It’s time to once again start highlighting each of our new patterns that were just released at the Houston International Fall Quilt Market 2019. First on the list is Paint Box. You can purchase the pattern in paper or PDF format right here in our Colourwerx shop!
Paint Box was designed by Carl and the first version was specially made for Island Batik using our second signature batik collection with them called ‘Jewel Box’ designed for us by Kathy Brett Engle! As we preview more new patterns in the coming weeks, you’ll see this gorgeous collection of batiks used with each of our new designs! You can view the whole ‘Jewel Box” fabric collection by clicking here!
This little ‘Paint Box’ quilt has quickly become an all time favorite of mine to piece from beginning to end. Let me explain why….
First off – gathering the materials is so – so – so simple – all you need is (1) 2-1/2″ strip roll with at least 40 strips and two 1-yard cuts of coordinating fabrics – that’s it! From those materials, you’ll be able to make the 48″ x 48″ quilt top plus your binding. Throw in 3-1/4 yards backing materials and you are set! (This pattern is also a great stash buster so you could choose to cut the forty strips from your stash!) I used for my second ‘Paint Box’ version the fabulously rich jewel toned Me+You Rainbow assortment of batik strips pictured above!
You will also need the Creative Grids 90˙ Quarter Square Triangle Ruler (CGRT90). You can purchase the ruler from your favorite quilt shop or right here in our Colourwerx shop!
Next sort the strips from your roll into groups – here’s where the fun begins 🙂 – you can sort by color, design, or just because – anything looks great!
Once you’ve cut and sorted your fabrics, its easy strip piecing and lots of it – but it goes fast! I love this step in the process – although I still have to concentrate on my 1/4″ seam, I find strip piecing of this nature very relaxing and easy going.
Next a little pressing and some fun cutting of triangles using the Creative Grids 90˙ Quarter Square Triangle Ruler. And voila!
Lay out the triangles according to the pattern, sew triangles units together to form blocks, sew blocks together to form rows, sew rows together and you’re done! It really is that simple!
To date, I have made five versions of our Paint Box pattern, including the two versions mentioned above.
Here’s another version and this one graces the pattern cover because it truly came out so #colouricious! This version uses Christa Watson’s newest fabric collection from Bernartex Contempo Fabrics called ‘Grid Work’. You can view the whole collection by clicking here and purchase these fabrics in Christa’s shop by clicking here.
Christa’s new fabrics are full of pure color and fun geometric designs so the combination of her “GridWork’ fabrics and the Paint Box pattern created a dynamic and fun quilt for sure!
We also made two versions for our friends at Free Spirit Fabrics, using of course, the new Kaffe Fassett Collective also coming to your local quilt shops and available in February 2020.
So go ahead and give it a try -it’s really so much fun!
Purchase the Paper Paint Box Pattern here! Purchase the PDF Paint Box Pattern here!
And also be sure to check back into our Colourwerx shop as we will have kits for most of these versions coming real soon!
And of course, by all means – please do send us a picture of your completed Paint Box quilts – we always love to see and share all of your beautiful creations made using our Colourwerx patterns!
Carl and I are so thankful for your support and wish you happy and bright quilting always! Until your next colour fix~ L&C xxoo
We’re one of the last stops on the hop so first let me say – there are giveaways!!! Yippee! Christa and the nice folks at Benartex are giving away an Abstract Garden Fat Quarter Bundle and we here at Colourwerx are also throwing in a pattern pack of the three patterns we used when making the projects you see here: 
UPDATE!! AnneD from @batiksbythebay – you are the randomly selected winner for our Blue Moon Batik Blog Hop – please email or dm me at colourwerx@embarqmail.com with your mailing address to receive your prize!! Thank you to everyone for playing along!! 
To market, to market we go! As always, the Fall Quilt Market was held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston. Except this market, someone came knocking early – yup – Hurricane Harvey crashed our quilty party a few months prior. Many of us vendors and many more shop owners and attendees were concerned that either Houston would not recover or that 
the promoters of the Quilt Market would be forced to cancel. Well, I’m happy to report that neither was true and Quilt Market went off without a hitch – and amazingly, there was no sight of any effect from Hurricane Harvey except for upbeat banners and artwork like this one throughout the city! The downtown Houston area was lively and the convention center (which just completed a gorgeous 2 year revitalization) was perfect! And added to this excitement, the Houston Astros were in the World Series! This all made for a very exciting market to say the least!
We also attended our first ever Sample Spree selling already made Mini ModDog samples along with 6 Mini ModDog patterns – this way, shop owners have an already made sample and take it right back to their shop and start selling the patterns – nifty idea, right?!…Here’s Carl, moments before the madness started. Btw, the dog samples were a hit and the shop owners were thrilled to have an already made sample! Below is a slideshow of all the Mini ModDogs samples we put together – we made 2-4 versions of all the styles you see – all in all, we estimated that we stitched up about 45 samples in the weeks prior to market – Wowwee!
Anyway, back to Houston….We had a single booth space just a few spots away from one of our favorite fabric companies, 
Like our previous booth at Houston (which I blogged about in 
which meant we could take the entirety of the booth – piping, rugs, decor, displays and tables all in the car and all ready for set up in a day without having to leave the convention center. It was great! and a big relief to know that we had everything we needed packed and ready to go when we got there. The car was a bit cramped though and due to the 10 foot pipe extending from the front window shield to the back, I was resigned to the back seat for the ride-check out the photo to the right for my view for 16 hours there and back again! It was spacious but still in the back.
Carl also designed this nifty display table which was the talk of market…the table was a glass topped-metal bookcase purchased from Ikea -he added a 
cheap metal curtain rod with metal tie backs (bought at Walmart) and created a hanging rod on the front, perfect for displaying a quilt – what a genius!. Then our friend 
An additional thrill was to have one have one of our commissioned designs featured in the Free Spirit Fabrics Quilt Gallery. This was such an honor as this was a special exhibit set up by Free Spirit Fabrics to showcase new fabric collections with accompanying quilts (which will be offered as free patterns when the fabric collection is released.)
We were asked to design and make a quilt for Nel Whatmore’s new collection “Rosealea. “Rosealea” is a beautiful fabric collection chocked full of vintage cottage roses reminiscent of 
English countrysides. To the left is our design titled “Roundabout”. Carl designed this in the software program called, Electric Quilt 7 – I paper pieced it and 
And to sweeten the deal and to thank you for your patience, we’re offering a New Year’s Special…save 20% off all orders just using the code NEWYEAR20 at checkout. This special will be for limited time and expires on January 15, 2016. All orders for printed patterns will ship out no later than Friday, January 8th (PDF’s will be available as a digital download file immediately after placing your order).
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