Festival of Quilts 16th -19th August

If I've been a bit quiet recently its because I have been UBER busy cutting, packing, wrapping and stuffing. 

For the last 3 weeks its been non stop preparation to take QuiltMeHappy to the the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham 16th -19th August. 

We will be on stand N22 so do come and visit.

Getting ready has been very tiring.  I completely underestimatated how much time it would take to get ready plus a few late orders for quilting delayed my progress but today the car is loaded and tomorrow I will be on my way. Woo hoo! 

I'm happy!

I have all sorts of new and lovely things to show you too. 

A Parson Gray ZigZag quilt

This took 16 FQ and some groovy green linen for backing.

The Original Parson Gray Target Quilt : Made up! 

This s a dead easy quilt to make ONCE you have the templates drawn out! 

I hate enlarging patterns so I have made up a kit with FULL size pattern pieces.

So all you have to do is open the bag, cut and sew! 

Urbanicity!

I adore this quilt! Its sooooooo easy to make too. The blocks are actually on a panel and available with cream or black sashing but its wonky sashing.  If you can live with wonky thats great all you need do it add a border and quilt. But if you are like me and wonky drives you crazy then cut the blcoks out and resew - straight!

Fabric kit available with 

Panel

Kona Snow sashing

Uranicity Border and

Alexander Henry Cite backing

or hows about this lovely Kokka fabric grocery bag.

Little Red Riding Hood!

Made from half a meter of fabric and some natural upholsery strapping.

or a lovely simple baby receiving blanket

OR 

this lovely Amelia Dress pattern and kit by BRAND NEW DESIGNER

MummyLovesLily

The Amelia Dress Sewing Pattern is a great versatile garment. 

The shirring on the bodice allows the garment to grow with the child, it can be worn as a sundress or layered over a long-sleeved top and when your little girl grows it can become a tunic top teamed with leggings.  The pattern is sized for 6-12 months to 4-5 Years.

Emma - the designer/sewer behind new brand MummyLovesLily uses amazing Pat Bravo fabrics and we will have a the dress pattern and fabric available as a kit. She has very kindly dropped off 6 dresses for me to take to Festival too -  and these will be available for sale ... just in case you dont want to sew a dress yourself.  The pattern for this dress is AMAZING though. She adds so much detail to them.

If you are a new quilter then a Quilt in the bag maybe

or for a little girl this lovely Sweet Shoppe Quilt

Happy Quilting 

Come see us at N22!

Rebecca Head - Fashion Graduate!

Not too long ago I had a call from a student at Bath University 

looking for help quilting fabric for one of the designs for her  final collection.  

The materials were not your usual patchwork cottons .. no indeed ... a milky white slippery waterproof fabric that I thought was PVC but turned out to be super expensive latex, layered over an airtex stretch fabric, plus a layer of fluffy batting and backed with white calico.  

The quilting was simple enough  - just straight lines but finding a process for quilting a slippery latex was interesting BUT thankfully not impossible.   

3.5m of puffy quilted snowy white fabric was the result.  

But look what Rebecca made with it!

Rebecca qualified with a first class honours and is currently overseas 

being interviewed for a MAJOR fashion house.

 I am SOOOOO delighted for her and feel honoured to have a played a 

very small part in her life. 

Look at the rest of her catwalk fashion show. 

I just love all her creations. 

Aren't they cool!

Vintage Sewing Advert!

I was reminded of an old 1956 Singer Sewing commercial recently!  

Pure vintage telly!  Don't you love it!

....and that voice at the end ... dreamy or what?

100 BLOG!

Wow -- I just noticed that I have 100 followers on the blog. 

THANKYOU!

Let's celebrate! 

Use discount code 100BLOG to receive 10% off your order from QuiltmeHappy

(Valid through June 17th)

Let's hear it for the Red White and Blue!

If I didn't sew I think I would like to be a photographer,
or a stylist or both maybe?  

This was a fun vignette of the red, white and blue "Jub-a-olympic" fabrics 

and trims I have in the shop. 

Taken with my iPhone and no additional lighting.

I love my iPhone

I also love iCloud and mobile syncing too!

 ICLOUD is magic  - really  - its sorcery I tell you!

 I take a photo on my phone and then magically it arrives on my desktop computer too. 

No messy uploading or anything!    

Don't you love technology?

I added this to APP to my phone to yesterday too. 

Mobile PAYPAL

I know some people don't like paypal but I love it. 

Its quick , its convenient and simple! 

With this cute app it will be a even quicker and easier to send and request money.

Feeling Blue

Makower BLUE : Currently 20% off here

I've had a summer cold like no other this week

 and 

it looks like I may have lost this quilt forever!

I'm sad I liked this quilt :(

I drove 5 hours to and from

Essex


on Monday to collect it

from

this now extinct magazine.

I was asked to collect.
 I went.
It wasn't there.

 It's in Bristol they said! 

 A man is looking for my quilt in Bristol but its not hopeful.

I'm very sad! 

But on the upside THIS quilt may be found!

It was made by 9 different people 

as a 

charity raffle quilt.

It could be that this quilt was
NEVER 
raffled off!

It may come my way !

If it does ...

 I
WILL
raffle it off!

Want to buy a ticket? 

What charity should the proceeds go to?

The Winner is Jo Jo!

Last month I ran a little competition for Sibling Quiltmakers to have their quilt top long arm quilted. The competition closed today and after a random drawing the winner is :

 Jo Jo!

Thank you to everyone who entered and to those that brought backings and other fabric from my Quiltmehappy shop too.

If you want to see some of the Siblings Quilts pop over to the 

flickr group here. 

The Quilts  are gorgeous! 

The fabric selections and designs are all lovely and I haven't seen an ugly one amongst them. Infact I have been quite inspired by quite a few!  

If you would like to help but don't fancy making a quilt, you can also contribute a donation now too.

 Jump to LilysQuilts posting here to find out how. 

Many thanks again and Jo Jo ... you need to contact me!