Sunday Stash #395 A Bundle of This and That

While fat quarter bundles of complete fabric collections are a favorite precut I do also regularly choose and purchase a few selected prints from a range. I like to think that I have a fairly good understanding of the kind of prints that I reach for most often, and choose fabrics based on design and color, and sometimes "just because".  These are a random bundle of such prints ~

This week's selection of fabric is from three different fabric collections, and as pictured from top to bottom of the pretty bundle the first six fabrics are from the Hello Jane collection by Allison Harris for Windham Fabrics. I love the low volume Lemon prints - especially in the natural yellow colorway - and rather like the floral design in all three colorways.

HELLO JANE BY ALLISON HARRIS is available from:
I Love Fabric
The Fat Quarter Shop
Lady Belle Fabric

The next three fabrics are a single design from the Meriwether collection by Amy Gibson for Windham Fabrics. This print is a great stash basic and I especially like the purple colorway. I still the "right" hue of purple difficult to find and harder still to use it in my quilts! But I am working on it. (I also featured another two text fabrics from this same collection in my Sunday Stash #389 blog post).

MERIWETHER BY AMY GIBSON is available from:

I Love Fabric

Fat Quarter Shop

Lady Belle Fabric

Last but not least is this pretty gingham bundle is from the Dear Little World Dreaming Doll collection by Quilt Gate. Gingham always! I cannot resist. Purchased from Sew Stitching Happy (Etsy) and available in 5 different colorways.

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Enjoy Sunday!
Rita

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English Paper Piecing: Liberty Star Pillow

As promised, today a gallery of photos of my Liberty Star Pillow Cover based on a pattern from the book Quilting on the Go: English Paper Piecing by Sharon Burgess. The Star Pillow pattern is an English Paper Piecing design using just one shape - a diamond. I made several more star blocks then the pattern required and as a result my pillow measurements (and lack of borders) differ to that in the book.

Similar to the Star Pillow in Sharon's book I have used Liberty of Tana Lawn fabric for the stars. Not having used Liberty fabric to paper piece before I was hesitant, but as always, nothing ventured, nothing gained. It seems however that there was no need for concern. In fact, the fabrics - including the Oakshott background fabric - were lovely to work with. The needle and thread glided through the fabric layers with ease, and the fabric withstood the glue basting and paper removal process much, much better than I had anticipated. 

Quilting Thread: Aurifil 28wt cotton thread (color #6725).

I have quilted the top of the pillow cover (layered with low loft cotton batting and a cotton backing fabric) by stitching alongside both sides of  all seam lines. I have used Aurifil 28wt thread for extra stitch definition. I was keen to ditch stitch - at least for some of the seams - but hesitated to do so in fear of the pressed open seams popping their stitches and being left with a hole in the patchwork fabric. That wasn't worth the risk! 

For the back of the pillow I have used a barkcloth fabric from the Time Warp collection by Jessica Jones. I adore this fabric and it has been in my stash waiting for the right project to come along. This was it! I have used an iron-on interfacing fabric to add rigidity to the barkcloth fabric and a zip is hidden under the overlapping flap on back of the pillow. The pillow form/insert can therefore be easily removed before washing the pillow cover.

ALL THE DETAILS

Liberty Stars Pillow Cover

Pillow Cover measures 23 inches x 18 inches.

English Paper Pieced Stars (glue basted).
Paper shape: Diamond ~ 2" Six Pointed Star.

Stars Fabric:

Liberty of London - Tana Lawn

Background Fabric:

Oakshott Cotton - Scandinavia in Stockholm (Grey)

Thread:

The Bottom Line 60wt thread by Superior Threads for EPP.

Aurifil 28wt cotton thread for quilting.

Loft loft Warm and White cotton batting.

The Liberty Stars Pillow Cover is available for purchase from
my Etsy Store.

See all the listing details here:
Liberty Stars Pillow Cover

My pillow is not a standard pillow size and as such I struggled to find the right size pillow insert. But then I realized that I had on hand a square pillow insert the same width of the pillow (23" x 23"), which I simply made 5 inches shorter on one end by gently moving all the filling to one side of the insert, stitching a new seam line 5 inches from the original edge and ta-da! ...a custom made pillow insert in less than 5 minutes.

Click on any image for a larger view.

This was such a fun project to make. I really can't wait to start another EPP project but first I have to finish my Wagon Wheel Quilt. It is so close to being done!

Thank you for stopping by!
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Red Pepper Quilts Etsy Store
Quilting on the Go: English Paper Piecing by Sharon Burgess
More RPQ Paper Piecing Projects:
The Daisy Chain Quilt
The Wagon Wheel Quilt
Garland Pillow Cover
Sewing School Hexagon Quilt

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Book Review and Giveaway! Quilting on the Go by Sharon Burgess

Quilting On The Go: English Paper Piecing 
by Sharon Burgess

Quilting on the Go: English Paper Piecing is Sharon Burgess' debut publication for Tuva Publishing. In her book Sharon shares her love for English Paper Piecing and fussy cutting. The book is a comprehensive resource guide for English Paper Piecing and includes chapters on technique (glue basting, preparing papers, joining pieces, strip cutting, hand stitching, and of course fussy cutting). All the EPP basics available at your fingertips.

