Backyard Roses Blog Tour

Today is my turn on the Backyard Roses Blog Tour.  This stunning range is the second collection from Nadra Ridgeway for Riley Blake Designs.  If you loved her first range - Bloom and Bliss, then this will just compliment it so well and be a must on for your stash.  Nadra's blog is filled with inspiration and lots of tutorials so check her out.

Back yard Roses is available now and (in Australia) is distributed through Millhouse Collections.

The range with its stunning florals and complimentary blenders are strong and passionate.  The colours are vibrant and work so well together.  There are also lots of fussy cutting opportunities for lovers of English Paper Piecing.

I would definitely say the reds and yellows are my favourites in this collection -  but truly they are all beautiful.  Just love the Yellow tiny roses!

I could not wait to cut into these and decided these would be perfect to make one of my Confetti Cushions (available as a PDF pattern in my store).  With a Neutral Double Gauze these Back yard Roses prints just sing and stand out so well.  But these would work well with any solid shade or any other background fabric you choose.  

I found it hard stopping at one project so I also made one of my Mini Quilts - "When life gives you scraps!".  Just for fun this Mini Quilt will hang in my sewing studio but makes me so happy with these colours and prints.

"When life gives you scraps!" Mini Quilt pattern is available here.  

You can check out what everyone involved has made here

4/18/2016	Julia	rileyblakedesigns.com/blog
4/19/2016	Christina	onelittlepooh.net
4/20/2016	Dorthe	lalala-patchwork.blogspot.com
4/21/2016	Liz	simplesimonandco.com
4/22/2016	Sedef	downgrapevinelane.com
4/23/2016	Vicky	venividivicky.wordpress.com
4/25/2016	Erin	whynotsew.blogspot.com
4/26/2016	Amanda	www.jedicraftgirl.com
4/27/2016	Gesine	allie-and-me-design.blogspot.com
4/28/2016	Peta	shequiltsalot.com
4/29/2016	Sharon	lilabellelane.blogspot.com
4/30/2016	Barbara	das-mach-ich-nachts.com
5/2/2016	Jemima	tiedwitharibbon.com
5/3/2016	Ashley	mommybydaycrafterbynight.com
5/4/2016	Taunja	carriedawayquilting.blogspot.com
5/5/2016	Judith	septembersquiltdelight.blogspot.com
5/6/2016	Melissa	ohhowsweet.com
5/7/2016	Iva	schnigschnag-quiltsandmore.com
5/9/2016	Lisa	aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com
5/10/2016	Katharina	greenfietsen.blogspot.com
5/11/2016	Andy	abrightcorner.com
5/12/2016	Nadra	ellisandhiggs.com

Happy Sewing 

Jemima x

Strawberry Biscuit Blog Hop

Today is my turn on the Strawberry Biscuit Fabric Blog Hop and one of my favourite fabric designers - Elea Lutz has done it again with her amazing new range - Strawberry Biscuit.  Strawberry Biscuit for Penny Rose Fabrics is available now and will certainly leave you wanting to add plenty of it to your stash.  The sweet prints with Strawberries, Flowers, Ribbons and bows and the cutest ever characters makes for a wonderful collection with vibrant deep colours.                                

If you have been a fan of Elea's previous ranges - "Milk, Sugar and Flower" and "Little Joys" then you will fall in love again with this delightful fabrics.

I am a big fan of Reds, Blues and Pinks and the shades of these fabrics are bright and bold.  With beautiful and delicate scallops and the character prints are so sweet with lots of opportunities for those who love to Fussy Cut.

The Mini Quilts and Cushions featured are my latest pattern - Sweet Treats.  I knew these fabrics would be perfect for these Sweet inspired treats and just the right colours to show off these designs. 

The pattern for "Sweet Treats" is available in my store. 

The pattern features all 3 designs with both Mini Quilt or Cushion Instructions included.

Rectangle "Sweet" Cushion

Sweet Treats Mini Quilt or Cushion

Round Doughnut Cushion

Elea has a real attention to detail with her character prints containing lots of detail to tell the story of these animal friends.  If you love Puppies then there are lots of cute little dogs you will adore.  I think my favourite prints would have to be "Scallop" and "Daisy" - these are so versatile and I just love the colours of these prints in this range.

Strawberry Biscuit is available now and is distributed in Australia through Millhouse Collections.  I can not wait for Elea's next range - "Apple Yard" - which all ready has me dreaming up new designs. 

Nest up on the Strawberry Biscuit Blog Hop are

Stacey - www.stacyolsondesign.com and 

Ange - www.alittlepatchwork.wordpress.com

Happy Sewing

Jemima x

Strawberry Picnic Quilt - New pattern release

I have no doubt that Tasha Noels latest range - Vintage Market will be huge hit. Designed for Riley Blake Designs and now available here in Australia this range has the sweetest prints and the colours in the designs are just sublime.

This range has some beautiful Fussy Cuts and those are what I wanted to feature within this new quilt design.  A modern twist on the Traditional Churn Dash Blocks to create a design that showcases these Fussy cut characters.

