Thank you to everyone for all the great quilt names and comments!  It took us a while to read through 700 submissions and narrow the list down, but we’ve narrowed it down to our favorites below.  In the case of names or words that occurred more than once we hunted through the comments to find the first time appeared and only exactly as it appeared.  The finalists were then sent on to Beth Hayes at McCalls for the final selection during their Quilt Naming meeting.  The final vote at McCalls for Tilt-A-Whirl – Congrats to Kris!!

Quilt Name Semi Finalists

“Picnic on the Square” by Gayla May    on 3/15    3.32pm
“Liberty Junction” by Jacquie in OK   on 3/16    4:11pm
“Spin-A-Little, Spin-A-Lot!” by Jeriann Massey  on 3/19    4:29pm
“Summer Spinners” by Deonne Goudy    on 3/19    5:34pm
“Blades of Glory” by Joey Jmmahieu   on 3/19    5 :43pm
“Tilt-A-Whirl” by Kris Jarchow on 3/15    6:30pm WINNER selected by McCall’s
“Liberty pin” by Jeri Fuqua  on  3/19    10:23pm
“Carousel” by Evelyn Frey on 3/19    2:33pm
“Parade Day” by Angel Griesemer    on 3/27    5:14

Last month we finished a great new project for Beth Hayes at McCall’s Quilting and told everyone to stay posted for a great chance to win a huge stack of Fat Quarters from Robert Kaufman….50 assorted red, white and blue prints that we used to make the quilt.

If you have been wanting to make a red, white and blue quilt, this massive stack should be all you need!

How Can You Win….

We were having trouble coming up with a name for this fun little number so we asked Beth if it would be OK to run a contest to come up with a name for the quilt. Leave a comment suggesting a name for the quilt below, one quilt name per comment, leave as many comments as you like and be sure to comment on this page as these comments are the only ones we’ll be pooling.  If we get multiple names that are the same, we’ll select the one that was submitted first so be sure to be original!  Due to the high volume of comments we’ve gotten so far, we’ll pick our top 10 name finalists and send those to Beth at McCalls where she will make the final selection. Contest closes April 1st (this contest is now closed), winner will be notified by the end of April. Good luck!

It’s a rare thing when you come up with a cool idea for a quilt and can go from idea, to sewing room, to finished project in less than a day…  That’s what happened last summer when I was down at Colleens for a visit.  It was August and in South & Central Florida that means you’re inside your air conditioned fortress or in the pool – seriously, it is like the surface of Venus here that time of year.  Anyway, after several grueling days of catching up on 6 months of Toadusew paperwork, accounting and other such yuck, we decided it was time to hit the pool with a cold drink.  Colleens pool has wide brick pavers all the way around it which can be a great surface to “doodle” on with a wet finger .  So we floated along the side of the pool for a while doodling with water on the hot pavers until our crude hieroglyphics led us to rocket ships and the creative things we do to make them into a special quilt.

Fueled by chardonnay, our cooling dip in the pool and some of Colleen’s husbands wonderful food, we hit the design wall and sewing machines with the enthusiasm of a child opening a brand new lego set…  We only had the evening to play with our idea as I was leaving in the morning.  We had a rough plan, some fabric picked out, a fresh bottle of wine and less than 4 hours (Colleen turns into a sleepy pumpkin after 9 PM LOL).  We ended up sewing til 11 PM, but were amazed that the quilt we had designed less than 6 hours ago using sandstone and water, was finished and hanging on the design wall.  Very Cool!!

We hope you’ll check out our little Space Camp quilt in the Current Issue of McCall’s Quick Quilts, and if you like it, we do have a few kits still available for only $39!!

The contest we offered last week for the Red, white and blue McCall’s quilt is now closed – Congrats to Karen Skinner, our lucky winner! Be sure to keep an eye out for the second contest we’ll be running that is related to this project – a FQ bundle of Robert Kaufman fabrics that we used to make the quilt will be up for grabs in the near future!