A Fabric GIVEAWAY : :

It's Fabric Giveaway Friday!  

To follow yesterday's Forest Floor Blog Tour project post, LLama Fabrics and I arranged a special Forest Floor Giveaway to share today!

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My sponsor Llama Fabrics is a wonderful online Etsy fabric shop full of the most beautiful photos of each season's "must have" fabrics! Offerings include collections by Tula Pink, Leah Duncan, Jeni Baker, Anna Maria Horner and more, all from our favorite manufacturers Art Gallery Fabrics, Free Spirit, and Michael Miller, just to name a few! New fabrics are added often, sure be sure to follow Llama Fabrics!
  
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We hope you enjoy visiting Llama Fabric's sites!! 

Llama Fabrics is offering the ENTIRE Fat Eighth bundle of the beautiful Forest Floor collection by designer Bonnie Christine for Art Gallery Fabrics! This bundle includes all TWENTY prints that make up this lovely collection! How amazing and generous!!

You can find this pretty collection available as a fat eighth, a fat quarter, a half yard, and as a complete one yard bundle, along with single cuts of your choosing in the Llama Fabric Shop!! 

Enter to win! 

Here's how,

 
1. Simply leave a comment here under this post! (one entry)
2. Follow Llama Fabrics on Facebook and/or Instagram! Just let me know that you did by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry) 

3. My followers get a third entry! If you follow here, on Instagram, or on Facebook just let me know by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)

4. Help spread the word!! I know that many of you already do, so I thought it would be nice to add that as another way to enter! Whether by Instagram, tweet, Facebook, pin, blog, etc... (optional extra entry) 

That’s 4 possible entries! Enter now through Tuesday, July 5th! The winner will be picked next week at random and I will announce their name at the bottom of this post, here on the blog.

* Note * This giveaway is open to EVERYONE! If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment! 

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Thank you to all who entered our Giveaway! This week's lucky winner is commenter, Gene Black! Congratulations, I will be in touch shortly!! ♡ Maureen

Forest Floor Blog Tour : :

Today is my stop on the Forest Floor Blog Tour!

I’m so excited to be joining in one of Bonnie Christine’s blog tours! Bonnie is a fellow Art Gallery Fabrics designer, I'm a huge fan of her work & style, and this latest collection of hers, Forest Floor is my favorite one yet!

"Inspired by her experience of living in the forest, Bonnie creates a whimsical world where dreams of a magical place come to life.  Forest Floor hopes to ignite the exploration of forest curiosities, and take you on an adventure filled with green and oak flora and delicate berry tinted fauna that inhabits the wondrous depths of the mountains."

Since I'm all about making drawstring backpacks these days, I decided to make one more using these beautiful Forest Floor fabrics with added denim, pompom trim, and vintage lace!



This new bag started with a bundle of pretty Forest Floor prints, a pile for herringbone quick quilt as you go patchwork for one side of the bag and my favorite Forest Floor print, Luna Rising to be featured on the reverse side.



I decided to go with Luna Rising in shadow colorway, the steel gray background is so lovely! I quilted a large grid pattern using the moths as my guide, stitching down their center, above and below them with a Aurifil 50wt from my Bohemian Garden thread box.





For the front I used a mix of strips in Forest Floor with AGF's gorgeous Soft Smooth Denims!

You can see below the stitched vintage bias tape I used for the drawstrings and a little peek of the fluffy pompom's I added within my herringbone pattern!



I LOVE vintage lace and the pieces of the thrifted tablecloth I had on hand paired so perfectly with Bonnie's sweet fabric designs!



The added embellishment made this backpack my new favorite! I don't think I'll be able to make another without adding these extra details, it's so pretty!





I used more AGF denim for the backpack casing, tabs, and lining!



As much as I love the fancy side of this bag, this quilted Luna Rise side is just as gorgeous!



Thank you Bonnie for inviting me to join the tour and for creating such amazing fabrics for us all to sew with!!

To explore this beautiful Forest Floor collection deeper visit Bonnie's blog Going Home to Roost : the collection | the lookbook | on instagram | about the collection

Want to join the fun? You're all invited to share you own projects on Instagram using hashtags #ForestFloorFabrics & #ForestFloorBlogTour! You can find Forest Floor available at Fat Quarter Shop, Llama Fabrics, and on sale now at Lady Belle Fabrics!

