We have made a new page that contains all of Lynette's Tutorials... so you can have some fun this weekend learning some of Lynette's tricks :)
There are tutorials for... how to use the Apliquick Tools, Needleturn Applique, making yoyos, satin and blanket stitch, doing EPP hexagons, how to make bias stem and how to make a scissor holder.
Have a great weekend :)
Lynette has made two lovely projects using her new Candy Cane Angel fabrics...which will be in stores soon :)
Angels are Stars quilt from Lynette's book An Angels Wish has been remade in Lynette's new Christmas fabric. Each book contains a colour photo of the new version along with an updated requirements list.
Where to buy:
Lynette has chosen to put cute little wooden buttons on her Angels, each button has Sticthed with love etched on the top. These buttons are available in packs of 12 :)
"Make your table look great for Christmas with this lovely table centrepiece. I have combined needleturn applique with some sweet stitchery to create this table center piece. The angels with their candy cane wings are sure to be the talking point at dinner. I hope that you enjoy making this as much as I did." Lynette x
Where to buy:
Month 1 of Lynette's new button club 'Chateau Hexagon' is on it's way around the world to all the stores running this years club....our office has been a sea of buttons and patterns.
If you haven't signed up with a store and would like to participate in this exclusive club then the list of stores below still have some places left :)
AUSTRALIA
Esmes - TAS
Hobbysew Belconnen - ACT
Little Quilt Store - QLD
Patchworks Plus - TAS
The Stitching Post - NSW
Calico Crossroads - TAS
NEW ZEALAND
USA
Canada
UK
BELGIUM
Atelier Patchwork et Point Compte
FRANCE
THE NETHERLANDS
SPAIN
SWITZERLAND
NORWAY
You better hurry... you don't want to miss out!
To see the full list of stores click here
Lynette has been busy in the US showing off her two new fabric collections at Spring Market in Portland, Candy Cane Angels and Wildflower Wood. Today we would like to show you the free patterns which have been created using these new collections.
Candy Cane Angel fabric collection
Download Wish Upon A Star Free Pattern
Wildflower Wood fabric collection
Download Forest Floor Download Pattern
You can download more of Lynette free patterns here :)
Lynette has had two new button packs designed to complement two projects from her new book 'Stitch it for Spring'.
This cute rabbit button is the star of the Dreaming Journal project :) Don't you just love his big cotton tail!
Lynette's birdhouse collection is pretty cute!
Birdhouse Blossoms has a gorgeous blue bird and sweet pink heart, which add that little bit extra to the project. Lynette also has the dragonfly ribbon, ric rac and frames used in the projects available from her online store.
Did you hear our loud cheer of excitement yesterday when the postman brought our boxes of 'Stitch It For Spring' books?
A big thank you for all the book pre-orders we had for a signed copy....it kept me very quiet this morning!
It was fun signing the books and the girls kept me supplied with tea and biscuits x
Facebook fans will remember the huge delivery of boxes that I showed a few days ago?? Just in case you didnt see the huge pile, here is Tom my youngest with Gran helping in the background. They were both kind enough to come and help unpack all the goodies as it was a bit overwhelming.
So, I bet your wondering what was inside all the boxes???? Goodies, yummy goodies......want to see? Printed ribbons, ric racs, sweet butterfly and flower buttons in tubs, dyed buttons that match my fabrics.
There is the cutest printed tin, it holds the Cosmo multi work spools perfectly but of course there are a million things a quilter can store in a tin! The design on the top is from the very popular Fernhill quilt.
Emma has designed all the packaging for this product collection and I hope you will agree is so sweet.
The printed ribbons have been used on a project in the book and on my new 'Forest Friends' design. I wonder what you will use them for? I am thinking of stitching the ribbons together to make one piece and then I could make a pencil case from them.
Did you notice that I used the pom pom braid to decorate the edge of the lampshade thats on the front cover of the book?
I am thinking of making a button necklace like the ones I used to make and wear years ago...do you remmber me wearing one? I have found my old favourite brown button necklace out which I wore 15 years ago and have decided its time to wear it again.
I want to make a new button necklace using these pretty buttons from the Wildflower Wood collection, (I think I may need two tubs of buttons to make a long necklace like the brown one).
The little butterfly button was used on the bunny tea towel in the book...but I can see lots more uses for them.
Well, its been a pretty exciting week and tomorrow I head off to the US for Spring Market in Portland where I will catch up with all my international store owners and hope to sell them some goodies to bring home to show you.
How exciting I am teaching on board this fabulous cruise ship next March alongside Michelle Marvig, Sarah Fielke and Gillian Lester (scrapbooking guru).
