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FabricCadabra is running a great sale through March 4th - 25% off everything in the shop (no code necessary).  The sale includes this Les Fleurs canvas that I have been wanting to pick up to make a tote bag, this Firefly print which is one of my favorite low volume prints, and this gorgeous Buck Forest print among others.   They are also offering a giveaway.  If you would like to enter to win this 1/2 yard Fiesta Fun bundle, follow FabricCadabra on Facebook or Instagram and leave a comment on this post (or leave a comment letting me know that you already follow them).  I will announce a winner on the last day of the sale.  In the meantime, head over to check out the pretty fabric :)

Ever since I made this plaid mini , I have been planning to write a pattern.  I tried a few different ways to put it together and decided to simplify this design a little bit because the original design was so tedious. Trust me, you don't want to make it! This version is much less crazy.  It involves some strip piecing, and the blocks are pretty big, so it comes together quickly.  I just sent the pattern off to my testers last night so hopefully I will have the pattern ready in a few weeks. The pattern will have different sizes, this is the baby quilt size.   I backed the quilt in beloved Chicopee corduroy and stitched the binding down with Perle cotton.  I had a couple people email me asking about sewing the binding down this way, so next time I bind a quilt I will take some photos and write up a post with details. Finished size: 45" x 45" Pattern: The Linda Quilt (coming soon!) Backing: Chicopee corduroy Batting: Quilter's Dream Cotton Select

It's a little gloomy and gray here in Oregon and I was in the mood for something colorful. The colors on this one are not subtle - I may have gone a little overboard! It uses some of my favorite Kona colors: Sangria, Flame, Grellow, Chartreuse, Breakers, and Geranium.  The binding is Kona Nightfall.  The pattern is my  Deep Blue Sea tutorial . The curves on this quilt are gentle and it comes together quickly.  I decided to quilt it using wavy lines.  It gives the quilt a nice, crinkly texture.   The colors on the front were inspired by the colors from this print. It is from Michael Miller's Flock collection.  I have had it in my stash for a while, but it is still available .  I might need to get some more.  I sewed the binding down onto the back of the quilt with Perle cotton as is my usual lately.   Pattern: Deep Blue Sea Backing: Michael Miller Flock   Batting: Quilter's Dream Cotton Select

Happy mail indeed. This month's Culcita Box contained Sleep Tight by Sarah Watts for Cotton + Steel.  Since we were in the middle of moving during Quilt Market, I missed seeing most of the collections and this one was new to me.   And it is gorgeous! I think this fabric will make a perfect baby quilt.  It has some really fun animal prints and I love the low volume combined with the bright green pops of color.   Looks like my fortune was right. So far I am really impressed with this subscription box. In the past I have seen subscription boxes as kind of a burden - they send you something and you are stuck with it whether you like it or not.  But the Culcita Box subscription feels more like an exciting present when it arrives in the mail.  It is nice to have an infusion of new, beautiful fabrics into my stash. January's unboxing Quilt made with January's fabrics I also wanted to thank everyone for their kind words about my daughter's pneumonia.  ...

So we have kind of had a crazy week.  If you follow me on Instagram you might have already seen the craziness, but yesterday my daughter's school called to tell me that she had passed out at school and they had called an ambulance. Then I panicked a little bit. I rushed over to the school and found my very pale daughter being examined by paramedics.  I followed the ambulance over to the emergency room and after several hours of evaluation and tests, and despite not having any significant symptoms, an x-ray revealed that she has pneumonia. She is home with me for the rest of the week while the antibiotics do their job, so I enlisted her to take a few quilt photos.  I know these photos aren't the best, just remember that those little feet in the photo belong to a little girl who has pneumonia and whose mom is making her take quilt photos. I made this quilt with the fabrics that came in the Culcita box .  I had left them out on my shelf and they were calling to me. The ...

I'm going to let you in a little secret: I am super disorganized. And generally I am disorganized to the point where a planner is really no help because I can't find the planner underneath the heap of papers on my desk, but I have found a planner I think I will actually use. The Scrappy Project Planner is wonderful.  Will I use it diligently, every single day?  Probably not, I  am hopeless, but it has so many useful tools that make it worth digging through the papers to find it.  Let me start with the patterns.  The book has 6 quilt patterns, all of which I am interested in making for scrappy and non-scrappy projects alike. Over the next few weeks you will be able to see these quilts as part of the sew along.  I decided to make the Scrap-Apple quilt. This uses a Pineapple block, which I had never made before.  It used up scraps like crazy and was a fun (but time consuming!) project.  One of my favorite things about the way that the patterns are w...