Tuesday's Stack - Mia's Stack

Mia is in her last year at College and started working at Stitchbird late last year.  Mia loves sewing and came pre-infected with the fabric bug! This week Mia selected the fabrics for the Tuesday stack. I love her choices.

True Colours Daisy Shine Confetti by Amy Butler

Quarter Moon by Amy Butler

Lottie Da Carousel Stripe by Heather Bailey

Hatbox Tiger Stripes Green by Alexia Marcell Abegg

Triangles Blue by Ellen Luckett Baker

Moonlit the Monarchy by Rashida Coleman Hale

Miss Kate Sundae Apple by Bonnie and Camille

The stack is now available for sale here.

Tuesday Stack - Itami Houses

With these fabrics it is 8 for the price of six!  As one is a double border and the other is a cheater. So from the top:

Dot - Olive from Echino

Itami Border from Cosmo

Itami Border from Cosmo

Garden Square Fuchsia by Ellen Luckett Baker

Garden Square Fuchsia by Ellen Luckett Baker

Itami Houses from Cosmo

Garden Flower Cluster Fuchsia by Ellen Luckett Baker

Garden Critter Stamp Grey by Ellen Luckett Baker

The stack is for sale here.

I hope you are having a good week.  Happy sewing.

Tuesday Stack - It's a Bird's Life

Netorious Orange from Cotton and Steel

Sweet Tweets Organic Black and White from Penguin and Fish from Clothworks

Wildflower Meadow Hummingbirds from Melly and Me for Riley Blake

It's a Bird's Life Floral from Heather Rosas for Camelot Fabrics

It's a Bird's Life from Heather Rosas for Camelot Fabrics

Flurry Light Grey from Dashwood Studios

Love Letters Ditsy Twig from Jane Farnham from Camelot Fabrics

The stack is available to buy on line here.

Have you seen the skit "Put a Bird on It".  This week's stack reminds me of this scene from Portlandia.  if you have not already seen it, it is very funny.

Tuesday Stack - Without the Rain

We are certainly learning to survive with minimal rain this summer.  Lovely summer days, but the garden is suffering.  This week's stack is based around the new Lewis and Irene fabric range called April Showers.

Flower Sugar Green Cherries and Blooms by Lecien

April Showers Without the Rain by Lewis and Irene

Just Dreamy Petals Pink by Riley Blake

April Showers White from Lewis and Irene

Flower Sugar Blue Tiny Doily Bloom by Lecien

Whilst the garden could do with rain I am enjoying the sunshine and hope it will stay fine for the weekend and the annual Stonestead Quilt Festival this Sunday.  The quilts are hung in the gardens and I am excited as I am displaying on of my quilts for the first time.  I have never put anything I have done into a public show.  Mostly because I give them all away.

If you wish to you can buy this week's stack on line here.

Second Finish for 2015 - A Baby Quilt

I am on a roll!  Trying to finish up those lingering/malingering projects from 2014.  

I asked Midget if she would help hold the quilt for a photo.  This is her idea of how to hold a quilt!  Thanks Miss M!

Despite her concerns of dissolving in the drizzle, I did persuade her to hold the quilt outside for 30 seconds.

This quilt was made from a small jelly roll I bought last year at the Great Tokyo International Quilt Show.  (I bought three of theses rolls, so there is enough fabric to make another larger quilt).

The quilting is a rose pattern.  The backing fabric is a red ticking stripe and the binding is a random fabric I had in my stash.  (Because it was in my stash the fabric is free - right?)  And the use of it now frees up space in my stash so I can buy at least double the amount of fabric as a replacement.

This quilt pattern requires ½ a jelly roll (or in my case one small jelly roll).  I first saw this pattern on Vanessa Christenson's blog, V & Co when she made her two quilts here.  This is the type of quilt that you can realistically finish in a day.  But why rush things, when I can spread them out forever!