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Obsessions: What are yours?

January 25, 2012 By Anne 29 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

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

Love those weekends

November 20, 2011 By Anne 7 Comments

I had a great weekend, how about you? Did you get some time to yourself to do a few of those things on your list? Have you started Christmas shopping yet?

I’ve been neglecting my house for two months while I’ve worked on new patterns, so this weekend it got some well needed TLC. Who knew cleaning up and putting things away could feel so good?

I bought these wire baskets at Garnet Hill and I’m using them to store my wools. I like to see everything I have so these baskets are perfect! See the pastel wool bundles in the picture below? I bought those bundles at Holly Hill last week…hand dyed by Debbie Busby of Wooden Spool Designs. I fell in love with the soft colors of blue, pink and grey…wish I had bought more!

And now that my house is back in order I can move onto so many other things waiting for me…

Remember the story I told you about Jeaneane? Some of you sent in blocks for her and I haven’t forgotten about them. They are tucked safely in a drawer just waiting to be mailed to her. If you’d like to make her a block you still have time. Make a 8″ or 12″ block and send it my way. Your name will be entered in a drawing to win a great prize from Bunny Hill and Jeaneane will have quilt blocks to play with! I’ll be showing you some of the blocks I’ve received over the next few weeks and I’ll do the prize drawing on December 10th. Jeaneane will have the blocks by Christmas.

Next I’ll give you some sneak peeks of a new pattern I have coming in December called Raining Cats and Dogs in Redwork. I’ve been waiting for the Moda redwork fabric to arrive and keeping my fingers crossed that it arrives soon so I can start sewing the quilt together. I don’t often get to show you a work in progress so this should be fun!

Hugs to all of my blog readers! You are the best!

Anne

Filed Under: Bunny Hill Patterns, Collections Tagged With: Bunny Hill Designs, wool, Wool applique

Moda Dottie

September 18, 2011 By Anne 18 Comments

I love polka dots don’t you? They make me happy! My favorite line of dots happens to be made by Moda…it’s called Dottie. Dottie used to only come in a decorator weight fabric but now Moda has Dottie in a 45″ quilting weight fabric. It comes in lots of yummy colors and I own a fat quarter of each one!

The orange and white Dottie is my current favorite. I’ve used it on the border of a new quilt design and you’ll get to see the quilt next month! An orange Dottie border…can you believe it?

I bought my fat quarter bundle of Dottie here. It’s a great stash builder and so much fun to play with. See that yummy lime green in the bundle? I used a little piece in my new quilt. Couldn’t help myself. Going a bit Dottie here at Bunny Hill thanks to Moda!

Remember the Moda Blog Hop continues with Aneela Hoey !

I can’t wait for Aneela’s next fabric line…she gives a sneak peek on her blog. It has little foxes! AND…what a cute tissue cover pattern for FREE. It’s adorable!