Emerson Star and Fabric Tuesday!

 Happy Tuesday!! I'm so excited to finally share with you my Emerson Star Quilt and pattern!! If you follow me on Instagram you've probably seen a few pictures over the last couple of weeks so hopefully you don't mind! :)

The quilt is made using Heather Ross' new line Tiger Lily which has been hitting shops since last month.  Its a great pattern for fussy cutting.

I named it Emerson Star because Heather and I grew up on Emerson Street in Littleton Colorado, a home that captures most of our childhood. We simply love that house!!

Thanks to Mary Magrogan (@classicquilter) for writing our patterns, now we have multiple sizes!!

It comes in throw, twin and queen sizes! Yay!

I'm kind of in love with this new quilt!!  If you live in Utah, or are visiting soon, I just shipped it off to Pine Needles in Midvale for display, so check it out!

Emerson Star pattern is available in our shop! :)

Fabric Tuesday #248

Link up a recent fabric project.  Thanks for letting me indulge and share mine today!

Fabric Tuesday and a new pattern!

Happy Tuesday my friends!! Hope all is well!  We're enjoying the humidity here in Northern Virginia (not) but we are enjoying the fireflies at night!

Last Christmas Heather and I got a couple of new fabric collections and helped each other design new quilt patterns with each.  We finished them in record time (for us) and had them completely ready for quilt market.  But naturally it took two more months to list the patterns in our shop and share it with you all! :)

I'm happy to share Hello Pretty with you today for Fabric Tuesday!

Such happy and bright colors in Aneela Hoey's line "Hello Petal" by Moda Fabrics.  I love the little children at play and I was sold when I saw the kitty cats all named on the back (including Lucy!).

I love creating a pattern that maybe appears to be more work than it is. I used fat quarters to make this quilt, strip piecing and a lot of repeat blocks to create this finish.  I heart it!

When I finished it didn't seem finished...I stood back and thought it was too busy and on the smaller side.  I am so pleased I added the white borders and patchwork squares, I think it completes it.

Backed it with those sweet kitties of course, and there is the perfect stripe in the line I used for binding.

There you have it!

Hello Pretty

65" x 77"

Pattern is available for purchase here

Fabric Tuesday

#195

Come and share your recent fabric WIPs and finishes!!

Diamond Drop pattern....

Yay! I have a new quilt finished!  This fall has really been tough on Meg and I. Megan with her move, and my kids and their overloaded fall schedules has been really kickin my butt lately. I love to sneak in some sewing time when I can. It is my stress reliever!  

This pattern is called Diamond Drop...

I made it from Riley Blakes line Little Red, by Tasha Noel. Love this line! Lots

I took these photos at a cabin we go to for a family reunion each summer. Pretty place...

As always, you can buy this pattern, and any of our others at our ETSY shop...

Isn't it sweet?

Annie's Skirt New Pattern and Fab Tues!

  A few matters of business today.  A new pattern, a Pattern's Only winner and Fabric Tuesday! Phew!  Let's do this!

Last year I shared with you some skirts I made for baby girl.  

They're reversible. And I loved them.  So I made some more :)

This time I added some patchwork to one side.

One simple side, one patchwork side.

They don't fit her yet otherwise you know I'd have Lucy pictures all over :)  The ones I made for her are 18-24 months, for next summer.  Turns out I overdid it on her wardrobe.  Surprise surprise :)

I got a lot of great feedback on the skirts last year so I decided to make a pattern. Annie's Skirt is available in our shop so check it out!

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And the lucky winner of our Patterns Only 5 PDF Patterns is.....

Amy DeCesare said...

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JULY 19, 2013 AT 7:34 AM 

Congrats!!  And thanks to Patterns Only!

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Fabric Tuesday #145

Link it up! Any fabric project you've posted about recently we'd love to see.  Please link back to Fabric Tuesday (or put our button on your sidebar).  Take time to check out the other link-ups too!

Thanks friends!! Can't wait to see all your creative goodness!

Anchors Away and Fabric Tuesday...

Anchors Away

I think it is pretty obvious Megan and I are IN LOVE with this Out to Sea line. Pure cuteness! We are even fighting over each others scraps! Pathetic, we know (as we bow our heads in shame)

Anyhow, I reworked my MOD TWEET pattern with the anchor in the middle. LOVE.

Plus, I threw this together SUPER fast! Faster than I had planned (which never ever happens with quilting, right?)

I LOVE the quilting I did. Super fast and sweet. I did bubbles (or pebble) quilting around the anchor. Then I just did super fast waves across the quilt. I am so happy with how it looks, and it was SO fast!