To read more about the cruise and whats on offer look here. Mum is coming with me for this trip and you are going to love her, I think she can talk even more than I can!
We have added a link to Download Craft Fair Booking Form
I hope you can join us on this wonderful trip to New Zealand which leaves from Sydney on March 19th 2014.
The store is looking pretty at the moment and we are getting ready to move things around so I can take some of the new things we have had on display with me to the US next week for Spring Market.
There was lot of interest in the stickers that i got for a give away, I have managed to get a very limited number to sell. There are two designs available...Quilting Queen
or Sewing Queen
You can buy them here, look in the sewing accessories section, they are on page 4.
I love this design, I showed it for the first at the AQM in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago and everyone loved it. The pattern is called 'Forest Friends', I made the pillow first which as you can see has some simple piecing, sweet applique with some of my all time favourite stitchery thrown in. I like the little possom with the gum nut blossom sweet, she turned out really well. I bet you have also spotted the printed ribbon I have used in the dragonfly square....its one of my new licensed products from the 'Wildflower Wood' collection.
I loved making the pillow but I have also been wanting to make something to go into one of these new frames I have had made....they are so cute, so I adapted the pillow design and added some of my lovely handpainted in Australia buttons.....and I absolutely love the framed version, in fact we have put the picture of the framed version on the front of the pattern and the pillow is pictured on the back.
The button painting girls painted some very special buttons to go with this new design. I cant decide which is my favourite, the toadstool is a mini version of the one we used for Fernhill but the owl and the spotted moon are brand new. The owl would make a nice brooch if you glued a brocch fitting to the back.
Did you notice the printed ribbon I have used in the dragonfly square on both the pillow and the framed version....its from one of my new licensed products from the 'Wildflower Wood' collection. There are 2m each of five different ribbons on the mixed printed ribbon pack and its in stock now.
Lots of stores around the world will soon be having stock of my licensed ribbons, braids and papers for papercraft.
Forest Friends pattern can be bought here
The whitewashed timber frame can be bought here
My handpainted buttons can be bought here
If you follow me on Facebook...the pumpkin soup we made for dinner tonight was delicious....
Traditional English paper piecing (EPP) has grown so much in popularity in the last few years and although I have not made a whole quilt using this technique I have had fun using EPP on or for various projects that I have made. Here is one of the blocks from 'Stitched By Me', notice the little hexagon quilt that the bird cage is on :) its EPP.
Another favorite of mine is 'Badger Cottage', where I joined hexagons to make the pencil case.
'Chateau Hexagon', my new mystery button club which is due to start in June has as its name suggests both a chateau (house) and hexagons on it and I have had a few enquires about how to do hexagons not only for this 'coming soon' project but for projects in general.
So, lets gather our tools.
I am using some lovely milliners needles (they come in this cute container), a superbob of thread in a non descript colour so that it blends with your fabrics, scissors and a glue pen. I use a thimble but I forgot to put it in the photo in any case I was probably wearing it!
There are two types of papers that you can use for EPP, the traditional paper ones which are reuseable or a new style that are made from water soluble paper. Both are fantatic products, the paper ones are more cost effective as they are reuseable but I am loving the water soluble ones as they make it so much quicker.
Both the paper and the water soluble hexagons come in a variety of sizes
Today I am using the water soluble hexies...place them shiny (glue) side down on the wrong side of your fabric making sure there is enough room between each hexie for the seam allowance.
Using a hot iron press in place, take care not too glide the iron too much as I found the little holes for the steam in my iron caught the edges of the hexies when I wasnt paying attention and distorted them...opps!
Cut out each hexagon with a small seam allowance (scant 1/4" is fine)
Put a small line of glue stick glue on the edge of the paper, this is the same for paper or water soluble hexagons).
Fold edge of fabric over paper shape and press lightly with fingers so glue can hold in place.
Repeat for next edge
until all edges are in place.
Prepare a large pile of hexagons and then you are ready to stitch. To begin take two hexagons and place them right sides together.
Thread your needle and put a double knot in the end of it ...doing a whip stitch and catching only the tiniest amount of fabric stitch across the two hexagons. The long fine Milliners needle will really help you take those tiny stitches and because the needle is one thickness you wont be making gigantic holes in the fabrics.
Keep stitching, taking tiny stitches, by the time I had got half way along this 1" hexie I had taken approx. 12 stitches. Of course you can do bigger or less stitches but they will probably show when you open it out and look at the right side and you may not like what you see!
Here is my opened out stitched together hexagons, you can hardly see the stitches and so its worth using the superbob thread and Milliners needles.
If you are using paper hexagons the papers will need to be removed but the water soluble papers can be left in place which if you are going to applique the hexagons (ie: Chateau Hexagon) onto a background fabric they certainly make life easier!
