Made in USA Quilts for Sale

Harvest Spice Quilt

2009-01-22T13:42:00.000-08:00

This is one BIG quilt and incredibly soft to the touch. It's so large we had to go outside to get a shot of it and the tallest of us had a hard time stretching high enough!

This was a our sample for a BOM, Harvest Spice. It measures 92" square and is beautifully machine quilted.

It's going to be a sad day when this quilt leaves us.

Periwinkle Fairies Kit

2009-01-16T03:46:00.000-08:00

Mona whipped up a sample of our most recent shipment: Periwinkle Fairies.

This is such a beautiful quilt and the fabric "friends" in the line are so spot-on that everything comes together here:

We have kitted this quilt including the pattern supplied by the manufacturer and, as is customary for us, the binding. @50" x 50"

$36.99

Alittle background there: we try our best to keep enough fabric squirrelled away for binding any sample we make in the store for once we get them quilted but sometimes that extra fabric manages to slip away from us. Well, several years can slip away easily as we all know and we went to bind a huge quilt from 2 years ago this week and found to our surprise we were one-2 1/2" WOF strip lacking. OH! so close!

Luckily, or possibly due to this ahead-of-the-game planning, we found stashed away what we needed and we finished that quilt. And it's really beautiful and the binding is exactly right as the final touch.

Moral of the story: including the binding fabric is that extra touch we like to do. It does make a difference.

Shop Hop 2 Kit Kaleidoscope - SOLD

2009-01-08T13:50:00.000-08:00

The picture simply doesn't do this quilt justice and I will get a better image of it quickly and up-date this post but here is our 2nd Shop Hop sample kit of "Kaleidoscope". In reality it is MUCH much brighter than what you are seeing.......

We have cut enough fabric for the fussiest fussy-cutter to make this beautiful quilttop and included the pattern and instruction to make this original designed quilt. Please take note of the evenly spaced border fabric and individual squares. This pattern makes great use out of a complicated motif and accurate cutting and piecing.

And to make it even sweeter a deal, we have only one kit left and have fussy-cut the price down from:

$69.99 to $46.99

56' x 68"

Shop Hop 3- The Christmas Bright Hopes Kit

2009-01-08T13:44:00.000-08:00

Our store is called Bright Hopes Quilting. We take part in a local Shop Hop and for our last one, we made kits using the "Bright Hopes" block and fresh Christmas fabric to make this lovely sofa sized quilt:
72" x 83

It comes with all fabric to complete the quilt-top including binding. 100% cotton. Oh yes, and the pattern and instructions!

$69.99

Twisted Ribbon Kit

2009-01-08T13:39:00.000-08:00

Isn't this a cheerful quilt?

Bright colors with the illusion of a twisting against a black background and bordered with spots of color. This is but one of the patterns from One Block Quilts (see below) and is so bold and striking. It measures 57" x 72" and the kit comes with all fabric including binding. The book is sold separately.

$ 56.99

Fun with One Block by Cheryl Malkowski

12 patterns

$19.95

Halverson Christmas Panel

2009-01-08T13:36:00.000-08:00

One of the great things about Nancy Halverson is her use of complimenting colors in each successive fabric line. By this, I mean you can combine her freshest lines with something left over in your stash and they still work well together.

Just as timeless is her design patterns. Her Art to Heart series is still going strong and even though it's January and well past Christmas, it's never too soon to making her 12 Days of Christmas panel wall-hanging for 2009 .

This kit comes complete with all her current Christmas fabric needed create this wall-hanging, including the binding.

$26.99

Harvest Home Kit - on sale

2009-01-08T13:33:00.000-08:00

Great deals like this don't come around often so take a good long look at this quilt.

This kit makes a 98" x 98" quilt of some of the softest fabric I've ever felt. We offered this as a Block of the Month and have only two kits left. Originally priced out at $179.99, we are now practically giving it away for $125.99. It comes with the complete pattern and instructions and all the fabric required including binding. You supply the backing and batting.

And if you hurry, we have some of the "friends" in the collection marked down $2.99 a yard that would make excellent backing for the finished quilt.

This won't last long....

Baby Genius Tutti Fruitti

2009-01-08T11:41:00.000-08:00

"Baby Genius" is growing up and on the way Benartex brings us even more eye-catching and "busy" motifs, just what a growing child needs to stimulate the "little grey cells" as they too are growing.
Here we used the entire line in stock with "Tutti Frutti" as the quilt design and bring it all together in a large fast-to-make quilt, great for a birthday present for toddlers, pre-schoolers and kindergarteners. Some of those fabrics are even terrific for young budding scientists. Click on the photo and see the atoms and double helixes up-close!

