Kabloom! Pincushion Pattern Now Available

Just a little shout out to say that  the Kabloom!  pincushion pattern is now available!

KaBloom! Pincushion Pattern

Show off this juicy pincushion on your sewing table or give it as a gift!

Another great take along project.  Three embellishment options included in the pattern to take your pincushion from modern simple to over the top retro-style!

Available in my etsy shop (see sidebar at right)  in both the printed and pdf versions.

Have a great day!!

Another quilt from grandma's fabrics

Here's another quilt made from Red Grandma's dresses.  The four-patch rectangles are from gram's tropical print dresses:

The four-patch rectangles are from gram's tropical print dresses.  The secondary design that the blocks create is interesting, I think.  Always something to look out for when designing a quilt...:

  The colorful border inset is Kaffe:

Philippians 4:8

Put your seat belts on- I'm about to get deep!

Wanted to share one of my favorite passages from the Bible.  It speaks to me about keeping one's mind focused on positive stuff.



Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

As an artist, the words "whatsoever things are lovely" confirms what we all suspected:  that making and admiring beautiful things is vital and good for our spirit!

Jewelry Mirror

My mom visited this past weekend, and here's the project we did- a 'jewelry mirror.'

We had so much fun picking through the jewelry we collected and trying out different layouts.

If you'd like to make your own,

• collect more jewelry that you think you'll ever need from every garage sale and thrift store in your area
• the more colored rhinestone pieces the better
• get lots of colored pearl strings for the base layer
• also, get several tubes of E6000 glue (Michaels and Joann carry it)
• I like beveled mirrors with gold and silver frames for a base

Here you can see we started covering the base mirror with colored pearl strings.

The inspiration was a mirror that my grandma (my mom's mom)  had hanging in her dining room.  It was the first thing I would run to see (after my grandparents, of course!)  when we arrived to their house in Madison, Wisconsin.  The mirror was made by my grandma's friend, Mrs. Fenski.  Over the years, the jewelry dropped off.  A few years ago, I inherited the mirror and restored it with jewelry from my Aunt Doris, and it proudly hangs in my entryway:

If you do one, please send me pictures!!

Red Gram Quilts Quilts de 'Abuela Roja'

Hi all!
Lately I've been working on a series of memory quilts made with the fabric from the dresses of my late grandmother, Geraldine Stark  (Red Gram).  Red Gram was always dressed to the nines- often in red, and always with red lipstick.  So when I was a kid, I nicknamed her 'Red Grandma' to set her apart from all of the other grandmas out there, and it just stuck!
It took me a whole year to cut up the dresses, but when I found this pattern by Elizabeth Hartman of 'oh fransson,' I knew I had to get started.  Not only is this a great pattern for feature fabrics, but it reminds me of lava lamps, which Red Gram always kept on her back porch.  What a hip grandma, right?

Hola!
Estos dias estoy haciendo un serie de quilts hecho con telas de los vestidos de mi abuela que fallecio, Geraldine Stark (Abuela Roja).  Mi abuela siempre era muy bien vestido, muchas veces en el color rojo, y siempre con rouge rojo.  Entonces, cuando era chiquita, la di el apodo "Abuela Roja'  para destinguirla de todas las otras abuelas en el mundo.  Se quedo asi!


Me costo un ano en cortar los vestidos para usar, pero cuando encontre este patron de Elizabeth Hartman de 'oh fransson,'  sabia que tenia que arrancar.  No solo es este patron genial para telas que quieres destacar, pero las formas parecen a 'lava lamps' ( ), cosa que mi abuela siempre tenia prendida en su porch.  Que abuela canchera, no?

Winner / Ganadora

Ok, according to my number picker, the official winner of the Kaffe charm pack is:   29!  Cynthia Masa!

Winner, please send your name and postal address to juliecreus@gmail.com

Thanks for participating!  Check back often for new giveaways!


Ok, segun mi 'eligidora de numeros', la ganadora oficial de las telitas de Kaffe es:  29!  Cynthia Masa!


Ganadora, favor mandame tu nombre y direccion postal a juliecreus@gmail.com


Gracias por participar!  Fijate aca seguido  para mas 'regalitos'!

First Giveaway!!

It's time for a giveaway for Todera followers!  Up for grabs is this sweet charm square pack of Kaffe Fasset fabrics!

All you have to do is leave a comment  about what you would do with the charm squares.  

Then, on Friday, June 25th,  I will use my handy dandy random number generator you see there on the left hand side of my blog to pick the winning comment number.  

I will send the fabric anywhere in the world.  Good luck!!

Ya es hora para un regalo para uno de las siguidores de 'Todera!  La ganadora recibe este paquete de charm squares de Kaffe Fasset.  


Solo tenes que dejarme un comentario de que harias con las telitas.  El viernes 25 de junio, uso el 'generador de numeros aleatorios'  (que vean a la esquierda en mi blog)  para elegir el numero del comentario ganador.


Mando las telitas a cualquier parte del mundo.  Suerte!!