New Tilda Kit of the Month

With a new month comes a new 

Kit of the Month!  

Get ready – the holidays are right around the corner! Let this fabulous (and easy to sew!) Tilda Christmas Quilt kit give you a head start on your gift making or your holiday decorating. As featured in the Holiday 2012 issue of Stitch Craft Create, this fun and funky design by Cory Yoder puts a fresh spin on traditional triangular tree bocks. The bright, unexpected printed cottons by Tilda keep it interesting without putting too much emphasis on holiday design. Ideal for beginners, this kit has everything you need to stitch up your very own 60” x 68” quilt.

 It's a gorgeous, modern project that pieces together quickly and easily, and is a print-friendly quilt that's perfect for showing off your favorite designer fabrics. In fact, one of our favorite parts of her design is that it was originally made using non-holiday-specific fabrics (most are from Vintage Modern by Bonnie & Camille for Moda), the idea being you can make it before fall is out, enjoy it for the holidays and then keep it out well into 2013 for many months of cold weather snuggling!

Only 100 of these exquisite kits are available through October 31st..and at 30% off, they're bound to move quickly.  Get your Tilda Christmas Quilt Kit before it's too late!

This Kit Includes:

• 4-1/5 yards of Peony Teal cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Flower Patch Teal cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Star Flower Teal cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Rosy Green cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Ornament Green cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Gingham Green cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Flower Bird Red cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Rose Stripe Red cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Dottie Red cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Peony White cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Rose White cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Mum Flower Ornament Red cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Rosebird Teal cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1-1/3 yard of Rose Teal cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/3 yard of Gingham Teal cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/4 yard of Victorian Brown cotton fabric by Tilda
• 2 yards of White cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/2 yard of Bird Ornament Red cotton fabric by Tilda
• 1/2 yard of Classic Stripe Red cotton fabric by Tilda

You can pick up one of these exclusive October kits in our web store right here (bonus: it qualifies for free shipping). And don't forget that through this Friday, October 5th, we're donating 30% of all store proceeds to the National Breast Cancer Foundation in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so supporting your quilting habit this week will go to an especially good cause!

Healing through Quilting + giveaway

Louise Brogan was inspired to create a lanscape quilt after watching Sewing with Nancy.  She sent both photos and a letter to Nancy telling her story.  

From Nancy's blog: 

Memories—fabric— stitching—healing. Those words came to mind after reading the touching letter from Louise Brogan. Louise gave us permission to post her story. I need say no more.

Letter from Louise Brogan

After losing my 21-year old son tragically in an accident last year, I have found profound healing through quilting. Through Nancy’s techniques that I have learned throughout the years, I have created many art quilts and found quilting to be extremely meditative in my ongoing process of healing.

One of my most successful pieces is a landscape quilt I recently completed that illustrates a dream I had about my son that came to me a few days after he passed. I used Nancy’s Landscape Quilting method, and I am beyond pleased with the results. I can’t thank her enough for her guidance throughout the years.

My thread painting is titled, This Is Where I’ll Be.  Written below is my dream that gave me the inspiration for the piece.

This Is Where I’ll Be
A Surrealistic Portrayal of a Dream

My dream began with my walking through the woods, the woods that I had spent countless afternoons in, throughout both my children’s lives.  The county land preserves were just across the street from our home: acres of woods, trails, and creeks filled with fish and turtles—a wonderland for little boys!

In my dream, I was alone, mourning my son who had died suddenly, just a few days before. I recalled each tree that he climbed, each fort he built from twigs and branches, and the creek he was constantly drawn to where he would try to catch tiny fish and follow turtle trails over to their nests that revealed dozens of little turtle eggs. I began crying, missing my boy, hanging on to my memories.

Then, a rustling in the trees down the path caught my attention. I strained to look down the path and couldn’t believe what I saw, Richie! I yelled out! It was Richie when he was a young child!  How could this be?! He wouldn’t look up and was very busy playing near the creek.  He seemed unaware of my presence. I was astounded and couldn’t believe my eyes. Richie, how could this be?  How can you be here? Didn’t you die? He just kept playing, as if he wasn’t hearing me. So busy catching fish, reaching for an old broken row-boat and trying to untie its rope from a tree, something he had always tried doing as a child, but I would never allow him near the boat. I just watched and watched in delight and awe.

After what seemed like an hour, he turned to me and looked right into my eyes and said,Mommy look, I untied the boat, don’t worry, I can’t get hurt anymore. I’m okay now. Then he ran ahead down a path. I ran after him. Wait, Richie! 

And again, he seemed unaware that I was there. He was collecting sticks, climbing over fallen stumps, balancing on a fallen tree log; again, he ran down a path to a more dense part of the woods. I tried to keep up with him, calling out to him all the time. Wait, Richie, Wait! I couldn’t keep up with him. Way up ahead, he turned around to me again, happy as could be, and called out, Don’t worry mommy, I’m okay now, this is where I’ll be! Off he went, further down the path. Wait Richie! I wasn’t ready to let him go, but he was so far ahead of me down the path; and as he ran deeper into the woods, I could no longer keep sight of him through the brush and the trees.

He was gone, just as quickly as he appeared. Was it really just a dream?

Closing thought . . .

As the artist, I am gaining my own personal, meditative experience, as I get lost in the process of creating.

A Special Thank You

Louise is a remarkable person and artist. My sincere thanks to her for sharing her story and quilt.

She also sent two other photos: a self-portrait and the other…well, you can figure that out! What a talented artist!

A huge thank you to Nancy for sharing this story with us!  To see the original post, visit: Healing through Quilting.

Today, our giveaway is sponsored by Modes4u.com!

Modes4u.com is an online shop for cute fabrics, stationery, DIY items and accessories which are imported from Japan and the USA. The shop carries more than 1,000 colourful fabrics from labels like Kokka, Cosmo, echino, Michael Miller, Robert Kaufman or Riley Blake. Modes4u has a wide variety of materials and prints; just recently they added lots of organic fabrics to their shop. You get free shipping for purchases worth US $78 or more to any country in the world.

 

Up for grabs are 10 Fat Quarters from Japanese labels (4x Cosmo, 2x echino, 4x Kokka).  Click HERE to enter!  Good luck!