New Quilts to share and make - and how they came to be!

Back today with two new quilt patterns to share with you.  This beauty is called Love Letters.  I made it in memory of my "Adopted Grandmother".  When I was a young girl my own Nanna passed away from Cancer whom I was very close with.  In fact she was the one who taught me how to crochet and sewing as a young girl. After her death her best friend then literally took me then as her own Grand daughter and Anna was such a big part of my life until a few years ago.  We used to write letters to each other from when I was a child to just before she passed and it is those treasured letters that I hold very dear in my heart.  This quilt was basically a "letter" to her although she is not here to hold it but for her to know that she is still so cherished.

Designed to feature a range of prints such as this beautiful Beauty Queen range by Jennifer Paganelli or you could entirely make this with fabrics in your stash  - it is a great quilt to feature fabrics in a bold way and make the designs in the fabric the true star (or heart) of this design.

This makes a lap size but can be easily changed to make it smaller or larger as needed.  The big heart is my favourite.  And how can you go past stripy binding.

This pattern is available now in my Etsy Store - here -

Love Letters Quilt.  

It is a down loadable PDF pattern so you can get sewing straight away on this beauty and sew a story for yourself.

Every Which Way is the quilt that I made for Homespun Magazine earlier this year - although the original one was made for my hubby in a Navy and White colour way.  Since he has only just gotten it back and as he was so keen to start using his own quilt I decided to make a new quilt for this pattern to show how it can look so striking and effective made in a different colour way. 

This is a modern take on the traditional Flying Geese block - let the fabrics do the talking here and you have a quilt that can be made for so many different people.  

This Quilt features Garden Party Tango by Iza Pearl Design and was so fresh and bright - just how I love things.

Both of these quilts were quilted by Carol from The Quilting Cottage.

Available now also as a PDF Pattern in my Etsy Store - here - 

Every Which Way.

Jemima x x

Bits and Pieces

How this year is flying by!  I was thrilled to bits to have my second Quilt  for Homespun featured in the current July Issue.  This quilt is called "Every Which Way" and was made using lots (and lots) of Flying Geese.  

A while back I had said that creating quilts for Homespun would be a great goal to work towards.  As by the end of the year I will have 3 quilts published - I am pinching myself just a little.

With this winters weather it has been great to pick up some crochet again.  I stumbled across Spun Right Round and completely fell in love with this yarn.  I love how the colours all melt together and I have decided to make a Coco Cowl. In fact a skein of the Hand spun Hand Dyed Rambouillet in "Girl Drink Drunk"  has also been covered by me. 

A new pattern release - I am super excited to have released my

Santa Sacks.

This Applique pattern features both a Santa Claus and Gingerbread Man design in the Pattern for you to choose and is available now in my Etsy store. 

You can Applique the characters any way you choose so whether you like to machine stitch or hand sew then this pattern will work for you.

You can get started on your Christmas crafting straight away as this pattern is available as a PDF - Immediate download.  Santa will be chuffed to fill these up this year and the family will love these for many years to come.

Jemima x