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Pixie Noel Blog Tour!

This has been such a delightful couple of weeks for me to see some beautiful projects made with my newest line, Pixie Noel.  I'm so beyond grateful for those who have dedicated time to make something for the blog tour! Thank you!  

Today is my turn, along with Christine from stitchingrevival.com and Kerry from kidgiddy.blogspot.com.  I'm so excited to share a few things with you!

I have 3 new embroidery patterns in in the shop that will match the fabric line, and probably a couple more to come along in the coming months before Christmas.

The first pattern is Pixie Boy....I know, my naming is pretty uncreative.  What can I say? He's super cute though! 

This darling mini quilt was made by Corinna of corinna_maycreations on Instagram, who made it for my quilt market display.  

Look at that perfect stitching!  

The next pattern is this sweet Sitting Little Pixie, stitched up and made into this adorable pillow by Heather of vintagegreyhandmade.blogspot.com

I'm in love with the crocheted edge around the pillow! 

Last but not least is thisKissing Bunnies pattern, and made into yet another super adorable pillow.  This one is by Cheri of tinkerwiththis.blogspot.com

I'm loving all the little details here!  

Thank you to each of you ladies for these amazing projects!  :)

Next I'm so excited to finally be in the process of my next quilt pattern.  This quilt was displayed at spring quilt market 2016 and it's called Pixie Socks.  I know they are also essentially "stockings", but I "tried" to make them more long and skinny like the socks the pixie's are wearing in my fabrics.  I made varying sizes for interest and movement and I love how it turned out, especially with the "sweater cables"in between the rows of "socks".  

Ever since I completed my fabric line I knew I wanted to make some kind of stocking quilt!  I worked on revision after revision for months, adjusting sizing, trying different layouts and designs.  I would just go back to it whenever I had the chance, (which in my world isn't always very often at times!) and finally it was the way I wanted it to be!

I love this quilt, it's so fun to make and super cute and whimsical. I hope you love it too! 

Here's a little peek at the backing I used, which is the flannel cheater print from my Country Girls line. Perfect for this quilt!

This pattern will be available soon!  Hopefully within the next few weeks or so.  And yes!  You can use fat quarters to make the quilt!    

The other little quilt pattern you'll be seeing shortly, is the mini snowglobe quilt.  It's such a fun make!

I appreciate your patience as I plug away at my new patterns that were shown in quilt form at quilt market!  There are a few already available in the shop.  This weekend I'm offering everything in my shop at 20% off.  Just enter the coupon code BLOGTOUR25 for an automatic discount!!  

Also, if you've missed out on any of the other blog tour days, go see all the lovely things that were made and I hope you're inspired to make some special items for Christmas or the winter season this year.  Here's the list of participants: 

 

7/18 Ashley of Mommy by Day Crafter by Night

7/18 Cristina of Pretty Little Quilts

7/19 Taunja of Carried Away Quilting

7/20 Angel & Amy of TaDa! Creations

7/20 Sedef of Down Grapevine Lane

7/21 Tina of Emily Ann's Closet

7/21 Ali of Because of Brenna Clothing

7/22 Debbie of Happy Little Cottage

7/22 Megan of Dolly Henry

7/25 Heather of Vintage Grey Handmade

7/25 Amanda of Jedi Craft Girl

7/26 Jemima of Tied with a Ribbon

7/26 Angela of A Little Patchwork

7/27 Andy of A Bright Corner

7/27 Lindsay of The Cottage Mama

7/28 Wynn of Zakka Art

7/28 Kerry of Kid Giddy

7/29 Christine of Stitching Revival

7/29 Tasha of A Little Sweetness

Thank you again to each of the participants for everything you did to make this tour a success!  :)

Tasha


 

Riley Blake Spring Blog Tour!

I'm so excited to be part of the Riley Blake Spring Blog Tour!  As you've noticed, I don't really blog much, but I know a lot of you still do and still enjoy reading blogs, so it's another fun way to be able to connect every once in a while.  If you're interested in keeping up with me on an *almost* daily basis you can follow me on Instagram :)

My new fabric line, Vintage Market, is set to release in June.  It was recently shown at the spring International Quilt Market just last week!

I had fun making a couple of quilts and pillows for the display....when I get everything back, I'll be able to get some better photos to share. (these were taken with my iphone so not the best quality...sorry!) 

This little pillow below was made using my border print, so the stripe and the illustrations are one piece.  I decided to add some trim across the middle for added fun, but even still, super easy. 

