New Patterns and Shop Hop!

This year I'll be doing quilting demonstrations at Quiltworks Northwest during our Western Washington Shop Hop, so stop by and say hi, I'd love to meet you!  I'll have patterns with me as well as extra books, just in case the shop runs out:-) The samples are at Gathering Fabric, along with patterns as well.

Just in time for our local shop hop, I have 2 new patterns!  With shop hop starting tomorrow, I’m hoping to get them up on my website later today, as well as an updated snail mail order form.

Summer Bounty:

This is my idea of summer!   The piecing is quick and easy, and weaving fusible strips of fabric for your basket for texture is fun, especially when you add some paint to it.  Fuse your fruit and flowers in place, and you’re ready to quilt.  After you’re finished quilting, add some beads to the flower centers to make it sparkle, and you’re done.

Fall Basket:

By the end of summer there are so many flowers blooming in the garden, I just had to create a basket full of them!   The piecing is quick and easy, and weaving fusible strips of fabric for your basket for texture is fun, especially when you add some paint to it.  Fuse your fruit and flowers in place, and you’re ready to quilt.  After you’re finished quilting, add some beads to the flower centers to make it sparkle, and you’re done.

Thank you!!!

Thank you everyone for all the kind words, I can't wait to post a picture of the book when my copy arrives, although it will still be quite a while until then.

I did take some in-progress pictures as I was working on the projects and once I finish editing and send the copy on to the editor, I'll contact Martingale to see just what I can and cannot share at this time.

In the meantime, I'll share my Fall Basket quilt, which is a class project, but related to the book.

Fall Basket

This fall basket wall quilt was designed to go with a technique class that I'm teaching at a local quilt shop. The basket is woven and painted, then I added flowers and beads to make the flower centers sparkle. I'm going to be teaching all the techniques that I used, including the quilting.