Join Us for an Addicted to Scraps Inspired Quilt Along in 2022!

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Quiltmaker Magazine turns 40 years old in 2022. What an amazing milestone! A few months ago, we started planning how we wanted to celebrate. What would be fun for our readers and create a special memory?

The celebration needed to:

Incorporate red since the ruby is the 40^th anniversary stone
Span the entire year
Represent the magazine in some special way

I wish you all could have been in on the brainstorming meeting for this one. It only took minutes to come up with the entire framework.

A red and white quilt design!
Let’s make it a quilt along for the entire year!
Let’s use blocks from the iconic column Addicted to Scraps by Bonnie Hunter!
We will call it Ruby Jubilee!

Next, we needed Bonnie’s blessing. I immediately asked Bonnie and she was in! She asked if we could come up with the design because she was knee-deep in her mystery, but she would help with finalizing the design and sew along. Denise Starck, editorial director and art director for Quiltmaker magazine, went to work creating the design. With ten years of Bonnie’s blocks to choose from, this was quite the undertaking. Since the blocks vary in size, she needed to find blocks that play well together. She also needed to make it super scrappy within the confines of the color palette—this is Bonnie Hunter after all.

Then, of course, we needed to get Bonnie’s approval. We showed her two different designs. Naturally, she combined the two to make it even scrappier!

Presenting The Quiltmaker Magazine 40^th Anniversary Mystery Quilt Along inspired by Bonnie Hunter’s Addicted to Scraps

It’s finally time—are you ready to sew along? The first issue hits newsstands on November 29^th, but the digital issue is available now. Click here to purchase the issue.

Here are my first blocks.