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Sew Lux
Pouch Club
Chrissy Lux
of Sew Lux Fabric

Every 3rd Thursday of the month

Learn new skills and techniques while making a new pouch every month with this fun series! The Sew Lux Pouch Club was a hit on our blog in 2023, and we're excited to continue this series with Chrissy Lux of Sew Lux Fabric. Visit the Moda blog on the third Thursday of each month to see Chrissy's tips and tutorials for making the latest pattern.

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Past Pouch Club blog posts

APQ magazine
Designer Challenge
Joanna Figueroa
of Fig Tree & Co.

Every APQ issue in 2024

In this new feature, called “Designer Challenge: A Conversation on Modern and Traditional Quilting,” Joanna will invite a different designer to interpret a traditional quilt block in a modern way. Each issue will bring a new block that Joanna and her guest have chosen, along with their two interpretations of that block -- one traditional and one modern -- as well as a conversation between the designers on the traditional to modern continuum in quilting. Be sure to subscribe to APQ and visit Joanna's blog for each installment of this exciting series!

Find out more:
Joanna's blog post introducing the Designer Challenge

A Quilting Life
Mystery Quilt BOM
Sherri McConnell
of A Quilting Life

Every 1st Monday of the month

Join Moda designer Sherri McConnell for her annual mystery quilt BOM quilt-along, kicking off January 1, 2024! This year's quilt will feature fabrics from her latest collection, Strawberry Lemonade. Visit Sherri's blog and YouTube channel to see the latest blocks every first Monday of the month throughout 2024.

Find out more:
A Quilting Life 2024 BOM blog post
A Quilting Life YouTube channel

Blockheads 5
Moda Designers
Every week on Wednesday, beginning January 3

Our much-loved, annual block-of-the-week program is bigger than ever! The original Blockheads series featured six deisgners; for Blockheads 5, more than 30 designers are contributing block designs! Every Wednesday on the Moda blog and in our official Moda Blockheads Facebook group, we reveal a new block by a different designer. This year, we split the program into two sessions. The first group just wrapped up in November 2023. The second group will kick off on January 3, 2024 and run through July 31, 2024. It's never too late to join the fun! Visit our Blockheads archive page and join the Facebook group and be a Blockhead with us!

Find out more:
Moda Blockheads 5 archive post
Official Moda Blockheads Facebook group

Chatsworth
Doug Leko
of Antler Quilt Designs

Every 4th Thursday of the month through August

Join Doug and the Moda team as he shares blocks, tools, and more to make the Chatsworth quilt. He will be sharing several Moda fabric color options as well!

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More details coming to the Moda blog soon!

Garden Gatherings
quilt-along
Lisa Bongean
of Primitive Gatherings

Starting in January

Watch for more details coming soon!

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Lisa Bongean's blog

American Gatherings
quilt-along
Lisa Bongean
of Primitive Gatherings

Starting in February

Watch for more details coming soon!

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Lisa Bongean's blog

All Wound Up Sampler
Lynne Hagmeier
of Kansas Troubles Quilters

Starting in March

Join Lynne of Kansas Troubles Quilts for the All Wound Up Sampler quilt-along! This six-month series makes a generously sized quilt finishing at 82" x 102", with an option for a king-size (96" x 108") version too. You can order a kit from Kansas Troubles Quilters (three shipments of fabric) or follow along and use your own stash. More info will be available on the KT website on January 15, 2024. The All Wound Up Sampler quilt-along features a Facebook Live tutorial with Lynne each month!

Find out more:
Kansas Troubles Quilters website

Piece and Quilt Sampler
Kimberly Jolly
of Fat Quarter Shop
March 2024 - February 2025

Join Fat Quarter Shop for a year-long quilt-along of the Piece and Quilt Sampler from "Celebrate With Quilts" by Lissa Alexander and Susan Ache. Pick a fat quarter bundle of your favorite Moda collection and join us! Kimberly will be sewing her Piece and Quilt Sampler using the Shoreline collection by Camille Roskelley.

Find out more:
FQS Jolly Jabber blog

Prism Party
Anna Dineen
and the Moda Team

March 1-17, 2024

Join us for the Moda Prism Party quilt-along as we make a rainbow wall hanging, pillow, and bunting from our Prism Party pattern! Prism Party was designed for Cathe Holden's Curated in Color collection (shown here), but we'll show you just how versatile this fun pattern can be with colorways that range from scrappy to modern neutral ombres. We'll also show you our favorite tips and tricks for the different finishing techniques included in the pattern.

