Sunday Stash - Slow and Steady

I made a trip to my LQS store recently and added some "Slow and Steady" Tortoise and Hare prints to my Tula stash.

Many of the other Slow and Steady prints have already been used in my 100 Blocks City Sampler quilt (#kirstenscitysampler on IG)  but I needed few more which I can also use in the Hexagon quilt which I am planning to do soon.

Now, I am just waiting on an acrylic template to make the cutting of the extra hexagons easier...

Linking up with Sunday Stash over @MolliSparkles for the 200th Sunday Stash linkup!

Kirsten.

Sunday Stash - Doe

A few days ago I received a lovely bundle of Doe from Westwood Acres - I really love the neutrals in Carolyn Friedlanders prints!

I am trying to not make too many fabric purchases until I work my way through my stash, but as this was pre-ordered late last year it doesn't really count??:)

Linking up with Sunday Stash at Molli Sparkles.
Kirsten.

Sunday Stash - Umbrella Prints

Umbrella Prints are one of my favourite fabric designers so when they had a sale on recently I couldn't resist purchasing a few of their bundles.

I bought some of the mixed bundles - just love the cute elephant print! 

Not sure what I am going to make with these fabrics yet though... 

The pink frangipanis from our garden look so pretty with the hearts in Cherry Blossom print.

Linking up with the Sunday Stash at Molli Sparkles.

Kirsten.

Birthday Books!

It is the Queens Birthday Long Weekend here in Australia, which also happens to coincide with my birthday. We have just spent a couple of days at my parents place at the beach and we all went out for a lovely birthday lunch, then had fresh fish for dinner as son#1 managed to catch a big flathead on his first cast, and son#2 reeled in two bream.

For my birthday, I was given some wonderful presents including two wonderful books: Liberty Love and Pillow Pop.

Of course, I had absolutely no idea guessed that I was going to receive these books, and had prepared for this by purchasing a few fat eighth bundles of Liberty fabrics a few weeks ago from the Quilter's Store stand at the Mad Quilter's show. 

Liberty fabrics are quite hard to come by here in Australia and I thought that it was a great opportunity to be able to add them to my stash.These bundles are from the newer Lifestyle/ Bloomsbury Gardens ranges.
Linking to Sunday Stash with Fiona at Finding Fifth.
Kirsten.

Sunday Stash

A few weeks ago, I was extremely fortunate to win an incredible bundle of fabrics from a very generous giveaway on Red Pepper Quilts. The FQ bundle was supplied by Julie from My Fabric Store and they arrived here last week, all bundled up beautifully together in a pretty rainbow of colour.

This is an amazing and generous bundle of fabrics, with prints from Lotta Jansdotter, Lizzy House, Amy Butler and Heather Bailey. They are a wonderful addition to my stash as I really dont have many reds and yellows, or warmer colours in general really.

Thank you again to Julie and Rita for such a lovely bundle!
Linking to the Sunday Stash with Fiona @ Finding Fifth.
Kirsten.

Sunday Stash

A few weeks ago a I received a lovely email telling me to get on over to Spoonflower where you were able to order a FQ of one of their fabrics for free and were only required to pay postage costs!! I browsed through Spoonflower and found a gorgeous fabric by one of my favourite designers: Valentina Ramos.

This fabric is called "Eli" - can you see the cute elephant hiding in there? When I got an new mobile phone at Christmas, I bought one of Valentinas iphone 4 covers which I really love, which was also of an elephant.

And I would also like to wish my daughter a very happy 17th birthday for this week too. With all 3 children's birthdays in 10 days it is a fairly busy time of the year at our house

.I managed to convince them to get a photo together under the Yesterday-Today- Tomorrow tree which I try to do at this time each year. 
Kirsten.

DS Richmond fabrics

In preparation for the upcoming Denyse Schmidt Doll quilt swap (round 3), I bought the 12 new DS "Richmond" fabrics from Spotlight last week..

 As usual, we seem to have a few Aussie only prints - the salmony colour on the bottom print is really lovely, and the stripes would be perfect for binding. There is a photo of the ones available in the US here.

Some of these prints are on a black background so they are a bit more masculine in style and colour - they remind me a bit of the Greenfield Hill range.

Sign-ups for the swap have now closed so we should find out our secret partners for the DS doll quilt swap later this week - and also the theme of the swap this time around. Can't wait:)
Kirsten.

Brisbane Craft and Sewing Show

We went up to Brisbane for the day yesterday - Neil took the kids shopping in the city and I went to the Craft and Sewing Show at the Convention Centre.

