For all those of you who have been waiting patiently, it's finally here and ready to ship……In Houston a few months ago we introduced a new product at market… The Pastry Shoppe. We were a bit surprised at how well received it was, after all its just a regular booklet of patterns. However, it happens to feature 6 new patterns for the incredibly popular new cut good from MODA… the Turnover™. What on earth is a Turnover™ you might ask, come to think of it, do those wonderful folks at MODA ever name…

Speaking of other Gypsy Rose patterns, this is probably the one whose arrival back home [after trunk shows] I am longing for the most…. Inspired by a small wall hanging I saw in one of my favorite Japanese quilting magazines,appliqued by my friend Wilma, this quilt has a soft elegance to it that is exactly what I was hoping to capture when I saw it in my head [we all know that that is not always the case…. many things can go wrong from head to fabric…] It uses all the pinks, reds, creams and greens…

Working on this fun little item with my daughter last week made me remember Gypsy Rose…. Gypsy Rose….. I realized the other day amidst a flurry of emails from my customers, that I haven't really talked about the fact that our latest collection hit the shelves in December and is available in quilt shops and online stores everyhere! Because I designed this during a different season, I never thought of it as a Valentine's line but it feels absolutely perfect for that purpose these days. During the Christmas season, it genuinely felt like it…

Well I know that it is a few days late and that the New Year has technically come and gone but Happy New Year nonetheless!    Here in the Figueroa neck of the woods, the munchkins have just gone back to school, work has restarted full speed ahead and today is really the first routine day we've had since the second week in December. Mind you, I am not sure exactly how I managed to plan this, but somehow we had concurrent houseguests starting Dec 16 to 3 days ago. Now don't get me wrong…

As most of you might already know or have easily guessed, I have a thing for bakeries and pastry shoppes. Now let me be clear and tell you that I love all bakeries of any kind in every country that I have ever visited, in fact I have never been in a bakery that didn't do something for me but there seems to be something extra enchanting about some of the Parisienne bakeries that I have been to. These were the bakeries that inspired my last collection of fabric, aptly named Patisserie, that will hit stores in March…