A sweet quilt filled with strawberries, fair stands, jam bottles and girls on bicycles.

Vintage Market will be available at these stores here in Australia

Fabric Pixie

The Stitcher's Cupboard

Minky Bear & Me

Peg’s Pieces

Fresh Fabrics Australia

Sew Stashed

Bellarine Sewing Centre

A Little Different

Sew Fab

Patchwork on Pittwater

Thorpe & Co

Black Tulip

3 in a Tree

The PDF pattern for Strawberry Picnic is now available here at my Website or Etsy store

I had this quilt professionally Long Arm Quilted by Carol Brady of The Quilting Cottage.  The design features strawberries and leaves.

Happy sewing

Jemima x 

Vintage Market by Tasha Noel

Tasha Noel's latest range - Vintage Market does not disappoint.  If you loved her Little Red Riding Hood Range or Country Girls then this range for Riley Blake Fabrics will be on the top of your want list.

There is a large selection of prints with the sweetest characters and most vibrant of colours.  Sweet Strawberries, Girls on Bikes, Market Stalls, Quilts on Washing Lines and flowers all feature in these beautiful fabrics.

Those who love Fussy cuts prints will especially love this range with the Characters and pictures to feature in your projects.  Vintage Market will be hitting Aus in June (Distributed by Millhouse Collections) so stay tuned for updates on its arrival.

To feature the beautiful fussy cut prints I decided on using them within Churn Dash blocks.  The vibrancy of these prints is amazing and the colours are so fresh and make you feel of those beautiful summer picnic days we love so much.

This new quilt design - Strawberry Picnic will be available very soon for you to create for yourself.

Jemima x 

Little Joys by Elea Lutz

While it may only be May I love Christmas and all the planning and preparation that goes into this special season.  This new range designed by Elea Lutz called Little Joys is the sweetest vintage inspired Christmas range that I know will be loved by many.  If you loved her Milk, Sugar and Flower range then you will be equally mesmerised with this Christmas range of prints.

Made for Penny Rose Fabrics and distributed here in Aus by Millhouse Collections there are 12 prints in this range that have your ever faithful dots and characters that are very cute such as Reindeer's and Gingerbread Men.

I love the traditional colours of this range with the splash of pink and I have set about creating a new pattern that will be all about the countdown to the visit from the big jolly red man himself.

This range will be arriving here in Aus in July.

Jemima x 

30's Minis and English Paper Piecing - Oh My!

I have long loved 1930's Reproduction Prints - I love the delicate and sweet pictures, florals and prints that define this genre of fabric.  This new Range is called "30's Minis" by Erin Turner for Penny Rose Fabrics distributed in Australia by Millhouse Collections and available in May.

There is a great variety of bold colours, pretty florals and geometric prints all on the Mini side making them ever so tiny and sweet.

Designing with this fabric range has been a delight and finding it hard to settle on one new design project for this range - I decided Why not have all three! So I am busily sewing three projects to feature three different techniques.

These prints are just coming up a treat so far with these different projects and I love how the colours play so well together with the large selection of prints in this range.  If you are a Reproduction fabric lover then this range won't disappoint.

One of the techniques in the project is an English Paper Piecing Project. Sue Daley of Patchwork with Busy Fingers has an amazing range for those who love English Paper Piecing (EPP).  Her range includes items such as Threads, Needles, Glue Pens, Rotating Cut Mats, Sandpaper Boards and then her Papers come in precut packs with an Acrylic Template for cutting and marking.  And lets just say I can not wait to get into the Playing with Paper pack - everything I need to create the beautiful block all in the kit.

The papers are nice and firm and being able to cut out the fabric with the Acrylic templates to match means that all the guess work is taken out and I can cut multiple pieces of fabric for my Hexagons or other EPP projects at the same time.  And I am a a Glue Pen convert - although I do like basting Hexagons for this project being able to glue them has made quick work of all the basting.

Using the Pre cut Hexagon Papers and Templates I have been creating a variety of Flowers for my 30's Minis project.  Can't wait to share more with you as I go.  

Jemima x 

Starstruck Quilt - new Quilt Pattern!

"Oh Boy"  is certainly right - this fabric range by Lori Whitlock for Riley Blake Fabrics is a winner for the boys. 

I am really excited to release my new pattern Starstruck.

Starstruck is a quilt to show off and feature those wonderful patterned and feature fabrics you have been eying off or dying to use. It is a fun and modern quilt pattern with the feature fabric or patterned fabric becoming the star of this quilt. 

Whether you are after a quilt for a baby, girl or boy this quilt pattern will be just what you are after and very versatile to suit different fabrics, colours and patterns.

This fabric range has just the right mix of the cutest patterns with aeroplanes, animals and cars as well as great co-ordinates to go with it. The range is now available and I am sure it will be a hit.

The quilt pattern is now available here at my- 

Etsy Store available for immediate download in PDF format. 

Happy sewing!  This quilt I had long arm quilted by Carol over at The Quilting Cottage.  I love the stars and loops that add to the design of the blocks.

Jemima x x