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Rainbow bundle shown above was curated by Troll Brothers Quilt Designs in Canada. It is a mix of Alison Glass - Sunprint 2020, Guicy Guice - Spectratastic and Sweet Shoppe Too all by Andover Fabrics. It was curated for the Mini Series Sew Along starting March 2020.
Pencil Club in ROYGBIV by Heather Givans of Crimson Tate
Finished case
Due to our new normal with COVID-19 and our extra week of Spring Break before online distance learning starts for my girls, I have retrieved the Kindle e-readers, charged them up and loaded new reading material. For my older daughter, this is great news, she loves to read and hasn’t had time to read something of her own choosing in ages. For my younger daughter, J, it seems like a punishment. The funny thing is, she likes to read. She just doesn’t like to start reading, and she prefers real books with real pages. Well, there is a stack of real books in her room waiting to go to the used book store, which is closed. I want her to try the e-reader. And there’s no time like the present to get started! But, she has requested a cover like her sister has, which was purchased and is Vera Bradley. NO PROBLEM!!
When Crimson Tate released the new line Pencil Club by Heather Givans, J loved it and we got the ROYGBIV print. I used this as a good opportunity to explain, to my Maker in the making, the reason why the shop would not sell us a fat quarter of this beautiful fabric. Since the pattern has a double border with a print on each goes selvedge without a repeat, we would lose half the design and so would the person getting the other half of the FQ. There I was learning to homeschool before the global pandemic and I didn’t even know it. Which reminds me… locked in my daughter’s “Family and Consumer Science” classroom, where they teach sewing, cooking and the like, is a yard and a half of Cotton + Steel fabric for their assignment of making a pillow sham. I hope we might get that back someday. She was super excited about it. Things could be worse, no?
This is an exciting opportunity to sew along with an enormous group of creative makers! Check out #miniseriessal on Instagram for inspiration and details.
I was planning to use a curated bundle from Troll Brothers Quilt Designs but, due to the global pandemic, it has not arrived yet. I’m still hoping it will turn up this week but until then I have switched gears and will work form the Spectratastic bundle that I got from Blue Bar Quilts!
UPDATE!! The bundle from Troll Brothers ARRIVED!!!!! So now I can use both!!
This week’s block is Log Cabin.
My fabric pull for the Mini Series SAL. This is a curated bundle of fabrics by Giucy Giuce, Alison Glass and Sweet Shoppe Too, by Andover. I ordered it from Troll Brothers Quilt Design in Canada.
