A Fabric GIVEAWAY : :

It's Fabric Giveaway Friday!  

For this week's Fabric Giveaway I'm sending you all to Hawthorne Threads, an amazing online fabric shop owned by husband & wife team, Charlie & Lindsey. In this week's Newsletter you may have seen that they're offering a Fat Quarter bundle of my very first collection, Wild & Free, that is now back in stock, hooray! This collection is perfect for Fall sewing, which will be here before we know it!

Enter to win! 

Here's how,

Simply click HERE to be redirected to Hawthorne Threads Giveaway page & enter your email to be registered for a chance to win!

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Thanks to all who enter! Have a great Friday & weekend!! ♡ Maureen

A Pretty Voile Scarf : :

Thank you all so much for the quilt love yesterday! It means so much to me, Thank You!!

Today I'm sharing a new scarf that I made recently that I love, love, love!  I whipped it up quick using my Simple Scarf Tutorial, some comfy stashed flannel in a soft denim blue color from Joann, and Art Gallery Fabrics new Voile Collection. These fabrics are so lovely, truly!

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The beautiful softness of voile makes you want to cozy right up to it! I've been dreaming of stashing enough for a quilt back, wouldn't that be amazing?!  But decided a new scarf would be the perfect thing to make with the one yard of this pretty blue Branch Silhouette print for now.





I love how perfectly this Voile pairs with heavier fabric weights like the flannel. The combination of the two make sewing with it so easy! The flannel gives a stability to the voile that keeps away any puckering or possibility of it being a little slippery to work with. It makes for some fun and easy sewing, with a finished project that really feels luxurious and special. A perfect sewn gift!



I'm taking a second Voile project to begin on the road with me this weekend when my husband and I head out for an overnight date. I plan to take my time with this one, to just enjoy it when an opportunity for some relaxing handwork can fit it to what we're doing over the next several weeks. This Impressions print seams like the perfect canvas for some Pearl Cotton embroidery!



Have you given Voile a try? Please feel free to share your experience with it or any links to a sewing project of your own that you've made using Voile. I'd love to see!!  ♥,  Maureen 

Home Sewing : :

I've been talking about making something with a hot air balloon design for months and months now. I had to laugh at all the comments I read last week under my Skull Quilt post, about it looking like a hot air balloon! Especially since I was working on this little wip in between reading them. Hopefully this looks like a hot air balloon house... that is the idea anyways!



With my mind completely consumed with thoughts of our first home, I thought this design was a fun idea! It's going to end up being a new floor pillow cover for the kids. We've been using our Fly A Kite floor pillow so much! So, I think a stack of large pillows will be really nice and cozy for laying around the fireplace this winter.

My husband thought I should have rounded out the bottom corners of the house. Of course, he's right, but has also never sewn curves before, so...



Ever since I made that last Quilted Tote Bag, I wanted to make something for us in a similar color palette.



So, I pulled some of my favorite Pat Bravo fabrics from my stash and got to work.



This is one my new favorite prints! It's Sahara Stars in Blue from the Bazaar Style by Pat. I finally ordered it and think it is so beautiful and dreamy, I love it!!



And, had already ordered a few new Pure Element solids from Moona Fabrics and Art Gallery that were perfect. I am slowly building up my solids stash. Aren't these colors lovely?



Hoping to spend this rainy day making a dent in my stack of wips. Happy sewing!! ♥,  Maureen 

p.s. I just got word that my sponsor Project Anthologies is having a HUGE ONE DAY SALE! Enter coupon code :: happy40 at checkout and get 40% ALL fabric purchases!!! WOW!

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On My Table & Mind : :

Today will be a very busy sewing day for me! So, I thought I'd share quickly what I've been working on and will be working with today!

First up -- Willow! Have you seen this gorgeous new collection by My Mind's Eye for Riley Blake? It's what I chose, months ago, to use for this week's Design Team project and I absolutely adore it!! It's so soft and sweet!

photo via Hawthorne Threads

The fabric designs inspired me to work with Dresdens, once again!



Here's a little peek today! Tomorrow the tutorial will be up on the Riley Blake Blog and I'll have a HUGE Willow Giveaway happening right here!!



Next on my list -- Rock & Romance by Pat Bravo for Art Gallery Fabrics! LOVE, Love, love!!



I'm sure we'll all agree that this is just pure gorgeousness! I have major plans for these, including a new Fat Quarter Gang Tutorial that I can't wait to write up and a new quilt top all planned out, as well!



Then there's my finished Indie quilt top, patiently waiting!! My hope is to draft up my very first quilt pattern and finish this lovely quilt by the end of September, but that might be wishful thinking? We'll see!



And, now there's this. THIS is my Big News that I hinted about last week. My biggest project ever and ALL I can think about these days -- our HOME!



Just writing that word make me tear-up. It's been a long, long road. Filled with seven moves, some pretty big disappointments, struggles, heartache and worry that the day might never happen when we would be able to give our children a real, permanent HOME. But it's been fun too and we have SO many beautiful memories, that I really can't look back and regret or feel bad about any of it. There is still so much to do and that I want to share, and it will be weeks before we can hold the key, but I can't keep it in any longer. It is much too Big! And, the perfect thing to dream about today while I sew!

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A Pretty Pillow & Stash : :

Are those fabrics distracting?? Don't worry...there's lots more below, but first I want to share my newest pillow!!

On a rainy day a couple weeks ago, I started thinking ahead to the holidays, with an idea for a new pillow design, and the need to make something bright and warm and pretty! I reached for my favorite LillyBelle print, Garden Rocket in Ruby, and my favorite shade of yellow, with a little pop of hot pink, and got to work!



I finished it with a Modernology print, Mod Vines in Raspberry, and I just love this beautiful jewel-tone pink. Overall, I think and hope my pillow came out bright & warm and pretty & cheery! I've added it to my etsy and am crossing my fingers that it will find a home soon!



NOW LETS TALK FABRIC!!



Today, I finally plan to separate and photograph all that I've stashed these last several weeks! For the record, this is way more than I usually buy in months and months....and months!! With my dream of sewing full-time beginning and so many amazing collections due out ALL at the exact same time, what's up with that?? I just felt like I had no choice!! It was a business investment, right?!



I know you've been stashing or saving for that new fabric collection(s), too -- please do share!! I'd love to know what your current favorite is??

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