Coral us excited for the aqua-tic surprises we have in store for you in the May Sew Sampler box! Peek inside for a clue to the oh-sew-delightful contents and to learn about the Vault Patterns and the Spooled Quilt Along.
Don’t miss out on this box! If you aren’t yet subscribed and want to join, do so very SOON, so you don’t miss this month’s cut off date for sign ups!
Celebrating 10 Years of Sew Sampler
Since April 2016, we’ve shipped 120 blue boxes filled with quilting goodness to our amazing members. Your creativity and love of quilting have helped shape Sew Sampler into the wonderful community it is today, and we are sew grateful to celebrate this milestone with you!
To mark the occasion, we’re opening the Sew Sampler Vault! For the first time ever, 12 of our most requested exclusive Sew Sampler quilt patterns are coming back.
From April 2026 through March 2027, one quilt pattern from the Sew Sampler Vault will be automatically included as a printed pattern in each monthly box shipment as a special bonus for members, at no extra cost! The exact pattern each month will stay a surprise until your blue box arrives. A little quilting mystery to keep things fun!
Non-members will be able to shop the monthly Sew Sampler Vault pattern separately, as a paid PDF pattern, only.
2026 Spooled Sew Sampler Quilt Along!
With the Flowering Quilt Along wrapped up in last month’s box, we’re ready to get going with this year’s Sew Sampler Box Sew Along, Spooled, which measures 54.5″ square finished.
Join us for a whimsical year-long journey with the Spooled Quilt Along! Spinning off traditional block patterns, this quilt along is a wonderful way to sew something beautiful with wonder and joy. The Petals and Polka Dots fabric collection by Bunny Hill Designs brings together graceful reds, pinks, and creams that will keep your bobbins bobbing along. The Spooled quilt will steadily grow into an unforgettable and heartwarming keepsake!
The Spooled Quilt Kit will be available for purchase soon. Sign up to be notified so you don’t miss out, and the much-anticipated Fabric Requirements and Conversions are available now for those wishing to sew with something else!
If you are not yet subscribed and want to join right in time for our Spooled Quilt Along and a new year of Sew Sampler, now’s the time! Don’t forget, you can always find the quilt details on the Sew Sampler Quilt Along page.
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49 comments
Tula Pink coming our way!!!
Yea! I love Tula Pink!!!
I was thinking the same thing and I am so excited!
Omg its FLORAL REEF!!!!!!!
I have been looking at the quilt kit for floral reef and I am going to wait now and see if it is in May’s box! I am so excited
It’s Floral Reef!!! I’m so excited. I hope we also get some of Tula Pink’s new hardware such as a zipper and the anchor zipper pulls.
Floral Reef by tula pink, it will be a good size beautiful quilt or maybe a beach tote?
It’s Tula. I hoped it would be A Cat named Stitch but Tula is okay too.
I was hoping for Stitch also.
Yes, was hoping for A Cat Named Stitch also…
I hope the vault pattern will be the quilt from the first sew sampler box. It was a cute strawberry block. I am not a Tula Pink fan but my daughter is so I will gift it to her. She will be so happy.
Tulla! Tulla! Tulla!
It would be fun if there was a project bag kind of thing, especially since that Tula line has such cute vinyl and zippers. Oooh – another cross stitch folio???
Yeah Tula!!! I love Tula Pink, thank you FQS, I’m sure this box will be fantastic!! Hoping for one of the charms I’ve been seeing – an Anchor or even better – the S.S. Pink charm. A cute bag or maybe a bucket hat to wear to the beach would be really fun.
I’m not a Tula pink fan. Hoping for a cat named stitch. Oh well can’t always get what you want. Hope there are other goodies I will like and be able to use
No offense to the Tula fans but I was also hoping for Stitch, Tula colors and designs fall into an extremely niche group, I brought multiple tula lines along with all other designers that I wanted to pass along to my quilting club (large group) and tula bundles were the only ones left behind.
It looks like Floral Reef fabric by Tula Pink… so cheery and fitting for a quilt that might be just right for a new Florida home. 🐠🪸🪼
Would you ever do Stephanie Sliwinski fabric?
