Bunny Hill Designs

Please pass the Pumpkin Pie

December 16, 2011 By Anne 7 Comments

We’ve spent the last few days making Pumpkin Pie kits here at Bunny Hill. No calories in this pie even with all the yummy fabrics we’ve been cutting. Here’s a picture of our pie slice…

Doesn’t it look yummy?

We’ve got stacks and stacks of Pumpkin Pie…

…assembled and ready for baking!

If you ordered a Pumpkin Pie kit we’re starting to ship them now.

You’ll find these kits on my website, in stock and ready to ship. The good news is that if you start to make your Pumpkin Pie quilt now, by the time it comes to bake the real thing you’ll be finished and ready to enjoy it!

Did someone say Christmas is right around the corner? I’d better get some pictures posted before I miss it! Do you have shopping done and are you ready? Seems like the month of December gets shorter every year!

Hugs,

Anne

Filed Under: Applique, Bunny Hill Patterns Tagged With: Anne Sutton, Bunny Hill Designs, Fall quilts, Moda fabric, Pumpkin Pie Quilt, Thanksgiving

First week of December!

December 3, 2011 By Anne 25 Comments

I started December off at our local hospital early on the morning of December 1st. My husband had arthoscopic surgery on his shoulder because of a torn rotator cuff. We had to arrive by 5:45AM.

I had envisioned just “us” arriving at that time of the morning, but to my surprise there was a waiting room filled with patients all scheduled for different surgeries. He was assigned a number and from that point on he could be tracked on the surgery tracker board in the waiting room. It’s an amazing, color coded, automated system that lets you see where the patient is at all times…in the preop room, in surgery, in recovery, etc. His surgery went well, and he was home by early afternoon, rotator cuff repaired, arm in a sling, ice machine and pain meds in hand. The surgery tracker even tells you when the patient has left the hospital van you believe it? I hope it didn’t say that we stopped at In and Out Burger on the way home. Starving husbands are not happy ones.

In case you didn’t know my husband does all the shipping for Bunny Hill. He’s right handed and the surgery was on his right shoulder. I’ve been prepared for the worst but it’s only been 3 days and the man is already getting back to work. He can type left handed! Everyone else is jumping in to help so we haven’t even noticed any glitches in our system (knock on wood). And while he’s been recovering I’ve been busy sewing together “Redwork Raining Cats & Dogs” my newest redwork quilt.

I’m using Moda’s new redwork line, Redwork Renaissance; polka dots, cherries, stripes and floral fabrics make this quilt so much fun to make! Here’s a few little sneak peaks…

We’ve used the new Pilot FriXion erasable gel pens to transfer the drawings onto the background fabric. If you haven’t tried these pens I think you’ll love them. They draw easily on fabric and the ink disappears when you apply heat with a iron. You can find these pens at office supply stores or here on my website. I’ve heard that if you expose the embroidery to below freezing temperatures the ink lines will return but I don’t plan on putting mine in the freezer anytime soon.

Have a great weekend everyone! I’ll be back on Monday.

Hugs,

Anne

Filed Under: Bunny Hill Patterns, Embroidery, Quilt Design Tagged With: Anne Sutton, Bunny Hill Designs, Cats, Dogs, Embroidery, Moda fabric, Redwork, Redwork Raining Cats & Dogs

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

Pumpkin Pie on a Quilt

October 25, 2011 By Anne 39 Comments

Pumpkin Pie on a quilt? It’s acceptable if it’s baked in a Moda Dottie green pie dish with at least one blackbird in the pie. Oh, one more thing…you have to sing “Sing a Song of Sixpence” while you make this quilt. If you don’t know the song better Google it.

Pumpkin Pie is made from “Basics”!

The quilt is made mostly from Moda Basics so you should easily be able to find the fabric! I’ve put a color fabric guide inside the pattern and also on my website to make your shopping easy.