May Is For Makers Campaign

Have you seen this yet?  May is For Makers is the superb ini­ti­at­ive of Lind­sey from LR Stitched.  I’m join­ing with Lind­sey and a whole bunch of people and com­mit­ting to pur­chase one pat­tern each week dur­ing the month of May from an indie pat­tern maker.

You can read all about how and why Lind­sey came up with this great cam­paign on her blog.    It gave me a lovely big dose of warm fuz­zies and reminded me once again what an awe­some hon­our and priv­ilege it is to be just a small part of a com­munity that sup­ports and encour­ages each oth­er like quilters and sewists do.

If you’re any­thing like me you prob­ably have quite a few quilt or sew­ing pat­terns you have fallen in love with but haven’t quite got around to pur­chas­ing or mak­ing.    Well yay! for May is for Makers and the oppor­tun­ity to sort that right out.     Here’s some of the pat­terns on my list for May just in case you need a little inspiration…

First up is the Churn­dash Court by Sas­sa­fras Lane Designs.   The girls at Sas­sa­fras Lane recently put out a mini ver­sion which I hope to make real soon.

This styl­ish mod­ern Double The Plus quilt by the very tal­en­ted Emily Den­nis from Quilt Love is one of my favour­ite quilts from Ins­tagram.   I just love it!

And this Apple Core Mini pat­tern by my friend Lind­sey of Pen + Paper Pat­terns is just the cutest!

I’ve also added a couple of sew­ing pat­terns to my list.   These Nest­ing Buck­ets by Sotak Hand­made look like just the trick for some stor­age prob­lems I have around here.

And last but def­in­itely not least are these Pretty Pock­et Pouches by Pretty By Hand.   I’m always on the hunt for quick and easy hand­made gift ideas and this pat­tern looks great.

So what do you say?   Ready to take the pledge with me?