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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

December 5, 2011 By 199 Comments

Welcome to our Moda designer holiday blog hop!  You’ll be hopping around a bit this week visiting 4 to 5 blogs per day.  Each designer you visit will have a new sampler block and recipe for you.   Print them out on card stock, package them up and you’ve got a great little gift for yourself or a quilter friend!  You’ll find a PDF link for my block and recipe below:

Flying Coaster Block from Bunny Hill!

You’ll need just 3 fabrics 9″ x 22″ to make this block;  one dark, one medium and one light!  I’m crazy about pinwheels and stars so I combined them to give you this block!

Make up a quilt using 12 of these blocks and put sashing in-between each block.  You’ll have a quilt that looks great in any fabric.

Or, maybe you’ll want to wait, choose your favorite blocks and create a masterpiece like this one from Moda…

And then when you’re done sewing these blocks together you can start cooking!

Here’s my recipe for Peach Cobbler but you may have to substitute apples for the peaches if you make it in December…

  If you get busy sewing now you should have these blocks finished in time for Christmas!

 Christmas 2012!

Here’s the designer list for the week:

December 5th

Minick & Simpson
Bunny Hill
Me & My Sister
Deb Strain

December 6th

Kansas Troubles
Fig Tree
Cosmo Cricket
Lucie Summers
Liz Scott

December 7th:

Cotton Way
French General
Oliver + S
Sweetwater
Ellen Luckett Baker

December 8th

Thimbleblossoms
Kathy Schmitz Studios
 Laundry Basket Quilts
Kate Spain
Primitive Gatherings

December 9th

Basic Grey
Jan Patek
American Jane
 Sandy Gervais

Have a fun week everyone!   I hope you enjoy the blog hop!

Anne

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Mollie Makes Magazine!

September 16, 2011 By 2 Comments

If you haven’t seen this magazine you’re in for a treat!  Mollie Makes is the best magazine I’ve seen in a long time.  Crafty, decorative, and oh those little craft kits they include with each issue.  How creative can they get?  That’s right, you get a little surprise kit with each issue!

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It’s published in England and released for sale in the US several months ago.  It’s so popular it sells out right away.   I love this magazine and I’ve decided to offer it for sale on my website.  Copies are limited but you can pre-order the issue you see above (#6).  Order it now so we can process your order, let our supplier know and hold a copy for you.  It will be shipping very soon!

The Moda blog hop continues so be sure and check out Lynne from Kansas Troubles today!  I hope you are enjoying the hop!  You’ll have a binder filled with free projects by the time it’s finished.  Cute free projects and lots of giveaways…doesn’t get much better.

Moda Blog Hop List of Designers!

September 6th Sandy Gervais of Pieces from My Heart
September 13th Sandy Klop from American Jane (Post will be featured on Moda’s blog)
September 14th Liesl from Oliver + S
September 19th Barbara Brackman from Barbara Brackman, of course.
September 20th Bonnie from Cotton Way
September 22nd Deb Strain
September 27th Kate Spain
and the fun continues into October

October 2nd Liz from Liz Scott Designs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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It’s A Country Fair!

September 7, 2011 By 1,566 Comments

Today is American Jane Day at the Fair…

Wait until you see Miss Henny Penny!   

 

Lissa Alexander at Moda Fabrics always has creative ideas…she stores them in her head and just pulls them out when she needs one.  Amazing talent don’t you think?  She came up with the idea of the Moda Country Fair Blog Hop and then she thought up all these things for us to do!  Thanks Lissa, you are just so smart!

We’ve been talking about the Moda Country Fair for the last month around the studio and somehow Chelsea got the idea she was invited to the fair.  She’s got these big brown eyes that make it really hard to say no…

So what do you tell a Chihuahua who thinks she’s going to a country fair?  You tell her “OK, OK, you can go”!

There was no stopping her after I said that.  Chelsea wanted to be in on everything.  Everything?  OK Chelsea, Lissa thought up questions for us to answer so if you’re “in” you have to answer them too!

Question #1:   What’s your favorite fair food?

This question is way too easy for Chelsea to answer!

 

I hope Chelsea doesn’t tell Moda what I was really thinking when I was holding this cupcake pincushion!

 

 Question #2:  What’s your guilty pleasure?

Something no one knows… EVERY market my friend Anne and I load up on HOT TAMALES and CANDY CORN.  We each bring several boxes and we have a sugar party the entire market.   Fall market we eat the orange candy corn and spring market we eat the pastel candy corn.  I’m addicted to these little treats and so is Anne.

…and Chelsea’s guilty pleasure?  You’re not going to believe this but it’s Broccoli with butter!

Question #3:  What’s on your bucket list?

