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

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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!

My friend Nancy found this beauty in Sisters Oregon. I’m not sure what she paid for it but something tells me it was more than $28.00.

It’s pieced with wool, silk and cotton, and embroidered with floss and yarn!

Just look how sweet this one of Nancy’s is…

Sometimes you can find unfinished blocks like these…

…Or, maybe you’ll find a few finished blocks…

…with a stack of other blocks waiting to be completed. (I bought these on eBay last year.)

Vintage quilts are waiting to be discovered and part of the fun is in the hunt!

Wonder if there’s a vintage quilt on eBay just waiting for you! Wouldn’t hurt to have a look!

Hugs,

Anne

UPDATE: I had Pinterest spelled wrong in my newsletter. I wrote it 100 times on a piece of paper and FINALLY I know how to spell it!

Please follow me on Pinterest not Pintrest.

Please follow Moda on Pinterest too!

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Dresden Progress

February 3, 2012 By Anne 17 Comments

This week has been crazy. Too much to do and not enough time. I’m working on a new fabric line and it’s taking longer than expected. A deadline is looming and I’m crossing my fingers I get it off to Moda soon. I’ll be so happy!

In the meantime everyone at Bunny Hill has been working on my Scrappy Plate quilt, helping to get it ready for the quilter. I can just hear you saying…hey that’s not fair…she has help! Let’s just say it’s a good thing. Machine applique has become my best friend and almost all of the plates have been appliqued by machine!

If you follow my method I think you’ll love machine applique. Go ahead, enlarge this photo so you can see.

…and this one showing you how to stop at a point right next to the fabric, lift the presser foot and turn.

Here’s something you may not know…there’s a machine applique tutorial on my blog! That’s right, it’s just waiting for you to try it.

Click here or scroll to the top of the page, click on the Tutorial link and the applique picture. You just might get your blocks done this weekend. Oh, and I forgot to tell you, I’ve decided to add a scallop to the border. Don’t worry, I’ll give you the scallop pattern so you can have one too.

Because of all the assorted colors in my blocks I used a neutral Kimono Silk thread to applique these Dresden. Silk thread on the top and cotton in the bobbin made switching from blade color to blade color much easier. Normally I recommend DMC Machine Embroidery thread for machine applique.

Now think about this…after the girls sew on my Dresden’s they go home and sew on their own! Everyone at Bunny Hill has gone a little Dresden crazy. Just look at a few of their blocks!

Nancy is making her’s out of pink 30′s fabrics. She’s making a quilt for a baby girl!

And my assistant Kim is making her blocks out of assorted Riley Blake fabrics she picked up at market. Just look at these! She says she has more colors coming and I can’t wait to see the rest of the blocks!