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Sugar Plum Christmas
I’ve been to Quilt Market and back! Now it’s time to show you Sugar Plum Christmas from Bunny Hill and Moda! With fabric colors like Candy Cane Red, Sugar Plum Pink, Icicle White, Gingerbread Brown, Gumdrop Green and Mouse Grey, Christmas will be fun next year! Sugar Plum Christmas is my newest fabric line and it ships to stores in April of 2017. I’ve been busy making candy canes, gingerbread cookies, wrapping presents and decorating trees. All so a little mouse named Maya could have a place to call home! Maya is the main character in my newest block of the month called The Christmas Mouse! She loves Christmas and you’ll find her…
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A Trip to Moda
I call the month of August my “Moda home” month because I finally got to tour the home base. I was in Dallas to attend the Open House that Moda hosts for quilt shops. I’ve heard amazing things from other designers who have visited Moda, but I just couldn’t grasp what it felt like until we pulled up to these doors… Moda has 2 main warehouses and you’re looking at warehouse #1, the entrance to “heart” of Moda. It’s the design warehouse and it’s here new fabric lines begin. Look at the boxes of fabrics that had just arrived from a container ship. I couldn’t believe it when Cheryl told me that my fall market fabric line was…
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Kindred Spirits has shipped
Moda started shipping Kindred Spirits last Friday! You’ll be able to find it in quilt shops by next week. When Moda says shipping in August they really mean it. UPS trucks are carrying United Notion boxes all over the country filled with Kindred Spirit fabric. Hey UPS guys, the heavier the box, the more Kindred Spirit fabric inside…it’s a good thing! Stack up those boxes on your dolly and roll them right in. As soon as I heard Kindred Spirits had shipped, I started tracking the boxes coming to Bunny Hill. I can’t believe it! I leave for Wisconsin on Wednesday for a week of sewing fun with friends, and UPS…
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The making of an aurifil thread kit
Just imagine, Moda and Aurifil ask you to design a small quilt and then choose thread colors to go with it. It’s not as easy as it sounds! The first thing you’d have to do is open up this beautiful color palette of Aurifil threads! Something happens to your heart when you see this many beautiful colors! It’s like being turned loose in a candy store when you were a kid. Then, they tell you to limit your selection to 7 colors. Could you do it? Just look at these gorgeous colors. Don’t you want them all? Last August I took on this challenge and designed a miniature ornament quilt and selected the wonderful Aurifil threads…
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Moda Love Blog Tour, Bunny Hill Day!
Welcome to Bunny Hill Day on the Moda Love Blog Tour! We’re talking about things we love today and I’m posting along with Deb Strain and Kansas Troubles ! I know many of you haven’t seen it yet, so I’m sharing my latest love from Moda, Mistletoe Lane. It’s my newest fabric line that’s due to ship to stores in January! I love that I design for Moda and get to create such fun fabrics! Mistletoe Lane includes a special “tag” panel that I designed for my Mistletoe Lane advent quilt. Stitch up the tags and they fit in the pockets on the quilt. There’s even a pocket on the…
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What comes first, the fabric or the quilt?
What comes first, the fabric or the quilt? Ever wondered about it? When I started designing, it was the fabric that inspired me. I’d wait on pins and needles to see the newest lines from Moda. I’d have several quits in my head and when I saw the right fabric I’d start designing. Oh joy how things have changed! Now I design the quilt first and spend many happy hours choosing colors and drawing fabrics to go with it. Think what this would mean if you were the designer. Your colors could vary to fit the quilt, and suddenly you’d have your own backgrounds and prints that work…