Ha!  Is Lissa kidding?  This was way too easy for Chelsea (click on the picture to enlarge).  I swear this dog is smarter than me!  Why didn’t I think of the pink convertible?  I want one too!

Question #4:  What inspires your work?

You may not know it but Chelsea is part of the approval committee at Bunny Hill.  She likes quilts with bunnies  on them and she’s very vocal about it…she actually wanted me to design a quilt with a Chihuahua wearing bunny ears!  Oh my what am I going to do with a Chihuahua who wants bunny ears?

MY favorite thing to do for inspiration is visit the flea markets…

When I think of a Country Fair I think of a cake walk…remember those?  Since I can’t do a real cake walk,  I did a cupcake pattern so everyone can have a little cake!  You can choose from a cupcake banner or a cupcake pincushion!

Bunny Hill Cupcake Pattern

And of course when you go to a country fair you’ll probably enter a raffle so let’s have one here.  You don’t have to buy a ticket but you do have to leave a comment on this post.  Here’s what we’re giving away…

3 Jelly Rolls of Puttin’ on the Ritz…a bundle of waffle cloth and satin for baby…

…and 16 wonderful Puttin’ on the Ritz scrap bags!

We’ll be picking 20 raffle prize winners!  TWENTY!!!  I’ll pick with a random number generator (Chelsea can’t be trusted to pick) and announce them on the 14th of September.  Be sure and check back!

I hope you enjoy our Moda blog hop.  Each day will bring you a new designer, more prizes and so many free patterns you’ll be jumping for joy!  Country fairs just don’t get any better than this!

Hop on over to visit Barb and Mary from Me and My Sister Designs tomorrow.  I adore these ladies and I bet you do too!

Moda Blog Hop List of Designers!

September 6th Sandy Gervais of Pieces from My Heart
September 13th Sandy Klop from American Jane (Post will be featured on Moda’s blog)
September 14th Liesl from Oliver + S
September 19th Barbara Brackman from Barbara Brackman, of course.
September 20th Bonnie from Cotton Way
September 22nd Deb Strain
September 27th Kate Spain
and the fun continues into October
Oh my how can you not love Bitsy!  Looks like she’ll be going too!   Chelsea, Bitsy and I are off to the fair!  Hope you all have fun!
Hugs,
Anne
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DIY, Oh you are SO crafty!

November 22, 2010 By 12 Comments

You know who you are you crafty one you!  You’ve been busy working on holiday gifts all year, and when someone finally opens one of your gifts you hear “you made this yourself? I can’t believe it!”  So give yourself a round of applause!  You’re part of the family! DIY!

If you’re looking for things to make there are some great ideas on The Moda Bakeshop.  Free things designed by those fabulous Moda Bakeshop designers like Sarah Meyer.  Just look at these darling blocks she made.  Sarah shows you how, step by step!  Hummm, think I’ve seen that fabric before!   Beautiful baby blocks from Lily & Will?   Sarah you are the DIY crafty one!

Need some more help with DIY?   Jessica Sprague is offering a FREE class.

I love her site.  It’s filled with all kinds of  classes from scrap-booking, photography to digital design.  To give you a taste of how fun her classes are, she’s giving a FREE online class starting November 29th!  All you have to do is register!  It’s DIY time!  Take a class and learn some fun things!

And look what I just made in a few hours of free time!  I took a few kitchen towels and trimmed them with left-over jelly roll strips!   These were so easy to make.  I just turned under the edges of the jelly roll strips (2 1/2″ wide strips)  1/4″, pressed under the edges and stitched on the strip.  I added some trim and they were finished!  Someone on my list just might find these under the tree!

Taupe & Beige Kitchen Towels!

Close-up so you can REALLY see.

Red & White Stripe Kitchen Towels!  Just in time for Christmas!

Another close-up!

And speaking of crafty,  have you visited my Snowbound group lately?   Take a look at what they’ve  been doing!

Snowbound!

Don’t forget to make these free holiday tags from Bunny Hill.  There’s still time!  Lori suggested adding a bit of glitter to the tags.  How cute would that be?

Oh, and if you want the same towels I used you can find them here on my web site.  I ordered them at Quilt Market about 10 minutes before it ended.  Just couldn’t pass up the Dunroven House booth and it was right on the way to checkout.  They have the best towels!

I’ll be cooking a GREAT Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday for my family with all the trimmings.  Has to be great so I can bribe my husband with food on Friday.   He’ll be decorating and hanging my Snowbound quilt!

Are you cooking this year?  Have you made anything you just love and have a hard time parting with?  Share with me!  I’d love to hear from you!

I’ll give thanks this Thanksgiving week for all my DIY friends out in blog land!  You are simply the best!

Hugs,

Anne

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