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Halloween Scrappy Sawtooth Quilt

Last week we released The Scrappy Sawtooth Quilt Pattern and I made up one more to show you how cute it is with different fabrics. This one is the Halloween version made with Carina Gardner's newest fabric line "Eek, Boo, Shriek." from Riley Blake Designs. I love the look of traditional Halloween so I went with using a 2.5" roll for the middle nine patch of the sawtooth patchwork blocks and then did all the outside stars in some yardage of black and white swiss dots. I LOVE swiss dot and ... View the Post

Guest Post· Quilts· Riley Blake

The Saturday Afternoon Quilt Safari Party Style

Today  we get to participate in our friend Melissa's fabric tour. Melissa is the create mind behind The Polka Dot Chair and we are lucky enough to have been friends for years now.  In fact, I remember a lunch conversation years ago where talked about how cool it would be to be able to design fabric...so how lucky do we feel now to design fabric for the same company and be able to create projects using each others designs!?!  Most days it still doesn't seem real.... ... View the Post

Giveaway· Patterns· sewing· Skirts

Knit Pencil Skirt Pattern Skirt-A-Thon

Today we are excited to have our first ever Skirt-A-Thon with our knit pencil skirt pattern.  (That comes in both PDF and Paper versions.) This summer we quietly released our knit pencil skirt pattern...a pattern that we LOVE and use often for ourselves...and today some fabulous ladies from around the blogosphere have kindly sewn up our pattern into skirts for themselves and are sharing them with you today! ... View the Post

Patterns· Quilt

New Pattern Release-The Scrappy Sawtooth Quilt

We are so excited to be releasing a new quilt pattern today! This quilt has been long in the works but now it's finally written and illustrated and ready for you to make lots of beautiful quilts. The quilt pattern--known as The Scrappy Sawtooth Quilt Pattern--is exactly that, a way to use up scraps or even use pre-cuts to make some lovely quilts. This quilt block first showed up last year, on instagram as just a single quilt block but now the pattern is finally ready! The Sawtooth ... View the Post