So lovely in teal, this Folkloric Blooms fabric panel was designed by Sue Spargo & Wendy Morris for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Get a better look HERE.
Image credit: Sue Spargo Store
Blair’s blue plaid pillow + upcoming patterns
Blair of Wise Craft made this stylish Plaid Windows Pillow (zippered cover and form). Available in her Etsy store, here’s how Blair described the fabrics and stitches she used to create it.
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Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day – Jan 24
Ellen of The Long Thread is planning to visit her local quilt shop Thursday (read her post here) as part of the Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day campaign. Will you be visiting yours? Before you run out the … Read More...
The truth about cheap fabric
Maddie of Domestic Anarchy delivered a swift kick to a friend’s ego by telling her the truth about fabric inequality passing on the adage “good fabric costs good money”. It so happened the friend was lovingly stroking some of her … Read More...
Ta Dah!: Modern quilt with camp-themed fabric
Jacquie of Tallgrass Prairie Studio reminds me of why I love modern with her Fire Stacks quilt. She talks about its appearance in the latest issue of a national quilting magazine, shares her fabric choices, design, and tons of photos. … Read More...
Tutorial: Quilted placemats using laminated fabric
Denise of Pieced Brain took some beautiful Riley Blake laminates and turned them into pretty quilted placemats for her table. She stitched a Chevron pattern over the surface, shown. Each placemat sports a pocket to hold utensils, oh so practical! … Read More...
Giveaway: Fabric bundle at Maureen Cracknell
I do declare, I love vintage campers! They’re part of this weekend’s giveaway at Maureen Cracknell. Contest ends early December 24, 2012. Go HERE for entry details.
Image credit: Maureen Cracknell
Mustache fabric and ‘The Mustache’ store
Such cute mustacheness, this fabric swatch brightened my morning. It’s part of the Menswear fabric collection by Timeless Treasures. On a personal note, I recently popped in to The Mustache store in Fayetteville, Arkansas while taking in the holiday lights … Read More...
Fabric swatch: Wanderlust in pink
I’m swooning over this fabric line (Conversationals) just out and in stock at Hawthorne Threads. By Trans Pacific Textiles, Wanderlust is shown here in the Pink colorway. It also comes in Natural, Blue and Yellow. Go HERE to check … Read More...
Tutorial: Create binding from fabric selvages
This is brilliant! Becca of Bryan House Quilts made quilt binding from fabric selvages for a recent project. This photo shows the selvages sewn together as a solid piece. From this she cuts the strips, then tucks, sews, folds and … Read More...
Pat Sloan Live Radio | 4 PM EST
Today at American Patchwork & Quilting Radio, host Pat Sloan talks with yet another talented group of guests. They include Barbara Jones of QuiltSoup who has a new book out (yay!), IQA president Stevii Graves who will give us her … Read More...
Giveaway: Three charm packs at Samelia’s Mum
Anorina of Samelia’s Mum is hosting a giveaway on her blog for three fabric charm packs by Moda. These are all great fabric lines (no dogs here). Her contest ends December 10, 2012. Go HERE to enter.
Swoon worthy quilt by Myra
I love, love, love this quilt made by Myra Barnes of Busy Hands Quilts Etsy. She used a black background to show off Annie’s Farm Stand fabric. It works!
Image credit: Busy Hands Quilts
Cheap fabric in Wildfield Quilt disappoints
This image has 1529 repins on Pinterest, so I clicked through to learn this is Anthropologie’s Wildfield Quilt. Like most items in their store, it’s pricey, yet desirable. I noticed the reviews have been overwhelmingly bad, with people saying it’s … Read More...
Ed Emberley’s Cats in charcoal
This fabric swatch makes me smile. Go check out Cats in Charcoal and the rest of the Happy Drawing Too collection at Hawthorne Threads.
Image credit: Hawthorne Threads
Quilt binding and a reader’s tip
Tonya of The Crafty Mummy said she tried something new (sewing the binding on both the front and back) and something tried and true (using striped fabric for the binding) on this quilt. One of her readers gave a great … Read More...
Winners announced Marbled Musings
I drew two winners for the Marbled Musings’ contest I held here. Congratulations goes to commenter #93, Dona, who said, I love the marbled musings on this page! Reminds me of Peacock feathers, and commenter #28, Marlene, who … Read More...
Tutorial: ‘Flying Geese’ doll quilt
Nova of a cuppa and a catch up covers the October edition of the Liberty Scrap Challenge with this tiny doll quilt. She started with mini charm squares of Liberty fabric to create Flying Geese blocks, sewed them into rows … Read More...
Tutorial: Wendy’s pillows from Simple Life panels
Wendy of Ivory Spring did a guest post at Riley Blake’s Cutting Corners College blog showing how to make two pillows (16″ and 18″ finished). She used The Simple Life fabric collection by Tasha Noel, which I adore for its … Read More...
Free pattern: Around the World quilt by Heather Jones
Heather of Olive and Ollie designed this quilt for Coats and Clark. She talks about it at Sewing Secrets. Scroll to the end of the post to get the link to the free download.