Enchanted Influencer Tour

 

Today is my turn on the Enchanted Influencer Tour.

Enchanted is the newest collection by Valori Wells for Free Spirit Fabrics that will be shipping to stores in May.  Valori was inspired for this collection by her travels through Marrakesh and the work she has done through those beautiful regions. 

With beautiful and deeply saturated colours and print along with Valori's signature Birds and Florals this range will brighten any project.  I especially love the Block Printing designs that she used through these fabrics.

We were given free reign to create any project we liked with the collection and I of course had to make my Confetti Quilt with these.  I knew that being able to use the entire range would showcase how pretty these fabrics are.  I paired it with a Solid white Background fabric and a Solid Hot Pink for the backing.

This pattern always works and these Enchanted fabrics are no exception.

You can get the Confetti Quilt Pattern here

Enchanted will be available from all the best Local Quilt Stores in May.

Happy Quilting

Jemima x x

Child's Smile Retro 30's - Starstruck Quilt

Recently I have been working with this beautiful new upcoming range from Lecien Fabrics- Child's Smile Retro 30's.  These colours are so vibrant and bright and filled with the cutest prints including strawberries, flowers, dots, children and lots of sweet toy animals.  

This collection has a large number of prints in it which made it perfect to make a Starstruck Quilt to showcase this new range.  Each group of stars was made using one of the colour ways in the collection.  

Pieced and Machine quilted in Aurifil.  I used a loopy Free-Motion design to quilt all over the quilt.  This quilt is an excellent size for a baby or for a toddler.

Currently winging its way to Lecien HQ - this Quilt will be on display at Fall Market.

My Starstruck Quilt Pattern is available here at my On-line store as a PDF download or for Wholesale purchase through Creative Abundance. 

Jemima x 

Smitten Quilt - My English Paper Piecing Adventure

Back in March this year I travelled to Melbourne for a girls weekend!  I went a few days earlier than my girlfriends to check out all my favourite Quilting and Sewing stores before they arrived.  I went armed with this pattern - Smitten by Lucy Carson Kingwell to Amitie Textiles as I knew that I wanted to pick fabrics to make this quilt.  About 3 hours later - I emerged with this pick of fabrics from this amazing treasure of a store.

I have sat hesitantly on this project for a while before starting.  I simply could not decide if I was going to Machine Sew this Quilt or if I wanted to sew it by hand using English Paper Piecing (EPP).  There are so many projects that I want to make that I thought well - Machine sewing it would be quicker but in the end I decided that taking the time to Hand sew this quilt would be well spent.  And After the first few stitches.  I knew I had made the right choice. 

With using English Paper Piecing to create this quilt - I set about finding matching Papers.  I had quite a few of the matching sized papers from my Sue Daley Paper Precuts (Sue Daley is about to release a Smitten Kit and I will keep you updated with when it is available here in Aus).  I found the others I needed at Paper Pieces who have a whole kit of papers for the Quilt.

To hand sew these shapes together I am using Auriful Thread in #4060 and #2024.  Clover - Black Gold Appliqué 9 Needles, a Sue Daley Glue Pen and some Clover Binding Clips to help keep the blocks together as I sew them.

I am fast becoming addicted to these blocks and I am just loving sewing these together.

I will keep you updated with more blocks as I go.

Jemima x 

Little Red Riding Hood Custom Quilt - all finished!

I love the feeling of sending off a Custom order Quilt to be loved in its new home.  This Little Red Riding Hood has made it to its new home and is patiently awaiting baby's arrival.

This Little Red Riding Hood fabric was perfect for fussy cutting and I had just the right red and white stripe in my stash for this quilt.

And even a Cot Pillow to match!

All sewn and machine quilted in my favourite Aurifil 50wt - #2021.  Just simple lines were quilted to echo the triangle shapes throughout the quilt.

Jemima x 

Little Red Riding Hood Custom Quilt

It is such a joy being commissioned to make a Custom Quilt for a new baby on the way.  I love the excitement surrounding the new arrival and how all the details - even down to the quilt all matter so much for this precious impending arrival.

This Custom Order Quilt is no exception.  Little Red Riding Hood was the theme and with fabrics chosen I set about sewing.

Fabric range is Little Red Riding Hood by Tasha Noel for Riley Blake Fabrics with other fabrics also from my stash.

Jemima x 

Just for Fun!

In between a few deadlines of late has been a little "Just for Fun" sewing.  This  pattern is Fancy Foxes by Elizabeth Hartman.  I have teamed up shades of purples from my Liberty stash for this project along with the amazing Andover Chambray in Chalice which has the most beautiful metallic silver thread through the weave that I got from Hawthorne Threads.

This quilt is for a special young lady in my life and with her Birthday later in the year I have given myself enough time to hopefully get this one finished in time for her.

My Rainbow CAL (Crochet-A-Long) is well under way.  For me this is the first time I have joined the Granny Squares as I have gone.

The Rico Cotton Essentials yarn is really nice to work with and the squares are coming along although I am now wishing I used a larger size hook - I think a 4.5 may have been better.

Getting there - at the halfway point now having used one ball of each colour yarn. A few (well maybe a lot) of Granny Squares to go and then the Pom Pom trim border.

Jemima x x

Vintage Cotton Reel Mini Quilt - New Pattern

This beautiful new range - Milk, Sugar & Flower is so sweet with such a vintage and reproduction vibe to it.  Designed by Elea Lutz for Penny Rose Fabrics this range is now available here in Australia through Millhouse Collections.

Its adorable floral prints and cute characters were perfect for some fussy cutting and inspired by some of the Vintage Cotton Reels I have from my Nanna I set about creating a design to showcase these beautiful fabrics.  These prints were so fun that I thought a Mini Quilt would be just the project.

After piecing the Cotton Reel, I was trying to decide how I would create the thread.  Would I hand sew it or machine sew it and if so which thread and then all of a sudden this idea came to mind. 

With the Mini Quilt top complete I set about using Free Motion Quilting on my sewing machine to create a Loopy style pattern which I wanted to look like loose thread.

This Vintage Cotton Reel Mini Quilt pattern is now available at my Store over at my Website 

or Etsy Store.

Milk, Sugar & Flower is now available at these Australian stockists:

The Stitchers Cupboard

Fabric Pixie

Sew Piecefully Patchwork

Jemima x x

Katie's Swoon - a Quilt for a dear friend.

A long time ago I bought this Fat Quarter Bundle of "Fresh Cut" by Heather Bailey.  It sat on my shelf just waiting for a special project and then when I decided to make a very dear friend a quilt - I knew these were the perfect fabrics.  I teamed them up with matching Kona Solids to complement each of the fabrics in the bundle.

Katie and I have share a friendship for over 30 years.  We lived across the road from each other as children and have been a big part of one anothers lives since.  We went to school together, we were Bridesmaids for each other, our daughters have been named after each other and we are Godparents to the others beautiful daughters.  A true and special friendship indeed.

Back in August of last year I went on a Sewing Retreat armed with the bundle of fabrics and the Swoon pattern by Thimble Blossoms - determined to leave after the weekend with a Quilt top for Katie to celebrate her birthday.

After lots of sewing I did take away a finished quilt top. I gave it to  The Quilting Cottage machine quilt it for me.

To my dear friend Katie, you are such a special part of my life - Happy Birthday!

Jemima x x