Riley Blake Mulberry Lane Project Tour

 On today's Riley Blake Project Tour I am "visiting" a magical street created as a fabric collection, Mulberry Lane by Dodi Poulsen (@sashgal on Instragram).  

Dodi states that this collection was inspired by the actual street where she grew up on in northern California. The collection is full of the feeling of home, safety, love, warmth, stability and promise with tiny houses, street signs, teeny tiny florals, and tiny heart prints.  

This cozy collection inspired me to create a new quilt pattern called Shooting Stars,  It will be available in my Etsy shop soon.  Each Sawtooth star has three paths which it may choose to travel.  

The pattern looks complicated, however it is actually very simple and it creates such a fun illusion.

Until next time ... happy sewing!

Lisa Jo 

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Riley Blake Project Tour - Featuring - Liberty Fabrics - The Artist's Home Collection

 Liberty Fabrics has a wonderful new quilting fabric collection called The Artist's Home Collection.  This fabulous collection was inspired by the wonder and dreaminess of an artist's home.  It is filled with vibrant details, eclecticism and wonderful colors all meant to further inspire you.  Liberty's designers were influenced by historic homes, country side escapes, Yves Saint Laurent's Idyllic Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech, Barbara Hepworth's sculpture studio and the gardens on the Cornish Coast. 

This huge collection of fabrics from Liberty is divided into Watercolour Garden Collection, Painted Sunset Collection, and Sculpture Collection.  There are 15 prints in each collection.  I choose to work with Sculpture Collection to create a new quilt pattern called Brioche.  Laying out similar blocks diagonally from one another and flipping the direction of the blocks created an interesting affect as if the pieces of fabric were being braided almost like a loaf of Brioche bread. 

This quilt is so much fun to make as it can all be cut out at once or in sets of five as well as it is a great quilt to chain piece.  (HINT - it's a fast make)

The digital download for Brioche may be purchased from my Etsy Shop HERE.

Here's close up of this fun and interesting quilt...

I truly hope that you will consider making a version of this quilt for someone special in your life or for yourself.  If you do make it, please post it on instagram and tag me @neverlandstitches

Until next time - Happy Sewing!

Lisa Jo 

My Heart Belongs to my Farmer - Barbed Wire Quilt

 In late November, I had the privilege of creating a quilt using Poppie Cottons, My Heart Belongs To My Farmer fabric Collection. 

I created a new pattern which is a twist on my ChickenWire Quilt pattern.  ChickenWire, which was created with Poppie Cotton's Chick-A-Doodle-Doo is such a fun pattern creating an interesting weave affect.  ChickenWire is available in my Etsy Shop.  In that same theme,  Barbed Wire does the same, but is even easier to make.  

Barbed Wire is now available in my Etsy Shop.

If you'd like both ChickenWire and BarbedWire I have a special package available in the shop which contains both patterns HERE.

Until Next Time - Happy Sewing!

Lisa Jo