Finally, it is almost October and we can really get into the Autumn season, my favorite! It was wonderfully cool last night, down to the low 50s, and I got out my sweater this morning to go to the Asheville Quilt Guild’s Quilt Show. I have been working on a special event for the past month by sewing, crafting and designing just for you dear readers for Autumn Jubilee! Gather all your scraps in Autumn colors as we will begin a quilt along next Friday, the 7th. There will be four posts for the quilt along, every Friday in October, (part mystery and part quilt along) and at the end you will have one or more items finished for decorating and tablescaping well before the season ends. There will be prizes too! Other posts this month will feature crafting, sewing, stamping ideas and recipes with the fall season in mind. There will be a couple of posts to celebrate Halloween, later in the month, and some of the projects will work for both holidays.
I am thrilled to announce the sponsors for this event, who have all donated wonderful prizes for readers to win. Returning sponsors Fat Quarter Shop, Connecting Threads, and Aurifil are participating for the quilt along, plus I welcome new sponsor (and North Carolina business) Backside Fabrics.
Aurifil will ship an Autumn Collection Thread set to a lucky reader! Gorgeous colors. I wish I could enter this drawing myself!
Fat Quarter shop and Backside Fabrics have pledged gift certificates so you can go shopping. I already went shopping, LOL!!
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Connecting Threads will ship a mini quilt stand with an acorn and leaf topper just like mine to one lucky reader!
AND there will be more prizes for crafting inspired posts later this month, including this Paisleys & Posies Bundle from Stampin Up!
All drawings will be based on comments on the post featuring each sponsor, and will remain open for the remainder of the month. Reveal of the winners will be November 4, with quilt along participant features.
Plus one lucky winner will get their Autumn Jubilee table topper size project quilted by me, batting included! If you want a head start on the project, gather scraps in Autumn colors and begin cutting 2-1/2 and 3-inch squares of those and a background or light background scraps. You’ll need a few larger bits too, so save a few aside. How many will be decided by you as you see the design and decide on how many projects you want to do and how big you want them to be. I am going to give you instructions for the completion of three projects, each one can be finished in less than a week. The winner will be chosen by random drawing from participants with the new Flickr group, Autumn Jubilee. This is a public group, open to anyone wanting to participate, no invites or approvals needed. Just join the group and upload your pictures as you make progress on the projects. Only photos related to the quilt along are eligible for the drawing.
We are going to have fun and be all ready for Thanksgiving, with Autumn inspired projects. There will be Halloween inspired projects and a tablescape later in the month too. There will be a lot to do this month, and I invite you to follow me (if you aren’t already) by any method – email, Bloglovin, RSS readers – so you don’t miss a post. This will be a month of fun and projects to celebrate Autumn, my favorite season.
Update! – Autumn Jubilee is underway, these posts are live with more coming this month!
Autumn Jubilee Part Mystery Part Quilt Along Begins!
Celebrate Autumn Jubilee at From My Carolina Home! Are you excited to get started? Please, comment on this post to help me thank all the sponsors for their support.
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Looks like fun and someone is going to be very happy 🙂
Sounds wonderful. Living in the Midwest now I have fallen in love with Fall/Autumn. The colors are magnificent. Can’t wait for more info.
Thanks for the new quilt along. I can’t wait to start. Nice gifts from sponsors. Hope to win something.
I am so excited to start this project!!! I look forward to your emails every day as I truly love and share the same interest in quilting, decorating, tablescapes, and reading! Thanks for being such an inspiration:-)
Looks like a fun sewing time. Hope I can participate as our guild show is soon! I live in the mountains of NY and the leaves are still mostly green despite the cold nights. Are your photos recent?
Looks like this will be a great project or two! Love the colors of autumn. Thanks for sharing your mystery/QAL.
Sounds like a nice way to “fall” into October, lol. I’d like to play along but know that the first 2weeks I’m already over committed. So hopefully I’ll be able to catch up and play with y’all as the month ends. Thanks Carole and all the sponsors you’ve solicited. Nice gifts!
Sounds like fun. You have so many great ideas! And the prizes….wow!
Thank you to all the sponsors and to you for hosting what sounds like a fun October! I’ll be watching it all unfold.
I can’t wait to see what you have in store for all of us!! The prizes are wonderful by your great sponsors. Let the fun begin. :o)
I am amazed at the wonderful goodies you are able to obtain. Each and every one of them is something I would love to have. Hoping I am a winner….but if not I will still enjoy each and every post! Thank you so much!
Crystal in Cedar City
Looks like its going to be fun. Great sponsors giveaways.
wonderful fall colors
Good Morning Carole! Goodness Gracious Me Oh My….What a wonderful post to be reading while having a fresh cup of hot coffee and just waking up to start another day! Your quilt along sounds magnificent, along with everything else you have planned for October! Plus, wow Great Sponsers! I would absolutely love to win any of the prizes from these special Sponsers. So I need to get things done and out of the way before Sunday! With the wedding being on the 8th and rehearsal dinner on the 7th, I doubt that I get in on the first post. Yet, I will get caught up as soon as possible. Looking forward to it Carole! Have a fantastic creative day!
