Jo, Nancy, Judie...

How many quilters out there have favourite fabric designers?  I know I certainly do!  I am definitely a Civil War reproduction fabric-a-holic!  I use to belong to Jo's Little Women Club at my LQS and thus have a "stash" of just Jo, however, my quilting room has shelves with other lovely designers too.  Both Nancy Gere and Judie Rothermel are currently keeping the dust away from said shelves and I enjoy fondling and petting their wonderful designs at pretty much any given time.  Now come on, I can't be the only one who sits and stares at the loveliness that is her own fabric!

Aside from taking part (at one time) in Jo's Little Women, I also have aspirations to make my own Dear Jane, Civil War Diaries Quilt, and Farmer's Wife.  Is this all jibber-jabber to you?  I emplore you to check them out!  A block at a time, a bit here and there, a get-together with tea and your needle & thread...  You can do it!

Aside from the picture of my "Country Lanes" (from Jo Morton's Remembrances book) below, here are a couple of others:

Broken Dishes from Jo's Little Women Club.  This is such a cute pattern.  I thought that since there are very few seams I would learn hand quilting on it.  I'm not doing too badly, but it's STILL not finished, I better add it to my UFO list!

This one is one of my favourites!  It is also a quilt from Jo's Little Women, but I think the only thing that is the same as hers on this one is the border fabric.  It was supposed to be made as a group of 3 (each with different shapes and sizes), however I only made this one.  And yes, it's 12"!  I just love it!  Obviously it's not finished either, gotta get it quilted!  Another one for the UFO list!

I worked on this one for an entire day and  managed to get the whole top done - wow!  So many tiny pieces and bias edges.  Thankfully in the end I only had to re-do one seam so it was to my liking.  Don't the cutting mat and striped plastic table cloth set this off so nicely (gag!).

How about you?  Any favourite designers?  I know Moda's Bake Shop puts out some fabulous pre-cuts of many wonderful designers (Fig Tree, 3 Sisters, etc).  Which reminds me, I think I have a couple of quilts to add to my to-do list with some of their fabrics as well!