$59.99

The pattern comes from "Super Simple Squares" by Lynda Milligan & Nancy Smith. A collection of 18 original quilt designs using fat quarters or packets of precut 6.5" squares.

$ 18.95

Mary Engelbreit Friendship Kit

2009-01-08T08:47:00.000-08:00

This cute panel quilt shows off the Mary Engelbreit fabric beautifully. It measures 60" x 64" finished and comes with all fabric and binding. All you need to supply is the backing and batting of your choice.

We are cutting kits for either the Black Cherry outer border or the Red Paisley as shown on the picture.

$63.99

Charlotte Kits

2009-01-08T08:16:00.000-08:00

Are now available. We have two to choose from; a red version and a blue. The finished quilt should measure 87" x 104".

Each kit includes all fabric to piece the quilt-top, the binding and the pattern. You will need to supply the backing and batting of your choice.

$113.99

Crayon

2009-01-04T06:05:00.000-08:00

This is a bright, happy tot-sized quilt, 44"x 54" and just the right size for a toddler to cuddle up with for a nap at day-care or at home.

The quilting is a meandering stitch. Totally created in a smoke-free environment. 100% cotton.

$175.00

Sticks and Stones Christmas

2008-12-31T05:10:00.000-08:00

This happy holiday quilt measures 44' x 54" and uses a bright selection of Christmas fabric.

Santas, snowflakes, holly leaves and candy canes and tree lights in an arrangement called Sticks and Stones.

This has been quilted in a meandering design in a smoke-free environment and is 100% cotton.

$175.00

Snowball 9-Patch

2008-12-31T05:04:00.000-08:00

I love looking at this quilt. It's so colorful and happy.

54" x 70" and custom quilted with varigated pastel thread. This would make an excellent sofa throw to leave out for a splash of color and snuggle up with on cold Sunday afternoons.

Click on the photo for a larger image where you can see the leaf motif in the quilting.

100% cotton fabric and made in a smoke-free environment.
$300.00

Sawtooth Trail

2008-12-31T04:58:00.001-08:00

This lap quilt is 44" x 54" and made up of Kaffe Fassett fabrics from a few years back.

Fassett fabrics are weirdly wonderful and fun to mash together in combination. Just when you think "that'll NEVER work" it actually does. It's meant to blend and meld.

This quilt is machine quilted and made of 100% cotton fabric in a smoke-free environment

$175.00

Rondo Medallion

2008-12-30T04:43:00.001-08:00

So let's start the show with this beautiful quilt, Medallion

It's 64" x 64" and has a venetian feel to it, rich golds and burgundy in the stars set off by the creamy medallion squares. The secondary "on point" design isn't readily noticable until the viewer gives it a moment. Eventually, you start to feel the 3 Dimensional quality to the layout, the tiles almost appear to float above the stars and point squares. You could almost be walking on the floor of San Marco in Venice.
If you click on the image you'll get a close up in a separate window to examine the fabric motif. We mitred the corners to take advantage of the border fabric in this line.

All the fabric is 100% cotton, unwashed and quilted in a blended batting. It has a lovely drape and soft to the touch.

This has been machine pieced and quilted here in Mandeville, LA in a smoke-free environment
$325.00

ph:985-845-9554

A New Year - A New Venue - A New Blog

2008-12-30T04:14:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to Everyone!!!! I hope 2009 brings you much happiness and fabric and ideas for creativity.

We decided, here at Bright Hopes Quilting, to set up a secondary blogsite to display our currently available quilts for sale. This is a happier method to get good information on the individual quilts without making the ShopBlog a spec-heavy site.

We will also show some of our past year BOMS and ShopHop quilt kits that are available for purchase in total. In the case of BOMs, these would be all inclusive of each month's pattern, fabric, in some cases books and finally the finishing kit and binding. Most of the BOMS are Full to Queen-sized quilts. The kitted quilts range in all sizes and final dimensions will be specified in each post.

All you will need to provide is the work(!) and batting, backing and quilting.

Each Post will focus on a separate quilt, with dimensions, price and fabric selection used where I feel it's intrinsic to the design element. Please feel free to leave comments in the spaces provided below each quilt and I'll make an effort to keep up with correspondence from this end.

You may also give us a ring at the shop during business hours and we'll be happy to assist you.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope we leave you in stitches.