alittlesweetness

countdown...+ a giveaway (giveaway closed)

I've just completed a couple of quilts for market, which is coming up sooner than I can say 'Little Red Riding Hood'.  It's in just 11 days and I leave in an even shorter 9!  eeek and yay!!  I'm very excited and at the same time wondering/hoping if I'll be ready.  Crossing my fingers over here. 

I've made a simple patchwork incorporating my border print, which I'll have a tutorial for on my blog shortly after market.  

I used Little Scallops in aqua for the backing...

And Little Floral in white for the binding....it's so cute!

The chevron quilt is a free project download from the Riley Blake website and I super love this one!

It's the first time I've made something with so many half square triangles and I really enjoyed the process actually!  Simple and fun.   

For my backing I used Little Floral in Gray and for my binding I used Little Scallops in Aqua...

I have to credit a couple talented gals for my nearly perfect borders and bindings.  Taking Camille's fabulous Craftsy Class has helped me get my borders from being wavy.  Time well spent doing it her way....no more wavy's for me!  And Rita, from Red Pepper Quilts has a wonderful binding tutorial that shows how to join the ends/tails with a bias cut.  (If you look closely you can see the bias seam in the photo below.)  My bindings are waaay super better and I love it!!  I LOOOOVE that my borders and bindings are so much prettier thanks to Camille and Rita.  Don't you just love learning new things?!?!  I do.  :)

And on that note, I think I recall saying something in my last post about a little giveaway!  Yep, I just checked and I did. ;)  And it's a good thing, because it's just what I'll need to keep a smile on my face this week. 

So I have a lovely fat quarter bundle I would love to send off to someone!  Just leave me a comment and tell me what you want to make this summer.  I'm already thinking about it and have a couple must's on my mind already!!  Feel free to leave up to 3 comments if you've ever purchased from me and/or left me comments before.  :)

I'll see you back here on Friday morning (May 10th) to announce the winner and I'll send it off before I leave for market.

Meanwhile, this is where I'll be hanging out....and trust me, it doesn't look so pretty right now.

Thank you ALL for everything!  All the support, friendship and encouragement means a lot.

Hugs...

Tasha

simple twin bunting blankets

A few months ago we had the cutest little baby twins join our extended family!  Even better, it's a boy and a girl and they are simply adorable and sweet. 

These fabrics are from my line The Simple Life, with a few others from my stash mixed in. 

Girl bunting baby blanket....

I decided on a simple design, but with just the right amount of extra cuteness added with the patchwork strips between the sections of bunting fabric. 

My extra fabrics included some Pam Kitty Love, Doohikey Designs, Annies Farmstand and Lecien.  ( I think I'm right on those...) ;)

Inside these soft little blankets, I added a piece of white flannel for a bit of added weight and to help stabilize the minky backing.  I love adding binding to blankets and I wanted to quilt it, I just didn't want the stiffness of batting.  Especially with these being small blankets, I wanted them to be cuddly and wrappable.  I did a very large stipple on these as well.  Which was also very quick...each blanket only took about 15 minutes to quilt.   

My daughter really loves helping in any way she can when I sew.  Taking the pins out after I quilted was the perfect little job for her.  She's 4 now and we've talked alot about how to handle the pins. 

If you look closely, she was sorting them into color groups as she went.  Her own idea!  :)

She also likes to be up close and personal.....oh, and silly too. 

She was very excited to get these blankets done with me before the twins got too big!

Me and baby girl...(these were a couple months ago)

Me and baby boy...

They are growing so fast, but they are still tiny since they were preemies.  Doing great though!

Here are some cute pictures Kerri took when they were newborns....

How cute are they?!?!

Cuter than my blankets for sure!!

;)

Thanks for stopping by my loyal readers and friends! Even when I disappear, you seem to re-appear and  I appreciate it very much.  ;)

I feel a giveaway coming on soon....

