Tied with a Ribbon: Sedef Imer

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Zakka Home - Book Tour

Sedef Imer of Down Grapevine Lane has just released her second book Zakka Home for Tuva Publishing - after the wonderful success of Quilt Petite, Sedef is back with another great title to add to your Quilting and Sewing Collection. Zakka Home is filled with 19 "smaller style" projects to get you inspired to fill your home with beautifully handmade projects.

From Pillows to Kitchenware items such as Tea Towels, Table Runners and Trivets, glorious Bags, sweet embroideries, sewing inspired items like Pincushions and an Armchair Caddy along with items to gift - there is something in this book for everyone to make no matter your level of experience.

While it was hard to choose one project to make - I settled on making the Armchair Caddy as I knew I could put this to use straight away with all the Hand stitching and quilting I have been doing of late at night time while sitting on the couch.

The Armchair Caddy is quick to make and after picking some of my favourite Alice Caroline Liberty fabrics paired with some blush 100%Linen and some pre-made liberty Bias Binding I was all set. The instructions are simple to follow and with full size pattern pieces included there is little prep to get yourself started.

I decided that for the little pocket details I would Applique the Fabrics rectangles on and added these cute Flower buttons from my Button stash. My pre-made Liberty Binding also helped quicken the time to make this caddy as it was just the right width for the binding.

I am so thrilled with how the Armchair caddy came up and it fits perfectly on the arm of my couch. This is going to be so useful and I can change what it needs to hold for each project I am working on.

With Christmas coming up this book would make not only an excellent book to make lots of gifts for your friends and family but also a great gift for a craft friend.

Check out the rest of the Bloggers who are contributing to the Book Tour

22 October - Sedef Imer - Down Grapevine Lane - @downgrapevinelane

23 October - Jemima Flendt - Tied With A Ribbon - @tiedwitharibbon

24 October - Minki Kim - Minki's Work Table - @zeriano

25 October - Jane Davidson - Quilt Jane - @quiltjane

26 October - Elizabeth Chappell - Quilters Candy Box - @quilterscandybox

27 October - Lauren Wright - Molly and Mama - @mollyandmama

28 October - Sarah Scott - Piccolo Studio - @piccolostudio_sarah

29 October - Alyce Blyth - Blossom Heart Quilts - @blossomheartquilts

30 October - Emily Dennis - Quilty Love - @emily_dennis_

31 October - Sharon Burgess - Lilabelle Lane Creations - @lilabellelane

1 November - Wynn Tan - Zakka Art - @zakkaArt

2 November - Amanda Woodruff - A Crafty Fox - @a.crafty.fox

4 November - Samantha Dorn - Aqua Paisley Studio - @aqua_paisley

5 November - Love Patchwork & Quilting - @lovequiltingmag

6 November - Kate May - The Homemakery - @thehomemakery

7 November - Ayda Algin - Cafe Nohut - @cafenohut

8 November - Faith Essenburg - Sarana Ave - @faithessenburg

9 November - Nadra Ridgeway - Ellis & Higgs - @ellisandhiggs

10 November - Fat Quarter Shop - @fatquartershop

11 November - Laura Cunningham - @laura_zuckerkuss

12 November - Bev McCullough - Flamingo Toes - @flamingotoes

13 November - Amy Smart - Diary of a Quilter - @diaryofaquilter

14 November - Riley Blake Designs - @rileyblakedesigns
15 November - Michelle Hickson - @coleandtaffy

16 November - Christopher Thompson - The Tattooed Quilter - @the_tattooed_quilter

17 November - Ange Hamilton - A Little Patchwork - @alittlepatchwork

18 November - Sedef Imer - Down Grapevine Lane - @downgrapevinelane

You can get hold of Zakka Home here

Happy Quilting

Jemima x x

Monday, November 28, 2016

Quilt Petite Blog Hop

Lets just say I was very excited to receive this wonderful copy of Sedef Imer's first book - Quilt Petite for Tuva Publishing. Sedef has a style and way all her own and to have a whole book filled with ideas and inspiration it certainly was a hard pick to pick one project to make for this Blog Hop.

A few days before the book arrived I had this bundle of Slow and Steady by Tula Pink arrive and I just loved that there were so many green prints and colours in this range. I knew these would match my kitchen perfectly and so decided to make the "Pretty on Point Placemats" which I knew would look fabulous on my table for summer.

I do love making Half Square Triangles - and with them turned on point make this design great to feature lots of fabrics. I decided to make them all with a background fabric to really let the prints and design pop. After a bit of trimming all my point were perfect and it was easy to work through the steps in the pattern to make these placemats.

I think this is the best binding fabric - EVER!

After some machine quilting along the diagonals of the Triangles and behind the Cutlery pocket these placemats are almost to pretty to be used on the table but I am a practical person and love to see things I made used and loved. Summer entertaining will be fun and how great is that Cutlery Pocket. It think that was almost the feature I was drawn to the most.

So I could hardly stop at one - so I made six for our table! I think I am also going to make a matching Table runner just using the on point HST's and that fabulous Binding to match.