XO, Maureen

A Fabric GIVEAWAY : :

It's Fabric Giveaway Friday!   

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My sponsor Lady Belle Fabric is run by husband and wife team, Rob & Brooke! In their shop you'll find both bundles and single cuts of handpicked fabrics that are fresh, modern, and fun! Designer fabrics include many of our favorites -- Art Gallery Fabrics, Cotton + Steel, Free Spirit, and Moda, just to name a few! Lady Belle Fabric's goal is to offer the most gorgeous lines of fabric, as quickly as they can! 
   
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We hope you enjoy visiting the Lady Belle Fabric sites!! 

For this week's Fabric Giveaway Friday, Lady Belle Fabric is offering the winner a beautiful Fat Quarter bundle of Bonnie Christine's newest fabric collection for Art Gallery Fabrics, Forest Floor! This bundle will include a fat quarter cut of each of the 20 gorgeous fabric prints that make up this wonderful new collection! How very generous!!

You can find the Forest Floor collection newly available in the Lady Belle Fabric shop as a Fat Quarter Bundles and half yard bundles! Be sure to check out this amazing shop!!



In addition, Lady Belle Fabric offers a pretty bundle of Forest Floor coordinating solids AND they have restocked bundles of my Fleet & Flourish collection, as well!! 





Lady Belle Fabric is generously offering my readers 15% OFF all fabric bundle orders from their shop throughout this Giveaway until Midnight on Monday! Prices will be as marked in their shop!!

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Enter to win! 

Here's how,

 
1. Simply leave a comment here in this post! We'd love to know which of Lady Belle's Bundles are catching your eye, feel free to share! (one entry)
2. Follow Lady Belle Fabric on Facebook or on Instagram! Just be sure to let me know you do by making a separate comment here for an extra entry! (optional extra entry)
3. My followers get a third entry! Just let me know that you do by making a separate comment here to record that entry. (optional extra entry)
4. Help spread the word!! I know that many of you already do, so I thought it would be nice to add that as another way to enter! Whether by Instagram, tweet, facebook, pin, blog, etc... (optional extra entry) 

That’s 4 possible entries! Enter now through Monday, May 2nd!! Winner will be picked at random and I will announce their name at the bottom of this post, here on the blog!

*Note * This giveaway is open to EVERYONE! If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment!

Thanks to all who entered our Giveaway! This week's lucky winner is commenter, Alice Ronne. Congratulations Alice, I will be in touch shortly!!

♡ Maureen

Bundle LOVE : :

Yesterday, for about an hour, the most glorious light gleamed through the windows of my sewing room. I had pulled this bundle of fabrics from my shelves earlier in the day. Plucking through the moody blues and soft peach prints in my stash, setting them on my ironing board with the large piece of Hello, Bear Summit in Twilight print leftover from my most recent quilt finish. A perfect match!



In the sun light they looked too pretty not to photograph and share with all of you!



This bundle is a medley of collections ~ most of the dark blues are from Pat Bravo's brand new, modern Essentials II, two from the new Pastel Thrift collection by AGF Studio, the rest are Bonnie Christine prints from Hello, Bear & Forest Floor, with my very own Fleet & Flourish Lace in Bloom, and a few Pure Element solids that coordinate.



I especially love the shades of peachy pink, cream, & apricot!



I put together this quick mosaic including each print from my bundle, followed with the collection & print name of each, just in case these fabrics inspire you, too!

• Essentials II -- Streakly Business, Hula Hoops, Specktacular, & Delicate Femme in Azur 
• Pastel Thrift -- Forshadowing in Spell & Adage
• Hello, Bear -- Wildwood in Nectar, Follow Me in Peach, & Summit in Twilight
• Forest Floor -- Firefly in Beam & Timber in Nightfall
• Fleet & Flourish -- Lace in Bloom Cloud
• Indian Summer -- Shimmer Creek in Blue
• Pure Elements -- Spruce, Peach Sherbet, Mystic Grey, & Nocturnal
• AGF Denim Studio -- Nectarine Sunrise & Cool Foliage

I added in two new AGF denims above, as well. I'll likely be using these beautiful denims in most of my quilty projects from here on out, as an alternative to a solid or blender fabric. I love them so much! Have you tried them yet?

Now I just need to decide what to make with this pretty bundle, hmn...