Bring a smile to any little one when you give a quilt featuring these darling monkeys, giraffes, and elephants being cared for by their adult parent.  The bright and cheery line, Safari Sweet Hearts, from Red Rooster is sure to be a hit.  Check out this cute and fast quilt pattern, plus the coordinating tote to round out the ensemble.

Click here for both patterns.

Here is a detail of the Amazing Eight Quilt.  Click on the picture for a 35 piece puzzle.

Bridges was a juried exhibit this year at Road to California by the Quilts on the Wall: Fiber Artists. While some of these quilts are literal in their interpretation, others have a completely different take on what a "bridge" might be.

According to the exhibit - 

This exhibit portrays the personal vision of these artists, encompassing, but not limited to:

• a structure carrying a pathway or roadway over a depression.
• a time, place, or means of connection of transition.
• the upper bony part of the nose; also the part of a pair of glasses that rests upon it
• a piece raising the strings of an instrument
• the forward part of a ship's superstructure from which the ship is navigated

Sheila Frampton-Cooper stopped by Ricky's exhibit, All That Jazz, Improvisational Quilts 2012 to discuss her quilt in the exhibit, Sunset Cinema.  Sheila talks about how she came up with the idea for the quilt, her thoughts on quilting the project and the type of fabric that she used to create the quilt.

Click here to learn more about Gradations fabric.