1930's Playtime

    

These gorgeous precuts landed at Patch last week.

1930's Playtime by Chloes Closet for Moda does what it says on the tin.... It's a collection of vintage repro prints in lovely pastel and primary colours. 

We have charm squares, layer cakes and mini charms, as well as jelly rolls too (coming on Katy's Jelly Roll workshop?? This line would be a great fabric choice).

I wanted to make something that shows off how gorgeous this collection is.
 

Dresden Plates are perfect. 

This tutorial from mama said sew is the best I have come across. And there is a printable template to make life easy! 

I cut the blades from a charm pack - 2 from each square so you will get 4 plates from each pack.

All you then need is 30cm of co-ordinations fabric for the circles in the middle. I only ordered precuts (huge mistake on my part) as I was shown the collection on paper and that sometimes makes it harder to see what will work...but anyhow no point crying over unordered fabric ;)
 

I used a tiny tone on tone dot for the centres.
 

These plates have been appliquéd onto more plain fabric and will be turned into cushions for a display in the shop.

 

I had so much fun making these - chain piecing the blades really speeds things up. I'm all about the time saving!!!
 

And who doesn't love a project that looks like its taken way more work than it actually has!! 

 

The quilting is very simple - so as not to take away from the fabrics you know...nothing to do with my ability/attention span!!! To finish it off I pieced the back from leftover charms and made a speedy zip fastening cushion.

Fat Quarterly Retreat 2013

Next week Leanne and I will be travelling down to London for the 2nd Fat Quarterly Retreat.

Looking forward to a weekend of meeting up with old and new friends and maybe a bit of sewing too!

Those of you who are going will probably know that Saturday night is market night and Leanne and I will both be taking our wares in a suitcase Del Boy stylee.

I shall be taking some bundles and precuts and will have a stack of Klona solids swatch cards that will be free instead of £2 at market night. 

Leanne has been printing like a crazy thing and has lots of her gorgeous designs available - including her new prints. I know I am famously Leanne's number 1 fan but seriously, however gorgeous they are on screen, in real life they are stunning.  

There is a discount code especially for attendees at FQ retreat. Enter FQRLONDON  for free delivery and I will bring your order down with me.

http://patchfabrics.co.uk/

Look forward to seeing you there :)