I am in love with the nostalgic, holiday feel of this CHRISTMAS VILLAGE BORDER print in my newest Christmas Collection, BUON NATALE. Honestly, I want to decorate everything with it. We are making table and bed runners, mantle runners, Santa bags, long pillows, tablecloths, skirts, kitchen towels & aprons. The print is a bit addictive and once you start, its kinda hard to stop making all the things! Here it is in the 3 options… …… This simple runner pattern utilizes the border print in either red or green and uses the center leftover fabric for the blocks…
WEEKLY RECAP: CHRISTMAS IN JULY – WEEK ONE
As a reminder this is our first WEEKLY RECAP summary. Please feel free to look back on any of the posts for more detail if you missed them the first time around. In case this is your first time hearing about our month long CHRISTMAS IN JULY festivities, you can visit THIS BLOG POST for a great overview of what’s in store this month. Again, we will be breaking down all of our goodies into these three categories each week… SEWING, STITCHING and CRAFTING so that everyone can figure out what exactly it is they would like to…
CHRISTMAS IN JULY: ADVENT CALENDAR TUTORIAL
Welcome back to CHRISTMAS IN JULY… our month long celebration of sewing! Today’s fun idea and free tutorial comes to you from my Figgy Friend, Lacey [@laceypoirier]. It is in the SEWING CATEGORY for those of you looking for new and interesting ways to use our VILLAGE BORDER PRINT or any of the BUON NATALE prints, really, if you can’t get your hands on the village print. …… SUPPLIES FOR THE ADVENT CALENDAR MATERIALS LIST: OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS USED: …… TUTORIAL HOW TO …… FOR HANGING There are several options for hanging your…
GETTING READY: TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CROSS STITCH SAMPLER SAL
Happy “CHRISTMAS IN JULY” everyone! Welcome to our fun, month-long event where we are working on all things Christmas… sewing, crafting and stitching! We have so much in store for you this month, but today we are talking all things TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CROSS STITCH SAMPLER. Are you joining us? …… TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS CROSS STITCH SAMPLER In case you missed it, our PATTERN SHOWCASE BLOG POST is a great introduction to this pattern, as well as detailing our companion block-of-the-month quilt used as its inspiration! The TWAS…
TUTORIAL EXTRA: LACEY’S VERTICAL FLAG WALL HANGING – PART TWO
And we’re back! In case you missed PART ONE [which includes a quick FREE TUTORIAL for creating this flag wall hanging] – you can find that HERE. Today, we are going to talk about big stitch quilting and give an update on Lacey’s stitch progress! BIG STITCH QUILTING We finished up our 2nd annual FIG TREE RETREAT here in California in April, and we had the pleasure of having a special guest – LAURIE SIMPSON OF MINICK & SIMPSON – attend and give us all a tutorial on BIG STITCH QUILTING, which she is simply wonderful…