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flying geese and stash
not the most exciting title but it's been a good week in my quilting world.
Firstly my beautiful 1930s fabric swap fabrics arrived from Missouri Mel and they are absolutely gorgeous! She is fabulous at organising these swaps, I recommend following her or joining the flickr group because it's so worth taking part and I know I would love to be included in the next round. It's a perfect way to get a beautiful selection of 30s fabric and these are destined for my Green Tea and Sweet Beans quilt.
I've also been working this week and couldn't help but snag some of Leah Duncan's new line Gramercy (available online here and here), I got the NY Circuit in Ashen because it's such a perfect low volume print but I'm sure I won't be able to resist some of the other prints too!
And my lovely boss left me a nice treat, a box of white perle thread. I can't get enough of this stuff and we are now stocking Valdini and DMC perle threads at Patchfinders. I am trying to get as many people to try hand quilting with perle as I can!
Oh and I've just realised that Gramercy print would fit perfectly with the new theme at le challenge. This month the theme is X and there are two great prizes - a $25 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop and your choice of any 25 closed end zips from Rickety Rose Crafts! It's really simple to enter, any finished project (since Oct 15th) that ties in to the X theme can be linked up on November 15th for a random chance to win those prizes! Find out more here.
I was also teaching at Patchfinders this week and, although I didn't manage to photograph them all, here's some of the cushion covers that my class starting making:
We had a lot of fun and I love that they came up with their own patterns for the geese based on the cushion I made.
I have a lot of WIPs on the go but I've begun working on my le challenge project and I'm really pleased with it. In fact it's amped up my creativity and I'm full of ideas, which has really lifted my spirits so yeah for crafting therapy!
Hope you all have a lovely week :)
wonderful stashing and a discount code
It's been a great week for my stash all because of one very lovely blogger; Jamie of Busy Bee Quilts sent me the most amazing parcel of repro 30s fabric for my Green Tea and Sweet Beans quilt. I nearly screamed when I opened it and saw all the gorgeousness! She's really spoilt me and they will all be so perfect.
These are seriously stunning!
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And I couldn't help but pick out my top five just because!! I mean look at how adorable they are!
I know this bottom pink one is Jamie's favourite print too, which makes it even nicer of her to share it with me. I am really so grateful Jamie, thank you! :)
My only buy was some cute stationery from Hema (I did also get some nice Christmas stocking fillers for the kids. They have really fun toys and I couldn't resist but I didn't take any pictures in case the kids saw them on my phone!). These stickers are such great colours:
I've been working on a couple more little zip bags and I certainly need to stock up on zips, I like to have a variety of colours to hand. I bought some this summer from a lovely Ebay seller who has now opened an online shop and is kindly sharing a discount code with my readers to celebrate!
Rickety Rose stocks zips, bias binding, ric ric, pom pom trim, buttons, felt and lots of other fun haberdashery! Prices are really reasonable, with zips between 50-65p (lots of lengths and colours) and quantity discounts too, so if you find you use a lot of one colour this would be the perfect place to stock up. She posts worldwide and postage rates are priced well too.
There's a lot of useful haberdashery products so check out Rickety Rose and use the code WELCOME to get 10% off your first order.
You're welcome! :)
a start not a finish - le challenge
This is the fifteenth challenge link at le challenge, which means I've successfully finished fourteen makes since we started, but this time... well you've probably already guessed... I have no completed project to share.
I was exciting by the theme 'era' and had lots of ideas but it's been such a busy summer (blah, blah, excuses, excuses!), I had grand plans but as time ran on I realised they were not feasible and I just couldn't find the love for hurriedly cobbling something together.
So instead I made a start and finished the first block of the Green Tea and Sweet Beans pattern by Jen Kingwell.
The fabrics I'm using are mostly 1930s reproduction, though I think this block looks a bit 1950s too. The fabric on the bottom left corner was given to me by my wonderful cousin in America, I absolutely adore the print and have been saving it for a special project. I think this hand sewn pattern is the perfect way to use up my most loved vintage scraps.
So there you have it, the first fail for me. Ok not a fail but this wouldn't count if I was actually linking up to le challenge. Since Nat will be having her baby towards the end of this year, we've agreed we are both allowed a couple of passes and this is mine.
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone else's actual finishes and if you've made anything over the past two months that fits the theme 'era' in any way then feel free to come and link up your finished project. A random winner gets a $25 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop as well as a special giveaway this month of 10 FQs of vintage sheets from Mary Emmens.
Hop over and check it out!
can't resist a sale
I try to resist a good sale... for about 3 seconds before checking out if there's any gorgeous fabric that I have to have! This week I received some real lovelies.
There was an extra 30% off these Japanese fabrics from Pink Castle Fabrics:
Forest Creatures in Navy by Cosmo Textile; Paris in White by Cosmo Textile; Yummy Lunchtime in Blue, Pop N Kids by Lecien
Summer Plaid in Red, Summerhome by Hemma Design; Petit Point in Navy, Petit Points by Michael Miller; Graph Check in Orange, Citrus by Another Point of View and some Wonder Clips
This is the first time I've tried the Wonder Clips and now I know what the fuss is about. I have used the hairclip style clips for binding before but they were kind of annoying and tended to leave dent marks so I gave up using them. The wonder clips are so easy to use and I've found that as I'm hand binding they really keep the binding in place so well that even when I take them off the fabric behaves and stays neatly folded over. Also I have a lot less tension in my left hand - usually I have to stop because my hand hurts so much from holding the binding in place. They are also available in the UK here.
I receive a few email newsletters from different online shops, it's a fun way to see what new fabrics are available and also to find out about special offers and sales. Tikki had 20% off for May Day and I needed some neutrals solids so that was my excuse:
I'm hoping to have some time today or tomorrow (a wonderful Bank holiday here in the UK) to actually get some things made and do some craved for sewing!
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