Spooktacular Sale at Rose Room Quilts

We are having a Spooktacular Sale at www.roseroomquilts.com now through November 3rd, 2014.  Get 15% off on all orders using code BOO4YOU15.  Stock up now on all your fabric needs.

My Bebe Dress

 I completed my Bebe dress back in February, when it was cold and I had time to sew.  I had purchased the Bebe Dress pattern from Serendipity Studio's awhile ago.  I chose the Joel Dewberry fabric Ornate Floral in Amethyst and Ribbon Lattice in Fuchsia to make the dress.  I had procrastinated making the dress because I don't enjoy laying out and cutting out the pattern pieces.  But once I finally decided I was going to do it, it only took about a week to get together.  I thought the pattern and directions were well put together.

Here I am wearing the dress on Sunday.  It's a fun, happy dress.

Curve it Up Blocks using Quick Curve Ruler

 I picked up this 1/2 yard bundle of Art Gallery fabrics at Sample Spree during Spring Quilt Market.  This is 9 (1/2 yards) of Modernology by Pat Bravo.  It's very fun and happy colors.

I had received the Quick Curve Ruler© from my husband for Christmas, but put it away thinking the patterns looked a little difficult.  While at Spring Quilt Market I got to meet the ladies of Sew Kind of Wonderful and watch the quick demo they were doing.  It looked easy.  So I picked up the "Curve It Up" pattern and decided to try it out.  My first couple of curves weren't perfect, it takes a little practice.  After about 3 tries the curves seemed to click and now it seems easy.

Here are my first 3 Nine Patch blocks from "Curve it Up".  I decided to pick just one of the 12 blocks out of the pattern and make a whole quilt from it.  I'm using Kona Iron Grey to mix with the Modernology.  I love

 how they are turning out, and the curves are so fun.  

Check out my website this week www.roseroomquilts.com and save 15% off the Quick Curve Ruler© and patterns.  Sale ends Monday, August 18th, 2014.

And the Winner is...

And the Winner of the Treelicious Fat Quarter bundle is

Arianna M.August 4, 2014 at 9:23 PM

I like the design and layout of the shop. It's really clear and easy to navigate.

Arianna, I will be emailing you today.  Thanks to everyone who commented and checked out www.roseroomquilts.com.  I appreciate all the comments to help make the site better.

Introducing Our New Website www.roseroomquilts.com and a Giveaway of Treelicious to Celebrate

 

I opened my Etsy fabric shop back in February of 2010.  After my trip to Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh in May, my husband Scott and I decided to expand the business.  We started our new fabric website at www.roseroomquilts.com.  In the past 2 months we have be designing and developing the site.  I'm excited to let everyone know that we are up and running and ready for business.  We've added some great new fabrics including Dear Stella fabrics Woodwinked collection, Sarah Jane's Wee Wander, and new this week, Blend Fabrics Treelicious by Maude Asbury.

So in celebration of the new website we are giving away a Fat Quarter Bundle of Treelicious by Maude Asbury for Blend Fabrics.  The 9 fabrics in the Fat Quarter Bundle are 

- Garland in Green

- Lights in Green
- Holiday Baubles in Green
- Holiday Baubles in Blue
- Tis the Season in Red
- Lights in Blue
- Jingle Bells in Pink
- Lights in Red
- Garland in Red

For a chance to win this Fat Quarter Bundle, check out our new website www.roseroomquilts.com then come back and leave a comment with your feedback on this post.  The giveaway will be open until midnight Saturday, August 9th.  On Sunday, August 10th we will post the winner and contact them via email.  Please make sure your email is visible.

Dresden Pillow

Here's a picture of my completed Dresden Pillow using Flea Market Fancy fabrics.  I used the pattern in the PillowPop book which was fairly easy to follow.  I added a zipper to the back instead of just a flap closure. 

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  Finished size is about 18" x 18".  I used a 20" pillow form to make it look full.

There are a lot of great quilting/pillow patterns in the PillowPop book. 

Gray Elephants on Parade

Here's my completed Gray Elephants on Parade Quilt.  I found a cute clip art image, then pulled it into my 6D Embroidery software and created an applique elephant in 2 sizes.  I love the cute elephants.  I used lots of my great gray fabrics.  

I made a simple back with squares turned on point.  

Quilt Market - Part 2

 Here's some shots of the Riley Blake booth.

 Love the elephants in the new Oh Boy collection.

Butterfly Dance from Riley Blake is really cuter for a little girl quilt.

I loved this Allison Glass booth.  

 The Tessellation quilt was one of my favorites at the show.

 I also really liked some of the new dearStella fabrics.  The Woodwinked owls below are one of my favorites.

Quilt Market - Part 1

I attended sample spree last night and quilt market today.  It was great.  So much to see.  I'll post a few pictures today, more tomorrow.

 Loved these patterns from Sassafras Lane Designs.  I picked up one of the patterns last night at Sample Spree.