What ever it is – I’m always excited to get that box in my mailbox!!!’
Not a Tula fan..will make a good gift…always♥️ love ♥️the notions
Love FQS and thank you
Not a Tula fan either, but so happy for those of you who are since the boxes don’t frequently have her stuff. I am sure my box will sell quickly through the swap group since there are many Tula fans out there! Happy Mother’s Day for those who celebrate it.
i hope that it is not Tula Pink. Not a fan. Usually I love the boxes. Will have to wait and see.
Yeah!!! Tula❤️❤️
I LOVE Tula Pink!!!!!
Yeah… not a Tula Pink fan. Bummer.
Yup, Tula Pink for sure! I feel meh about most Tula but I’m sure I can work with it and I’m sure I will love everything else about this box💗
TULA❣️😃
Hope it’s not Floral Reef, that is realy ugly! Sorry, just don’t care for those fabrics.
Looking forward to using Floral Reef.🪸 Hoping for fat quarters!🤞
Looks like Tula Pink fabric! She is very talented in her drawings! I’m looking forward to this Sew Sampler Box this month! Thank you, Kimberly and F. Q. S. Staff!
It’s definitely Tula! Her fabrics take me out of my comfort zone and stretch my creativity. Nice to see a different style of fabric!
TULA! Thank you FQS
I wish we had the option to opt out of one box a year. I would opt out of this one because I am not a Tula pink fan. I will definitely try to sell this box somewhere.
I agree! Tula’s fabric is COMPLETELY different from anything else that is offered in the Sew Sampler boxes…the colors are so loud and obnoxious (imho)…. just looking at it makes me nauseous….
I love Tula Pink and her new reef collection is gorgeous!
But …. May I say something? If you don’t like Tula, and I know not everyone does, why do you have to make it known and spoil the happiness of those who love her? When a designer is going to be featured that I don’t care that much about, I don’t feel the need to squelch others happiness by making negative comments. Just a thought.
You should ask yourself why it spoils your happiness if someone doesn’t like something you like? Why can only the people who like something be allowed to voice their opinions?
Because there is already too much negativity in this world.
Because, apparently, that’s what makes them happy, I guess. If they aren’t going to get a designer they like, at least they can be happy telling us they don’t like them.
Because, apparently, that’s what makes them happy, I guess. If they aren’t going to get a designer they like, at least they can be happy telling us they don’t like them.
Actually….maybe the REAL reason is because FQS actually READS the comments and LISTENS to their customers. And MAYBE if more people would comment, FQS MIGHT offer an option to PAUSE their subscription for one month?
I prefer to read “negative” comments as “constructive criticism”…
I like Tula fabric and I think that is what this month will be. Variety is the spice of life. Sometimes I don’t have a clue what I will do with fabric and just hoard it ’cause it is cool. Those who don’t like it can always take Bonnie Hunter under your wing, she says if you think a fabric is ugly, you just haven’t cut it small enough. There is that.
I have done 2 of Tula pinks quilts, the dragon fruit and the wise guy owls and I love them and I love the colors especially because it is so different. I hope it’s the marine meadow pattern. I love that pattern.
sometime we get fabrics that are not our favorites I do them anyway and I usually have a granddaughter that loves the colors. I love all the different varieties we get in the boxes.
Thank you FQS
Ooooh! Coral Reef is a stunning collection💕🧵
There was a pattern we got a few years ago very similar to Marine Meadow, so even if we don’t get it, I think you could use that one to make something similar. I’m excited about this one!
TULA!!!!!!
I’m so excited about the Tula fabric. I was in Paducah in April and couldn’t make it to her exhibit while she was there and I’m still regretting that! This might be my favorite of hers yet.
I’m not a fan of Tula fabrics. They are to wild for my taste. Looks like I’m not the only one who doesn’t like them. Very disappointed.
I don’t care for them either. I find them garish.
So glad I cancelled my subscription. Price increased, duplicate items returning in boxes, and Tula Pink’s fabrics are hideous.