Welcome to Blogathon Canada! *Comments Closed*

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Blogathon Canada is a week long event featuring some great Canadian bloggers. Hosted by Sew Sisters Quilt Shop and supported by a bevy of amazing sponsors, this Blogathon Canada promises to be the best yet! If you are coming over from the Sew Sisters website, you have probably already entered the great Aurifil Giveaway they have running today, but if not, be sure to click the Blogathon link above to enter and then head on back for some more great stuff right here!

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I am thrilled to be one of the hosts for BC. Not only do I get to introduce some great local Bloggers ( a few of which are fellow Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild Members), share a little about myself, and kick off this awesome week,  I get to have a great giveaway too! Are you excited? Great! Then lets get things rolling!

The dragon quilt #1

The dragon quilt #1-My very first quilt way back in the day. Being from Northern Alberta, the closest fabrics shops were a 444 km drive away! So this was made from an assortment of small pieces collected from my Grandma’s stash and larger broadcloths and cottons from Walmart.

Hi! I’m Stacey and I am a Quiltaholic! I love everything about quilting, from picking gorgeous fabrics to making tops to actually quilting and finishing some! I also design and write my own patterns, as well as do some writing and designing for a couple of great companies. I was bitten by the sewing bug early, when I made my very first quilt with my Grandma at 6 years old. I have always sewn on and off, and in 2002 my Grandma gave me her Janome 6600 for Christmas. That machine got me through college-where I earned a diploma in Fashion Production-travelled North with me when I met my husband, and then south again when I went back to school to get my diploma in Medical Radiography. I quilted on and off through all those years, but it was when I moved here, to the Lower Mainland, that I really started quilting in earnest. In the summer of 2010 I met Krista (@Poppyprint) at the Lions Gate Quilt Guild show, and she led me to the very first ever meeting of the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild. It was the most amazing experience of my life, and I will always be thankful for that chance meeting. I had been a solitary quilter for a very long time, set apart by my style and age. I didn’t realize how many like minded quilters were out there until that meeting, nor the strong online presence and resources were out there. I started entering challenges and shows, having fun the whole time, looking forward every month to those VMQG meetings.

Fossilized Amethyst

Fossilized Amethyst-this beauty is my entry for the Hoffman Challenge 2014. You can read more about it here.

 

I started my blog in 2012 (it took me that long to embrace an online presence) when my son was born. I guess I didn’t feel busy enough, ha ha! I still managed to find time for sewing and quilting, and while I do have a few more Works in Progress than I might like, they are slowly being finished and given to loving homes. I do keep quite a few for myself, my quilts rotate around in my hallways (which are nice and long, perfect for hanging lots quilts!)

Sherbert at the Beach

Sherbert at the Beach- I entered this quilt into the AQS Lancaster show. You can read more about it here!

Thank you for visiting, and have a look around! There are tutorials and free patterns scattered about in here, I did try to corral them into a single tab up top, but you know how those things tend to migrate! (I can tell you there might be one here, and here, and possibly here)

Putting on the Ritz

Putting on the Ritz-This was my very first in print pattern. It can be found in Issue 16 of Fat Quarterly

Here is the list of great blogs I get to host for! Be sure to check them all out, and then come back here and tell me your favorite in the comments below.  Why you ask? Well, for this amazing bundle of Tula Pink’s Moonshine! Thats why! Yay!!! I love giving away great fabric! The giveaway is open to everyone, international friends are welcome! If you are a no reply Blogger, please be sure to leave your email in the comments so I can reach you! My partner host for today, Jessica over at Momiji Studio, will also have some great fabrics to give away as well as another list of great BC bloggers, so be sure to hop on over and keep the fun rolling!

Blogathon Giveaway Moon Shine in Strawberry

Blogathon Giveaway Moon Shine in Strawberry

Without further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce a great group of British Columbia Bloggers! I am honored to know many of them in person, and pleased to make some new friends. I hope you do too!

aRt by Rhoda Forbes

Adventures in Life

Poppyprint​

Good Earth Quilting

Terry Aske Art Quilt Studio

What Comes Next?

