March Meowness 2024 Winner

  We have a winner of the 2024 March Meowness Contest. Fabric S Cat in the Box Cats & Boxes is the winner!

I thought I would share with you some photos of completed projects using cat fabrics. I have been a collector of cat fabrics since I started quilting in 1995. In 2022 I made a table cloth quilt for myself and family using a variety of cat fabrics that I have collected over the years from various quilt shops I visited.

The backing fabric is also cat fabric. You can see that back and read about the quilt by clicking on the following link: New Table Cloth Quilt You can download a copy of the free pattern I used to make the quilt if you follow the link. I used different size squares for my version because I needed it to fit my table.

I've also made several bags with cat fabrics. These Tourist Totes were made in May 2023.

You can read more about them by following this link: More Tourist Totes

And a customer made this one.

The cat fabric used is fabric M: Puddy Cats Funny Felines which I still have in stock.

Thank you to everyone who played along! I will do the drawing to select the winners of the fat quarter bundles of cat fabrics tomorrow, March 26, 2024. Since I had so many folks play along I decided to choose four winners instead of just one. I'll notify the winners privately tomorrow, Tuesday March 26, 2024.

I had so much fun with this silly little cat fabric contest that I've decided to do something for the Dog Days of Summer. The official dates for that are July 3 - August 11. I haven't decided exactly what we'll do for Dog Days of Summer but it will be something fun and silly like this and will most likely happen the end of July or early August so stay tuned for that.

March Meowness Round 5 - Final Round of Voting

  Time for Round Five in my March Meowness Contest!

Today we are starting with the 2 cat fabrics that survived round four. You need to vote for your favorite 1. The winner will be announced on Monday, March 25, 2024. Every time you vote you get your name in the drawing to win a fat quarter bundle of cat fabrics.

There is no purchase necessary and everyone is welcome to participate, no matter where you live. If you win a prize and you aren't local then you can opt to pay the shipping for me to send you your fat quarters (should be around $4 in the continental US) or I can send you a PDF pattern for free.

You can vote right here by leaving a comment on this post or you can head over to our website, AlamosaQuiltCompany.com, and click on the March Meowness image right at the top of our home page to get our email address, see all the images larger and vote that way. Whatever works best for you is fine. And if you are local, you are welcome to come into the shop, see the fabrics in person and vote in person.

March Meowness Round 4

  Time for Round Four in my March Meowness Contest!

Today we are starting with the 4 cat fabrics that survived round three. You need to vote for your favorite 2. On Friday March 22, 2024 I will post the most popular 2 cat fabrics and you'll need to vote for your favorite 1. We'll keep whittling down the field until we have winner. The winner will be announced on Monday, March 25, 2024. Every time you vote you get your name in the drawing to win a fat quarter bundle of cat fabrics.

There is no purchase necessary and everyone is welcome to participate, no matter where you live. If you win a prize and you aren't local then you can opt to pay the shipping for me to send you your fat quarters (should be around $4 in the continental US) or I can send you a PDF pattern for free.

You can vote right here by leaving a comment on this post or you can head over to our website, AlamosaQuiltCompany.com, and click on the March Meowness image right at the top of our home page to get our email address, see all the images larger and vote that way. Whatever works best for you is fine. And if you are local, you are welcome to come into the shop, see the fabrics in person and vote in person.

March Meowness Round Three

  Time for Round Three in my March Meowness Contest!

Today we are starting with the 8 cat fabrics that survived round two. You need to vote for your favorite 4. On Wednesday March 20, 2024 I will post the most popular 4 cat fabrics and you'll need to vote for your favorite 2. We'll keep whittling down the field until we have winner. The winner will be announced on Monday, March 25, 2024. Every time you vote you get your name in the drawing to win a fat quarter bundle of cat fabrics.

There is no purchase necessary and everyone is welcome to participate, no matter where you live. If you win a prize and you aren't local then you can opt to pay the shipping for me to send you your fat quarters (should be around $4 in the continental US) or I can send you a PDF pattern for free.

You can vote right here by leaving a comment on this post or you can head over to our website, AlamosaQuiltCompany.com, and click on the March Meowness image right at the top of our home page to get our email address, see all the images larger and vote that way. Whatever works best for you is fine. And if you are local, you are welcome to come into the shop, see the fabrics in person and vote in person.

March Meowness Round Two

 Time for Round Two in my March Meowness Contest!

