Love Notes Refrigerator Chalkboard

Greetings friends - happy Thursday! It is new project tutorial day - time to share my August post for the ThermOWeb Blog with you! As a Fabric Education Designer for ThermOWeb (they are the makers of all those wonderful HeatnBond and SpraynBond products), I create projects and tutorials for their very popular blog and give you my tips and tricks for using their products. For the month of August, the blog is focused on back to school and storage solutions. I created a brand new project that was posted yesterday - it is a complete project tutorial for my "Love Notes Refrigerator Chalkboard." This pretty and practical chalkboard tutorial contains a complete supply list, printable pattern with templates, a layout diagram, and step-by-step directions with color photos. The model uses specialty chalkboard fabric (found in most quilt shops and craft stores)... along with fabric from the Kaisley Rose and Country Confetti collections (both from Poppie Cotton), but I encourage you to use fabrics you have on hand, to make this refrigerator chalkboard your own. I hope you will stop by the ThermOWeb blog and check out my project and tutorial...

This is a happy sewing project that is perfect for fat quarters or fat eighths or scraps. For this post, I used  HeatnBond Lite EZ-Print Iron-On Adhesive Sheets, HeatnBond Fusible Fleece, HeatnBond Heavy Weight Non-Woven Fusible Interfacing, HeatnBond Fabric Fuse Liquid Adhesive, and HeatnBond Hem Regular Weight Iron-On Adhesive Tape, ⅜”...plus, I give you tips for using each item! Visit the tutorial post for a complete and detailed supply list.

Are you familiar with HeatnBond Lite EZ-Print Iron-On Adhesive Sheets? I use these for almost every project I create with appliqué. HeatnBond Lite EZ-Print Iron-On Adhesive Sheets are paper backed, iron-on, sewable, double-sided adhesive for bonding fabric without extra weight or stiffness - and the best part?? - they measure 8.5" x 11" to fit in a standard inkjet printer - NO TRACING INVOLVED! The templates I provide for each of my projects are printed on 8.5" x 11" paper, so you can print the templates directly on the HeatnBond Lite Adhesive sheets and skip the tracing step. I always have these stocked in my sewing studio!!

If you have questions on any ThermOWeb HeatnBond products or would like to see a specific type of product in one of my projects, drop me a comment or email.

You will have to visit the ThermOWeb blog for my complete tutorial and pattern, but I am posting a few photos here...

Here is a direct link to the project tutorial:

https://blog.thermoweb.com/love-notes-refrigerator-chalkboard-featuring-heatnbond/

I hope this project gets you excited to create something special and unique...

I am creating monthly projects for the ThermOWeb blog and will be sure to post here, when I do...my project for September is scheduled to be posted on September 19th...and, as always, I am working on a very fun, seasonal idea!

Thank you for stopping by for a visit today - I always enjoy sharing with you. Enjoy the rest of your week and make time to work on something creative...

Prairie Sisters Homestead Fabric Tour

Greetings friends, happy Friday! I am thrilled to be today's stop on the Prairie Sisters Homestead Fabric Tour - thank you so much for stopping by for a visit. I had so much fun playing with this classic country collection and have a selection of projects to share...all created with the new Prairie Sisters Homestead Fabric Collection designed by Lori Woods for Poppie Cotton. I enjoyed being creative and playing with these cheerful farm-inspired prints. This brand new collection (shipping to shops this month) has succulent strawberries, fancy chickens, and fabulous florals, along with a selection of charming ginghams…all done in a HAPPY color palette. This Poppie Cotton collection brings me joy and I knew a brand new wall hanging for my studio was going to be in the works. This month, for my projects, I didn't use any patterns - in fact, I just started playing and these were the results. 

To start, I created a wall hanging with four focal quilt blocks. These special blocks were created by converting four of my cross stitch motifs from some of my classic gameboard designs. I have done this a few times over the last couple years and I am always thrilled with the results - if I had more hours in each day, I would be working on all sorts of quilt designs based on my cross stitch patterns! I am calling this quilted wall hanging "Farmstead Finds." It measures 42" x 42" and has hanging pockets on the back to make it easy to display. I used a fat quarter stack of Prairie Sisters Homestead, along with several Farmhouse Favorites (Country Confetti in Marshmallow White for the background and Country Confetti in Waffle Cone for sashing and binding...plus Gingham Picnic in Grass for the flower stems and strawberry hull). I quilted it myself on my domestic machine and it turned out even better than I envisioned. "Farmstead Finds" is currently hanging in my studio above my cutting table. Leave a comment or send me a message if you would like to see me release a pattern for it...

After finishing my wall hanging, I had quite a few pieces of fabric left from my fat quarter stack, so I decided to make a few patchwork project bags. The large patchwork project bag measures 15" W x 12" H and has tiny 1/4" buttons hand sewn at the block intersections. The small patchwork project bag measures 12" W x 9" H and has 3/4" rick rack embellishing the front. Finally, the oversized artist bag measures 5" x 11.5" - it uses one of the focal fabric prints in the collection.

Finally, instead of making one pincushion for this collection, I decided to make a bowl full of fabric strawberries. I used several of the fabrics in the collection for the berries - the hulls, blossoms and leaves were cut from wool felt (Benzie Design) - I also used red gingham ribbon and tiny applique pins. These turned out so sweet and were quite enjoyable to put together. Don't they look fun in my vintage bowl with a selection of fabric?!

I hope you have enjoyed this stop on the fabric tour and are feeling inspired - thank you for visiting with me today. For more creative projects using the Prairie Sisters Homestead fabric collection, visit the Poppie Cotton Blog. If you love this fabric collection, be sure to check out your favorite quilt shop - Prairie Sisters Homestead is shipping this month.

I am already working on my project ideas for the next Poppie Cotton Fabric Tour in September - it is using the fabric collection "Garden Party" (click on the link to see a preview!). Plus, I will have a new Therm O Web project tutorial posted on August 16th, as well…so, be sure to stop back soon...