.: ++++++ cushions :.

Just popping in quickly to share a couple of cushions I've made for another school raffle ... this time it's to raise money for the Debating Support Group.  Woot, go debaters. 

I started with the Spoonflower texty prints - Doodled School Supplies by the always-fabulous Amy, and She Reads a Lot of Books by KellyW.  And then added in Amy's Risky Business glasses (how perfect is the design-name!), a couple of fab navy Cotton+Steel prints, V&Co teal/navy leaves and the fab red print from Tula Pink's latest line, 'Moonshine'.   The squares were all cut at 2 1/2".  The background is very neutral but very fabulous to sew with, it's a gorgeous fabric - it's Melange Cotton Yarn Dye from Lecien, bought from PolkaDotTeaFabrics.

It feels good to be working my way through my sewing to-do's.  Hope your week has been a good one, and you've managed to draw a line through a to-do or two.    xoxo cat

.: Hello Lovely :.

QuiltCon is still six months away - only six months, gah! - but I thought I'd share the little block I've made for our combined Aussies in Austin quilt.

All the Australian girls headed to QuiltCon have been invited to make a block for the quilt, which is being sewn together by Alys and will be quilted by Gemma.  I'm not sure which category we'll be entering it into, though surely there's a category called Quilts of Awesome. 

Our block-brief was to choose something Australian, and sew it in bright colours, with a low volume background.  As I love Kristy's koala so much, I immediately put my hand up to sew a koala, and then thought how sweet he would look in a mix of Emma's fabulous Terra Australis fabrics.

I wasn't happy with browns for the tree though, and so had a sudden thought to cut up one of our brand new placemat panels, so the koala could be hanging out in a Hello Lovely tree, wahoo!

Can't wait to see the finished quilt - some really fun blocks have been made so far - Uluru, the AFL, the Southern Cross, an Australia with 'Oi Oi Oi' stitched inside! - and there are heaps more to come.  There are awesome quilty-peeps headed to QuiltCon from Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, and Brisbane (that I know of so far!), plus a few from New Zealand - it's going to be amazing and fun to meet up with lots of girls I've known for so long online through Flickr, instagram, blogs and Facebook.  I'll share the finished quilt here when I can.   xoxo cat

.: Make Modern magazine is out now! :.

Can you even believe it's September?!  August has flown by, and we are onto the homeward stretch of the school term towards the holidays, wahoo!

We are popping in to share that today is the launch day for the first issue of Make Modern magazine, Australia's first and only digital modern quilting magazine.  

We're excited to finally be able to share what our project is for Make Modern! - two new screen print designs, created especially for Make Modern, and four sewing-patterns!  

[such a fabulous 'welcome to the table' greeting, don't you think?!]

The placemat panels have been screen printed in black paint onto Essex linen in natural, and are in our shop now - in packs of two or four. 

In Make Modern, the reverse of the printed placemats feature our four sewn-words - they're our first-ever sewing pattern, and we have a heap of ideas for more patterns, so please let us know of any feedback you may have - good, bad or indifferent, we'd really love to hear it!  

We really are very excited about Make Modern - it's a big step forward for and celebration of modern quilting in Australia, and it really deserves lots of support.  If you haven't already and you're a little curious, please click through to Make Modern and check it out.  We say a BIG congratulations and wahoo to the awesome and lovely Jane, Kristy and Lara for dreaming up and now making-real Make Modern - we wish you ALL the good and excellent things.    

xoxo cat and vee