Spoonflower is having another one of their awesome sales! Until October 31st, you can buy one fat quarter (18″x21″) and get one fat quarter free. That’s a $11 saving! Just add both pieces to your cart to see the discount.
You can choose from thousands of different designs from many designers, OR you can pick out some fabric from my designs! Like the ones pictured above.
Pin ItA little while back I shared one of my favorite thrift store finds, the $1.00 chair! I loved the faux wood veneer, that was in perfect condition, but hated the gross velvety cushion.
That’s the chair above. I wasn’t 100% about what fabric I wanted to use to recover it. So I just placed it in the corner until I decided. I didn’t want to rush into anything! A few days later I received some new fabric from spoonflower that was meant to be a new runner, but I realized it was better suited for the chair!! I was so excited I started recovering it right away!!
I just unscrewed the cushion from the chair and ripped off all the piping and fabric. My plan was to add some new, custom made, black piping back on. I trashed that plan halfway through, after making the piping! Stretching the fabric on was super easy and it actually ended up looking better without the piping!
All together the whole project took me about an hour, and I’m super happy with the finished piece.
It now resides in a cozy corner of my newly decorated dining room! (which I’ll share more of later this week!!!)
Today I updated a few new designs in my Spoonflower Shop.
Well, some are new, some are older designs updated in a better buying format.
Now you can buy FOUR fat quarters of FOUR different designs on ONE YARD! its like instant matching fabric for quilts or other sewing projects!
While I was putting together those little sets, I also came up with a new matching polka dot pattern…
It’s available in the above Blue, Girl and Black and White.
If anyone goes ad buys some of these designs, I’d love to see photos of the finished projects!
In my last post I said I wanted to quilt, well I kinda got cold feet. Kinda. I wanted to test out all the new skills I’d been researching, but I was afraid of ruining hours of patch-working (is that a real word?).
So instead I made my first quilt using cheater quilt fabric. More accurately, my own cheater quilt fabric. I designed it last year for one of Spoonflower’s fabric contest. I had it printed up will the full intention of making some simple, no binding, blanket. But as usual, I never got around to it.
The quilt measures 36″x36″. So it’s only one yard of the Cheater fabric. I then used some of my Monsters on the Loose fabric for the back. I quilted around all the triangles, white thread on top, dark pink on the bottom. I used some purple Kona cotton I had lying around for the binding, along with a small patch of my purple Monsters on the Loose fabric for some variety and to test out how it would look.
I used Red Pepper Quilts machine binding tutorial. She made the whole process very easy and painless. I really wanted to do traditional binding where half is hand sewn, but sadly I have bad arthritis and it’s pretty much impossible. I love how the whole quilt came out, and I’m already planning my next one.
If your interested in making your own Cheater Quilt, you can find all the fabrics I mentioned here in my Spoonflower shop. The cheater quilt fabric above fits onto one yard of quilting weight cotton and comes in several color combos, including the rainbow one. You’ll also need some batting and fabric for the binding.
Spoonflower is having an awesome sale! Instead of a Cyber Monday sale, they will be having a week long sale. November 28th, today, through December 2nd. For every fat quarter of fabric you purchase, you get one fat quarter free! any design! by any designer!
Perfect timing too. I just added a new design to my spoonflower shop.
I’m calling it Sketchy Kitchen and it comes in three colorways.
Even more fabric coming soon.
Pin ItI’ve updated TWO new color sets of my top selling Robot Doll Kit over at www.spoonflower.com.
The kit is now available in a Black, White & Grey set and in an Orange & Teal set. As seen below.
Each of the larger Robot’s measure 16″ tall. They make very cuddly pillows!
Spoonflower is still shipping things pretty quickly, for now, so if your interested in a kit before the holidays I’d suggest ordering soon!
