Deb Strain designs & paints the most delightful, whimsical fabric for Moda. Her simple friendship star block is perfect to showcase a favorite print. Tammy loves the new Freedom Road floral and featured it in the center of the star. What will you add to the center of your star?
Visit Deb on Facebook HERE.
Find the instructions for Friendship Star HERE.
Jackie MacDonald of Sweetwater Road designed the perfect block to kick off summer. Tammy pieced our block with the coming soon Freedom Road reds, tans, and blues. Such a fun, seasonal block.
I'm enjoying following all of you, seeing your progress and all the amazing colors and fabrics chosen. Wednesday is my favorite day of the week!
Find instructions for Jackie's block HERE.
See you next week for more Moda Block Heads 4.
I'm so excited about my new Freedom Road patriotic fabric collection coming this month. It's full of classic KT reds, tans and blues. I think it's a good mix of stars, geometrics and florals to use for summer projects, or mix into any KT line.
We're featuring one of my favorite quilts from this collection for our KT June Special, Glory. The pattern includes options for a lap size quilt (68" x 82") or queen (90" x 104") and a pillow top.
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| Glory lap quilt 68"x82" |
NOTE: We expect shipment of Freedom Road soon and will ship kits ASAP. Be the first to receive my new favorite line! Watch my blog post later this week for more Freedom Road projects.
Find the KT June Special HERE.
Download the free Freedom Road fabric chart HERE.
If you love autumn as much as I do, this is the perfect block for you. Autumnal, by Chelsi Stratton, is a classic leaf block with simple piecing to show off some of your favorite fall prints. Or, make one with your theme fabric, like Tammy (KTQ piecer) with our upcoming Freedom Road.
Find the instructions for Autumnal on Chelsi's blog HERE.
I've been enjoying my new studio space for about 3 weeks now. We worked our tails off over a 10 day period laying floors, touching up paint, building shelves and moving all the stuff from my sewing room at the house and the building in time for pictures for a secret deadline (more on that later). Now, I'm slowly sorting through drawers and boxes and bins full of vintage sewing collectibles, UFO's, collected fabric and so much paperwork. It's amazing how much you can accumulate over 25 years in business! I still have alot I want to do, but here's a first look at parts of my new sewing room/office.
Robert made a vintage wooden expandable scaffold into a shelf over my fabric shelves where I have some of my antique children's sewing machines and thread holders on display. Above that, we only have the half circle barn vent up so far, but I plan to fill in with my collection of metal quilting stencils and other fun vintage items.
I love the high ceilings and searched a long time for lighting. I LOVE the light over my cutting table. It's a wooden beam wrapped with 8 lights. It doesn't photograph very well, but I love how bright it is!
One of my favorite purchases is this 6ft diameter ceiling fan that reminds be of the windmill by our driveway. It moves alot of air and is the perfect rustic touch. The fan and light fixtures plus the pipe for the fabric shelving are the only new pieces I've purchased so far. Everything else was in my former sewing room or in my archive/storage room at the store.
I'm searching for a vintage piece that would make a good base for my big ironing board with lots of storage for WIP. I store blocks and partly finished projects in cardboard boxes similar to pizza boxes. I can make labels for the ends for easy identification. Now, they are scattered in drawers, suitcases and boxes all over the room. I know alot of people like to use plastic storage containers, but I avoid plastic of any kind - for environmental reasons and for aesthetics. Until I can find the perfect vintage piece, Robert is working on an open shelving unit using our leftover pipe.
Watch for more updates as I finish painting the last window frame, add new comfy chairs to my window area and figure out where to put everything cluttering my sewing table. Whew! It could take a day or two.
Thanks for stopping by!
Kate Spain offers a block with one of my favorite designs, flying geese. Her Wild Geese block is perfect for our "birth" announcement this week as two pair of geese on our pond just hatched their goslings. It's amazing to me that within a week they transform from tiny yellow fluff balls into soft little gray geese.
KT piecer, Tammy Kuntz, did a great job using my new Freedom Road fabric collection, coming next month.
Find Kate's block on Moda's website HERE. Follow Kate on Instagram @katespain for all the latest quilting news.
Lisa Bongean brings us a versatile checkerboard block this week. This one would make a great quilt, too!
Tammy chose a few of the Freedom Road red/tan/blue prints for our block. I really like that the colors are a patriotic theme, but the prints will play well with all my other KT fabrics. I'm anxious to see the blocks all together. Better start working on a setting plan.
Find the instructions for Lisa's Game Board block HERE.
