Tea & Time

Finally, I have some free time!

I have been drinking obscene amounts of tea over the last 2 months while working on the second issue of Quilter's Connection Magazine. Tuesday, I went to Rhino Print Solutions in Richmond to meet the gang and have a tour of their huge warehouse. I had no idea that the printing machine alone was bigger than my house! Heather the editor and I checked the proofs and everything looked amazing! I am very excited about the Winter 2009/10 issue that will be out in December!

This week I finally had time to finish an order for 6 quilted teacup & saucer sets. These are for a very good customer of mine. I hope she likes them! No, you can neither put tea in them nor a teacup... they are really just a conversation piece but I have so much fun making them! And yes, they are on my list to make into a pattern booklet :o)

I had entirely too much fun taking photos of them! If you would like to see more photos, please visit my Flickr Gallery.

Pumpkin Coasters

Harvesting pumpkins from my little garden last week put me in a particularly Autumn-y mood. I needed something to decorate my wall that would celebrate the season as well as have a function. From the over-flowing bins of fabric scraps, Pumpkin Coasters were born... and what a better opportunity to try out my new-found InDesign skills than to create my very first PDF pattern!

These coasters are very versatile because they can be linked together. You can make a set of 4 or as many as needed. Pumpkin Coasters is a very simple & easy-to-make pattern, and is suited to quilters of any skill level!

I am very excited to make this PDF pattern available in my SHOP just in time for Autumn. It is a 4-page pattern which includes the cover, an instruction page including full colour photos, and 2 template pages. I have decided to make my simpler designs available as PDF patterns. My goal is to make most of my current designs available as printed pattern booklets and keep on creating new projects! My dream is to find my pattern booklets in shops across the world :o)

...but first I have to make them!