Fabric Goodess from Lesley Grainger

I could hardly hold in the excitement when blogger, etsy shop owner, and fabric designer Lesley Grainger emailed me asking me to play with a sampling of her new fabric lines coming out with Robert Kaufman. I just had to share all this fabric goodness with you.

I am a sucker for kids novelty prints as everyone knows. My etsy shop is loaded with them. I always appreciate the steps that designers go through to produce such wonderful color appeal in their collections. Great for kids imaginations, and just all around fun. 

Lesley's new line "Launch" is perfect for those kids quilts, pajamas, toys, bibs, and more. Launch is designed by Lesley Grainger for Robert Kaufman -  100% Cotton with a total of 6 prints due to hit stores in December 2011.

I am looking forward to sharing a special project and tutorial using this super fun line.

Lesley also has a little sneak peak to show everyone. Another line she designed called "Pretty Paisley" also for Robert Kaufman is due to hit shelves January 2011. This pretty 100% cotton flannel collection comes in two super lush colorways. I am dying to play with these. They almost look edible , right ?

Photographs by Speckled Stones Photography

Keep your eyes out for these hard to resist lines, and stay tuned for some wonderful project ideas on how to use them here on my blog.

What's your favorite?

Happy Sewing!

Habitat Challenge Quilt - Finished

I am so happy to finally have this quilt finished.

After starting with a new idea of what I wanted three times, I finally decided that the paper piecing was what I wanted all along. Question is, was there enough time to complete it for our guild meeting.

 Late nights and long hours paid off getting this finished just in time for our BMQG guild reveal yesterday.

Fabric challenge was to use the habitat fabric from free Spirit, Designed by Jay McCaroll. We were only to add solids to this project to in turn make the prints pop! It was really cool to see all the different interpretations of the same line of fabric.

I used a paper piecing technique (time consuming, but worth it) Broke up the blocks with lots of gray, and even after many crazy ideas of adding HST's and more detail. I ended up deciding that I liked simple best.

Quilt measures 46"x60"

Fabric - Habitat by Jay McCaroll

Robert Kaufman Kona solids in Med Gray, Petal, black, sage, pomegranate, Mint, and more (used lots of random scraps)

Quilting pattern was made with my domestic machine, by mimicking the already formed star in the centers and making a template to produce the same pattern along the borders.

Sophie has already claimed this one :)

Happy Sewing

Learning something new

The lack of posts on my blog lately has been very hard to take. I promise though that it will all be worth it when I reveal a few things I have been working on.

Most recently (as in 5 days ago) I started learning to crochet. So far I am getting it down pretty easily, but much practice is needed to get there. I have wanted to learn this for years, as my mother crochets some pretty fantastic things as well.

Right now I have been practicing the stitches over and over, pulling out the piece and then starting again. Last night was the first time I decided I would try and make sophie a scarf. I'll let you know how it goes. Do you crochet? Any tips for me in getting started?

If you have ever wanted to learn crochet like me, take a peak over here at the craftyminx to start crochet school for yourself. It's pretty amazing all the work that has been put into this for everyone to learn for free. I think it's wonderful to have more then one crafty thing that you like to do, and sometimes it's even fun to intertwined crafts to make pretty awesome things. Stop by and take a peak

Happy Sewing & Crocheting!

P.S. If you have not yet picked up your fall special over at Fat Quarterly. My Halloween bucket bag pattern is now available there for you to make just in time for those trick or treaters. Enjoy!