WORKING WITH WOOL + NEW SPRING-INSPIRED PROJECTS

We’ve done a few wool tutorials here on the blog (dating back to 2016), but it’s time for a blog refresh! To recap, you can find the original tutorials here: Although this info is still very true for how I work with wool today, I will add one of the biggest updates here… ROXANNE’S GLUE-BASTE-IT For years I have used this glue, but my customers have turned me completely to these fabulous lightweight fusible sheets and I love them so much! It is so much easier and more simple than glue…

MODA BLOCKHEADS 5: GROUP 2 – WEEK 13

This week’s designer is Debbie Maddy of Tiori Designs and her block is called INDIGO LIGHT. You can check out her blog HERE. OUR BLOCK #13: INDIGO LIGHT (6″ Finished) …… PIECING INSTRUCTIONS: STEP 1 – FLYING GEESE UNITS Eliminate cutting for [B] and [C]. Instead, using the SEW & FLIP method… For a 6″ block, cut: For a 12″ block, cut: Make (4) flying geese units. STEP 2 – SPLIT QUARTER SQUARE TRIANGLES (QSTs) I prefer to avoid bias on the edges, and I have previously explained the detailed QST piecing instructions I prefer in…

DENIM & DAISIES: WOVENS

Along with the print collection of DENIM & DAISIES, I would like to introduce you to this little accompanying collection of 15 woven fabrics. Plaids, dobbies, ginghams, tickings, and zigzags… each one perfect in its own right. I plan to collect and use these for a long time coming! Gosh these are so good for so many different things, including bags, backings [they are super soft] and garments. One of my friends is having a shirt made out of one of them and I think I might just do the same… the “dobby print” especially…

ANNOUNCING…THE DENIM & DAISIES COLLECTION

Somehow I thought I had shared this here with you last month… but it looks like perhaps I did not SOOOO… better late than never, right?! Honestly, I think its okay since the fabric won’t start to hit stores until August, 2024. I am a denim kind of gal all the way and wear jeans pretty much every day of my life. Mixing the denim “vibe” into a collection has long been on my design wish list, and once I started mixing it up with my favorite orange and butterscotch colors, I knew I…

DENIM & DAISIES EXCLUSIVE: AURIFIL THREAD BOX

I am so excited to share that I have once again partnered with the lovely folks at AURIFIL to design this 7-spool thread collection to coordinate with my latest fabric line, DENIM & DAISIES (arriving to shops August 2024). These “orange top” beauties are 100% cotton, 50 weight spools that include 220 yds of thread each. …… …… The colors of these threads are just so perfect for this collection, and I am smitten! Can you even imagine the possibilities?! …… From AURIFIL… Aurifil’s 50wt/2ply thread is our most versatile and…