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Planning a Colorful Year {& Giveaway}

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I have spent the past three months or more psyching myself up for the Quilter’s Planner designed by Stephanie at Late Night Quilter. I’ve dreamt of a year during which I’m organized, on time, and actually accomplishing my goals in a somewhat planned and consistent way. One month into using the Quilter’s Planner and I’m excited to report that it has helped me create a life that fits my vision! I also finally finished sewing the cover, which adds even more color and cheer to the year ahead. To celebrate, I’ll be giving away a Quilter’s Planner! Now is your chance to get one since they are sold out everywhere else! To be clear, the giveaway is for a planner and fabric only. The planner cover shown in this post is mine… BUT there will be instructions on how to make one just like this available soon, and I’m including the fabric needed to make the outer panel in the giveaway!

alison glass quilters planner coverEver since Stephanie announced that she would be teaming up with Amanda at What the Bobbin to provide a tutorial for sewing a personalized planner cover, I’ve been planning to finally cut into my cherished Art Theory panel from Ex Libris by Alison Glass. I am absolutely smitten with the result, and am planning to create a tutorial and piecing instructions for the outer panel in case you would like to make an Alison Glass-themed outer cover, too. (I’m hoping to have it to Stephanie some time next week and she will make it available on the Quilter’s Planner website.)

alison glass quilters planner coverThe cover has the Art Theory panel as the center focal print, with Essex linen in charcoal and coordinating Sun Prints 2016 on the sides. Sun Prints 2016 are arriving in stores now, but Alison was kind enough to send a bit my way in advance for this project. I love how all of her fabric lines coordinate and compliment each other so well!

alison glass quilters planner coverHere’s the full outer cover, without the planner in it. As you can see, I chose cool colors for the front and warm for the back, complete with the appropriate Sun Prints 2016. As I mentioned above, cutting and piecing instructions for recreating this outer panel will be available on the Quilter’s Planner website soon. I absolutely love it!

alison glass quilters planner coverHere is the inside without the planner so that you can see the Bookplate in Charcoal (Ex Libris) pockets paired with the Sticks and Twine in Charcoal (Abacus) lining. I added two ribbons; one marks the current weekly calendar page, and one marks the page on which I’m currently sketching new ideas.

alison glass quilters planner coverI used a bit of Artifact in Charcoal from Abacus as a pen/scissor holder, too. It fits perfectly! Realistically, I most likely will keep my pencil and micron pen in the zip pocket and my scissors in my sewing kit, but I know I have an option to carry them along if need be. Plus, BEAUTY!

alison glass quilters planner coverI found a perfectly coordinating zipper and some fun eggplant colored elastic at my local quilt shop Fiddlehead Artisan Supply. The elastic is designed for bra straps, so it’s sooooo silky smooth.

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View of the back of the planner cover, with the gorgeous elastic holding it all together.

I love how the elastic holds the planner together when it’s closed. I have big plans to make a coordinating Super Tote (a Noodlehead pattern) and carrying my planner with me everywhere (scheduled for sometime in the future! LOL).

quilters planner cover alison glassAs you can see, I absolutely love my planner and am very excited to have this finished cover to show to you. I am a big list person, so making the decision to set goals and write out my lists at the beginning of each week and again every morning has been monumental. Not only am I improving at setting and staying on top of realistic sewing and blogging goals, I’m also keeping my house nearly completely clean for the first time ever. The change? A switch from “I should do…” to just doing it. Instead of looking at the dishes and saying “I need to do the dishes” I just put on my dish gloves and dig in. I also space out tasks so that laundry is done in manageable steps instead of left until it’s a mountain with no end in sight. Did the planner work some magic over me? Who knows. Either way, knowing that I have a paper planner with actual listed items I need to cross out each day has made me much more accountable for actually doing the things on my list.

Giveaway time!

Now, for the giveaway! Stephanie was nice enough to send me an extra planner and I want to share it with YOU! I’m also going to include a charm pack of Alison Glass’s Sun Prints 2016, one Art Theory panel in charcoal, and a bit of Robert Kaufman’s Essex linen in charcoal–in other words, all of the fabric needed to create the outside panel for a planner cover just like mine!

Giveaway Quilter's Planner and Fabric BLOGTo enter the giveaway today, tell me your favorite feature of the Quilter’s Planner, OR a feature you’d like to see next year. You can read all about this year’s Quilter’s Planner and can sign up for email updates here. Leave a comment and make sure I’m able to get ahold of you if you win.  If you’re a follower of Night Quilter, leave a second comment telling me how you follow for a second entry.

