A new year begins, and with it comes a fresh QuiltInk Challenge to spark creativity and color exploration. For the January QuiltInk Challenge, we’re excited to feature Celestial Garden, the newest fabric collection by Alexandra Bordallo for Andover Fabrics — a release that invites quilters to start the year inspired and curious.
This challenge is an invitation to explore the QuiltInk Wall, experiment with a new palette, and create mock-ups that reflect your own creative voice. Every entry helps keep designers visible, supported, and encouraged to continue sharing their work with the quilting community.
Before we begin, let’s celebrate the close of the December Challenge. Congratulations to chirosc, the winner of our Canyon Challenge in collaboration with Tara Faughnan! With 254 mock-ups shared on the QuiltInk Wall, December was a wonderful example of how active and engaged this community continues to be.
Now, it’s time to turn the page and welcome January’s challenge.
MEET CELESTIAL GARDEN
Celestial Garden is a whimsical and imaginative fabric collection. This printed quilting cotton range blends elements of nature with celestial themes, bringing together motifs like dreamy florals, moonlit details, and constellation-inspired accents that feel both magical and grounded. The palette combines soft pastels with rich jewel tones, offering quilters a versatile set of fabrics perfect for projects that evoke wonder, serenity, and creative expression. Celestial Garden delivers an enchanting visual story that fuels your creative journey.
MEET ALEXANDRA BORDALLO
Meet Alexandra Bordallo, the talented designer behind the Flourish palette for this month’s QuiltInk Challenge!
Hailing from Vic, near Barcelona, Alexandra is a passionate quilter, fabric designer for Andover Fabrics, and quilt pattern creator. Her quilting journey began with inspiration from her grandmother and grew through sewing blogs, magazines, and tutorials. Today, she blends traditional elements with a modern twist, often incorporating flying geese and geometric designs into her work.
For Alexandra, color is the heart of every quilt, and her love for greens, purples, and yellows—drawn from sunsets and summer meadows—shines through in her fabric collections. When she’s not designing, she’s connecting with the quilting community through her website and social media, sharing her creative process and upcoming projects.
We’re thrilled to have Alexandra as part of this challenge, bringing her nature-inspired Flourish collection to QuiltInk!
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
PRIZE!
A 12 Fat Quarter bundle from the Celestial Garden fabric collection by Alexandra Bordallo
Selection: On February 1st, we will randomly pick 2 mock-up chosen between all the mock-ups in the Wall made with the QuiltInk Challenge Jan26 palette (the ones with the gift icon).
Here are some examples of quilt patterns mock-ups using the FLourish palette in QuiltInk! Don’t you love them all?
Patterns featured are (click to color):
1. Mosaïque by Namaju Quilt Studio
2. Afterglow 2.0 by Sewspicious
Remember by clicking on the gift icon in the QuitlInk Wall you will be able to see all the mock-ups for the Challenge alive.
Curious about how to find the palette to participate. Follow these steps and start coloring!!
Here you can see a detailed list of the fabrics in the Celestial Garden palette with their names.
We can’t wait to see all your mock-ups!
Happy coloring and quilting to you all!