Pattern Shop News!

It's here! The Teapot Pouch pattern is now available in my SHOP.

This pouch is perfect to protect a pair of glasses, or for use as a pencil case or a sewing travel kit. It's another fun PatchworkPottery pattern for all those tea lovers out there.

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Thank you for all your patience to those of you who have put in requests and have been waiting for patterns. Be assured that I am working on them and I haven't forgotten about you.

Enjoy your afternoon tea & quilted crafts :o)

Pattern Shop News!

My Teacup Pouch pattern is now available in my SHOP! This digital pattern booklet includes templates for CoffeeMug & HotCocoa pouches, detailed instructions for installing the zipper as well as making the handle and tea tag zipper pull.

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Thank you Sonja for helping me test this pattern. Your Teacup Pouch turned out amazing! I especially like your matching tag! To see or add creations made using PatchworkPottery patterns, please visit the PatchworkPottery Patterns flickr group!

Coming soon: SpringTime Bag in April and Quilted Teacup & Saucer in May. Is anyone interested in testing these patterns for me?

Enjoy your afternoon tea & quilted crafts :o)

Retreat Goodness

Here it is... all the things I have been busy making over the last few weeks to take with me to "Quilting by the Bay" Quilting Retreat tomorrow. I was kindly invited by Krista to my first ever quilting retreat and was asked to bring some things to sell. I will be travelling to Lion's Bay early in the morning for a whole sweet day of quilting with just me and twenty-some-odd other talented quilters... I am so very excited!

Leftover crafts will be listed in my shop on Tuesday :o)

Enjoy your afternoon tea & quilted crafts :o)

Tidbits

This will be a "bit of everything" post to catch up from the last few weeks. Now that summer is over and my in-laws from Japan are finished visiting, I have had more time to sew and catch up with stuff around the house.

This first bit of news is something I couldn't wait to share with you! Last night, I checked to see if the cover designs of some books that I'll be published in were posted yet and was very surprised to find that my French Press Cozy was on the cover of Pretty Little Cozies! I am so excited but am trying not to keep my hopes up because the covers usually changes a couple times before it is actually published. This one will be out in May 2009.

The next tidbit of news is that my shop is now quite full! Yes, it has been quite bare for the last few months. I still have many TeaCup pouches in various stages of completion as well as House Tape Measures that I have just started listing.

I have also posted lots of Christmas ornaments, Tree toppers and a large Quilted Tree Skirt! All the Ornaments are now on sale for $5 each!

I am planning to make some of these fabric candy garlands for my shop this year. It was a personal project last Christmas which got amazing feedback from Flickr folk :o)

The last tidbit for now is that I am planning a couple little super easy and helpful tutorials. The first projects will include making your own labels and re-covering your ironing board...

Oh! ...and this is the card I made my husband for his birthday in August. I thought it would be fun to SEW a card :o)

Enjoy your afternoon tea & quilted crafts :o)

Things for my Shop

One bag finished... only 17 TeaCup, CoffeeMug & Hot Cocoa pouches, and 20 House Tape Measures to go! This bag is now in my SHOP!

It might take me a while to get through this pile now with the summer weather finally starting to arrive (very late this year). My plan is to sew up a storm after my daughter goes to bed and have tape measures ready to finish hand-sewing while she plays at the park the next day... That is the plan anyway ;o)

Enjoy your afternoon tea & quilted crafts :o)