Check out this magazine cover for Autumn: corn maze and pumpkin spice on a quilt! Make this easy quilt for your home or as a gift. And, read on for a giveaway!
Yes, that is my quilt on the cover of the September 2021 issue of American Quilter magazine. How awesome! I made “Corn Maze” using amazing batiks from Moda‘s Sunny Day collection. The fabrics have all the colors I most love and fun textures that add lots of depth to the design, making it really difficult to choose just a few for a project. Batiks are my most favorite fabrics to work with – they bring charm to modern or traditional home decor.
Look at some of the ones I picked for this quilt:
I used a white background to make the bright colors pop. The yellow butterfly border is gorgeous, at once pulling the colors together and brightening the design with the hues of the corn. Teal has appeared in many of my Autumn quilts in the past few years, a cool departure from the greens we see in fabrics for this season. Here is one example of another quilt published by American Quilter magazine with teal in an Autumn quilt – LOVE!
Autumn colors are my favorite so I am always looking for projects to use all the fabrics (huge stash!) of prints that work well with the season. If you are like me and enjoy sewing Fall projects, look at this publication that you can download – it has many projects you will make and gift, I am sure!
Corn Maze measures 69-1/2″ x 83″ and the blocks finish at 12″. The blocks do not require advanced sewing techniques so this pattern is perfect for a beginner quilter. Follow the easy instructions in the magazine beginning on page 19 so you can have it ready in one weekend because you will be sewing two types of blocks only.
This is also a great stash buster project. Yet, imagine what a great time you will have as you add more fabrics to your ‘collection’! As you see above, I repeated the yellow and the dark orange fabrics on the chain block: contrast and repetition can’t be forgotten when you are selecting fabrics for your quilts.
You can make a pillow with each block by adding simple borders to make them 16″, the size of standard pillow forms, and place them on the opposite side from where you will display your quilt.
This photograph portrays all that is wonderful about Fall and more. I miss living in New England where I used to take my oldest son on hayrides and pumpkin picking. To be sure, my youngest boys enjoyed the same fun time while we lived in Maryland but, for me, having first settled in New England when I moved to the US almost 35 years ago, Autumn and that part of the country are forever etched on my mind as synonyms.
Since I can’t be there, I now have a corn maze and pumpkin spice on a quilt!
Melissa from Sew Shabby Quilting chose the best quilting motif for Corn Maze, don’t you agree? It is called Funky Fans and fits the theme of the quilt so well! I hardly ever tell Melissa what I would like because she knows exactly which motif will work best. I drop off the quilts at her place and she calls me when her magic is done. At times, she will text me with a couple of options but, otherwise, she gets all the credit for the finishing touches. Afterward, I add the binding and the sleeve while I listen to a good book on Audible.
Now, for the giveaway: I have seven 3/8 yards and two 1/2 yards of the fabrics I worked with, as well as two copies of the September 2021 issue of American Quilter magazine so you can jump right in and begin working on Corn Maze. You will love the fabrics and will make a few of the other beautiful quilts featured in the magazine. Remember, when you become a member of the AQS Society you get the magazine online, too, and discounts and early access to a bunch of events.
To enter this giveaway, leave a comment below with your fondest memory of Autumn. I will randomly select two winners on Monday, August 16, so you have until Sunday the 15th at midnight to enter. The first winner will get the magazine and fabrics, the second will get a copy of the magazine. This giveaway is open to all, regardless of where you live!
One last thing: take advantage of the pre-sale for my quilt pattern writing course. Speaking of pattern writing, off I am to write a few more. Have a great day!
I have sweet memories of taking my sons to the pumpkin patch when they were little.
Kelly,
You won a copy of the American Quilter magazine! Send me an email with your address!
I love your quilt! My fondest memories if autumn are going to orchards to pick up some pumpkins, apples, and cider. Everything tasted better when you got it straight from the orchard!!
September apple picking with my family is one of my fondest memories.
Autumn is my favorite season. Everyone in my immediate family(5 of us) has their birthday in the fall.
I love being out in the woods when the leaves change.
So many memories of hay rides and trips to the pumpkin patch, fresh cider and apples galore.
Your quilt is beautiful–I love fall colors too. I enjoy going to pumpkin patches and apple orchards, but my favorite memories are doing things when our daughters were young–noticing the beautiful fall colors and collecting leaves, making jack-o-lanterns, picking fall produce from our garden.
I remember raking leaves with my brother and sister, making piles and jumping in them,!!!!! That was lots of fun in Autumn!!!!
Beautiful quilt, both the design and colors!!
Eileen,
You won the magazine and the fabric! Send me an email with your address!
My happiest autumn memories involve hayrides when my children were little. And bobbing for apples after the hayride was over!
Fondest memory of autumn: getting costume ready for trick-or-treat !
Love the colors in your quilt. One of my favorite fall memories is an October trip we took driving the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Great Smoky Mountains. The foliage and scenery was beautiful! Such a relaxing trip.
Fall foliage! I grew up in VT, and we always called it the color of Trix Cereal, and, my birthday is in October. When a teenager I got to invite a dozen friends to an overnight birthday party at our grandparents farmhouse (a summer house, built in 1810). We’d lie around the fireplace with my father telling spooky stories (he was a great story teller). It was a magical place.
I always love attending college football games in the fall. Some years it was extra special because when my husband and I went to games at our alma mater, we also got to see our son who was a student there and a member of the marching band. Those fall football weekends were the best!
One of my favorite memories of fall are the bright magenta leaves that are the first to turn each year. My granddaughter and I look for them on a certain maple trees near our home. It is the harbinger of autumn for me. Color makes me happy and sharing this site each year with her doubles it!
Living in Florida we don’t really have a Fall like they do up North. I always loved getting my children dressed in costumes for the local fall festivals. Your quilt is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
One of my favorite autumn memories was a trip to the interstate fair with my grandparents each year. We would wait for my grandfather to get home from work at noon – then all of us would pile in the car and spend the day exploring exhibits, checking out the fair food, and sometimes ending the day with a ride on the ferris wheel.
These were fun days that are whole family spent together.
My absolute favourite thing about Fall is the crisp, fresh air! I love living in the country and in a part of the world where we get cooler/cold weather. Sitting on the deck with a hot cup of tea or cider (under a lap quilt, of course!) enjoying the colours of the leaves. Nothing better!
Yum, apple cider donuts! Your quilt looks stunning with those vibrant colors! It shows why batiks have more character and depth than solids.
Thanks for the give-away.
My fondest memories are going for a Sunday drive to see the leaves north of my home in southern Ontario. The radiant colors in the sunlight and a hint of coolness after a hot sticky summer still brings back the fresh scent in the air and all the falling leaves-maples, oaks, birch.
Autumn always means football games which meant marching band for my two oldest sons. Lots of marching contests. Fall also means hockey season is starting up again which means lots of Dallas Stars games for us as we’re season seat holders. It means moving plants to prep for winter time.
Your quilt is gorgeous, and so are these fabrics! Thanks for offering this generous giveaway! My favorite fall memory is taking my three-year-old granddaughter to a corn maze and pumpkin patch, with a hayride! The autumn colors, the fall air, and my granddaughter’s commentary and laughter are still vivid memories.
I too am a AQ member. The magazine is the best one around. Worth every penny of membership, and the membership is invaluable over the long haul. Really enjoy your site also. It has been a long time since I received anything from you, you have such great ideas. I save everything you send. That’s why I tried to sign up again, thought maybe my original had run out… keep up all the great work. Congratulations on making the AQ cover. Would love to win the give away.