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More details coming to the Moda blog soon!

Flower Stand
Heather Briggs
of My Sew Quilty Life

Starting in April

Flower Stand is a six-month BOM featuring the Flower Girl fabric collection by Heather Briggs of My Sew Quilty Life. This unique program is the ultimate BOM experience! Each month, you'll receive two Flower Stand block patterns sealed in a fun envelope. Along the way, there will also be exciting prizes, special giveaways, and chances to be featured in My Sew Quilty Life's newsletter, blog, and social media. The pattern is available directly through My Sew Quilty Life.

Find out more:
Flower Stand BOM Experience

Monster Mash Sampler
Vanessa Goertzen
of Lella Boutique

Starting in May

Time for a frightfully fun Halloween sampler project from Lella Boutique! Pick your favorite 16" Halloween blocks from the Hey Boo pattern collection and get ready for a spooky good time. Block patterns are from LB230 Ghost Town, LB231 Pushing Up Daisies, LB232 Frank, and LB233 Tricks & Treats. Vanessa will also be releasing individual block pattern downloads each month for $5 each as another way to access the patterns. Visit the Lella Boutique website for more details!

Find out more:
Monster Mash Sampler QAL information

Cuddle Up Sampler
Corey Yoder
of Coriander Quilts

Starting in June

Join Corey Yoder to make this adorable Cuddle Up Sampler quilt featuring her Starberry fabric collection! Watch for more details coming soon!

Find out more:
Coriander Quilts blog

Game Night
Ruby Star Society Designers
Starting in June

Join Ruby Star Society for a fun quilt-along as they make the Game Night quilt, a precut-friendly, modular, and modern quilt inspired by a children's board game and the whimsical Picture Book fabric collection by Kim Kight. The four-week QAL will be hosted on the Ruby Star Society Instagram account in June. This quilt-along is a great beginner pattern for those who want to learn to sew curves! Watch for more details coming soon. 

Find out more:
Ruby Star Society on Instagram
Get the free Game Night pattern

Dear Santa
quilt-along
Lisa Bongean
of Primitive Gatherings

Starting in July

Watch for more details coming soon!

Find out more:
Lisa Bongean's blog

 

Sherri McConnell and Chelsi Stratton: A Quilting Life

Is design talent genetic?

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Published: Jun 4 2015 - 06:00
Posted in: Fabrics

I'm feeling lucky... like Clover

Clover Hollow is the lovely new collection from the mother-daughter team of Sherri McConnell and Chelsi Stratton ~ aka Sherri & Chelsi.

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Published: Aug 7 2018 - 05:00
Posted in: Books and Patterns Fabrics

I'm feeling lucky... like Clover

Clover Hollow is the lovely new collection from the mother-daughter team of Sherri McConnell and Chelsi Stratton ~ aka Sherri & Chelsi.

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Published: Aug 7 2018 - 05:00
Posted in: Books and Patterns Fabrics

New beginnings...

Appetizers first - then the main dish. Because I know so many of the names entered, one of the ladies in the office wheeled the computer mouse back-and-forth and picked a random winner from the comments... Michelle of Island Life Quilts. To everyone else - thank you!  I promise to save more stuff "next time".  I loved reading the comments about what you were doing for the weekend, your thoughts on going to Quilt Market maybe-someday-eventually and what you thought that would be like.  I liked that many of you wanted to meet the designers...

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Published: Jun 2 2015 - 03:00
Posted in: Fabrics

enJOY!

As we come to the end of our JOYful blog, I knew this series wouldn't be complete without one special person. Our president, Mr. Mark Dunn!  :) This week I got the opportunity to visit with him about this wonderful company he built andfind out what it is that truly brings him joy.  Let me take you back to the 1970's where it all began...Mark's father started his notions business in Atlanta, GA in the early 1970's.Mark worked along side his father for several years learning the trade.

