Lynette has had two new button packs designed to complement two projects from her new book 'Stitch it for Spring'.
This cute rabbit button is the star of the Dreaming Journal project :) Don't you just love his big cotton tail!
Did you hear our loud cheer of excitement yesterday when the postman brought our boxes of 'Stitch It For Spring' books?
A big thank you for all the book pre-orders we had for a signed copy....it kept me very quiet this morning!
How exciting I am teaching on board this fabulous cruise ship next March alongside Michelle Marvig, Sarah Fielke and Gillian Lester (scrapbooking guru).
To read more about the cruise and whats on offer look here. Mum is coming with me for this trip and you are going to love her, I think she can talk even more than I can!
We have added a
The store is looking pretty at the moment and we are getting ready to move things around so I can take some of the new things we have had on display with me to the US next week for Spring Market.
There was lot of interest in the stickers that i got for a give away, I have managed to get a very limited number to sell. There are two designs available...Quilting Queen
I love this design, I showed it for the first at the AQM in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago and everyone loved it. The pattern is called 'Forest Friends', I made the pillow first which as you can see has some simple piecing, sweet applique with some of my all time favourite stitchery thrown in. I like the little possom with the gum nut blossom sweet, she turned out really well. I bet you have also spotted the printed ribbon I have used in the dragonfly square....its one of my new licensed products from the 'Wildflower Wood'
Traditional English paper piecing (EPP) has grown so much in popularity in the last few years and although I have not made a whole quilt using this technique I have had fun using EPP on or for various projects that I have made. Here is one of the blocks from 'Stitched By Me', notice the little hexagon quilt that the bird cage is on :) its EPP.
Another favorite of mine is 'Badger Cottage', where I joined hexagons to make the pencil case.
After designing the fabrics there is a long wait first for strike offs (sample pieces) then months later after everything has been approved my advance yardage arrives and its time for me to play :)
While I wait for my play fabrics to arrive I do lots of drawing and stitching to prepare for 'the day'...
I made little hexagons...
How exciting! It's time for me to tell you all about my new mystery button block of the month which I have given a French feel to through the design and also with its name :) I have to say that as I gaze at the quilt on the studio wall it is my favourite so far!
This year you will notice a slight price increase; over the years we have had
Everyone in the office and studio has been busy the last few weeks getting all the new samples and patterns ready to ship to the US ready for quilt market, its a bit scary to think that its only two weeks until we leave. A big thank you to Jill Beban who has made this sample for me using my new Christmas Collection Candy Cane Angels..., the quilt pattern can be found in my first self published book 'An Angels Wish', I love the three dimensional stars that each little angel has on the front of
Its been crazily busy here as we prepare everything for quilt market and my teaching tour to Canada in the US. I dont want you all to think that I havent been thinking of you....I have... and when I was in Melbourne last week I bought these two cute stitckers for YOUR car window...