Today we are starting with the 16 cat fabrics that survived round one. You need to vote for your favorite 8. On Monday March 18, 2024 I will post the most popular 8 cat fabrics and you'll need to vote for your favorite 4. We'll keep whittling down the field until we have winner. The winner will be announced on Monday, March 25, 2024. Every time you vote you get your name in the drawing to win a fat quarter bundle of cat fabrics.

There is no purchase necessary and everyone is welcome to participate, no matter where you live. If you win a prize and you aren't local then you can opt to pay the shipping for me to send you your fat quarters (should be around $4 in the continental US) or I can send you a PDF pattern for free.

You can vote right here by leaving a comment on this post or you can head over to our website, AlamosaQuiltCompany.com, and click on the March Meowness image right at the top of our home page to get our email address, see all the images larger and vote that way. Whatever works best for you is fine. And if you are local, you are welcome to come into the shop, see the fabrics in person and vote in person.

March Meowness

 I am declaring March 14 - 25, 2024 as "March Meowness." It's time to put on your thinking cat (if you have one) and vote for your favorite cat fabrics we have in stock in the shop.

Today we are starting with the 24 cat fabrics we have in stock. You need to vote for your favorite 16. On Saturday March 16, 2024 I will post the most popular 16 cat fabrics and you'll need to vote for your favorite 8. We'll keep whittling down the field until we have winner. The winner will be announced on Monday, March 25, 2024. Every time you vote you get your name in the drawing to win a fat quarter bundle of cat fabrics.

There is no purchase necessary and everyone is welcome to participate, no matter where you live. If you win a prize and you aren't local then you can opt to pay the shipping for me to send you your fat quarters (should be around $4 in the continental US) or I can send you a PDF pattern for free.

You can vote right here by leaving a comment on this post or you can head over to our website, AlamosaQuiltCompany.com, and click on the March Meowness image right at the top of our home page to get our email address, see all the images larger and vote that way. Whatever works best for you is fine. And if you are local, you are welcome to come into the shop, see the fabrics in person and vote in person.

Easy Striped Runners

 I received a new shipment of border prints in my shop recently so it was time to make some new shop samples with them. These Easy Striped Table Runners are so much fun to make!

Shown are our two favorite layouts, but the pattern includes instructions for four different layouts as well as some smaller candle mats that you can make with the leftovers.

The pattern is called Easy Striped Table Runner. You can see all the border prints I have by clicking the following link: Border Prints. The two we used for our samples are: Groovy Garden Border Print and Winter Blooms Border Print.

Depending on the layout you choose AND how big you want to make it, you need between 1 and 1 1/2 yards of a border print. On my website I sell regular priced regular width fabrics in half yard increments, so that would mean you need a quantity of 2 or 3 per runner. 

FYI: For both of our samples we used 1 yard of the border print.

Chatsworth Block of the Month

 

Are you looking for a fun block of the month? The Chatsworth BOM (Block of the Month) might be just what you are looking for. We are offering custom kits for this beautiful quilt. The photos are simply examples of the quilt made up in various colors and fabric styles. We'll cut your kit just for you using fabrics from the shop. We can recreate one of these photos using our fabrics or make up something completely different for you. You can have as much or as little input into the individual fabrics in your kit as you want.

The Details:
The finished size of the quilt is 74" by 88". If you add an outer border it could be bigger.

The BOM starts January 25, 2024 and runs through August 22, 2024 but you can join anytime.

You will be making two blocks each month January - June. In July and August you'll be putting all the pieces together.

The pattern designer, Doug Leko, will be doing monthly video tutorials and lessons. If you join later, the video instruction posts will still be available.

The block information will be released each month on the 4th Thursday of the month. Your kit will include the link to the video tutorials along with a complete schedule of the block release dates.

We have no kits cut and on display in the shop! All kits will be custom cut just for you.

Our kits include all of the fabrics required for the quilt top plus the binding fabric and the pattern book. Price of the kit is $224.99 plus applicable sales tax. If you are not local, we will ship your kit to you for FREE.

There are a couple of optional items that you might want that are not included in the kit. The first is the Braided Flying Geese foundation papers (price is $34.99 for all you will need). The second is the Simple Folded Corner Ruler (price is $29.99). We will discuss these with you when we contact you about your custom kit to see if you might need or want these items too. 

Just so you know, the directions are written for traditional piecing of the Braided Flying Geese so you do not need the foundation papers. They are only offered to make those units easier for beginners or folks who like paper piecing. If you don't like paper piecing, you'll be just fine without the papers.

All of these examples use a light background but it would be just as lovely if you flipped the values and used a dark background.