Twice in One Week!
Just had to take a micro moment of your time to toot my own horn, ’cause this surely doesn’t happen often. While browsing the ever-influential Print & Pattern blog on Wednesday, I came across an image of one of my fabrics, Castle Blocks from Les Monsieurs, in a post about her “faves”. I thought “… […]
Helen’s Garden Parterre Quilt
Oh my goodness, this post has been a long time coming. I promise you, there is a story & a good reason for its delay, partially of my own doing, partially delivery company gremlins in the works. Long story short, this, my favourite quilt was lost, but now is found. Whew! And so many of […]
{ Happy Sewing } … Party Loot Bags
This is one of those super easy projects that I turn to every time one of my kidlets is having a birthday party. Emma turns 8 tomorrow and we threw a birthday breakfast celebration with a few special young friends on Sunday. We have always had birthday celebrations in the afternoon which has typically meant […]
{ Happy Sewing } … Thread Catchers
One of the challenges given at our last Quilt Guild meeting was to make a thread catcher. What’s a thread catcher, you ask? (I asked the same thing). It’s a small bowl for holding all those gazillions of cut threads we accumulate on our table (or floor) while sewing. It took me a moment to […]
{ Happy Sewing } … Quiet Time & Les Monsieurs Pyjama Pants
A fresh pair of spring pyjama pants (I know, it’s only February, but a girl can dream) for my little monsters in cheery colours and patterns. I followed this tutorial. The only adjustment I would make, especially for a boy with no hips, is to use elastic in the waist instead of the cute drawstring […]
A Little Quilted Love
Sending love & thoughts of Spring (it’s right around the corner, dear friends … I know it is) to you all.
Princess & the Pea Quilted Wallhanging
Brooke of Silly Mama Quilts made a second little quilt last fall, using fabrics from Quiet Time. This one focuses on Princess & the Pea. As a child I loved this tale, but not for the princess aspect, but rather for the mental image of all those mattresses stacked up high (patterned mattresses, of course), […]
{ Happy Sewing } … Quiet Time Little Backpacks
I recently whipped up a set of these little bags for a friend’s trio of daughters. What young girl doesn’t need another bag for toting a favourite stuffed friend, book or change of clothes for a sleepover, or set of gym clothes for school? And hopefully there are a lot of little girls out there […]
Quiet Time Wallhanging
A sweet wallhanging made by Brooke Sellman that graced a wall of my Quilt Market booth last fall. I love how her choice of small strips of fabrics echo the stack of books hanging from the tree branch. Brooke used a variety of fabrics from my Quiet Time collection, along with Gem (for the binding) […]
Quiet Time is Shipping!
Coming to a store near you, a little collection for the girls in your life. There are two focal prints in the collection (Princess & the Pea, which comes in two colour ways, and Quiet Time), a stripe, a floral … … and a dot, named “Freckled”. While full of bright, happy colour, Quiet Time […]