Tasha

granny

This granny quilt was always intended to be my daughters 'baby quilt'.  I just happened to have started it when she was about 2 and I've finally finished it just after she has turned 4.  At least she has it to keep for forever now.  :)

On purpose I used lots of floral fabrics, little animals and little girls.  :) 

When Ava was a baby, her nursery was red, pink and aqua, so I kept with that same color palette, but adding gray. 

I used Annie's Farm Stand pink circle buds for backing and Lecien basics for the binding. 

I'll give you a hint what else I've almost finished too.....

I can't wait to show you more of that one too!  :)

For now though, I'm going to stay in these pj's and snuggle my daughter up in her new quilt.  We need it.

Happy Monday!

:)

Little Red is here!

Not only is Little Red Riding Hood here, so am I!  As much as I love the many aspects of blogging, I really needed to give myself permission to take it off my list for a while.  Once I did that for myself, it was nice to focus on my family and a few other important matters.  One of which was completing my 3rd fabric line for Riley Blake....but it's not quite time for sharing that, but soon.  :) 

Meanwhile, I've been anticipating the arrival of my Little Red Riding Hood line and she's finally here! 

I couldn't be happier with how it all came together!  It's very sweet and cheery, just the way I like it.  :)

I hope you like pictures of fabric because I have a few....

and a few more...

and because I sincerely love these little mushrooms....

here's another.  :)

So, there you have it and it's in shops now!

A lot of you may know that my Little Red Riding Hood fabric was originally created a few years back when I sold it in my Etsy shop using Spoonflower.  Which, btw, I'm so thankful to have been able to use their services to be able to start experimenting with fabric design and SO appreciative of so many customers who purchased these fabrics from me.  Totally cool and fun for me!  So, I did some revision of that design for this new line, but essentially it's the same.  I also was selling my Mushrooms in my Etsy shop at that time too, so it's really amazing to me to see them both on bolts now! 

Yesterday I was featured on the Fat Quarter Shop's blog, The Jolly Jabber where I talk about the history of this design a little more, as well as some other fun questions they asked me.  I'd love it if you took a quick peek!  :)

And one more....

Thanks so much for stopping by even though I've been missing for a bit!  I'll be back soon. 

I promise!

Tasha

a simple little quilt + a giveaway.... (closed!)

**Giveaway is closed!**  Thanks for playing!

One of the quilts I made for fall quilt market was inspired by a quilt that belonged to my grandma.  It's a little different in it's shape, but very similar.  (I just simply made squares where there were rectangles.)  A super simple block to make and I've seen this block before, problem is....I don't know what it's called.  Help!?!?  If you know, please share.  :)  Meanwhile, I call it The Simple Life quilt.  So creative, I know.  (huge wink!) ;)

I like how soft and delicate this one turned out, with lots of white...

but bursts of red....

I really like Miss Strawberry here...

and the chicks being fed right here. 

I did a patchwork border....

and used the Simple Floral in red for the backing. 

I really loved making this simple little quilt! 

If you'd like to know how to make the block, let me know and I'll do a little tutorial.  If you know what this block name is, please share!  :) 

To enter to WIN A FAT QUARTER BUNDLE, please leave me a comment, telling me what you'd like to make with it! 

For extra entries:

*if you've ever purchased from my Etsy shop!

*if you've ever commented here before

For a total of 3 possible entries!!  Giveaway will end Thursday night....late!  I'll reveal the winner on Friday, Jan 18th!

 

merry christmas!

I did it!  I really did it! Yep, I started a christmas quilt this month and I actually finished it just in the nick of time.  Camille's Vintage Holiday pattern didn't disappoint and I'm in love with the finished product. (Thanks C, for the inspiration)! :)

It was really fun deciding how to do each oranament block...

The pattern calls for one patchwork ornament, but I did two because they were so cute!

(here's one of them...)

The other little alteration I made was doing the pinwheel.  A lot of the blocks centers are made up of half square triangles, so it really just depended on how you arranged them.  I did two pinwheels.

For the backing I found a super snuggly flannel at Joann's and it was absolutely perfect for this quilt!  I love the softness and extra cozyness it brings. 

