My latest giveaway was to celebrate the opening of my new on-line store -The Rose Cottage Quilting Shop.

The Rose Cottage Quilting Shop

The winner is Barbara from Columbia, South Carolina!  Barbara is going to receive a fat quarter pack of my new fabric line, And Sew It Goes, and her favorite pattern from my designs for the And Sew It Goes fabric line.

And Sew It Goes for Blank Quilting

Barbara, the goodies will be in the mail to you shortly.

One of the questions that had to be answered to participate to win was “What is the name of my next fabric line for Blank Quilting?”  The answer was Florentine Fancy.  I can’t show you what it looks like yet…but soon!!!

For now it’s back to my sewing room.  I have a new serger to play with AND a new top-of-the-line Bernina.  So many toys, so little time!  Happy sewing!

Let’s Celebrate!

Another dream of mine has been realized.  My web goddess has been feverishly working to get my new on-line store up and running.  So without further ado <imagine a trumpet fanfare here> I am proud to announce the opening of my new on-line store, The Rose Cottage Quilting Shop.  <insert thunderous applause here>

The Rose Cottage Quilting Shop

Seriously, I have had so many requests for my fabric and such from people that don’t have ready access to them, it seems to only make sense.  In my on-line store you can find for sale:

• Fabrics that I have designed
• Patterns to go with my quilts
• Kits made up that use my fabrics and patterns
• Quilts and bags for sale – all Barb Sackel originals designed and stitched up by little ole me

My store accepts PayPal for payment.  And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that all my patterns are always available at QuiltWoman.com.

A Give Away!

To celebrate this Grand Opening, I am having a give away!  Visit my store site at http://BarbSackel.com/shop and

1. Tell me the name of my next upcoming fabric line…the answer is on a page on my store, an OBVIOUS page!  (Hint: the answer is not “And Sew It Goes”).
2. Tell me YOUR favorite “And Sew It Goes” pattern that you would like to win.

By random drawing, I will award one person a Fat Quarter Pack of “And Sew It Goes” along with your favorite pattern.   Just leave a comment below or shoot me off an e-mail to barb@barbsackel.com.  I’ll take your comments and e-mails until June 14th.

Please, take a look and tell me what you think!

I am supposed to be writing about my experiences at Quilt Market last week.  And I promise to get to that ASAP.  But I am much too excited to right now.  I just checked the Blank Quilting website and my new fabric line is there.  I know I have shown it to you before.  But I just have to show it off again and ask, have any of you seen it in the stores yet?

QuiltWoman.com will be publishing my patterns designed around this fabric.  They aren’t up on their website yet.  I’ll let you know the minute they are.

And now I have to call my husband and tell him the fabric is now on the web.  I hope he doesn’t mind that I let all you know first!!!  “Grant…..”

Now that I have had my new fabric line “And Sew It Goes” for Blank Quilting on hand for a few days, I’ve been working on three quilts using the fabric.  I’ve had the designs in my head for a while, so when the fabric came I was ready to start cutting and sewing.

I took the three quilt designs I stitched up over to Betty’s Quilting etc., my home quilt shop, and showed them off.  My web goddess grabbed a camera and shot these pictures.  It was suddenly mini-trunk show time!

Here’s the first quilt.  I just knew I had to pull the sewing theme into at least one of my quilt designs.  Spools seemed the obvious choice!  Click on any of the images to see it bigger!

And Sew It Goes #1

Here’s #2.  I just love the way the pseudo-log-cabin-blocks really POP with this fabric.

And Sew It Goes #2

And here is #3.  Can you tell I am really enjoying myself?

And Sew It Goes #3

In all the quilts, I used the 4 designs from my “And Sew It Goes” fabric line (see the fabrics up close in this blog post) and supplemented them with Fusion Illusion, also from Blank Quilting.

Here’s quilt #1 again…you can get a better of idea of what the fabric looks like “up close and personal.”

And Sew It Goes #1 up close

All these designs are now with the Graphics Art department at QuiltWoman.com being turned into patterns as we speak.  I’m trying to refrain from bugging them everyday, but I can hardly wait!!!  “Holler” to Judy and Sarah!

I hope you enjoyed this little trunk show as much as I enjoyed presenting it!  You can just bet I’ll let you all know when the fabric starts hitting the quilt shops and the patterns are available!  Yippee!!!

My second fabric line, “And Sew It Goes” for Blank Quilting, should be hitting your favorite quilt shop soon.  Being the fabric’s designer, I get the fabric a tad sooner than the rest of the world.

Would you like to see what it looks like?  Here we go.  Drum roll please.  Introducing “And Sew It Goes”….

Do you get it?  “And SEW it goes”??  Yes, the pun WAS intended.

I’d love to know what you think about my fabric  (hint, hint…there’s a comment section down below).

I’ve got three quilts in the works using these fabrics.  I’m supplementing the 4 motifs with Fusion Illusion also by Blank Quilting.  When I have them done, I’ll show you. Of course, there will be patterns to accompany these quilts published by QuiltWoman.com.

My 2010 wild ride continues!  Who knew that my passion for color and quilting would turn into a terrific career!  I am SO grateful!