Bright and cheerful pops of color make this strawberry and lemonade photo shoot fresh and fun! It’s highlighted in the brand new online magazine It’s All in the Details… featuring inspiration for handmade weddings. I discovered it on Brenda’s Wedding … Read More...
Grab a cuppa: Quilt Festival Spring 2011
Grab a cup of tea, coffee or whatever suits, then check out the lovely quilts entered in Bloggers’ Quilt Festival – Spring 2011. Amy from Amy’s Creative Side hosts this biannual show. Visit the Festival and see all the … Read More...
Quilt Market Best Booths – Salt Lake City
Quilt enthusiasts, go HERE to see the Best Booth Award winners at Spring Quilt Market 2011. Categories include Creativity, Merchandising, New Exhibitor, and Single/Double/ Multiple Booth.
African American Fabrics
I absolutely love this bottle tree fabric from artist, activist, fabric designer Kweli Kitwana.
this one is great too:
You can purchase these and others designed by Kweli on Spoonflower. She also teaches classes on creating your own Fabric … Read More...
Interweave’s New Knitting Lab!
With Exciting Classes from Your Favorite Instructors
Interweave Knitting Lab | November 3-6, 2011 | Marriott San Mateo | San Mateo, CA
Registration is Open!
Registration is now open for the first annual Interweave Knitting Lab… Read More...
Online ATC Swap | Punk Projects
Katie at Punk Projects wrote in to let me know that she is holding an ATC swap. Sign ups run until Sunday May 15th 2011. Click here for all the details.
Quilter newbies, learn from Laura Nownes
Don’t miss this evening’s Wednesday Night Live! webcast brought to you by C&T Publishing. Author and teacher Laura Nownes will teach a beginning class on creating a quilt block. Laura, along with Diana McClun, wrote the classic book Quilts! Quilts!! … Read More...
Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs – Early Bird Ends Sun!
Are you as surprised as we are that it’s May already? If so, you may not have taken advantage of our Early Bird registration yet, which gets you a fat 20% discount off the regular ticket price. The discount ends … Read More...
Summer Interweave Knits, On Sale Now!
Well, not right at this minute, but in a week. Hurry and get your copy, you can buy it on the newsstand or get it directly from Interweave. Hint… if you subscribe, it’s a lot cheaper!
Get it HERE: http://interweaveknits.com/
Time to sign up for fabric swap
Karen from Sew many Ways is hosting anther fabric swap. This time around her focus is on red and white. You’ll trade 5-inch squares of your chosen fabric with however many people sign up to swap. You have until May … Read More...
A call to play nicer – Mod v Trad revisited
Kristen from Sew, Mama, Sew! extends an olive branch (or should I say quilting needle) to Sandi Walton of Piecemeal Quilts. Sandi is the author of the now infamous blog post where she used the “D” word in reference … Read More...
Craft swap “Initially Yours” at Cherry World
It’s a Very Cherry World is hosting a craft swap Initially Yours. She describes it,
… Read More...Participants will be paired with another person and, what you will do is, make something for them using only their first initial. (ex., S
Still Space Available in Heather and Caitlin’s Class at Corning!!
The other day I wrote about the fact that Heather Trimlett and Caitlin Hyde were teaching at Corning. It’s so cool. And I speak from experience since Heather is teaching a class this weekend at my studio. You have … Read More...
Grosgrain: Free Pattern Month
Some really cute free patterns available on Grosgrain this month!
Grosgrain: Free Pattern Month *Click on Buttons for patterns*.
ModTod by Sheri out soon
Get a sneak peek of fabric line ModTod by Sheri McCulley Seibold over at Riley Blake Designs blog. Included in the article is a Q and A with the designer.
New dollhouse sampler
Here’s great news from Janet Granger:
… Read More...There’s a new sampler kit on my website this week, which you might like to take a look at. It’s a ‘Home Sweet Home’ design, in shades of gold, green, and brick red.
Thomas Horst Felt Designer, of Horst Couture
Thomas Horst creates the most remarkable fashions using felt and when you look at his designs it is awe-inspiring that such stunning garments and accessories such as his gorgeous purses were created from raw wool. His sculptural approach using this … Read More...
the Sewalong for Beginners
Can I highly recommend a sew-a-long, not even necessarily this one but any sew-a-long. You get expert help and inspiration from tons of people you normally wouldn’t ever meet. You can learn from other peoples mistakes and learn by helping … Read More...
Toy Drop Lands In Brisbane
Brisbane’s (Australia) largest handmade collective, BrisStyle, is joining forces with the Toy Society to co-ordinate a MEGA Toy Drop throughout the South East and beyond during the month of May. Hundreds of toys with notes to “take me home” … Read More...
BOM for May: 4-Patch Spade
This is the latest in the series 4-Patch Fun! Block of the Month (BOM) hosted over at Victoriana Quilters. And this month, you get a peek at the finished quilt. Visit her post to receive May’s BOM instructions (only … Read More...