Here is the back. Don't love how the bubbles look on the navy print, should have planned my layout better. But who cares right?

The quilt will go to this sweet little man for Christmas. Don't you just want to eat his cheeks through the computer? (Or possibly that is just a mom thing?)  :)

I have had a hard time not giving it to him yet. 

Hope you like. Megan and I are gearing up for a hibernation over fall up to Christmas. We are both trying to get patterns out of the way, and even Christmas gifts done super soon. (wish up luck on the Christmas gifts, I will never be sewing at 1:30am Christmas morning EVER again!)

If you love the pattern, you can purchase it here.

What did you create this week?

Fabric Tuesday #101

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Finally finished...Rylee's Path...

Megan and I posted this quilt at last fall's quilt festival. We didn't have the pattern finished, but figured it wasn't a big deal. We ended up getting several people asking for the pattern...many months later we finally have it finished...introducing...

 named after my cute Rylee I posted about here...

a fun simple pattern

If you are interested in this pattern, you can get it here.  Hope you like the quilt!


Fabric: Peacock Lane for Michael Miller by Violet Craft

A Quilt for Baby Belle

Warning: Picture Overload

I've got another quilt finish (Megan), so I had to sneak in my own feature :)  My sister-in-law just had her first baby, a sweet baby girl Annabelle.  I called my SIL a few months into her pregnancy and asked her what colors she liked.  She said she was really into yellow, pink and brown.  Well just prior to that Heather and I got the whole line of Just Dandy.  Perfect right?  Except that I had the blue/green colorway and Heather took the pink/yellow colorway.  AND I had already used mine on these messenger bags.  Sigh.  After a lot of pouting and bribery (and more pouting) Heather gave me some.  I don't think there could have been a more perfect line!

I went through several designs with this, all of them were HST though :)  At one point it was a zig-zag quilt.  Ultimately I settled on this design and I liked having the pink/cream double hourglass to offset the yellow.

I used some leftover Peacock Lane for binding. I need more of those fabrics, amazing for the stash, seriously.

I also gave baby Belle Lola's Quilt :)  I figure if I ever have a girl I will want to do all pink/red/purple for her.  Already having two boys I literally have blue and green in every room.

I used Joel Dewberry's Heirloom for backing.  I straight stitched about 1/4" on the sides of the seams.  It made a neat pattern and I love the six-pointed stars in the middle.

Next I had to make her one of my Carseat Canopy's from Oh Baby!.  I used felt for the flowers and added a pearl in the middle.  I loved working with so much pink!  Here's the supplies you need for the flowers:

Two colors of felt, scissors (these teflon Havel's are my fave...they're really really good!), glue gun and disappearing ink pen.  I used the cup opening for the lighter pink and large circles, cut 4.  From the bottom of the cup cut the darker pink, cut 4.  Fold in half twice using the glue gun to keep in place. Arrange like below and add a pearl or two to the top!  Ta-da! How's that for a mini tutorial??

I also made her a nursing cover with Midnight Garden from Michael Miller.  Those come together fast...some boning and D-rigs and you're good to go!  Got to have one of those right?

I made an extra flower with a hair clip on the back.

Seriously it was so much fun to make girl stuff!  And it felt nice to go "overboard" since it was for a niece...now to get to meet that sweet baby girl!  They're in Florida and we're in Arizona, so it may take some time but it'll happen. Until then Skype will suffice.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sarah Jane, Fabric Tuesday and a new pattern!

Play Around Quilt Pattern

Remember the gorgeous pile of Sarah Jane fabric I posted about here... The pattern and fabric are now available!!!

Here is the sweet quilt I created.  I am so glad I have 4 daughters! This line is perfect for our house. The girls are fighting over it.

I really had fun with this one,  the center block is is perfect for a fussy cut square of your favorite prints. It really highlights my favorite little girls playing with their dolls. One is pushing hers dolly in a carriage, one is cutting her dolls hair (hehe), one is pushing a bunny in a stroller...darling little outfits...you MUST inspect every print in this line.  Super duper cute!

You can buy all the fabric from the lovely Kimberly at the Fat Quarter Shop. She now has all the fabric available, and there is TONS of prints to choose from. The boy line is equally darling! Rockets, paper airplanes, oh my!

You can also purchase the pattern here at our etsy shop. And if you enter the Promo code PLAYAROUND1, you can get this pattern, and any of our other patterns for 20% off through the rest of the weekend!

I hope you love this quilt as much as we do.

And now....

FABRIC TUESDAY!!