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Published: Dec 18 2013 - 10:00
Posted in: Fabrics

Sherri and Chelsi

Sherri and Chelsi of A Quilting Life are a mother-daughter team living just a few miles away from each other in southern Nevada. Sherri is married and the mother of four children. She attended Brigham Young University and received a Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Nevada Las Vegas in 1989. Inspired by her rich family heritage of generations of women who loved sewing and creating, Sherri learned to sew after receiving a sewing machine for her tenth birthday. She began making quilts thanks to the gentle persuasion of her grandmother a few years after finishing college. During the summer of 2008, she started her quilting blog, which led to her discovery of the amazing online community of quilters and makers. She has been publishing her designs in magazines and books since 2011. Her first book, A Quilting Life: Creating a Handmade Home, was published in 2013, with Fresh Family Traditions published in 2014. Her third book, co-authored with friend and fellow Moda designer Corey Yoder, Sunday Best Quilts: 12 Must Make Quilts You’ll Love Forever, released in June 2019. Sherri has a fourth book released in May 2020—Labor of Love: Scrappy Quilts at the Heart of Home. And her fifth book: Home & Hearth: Quilts and More to Cozy Up Your Décor released in fall 2021. Her love of organizing prompted her to write the A Quilting Life Planner: A Portable Guide to Getting (and Staying) Organized, which was published in September 2020. And the follow-up full-size planner—A Quilting Life Planner and Workbook released in October 2021. In the spring of 2022, Home for the Holidays: Quilts and More to Welcome the Season released—co-authored with her daughter Chelsi Stratton. She continues to blog at www.aquiltinglife.com and is also blessed to be able to design fabric for Moda with her daughter Chelsi Stratton; their fifteenth fabric collection together arrives in shops in February 2023. Chelsi is married and the mother of two sweet daughters, Ashton and Harper, and a baby boy, Finn. She enjoys being at home with her young children and loves the adventures that go along with motherhood. Art materials were always the perfect gift for Chelsi as she has always loved to draw, paint and create. Sherri will tell you that she was repainting the house frequently because Chelsi loved drawing on the walls. She is passionate about nature, music and fashion – things that inspire her art today. And like her Mom, she has always loved the creative process. Working with fabric was inevitable as she remembers rummaging through the pile of fabrics in the sewing room looking for just the right combination, and she often went to sleep listening to the hum of her Mom’s sewing machine from the adjoining room. Sherri and Chelsi feel incredibly blessed to be able to design fabric for Moda.

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Kansas Troubles

I signed up for my first quilting class more than 34 years ago at a local quilt shop. When I admired a pattern with houses and stars, the owner asked if I’d like to make a sample for the shop with my payment as a kit for the same project. I returned a week later with two completed quilts – one for the shop and one for me. The sample for the shop was made exactly like the pattern had instructed with dozens of template pieces and y-seams. My quilt was a bit different… I had simplified the pattern by using connecting corners and layered triangles. That’s when the shop owner informed me, “You’ll never amount to anything as a quilter if you can’t follow instructions.” I took this as a challenge. For the next few years, I made little quilts to sell and peddled my own patterns locally until I finally took the leap and attended International Quilt Market. A Block-of-the-Month quilt I’d created using mostly Moda fabrics caught their attention and I was asked to join the Moda Designer team the following market. That was 24 years ago. More than 75 fabric collections later, I still embrace the nature-inspired color palette and prints that are Kansas Troubles’ classics. I’m continually learning and growing as a designer, developing more simplified ways to piece traditional quilt blocks using my Layered Patchwork technique. I enjoy sharing my quilts and methods with quilters all over the country, teaching at quilt guilds, shops and on cruises. What a delightful way to spend your life, surrounded by quilts and quilters!

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End of an Era...and the Start of Another

Whenever a well-known duo splits, it’s challenging for the rest of us. Think Angelina and Brad. Sonny and Cher. Kermit and Miss Piggy. Minick and Simpson. Wait…what??? (Don’t worry, the show will go on!)

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Published: Nov 1 2018 - 04:00
Posted in: Fabrics Trending

End of an Era...and the Start of Another

Whenever a well-known duo splits, it’s challenging for the rest of us. Think Angelina and Brad. Sonny and Cher. Kermit and Miss Piggy. Minick and Simpson. Wait…what??? (Don’t worry, the show will go on!)

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Published: Nov 1 2018 - 04:00
Posted in: Fabrics Trending