Starlight Creative

It's Starlight Fundraising TIME!!!

Catch me live on Twitch! Mondays 5-8pm et and Thursdays 5-8pm et plus a few EXTRA streams!

Donate and win! Every $5 donated to Starlight through my campaign earns a ticket “to win”. Because this is the Creative campaign, community members around the world have been working hard on creating (and hoarding) some AMAZING artistic items for you!!  If it is creative, it is eligible to donate and give away!!

Want to see some of the amazing things already donated?  Check out the spreadsheet with photos here! 

It all culminates with the huge giveaway stream on Saturday December 24 at 1pm et.  You do NOT need to be present to win. But if you are present you get to choose what you would like from everything remaining!!

Want to donate something? Fill this form out here!

Want to donate to win? Do it here!

We are also having another Sewing Race!!

This time, it's fat quarters!!!  You must use at least 10 fat quarters and 24 cuts through the fabric during your quilt creating.  You have the OPTION of adding 2 additional fat quarters and/or up to 2 yards of fabric. 

Saturday, December 17th 11am et start time. There will be a hard stop of 3pm no matter if Toni finishes or not for this race.

Sign up to Participate in the Sewing live race or sign up to enter the best in show!  The winner of the live race gets to choose first from everything donated!  Winner of Best in Show gets second choice! (Everything else is given away on Dec 24).

Hosted by Swan Sheridan!!

Swan of Swan Amity is our first second time host! She had so much fun she wanted to do it again!!

Swan Sheridan was born in Bend, Oregon in little house on Colorado Street.  She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona with her super hero husband and turbo charged daughter.

Swan’s interest in all things textile related began when she was very young.  She tried everything from spinning wool, to cross-stitch and finally landed in the world of quilting during grad school as she awaited the birth of her first nephew.  She dabbled in appliqué with that first quilt in the interests of covering a mistake and thus did necessity become the mother of invention.

Appliqué truly took over Swan’s quilting life in 2004 while she was pregnant with her daughter.  Swan had a dream during that time that repeated a magical image of dragonflies rising out of a brass urn and flying toward the moon.  Unable to shake the idea that this image needed to become a quilt for her baby-to-be, Swan set out to make this quilt come alive and as a result produced her first large appliquéd scene.

In 2009, with her daughter in preschool, Swan began to refine her appliqué skills always with unique designs.  Soon after she took a job with Bella Quiltworks in Tucson, Arizona, offering her the opportunity to be immersed in the quilting world in a whole new way.

Swan began producing patterns for sale in early 2013 and regularly exhibits her work in local and national shows.  She teaches in Tucson and around the country, offering classes in appliqué, color, machine and hand quilting, and decorative stitches.

On any given day, you can find this quilt artist half buried in fabric, brandishing her needle and thread, and otherwise surrounded by implements of creativity.

Prizes & Shipping eligibility for Prizes:

Winner of Race:

Winner of Best in Show:

Rules and Guidelines to participate in the Sewing Race:

Sign up to Race Live - Cost $40 usd

  • Everyone who "beats" Toni in the Race is eligible for a $15 gift card to Quiltoni.com
  • Register between Nov 1st and Dec 16th to participate
  • You must know how to use Zoom before the race
  • You must log in by 10:45am est into the Zoom meeting (link will be provided on the 10th) or you will not be included in the race
  • Your camera angle must be able to show you at your main sewing machine and show the progress of your quilt
  • Do NOT start on your quilt until we are live and I say GO (Don't forget to take a picture of you and your fabrics before you start to make you eligible for best in show)
  • You may add 2 additional fat quarters and/or up to 2 yards of fabric.  This is OPTIONAL and should only be done if you want to purposefully slow yourself down or go for Best in Show.  You still need to use at least 10 fat quarters.
  • You must use AT LEAST 75% of each fat quarter.  This will allow for trimming up pieces and blocks.
  • If you add additional fat quarters or yards, you do not need to include any scraps of fabric created by sewing these items into your top. For example, if you cut fabric for sashing, you do not need to include the entire strip.
  • You may not have an additional person helping, this is all you.  Ironing, Sewing, assembly, everything. ALL YOU
  • You may pre-wind Bobbins
  • We are only making the tops.  You do not need to finish off your quilt.
  • To be eligible for the Grand Prize or Gift Certificates, your top must be completely finished, ironed, and ready for basting.
  • Please remember to keep voice chat PG and free of politics and religion
  • If you are outside the shipping area for any prize you can opt to pay for shipping to win that prize
  • Automatically eligible for Best in Show and you do not need to donate another $30 for Make a Layer Cake Quilt.

Sign up to Make a Fat Quarter Quilt - Cost $30 usd

  • Register between Nov 1st and Dec 18th to participate
  • If you are outside the shipping area for any prize you can opt to pay for shipping to win that prize
  • Submit 2 photos by December 18th 11:59pm est to toni@quiltoni.com
  • First photo of you with your fabrics. I must be able to see the fabric and your face (this is only for me and will not be published).
  • Second photo of the Finished Quilt Top only.  Do NOT finish your quilt until you have taken this picture.  This is a contest of tops, not of quilting.
  • You may add 2 additional fat quarters and/or up to 2 yards of fabric.  This is OPTIONAL and should only be done if you want to purposefully slow yourself down or go for Best in Show.  You still need to use at least 10 fat quarters.
  • You must use AT LEAST 75% of each fat quarter.  This will allow for trimming up pieces and blocks.
  • If you add additional fat quarters or yards, you do not need to include any scraps of fabric created by sewing these items into your top. For example, if you cut fabric for sashing, you do not need to include the entire strip.
  • You may not have an additional person helping, this is all you.  Ironing, Sewing, assembly, everything. ALL YOU.
  • All Quilt Top photos will be displayed on Quiltoni's Social Media and voting will be open Dec 19th - Dec 23rd.  The quilt top with the most votes at 4:00pm et Dec 23rd wins! (I will not be putting names or screen names with the photos).

Never made a quilt with fat quarters before? Need a pattern that follows all the rules?  This list of quilt patterns are easy to make and can be used for this race (or best in show).

Beginner Patterns

Intermediate Patterns (some knowledge of quilting)

 Need help finding fat quarters?  Visit these!