Welcome!

It’s time for this week’s What We Love ♥ Here’s to #50!! This week, we have been getting a little nostalgic with some childhood favorites. Anyone else read Frog & Toad, as a child or parent? The illustrations are just beautiful. As well as Moomins on the Riviera. Furthermore, food is on the brain – our famous Montreal bagels are an everyday favorite, finished off with a good beer. See what else has been inspiring us this week… ♥

Ciana: Pretty Pastel Print
Shannen: Wooden Beer Tote
Sara: Moomins on the Riviera
Juan: Juan Pablo Montoya
Vanessa: Frog & Toad
Marion: Montreal Bagels
Valeria: “Pretty Stuff” Makeup Clutch

You can find lots more “pretty stuff” on our Pinterest. Hope we’ve inspired you!! We’d love to know what you have been loving most this week.

Hi everyone,

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all are having a brilliant day! It’s the last day to enter our #GypsyLane Giveaway, so be sure to head on over to our Facebook Page to enter!!

Time for our How To’s Day! Today we are featuring a beautiful pillow pattern for our Free Projects Program, made by the lovely Veronica Koh Eischeid of VeronicaMade. Modern Cross is a fun take on a flower/star cross design, which is the focal point of the pillow. Mixing and matching different patterns is what makes this pillow awesome; we love keeping the background neutral so that the middle pops! We chose to feature our Paradise by Alisse Courter Collection with Modern Cross, choosing our bright orange, fuchsia, and purple prints for the middle, and a pretty floral, neutral background. We love how it turned out, and think it would be beautiful in any feminine space.  

Want to make your own Modern Cross Pillow? Click MORE for the full tutorial.

Hi everyone,

Happy Monday!! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. And to our fellow American friends, wishing you all a lovely Memorial Day!

It’s time to start off the week with our Moody Monday! Today we are featuring another of our new Spring 2015 collections, Eye Candy by Jackie McFee. Eye Candy is bright, exuberant, and fun! It is our spunky neon collection of coral, yellow, and blue in bold geo prints, such as dots, ogees, and florals. To make the neon colors pop even more, Eye Candy is printed on our unbleached, 100% natural cotton. How’s that for a showstopping collection? We love our neons, especially for the summertime, so we can imagine a fun clutch or headband. – or really summer-ify (yup, we’re making that a word! lol) your house with some cool neon pillows.

We love everything that J.Crew puts out for their latest collections, but we had to bring back and feature these incredible pants from their Spring 2013 collection. We would definitely still rock them this year! They are reminiscent of the coral floral in our Eye Candy collection – so in love! The coral pants make such a statement, that can be worn for work (pair with a neutral top!), and then taken into the night (imagine being in a dance club in these?? who needs a disco ball? haha). Fashion should be fun and free, so rock your neon pieces all year round, we say! ;)

I hope we have inspired you with this week’s Moody Monday! We definitely love a little neon in our wardrobe for the Spring and Summer. Have an awesome day!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Friday! I hope you all had a great week – woo for it being just about the weekend. TGIF! And to get your weekend started, have you entered our #GypsyLane FQ Bundle Giveaway yet? ;)

Ending our week with our Fan Friday! Today we are sharing a gorgeous bag by Reece Montgomery, featuring our Heavy Metal by Jackie McFee Collection. A Canadian mom, sewer, and blogger, the super talented Reece used a bag pattern from Sew Sweetness, and it turned out fab-U-lously! Heavy Metal by Jackie McFee is our fun metallic gold and silver collection of dots, chevrons, and animal prints shimmering away. Reece used our gold star metallic print for her bag, accented with a gold and black print handle, for a true “standout” bag. Shine, shimmer, and sparkle!! 

She also made a bunch of other fun projects with Heavy Metal, including a coffee cozy, makeup bag, clutch, keychain fob, and more!! Sooooo pretty. And who doesn’t love a fun giveaway, right? ;) Reece and Lisa of Sitka Fabrics are teaming up to give away a Heavy Metal FQ Bundle!! Woo!! Head on over to Reece’s blog on how to enter!

Thank you Reece for the fabric love! We are so glad you love our Heavy Metal Collection and chose to use it for your bag. It looks awesome!! You can find more from Reece at her blog. And with that, have an amazing weekend!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday!! I hope you all are having a wonderful day. This week, we are giving away our Gypsy Lane FQ Bundle on our Facebook Page – so be sure to enter if you haven’t yet! :)

Time for our Thankful Thursday! Getting back from Quilt Market, we have so many incredible projects featuring our fabric back in our studio – sewn by some really talented people. One of the projects we had sewn up was a super sweet Girls Ruffle Dress by The Cottage Mama, done by Lisa of Lisa Lisa Designs. This Girls Ruffle Dress is absolutely adorable, and the perfect choice for showcasing our Scented and Mixology collections.

Our delicious strawberry print worked perfectly with our midnight woven, and the bow and ruffles were the perfect touch of sweetness. Lisa also added some mini red buttons at the shoulders, which we love. She did such an incredible job with this dress, we were squealing at its cuteness when we received it in the box!

It was an absolute pleasure working with Lisa, and want to thank her for sewing the dress for us for QM. Lisa is also a pattern designer, with wonderful PDF patterns available at her shop – Lisa Lisa Designs. We definitely recommend checking out her site! You can also find the pattern for the Girls Ruffle Dress at The Cottage Mama. Such a sweet dress!! Have a lovely day, everyone!

Happy Sewing!