Once upon a time, a designer named Sheri (Cifaldi-Morrill of Whole Circle Studio) had a brilliant idea. She was working on a mini quilt for entry into the annual Quilt Alliance Contest. The theme was ‘playing favorites’. Sheri decided to arrange some of her favorite 50wt spools in her signature circular layout as a tribute to her favorite brand of thread, Aurifil, using her favorite fabric solids, Kona by Robert Kaufman. The spools were realized in actual size and were brought to life via Sheri’s favorite piecing technique — foundation paper piecing.
The fine folks here at Aurifil spotted this magnificent mini right away. It was eye-catching and a fine showcase of one of our absolute favorite things… thread! We contacted Sheri and a beautiful partnership was born.
A few months later, we debuted Sew Many Colors, a new pattern created and developed by Sheri, based on her original mini, featuring 10 lovely spools. Sheri chose the number 10 as a secondary tribute to Aurifil USA’s 10th Anniversary! The pattern was offered for free on Sheri’s website and also on ours as a call to action for quilters around the world to create a showcase of their own top 10 spools of thread. We watched with joy as the submissions came in and we got to witness so many different versions of this fabulous pattern. It was one of the highlights of our year and we are forever grateful to Sheri for making it possible.
A few of the mini submissions for your viewing pleasure:
Fast forward a few more months, to today… Today marks the launch Sew Many Colors: The T-Shirt!
Sheri worked with the incredible team at Patchwork Threads to turn her mini quilt design into a wearable work of art. The V-Neck Tees are available in Black & White Heather and are 20% off from now through Monday, so if you want to walk around wearing a delightful wheel of your favorite threads, head here to check it out!
And, wearing our super comfy t-shirts, we all lived within happiness, joy, and super fabulous color!
A huge THANK YOU to Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill for being such a creative and wonderful partner in all of this! <3
** Aurifil does not profit from this post. We just think that a t-shirt featuring our 50wt threads is particularly fabulous and we couldn’t help but share!
Order mine this morning! Can’t wait to get it!
Thank you for your support!
I 💖💖these shirts!
Thank you Cecilia!
GREAT shirt!! Want mine NOW!!!
Thanks for sharing..
I wish this shirt was still available!