I Heart February – Project 2 Painted Heart Bag by Vanessa Christenson of V and Co. I Heart February Reader Project Linky - share the love!
I Heart February – Project 2 Painted Heart Bag by Vanessa Christenson of V and Co. I Heart February Reader Project Linky - share the love!
I Heart February – Project 1 Heart Shaped Pot Holders from MarthaStewart.com I Heart February Reader Project Linky - share the love!
The Pantone Color Institute selected Tangerine Tango as their color of the year for 2012. Tango. Tango. I’m in love with Tangerine Tango. It’s happy, playful and fun. Pantone describes Tangerine Tango as vivacious, optimistic, enticing, exotic and hopeful. An “adrenaline rush of red with the friendliness and warmth of yellow” packaged in a sophisticated…
We got our annual blast of snow here in the Northwest and it made for a glorious day of falling flakes and beautifully blanketed trees. Due to the infrequency of a big storm, there’s little effort put into clearing roads. It generally melts away in a day or two. Schools close and most people hole…
Project: Thimble Blossoms Little Ones Quilt Pattern Dimensions: 36″ x 48″ for the pattern – Diana’s measures 41″ x 60″ Sewist: Diana When Diana discovered Little Ones she imagined beach balls, summer, sun and sandcastles. She’d been on the lookout for a quilt to make with the Sea Gem Studio solids color stack and found it…
I’m feeling especially retrospective this new year. Changing seasons, holidays, new years, anything with even a hint of renewal gets my creative juices flowing and kicks my optimistic view of the future into high gear. I’m also turning 50 in 2012. Something I haven’t thought too much about until the calendar flipped and now it’s…
Project: Noodlehead 241 Tote – Downloadable Pattern Dimensions: 15″ wide, 10″ tall, 24″ including the handle, 5″ across the base Sewist: Diana The Noodlehead 241 bag appealed to Diana as a gift for a teenage friend of her daughter’s. Any teen girl would love this bag. With many pockets there is a place for everything and everything…
Diana made an Anna Maria Horner Art Student Tote for her daughter Lexi. I absolutely LOVE the way she fussy cut the owl print and used such a small piece of a precious fabric in such a fabulous way. I realize it’s been quiet here on the blog – I took all the days off…
Project: Anna Maria Horner Art Student Tote – Printed Pattern Dimensions: options A & B – 20″w x 17.5″h x 4″d, C is 13.5″w x 17″h (excluding straps) Sewist: Kathy Kathy made the Option C slim tote with divider for her daughter Leil for Christmas. She used Etsuko Furuya’s Echino fabrics on the exterior with…
Project: Stitched in Color Makeup Roll – Downloadable Pattern Dimensions: 13.5″ wide and 13″ tall with flap open. 8.5″ long when rolled. Sewist: Melissa Melissa used Amy Butler Lark – Quilting Cotton and Robert Kaufman Essex Linen Natural Melissa loved the options for customizing this pattern – a blank space to get creative. The pattern…
