You read that right! We are celebrating CHRISTMAS IN JULY! All month long, we will be showcasing Figgy Christmas favorites – old and new – as well as celebrating the arrival of my newest fabric collection, BUON NATALE…in shops now! …… ‘FIG TREE QUILTS FRIENDS’ FACEBOOK GROUP First things first…we have so many fun projects and inspiration planned. Be sure to JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP to follow along with all our members as we SEW, STITCH, & CRAFT together. Not on Facebook? No worries! Each Friday in July, we will be doing a…
…… QUILT INSPO FROM BEGINNING TO END Honestly I am a quilter at heart and always will be. I have never really cross stitched and usually have just admired it from afar. But lately I have been a bit bitten by the cross stitch bug. At least a tiny bit. There is something enticing about working on something small and so methodical. I am learning both the design side and the stitch side at the same time and although it will never be my main love, I want to keep my hands in it and explore it as a…
The MONARCH BUTTERFLY block was designed as part of my recent MY SECRET GARDEN exclusive block-of-the-month [BOM] program, which we just finished up as a group last month. I knew as soon as I designed the butterfly for the program that I wanted to find a way to offer it on its own – it’s just the sweetest! And so many of you who were not in the program have asked for it but I just didn’t know when I would fit it into the schedule. And then Lacey went rogue. Yup, that…
If you have been following me for a while, you should be well acquainted with my love for vintage-inspired toweling. Gosh, we use it for so many different things around here including table runners and pillows, napkins and placements and most importantly the best kitchen towels ever! We use them seasonally in different colors but my favorite are for sure summertime and Christmas. One of the things we started doing even before, but definitely during Covid, was making our own dish towels and even using smaller squares of these as “paper towels”. They wear well, look nice…
I am not much for fads or having “the newest gadget”. But a beautifully created handmade tool…gets me every single time. I simply cannot say enough good things about how beautiful these MODERN AMERICAN VINTAGE [MAV] quilting tools are and how good they feel in my hand and how much I am enjoying using them! This might sound funny… but I feel like these are “grown up” quilting tools and I adore them. Over the last few years I have collected quite a collection of Chris’s tools ranging from…
