Aurifil 2016 January Designer of the Month, Heather Valentine

I shared my news on Instagram, but I think I neglected to mention it here on the blog. I was invited to be an Aurifil Designer of the Month for 2016. Of course I said yes because I am a huge Aurifil fan! I use Aurifil exclusively for my quilting.

Pat Sloan has put together an amazing team of designers this year. If you don’t follow these people already, you will want to!

Jan -Heather Valentine – The Sewing Loft

Feb – Kari Carr www.newleafstitches.com

Mar – Christa Watson christaquilts.com/

Apr – Kate Spain www.katespain.com/

May – Amy Friend duringquiettime.com/

June – Jacquelynne Steves jacquelynnesteves.com/

July – Wendy Sheppard ivoryspring.wordpress.com/

Aug – Angela Walters www.quiltingismytherapy.com/

Sept – Lynn Krawczyk smudgeddesignstudio.com/

Oct – Kathy Brown the-teachers-pet.com/tpindex.html

Nov – Katarina Roccella likeflowersandbutterflies.com/

Dec – Amanda Herring www.thequiltedfishpatterns.com/

Over the course of the year, designers will share patterns for 12″ blocks in blue and white. At the end of the year, you will have a quilt top! Along the way, you have a chance to win a box of Aurifil thread, valued at $120 just by posting a picture of your block to this Flickr group.

We are starting off 2016 with a block designed by Heather Valentine from The Sewing Loft.

I like the way Heather used value in this block. If you’d like to make it and read more about Heather, you can find all this information on the Aurifil Blog.