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Welcome back to our VALENTINE’S MYSTERY SEW ALON

Welcome back to our VALENTINE’S MYSTERY SEW ALONG, quilty friends!

We are on Week 2 of this quick and simple SEW ALONG and we are so pleased that so many of you have decided to join us! Thank you to @modafabrics and @fatquartershop for the shout-outs and for sewing along, too!

If you missed the first week’s assignment, feel free to check the blog for instructions on piecing your hearts.

For this second week, we will be working on a couple sizes of four patches for a simple addition to our mystery project. All the directions are on our blog so join us there!

If you are looking for more color hints or to see what others are doing, scroll through the blog *and* our Facebook Group where so many of you have been posting your progress!

Links to the blog and to join our Facebook Group are in my smart-bio!

P.S. Scroll through to see just a few member’s heart progress from last week! In order: Tamra D., Veronica C., Gloria S., Barb T., and Paige M.

#figtreeandco #figtreefabrics #figtreequilts #figtreesewalong #figtreemysterysewalong #valentinesquilt #heartquilt

Don’t mind me… I think maybe I will make some

Don’t mind me… I think maybe I will make some trees. Never mind that it is freezing outside and that trees don’t come in this color! 😂🥹. PORTOFINO has arrived in shops all over and the colors are making my heart sign! Seriously, it’s like fabric candy I think. Pattern Shown: Trees in Tuscany. Can be made with fat eighth or fat quarter bundle, or start with layer cake and add in scraps as you go! This is such a great scrap buster too!! #figtreeandco #portofinofabric #figtreequilts

Hello Fig Friends- Many of you have reached out so

Hello Fig Friends-
Many of you have reached out so I wanted to let all of you know some plans to help the LA FIRE victims…. Fig Tree resides in Northern California which is a 6 hour drive north of LA and nowhere near the devastation that is occurring so we are not in any danger ourselves. However, I grew up in Arcadia and Pasadena and the Altadena neighborhood is one that I know and love well. Eric and I’s first apartment was in Pasadena on Lake Avenue 🙁. I can’t even begin to imagine what it looks and feels like in person today.
Fig Tree has donated several boxes of quilts and I wanted to share the info with you in case you are able to join me and collect or make quilts as well!
I know as quilters we all know what a handmade quilt could mean to someone in crisis that currently has nothing.

QUILT & BASIC ITEMS DRIVE

We are partnering with WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS and my friend Gina Caldwell Halladay who helps run that organization. I know Gina personally and they are already organized and receiving quilts to take to SoCal as we speak. So let’s join them!!
Check them out @wraptheworldwithquilts for all of the info, addresses and specific needs!

They have a special GIVEBACK BOX that allows you to ship up to 50 lbs for $20 so I encourage you to take a look at that if you have the capacity to donate a stack of quilts and/or blankets or are planning on including any of the items they have listed in their posts. I know some of you are already joining me from our posts in our Facebook groups but just wanted to put it here as well! Let’s give Los Angeles some quilty love!! #figtreeandco #figtreequilts #modafabrics

Happy Wednesday, Quilty Friends! Today is the fir

Happy Wednesday, Quilty Friends!

Today is the first week for our FREE VALENTINE’S MYSTERY SEW ALONG. Hopefully if you are reading this, you are joining us in sewing up this lovely scrappy Valentine’s throw...welcome!

Our quilt is a mystery and each week we will give you an assignment to work on and in about a month we will all have a completed Valentine’s worthy quilt. I can tell you that the finished size will be 65 ½” x 65 ½” and filled with pink, red and cream goodness!

If mysteries are not your thing, you can always hang back for a week or so and watch as the quilt starts to take shape and jump in once you are more certain. For the rest of us, the mystery is a big part of the fun, so let’s do this!

If you are confused by this announcement or need a refresher, head on over to the blog to read the intro post with all of the MATERIALS LIST and other info you will need to get started. All the pattern info for THIS WEEK #1 ASSIGNMENT is now on the blog, too so come on over to follow along digitally or to download the directions if that is your preference.

Thank you to Lacey [@laceypoirier] for all of your wonderful work on these sample blocks! And shout out to Susan [@thefeltedpear] for hosting in our Facebook Group!

Fabrics shown are a large mix of @modafabrics featuring Fig Tree EYELET BASICS as well as LINEN CUPBOARD. We have mixed in some low volume and pink favorites from Bunny Hill, Lella Boutique, Ruby Star, and Minick & Simspon, too.

