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Ooopps... I forgot to post more winners for the last couple of days. Let's just chalk it up to a VERY long weekend full of pattern writing and photo editing!
So here are some more winners of a BUTTERSCOTCH & ROSE box of scraps, courtesy of the very generous MODA and the new issue of Fresh Vintage shown below:
On Sep. 18 at 6:45, Annette S. said " How can you choose only one colour, Each time a new fabric range is released they are my new favourite colours. The soft blue, the delicate pink, the taste of apricot. A delicate sage. All sigh worthy."
and
On Sep. 16. at 10:53 SummersCamp said "At the risk of sounding completely creepy, I really think we could be the best of friends... Pretty sure you stole my bucket list! And I love everything you turn out. Everything. Seriously. But, I'd like to see your take on warm/rich, French-country colors. Regardless of what colors you choose, though, I'm excited to see what you come up with next. You have indeed piqued my interest with that sneak peak! *B
Please email me with your info. Congratulations!
On the home front:
We drove to a nearby beach for a photo shoot this weekend and managed to get a bit of play time in. A lot of football and sand play was had by all.
On the work front:
Our latest edition of Fresh Vintage has finally shipped! Can I get a hooray?! Wow, this one has taken a while to get out to you guys. Can't even begin to tell you how glad I am that its on its way! If you are on auto ship you should be getting it any day or have it already.
... You know what I mean! We have another winner or two tonite....
WINNERS
On 9/18 at 4:59, Loraine said:
"I love everything Fig Tree, and thank you for the chickens, they are so cute, I have been in hosp, for 10 days so missed part of the Country Fair blog hop, glad to see your projest here, thanks Lorraine Isaac"
And on 9/15 at 7:25 Laurel said:
"Wow there are over 1400 comments and crazy me I am still going to leave a comment! I am really into brown right now, but I do love green and blue as well. Your fabrics are delightful and I would love to be one of the lucky 4;)"
Send us an email ladies and we will get a box of Butterscotch & Rose scraps out to you both.
...brand new strikeoffs!
Did you even notice this little goodie hidden in the midst of all the COUNTRY FAIR goodness. It's a little bit of my new line coming up. More on that later!
And did you notice that we have a new blog header? Just in time for fall. It was my way of pretending that autumn is actually here and with us. Have I mentioned lately that fall is my absolute favorite time of the year? It is. Yes indeed.
Unfortunately it is unseasonably warm in these parts lately. Dear weather: I AM READY TO WEAR MY SWEATERS AND SCARVES PLEASE!
Okay, I'm done now. BTW, for those of you "FAIR GOERS", keep on checking out those lovely posts!
That winner, winner, chicken dinner thing... never get tired of saying it. You, however, might be tired of hearing it from me because I am pretty sure that is the title of any post I have ever done with a giveaway winner in it. LOL!! Well, at least I am consistent.
Anyhow.... thanks for your patience. At our house, it is still Tuesday at the moment. So technically I am still okay to post even though I know that for many of you, it will be Wednesday before you get a chance to check back, so sorry for the delay. A couple of deadlines hit the studio today and the post had to take a back seat.
WINNER
Thanks for playing everyone and remember that we still have more winners in the days to come so check back tomorrow and the next day and the next!!
On 9/16 at 7:50 pm Jacque said, "Enjoyed reading the bucket list and the little known facts! Thanks for sharing the pattern with us! My fav color is the blue in your line...I love how you mix it up with the colors in the blue print! Thanks for the chance to win!"
Jacque, give us a "ring" and we'll get your goodie bag out to you!
... Chips & Whetstones
VINTAGE QUILT
For the many of you who have emailed or commented on the vintage quilt I showed, I am with you on the space feeling theme of the pattern! It is apparently not a rocket related pattern at all nor a nuclear bomb shelter symbol either! Instead it is a variation on a pattern called CHIPS & WHETSTONES but I haven't been able to discover the origin of the name.
The quilt that I found was most likely made in the late 1800's due to the fabrics but I can't swear to it since I haven't had it officially looked at by anyone with enough credentials to tell me for sure!
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Here is another vintage lovely from the same flea market day. It was obviously an amazing day for quilts!