The quilt below is a new pattern I'll have available in a couple of months.  There are a lot of little details to the quilt, so it will take more time for me to get it all together.  But such a fun quilt to make!  It has market stands, vintage sewing machines, jam jars, strawberries, blueberries and flowers.

The other quilt, which was made by a few fabulous helpers (my sisters Talia and Trista, and my IG friends Christine and LeAnne) is made using my new pattern called Country Fair.  I'm so excited to finally have this pattern available. 

Here's just a peek of the one made for market.....(photo courtesy of LeAnne...thank you!!)

Here's the pattern made up in my previous lines (The Simple Life, Little Red Riding Hood and Country Girls) before I had made the one for quilt market...

 

 You can purchase the Country Fair quilt pattern in my etsy shop on sale this week for just $5!       (reg. $8)

 This pattern is great for those who have done a little bit of quilting, but you don't need to be super experienced, just a little patience with the smaller star blocks, but very simple piecing and it goes pretty quickly.  A fun way to mix things up and use some scraps!  It's a nice big lap size, approx. 68X68.

Here's a close up of the orange peel quilting....i love it!

Thanks so much for stopping by my little blog!  Don't forget to try my new quilt pattern and remember my new line, Vintage Market will be in shops shortly! Yay!

It's the last day of school here in sunny Arizona, so I'll wish you all a happy summer!  :)

Here's the schedule for the rest of the blog tour!

 

5/15 - Where Women Cook5/18 - Becky Marie Designs8/18 - Pattern Anthology5/19 - Carina Gardner5/21 - Lori Holt5/21 - Tasha Noel5/22 - Lori Whitlock5/22 - Cinderberry Stitches5/23 - Eleanor Dugan5/26 - Simple Simon5/26 - The Quilted Fish5/28 - Melly & Me5/28 - Elea Lutz5/29 - Zoe Pearn5/29 - Doohikey Designs5/30 -Samantha Walker
5/30 – Kelly Panacci

Have fun!

Tasha

Blueberry Bliss ~ my first quilt pattern

This was quite the work in progress for me, being my first attempt and experience creating and putting together a quilt pattern.  Whew!  I go MUCH slower than the average human being of course, but goodness that's a lot of work!  I'm sincerely impressed with these pattern designers that just whip em out like nothing!  Jeepers!  Anyway, super fun and really glad I did it!  I learned a few things in case there is EVER a next time.  But we'll see about that.   :)

So, my new pattern is called Blueberry Bliss because it's just full of blueberry happiness!  I've used my newest fabric collection, Country Girls, using only the blues and greens.  I've also added some Riley Blake Designs basics that coordinate, like the polka dots and ginghams  There's also a couple in there from my previous lines that as well.  I'm in love with navy and aqua these days, so any excuse to use those colors is a perfect one.  ;)  I wanted to combine the blueberries with something totally country and log cabin blocks were exactly that!   There are even little country cabins on the fabric so it was meant to be.  

This really is the easiest quilt to do!  Any beginner can do it!  I've heard my instructions are good, so I hope you give it a try.  :)

You can purchase the PDF downloads in my shop and get it right away.  

Also, I just want to add a big thank you to those that continued to encourage and support me in getting this done!  It took me forever but I'm so glad it finally got done!  This quilting community is wonderful and inspiring as well as patient and forgiving when we just can't do it all just exactly when we want to.  Life pulls all of us in many directions and we need to remember that we can't do everything all the time and we have to let ourselves be ok with that.  So if something takes more time or doesn't get done at all EVER, we need to not get down on ourselves or compare ourselves to the person who looks like they get it all done all the time.  They aren't either.  And its totally OK!!!  I'm so glad when we can support each other in our sucesses and failures....because we all need that!  It keeps me going, I'm sure it keeps you going to!  Do what you can, WHEN you can and let the rest go without the guilt and comparison.  I continue to tell myself this on a regular basis.  With so much inspiration out there, it's easy to want to do everything RIGHT NOW.  My little pattern took me like 4 months to get done....4 months!!  Seriously?!?!?  I know others can do things a million times faster!  But that's the best I could do and I'm ok with that.  I've had to be!  So really, don't get down on yourself if you just can't get something done that fast....it's ok.  Really.  And that's all for my little soap box moment.  :)  Just sayin THANK YOU for waiting.

This week my pattern is just $5 instead of the regular $8.  So, I'd love it if you'd give my first little pattern a try.  If you do give it a try and you have a comment or suggestion or notice an error, please, please let me know!  I'd appreciate a kind email at [email protected] if you have anything to say about it!  :)

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful week!

Tasha