Tone Finnanger's Blog, page 15

Red and pink paper piece ball

One sweet red and pink paper piece ball is finished.

Materials: 
Wildgarden Red (481134), Aimee Red (481133) and Pollen Red (481139) from the Candy Bloom series.

Pollen Pink (481089), Emily Pink (481083) and Garden Flowers Dove White (481085) from Spring Diaries.

We also used pre-cut paper shapes from Paper Piece Balls biconvex ( 480999), one package will give you 20 balls in two different sizes. Fabric Glue pen (480825) and the Light pink Sewing By Hand thread (481015)

 

Biconvex paper piece ball with pentagon paper piece balls made with Spring Diaries fabric.

 

Fabric Glue Pen

When meeting with our lovely customers a few weeks ago we discovered that some of them did not know about the fabric glue pen that is a must when paper piecing. We would certainly struggle if trying to paper piece or do paper appliqué without it, so here is a reminder of how easy it is to use.

Paper piecing is such a fun process but tacking the seam allowance around the edge of a paper shape can be time-consuming and fiddly. However, with our handy glue pen you just apply glue along the edge of the pre-cut paper pieces and press the seam allowance around the edge.

By the time your project is sewn together the glue will have dried and you can simply remove the paper pieces.

You will find detailed instructions in the paper piece packages.

The photographs here show red and pink paper-pieced balls in the making. So grab your glue pen and have a great day!

 

Tilda Candy Bloom Blog Hop

The Stitch Craft Create team are organizing a Tilda Candy Bloom Blog Hop this week with some great designers, and new exciting projects are emerging each day. Here is the schedule if you would like to visit and be inspired:

Monday 16th – Stitch Craft Create

Tuesday 17th – Helen Philips

Wednesday 18th – Stitching Pixie

Thursday 19th – UK City Crafter

Friday 20th – Very Berry Handmade

 

The Candy Bloom Quilt – Free pattern!

This gorgeous quilt in a deep red, blue and cream colourway has a celebration feel, with rows of pretty bunting-style patchwork ‘hung’ on narrow strips of pale print sashing. The triangle patches are easily created with a template and the triangle rows are easy to sew.

Her is the free pattern and explanation written and illustrated by the talented Linda Clements.

Candy Bloom Quilt

Candy Bloom – Template

The quilt is also sweet on the wall.

Have a great day!

 

Candy Bloom!

Our rustic country inspired red and blue summer collection “Candy Bloom” arrives in stores this week.

Picture a summer evening on a rustic porch or a barn dance, homemade pie, fresh berries and whipped crème.

These images was the inspiration for The Candy Bloom collection.

The classic darker reds and blues reminds us of childhood summers in the countryside. The fabrics with small folklore inspired flower motives are perfect for rustic porch quilts and large pillows.

The pattern for the flag garland quilt called “The Candy Bloom Quilt” will soon be released on the blog as a free pattern.

The pillow top is made with 36 – 4,5 in squares (seem allowance included).

Pretty fabric pictures

It’s not easy to take simple beautiful and informative pictures of fabric. And we love these pretty pictures of the spring collections by Sündenherz.de. 
We just had to borrow them for the blog.

It’s always fun to combine fabric in different ways from both collections to make a perfect color scheme for a project. Greens from the Pardon My Garden Collection with the pinks and off whites from The Spring Diaries collection gives you a classic spring/summer color combination as seen here. 
By just using the honey colours, pink and off whites from Spring Diaries you get a much calmer look than with the teal colored fabrics. Nothing is more comforting and safe than warm colors and pinks. Thank you Sünderherz for these lovely pictures.

The Spring Diaries Quilt – Free Pattern!

This lovely retro inspired quilt is perfect for any time of year – in the spring and summer to echo the sunny seasons, or in autumn and winter to bring a welcome splash of warm colour. It has fifty-four circle blocks, all made the same way using templates. The quilt uses fabrics from the Spring Diaries range combined with solid off white quilt fabric.

Here is the Spring Diaries Quilt explanation, Template 1 and Template 2.

 

 

Spring Diaries Quilt Labels are pretty if you want to add your name to the finished quilt.

 

 

 

Pardon My Garden Quilt – Free Pattern!

The Pardon My Garden quilt is a classic design made up of diamonds and looks wonderful in any setting. 
The diamonds are framed by narrow strips of off white, witch makes them “float” within the setting.

We used all of the 12 Pardon My Garden Fabrics and off-white quilt fabric for the quilt top. You will find a detailed list of materials in the explanation.

The explanation for this quilt (and many Tilda quilts to come) is written by our new friend and collaborator Linda Clements. Many of you know her as the woman behind “The Quilter’s Bible”. 
Her talent for explanations and step-by-step illustrations is just amazing!

 

Here is the Pardon My Garden Quilt and Pardon My Garden – Diamond Template.

 

 

Personalize your quilt with matching Pardon My Garden quilt labels!

 

 

 

Paper Piece Patchwork Balls

A few costumers have asked us about the Patchwork Balls in the pictures. These are actually our new Paper Piece products this spring. The packages contain paper piece shapes that you cover with fabric using the Tilda Paper Piece glue pen. You can then easily sew perfect patchwork balls by hand.

There are two different packages, one with balls made of pentagon shapes, and one with balls made of biconvex shapes.

Each package come with explanations and paper pieces for 16- 20 balls in two sizes. 
All you need in addition to the paper pieces and glue are some leftover fabrics, good hand sewing thread, a needle and some stuffing.

Patchwork balls look lovely just lying in a bowl or on a platter, squeeze one into a porcelain cup and you have a nice needle cushion.

They also make cute toys, you can easily put a round bell in with the stuffing to make them jingle.

Torie Jane

One very creative woman that we have followed for years is Torie Jane. Her blog is always full of fresh ideas for home, baking, paper craft and sewing all in soothing and fresh pastels, with a hint of retro. 
We are terribly exited when she use or write about our collections.

It’s always existing to see whats new and her blog is a great place to go for Easter inspiration.

Look at these adorable Chocolate Nests!!!