Archive | June, 2011

This is a quick and short post to announce the jelly roll winner – thank you all for your patience, and thank you all for participating in this giveaway! I get much joy in giving away beautiful fabrics and reading your comments – I hope it was as much fun for you as it was for me. 🙂

The lucky winner is Robyn from Australia! for a good read and to see some sweet quilts, check out her blog called Stitchin’ Time. 🙂

Since I’ve been feeling under the weather lately I haven’t had much time to craft – and also because I’m one of those crazy dog owners – all I have to show is this random picture of my little furrball Paige…I hope she at least brings a smile to your face. 🙂

Thank you all again for participating in the giveaway, and for checking out the blog!

Until next time, happy quilting!

Earlier this month I made a quilt top called Sugar Flowers – you can find the tutorial here. Anyway, the quilt top had been hanging out in my sewing room for weeks, so I finally had it quilted (thanks again Darlene for the awesome job!). Darlene was able to quilt it over the weekend – with all the projects I have lined up in addition to working away to get the fabric webstore up, who knows how long I would have taken to quilt it myself!
The finished quilt turned out beautiful! Darlene used a hot pink thread for the top which was a jump from my play-it-safe white. I just love how it turned out. 🙂

I really love the back of the quilt too:
As shown below, I pieced the backing together using 6 fat quarters and 3/4 yd of white muslin. The total cost for the backing only ended up being ~$19.50. I simply trimmed the fat quarters to measure 17″x21″ and then lined them up in two rows of 3 each as shown below. From the white muslin I pieced together three 6″x50″ strips.

It’s a thrifty way to save on backing yardage and to use up fat quarters you might have laying around.

I thought I’d sneak this photo in of my furrballs checking out the quilt. 🙂 It was a beautiful and warm day in Seattle so everyone was outside enjoying the sun. Bodie and Paige were accompanying the quilt in the shade.
And lastly, here’s another up-close photo of the quilting. If you click and enlarge the image, you can see the hot pink thread (the backing has white thread). 🙂
Anyway, that’s it for now. I just wanted to share with you how it turned out. Ahh, isn’t it a great feeling finishing a quilt?!

Happy Quilting!

First of all I wanted to say that my first attempt embroidering was a success, and now I am hooked! Thank you all for your embroidery tips and inspiration! And apparently Anna Maria Horner, one of my favorite fabric designers, is coming out with new embroidery kits (thanks Monica for letting me know!). You can check it out here; I’m loving the colors, and the embroidery on the fabrics << now that’s something I would have never thought of! Anyway, I plan to finish the remaining pattern that goes with the embroidery above soon…it’s a cute pillow that showcases a new fabric collection coming out in September (that Quilting in the Rain will carry 🙂 called Little Apples.

On a different note, I received beautiful fabrics for my latest Moda Bakeshop tutorial. However, since they sent me double the amount, now I can’t decide which line to use. It’s such a tough decision especially after seeing the fabrics in person!

Should I go with Summer House by Lily Ashbury?
…Or Terrain by Kate Spain???
Light and fresh, or rich and bold? Such a toughy! Thoughts?? Let me know because I plan to start sewing tomorrow! 🙂

Happy quilting!