Cascade Blog Tour + a giveaway!

Hi friends, and welcome to those new readers that are visiting from the Cascade Blog Tour! 

I’m happy to be a part of the Blog Hop for Jessica Levitt’s new fabric line called Cascade (Windham Fabrics).  Jessica’s inspiration for this line was the many colors and forms of water.  The name of it instantly reminded me of the Pacific Northwest where I grew up.  The Cascade mountain range is filled with such beauty- vast forests, rivers, waterfalls, lakes- and many, many bodies of water!   

You can read more about Jessica’s inspiration as she created this line here on her blog.  I really enjoy hearing every designer’s inspiration and thought process as they create a new line.  So interesting!

I had the chance to work with some of the fabrics to create a table runner for Jessica’s quilt market booth.  Aren’t these lovely? 

The table runner I created is made up of just four blocks from one of my newest patterns.  The quilt pattern is called “Division” and will be available for purchase later this week.  I’ll be talking more about Division in my next blog post.

Ok confession time.  I actually made two table toppers.  The topper in these photos was version #1, with soft, wavy (water-like) quilting lines.  I wasn’t happy with the result however, so instead of unpicking all of that quilting, I just made another one and gave it the straight line quilting treatment.  Much better!  So that’s the one that I sent off to Jessica!  You can see a little of the wavy quilting lines in this photo below -

Here’s a pic of the second topper with the straight line quilting.  This photo below is from the Cascade look book, where you can get a good look at more projects using Cascade fabrics!  To see the whole collection, visit the Windham Fabrics site here. 

Be sure to visit the other stops along the blog hop and check out the fun projects that others have made with Cascade!

Monday October 13th - Jessica Levitt - Juicy Bits / Windham Fabrics
Tuesday October 14th - Julie Herman - Jaybird Quilts / Jenn Nevitt -knit ’n lit
Wednesday October 15th - Amanda Kattner - What the Bobbin / Andy Knowlton – A Bright Corner
Thursday October 16th - Marci Debataz - Marci Girl Designs / Jennifer Auh Chon - Sunny in Cal
Friday October 17th - Angela Walters - Quilting is my Therapy / Rachel Gander - Imagine Gnats
Saturday October 18th - Elizabeth Timmons - and pins / Andrea Taddicken - knitty bitties
Sunday October 19th - Erin Erickson - Dog Under my Desk / Jessica Skultety - Quilty Habitt
Monday October 20th  - Caroline Press - Trillium Design / Karin Jordan - Leigh Laurel Studios


Giveaway time!  Windham fabrics is giving a fat quarter bundle of Cascade to one of my lucky readers!  To enter simply leave a comment below - just one!.  I’d love to hear what your favorite body of water is.  Do you have a favorite local lake or river?  My current favorite is a spot called Bridal Veil Falls here in Utah.  Simply gorgeous – all year ‘round!  The giveaway will close at midnight (MST) on Tuesday, October 21st.  If you’re a no-reply blogger be sure to leave an email so I have a way to contact you if you win!  I'll draw the winner using a random number generator and announce it here on Oct 22nd.

 Good luck!  And thanks for stopping by!

edited to add:  Giveaway is now closed - thanks for entering!