Blueberry Patch

Grace and Favour

Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild

Daphne Greig

 

Happy Stitching!

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296 thoughts on “Welcome to Blogathon Canada! *Comments Closed*”

  3. Blueberry patch is my favorite, I have been following for awhile. I am impressed with your dragon quilt. Quite a challenge for a beginner. You have many beautiful quilts now too. This will be a fun hop. I like finding new blogs to follow. I am always inspired.

  7. Oh, I hate picking just one blogger. I’lll choose Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild because it connects me to everything that’s happening in the area with respect to quilty things!! I love finding new blogs and doing swaps and meeting new quilty people.

  8. Pick one? That’s not easy as each one has something different and unique to it. If I must narrow it down I would say Daphne Greig, or Grace and Favour, or Adventures in Life…

  9. You have made some amazing quilts! I especially love Putting on the Ritz! Awesome! Thanks for the chance to win that gorgeous fabric. I just purchased one of Tula Pink’s books so this would be perfect!

  11. Thanks for sharing blogs from your area of Canada. I have enjoyed reading them and was pleased to recognize three, Terry Aske Art Quilt Studio, Daphne Greig and Good Earth Quilting. Your Fossized Amethyst is lovely.

  12. I love Blueberry Patch. I was the lucky recipient from a swap from her at one point and still use the beautiful fabric journal she sent me 🙂 Love your Fossilized Amethyst quilt 🙂

  13. So nice to meet you, Stacey. Thanks so much for hosting and introducing us to your work. And to your fellow B.C. quilting bloggers! Love that Putting on the Ritz quilt. Those red arrows really make it shine!

  21. Great to learn a little more about you Stacey! I am very curious as to where in Northern Alberta you lived. I spent a few years there too and can sympathize with a huge distance to a quilt shop!

  23. Fantastic, I look forward to checking out the rest of your sight and the list of bloggers posted!! This is my first year involved in this Blogathon and I am so excited to find fellow Canadians all over our amazing country!.

  24. Wow! That’s just mean (teasing!), asking us to pick a fave from all these wonderful blogs! I love scrappy quilting, so that makes Rhoda Forbes a natural for me…but I am also in love with the Arrows Quilt by Grace and Favour which I have loved in previous views, and, of course, Blueberry Patch is always fantastic…in fact, they all are. Your blog, Stacey, has me enchanted as well because the Fossilized Amethyst quilt is just mesmerizing, and I also love the Circuit Board quilting you did (I just did some circuit board quilting for the first time last week!)…so, in fairness, to all of these wonderful blogs I’m going to say I cannot select a favourite, because they are all so different and cover so many interesting facets of quilting….and life.

  26. I like checking out new sites! But I may never get to sewing if I keep reading! I enjoy Blueberry Patch, and now think I need to follow their scrap Tuesdays!

  28. Hi Stacey! Waving to you from the east coast. Your quilts are lovely- I especially like Fossilized Amethyst. Hope you have fun today and get loads of visitors!
    Linda @ Stitch Lines, NB Host

  30. Blueberry Patch is my favorite. You have made some really awesome quilts and the quilting is beautiful. Thank you for the giveaway.

  32. Thank you for hosting and showing us around BC, I liked the girls at the Fraser Valley Quilt Guild, they looked like they were having such fun

  33. I already follow Terry Aske and I found both Blueberry Patch and Grace and Favour to be fun and love their work. Your quilts are so beautiful too!

  34. I know Cathy from Blueberry Patch so am lucky enough to get to see her projects in real life! This Canadian blogathon is fun.

  38. So many great blogs, but because Carla is a friend of mine and I read her blog faithfully, she has my vote all the way! Thanks for the great giveaway!

  42. All wonderful blogs but if I have to pick a favorite it would be What Comes Next as I have been following Janets blog for a while now!
    Love all the quilts that you shared and great choice with the fabric giveaway!

  44. Hi I’ve been following your blog for a bit and do appreciate your sense of colour, your patterns and your energy. Thanks for the opportunity to win.

  46. Terry Aske Art Quilt was my favourite and I loved reading about her design process for the Lions Gate Bridge quilt

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