figo fabrics sold by Color Girl Quilts
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23 Aug
Giveaway

Grand Finale Summer Weekend #8

**Giveaway closed, Thanks for entering! The name drawn is Chandra! Thanks for a fun summer of giveaways, everyone (-: So excited to add a new designer and company to the shop! Figo Fabrics are here and they are SO FABULOUS! No surprise, the Mountain Meadow collection by Pippa Shaw looks fabulous with other prints in the shop. I've made a new Sew Colorful bundle that includes the new Figo Mountain Meadow prints as well as coordinating prints for a gorgeous mix of jewel tones and this week you can win it. The Jewel Fat Quarter bundle and lots of other Bundles...

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Bright fabric bundle sold by Color Girl Quilts
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16 Aug
Giveaway

Summer Weekend Giveaway week 7

**GIVEAWAY CLOSED** The winner is Gale B! She has been contacted via email to claim her prize. She chose the Bloom pattern and I hope she loves sewing it!! Thanks for all who entered, stay tuned for the next giveaway.** This week, it's all about bright colors! Because, after all, we ARE Colorful Quilters! Our summer weekend prize is a Sew Colorful Brights bundle **but wait, there's more! see below**. This is a group of fabrics I've put together from prints in the shop. It'll give your quilt a put-together-but-not-too-matchy look (-: The Brights and lots of other Bundles are for sale...

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Color Girl Quilts challenge project for quilters
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31 May
Announcements, Giveaway, Work in progress

Up For a Challenge? *giveaway*

June is here! We are all having a very creative year, right? As we approach the half-way point of the year, we are going to do something special this month: challenge ourselves to finish as many works-in-progress as possible. That's right: make a clean slate, tidy up the studio (and the mind!). Have you ever noticed that it's hard to feel creative when life and/or your space is cluttered? Don't worry, we are going to make it fun with some prizes! Starting a new quilt or other creative project is always so much fun and puts a lot of excitement in our...

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18 Feb
Announcements

Welcome to Color Girl, Now Even More Colorful!

I want to welcome each of you to the newly expanded Color Girl Quilts. I hope you poke around the shop a bit. There are some really fun new things to see and to make and to inspire! As you know, I have been designing and writing quilting patterns for several years and I am so grateful for the amazing response and support I have received from the quilting community. I am at a point now where it seemed natural to expand beyond patterns in some way. I thought a lot about where I wanted to go and what my...

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Choosing fabric by Sharon McConnell, quilting and patchwork
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14 Nov
Fabric

For the Love of Fabric: “Winged”

For the love of Fabric: that is a huge reason I quilt. There are so many beautiful designs to choose from and one of my favorite parts of the process is deciding what to put to together in my quilts. This involves color, print and texture. The new collection (released over the summer) from Art Gallery Fabrics, Winged, was designed by Bonnie Christine. The first thing that drew me to it was the "prettiness" of the prints with butterflies and flowers, and also the unique way she designed the bird prints. The colors are right up my alley, too,...

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Chicopee fabric by Denyse Schmidt for Free Spirit, quilting
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17 Oct
Fabric, Quilting Interest

For the Love of Fabric: A Secret Crush

This Love Fabric post features a bit of a throw-back: Chicopee by Denyse Schmidt. This collection is some years old, but still available from some shops. I have always really liked it but resisted the temptation to buy it because the colors were so distinctive, the fabrics would really only coordinate within the collection. Well, I found a bundle of the blue/green color way on sale recently and I finally caved to temptation! But that is because I have some ideas for mixing it... Another favorite: Sun Prints by Alison Glass. This was a series of prints released last year...

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