This special issue is packed with projects especially suited for scraps. 22 different quilts are featured for all skill levels, from easy to expert.

Take a look at just a few of the highlights:

Confetti - a cheerful children's quilt

Cozy Cabins - lots of opportunity to play with scraps

Dappled - made entirely of scraps

Click here to preview all the patterns in this scrap-quilting collector’s edition! This special issue is only available from your local quilt shop, newsstand, or directly from our online Quilt and Sew Shop, while supplies last.

An added bonus is included: three pages of pro tips for better machine quilting.

As every quilters knows, the true value of a fabric collection is in the joy it brings in its use. Enjoy using some of your treasured scraps to make a wonderful quilt (or two, or three!) from this issue.

Click here or on image above to visit our McCall’s Quilting Facebook page, and enter to win one of these Moda fat-quarter packs of bright Christmas fabrics! (Only one entry per person is allowed. Please also note that all Facebook features are not available within mobile apps or on mobile websites – the full Facebook website must be accesssed to enter contests.)

Don’t miss out, as this is a Facebook-exclusive contest! Contest is open now through December 12, 2011. 4 winners will be selected and notified by email on December 13th.

Here’s how to enter:

Go to the McCall’s Quilting Facebook page and Log In to your Facebook account.Click the  McCall’s Quilting “Like” button on our Facebook page. (Button will only appear if you do not “Like” us already! If you are already one of our Facebook fans, skip to the next step.)Click the “Contests” button on the left side of the page to enter the contest.Thanks for playing along, and I hope you are enjoying your holiday season!

Contest is over – congratulations to the 4 winners: Jane Underwood of Dallas, Texas, Dawn Hollingsworth of Caldwell, Idaho, Chastity Burton of Adel, Georgia, and Jenelle Boxberger of Russell, Kansas. Thanks for playing, everyone!

Ready for  a little holiday paper piecing? Here’s a bright, richly colored quilted pillow pattern, ready to bring some jewel-toned holiday elegance into your home. Click here for the FREE Christmas Cactus pillow pattern. The PDF pattern download includes full-size, printable foundations.

Need a little help learning how to paper piece? (Or a refresher if you haven’t paper pieced in a while?) As part of our FREE McCall’s Quilting University, we have a great paper piecing tutorial you can download for FREE by clicking here.

I hope you’re enjoying your holiday season, and have some time for a little quilty fun this weekend!

Cheryl Phillips of Phillips Fiber Art just took a moment to write to us on behalf of her friend, Sharon Schlotzhauer. Sharon’s quilt, “Really ‘Wild’ Flowers! Second Season” went missing after the Houston Quilt Festival closed, most likely on Monday, November 7, 2011. As Cheryl expressed in her email, we, too, can only imagine Sharon’s heartbreak over losing her amazing prize-winning quilt.

We are sharing this information with you in hopes that this post might in any way help recover Sharon’s quilt for her. If by chance you have any information that might help in finding her quilt, please relay the information to Sharon at her email address: myfaithfirst@comcast.net.

If you are interested to see any of Sharon’s other artistic quilts, please visit her website at www.sharonlschlotzhauer.com

McCall’s Quilting’s parent company, Creative Crafts Group, is looking for a full-time, on-site editor for one of our highly-regarded quilting magazines and its affiliated website. If you’re a great team player, quilter, and writer, we’d love to hear from you. Click the following link for more details: http://denver.craigslist.org/wri/2725256367.html

Thank you to everyone who participated in our contest! Please join us in congratulating the winner, Peggy Sindelar of Bedford, Texas.

Be sure to keep an eye on our Editors’ Blog, as we will be announcing another contest soon!

Thank you to everyone who entered our contest for the Windham Fabrics velveteen fat quarters, and we hope you all had fun playing! Please join us in congratulating our winner, Tracy Johnson.

Lots of popular quilt designers use EQ7/Electric Quilt 7, and now you have a chance to win an EQ7 for yourself!

This contest is in conjunction with Heidi Kory’s Bows & Boughs design published in the November/December issue of McCall’s Quilting. We’ve even provided FREE printable foundation masters for this Bows and Boughs quilt on our website! (This quilt is also offered as a kit in our online Quilt and Sew Shop – hurry, only a handful of kits left!)

Click here to enter the the contest before midnight, December 1, and soon you may be designing quilts in EQ7, too!

Please click here for official rules.

Contest is over – congratulations to winner Peggy Sindelar of Bedford, Texas!