Christmas In July Blog Hop For Windham Fabrics

I'm delighted to be joining Windham Fabrics today on Day 1 of their Christmas in July 2017 Blog Hop, sharing their brand new Bread and Butter Joy holiday collection.

The collection has 3 fabric designs - candy canes, holiday text and a snowflake inspired diagonal stripe in 4 seasonal colour ways - black, green, red and white.

I've made a raw edged circle applique quilt that's always a hit when I teach it as a class. The quilt top and binding are worked using 5 fabrics from the Joy collection on a white solid background and I'm backing my quilt with Cardinal solid red from Windham's Palette collection by Marcia Derse.

Disclosure: 

Fabrics for the quilt, along with the FQ bundle giveaway, are supplied by Windham Fabrics for the purposes of the blog hop and at no cost to mbCD, all other materials are my own.   

Christmas In July Blog Hop For Windham Fabrics

When Windham's fabric bundle arrived, I knew it would be perfect for my raw edge circle applique quilt.  The quilt measures 26" x 35", it's small with huge impact, makes a great gift for a baby or small child and, come December, I'll be using this one as a seasonal wall hanging.

Do you love raw edge applique as much as I do?

 

The colours really are striking and are calling out "HOLIDAYS"!!!

The Windham Palette backing fabric has an uneven dye effect resembling a hand-dyed fabric and adds way more interest than a full solid ever could.

Black and white bindings are always a winner and I've used my pattern matching tute to join the binding strips.

Fancy making make your own Ellipse baby quilt/wall hanging?

The great news is that you can as later this week I'll be releasing the Ellipse pattern in my Craftsy pattern store.  I'll announce the release via social media so follow me if you'd like to know more.

When you purchase the pattern, you'll have exclusive access to my full raw edge circle quilt instructions and tons of tips, previously available only by attending my Manhattan classes.  

And now for the giveaway!

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Windham Fabrics are giving away a Holiday-Themed FQ bundle!

Open to US + International Entries

My fave Christmas song 😍 is the controversial 1987 Fairytale of New York by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl.  Hugely popular in the UK, I've thoroughly enjoyed my last 7 Christmas Eves walking the streets 🚖 of Manhattan and singing this with my kids.  If you're struggling with the lyrics ❔❕❔ here's a link so you can read them and a Wiki link explaining the background to the song.

Here's How To Enter
For your chance to win a Windham Fabrics holiday-themed FQ bundle, leave a comment telling me your favourite Christmas song ⛄.

For an additional chance to win follow my blog in some way: 
blog reader; Bloglovin'; Facebook; Instagram; 
or my Newsletter and leave a comment letting me know.

NOTE: Please be sure I can access your email. If you're a WordPress, Google+, no-reply or an anonymous commenter, or maybe you're just not sure, please add your email address to each comment.  If I can't find you I'll immediately draw another winner. 

This giveaway is open to US + International entries and closes on Sunday, 23 July 2017 at 8.00 pm (EST).  A winner will be chosen from the comments using a random number generator, contacted via email and shared here in this post.  Giveaway bundles will be mailed directly from Windham Fabrics to the winner.

Best of luck!

AND THE WINNER IS!!!

The winner of the holiday-themed FQ bundle is comment #46 by Barb.

Barb wasn't on her own in naming her fave Christmas song as Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley - Ioleen and Nancy B love it too and I can't agree more especially as I've had Elvis' Christmas album on vinyl (remember those days?!) since it's Camden re-release in 1975.

Many congratulations Barb,  I've sent you an email asking for your snail mail address so be sure to check your junk folder if it isn't in your inbox. :D

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Windham Fabrics 
Christmas in July 2017 Blog Hop Schedule:
Monday, 17 July - Chris Dodsley @made by ChrissieD
Tuesday, 18 July - Sam Hunter @Hunter's Design Studio
Wednesday, 19 July - Debby Kratovil @Debby Kratovil Quilts
Thursday, 20 July - Brooke Sellmann @Silly Mamma Quilts
Friday, 21 July - Jennie @Clover and Violet
Saturday, 22 July - Wendy Sheppard @Ivory Spring

If you're new to my blog, you'll enjoy taking a look at my blog post/tutes for Windham's 2016 Christmas in July Blog Hop too.



I hope you've enjoyed my day on Windham's Christmas in July Blog Hop.  Follow the Christmas in July Blog Hop schedule for a chance to win a different holiday themed FQ bundle daily on each blog, and head over to Windham's Snip-Its blog to find out more.



Christmas In July Blog Hop For Windham Fabrics

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Disclosure: 

Fabrics for the quilt, along with the FQ bundle giveaway, are supplied by Windham Fabrics for the purposes of the blog hop and at no cost to mbCD, all other materials are my own.   This post contains Craftsy affiliate links for which I am paid commission on click-through purchases (at no additional cost to you). Otherwise, no payment or commission is received for click-throughs to shared links; the post is for informational purposes only and all opinions are my own. 

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