Bunny Tales

Obsessions: What are yours?

January 25, 2012 By Anne 25 Comments

Obsessions other than fabric…what are yours? What makes you crazy when you see it? What’s the one thing you can’t resist buying? Maybe clothes, shoes, dishes, thread, floss, scissors, books or magazines? Do you obsess about something else? I can’t be the only one with a few obsessions can I? Fess up! My secret obsession is…

Paper and Pens!

I love pretty notebooks, fine paper, special pens and I just can’t help myself. Last week my UPS man delivered the most wonderful box of paper and pens. It was like Christmas.

I wish you could feel the smoothness of the paper. It’s so yummy. And the colors, can you stand it? Shades of pink, lavender and pumpkin. Heaven help me I can’t wait to write in these. New spiral notebooks for taking notes when I’m working on a project. New spiral notebooks for my “to do” lists and new pens and pencils to write them with.

Check out the pink fountain pen! I picked a brown ink but I could have selected a multitude of colors. And see that pink pencil on the left? It’s perfect for drawing. Who knows what will happen with a pencil like that! To think that I can be inspired by a new notebook or pen! I’ll share my shopping site for pens and paper just in case you obsess about these too…JetPens.com.

And if you obsess about Dresden plate quilts…while I was busy thinking about what to write in my new notebooks I found 1 more Scrappy Plate Kit…it’s on my website.

If you have a Dresden obsession like me, just visit my Flickr group. I’m there every morning to see if any new plates have appeared. Best thing is it doesn’t cost any money and you don’t have to hide it from your husband!

Back soon!

Anne

Filed Under: Collections, Inspirations

Rainy Days are for sewing

January 23, 2012 By Anne 8 Comments

Happy Monday everyone!

I’m off to teach at our local quilt shop Thimble Creek today. We’re making wool snowmen pillows in January! Unheard of you say? Just think of the start these ladies will have. Remember how fast last year flew by?

Here’s our project for today…

Snowballs is a fun, quick and best of all EASY pattern! You'll find it here on my website.

Since I'm on the subject of snowmen, I thought you might enjoy seeing this quilt!

I spoke at the Diablo Valley Quilter's Guild last week (what an incredible group of people), and this quilt (Snowbound) was made by Mary Anne the President of the guild! I love the red and the beige together and can you see the plaid border peeking out? She really had me with the polka dots. I just love them!

Then I looked a bit closer and noticed her embellishments...they were perfection. Just look at the little silver beads she stitched on the angel's wings!

Thank goodness for my iPhone. The camera in the new phone is great and it's always with me.

I have more pictures to share!

Jeaneane sent me pictures of her birthday cake made by her daughter-in-law Victoria Graham.

Are you ready?

This cake is a work of art! It's a sewing basket filled with goodies and it's C A K E!

Here's the back of the cake...

The accessories are all made of fondant. It took Victoria about 6 hours to make this cake and Jeaneane said it was delicious.

I can't even imagine cutting into this cake!

Hope you all have a great day. It's pouring rain here in California. A good day for sewing and sewing classes.

Back soon,

Hugs,

Anne

Filed Under: Inspirations Tagged With: Christmas sewing, Snowballs, Snowmen

Weekend Projects

January 14, 2012 By Anne 12 Comments

Do you have projects planned for this weekend? Seems like I’ve been waiting for a “free” weekend and now that it’s here I’m in heaven. I have so many projects I’ve wanted to get started on so I plan on sewing all weekend long. Speaking of sewing, it’s a great weekend to try a Scrappy Plate quilt block if you haven’t started yet. Once you make one, you’ll see how easy it is! Just go for it!

I’ve been working on the applique for my Scrappy Plate quilt, taking pictures as I go along so I can hopefully give you some tips next month. I don’t know which part I like better, the piecing or the applique. Click on over to my Flickr group if you want to get inspired!

So many of you emailed asking about kits for Scrappy Plates. Well guess what? Kimberly at Fat Quarter Shop has been searching for fabrics and she’s found all the fabrics I’ve used in my quilt. She’s put together a kit for you with the same polka dot fabrics and borders. You can find it by clicking on the link above.

New wool bundles…

If you love yummy wools, I’ve just added our own special bundles of Weeks Dye Works wools to our website. After we made these bundles everyone at Bunny Hill wanted one!

Say hello to our Autumn bundle…

…and hello to our Sorbet bundle.

I’d say it’s equally as yummy as Autumn!

You’ll find these bundles here on our website.

We’re still working on getting orders shipped from our sale. We ran out of Cosmo Multiwork Floss #4300 and Dresden templates but we’ve had them both on order. The templates just arrived and the floss should be here by the middle of next week. Thank you for your patience if you’ve ordered floss…I promise we’ll ship your order as soon as it arrives!

Have a great weekend everyone! Hopefully it’s filled with happy sewing!

Hugs,

Anne

Filed Under: Applique, Collections Tagged With: Applique, Bunny Hill Designs, Free, Free Patterns, Scrappy Plate Club, wool

Bunny Hill Scrappy Plate Club

January 5, 2012 By Anne 50 Comments

It’s time for my Bunny Hill Scrappy Plate Club! If you’ve always wanted to make a Dresden Plate quilt then you’re going to have so much fun! Every month for the next 6 months I’ll be sharing pictures, tutorials and directions to make a wonderful Dresden Plate quilt! You’ll have a completed quilt before the end of the year and have a great time along the way. It’s a chance to use your stash, meet new friends, get creative, and maybe win some prizes and treats. Are you ready?

First choose your fabrics! You’ll need 20 to 30 different fabrics for the “blades” of your plate so get over to your stash and start looking. I’m sure you’ll come up with fabrics if you think about it. Or, maybe it’s time to visit your local quilt shop and add some new fabrics. Nothing lifts the spirits like buying fabric and quilt shops will love you.

I’m personally addicted to dots so I pulled every polka dot I could find, cut them into 4″ strips and cut away with my Easy Dresden ruler! Once I got started I couldn’t stop. I’m sure I cut enough for two quilts I have so many left over but I wanted variety and variety I got! Dresden Art was created!

Each little piece became a Dresden blade like this!

See how easy it was?

Before I knew it I had Dresden blades I could stitch together!

And once they were stitched together…

I could make my first Dresden plate…

Oh my this is fun!

So join me in 2012 and make a Dresden Plate quilt! Think of the colors you can use! Try 30′s fabrics, civil war, batiks, florals…you get the idea. Just make sure you have lights, mediums and darks in your fabric assortment and you’ll be fine. You’ll find Part One of the directions on my “free” tab above. This is what you need to get you started and it includes a diagram of the finished quilt. Next month I’ll be back with Part Two so you have plenty of time to work on the first part. You can grab my little Scrappy Plate Logo for your blog if you’d like and be sure and join my Flickr Group so you can post your photos. I’m ready to stitch my first block down!