This quilt is a big size.... 54"X68"....which is one of the largest that I've made.  It took a little longer for what I was used to, but I'm so happy with the result it was totally worth it!

Now we can enjoy it for the rest of the holiday season...I'm sure I'll have it out as looooong as possible!

Thank you SO much to everyone who has supported me this year through my Etsy shop, the beginnings of my fabric designing adventure, your friendship, encouragement, saying hello on my blog....everything!  It really means alot to me and I'm so very thankful! 

Wishing you a wonderful Christmas!  :)

Love,

Tasha Noel

p.s.  all orders have been shipped!  ;)  thanks for your patience!

little X quilt...

I thought it was about time I started showing you the quilts I made for market!  I ended up doing 3 lap/couch sized and 2 baby/mini's, but today I only have pictures of one quilt.  With 5 out of 7 members of the family sick this week, it's slowed me down quite a bit.  Especially since 1 of the 5 is me. (blah!)

So this is what I call the Little X Quilt:

I loved this one I saw on Pinterest, by Sewn With Grace and it was really fun and easy to put together.  It's constructed the same as a Granny Square, simply with less sqaures.  So if you've done granny's, you'll think this is super fast.

I really love fussy cutting for centers! 

Even this little guy got an X....

I really don't know if there is a tutorial for this block, so I'd be happy to put one together if you are interested.  Let me know!  I may end up doing some general cutting instructions for this quilt anyway, just in case.  Next week? 

I hope to get around to showing you each of the quilts I've done...

I'm crossing my own fingers for you and ME that everyone will stop coughing around here first though.  Hmm...Maybe begging will work better? 

Anyone have any natural remedies for coughs that you know works?  (slightly off topic, but I really want them gone!) 

news from the shop! {cyber monday}

I hope you have all enjoyed the beginning of the holiday season so far!  We loved our Thanksgiving break so much!  We celebrated with dinner at our home with lots of family and saw Wreck It Ralph beforehand (which was great btw!).  A little shopping, a couple of activities and lots (and lots!) of relaxing made it simply fabulous!  Life is not perfect, but there are always blessings to count and for that I am so very thankful.

I've got my Christmas decorating underway.....more to get done this week.  I'm feeling simple this year, so we'll see, but this is it so far....

As for the shop news, I'm really excited to be getting my paper items back in the shop!  I was having some printer problems, but also decided for a while that I didn't mind the break, so I didn't scurry to get it back and running.  But I'm ready now and so it's back!  yay!

Here's a tiny sampling from the shop of illustrations and embroidery patterns....

For CYBER MONDAY, please enjoy 20% off your entire order by entering coupon code CYBER20 during checkout.  Yay for coupon codes!  This coupon code is only good for today, but no worries, I'm promising at least a couple more sales by Christmas.  :)

Happy Monday!

pillows!

With quilt market just a couple weeks away, I've pretty much been sewing every day.  Although I can't really show you everything yet, I have a couple things to share.  I snuck in some time to make pillowcases for Ava's bed (using Kerri's super easy tutorial) that aren't planning to go to market.  Plus, I did give that one hexie flower a home on a hand stitched, hand quilted pom pom pillow.  That will be going to market. 

And now for the abundance of photos....

Ready for a nap?  Me too and I just got up.  :) 

Have a wonderful week!

Tasha

just a little shorty

I thought I'd just pop in quickly today to say Hello!  Hello!  :)

And show you a couple little peeks of my projects I'm working on for market. 

These blocks are made using the designs from the panel that I cut out and I'm simply following the stitch lines that 'square out' each design. 

For picture taking, I'm using Instagram more ....super fun, easy and addicting.  I love all the different filters you can use and I love quickly seeing what everyone is up to.  I'm tashanoel1 if you want to look me up.  :)

I hope you enjoyed the peeks!  Now it's off to the sewing machine I go! 

After I get some food....I'm craving muffins? 

Oh ya... it was this!  Anyone feel like baking?  *sigh* 

Tasha