Designer Insights with...me!

A little while ago I was asked to answer a few questions about my design process. I chose some craft/embroidery favourites as well. If you are interested you can read more below or here. :)

For some reasons I couldn't find links in the article for my 'Top Choices'. So from one to five (although I didn't put them in a particular order):
1. Satsuma Street Patterns. This one is called Pretty Little San Francisco and just this week Pretty Little Hong Kong came out.
2. Sophie Simpons' new book Secret Garden Embroidery (which I will be reviewing next week!)
3. Heather Ross' new fabric line Tiger Lily 
4. Needlepoint kit Kumo by POMPOM Design. I interviewed POMPOM Design founder Helena on the &Stitches blog last week.
5. Lovely The beaks, the birch and the bees design by Hanna Mason found on Spoonflower (via Pinterest)

Courtesy of: Terrys Fabrics

Fabric Gollum makes bizarre quilt top

Do you know the nasty Gollum character from the Lord of the Rings books and movies? He can't part with the Ring and cries 'precious, my precious' all the time. Well I'm like that with some of my fabrics: all my Denyse Schmidt's Katie Jump Rope fabrics and most of my Heather Ross fabrics are preferably kept nicely folded in my cupboard and only allowed to be stroked not cut into! 

Yesterday however I thought it was time to let go of a few of my precious fabrics as I suddenly felt the urge to make a special lap quilt for someone (who will not be named as that person might read the blog) Somehow I came up with this rather bizarre combination of fabrics. I think it works and I really like it. But maybe I'm the only one so I would appreciate some (honest!) opinions! I was also very surprised how much I like the darker tones in this quilt top of the Heather Ross fabric with horses and Amy Butler's 'Love' fabric.The squares are rather big (8.5 inch) so I was able to put this together in a couple of hours.

Sunday stash # 11 Mendocino

I'm a big fan of Heather Ross' fabric designs. It's a pity that the prices for some of her OOP fabrics on Ebay and Etsy are ridiculously high these days. Luckily her Mendocino fabrics are still affordable and just as lovely I think. These fabrics are amazingly soft and very suitable for making little girls dresses and such. I have been tempted to buy some of Heater Ross' Far far away fabrics as well, especially the green Unicorn, but I've been able to resist so far!

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