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10 Jul

Christmas in July – A Modern Holiday and a GIVEAWAY!

March 24, 2014
Posted by Sara Lawson
amanda murphy design, c&t, christmas fabrics, modern holiday, projects, quilts, stash books
19 comments

This giveaway is now closed. The winner is #178 shawn. Hello everyone! I am delighted to be the 3rd stop on Amanda Murphy's blog hop for her new book, Modern Holiday, with Stash Books, which is out now! You can find it right here on Amazon.When I was preparing to write this blog post, I thought I would reference some...

23 May

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Quilt Market: Tula Pink

March 31, 2014
Posted by Sara Lawson
2013, acacia, bags, free spirit, line, patterns, portland, quilt market, quilts, tula pink, westminster fabrics
24 comments

I'm sure you've already seen a ton of things on the internet regarding last week's Quilt Market in Portland, but I just wanted to share a few photos that I took, so I thought I'd start with Tula Pink's booth. I got the most photos of her booth than anyone else's, so it seemed like a good place to...

29 Oct

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Quilt Market: Thomas Knauer

March 24, 2014
Posted by Sara Lawson
amusement park print, andover fabrics, asbury, bags, dresses, frippery, peacock, quilts, thomas knauer sews
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Toddler dress made by Rachael of Imagine GnatsThomas Knauer, a fabric designer for Andover Fabrics had not one but two fabric lines on display during Quilt Market! Someone's busy!'Frippery' and 'Asbury' (in the second graphic) are both full of amazing colors and graphics. I just love the amusement park prints depicted in the 'Asbury' collections, they are so nostalgic and it's...

21 May

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Quilt Market – Penguin and Fish

March 24, 2014
Posted by Sara Lawson
alphabet letters, embroidered animals, embroidery patterns, hedgehog pillow, kansas city 2012, penguin and fish, quilt market spring 2012, quilts
5 comments

I loved the Penguin and Fish booth at Quilt Market...it was along the far wall, but I visited the booth about 3 times. lol! Penguin and Fish have some adorable embroidery patterns, and fabrics coming soon too.Oh, and there's also a plushie pattern for this cute pattern, which will be out soon too as well.Patterns can be purchased as kits (with all the...

20 May

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Quilt Market – Liberty Art Fabrics

March 24, 2014
Posted by Sara Lawson
garment sewing, liberty art fabrics, liberty of london, quilt market 2012, quilts, spring kansas city
8 comments

This is my first stop on the Quilt Market train of everything I saw while I was there! The Liberty Art Fabrics booth was purely amazing!! They had several quilts hanging up, including this Dresden made with all of their new fabrics! It's pretty jaw-dropping, and I loved that coordinating-colored thread was used for each of the segments.Another quilt that I...

01 Dec

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STITCHED Sewing Video Workshops

March 24, 2014
Posted by Sara Lawson
bags, fabric, flowers, quilts, sewing pattern, step-by-step how to, stitched video workshops
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I was given the great pleasure to be asked to participate in the STITCHED online video workshops. This is a sewing series in which 20 different fabric artists produced sewing patterns and step-by-step videos on how to make their project.I wrote the pattern for the Fylerion Bag, which is pictured above. I made an Alice in Wonderland bag while...

13 Apr

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Photography Week #1: Photo Tips from Quiltstory

May 8, 2014
Posted by Sara Lawson
camera, fabric, photographing, photography week, quilt story, quilts, sewing
4 comments

Hi there, I am visiting from Quiltstory, a blog my sister Megan and I share. Sara asked me to give some tips for good photography for quilts. I learned photography about 5 years back because I wanted to get gorgeous photos of my kids. Within several months I got good enough that people were asking my to take their...