Everything Blue!!!

We are excited to announce we are participating in the "Everything Blue" Block Hop with Clothworks.  I am working on my block this week and if you would like to know more about this hop on over the Clothwork's Blog The Works Blog for more details. I cannot wait to see everyone else's Blocks as well.


Happy Sewing.
Until Next time........

Fall is on its way!

Fall is right around the corner. Here in AZ, kids are starting back to school this week and believe it or not pre-season football started yesterday! this means Fall is coming and with (hopefully) cooler weather for us. I have been busy this summer planning up all kinds of fun and easy projects for the months to come and our first new pattern and fabric kit is "Harvest Leaves Wreath" shown here.

Indian Summer Pattern

To kick off the the coming of Fall, I am giving away a free Fabric Kit with pattern for this project. All you have to do is head over to Facebook and Like our page! If you already like us, just add a comment under the post to enter (one entry per person please). Contest ends Wednesday 8/7/13 at midnight and the winner will be announced on Thursday 8/8/13.

I thought I would also share with two other patterns we have for fall (sorry no fabric kits on these at this time). Indian Summer and Pine Tree Lodge, these quilts just make you wish it was cool outside!

Harvest Leaves Wreath Fabric Kit 

Pine Tree Lodge Pattern

Busy couple of weeks at Mulqueens

Mulqueen's Sewing Center is a local business that has carried my patterns for several years now. Every July, they do Christmas in July all month long. This year I did a trunk show, demos and Make & Takes for them. Last week where we unveiled our newest pattern and fabric kit, Harvest Leaves Wreath , which I am holding in the photo above and I did demos on using our Binding Ruler  and Value Tool

I had a nice turn out of people and the last visitor of the day brought me her quilt finished using our One Lump or Two pattern . It was so exciting to see it all finished along with the lovely young lady she made it for.

 This week I spent Thursday doing Make & Take Gift Tag labels at Mulqueens that I designed especially for these classes. I had so much fun with this that I will be adding the free pattern for these guys to our website soon. So stay tune......

Until next time.....

Happy Go Lucky

Click Here to download the pattern

I have been going through some of the projects I have done over the years and want share some of them with you. These are older patterns and the fabrics are no longer available, but most of the would look great out other fabrics! So here is the first one..

Happy Go Lucky was designed for P&B Textiles several years ago using this stunning red/black/white collection. The quilt is pretty simple to make and though it is hard to see in this small photo, I cut the blocks with a wavy edge to add more interest to the design. 

The tote bag is so quick and easy to make, that I have made several of these to use for just about anything. I did't put batting in the bag, making it ideal to fold up and throw in my luggage for an extra tote on my many trips. 

The pattern also includes easy instructions to assemble the flower! These can become addicting to make so just remember I warned you about them. 

Enjoy and happy quilting!

Until next time.....

Heidi

Guess what is finally here!!!

These lovely boxes arrived yesterday and finally.............

Our newest line of fabric "Under The Sea" has arrived. This is my first line since 2009 and I am very excited to get back to designing fabric again. We will get these posted on our website, so you can have some too!

We have lots of projects already in the works using this group. So keep an eye out for them!

In case you were wondering about the inspiration behind the group. Here is one of our three very popular patterns we have done over the years. One Fish, Two Fish.... The pattern and fabric kits are a staple on our website!

Until next time....
Heidi

New Fabric Line

Hello Everyone
It has been a very busy Fall. We designed and made tons of projects for Fall Market, make sure to check out some of these fabric company's website to see some of the free patterns we did.
Timeless Treasure, Marcus Fabrics, Studio E, Henry Glass, Red Rooster, P&B Textiles and David Textiles.

I have also been to Atlanta, Tucson, Houston and New York since my last post and finally as the holiday season arrives, things are starting to calm down.
I am very excited to announce I have been working with Fabri-Quilt on our next line of fabric. It has been 3 years since my last line and it took teaming up with my partner and husband to get this group completed. Here is a sneak peak of our "Under The Sea" fabric.

This is one of the panels included in the group. It is based on our ever popular "Under The Sea" applique pattern. I have added some new friends to the fish. I think my favorite is the Octopus. Let me know which one is your favorite in the comments below.

I will post new pieces and the quilts we designed from it in the future. I am also excited to be working on two new collections for Fabri-Quilt and will share them with you once they are out of my head and onto paper.

Hope everyone is safe and well.

Until next time......

Heidi

Blogging on my Ipad

When I got my Ipad last year, it was my plan to use it for blogging, sketching and managing our facebook and website. It has been a year and I am finally getting to figuring these things out. Technology is moving so fast that as soon as I get used to one program there is a newer, faster and stronger program available. Here is perfect example.

When got my Ipad last year, I went to write a blog and could not figure out how to get photos in my blog, or a way to schedule the blog to post when I wanted it to. One year later, there are several apps to help post blogs with photos and the one I am using "Blogsy" seems to work very well. Of course this is my first post using this software. So lets see how it works over the long haul.

I also finally started a Flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/thewhimsicalworkshop that I have started uploading our extensive quilt portfolio.

Hopefully all this new technology will let me post more often.

Until next time.....

Heidi

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