The Quilt and Needle Now Offers Instant Download Patterns!

Jess and I have exciting news!  The Quilt and Needle has jumped on the Instant Download Pattern bandwagon!
You now have a choice between ordering a paper pattern and waiting for it to arrive in your mailbox or you can now order an instant download pattern PDF file and have it sent to your email inbox - what fun!!!
Today's featured Instant Download Pattern is Someday, click here to order.

Guest Blogger: Claiming our blog

Hello Everyone,

Most of you know by now that Google Reader is going away. So we are 'claiming' our blog on Bloglovin.
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Have a great day!

Dorian

Guest Blogger: Saturday Special...coming in May!

Howdy Everyone! It's been a long time since I've posted here. Having a 1yr means a lot less time :)

I wanted to tell you about our Saturday Special on the forum next month, May 18th.

We will be making my Pats' Gems pattern. Go here to see the original one.

But for this Saturday Special, I changed it slightly. Instead of  4x6 rows, it is 6x8 rows and doesn't have the pieced border. It is roughly 54" x 70".

This is a charm pack friendly pattern, or you can use a layer cake, yardage or scraps! 

For this pattern you will need:

Seventy-five 5" squares, in five different colors. They don't have to be the same shade. For example, for my blue color I used a medium blue, a light blue and one that has a white background with blue flowers on it.

 10 green
  9 pink
12 purple
24 blue
20 orange

 And 2.5 yrds of contrasting background fabric. Cut this into seventy-five 5" squares, forty 4.5" squares and six 3.5"x wof for the borders.

If you have FQ's, you can use them too. Here's the rundown on them...Thanks Pat! Cut into 5" squares.

1 green
1 pink
1 purple
2 blue
2 orange

I hope you all will come and join us on May 18th. I'll put a pdf up on the forum. We'll have  a thread so we can show off our fabric choices and show our progress.

Have a great day!
Dorian  

"Outside The Box" now at Keepsake Quilting!

Jessica J. E. Smith and The Quilt and Needle are extremely proud to announce that Keepsake Quilting now sells Jess' "Outside The Box" pattern as well as fabric kits!  We are very excited about this and wanted to share with all our quilting friends!

"Outside The Box" was our Mystery Pattern design for Summer 2012 and has received rave reviews by all who have made this quilt.  To see more "Outside The Box" quilts, please visit our forum's photo album here.

SALE!!! 10 Random 1-Yard Cuts of Fabric for only $33!!

It’s February, the month of Love and who doesn’t love a surprise? Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Jess and I want to give you a special deal. 10 random one-yard cuts of fabrics for only $33.00 – yes, you read that right, 10 yards of fabric for only $33.00! Oh YAY! That is more than 66% off the original price of our fabrics. Jess will randomly select ten fabrics and cut one yard of each for your order. All our fabrics are top quilt-shop quality. We really want you to help us clear out the current inventory to make room for new fabric kits AND the new patterns that will be coming to the Quilt & Needle webstore soon. Don’t miss out on this deal, order your Surprise Fabric Box today!