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A new year of Quilt Fiction fun has begun! We\u2019ve just dropped the February Quilt Fiction Podcast episode, which includes  a wonderful interview with novelist Sandra Dallas. While Sandra has never set out to write quilt fiction per se, she\u2019s clearly got a heart for quilts. In novels such as The Persian Pickle Club, Alice\u2019s Tulips and The Diary of Mattie Spenser, quilts and quiltmaking are central to her characters\u2019 lives. In this episode, Sandra talks about her own days as a quilter as well as some of the quilts that she\u2019s collected over the years. 

We\u2019re doing two giveaways to celebrate this month\u2019s podcast! The first is from February\u2019s Quilt Fiction sponsor, Oliso, home of cutting-edge fabric tools tailored to the needs of quilters and sewists. Oliso has generously provided a TG1600 ProPlus autolift iron, the M2Pro travel iron, and a fabulous ironing board cover for one lucky listener to win. 

Our second giveaway is a copy of The Persian Pickle Club, which is our February Book of the Month. If you haven\u2019t read The Persian Pickle Club, you\u2019re in for a treat. If you have, you\u2019ll enjoy it just as much the second time around!

You have until March 1st, 2024, to enter to win one of these two great prizes!

Not only do we have a Book of the Month, we have a Block of the Month! For February, Block of the Month is \u201cRocky Road to Kansas,\u201d  a paper-pieced block you\u2019ll need a pattern for\u2013and we\u2019ve got a free pattern pdf on our website that you can download by clicking here. New to paper-piecing? We have a how-to video up on the Quilt Fiction YouTube channel. (Note: This is my first-ever how-to quilting demo, and it\u2019s a little goofy.)

One of our February projects is overhauling the Quilt Fiction website to make it easier for you to navigate. We have SO much content that it\u2019s taken us a while to get it all sorted out. There  are free audio stories, and we\u2019ve got the ongoing online  World War II Diary, From the Homefront Diaries of Lorraine Shatterbuck. You can listen to the first five chapters of Friendship Album, 1933, for free as well. If  you ever have a question about how to find something, please don\u2019t hesitate to email us at help@quiltfiction.com.

I want to remind you that if  you want quilt fiction audio stories in your email box every week, along with access to a huge archive of quilting stories available to members only, you can sign up for my patron supported Story Guild podcast. For only $6 a month, that\u2019s a lot of fiction! If you\u2019re not ready to make a commitment, try our $10 a month membership, which you can cancel at any time.

Thanks so much for being a part of the Quilt Fiction community! I hope you enjoy this month\u2019s podcast episode!

xoFrances

P.S. Did you get your copy of our free pattern, Eula\u2019s Hen House?