shop news!

Lots has been going on in my busy little household, and lots of new fabrics has arrived lately so I thought I'd show you a few of my favorites. :) I've been anticipating the arrival of Pam Kitty Morning and it finally came last week!! I just got the bundles listed in my shop today!!

A red, blue, pink and white bundle!! They are even prettier in person!

Yummy strawberries!! They make me miss summer time and going strawberry picking!

Just in time for Christmas I've added the Christmas Red Riding Hood fabric from Ariel!! Isn't it the cutest!! :)

Also, cute little Polly Pinwheels is a new addition!

I was able to get my hands on the out of print and oh so retro 12 Joys of Christmas fabrics, and just in time for Christmas too!!


With my love of vintagey goodness I've started to add vintage sheet fat quarters to the shop! They have such beautiful vibrant colors and the softness is pure bliss!

Another collection that just arrived last week is Lauren & Jessie Jung's Flora! The prints are absolutely beautiful and the colors of aqua, tangerine, and yellow are so lovely together!!


I could stare at all that eye candy all day!! :) Have I ever mentioned how much I really LOVE fabric!!

Hope you are having a lovely week!!

PS. If you are looking for any bargain fabrics make sure to check out the clearance/sale section in my shop as I've added quite a few new fabrics like all the Little Apples!!

mini pinwheels...and tutorial!

Yesterday I worked on some mini pinwheel blocks, and really enjoyed the simple yet fun process. I love the way each one turned out being unique and so adorable!!

Using the cute pinwheels I bordered sweet little Polly Pinwheels, and am now working on a frame so I can have her all ready for my daughters birthday. I'll show you when she is all finished and framed. :)

To make the pinwheels, I used a simple method, that is so quick and easy!! Here is a quick little tutorial on how I made them~

Cut 2, two and a half inch squares.
(it would be really quick and easy to use charm squares or a layer cake if you want a larger pinwheel for a quilt.)
the pinwheel will end up the size that you cut your squares so you can cut any size you want!! :)

place right sides together and pin.

sew a 1/4 inch scant around the entire block.

cut with your rotary cutter and ruler diagonally from corner to corner, to create four triangles.

press seams open and then trim each corner

arrange your blocks to make a pinwheel and then sew all four blocks together.

sew the rest of your blocks using the method above. each block ended up 2 1/2 inch square! i told you, isn't that super easy!?! :)

the finished polly pinwheel block!!

Yesterday I also received Annie's Farm Stand!! I used a few of them for the pinwheels, and am already in LOVE with this lovely collection!! I even have a few more still coming so keep a look out!!

Better get back to more party planning as I only have till Saturday!!

teeny tiny hexies!

i received the sweetest teeny tiny hexies in the mail yesterday from bianca all the way from aussie land! not only are they the teeniest but just about all 50 of them are fussy cut so you get the cutest little image, and of course which include little woodland animals and sweet little mushrooms all in my favorite colors!!

aren't those the sweetest little animals!!

a cute little pouch for the cute little hexies!

THANKS so much bianca!! i can't wait to stitch them together and add them to the perfect project! heather and i will have another round of the hexie swap this fall, so make sure to keep a watch out as this is one swap you don't want to miss!!

for shop news, lookie what just came this week!! new colors of my sew deerly loved fabric, designed by my sweet friend ariel!! i just LOVE seeing them on pink and aqua!!

both are available now in the shop and can be found here! :)

Hope you have a FANTASTIC friday!!

little red riding hood~ sweetly sitting on a spool!

Sweet Ariel did her magic again, and illustrated another amazingly adorable art piece for my soon to come website!! This time a Little Red Riding Hood, one of my all time favorite fairytale characters! This Little Red however, gets a little side tracked on her way to grandmothers house! She decides to take a break to do some sewing as she sits ever so sweetly on a vintage spool. She made sure to bring along some of her favorite red, aqua and pink fabrics that she had just purchased at Sew Deerly Loved, to make into a cute little project for her grandmother! :)

She will be available in my shop soon! Here she is on a white background. Hopefully she will be put on a pale pink background in the near future. :)

I think this will be a new favorite!! Can't wait to see it!! :)

Hope you are having a terrific Tuesday!

too cute for words!

A little bit ago I asked my sweet friend Ariel if she would help me out with a new project we are working on for our shop, Sew Deerly Loved. That project being a new website that will be launching in the near future! Ariel was so kind and more than willing to help us in her talented area of drawing the most adorable illustrations. She came up with the sweetest and beyond cute images that I absolutely L O V E.

As you can see I'm also working on adding these to my blog. Still playing around with it so you might see a few versions in the upcoming weeks. :)

Just wait till you see what this cutie will be doing on my website!!

Ariel then ask me if I'd be interested in the two of us doing some Sew Deerly Loved fabric!! I could hardly keep in my excitement!! What a fun idea to see these adorable designs turned into fabric for our shops!! Ariel ordered a little to test it out and is in her shop now. I had fun playing around on spoonflower for the first time and this is one version I came up with for us. Will be ordering some today. :)

as a fat quarter

as a test swatch

one yard size

Hope you are having a F A B U L O U S Friday!!

little red...

has now turned into an obsession! when I saw these adorable converse in Soulemama's flickr photo stream, I searched them out. And lucky for me, because I wear a tiny size of 5.5 they were available!! Yippie!! They just came in the mail yesterday, and I haven't been able to take them off since. I LOVE them!!

Aren't they the cutest shoes ever! And they even have mushrooms on them!! sooo flippin cute!!

Lily Red is now the newest in my collection from Ariel!! Isn't she the cutest!! I think I might need to add Polly Pinwheels next if she becomes available. Hint, hint! ;)

Now I just need to start working on a Little Red quilt, maybe when it is finished my obsession will be over, but probably not! ;)