Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend! What did you all get up to? Any fun sewing projects that you’ve been working on?

Time for our Moody Monday! Today we are featuring our Beach House Collection by Jack!e McFee. The Beach House Collection is a gorgeous two colorway collection of coral and tide blue, inspired by the beautiful ocean. This collection includes classic floral patterns, as well as beach glass, seashell, and starfish prints, that will instantly make you feel like you are right on the beach. Some simple tabbed curtains or these cool venn place mats will give your place a beach house feel, without being anywhere near the water! 

Victoria Beckham’s Spring 2015 collection was effortless and cool, with its tailored suits, belted dresses, and clean lines. Her chosen color palette was mainly neutrals – black, beige, burgundy – with a punch of color with her coral floral pattern. We thought it was a super fun design, which was also reminiscent of our Beach House Collection. Whatever Victoria Beckham does, we know it will be on-trend and fabulous, and her Spring 2015 collection does that justice.

We hope we have inspired you with today’s post! We’d love to know what your favorite thing about the beach is – is it the calming sound of the waves? Or maybe building sandcastles with your little ones? Beach time = happy times. Have a wonderful day!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all are having a great day!! Today is National Milk Chocolate Day. Milk chocolate is delicious in pretty much any form – milk chocolate bars, milk chocolate cake, milk chocolate ice cream…and the dreamy list goes on and on!

It’s How To’s Day! Today we are featuring one of our beloved free pillow patterns on our website, the Elevation Pillow by Kristy Daum. Elevation is a beautiful modern pillow that creates a super cool “graph-like” design, while keeping the rest clean space. This pillow pattern allows for the sewer to mix-and-match different fabrics together, as the design is made up of smaller triangles. We love keeping each etched “line” more uniform in color, to separate the three individual lines, which creates a really cool feel.

We’ve had Elevation sewn up quite a few times, but we thought we’d share a classic favorite – with our What a Gem by Allison Cole collection. We adore how the whimsical prints look together in this one!

Want to make your own Elevation Pillow? Click MORE to see the full tutorial.

Hi everyone,

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a fantastic weekend!! We had beautiful weather here, perfect for lots of swimming and refreshing lemonade! :)

And speaking of bright and citrus-y things, it’s time to start off our week with our Moody Monday! Today we are sharing our wonderful Pink Lemonade Collection by Ciana Bodini for Camelot Fabrics. Pink Lemonade is our punchy, happy, and sweet collection of lemons, lemons, and more lemons! Delicious lemon wedges are combined with soft hues of pink & grey to create a super fun & cheery collection. Perfect for a summer party or citrus-inspired room, our Pink Lemonade would make a beautiful quilt. fabric napkins, and apron.

Kate Spade’s Spring 2014 collection was just a color- and print-infused as usual! Among the crisp teals, pinks, and red were punches of sweet lemon prints, combined with Kate Spade’s infamous super girly style. We fell in love with this outfit – because I mean, when life gives you lemons…wear a lemon-printed dress, with a matching pair of tennis shoes, visor, and bag, right? Right! ;)

We hope you have enjoyed this week’s Moody Monday! We’d love to know what quirky prints you love to wear or would love to try. Have a sweet rest of the day!!

Happy Sewing!

Time for this week’s What We Love ♥ This week, our Pinterest board has been inspired by lots of pretty blue and pink hues. As well, quotes – and more quotes. Like the “perfect song to fit your mood”, quotes can do just the same. When you’re feeling down, sometimes just hearing or reading an inspiring quote can motivate you or lift up your spirits. Or, there are those awesome times when you find a quote that is just gets you. Those are the best. See what else we have been loving…  ♥

Valeria: “If you’re a bird, I’m a bird” Print
Vanessa: Origami Flamingo
Marion: “I hated everyone” T-Shirt
Ciana: Natural Gift Wrap
Shannen: Lemon Slice Pool Floatie
Juan: Catherine Ibargüen
Sara: Fanciest of Toasters
Roxanne: “I Love Being Around You” Print

I hope you have enjoyed this week’s What We Love. We’d love know what has been inspiring you as of late. And as always, lots more to be inspired by on our Pinterest ♥

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! I hope you all are having a lovely day. Today is National Vanilla Ice Cream Day… we’ll gladly have ice cream of ANY flavor, any day. If we could, of course haha ;)

Time for our Thankful Thursday! Today we are featuring a fantastic quilting read, the McCall’s Quick Quilts magazine. McCall’s Quick Quilts is the McCall’s magazine dedicated to the beginner quilter, those who have just found an interest in quilting and aren’t quite sure where to begin or those who are looking for some easier-leveled quilt patterns. As the name suggests, this magazine is all about modern quilting, and focuses on patterns. Each issue includes a good number of quilt patterns to choose from, so you may have some future WIPs coming up ;) “Make fresh, fun, fabulous quilts” is this issue’s motto, and we couldn’t have summed it up better ourselves.

In the latest issue of McCall’s Quick Quilts, Tammy Silvers of Tamarinis (also one of our amazing pattern designers!), designed a quilt pattern for them called Morning Stroll. Morning Stroll focuses on a lesson on quick and easy curves, using templates to create pieced wedges. The quilt pattern features our Folklore Collection by Heather Rosas, with the pretty red and blue feminine prints creating such a stunning bed quilt.

Thank you Tammy for choosing our Folklore collection, and for McCall’s Quick Quilts for featuring the wonderful quilt pattern. You can find the Morning Stroll pattern in their latest issue, so be sure to check it out!! Have a fantastic rest of the day!

Happy Sewing!