Thanks everyone for stopping by during the MBS Sweet Celebrations Blog Hop!
The winner of my giveaway is Comment #344:
Congrats Sue Bone! I’ll be in touch shortly!
If you weren’t a winner here at LMS, be sure to stop by all of the other blogs to see if you were a winner. You’ll find a list of all of the participating blogs here.
And, you can now snag a MBS Sweet Celebrations book of your own on Amazon.
Happy Sewing!!
I have been waiting for almost a year to be able to share some exciting news with you all. First off, Moda Bake Shop has a new book coming out in October, which is pretty exciting news by itself. Secondly, I was asked to contribute to the book! I had so much fun last fall–designing and working with Moda Fabrics to create some pretty cool patterns.
While I can’t share with you just yet the projects that I made, I can tell you that I got to work with California Girl by Fig Tree Quilts.
And, I can also tell you that one of my projects just might be pictured in this promo shot of the book:
Hmmm….I think that might be a rather large hint. =p
I’ve got a couple other projects in the book using California Girl as well–it’s such a great line of fabric. I do love me some Fig Tree! I mean seriously:
Those are all projects I have made using various Fig Tree lines of fabric…Yes indeed, love Fig Tree!
I’ll be talking more about this book in the upcoming months and sharing my projects as we get closer to the release date. I’m sure that Lissa has all sorts of things in the works for the launch of this book!–so stay tuned!
Make sure to pop on over to Cindy’s blog today for the 2nd installment of the Fusion Blanket Crochet Along. I loved reading Cindy’s blog post this morning and she echoed so many of my thoughts. Cindy is so on the same page as me right now–I totally could have written the same post! I’m certainly no crochet genius & she’s provided some great resources to help us all along.
My Destash Sale is still going on over on Etsy–I’ve added a couple new goodies and I’ll keep on adding as I have time. Thanks so much to everyone who has purchased fabrics!
I’ve had a Fresh Cut stack of fabric hanging around ever since the line first came out several years ago. I thought I had a plan for them but after Christina’s Retro Flowers pattern came out, I had a new plan.
The original Retro Flowers block is a 12.5″ block ( the aqua/green block is a finished block ). I’ve decided to make a super sized Retro Flowers Quilt. Fun, right?!? Fresh Cut has a lot of large scale prints which I really didn’t want to lose plus the idea of making a zillion small curved blocks so I could end up with a queen sized quilt just wasn’t working for me. My new super sized blocks will finish at 24″ in the quilt–I’ll need 20 of them to make a queen sized quilt. Perfect because I happen to have 20 prints that I want to use.
Jill made me some fantastic templates to use for my quilt–which makes the cutting a breeze. And, if you missed out on Fresh Cut the first time around it’s being reprinted and will be available soon. Plus some of the prints are being reprinted on flannel–I might have to pick up some of those!
Today is my stop on the Sew to Swap Blog Tour!
I was so excited when Chrissie asked me to participate in such a fun book with so many other great bloggy folks!
Make sure to pop by the blogs of all the amazing contributors!
November 7 Lovely Little Handmades
November 8 Stitches & Scissors
November 9 Cluck Cluck Sew
November 10 My Three Sons
November 11 Twin Fibers
November 12 Stitchy Quilt Stuff
November 13 The Creative Juices of Ariel
November 14 Texas Freckles
November 15 Quilt Dad
November 16 Artsy-Craftsy Babe
November 17 Little Miss Shabby {You are Here}
November 18 A Cuppa and a Catch Up
November 19 A Quilt is Nice
November 20 A Little Sweetness
November 21 House of A La Mode
November 22 I’m Just a Guy Who Quilts
November 23 Little Bit Funky
November 27 In His Grace
Scrapbuster Quilt
I got to participate in a number of the swaps for this book but, the one that I was most excited about was the one featuring my scrapbuster blocks! =) I was thrilled when Chrissie asked me if we could use my tutorials for one of the swaps!
I made the block in the center of the quilt and each of the contributors in this swap sent me their completed scrapbuster blocks which I sewed into the quilt top and then quilted.
It was such a great project to be a part of!
(BTW, F+W Media is offering any of my blog readers a special discount during the blog tour if you’d like to purchase the book. Just use promo code SEW2SWAP to get the book for $14.99 — that’s $10 off of the cover price.)
I was so excited when this little gem arrived at my house yesterday…why? you ask.
Yes, indeedy! – I was so honored to be asked to participate in such a fun project–& look at all those fun folks I got to party with!–I’m a little it excited to say the least & excited that I can finally share this news with you all. I had a number of deadlines last fall involving this book with the last one being November 1st–so over a year….it’s so much fun to be able to share it now! If you’d like to purchase your own copy you can pop on over to Amazon and pick one up. =) I’ll be sharing more about this book soon!
