CupCake Pincushions are now available as a cute little PDF printable pattern booklet! This is the third pattern in "A Scrap Basket Project" PDF Series. This series is a collection of super easy projects for quilters and crafters of all skill levels, and are designed to use those small pieces of fabric.
You can find this pattern along with Pumpkin Coasters & Bird Ornaments in my SHOP.
Not the flocking you would usually associate with a Christmas tree...
A flock of birds have flown in from all around the globe to make a home in my tree this year!
There are some of my own fabric bird ornaments, felt gingerbread birds from CozyMemories and a felted wool robin from LilFish...
There are pretty scrapbook paper birds from Mrs. Kwitty...
There is a fabric birdhouse from Anna and my favourite new glass bird ornament...
and THESE and THIS and store bought birds of all types including some wonderful glass bird ornaments that I found in 2 different stores this year... what luck!
Among the birds are birdhouses, pinecones, acorns, popcorn and of course tons of glittery, shiny & sparkly tinsel requested by the 5 year old! (We should have fun trying to remove it all from our fake tree!)
I wonder if anyone has ever topped their Christmas tree with a birdhouse before... Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Everyone!
Bird Ornaments are now available as a cute little PDF printable pattern booklet! You can fill them with lavender or other dried flowers to turn them into a pretty sachet. They are a great decoration for all year round... not just for the holidays!
This is the second pattern in "A Scrap Basket Project" PDF Series. This series is a collection of super easy projects geared toward quilters and crafters of all skill levels. These patterns are designed to use those small pieces of fabric from your overflowing bin or basket (in my case I have 7 of them!).
You can find this pattern along with the first pattern of the series Pumpkin Coasters in my SHOP.
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.
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 overflowing 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, fully illustrated step-by-step instructions, 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!
I was recently interviewed by Marysia at House of Art! Click on the photo below to learn a little more about me and to check out their great blog!
Out of a fantastic total of 195 new e-newsletter subscribers, #97 was randomly chosen. And the winner is...
Sylvia R. of Under the Quilt from UK! Congratulations! You will be receiving a one-year subscription (4 issues) to Quilter's Connection Magazine all the way from Vancouver, BC Canada!!!
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