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Introducing FARMHOUSE II GOODIES

Goodies? What kinds of goodies you might ask?

Well... in our industry, we call them Finished Goods. Which is just a fancy way of saying that we are putting our designs on a variety of things other than yardage. We have several to share with you today and there are more in the works all the time. If you have followed along with us for a long time, you might remember when we used to do fabric Finished Goods all the time. We had aprons and pincushions and backpacks. We made tablecloths and organizers and other fun stuff. Then the industry went in a different direction and time ran short and we focused in on fabric and patterns. Well its the new trend again these days and we sure hope its here to stay... finished goods are back and they are back in force! Many designers at MODA are introducing finished goods with their collections and we are happy to announce that we are one of them. Although this time around... they are not necessarily fabric at all. 

We would like to introduce you to a few fabulously fun Paper Products with our new Farmhouse II designs on them. Yup! Paper!! 

 First up a TRIO OF NOTEPADS. Perfect for a hundred different note taking needs in the office, in the studio, near the phone, in the kitchen and everywhere in between. We only have a few prototypes right now and I am already completely addicted to them. I might have to get a dozen of each just for me when they come out!

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Notepads on chairs

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Next up, PAPER BAGGIE KIT

Yes, baggies in 3 different sizes, 3 of each in each little kit. Topped off with twine and tags... pretty sure you couldn't get any cuter! Use for gifts, for party favors, in your sewing group, with your neighborhood friends. Add them in with fabric stuff but also with kitchen stuff or any other Farmhouse kind of affair. 

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Baggie with mini charm
Baggie with mini charm

 

And last up, WASHI TAPE. What is Washi Tape you might ask? Well its only one of the cutest inventions ever.. basically scotch tape with a cute print on it so that you can decorate with it every time you use it as tape! Use it in your scrapbooks,  your calendars, in the office, in the studio. Decorate mail with it just for a little touch of goodness or close up those cute little paper baggies with it. It basically adds a little bit of decoration anywhere you like. Its a little bit irrestible.

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Washi tape rolls

Washi tape

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

WHEN: All of our finished goods made with Farmhouse II designs will release along with the collection in October, 2018. We are having a hard time waiting until then!

WHERE: If you are interested in seeing these goodies at your local quilt shop... THEN ASK THEM TO CARRY IT. MODA reps are showing these items to stores now and if stores want to have these in October, they need to order them now. So if you want it, tell them! If your local quilt shop will not carry it, do not worry, your favorite online shop will and we most definitely will have lots!

WHAT: Notepad Trio, Paper Bag Set and Set of 5 Washi Tape Rolls.

 


Introducing FARMHOUSE II

Hello my Quilting Friends!

We are slowly digging ourselves out from Quilt Market and I have so many different things to share with you but I thought it was high time that I introduced everyone to our brand new upcoming collection, FARMHOUSE II.

Due to the popularity of our first Farmhouse collection [to be completely honest, it might have been one of my all time favorite fabric collections that I have ever designed] several years ago, I thought it was time to do a "take two" with new prints and the same classic color palette that we all fell in love with the first time around. I still get emails today of people who share with me that Farmhouse was one of their all time favorites or the reason they got back into quitting. I love to hear those kinds of stories. 

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There is something about this palette that just makes my heart sing. Don't you think?

Now as most of you know, I am a total farm girl at heart. To be totally honest, I am not actually a farm girl... but I dream of being one one day! I dream of a small white farmhouse with a red or yellow door in a small town with a huge meadow behind it. I think a barn filled quilts for retreats might be there too. I see chickens and a couple goats maybe... and maybe even a horse.

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... photos taken on a country road north of us in Sonoma. Maybe one day we will live there!

But for now, we live in a small urban town in the San Francisco Bay Area and the closest I am going to come to being a farm girl... is chickens. Yup, I'm all about our chickens right now. We got them in February and by July, if all goes well, we will have eggs!!! We have loved getting to know them. There are five- Hazel, Chipmunk, Oreo, Nugget and Butterscotch. More on the names later... each one has a story :-).  

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Okay... back to the fabric :-). Introducing FARMHOUSE II.

 

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More goodies tomorrow... I promise!