 I met Angela Walters at her booth, she was so nice.  The dress and quilt she made are amazing.  The pictures don't do it justice.

This butterfly quilt at the Art Gallery booth was great.

And here's a shot of the Birch Fabrics booth.  Love their fabrics too.

Going to Quilt Market

I'm off to Quilt Market in Pittsburgh tomorrow.  I'm so excited.  I have a pass for sample spree tomorrow evening.  This will be my first time at Quilt Market.  I'll post some pictures when I get back.

Nicey Jane Quilt - Finished for Bloggers Quilt Festival

I finally finished my Nicey Jane queen size quilt this evening.  I had to hurry up so I could enter it in the fall Blogger's Quilt Festival.  It's been over a 2 year process.  The quilt measures 96" x 102", it's giant.  I had it professionally quilted by Priscilla Jane.  Priscilla is local to western PA, but she does not have a website.  She did an awesome job.  She let me pick a pantograph design online and then I just let her know which one and she ordered it and quilted it.  The pattern that I used for the front of this quilt is Cherry House Quilts "The Sand Pebbles".  I loved the pattern because it looked so random.  

Here is the back of my quilt.  I used all Heather Bailey Nicey Jane prints on the back.  I fell in love with the Nicey Jane prints years ago and started stashing them.   I just love how they all flow together.

Here's a close up of the awesome quilting Priscilla did on this quilt.  As soon as I get a chance to wash and dry it, it's new home will be on our bed.

Paper Pieced Star

I know it's been forever since my last post.  I just fell away from blogging for awhile.  Over the weekend I put together this star and decided it was time to blog again.  I created my own diamond template, then followed Kati's directions at From The Blue Chair.  This is going to be a wall hanging as soon as I get it quilted.  It measures 25" x 25".  I'm really happy with how it turned out.  Kati's step by step directions on putting it together were terrific. 

Teacher Gifts

Today was Troy's last day of 1st grade.  His teacher's have been so great this year helping him to have a terrific 1st grade year.  I wanted to make something nice for them so I put together these personalized quilted tote bags.  I really like how they turned out.  Troy helped me pick out the colors that he thought his teacher's would like.  He was actually kind of sad today, he likes school so much he wasn't looking forward to the end of 1st grade.

Hex N More Triangles and Hexagons

I tried out the Hex N More ruler and made the Candy Dish pillow.  We are carrying the ruler and several patterns in the Viking Sewing Gallery now.  

I decided to make a beach quilt because we are planning a trip to Myrtle Beach this July.  Here's what I have so far.  Again I'm using the Hex N More ruler to make these triangles.

This ruler is pretty cool and easy to use.  I am loving triangles and hexagons.

Bibs for Newborns in Need

Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on some bibs for Newborns in Need.  I volunteer with NIN once a month and we put together layette packages for families with newborns in need.  We always seem to be short on bibs, so I was having fun embroidering these cute designs.  I love the little robots.  Troy is really into robots lately so I have several designs.

The little lambs should be nice gifts for Easter.

My 2013 Calendar and a finish from 2012

Here's my cute 2013 calendar that I found back in October at Quilting by the Yard in Vernon, CT.  I had to travel to Hartford, CT for training for work, and we had an extra day to hit some quilt shops.  It was great fun.

 And here is my sock monkey quilt that I made for my cousin's little boy Charlie.  It's a twin size quilt, I was planning on having it ready for his birthday in September, but didn't quite get it completed.  So I saved it for Christmas.  

I made a stripey back and embroidered a label. I quilted it using horizontal straight lines. 

Equilateral Triangles

I started a new quilt using equilateral triangles.  The colors are a little different, but I liked them together.  I'm really liking that pinkish purple color.  I wish I had more of the Riley Blake Andrea Victoria prints (the purple with the dandelion & the dots).  The triangles are easier than I thought to put together.  I think this will end up being a baby quilt.

Some Halloween Shirts

Over the past few weeks I worked on some shirts for the kids for Halloween.  I found these cute applique designs at Planet Applique.  They were fun to make.  And for the bat eyes I used Glowy thread, so they glow in the dark.  Very cool.

A Quilt from Grandma

My Mom (Troy's Grandma) made this quilt for Troy.  He loves tractors, so this is the perfect quilt for him.  My Mom machine embroidered all of the tractors, even putting the little John Deere logo.  She hand stitched the buttons on the wheels.

 On the back she used the cute rooster/chicken fabric from the Alexander Henry Farmdale collection.

Troy loves his new quilt.

The Finished Christmas Tree Skirt (Almost)

Here's my Christmas Tree skirt with the binding finished.  I just need to add the buttons and it will be complete.  I'm going to pick up the buttons that you cover with fabric and add them on the edge, probably the large ones, since I made my loops kind of big.

I also embroidered the year on the end.  For my binding this time I machine stitched the whole thing instead of my usual hand stitching.  I used a zig zag stitch which I thought went along with the chevron design.  I think I might do more bindings by machine.