on the project links below to find out more about each project in the magazine.

Kid Potential
Xs & +s
Hush Little Baby
August Intensity (The Easiest Quilt Ever)
Crown of Thorns
Très Chic
Bounce
Orange Peel
Flannel Bricks
Cloth Napkins
Hello, Handsome
Chevron & On
Homestead

Quilty magazine is available as a print and/or digital magazine and is also available to be automatically shipped to your front door. Find out more about Quilty at HeyQuilty.com. You can also watch Quilty videos at QNNtv.com.

Two of our sister companies, Quilty and QNNtv.com sponsored the event, it was fun to be a part of the inaugural convention.

Working on a magazine that is mainly traditional quilting, it was fun to see how the basic skills of quilting are similar, no matter if it’s modern, traditional, contemporary, art, or improvisational.

Mary Fons gave demonstrations on Contrast and Straight of Grain Versus Bias.  The crowd really seemed to enjoy the demo’s.  Mary is the Editor of Quilty magazine and host of the Quilty video and Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting on PBS, I encourage you to check it out!

Mary Fons giving a demo on contrast at QuiltCon

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I was lucky enough to sit on a panel on how to get published in magazines.  There were a lot of great questions and the underlying answer was always, when in doubt, submit the project!  Here is a link to magazine submissions for Love of Quilting and Quilty magazines.

There were so many great quilts at the show!  Below are a few of my personal favorites.  Did you attend QuiltCon?  Will you attend in 2015?

Happy Quilting – Kristi, Publisher

Untitled Lindsay Stead

Fifty Shades of Groovy by Leslie Tucker Jenison

Double Edged Love by Victoria Findlay Wolfe

Get great deals at ShopFonsandPorter.com during the year-end clearance sale!

Join the 2013 Moving Forward Mary-thon! Give yourself the gift of health by getting fit in 2013 and you will be giving Project Linus a $10 gift from your registration fee. You can start when you’re ready – and design your own program. Follow the Mary-thon guidelines and Mary will motivate, inspire and encourage you along the way. Go to http://www.marython.net/registration-2/ to register.