When I was due to meet up with them at Southbank in the afternoon I walked around to the other side of the centre and found some amazing mosaic sculptures that looked so much like quilts:

And this one has a lovely image of Brisbane city in the middle:

I just bought a couple of things at the show, including a fat 1/8th bundle of Flea market Fancy and a book I have been wanting for a while! 

And am hoping that I win the lucky door prize at the show which was one of these retro Singer sewing machines:)

Hope you are having an enjoyable weekend wherever you are!
Kirsten.

Sunday Stash - Salty Aire

I have been stalking  frequently looking in our local Spotlight store to see if the Salty Aire fabrics were in yet as they had been expected earlier this month, and finally yesterday there were 10 bolts on the shelves:

 At the moment there is 50% off selected quilting fabrics too so these were a really great buy:) Hopefully the other 4 prints will show up this week too.......

I am thinking of making a "Plus" quilt using a mix of all of the Denyse Schmidt fabrics which I have so far from Spotlight in Australia..........

 Kirsten.

Sunday Stash #4 - Tanya Whelan

Tanya Whelan is a designer for Free Spirit fabric and she has released some really pretty fabrics as well as some lovely patterns for Grand Revival designs.  I was lucky to get a bundle of her gorgeous Dolce fabric earlier this year and it was my first FQ fabric set. I love all of the fresh colours and designs in this fabric but I haven't used it yet as I am waiting for the "perfect"' pattern to show it off:) After seeing this recently though I am thinking that Swoon may be just the right one.

 And now she has a book coming out at the end of the year:

 It will be available from Barnes and Noble and Amazon and hopefully we should be able to get it in Australia not long after it's release on 27th December 2011. I might put it on my christmas wish list as my parents often give me some money to spend :)

Kirsten.

Sunday Stash #4

Just doing a quick Sunday Saturday stash post! These are the new Denyse Schmidt "Winding Roads" fabrics that have just arrived in our local Spotlight store, which are part of the Sugar Creek range. This is the green colourway:

and these are the red/burgundy ones:

They look really lovely together and will also coordinate with the Picnic and Fairgrounds fabrics which were released a few months ago.

Hopefully another part of the range "Salty Aire" will be available at Spotlight at the end of October this year.

Kirsten.

Sunday Stash #4

This one is all about elephants! I have been collecting elephants for about 30 years now so am always on the lookout for elephant fabrics to use in sewing projects. Firstly, these are the very sweet Daiwabo Tiny Tip Top elephants which come in a great range of colours and in both a quilting weight cotton and a canvas texture:

 Next is the Urban Circus range by Laurie Wisbrun for Robert Kaufman fabrics:

 I bought these lovely new ele fabrics recently - not sure who makes them as they only have "designed exclusively for Spotlight" on the selvedge:

Evoke is a lovely local craft store called that stocks many of the Umbrella prints elephant fabrics. I first saw these fabrics used in their Trimmings competition and as they are handprinted on organic cotton/hemp they have a beautiful linen-like texture.

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Elissa had the fabrics arranged in such a lovely way in the shop that I immediately wanted to use them to make a tote bag which although it was missing a green shade, is now known as my "Rainbow elephants bag" - ........

 

Umbrella Prints now have the elephants in an olive quilting weight cotton as part of the Oasis collection, and the red print below is from the Little Menagerie range by another Australian designer Melanie Hurlston.

And because I could never have too many elephant fabrics in my stash, this is a newly released fabric that is on my wish list - Pernillas Journey by Tina Givens:

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Have a lovely Sunday.......

Kirsten.

Sunday Stash #3

When I first started sewing a couple of years ago, a remnant of Henna Garden in turquoise was one of the very first fabrics I bought, so I was quite excited last week to see that Sandi Henderson is planning to reprint the gorgeous Henna Garden fabric found in her Farmers Market and Meadow sweet fabric ranges, so if you love henna garden you can go and vote for your favourites and suggest new colour combinations as well on Sandi's blog post.
I really love the beautiful design and fresh colours in this fabric and have just bought a full FQ set which I have not cut into yet......

From top to bottom: brown, speckle, spring pink, raspberry, turquoise, leaf, citrus yellow, pumpkin, melon, persimmon,red&pink, perfect pink.

I have also been able to purchase yardage of most of the available colours (except the elusive pumpkin) and have used them in quite a few projects......

 

 This is the doll quilt I made for my partner for the Down Under Doll Quilt Swap recently, which was a mini version of the Colorbrick quilt by Rachel @ Stitched in Color.

This ipod/iphone pouch I made for a thank you gift......

 This is such a lovely and versatile fabric range and  I can't wait to see the new colour combinations!

Kirsten.