For those of you who want to be in the loop for next year regardless of whether you win this planner, I definitely recommend signing up for the mailing list at http://quiltersplanner.com/. When you sign up, you’ll also immediately receive a PDF of the Individual Project Planning Page. Stephanie will periodically email you new PDFs as she develops them to thank you for your support, and you will be the first to know when preorders open for next year’s planner.

This giveaway is open to US and international participants.  The giveaway will be open until 8pm Wednesday 2/10 when I’ll select the winner randomly with random.org. Good luck, and spread the word! This giveaway has ended. The winner will be announced shortly!

I’m linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts Finish it up Friday, and I’m so excited to have this gorgeous finished planner cover to brighten my days!

Please note that while I usually try to reply to every blog comment by email, due to the volume of comments during giveaways I will not be able to reply to all comments on this post. Know, though, that I read every one and appreciate all of your kind words!!

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390 thoughts on “Planning a Colorful Year {& Giveaway}”

  1. Oooooh!!! You’re cover is stunning and beautiful! You did such a wonderful job on it! Now, as for my favorite features of the planner itself, I love that there’s grid paper and blank paper next to each other! I typically tote around a 3 ring binder with grid and blank paper so I can doodle and plan side by side. And, a BIG bonus is that the highlighters do not bleed thru to the back side of the page – that is HUGE!

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  3. Love the fabrics on your planner cover.
    I think the planner would help me get better organized especially to include quilting in my daily to-do-list!

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  5. I love what you did with your binder cover. It’s so beautiful and functional! My favorite part of the planner is projects at a glance, project pages and the graph paper for designing. Haven’t seen one in person yet, but I would love to. rpsandbag at gmail.com
    Thanks for the chance to win.
    Ramona

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  15. My favorite (after watching the 2 excellent videos!) is the project page that keeps track of what you need to do next on each project, and allows you to check off things that you have done. It would be wonderful to keep track of UFOs.

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  17. I’ve loved this fabric from the first time I saw it on IG. The quilter planner is brilliant and definitely love the free patterns/ideas on the random pages. I also love the quilt tracker. I can add fabric or pictures, doodle and write out ideas and what I need to do. Love it.

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  18. Oh my goodness the farmer’s wife blocks and those fabric keys! I have a pinterest list a MILE LONG NOW.
    I follow you on insta!

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  20. I’ve really been enjoying using the planner, and I think my favorite part, is weekly patterns. It is fun seeing a new pattern every week. If I had to ask for one thing it would be a digital version of the quilt project list, so I can keep up with it easier.

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  21. Love the ease of having all my ideas in ONE PLACE. How about a page of “post-a-notes for those one line ideas, that relly don’t belong in a quilters’ book [like I thing I need Bread ] LOL Follow your blog & facebook

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  22. Btw beautiful work on the cover!! My favorite part of the planner is that it has plenty of space to plan my next projects. A lot of planners don’t leave space to write, but this one does. I’d love to win so I could get more organized with all the swaps I like to participate in.

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  23. I am a lover of planners but what makes this one so fab is that it could give me a way to also sketch. No more toting a sketch book and planner! Thanks for the chance to win!

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  26. Second comment. I follow you on Instagram and Periscope.
    Ps…….I really love the fabrics you used and the cover you created. Perfection. Again, thanks for the chance to win!

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  27. I love that it’s an all in one: lists, idea planning, project organizing & drawing out ideas/constructing all in one place. Now I can dream, plan & create from one place. Literally a place for me to be inspired & motivated by my own creativity.

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  31. I’ve been knitting for the last several years and have just returned to quilting. I love the to do lists in the planner. That would be very helpful to me in planning out my new projects and staying on schedule.

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  32. Your planner cover is so pretty! One thing I’ve noticed in the planners that I like are the blocks designed by many different quilters. I’m always looking for more inspiration! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  40. Beautiful work! I follow you on Instagram and follow your blog. This planner sounds like I might possibly be able to keep myself on track!

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  41. Hi Kitty, I absolutely LOVE your Quilter’s Planner cover! It’s gorgeous and so you with the rainbow of colors…AND a perfect use for Alison’s incredible fabric. I always buy her new lines as soon as they’re available because even if I’m not quilting much (and such is my life right now), I so enjoy looking at and petting all of her fabric. I already have my own Quilter’s Planner (so I’m not entering your giveaway) and, boy, do I agree with you that there’s something wonderful about its design. My life feels more organized all around, quilting, chores and family life… Laura

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  42. First: I absolutely love your cover! It’s so beautiful! What I like best about the planner: I won’t need a second planner anymore – there’s enough space for my daily notes at work (I’m teaching in a primary school) and I can plan my quilting also.

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  46. I love everything about your cover! The fabrics are beautiful, the zippered pocket and scissor holders are great features…this book is an inspiration for the quilting artist! Thanks for sharing this 🙂

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