Liberty Craft Blog with Stile

You will find me on the Liberty Craft blog today...using Libety Lifestyle Stile fabrics to make some new variations based on Washington Pavement block from our 500 Quilt Blocks book including a pincushion which is just the right size to tuck into the throat of your sewing machine and stick pins in as you sew...

Stile prints throughout with yarn dyes Essex linen as a background.  It measures 2 3/4" x 8 1/4" and is stuffed with polyfill.

There are also instructions to make a jumbo hugs and kisses block XOX measuring just over 17" square.

Liberty Lifestyle featured many of the craft blog guests in an Australian quilt mag recently including my Sewing Portfolio and sent us all a pic,

And keep a look out as Quilt Market is coming up and the third Liberty Lifestyle fabric is launching there, I can't wait to see!

Liberty Sewing Portfolio

I have been waiting a little while to reveal my latest free pattern/ project .  This was a project designed for Liberty Lifestyle.  I was asked to come up with something for an intermediate sewer so I designed a mini sewing portfolio travelling case.

 All the fabrics are from the Bloomsbury collection and you can find detailed instructions, labelled photographs and downloadable diagrams at the Liberty Craft Blog.

It is the perfect size for travelling to sewing classes, or carrying small projects to sew on the go and there are pockets everywhere.  I promise the zip is not as scary as it looks and the binding covers up all the zipper stitching as a bonus.  The scissor zip pull was from Ayumi!  I wish I could find more things like that here, cute and practical.

You will find is an interview with me there too.   From past attempts, I have not been able to get comments to work on the Liberty blog but you can find other projects like Katy's Bloomsbury Stripes quilt and Jessie's star decoration , so go visit, share on Facebook, tweet and if you make one do send me a pic!

Busy

Autumn is turning out to be busy so it has been a little quiet here of late- bear with, bear with, bear with... projects are coming and a couple of new free tutorials/patterns will be guesting at other blogs.  In the meantime, there is a whole lot of Liberty going on.  One of my projects is for the Liberty Lifestyle Craft blog and I can't wait to show you!  A sneak peek below- making is still in progress.

Plus a project for Nova and Jo's Liberty Scrap Challenge

Jo has given me a scrap bag ( she now lives conveniently close by!) and my project is for October,

Meanwhile Katy has done a gorgeous Ruffle Front Clutch for the September project- see here for more!