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*”

  1. Decisions, decisions. I liked all the blogs and plan on going back to read their previous posts after I get my work done. If I had to choose out of them, I’d say Adventures in Life (because the work shown is so wonderfully childlike and imaginative) and Daphne Greig, because who can resist photos of flowers on a cold Chicago morning, and I like the way she takes traditional patterns and makes them look new and modern.

    Regardless, they’re all great blogs that I will be following from now on.

  2. I’m so happy to have found a boatload of Canadian quilters. I guess I’d have to say my favourite of them from your list is Daphne’s.

  3. You certainly made the deciding difficult as each site has so many wonderful features. I’ve narrowed it down to two and can’t decide which is my favourite. I love scrappy quilting so aRt by Rhonda Forbes tackles that interest but I’m also dabbling in artsy quilts and love the tutorials at Terry Ashe Art Quilt Studio.

  4. Hi, this hop is going to be fun, my blog friend in B.C. is not a quilter, Carrie is in Princeton, and I see on her Facebook page, they have snow, beautiful as it hangs off the trees. And the fabric giveaway, please enter me. Jean.

  8. Wish my first quilt looked that great. Not down though my son still has it, that says a lot. Thanks for hosting a great giveaway. I am going to go with Cathy at the Blue Berry Patch. Love her Scrap quilts. Thanks for the chance at Tula Pinks Moonshine.

  12. That’s not fair! I visited all the blogs but I can’t choose a favourite! I love to crazy quilt as Good Earth Quilting does, want to do some modern projects as Grace and Favour has done, I’ve “met” Daphne on the Electric Quilt email lists and Terry is a member of one of the ETSY teams I belong to. There are blogs here that are all new to me, so I have lots of new quilters to read about and see their projects.

  21. Thanks for co-hosting the BC quilters. Great crew and some wonderful new contacts. thanks so much for sharing

  22. So hard to pick a favorite, I already follow several of them. But I will pick Grace and Favor because I love the quilt she is working on right now.

  25. I really like Terry Aske’s new art quilt. It is so lifelike! Thank you for hosting the blog hop! I love finding new quilt blogs to read.

  27. Good morning Stacey! my very first time following the blogathon in Canada – thanks for hosting such a great giveaway. My choice (very hard to make) but I like scrap quilts so I am going to go with Cathy at the Blue Berry Patch. Thanks for the chance at winning the Tula Pinks Moonshine.
    Good luck everyone!
    rachel.gagnon5@sympatico.ca

  29. thanx for hosting and thanx to sew sisters for sponsoring this blogathon where i get to see what is happening in my country

  31. This bundle of fabric sure brightens up a grey and snowy Ontario day! Thanks for the chance to win! awolk at rogers dot com

  34. Your on line presence is very friendly Stacey, thanks for blogging about you and your quilts. Putting on the Ritz is snazzy.
    For Blogathon,Cananda, I fancy Good Earth Quilting. Kinda wonky like me!

  39. My goodness, you really have made this an ordeal; a creative ordeal! I love them all, in fact I just started a blogroll on my site so that I can return to them for some more eye dandy! I really like the Fraser Valley modern quilt guild blog. I love to see what is happening out there! Thanks for being a part of the blogothon!

  40. Adventures in LIfe is my favorite, althought it was a toss up with the Fraser Valley Quilt Guilt – it looks like they have a ton of fun! But I love the works on the AIL blog. Beautiful stuff.

  41. Tell you my favorite? Are you kidding me? LOL! I am so obsessed with quilting and the various blogs, there were only two that I did not have on my reading list. They are now though! If I had to choose though it would be What Comes Next for her amazing FMQ work. Oh to be able to quilt like that on a domestic machine.

  43. Poppyprints and Terry Aske are two of my favourites and I cannot chose between them. I follow Poppyprints and have seen several of Terry Aske’s quilte on trips to Houston International Quilt Festival. Her Swoop quilt is amazing!

    Thanks for co-hosting this tour, please drop in for a visit and comment.

  47. As a novice quilter, I liked to see all the blogs as they encourage me to try different approaches to quilt projects. This is a great way to find others.

  50. They were all interesting, but I think Blueberry might be my favorite. Thanks for hosting the blog tour and the giveaway.

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