#Auriful-Delicious, #Aurilove, #Auriful-Quality - Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges

Have you described beauty by using  #aurifil, #aurilove, #aurifil-licious?  If you have, you know what happens when you use Aurifil thread.

When we look at quality handmade items (e.g. quilts, machine embroidery, sewn items, etc), especially those exhibited at major quilt shows,  there is a good chance they were stitched with Aurifil threads.  You see, it is easy to fall in love with Aurifil as it is a perfect thread for precision piecing, free-motion quilting, hand embroidery and even machine embroidery.  You and your machine will love it.  If you have not yet stitched with Aurifil, give it a try and I think you'll agree.......#aurifil, #aurilove, #aurifil-licious

Aurifil is a thread that I happily sew with, that I happily purchase, and I also happily give as gifts to quilty friends!  After all, it was a quilty friend that gave me my first spool of Aurifil and encouraged me to try it.  I've been a happy Aurifil customer ever since!

SewCalGal is honored to have Aurifil as a sponsor for the Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges.  

Aurifil has donated 18 bundles of red and white threads.  One each will be awarded to 18 lucky winners in the Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges.  

Pondering how you can win?  Simply enter one or more of the challenges or shows hosted during the Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges.  The more events you enter the more chances you have to win one or more prizes!    

You may want to design a red/white quilt and enter it in the Design It! Challenge.

If you want to make a red/white quilt and share what you are making in the Make It! Challenge, which will be held March 24th  thru September 30th (plenty of time to make a red/white quilt, but you can start now if you wish).

Or maybe you'll finish making a red/white quilt in 2014 and want to enter it in one of the Red and White Quilt Shows, for such quilts made in 2014.  One will be hosted for those that made a quilt with their own design and another virtual quilt show will be hosted for those that make a quilt using a purchased pattern, pattern in a published book, or a free pattern.

Click here for info on all of the events in the Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges.

As SewCalGal also loves to share insights about new products, I want to let you know about some new thread collections that Aurifil has introduced:

EVERYDAY COLOR 

by ME AND MY SISTER DESIGNS

COTTON 50 WT - COLLECTION 12 LARGE SPOOLS

colors included : #2120 - #1133 - #2425 - #4660 - #2520 - #2510 - #6738 - #6737 - #5017 - #5005 - #4658 - #4663 

12 spools 1422 yards each 

code : MM50EC12 

 DARLENE ZIMMERMAN 

COTTON 50 WT - COLLECTION 12 LARGE SPOOLS

colors included :  #2105 - #2135 - #2720 - #1128 - #2270 - #1133 - #2410 - #2430 - #2835 - #2510 - #2520 - #5006 

12 spools 1422 yards each

code : DZ50DZ12

BOTANICS

by CAROLYN FRIEDLANDER

COTTON 50 WT - COLLECTION 12 LARGE SPOOLS

colors included :  #2021 - #2110 - #2245 - #5015 - #5022 - #2860 - #2835 - #4093 - #5007 - #2725 - #1246 - #1104

12 spools 1422 yards each

code : CF50BO12

BOTANICS

by CAROLYN FRIEDLANDER
COTTON 50 WT - COLLECTION 10 SMALL SPOOLS
colors included :  #2110 - #2245 - #5015 - #5022 - #2860 - #4093 - #5007 - #2725 - #1246 - #1104
10 spools 220 yards each
code : CF50BO10

 DARLENE ZIMMERMAN

by DARLENE ZIMMERMAN
COTTON 50 WT - COLLECTION 10 SMALL SPOOLS
colors included :  #2105 - #2135 - #2720 - #1128 - #1133 - #2410 - #2430 - #2520 - #5006
10 spools 220 yards each
code : DZ50DZ10

WINTER ESSENTIALS

by EDYTA SITAR  #Laundry Basket Quilts
COTTON 50 WT - KIT 4 LARGE SPOOLS
colors included : #5011 - #2309 - #2610 - #1158
4 spools 1422 yards each
code : WE50ES4

Look for these new thread collections in your favorite local quilt shops or on-line shops.  And, if you don't find them let them know you'd like them to carry these Aurifil thread collections for sale in their shop.

For those interested in becoming an Official Aurifil Dealer, you can contact Jesse Cottrell at Jesse@aurifilusa.com 

You can find Aurifil at:

http://www.aurifil.com/
https://www.facebook.com/aurifil.quilt.thread
http://auribuzz.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/aurifil

For more info on the Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges:

Design It! Challenge:  http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/2014/02/design-it-challenge-phase-two-of-red.html
Main page for the Year of Red and White Quilt Challenges (updated throughout the year with links to current challenges):  http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/p/redwhilte-