... look at all those wonderful colors!
... it sure is a lot of half square triangles but still a beauty I think I might recreate sometime soon!
ON THE WORK FRONT
We have a new cream bundle [Cream Bundle #6] available. These have been super popular around here so check it out while they're still here.
Talk to you tomorrow. Although it might be late at night again. That's just the way we roll around here in September.
Hello friends and fabric lovers! I know we said we wouldn't close the giveaway for a week but after just 3 days we feel like we are swimming a bit in your lovely comments so we thought we'd give this particular giveaway a rest!
Over #2000 of you have left us your fabulous color advice and commented on so many different things from the BLOG TOUR! Its been a pleasure reading all of your suggestions, dreams and color stories. But we're not done yet, so we will continue reading the comments until Tuesday when we will start the first day of giveaways and, as promised, will continue for 4 days after that. In fact, given all of you lovely commenters, we might give away a few extra items. So stay tuned....
Until then, a new favorite quilt from a recent flea market trip!
Anyone know the official name of this quilt pattern? Let me know if you do
BTW, are you still following along on the MODA Country FAir? Lots of fun places still to come, click here for all the links.
Well hello MODA Blog Hoppers, I guess today must be my day to wow you with favorite fair food answers and random trivia about my life. Hope you are ready! We always like to give our guruLissa a hard time but truth be told, we usually have quite a bit of fun playing along. So here goes...
MY FAVORITE FAIR FOOD:
CHEESE ON A STICK It’s not nearly as bad as it sounds, I promise.
In fact I guess its not really a fair food at all but since its on a stick, I’m making an executive decision and listing it as mine. Its actually a shopping mall food!! Do you have a Hotdog on a Stick stand in your mall food fair? If you do, then you know exactly what I am talking about. If you don’t, you really ought to search one out the next time you are feeling like fried cheese. What is my excuse for eating this thing? I grew up with one in my local mall and as a teenager just couldn't resist it!
... chocolate covered orange peel. OMG.
MY GUILTY PLEASURE:
CHOCOLATE & ORANGE in any combination. The easiest to get are the chocolate covered orange sticks from Trader Joe’s although if my hub wants to bring me a special treat, he will go and acquire chocolate covered orange peel from a "real" chocolate store which is my favorite indulgence in the world!
... my favorite vintage wooden spools with some autumn leaves.
SOME THINGS FROM MY BUCKET LIST:
• Visit the South of France.
• Learn to knit. I have tried before... many times... but I just can't seem to get the hang of it!
• Go to Ireland.
• Have time to drag out my pottery wheel and make stuff. Lots of stuff.
• See the leaves turn in the autumn in New England.
• Build a cute chicken coop and have chickens in our backyard.
• Plant an entire English country garden.
• Take my best friend to Poland to see my “homeland”
• Road trip across the entire US with all of my kids and not have anyone kill each other during the time.
• Own a bed and breakfast or an inn.
... my autumn decorating is starting slowly. More tea drinking than anything else.
WHAT INSPIRES MY WORK:
COLOR. For me, it is always about the color palette. It comes in many forms and from many places such as flea markets, travel, giftwrap, vintage textiles, gardens, etc. Regardless of where I am or what I am looking at, it seems that color is always the first thing that I notice and that draws me in. After that comes design, proportion, combinations and all the rest.
... some of us here are still holding on to a little bit of summer with our vacation bracelets.
RANDOM JOANNA FACTS...
Factoid #1: I sing when no one is listening ALL THE TIME. I sing when my kid’s friends are around in order to embarrass them. I sing when people are around and they shouldn’t have to put up with my singing.
... our newest collection, Butterscotch & Rose, coming to stores in October. Precuts are shipping now!
Factoid #2: We only watch what we TIVO. It is so bad that last year, we turned on live TV for something and our youngest daughter couldn’t understand why on earth we couldn’t fast forward through the commercials. She had never watched live tv as far as she could remember!!!