The next #figsandfriendscolab is starting to ship

The next #figsandfriendscolab is starting to ship this week and I couldn’t be more excited about this one. There is something about coral and citron together!! For those of you who have been eyeballing the new FIGS AND FRIENDS program but missed out on joining the subscription, we have made up some extra bundles from this BUNDLE #5: PEACHY GREEN GEESE BUNDLE in case you want to grab one.

This month’s mix is a blend of pinks, citrons and greens from PORTOFINO, a few cream & peach prints from Ruby Star’s JUICY and ENDPAPER as well as a coral from Lella Boutique’s MAGIC DOT. Bundle consists of (16) ¼ yard cuts. #figtreeandco #figtreequilts #modafabrics

EDIT: Giveaway closed. Congrats to @1999cindy! Ple

EDIT: Giveaway closed. Congrats to @1999cindy! Please email me at joanna@figtreequilts.com to claim your prize! As a fabric designer, sometimes working on a completely different season doesn’t really bother me at all and other times it totally throws me off my game! This is one of the latter! 🥴🥹🥹 Introducing it at Christmas and then showing it to you guys in January, somehow is not working with my aesthetic brain :-). So this is what we are going to do... I am going to show you guys some of it here and the rest I will reveal on the blog, in my newsletter and hopefully, fingers crossed, on a YouTube trunk show.

So what does this mean? Well I guess it means that you should be signed up for my newsletter, familiar with the blog and subscribed to my YouTube channel. If you have done all three of those things... then you are good to go and you won’t miss a thing. In general, I am hoping to work more via those other platforms in 2025 anyway so please join me there if you can.

But for today, I want to reintroduce you to AGATHA ROAD... due in stores in July 2025. For all of you who fell in love with ALL HALLOWS EVE, consider this the softer more romantic sister. The signature butterscotch orange is the same as is the charcoal. But the tan leaning greys are softer and warmer and the prints are reminiscent of vintage wall paper and soft linens. I named her Agatha Road in honor of Agatha Christie, whose books I have read for decades. I could not think of a better way to honor her and give us all the soft, halloween inspired vibes in fabric. So honest question... if you had to pick between the more classic ALL HALLOWS EVE or this softer AGATHA ROAD vibe, what would you pick? Comments will enter you to win an AGATHA ROAD precut! Shown above is the Pecan Blossoms quilt which is back from the amazing @quiltedgrammy Diana and pieced by my favorite sewing sidekick, Cheryl @cahslz . Pecan Blossoms is one of the accompanying patterns for this collection and patterns will be available in about a month. @modafabrics

We wanted to get the new year kicked off right –

We wanted to get the new year kicked off right – and one idea came to mind immediately – a SEW ALONG with our favorite peeps…that means you!

We’ve decided to keep this one a bit of a mystery, but not to worry. We think you’ll love this scrappy, beginner-friendly pattern. You know it will have pinks, reds and creams AND that it will have hearts… but that is about it. Will you join us?

The sew along will last 4 weeks and will begin on January 15, 2025. We will have a weekly blog post sharing that week’s assignment and free pattern instructions, so head there each Wednesday to join in on the Valentine’s fun! For now, we do have an announcement blog post containing the fabric requirements, so feel free to start pulling from your stash or creating your shopping list!

Also – be sure to join our FIG TREE FACEBOOK GROUP where we will be sharing our progress and cheering each other on!

[Links to the blog and the Facebook group are in my bio!]

Wishing you a Joy Filled and Peaceful 2025 from ou

Wishing you a Joy Filled and Peaceful 2025 from our home to yours! Sharing a few favorite family photos from the summer of 2024… how did they all get so grown up and how did we get so gray?? 🥹🥹 Here’s to a fabulous 2025 to us all. Thank you so much for following along on our Figgy adventures here on IG! #figtreequilts #figfarmadventures

We’re giving the “winter blues” a whole new

We’re giving the “winter blues” a whole new meaning over here this week! We wanted to take the opportunity to round up all of our favorite blue quilts and show a few new favorites done in blue combinations. Head to the latest blog post for lots of inspiration - all in one place.

As you think through what kinds of blues are your favorite... remember that there are so many options. You could use navy tones, or denims. You could focus on sky and light blues or even aquas.. anything blue counts! Do you have a favorite shade?

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