In addition, the book includes step by step patterns for a number of projects ranging from small ~ mini quilt, cushion, bunting, zipper pouch, journal cover, pincushion and needle keeper, and placemat ~ to bigger projects like a table runner and quilts. All of which involve English Paper Piecing.

Sharon's Celestial Star Quilt (pictured below) is simply magnificent and this original design is also included in the book, complete with detailed instructions and diagrams for all of the units, and templates for quilters keen to cut their own papers. Complete laser cut paper pieces kits are available for purchase separately for this and several other projects in Sharon's book. 

As soon as I received my copy of the book for review my fingers were itching to start a project. Having yet to finish my current EPP project I have no business starting another, however a small project doesn't count, right? Here is my version of Sharon's Star Cushion ~ I couldn't stop at just making a few stars and so my cushion turned out a little bigger ....

I LOVED making this cushion cover; it provided me with the perfect excuse to sit and sew during several rather cold and wintery days here in Melbourne. I have used Liberty of London Tana Lawn for the stars and for the background fabric I have used beautiful Oakshott cotton from the Scandinavia range in Stockholm (grey); a match made in fabric heaven. I will publish more photos and all the details of my Star Pillow in a separate blog post later this week.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

Sharon is kindly giving away a copy of the book to one lucky RPQ reader.

To be in the draw please leave a comment on this blog post. Only one comment per person/per email address - email me if you are not able to leave a comment (redpepperquilts at gmail dot com) and I will leave a comment on your behalf. International entries welcome!

The draw will take place at 10am (Australia EST) on Saturday 29 July 2017, at which time comments to this  post will be closed. The winner will be announced by edit to this blog post, and will also be contacted by email.

ENTRY HAS NOW CLOSED

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The winner of the book is Mary K.

Mary has been contacted by email.

Congratulations Sharon on the release of your book. I look forward to seeing what you are up to next!

Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Quilting on the Go: English Paper Piecing by Sharon Burgess is available from:
Amazon
The Fat Quarter Shop

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Sunday Stash #394 Floral Retrospective by Anna Maria Horner

Floral Retrospective by Anna Maria Horner

for Freespirit Fabrics

Floral Retrospective by Anna Maria Horner has arrived in stores. It is 16 piece collection featuring Anna Maria Horner's favorite floral prints in their best selling original form, and some with all new colors to inspire a fresh look for timeless art!

Social Climber ~ Floral Retrospective

Echinacea ~ Floral Retrospective

Carefully handpicked from several of Anna Maria's previous collections these prints sit beautifully alongside one another as well  as other styles of fabric, including vintage, modern, and everything in between. The Social Climber design (see above) is one of my favorite prints and I still have a small piece in my scrap bin. Every time I rummage through my scrap bin it sparks a fond memory and have wished for just a little more ...

Raindrop Poppies ~ Floral Retrospective

Overachiever - Floral Retrospective

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Rita

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A Flying Geese Rockpool Quilt

A Finished Quilt.

As promised in my Sunday Stash blog post from earlier this month featuring the Rockpool fabric collection, today I am pleased to show you what I turned the FQ bundle that Jodie sent me. Jodie Carleton (from Vintage RicRac) commissioned me to make a quilt with her brand new fabric line ~ Rockpool for Ella Blue Fabrics ~ for her booth at Spring Quilt Market in May this year.

The Rockpool collection features five unique designs each in five different color ways. The colors are pastel soft, the fabrics with a white background are a sparkling white, and the prints feature coastal life elements including seagulls, whales, starfish and even a few not-so-scary sharks. To highlight the prints I have added several solid fabrics (Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton) and decided that the Flying Geese block was the perfect unit to celebrate the fabric designs.

In addition, I have added numerous spiky triangle blocks to add another element of interest. These blocks were foundation paper pieced (using EQ7 - quilt design software - to draft up the block). These blocks kind of remind me of stringy plant life or seaweed found floating in the ocean and indeed rockpools.

QUILT STATS

Rockpool Quilt

The finished quilt measures 50 inches x 50 inches.

191 Flying Geese units measuring 2.5" x 5" (finished).

9 Spiky Triangle Blocks measuring 5" x 5" (finished).

Fabric:

Rockpool collection by Jodie Carleton

Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton
Quilting:
Ditch stitching all vertical and horizonal block seam lines
then adding additional vertical lines spaced 1 inch apart

Batting:

Low loft cotton batting.

For the back of the quilt I have used a single dot print on a white background from one of Jodie's previous collections - Backyard Circus. And for the binding I have used my signature black/white stripe fabric, this time from the the basics range by Ella Blue Fabrics.

ROCKPOOL BY JODIE CARLETON is arriving in stores now and is available from:
GJ's Discount Fabrics (Melbourne)

With thanks to Jodie and Ella Blue Fabrics for the opportunity to work with them. I look forward to seeing what Jodie is up to next!

Thank you for stopping by,
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Sunday Stash - Rockpool by Jodie Carleton

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