Here is a quick Valentine’s gift to put together for your best friend, sister or mom! A gift that she can wear throughout the entire year, because a little love goes a long way!
What you will need:
2 – 3” squares of Blossoming’s Hearts Aligned
1 - tiny rectangle cut from Blossoming’s Kind Words
3 – 3” squares of fabric from an old t-shirt
1 – 1.5” pin back
1 – spool of coordinating thread
1 – 8.5” x 11” piece of cardstock
Ten Simple Steps:
1. Cut out two 3” squares from the Hearts Aligned pattern from Kathy’s Blossoming collection.
2. Keeping the two squares together, right sides facing out, fold the 2 squares in half.
3. On the fold, cut a half of a heart – just like you used to do in elementary school with construction paper
4. Cut a rectangle around the word “love” from the Kind Words pattern from Kathy’s Blossoming collection.
5. Take one of the hearts and the word “love” and machine sew a straight stitch around the inside edge of the rectangle, leaving your raw edges.
6. Cut out three 3” squares from cotton knit – I use an old t-shirt or onesie.
Sandwich the 3 cotton knit layers with the top heart layer, fold the layers in half, aligned with the center of the heart. Following the shape of the top heart, cut the cotton knit into a heart shape.
7. Add the bottom heart layer, right side facing out. Machine sew a straight stitch approximately ¼” away from the edge, all around the heart.
8. With pinking shears, cut through all five layers, around the outside edge, giving a finished touch to the outside of the heart.
9. Whip stitch the pin back through a couple of layers on the backside of the heart.
10. Fold the cardstock in half, making a 5.5” x 8.5” card. With the fold down the left side, attach pin in a centered location in the top third of the card, by pinning the pin to the card.
Head over to our Free Joy page to explore some of our free giveaways. You will find step by step instructions for making your very own Journeys Quilt, Yoga Cushion, and today’s featured Free Joy the Purple Bloom Bag.
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Happy crafting!
It is dreary and cold here on the east coast so I decided to pull out our Kathy Davis Blossoming fabric and make a fun holiday ornament to decorate with, in the hopes that it will brighten up my winter blues. I found this idea from Marimekko.
Check out their great instructional video. The Blossoming Holiday Ornament pictured is a larger size but you can make different sizes with some minor adjustments to the pattern.
Directions:
1. Cut 40- 6 inch circles of your favorite Blossoming fabric. ( I used the Raspberry colorway.)
2. Push a needle through the center of the circle until you have created a cone like shape.
3. Take the needle and all purpose thread and sew a few stitches to keep the piece intact.
4. Then start stitching the pieces to each other until you have a round shape.
5. When your ornament is finished add some ribbon and greens to it for a more festive feel.
For a smaller ornament try making 4 inch circles with less pieces of fabric.
Have fun!
Send us some of your finished pieces and we will feature them here on our blog!
Fall Quilt Market 2010 – Kathy and I were in Houston at the end of last month to help promote Kathy's newest fabric collection called Blossoming.
Melissa Schulz., Kathy Davis and fellow artist, Marisa Haedike of Creative Thursday
We packed a lot into a couple of days! First we participated in our 2nd Schoolhouse presentation on Friday, a little creative improvising was needed as my bag (with the presentation materials) was lost in a direct flight from Philadelphia!! But Kathy and I rallied – we were able to borrow a quilt from Westminster, in addition, Kathy and I had carried on a couple of items, one being Kathy's tunic that you will see her modeling.
That evening, we went to a Fabric 2.0 event – this was a fun meet and greet event sponsored by J Caroline Creative, Stash Books and Interweave Press. We met other designers, store owners and a lot of magazine peeps. It was held in a cool venue called The Grove, located right across the street from the Convention Center. Bya the way, late that evening, my bag finally arrived – yippee! This was a very good thing too – I had a Kathy Davis original dress made from the Blossoming fabric to wear to the show the next day.
Free Spirit Designers at Ty Pennington's breakfast event
On Saturday morning it was our privilege to be a part of a breakfast session with Ty Pennington! What a way to start your day – "if you know what I mean?!"
Melissa modeling a Kathy Davis original dress made from Blossoming fabric
After Kathy had her photo taken with a number of Free Spirit designers (including Ty!), we rushed over to the Quilt Market show for a book signing. Kathy was giving away signed copies of her book, Scatter Joy. We both got to meet quite a few interesting store owners and other individuals as they waited in line and got their books signed. Kathy flew through over a hundred books!
After a whirlwind couple of days, we had a couple tall drinks awaiting us at the airport! Can't wait to do it all again in the Spring! Cheers!