 

Happy Sewing,

Joanna

 


Zigzag Quilting

Recently I made an oversized pillow for my upcoming book, Christmas Figs, with the lovely ladies at FQS and I needed to quilt it. Well my long time friend and quilter, Diana, no longer lives right around the corner from my house so unless I wanted to ship the pillow to her in the Pacific Northwest, I needed to figure out a solution on my own. Plus there was that whole deadline thing happening too.

So I had seen some "uneven" straight line quilting that I loved before, something about the lines the moment they became uneven, made the entire thing feel like hand quilting to me. I wasn't sure why it felt so different from regular straight line stitching but I absolutely loved the effect of it. I  experimented with the method a little bit with some pillow props at the last Market and I was very happy with how they turned out so I decided that I was going to do my version of utility stitching or quilting on this book project.

I made my zigzag stitch as long and as large as my machine would allow and I played around with the proportions a bit until I liked how the lines felt when they were next to each other. It took a few different experiments and had one that I liked and voila... Insta zig zag straight stitching that looks almost like large hand stitching when it is done. Seriously... I love how the finished look feels all vintage and slightly puckered and yet even all at the same time.

Many of you wanted to know how I did it when I first showed this pillow on Instagram so hence this post. That is all there is to it. Aurifil ivory #2000 thread on the machine and in the bobbin. I seriously recommend that you try it!

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Pillow detail

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Main pillow on chair

Pillow on chair

 


Introducing CHRISTMAS FIGS!


Hello My Friends!

I know that's in well past Christmas and not yet Christmas in July but in case you haven't already heard about this... we have a Christmas collection due out this year and I'm so excited!! Introducing... CHRISTMAS FIGS, due out in stores in June 2018 just in time for all of those wonderful projects that all of you organized ladies and gentlemen start on in July! 

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The collection is filled with fabulous red, green and ivory blender prints with a few Christmas prints thrown in. But the rest of them are perfect for those not so "in your face" Christmas projects that I prefer. The red is a wonderful cherry, Christmas red, saturated and full of warm red goodness. The greens are good strong grass and apple greens with a bit more blue in it than our standard greens. There are two tones, one a bit warmer and one stronger... both are perfect with that red! And the ivory... well it is a wonderful soft creamy color that is the perfect background to everything else!

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With this lovely fabric that is coming in June, we are featuring 5 PATTERNS which are now all ready in our shop. We are still finishing some of them up so more official pictures will have to come later!

 

CHRISTMAS MANOR

Christmas Manors

INFORMATION

Name: Christmas Manor

Size: 76" x 771/2"

Available: PDF now, paper shipping in a week/order now to get yours as soon as it comes in. Click HERE.

Other Info: Fabulous, graphic, classic manor houses that feature the classic red, white and green fabric combo. A must have in everyone's Christmas quilt collection.
 

CHRISTMAS FLOWERS

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INFORMATION

Name: Christmas Flowers

Size: 63" x 63"

Available: PDF now, paper shipping in a week/order now to get yours as soon as it comes in. Click HERE.

Other Info: You will need a variety of red prints so start collecting now or wait for the Christmas Figs collection to come out. This is a fun one to add to the red and cream collection!

 

YULETIDE SNOWFLAKE

Yuletide Snowflakes

... the snowflake part is optional but does add a lot of beauty!

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INFORMATION

Name: Yuletide Snowflake 

Size: 80" x 80", optional "snowflake" applique or simple star

Available: PDF now, paper shipping in a week/order now to get yours as soon as it comes in. Click HERE.

Other Info: This is a new edition of one of our standard, classic Fig Tree patterns that has been one of our all time best sellers. This version has dozens of new hints and special tips on how to successfully work with strip sets, bias and angles. Even if you have worked with angles before we have packed this pattern with all the info we could think of to make it simple and straight forward! 

 

TWINKLE

Twinkle 2s

 

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INFORMATION

Name: Twinkle Booklet

Size: 60" x 72"

Available: in the shop now,  paper format only. Click HERE.

Other Info: These are the Christmas feeling quilts in a booklet that has 7 different versions of this pattern. Its amazing that just by changing placement and color you can create completely different blocks and different quilts. The whole book shows you how to use the same 2 blocks and simply with fabric placement create dozens of totally different looking projects. Its so much fun. If you don't already own this one, you really need to add it to your collection. 

 

ALL WRAPPED UP

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 ... these below are shown in different fabrics from the Christmas Figs but shown here so you can see the pattern.

