Acreage Fabric Blog Tour

There sure are a few blog tours hap­pen­ing at the moment!  I hope that you’re enjoy­ing all the eye candy and feel­ing inspired to cre­ate beau­ti­ful things with all the new fab­rics hit­ting quilt shops at the moment.   Today I’m shar­ing a few of the things I’ve made with the Acre­age fab­ric range from new Moda design­er Shan­non Gill­man Orr.

I was lucky enough to work with Shan­non’s Acre­age col­lec­tion before Spring Quilt Mar­ket.    I fell in love with this gor­geous fab­ric range as soon as I saw it and could­n’t wait for it to arrive so that I could chop it up and sew it back togeth­er again!  My Spring quilt was hanging in Shan­non’s booth at Quilt Market.

I loved mak­ing this quilt which was inspired by tra­di­tion­al medal­lion quilts.    If you’d like to make your own ver­sion of the Spring quilt you can grab a copy of the pat­tern from my online store by click­ing here.

When Shan­non asked me if I’d like to be involved in her blog tour I may have done a little  woo­hoo!   It’s such a great fab­ric col­lec­tion and a blog tour meant that I’d just have to find time to sew with it again.   Tough life I know 🙂

This throw pil­low was made using one of the quilt blocks from the Spring quilt pat­tern.   The patch­work front pan­el is backed with light­weight inter­fa­cing to pro­tect the seams and give it a little sta­bil­ity and the back has a neat little lapped zip­per like the one in my Pil­low Back Tutori­al.     It was a lovely quick pro­ject to make and I truly thought I was done.…

But then… those ador­able bicycles kept star­ing at me from my cut­ting table and I decided I really needed to make some­thing with that par­tic­u­lar print.   These little zip­per pouches are pretty darn cute if you ask me!   They’re quite small at 4″ x 5″ fin­ished but they were quick to make and will make a great little party favour for my daugh­ters birth­day party next week.   I love a good bonus pro­ject don’t you?!?!

I’d planned to pop up a photo tutori­al on how I make zip­per pouches but… bad weath­er and ter­rible light mean that did­n’t hap­pen.   Stay tuned though because I’ll get some draw­ings done up and post a tutori­al you can down­load as a PDF in the next week or so 🙂

Don’t for­get to stop by the oth­er blog­gers join­ing in with Shan­non’s Acre­age Blog Tour!

Happy quilt­ing,