... a tiny sneak peek of something coming up
Factoid #3: In our house, my hub is the one who enjoys watching his favorite movies over and over again ad nauseum. Me, I watch the James Bond movies when my dad is visiting. I can relive my high school days by watching Dirty Dancing and Footloose any time they are on tv [and I AM NOT HAPPY that they are remaking either] but other than that, I'm not much of a movie repeater.
... my favorite bucket list item right now & the subject of my project below
.. I've grown attached to these two. Kind of feel like I should name them.
COUNTRY FAIR PROJECT:
For my COUNTRY FAIR PROJECT, I thought I would share a little Chicken Scratch. Click on link below for the pdf file of the pattern. This project is now a pattern. Please visit our website to see all the patterns!
After we made this project we liked it so much that we thought we might make it into a regular Fig Tree Threads patterns after the Blog Hop is done. So it will be here available for free download for the next week or so and then it will become a regular pattern.
We have also made up a fewKITS for Chicken Scratch. Kit includes the flour sack towel, all the fabric and floss you will need and a printed out version of the pattern. Click here for more info.
And if you haven't had enough yet, here is my video from the MODA Blog Hop at Spring Market. Why is it always so painful to watch yourself on film? Anyone, anyone?
THE GIVEAWAY
And if you have made it all the way through this post, then you really deserve to win the giveaway! Comment and tell me your favorite color that you would like seen added to an upcoming Fig Tree collection or if you can't think of one, your favorite color that we already use.
Here are some GIVEAWAY rules:
We will draw for 4 different winners on 4 different days starting next Tuesday Sep.20th [1 fabric bundle, 1 bag of MODA goodies and 2 boxes filled to the brim with Butterscotch & Rose scraps from some MODA market projects]
You need to leave a comment here on the blog to win.
You have to come back and check to see if you have won. If I don't hear from you with your mailing info in 48 hrs. I will go ahead and choose another winner.
You have to go visit Lynne tomorrow for her day on the MODA blog tour [well, you don't HAVE to but it would be nice LOL]. Links to everybody are here.
In between. Sometimes I really love in between. In between means that I am done with one thing, and haven't quite yet started work on the next thing so I am in between and happy to be there.
I am about to be in between teaching gigs, in between photography shoots and in between soccer games.
In between two projects last week, I had a few minutes to organize one of the quilt hutches full of soft, fall flavored quilts next door in the office
In between pattern projects, my daughter came up with this recipe below so I put it in our latest Fresh Vintage booklet which I just finished. I guess I am now officially in between Fresh Vintage booklets too. More on that later.
I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend filled with the outdoors, BBQ, popsicles and friends!
We did a little bit of all of the above and managed to get in some fabulous flea market shopping while we were at it, an overnight teaching trip to Las Vegas for me, some Cafe Rio with one of my favorite designer friends, some football and whiffle ball in the street and an impromptu play with original song lyrics and guitar playing, performed by three 6 years olds sitting up in our tree :-)!
But I guess all of that will have to be a post for another day.
Mostly I am just checking in with you all here to make sure you know what is starting today.....
It's the
Starting today and continuing for the entire month, all of the MODA designers are banding together to bring you a fantastic Blog Hop of grand proportions! Every designer will have some great questions to answer, some fun projects to share and some yummy giveways to hand out. You won't want to miss a single day, I promise.
Now I am sure that when you think of us MODA designers, you think of professional, design artists, working hard to bring you the best work they can all the time.
Well... sometimes we are that surely. And sometimes we are, well... I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA AND NO RECOLLECTION of what we are doing and what we are talking about here below.
But this picture just makes me laugh every single time I look at it. Thought I would share it with you. It feels a bit like one of those sitcom outtakes, doesn't it?
Presenting the "real" MODA designers.... LOL!
Okay, okay... this is the picture that we were trying to take.
So to see these lovely ladies, come back here or to any other MODA designer blog each day, to click on the blog for the next day. And be sure to come join me here on September 15th!
Welcome! You have landed at the creative online journal of Joanna Figueroa, textile designer, author & owner of Fig Tree & Co, a quilt & sewing pattern company.
Here I wax poetic about my latest designs, the munchkins, my vintage inspiration & the rest of my slightly crazy life. Life is good and full of all kinds of fun things to write about! Won't you join me?
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