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INFORMATION 

Name: All Wrapped Up

Sizes:  43" x 43" topper or 61" x 73" quilt

Available: paper and PDF available anytime in the shop.  Click HERE.

Other Info:  Pattern was released last fall as a part of one of our LITTLE BOX projects. We have redone it here with the new Christmas Figs fabrics for those of you who missed and would like to work on a fun simple Christmas project this year.

 

PRE ORDER KITS

Several of those above patterns are available for A LITTLE BIT LONGER  as PRE-ORDER KITS that will ship when the fabric arrives in June. They are basically like a lay-away program that you start now and pay on monthly until the kits ship! THE TIME TO ORDER THE PRE-ORDER KITS IS ALMOST DONE. So if you haven't ordered and are interested, please do so right away!  

PRE-ORDERS include: Christmas Flowers, Christmas Manor, Yuletide Snowflake and Christmas Figs Fat Quarter Bundle. 

CLICK HERE for more info on those kits.

 

AND THE GOODNESS CONTINUES...

THE CHRISTMAS FIGS BOOK

We have partnered with the lovely ladies at the Fat Quarter Shop and published our popular Classic Yuletide block of the month program as a book entitled Christmas Figs BOM  [ just like the fabric that it is created with]. The book is due out in May to coincide as closely as possible with the fabric. The book consists of the full sampler quilt as well as 10 extra projects with some of the individual blocks from the book. Wow... we are loving how it is coming together! 

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 And I do believe that the Fat Quarter Shop is also running this book as a BLOCK OF THE MONTH through their store with the Christmas Figs book and fabric... What could possibly be better???... check it out HERE if you are interested. Or to PRE ORDER the book, click HERE.

 

SPEAKING OF BLOCK OF THE MONTHS...

We are also running a different block of the month with the CHRISTMAS FIGS fabric and its called WOODLAND WONDERLAND. It is a mystery and all we know is that it features the fabric shown below and that it will certainly contain some woodland critters such as a hedgehog and some yummies such as mushrooms! We couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with the new Christmas Figs fabric and our favorite charcoal cross weave background...

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However the program is already full at this time. If you would like to be added to the wait list, we would be happy to add you... just email [email protected] to be added to the wait list.

••••  ALL THE INFO  ••••

Okay so that is a lot of information. In summary...

CHRISTMAS FIGS fabric coming in June 2018.

CHRISTMAS FIGS related patterns available now in our shop through links above.

CHRISTMAS FIGS PRE ORDER KITS available now in our shop for a few more days before they close. Will ship in June.

CHRISTMAS FIGS book produced by It's Sew Emma and available in May. Pre orders available now through FQS.

2 DIFFERENT CHRISTMAS FIGS block of the months available through FQS and through Fig Tree but ours is full so add yourself to wait list.

As soon as we have more photos of the quilts, we will share those too!  

 

 

 

 

 

 


12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SALE: DAY #12

Happy TUESDAY Everyone!

Welcome to Day #12 of the

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS SALE!

Note: ON THIS DAY WE WILL POST VARIOUS THINGS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING AND DAY SO CHECK BACK AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE FOR YOU!!


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ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS, MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME...

TWELVE FIGS A STRUMMING [ I don't really know what that's about. I got tired :-)]

ELEVEN FINGERS TYPING

TEN ELVES A SLEEPING

NINE QUILTERS PRANCING

EIGHT LADIES DRINKING

SEVEN TREES A TRIMMING 

SIX CHICKENS LAYING 

FIVE GOLDEN WINGS 

FOUR ROLLING NERDS 

THREE FRENCH MEN 

TWO WINTER GLOVES 

AND A CHICKEN IN A FIG TREE!

 

KIT FOR THE DAY:

FIG TREE FAVORITES

Fig Tree Favorites bundle

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OPTIONAL BACKGROUND/SASHING KIT

  Finishign kit

 

NOTIONS AND GIFTS FOR TODAY... and more throughout the day.... as well as extra SALE NOTIONS AND GIFTS!

 

Ferris wheel set
 

  Ferris wheel with bag tag

Country fair set

Ferris wheel with bag tag

Christmas set

Ferris wheel with bag tag 

 

  2018 cal 2
2018 cal 2
2018 cal 2

  Grab bag

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TO SHOP, GO HERE!!

FOR ALL THE FINE PRINT & INFO ON THE SALE, GO HERE!!