Have joined the Flicker group. I am ready and waiting to see the autumn treats that you will be sending.
Autumn colours are my favourite. A big thank you to all the sponsors and to you for all your hard work in putting it all together
Another beautiful header photo,misty and dreamy, .A super quilt along, and even though it’s spring down here, sounds like I need to be there too. What a wonderful group of sponsors, and I’m sure lots of prep work from you before all this could happen. Have a great weekend when it arrives.
What an exciting month! It’s hard to get into the fall mood here in (hot) Southern California but I’m sure I’ll be inspired by all the upcoming posts and photos. Many thanks to you and the sponsors of this October event.
Wow what a wonderful group of giveaways! I hope I’m one of the lucky ones. We are In the midst of moving and I can’t wait to get back to sewing and making something for the fall. Love this time of the year. Thank you for sponsoring this.
Looking forward to this quilt along, and such awesome prizes from some great sponsors. Joined the flicker group, my first one.. I also went to the Asheville quilt show today. So many beautiful quilts on display.
How fun! I can’t wait to get started, thank you to all the sponsors for their wonderful prizes!
This is awesome! Thank you sponsors.
i hope i can keep up.
Awesome! Thanks to your sponsors. I am traveling 1/2 of October, but hope to get a start before I leave! 🙂
Wow, how exciting! I am looking forward to Friday when the first post for Autumn Jubilee comes out, can’t wait to see what’s in store and have the opportunity to win some fabulous prizes!
looking forward to it! Great giveaways from wonderful sponsers. Thank you, Susan
I’m not a quilter but the ones you’ve shown are gorgeous! Love the fall colours and patterns. Beautiful “October” outdoor pic too!
In the Colorado hills right now enjoying the colors.look forward to the new projects. Thank you sponsers .
What great sponsors you’ve found for this! I hope hubby gets better soon so I can get back to the sewing machine! Thank you, Carole, so much! (I actually salivated when I saw the gorgeous Autumn Aurifil collection!….lol)
Sounds like a lot of fun! I will follow on the blog and I spirit, but I have such a long list of other projects, dare not start something else new right now! My Sceap Dance Tango top will go off to the quilter this week, hooray! @susansquiltstudio
I have LOTS of scraps so I’ll be watching closely . . .
SO many wonderful prizes!! Thank you for the chance to win!! Ya know I love Fall….and will be in the studio most the day….perhaps I have some Fall scraps???? I will be looking…
This looks like fun! I wouldn’t mind winning one of those prizes!
Fall is my favorite season too. This sounds like a fun project so I am off to check my scraps. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!
Sounds like the perfect way to celebrate my favourite season!
And the sponsors are all my favourite businesses!
Win/Win!
What fun! I hope I can follow along.
Fall is also my favourite season. I don’t think I can sew along but it will be fun to see what’s in store.
Sounds like fun. Great prizes, thanks to the sponsors. Since I just finished the last seam on Scrap Dance Tango, I’m not sure I’m ready for another mystery, but I’ll followalong and maybe get caught up in it.
Wow, fabulous sponsors, and wonderful fall excitement! Thank you and thanks to the sponsors! I’ll blog this on QuiltBOM, too.
I LOVE your designs and am so happy this will be a smaller project!! The prizes look amazing!!
This looks like it will be fun. Thanks to all the sponsors and all the hosts for all your hard work.
I am so excited ti begin this quilt-a-long! This will be my very first one! I can’t wait and all the wonderful sponsors and their prizes are so generous! Thanks to all of them! I hope I can win something! Thank you to Carole for hosting this!!
Sounds wonderful, and this will be fun!
Oh my gosh Carole, does this sound like fun and wow are those some great gifts! Autumn is my favorite time of year also so I can’t wait to see more about your QAL!
Just found it today, but I did check out the valance tutorial and wreath tutorial. Great projects!
Wow, those are some beautiful prizes Carole, and those autumn leaves too! I think we are finally seeing the end of summer in Southern Nevada!
I am a hap, hap, happy girl to join this group. THANK YOU.
That sounds like a lot of fun! I don’t have Flickr, but I might join along anyways. Or maybe I will have to get an account. 🙂
Another exciting opportunity! The Aurifil collection is just beautiful!!
I’m looking forward to your post on Friday.
hopefully I will able to kept up, sounds great and thanks to the sponsers
Those threads are just gorgeous! The Fat Quarter Shop is awesome!
I love fall and I’m really looking forward to this!
WOW – your view is gorgeous – and the recipe looks Delicious thanks for sharing.
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