Applique

Wool & Dresdens

March 21, 2012 By Anne 12 Comments

If you’re attending the Paducah Quilt Show next month be sure and search for Karolyn Reker’s version of YoYoville. She “fussy cut” little critters for the windows and doors of the houses on the border! Look how cute these are! I haven’t seen all the critters yet so I’m counting on you to take photos for me if you’re going to the show. Think of the fun Karolyn had searching for all the critter fabrics!

Our “Bunny Hill” Kim amazed us yesterday with more of her Dresden blocks. She used wool for the centers and machine appliqued the entire block. She widened the stitch width a little when she came to the wool centers.

Her work is perfect and you’ll be seeing it on some of the new Bunny Hill quilts very soon. I love the wool centers don’t you?

For those of you working on our Pumpkin Pie quilt, we’ve added a Kimono Silk Thread Kit. It has all the colors you’ll need to applique the quilt by hand or machine.

Enjoy your week. I’ll be back as soon as I can :>)

Scrappy Plates Part Three

March 4, 2012 By Anne 14 Comments

If you’re making a Scrappy Plate Quilt, part three is ready to download. Just think, by next month you could have a finished quilt. Some are starting to show up on my Flickr group.

Scrappy Plate Instructions Part Three

My own Scrappy Plate quilt just came back from Lynne my quilter and just look the quilting!

Don’t you love the quilting? If you look at the last photo you can see a bit of the scallop line traced with a water erasable marker and the border quilting. I’ll show you more as soon as the binding is on.

If you don’t want a scalloped border you can complete your quilt now. If you can’t decide, wait until next month and I’ll give you the pattern and directions. A scallop border is perfect for 30′s fabrics, floral fabrics or dots. It might not look good with darker fabrics that have that rich civil war style. Decisions, decisions!

Fabric Placement Guide for Merry Merry Snowmen:

Some of you have called asking for help with the fabric placement for Merry, Merry Snowmen. Anytime we get more than one call or email I know others probably need help too, so it’s Bunny Hill to the rescue! I’ve added a fabric placement guide that lists all of the applique and background fabrics. Just print it out and you’ll be ready to go!

Merry Merry Snowmen Fabric Placement Guide

Designer Mystery Blog Hop

I hope you had fun with the Designer Mystery Blog Hop hosted by Fat Quarter Shop. I think everyone who guessed what my mystery item was got it right… my old Christmas Sweater! Head over to Jolly Jabber to see if you won a prize for guessing right! Scroll down on the blog and you’ll see my sweater along with all the other mystery items. No, I don’t really wear it every Christmas. I’m saving it for the “Old Christmas Sweater Party”.

Thank you Kimberly for hosting such a fun blog hop. It was great seeing what all the designers got out of their closets! Congratulations to all the winners!

Back soon,

Anne

Filed Under: Applique, Scrappy Plate Club Tagged With: Applique, Bunny Hill Designs, Merry Merry Snowmen, Scrappy Plate Club

Valdani Colors…What’s your favorite?

February 22, 2012 By Anne 7 Comments

Valdani has more colors than you ever thought possible, breathtaking colors that make you want to own them even if you don’t stitch. Each new color is more lovely than the last. It’s like opening a huge box of crayons each time we get a delivery.

Just look at these Valdani Pearl Cotton collections I added to the website. Aren’t they pretty? If you enlarge the pictures you can hold them in your hand…well, almost.

Colors go in and out of stock at Valdani quickly and because this thread is hand dyed we may have to wait a month or two before some colors are back in stock. I love working with quality threads so for me it’s worth the wait.

I hope you enjoy the selection of Valdani we have available on the website. I’ll be adding more colors over time and if there’s any you’d like us to carry please let me know. The shades of pink I’ve been waiting for forever should arrive this week and I’ll have them on the website soon. I can’t wait to open the box.

I’m working on a few wool applique patterns that just might use some of the colors you see in the photos. It’s so much fun to stitch on wool using Valdani thread. If you haven’t tried wool applique put it on your to do list. I think you’ll love it!

Back soon,

Anne

Filed Under: Applique, Collections Tagged With: Valdani Collections, Valdani Pearl Cotton, Valdani Pearl Cotton Size 12, Wool applique

Vintage Treasures

February 5, 2012 By Anne 17 Comments

We all seem to love those vintage treasures, especially when they happen to be quilts. Since many of us are working on our Dresden quilts I thought you might enjoy seeing pictures of a few vintage ones today.

I was lucky enough to find this one on eBay last year for $28.00!