I hope this has helped, if you have any questions please feel free to email me.
After designing the fabrics there is a long wait first for strike offs (sample pieces) then months later after everything has been approved my advance yardage arrives and its time for me to play :)
While I wait for my play fabrics to arrive I do lots of drawing and stitching to prepare for 'the day'...
I made little hexagons...
stitchery was stitched for various projects that I planned to be in my new book...
Vince and I had fun visiting lots of strange and interesting vintage furniture shops looking for just the right piece for the front cover, I found the perfect piece when I saw this old meat safe...the owners kindly said I could borrow the cupboard for the day :) I love its faded paintwork.
Special Cat checked it out when we brought it home and she found it comfortable! In fact she loved it so much she managed to get in the final shot that we used for the front cover...she is happy to be a cover girl!
Felix liked it too...
with photography day fast approaching I gathered all the samples and had fun collecting props that I hoped would work in the photos
Fatcat liked the quilt I made, it was a good place to watch me from x
we started bright and early one morning, here Sandra Faye my photographer is checking if the lighting is right for the sweet bunny tea towel..
I pulled out my boys childhood rolling pins, some wooden spoons, my gran's whisk and my favourite Nigella egg shaped mixing bowls for this shot..
we played with suitcases of various shapes and sizes trying to get just the right look for the handbag photo. The cute case on the top contains my mums first sewing machine, it still works :)
I knew there was a reason I have been collecting birdhouses for so many years! They were perfect for this picture...can you spy the little birds nest at the bottom of the very tall birdhouse, we popped some sugared almonds into it as they looked like little eggs and were just the right colours for the photo. I found the nest one morning when we were out walking with Hugo, its fragile but so beautiful.
After we moved most of the furniture out, my whole sitting room was taken up with camera equipment. Its a good job we have such an open plan house! Here we are trying to style the meat safe ready to take the cover shot, as you can see there is alot of discussion going on about what the camera can see compared to what we can see.
this was almost the way we wanted it...or was it????
Are you wondering what the cards are that are pegged to the string line in the picture above? Well my very talented neighbour offered to play with the papers, pom pom, printed ribbons, pearl gems, stickers, organza bows and buttons that are part of the accessories collection that goes with Wildflower Wood for all the paper crafters among you. Just look at the cards she made for me...
I am spoilt, all of them are gorgeous and all made using the Lynette Anderson Designs, Wildflower Wood collection of accessories.
I could ramble more but I dont want to bore you. The exciting thing is that the books are about to arrive on my doorstep, maybe as early as Wednesday this week. You can pre-order a signed copy of my book here now or for those of you who have already pre-ordered a signed copy of the book can start checking the mail box soon. If you pre-ordered or would like to pre-order the fabric bundle and a signed copy of the book you will have to be patient a bit longer as the fabrics are not due here until the end of May.
Anyhow here is the final cover of the book, I hope you have enjoyed seeing how we did some of the photogrpahy and a little peek at some of the projects inside.
The templates are all full size in this book so you dont have to try to find a place to enlarge them before you can get started with your stitching, hooray....my publishers listened to me and to some of your comments about template needing to be enlarged being very annoying .
happy stitching
How exciting! It's time for me to tell you all about my new mystery button block of the month which I have given a French feel to through the design and also with its name :) I have to say that as I gaze at the quilt on the studio wall it is my favourite so far!
This year you will notice a slight price increase; over the years we have had many ladies request that the pattern be clearer and that the stitchery design not have something printed on the back which made it hard to work from. To do this we are printing a proper pattern on our pattern quality paper.
Things I can tell you:
The finsihed quilt size is 26" x 37", I have had fun using lots of yummy fabrics, threads and its all set off so nicely with our handpainted in Australia buttons. Each participating store has a swatch list of the fabrics that I used so they sould be able to help you with fabric selection.
Stores that are participating are listed here with a link to either their websites or their emails so be sure to rush to a store near you to sign up ready for a June 2013 start.
AUSTRALIA
Calico Crossroads - TAS
Esmes - TAS
Hobby Sew Belconnen - ACT
Little Quilt Store - QLD
Patchworks Plus - TAS
The Stitching Post - NSW
Tranquility Crafts 'n' Supplies - VIC
NEW ZEALAND
USA
CANADA
UK
FRANCE
BELGIUM
Atelier Patchwork et Point Compte
SWITZERLAND
THE NETHERLANDS
NORWAY
SPAIN
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Everyone in the office and studio has been busy the last few weeks getting all the new samples and patterns ready to ship to the US ready for quilt market, its a bit scary to think that its only two weeks until we leave. A big thank you to Jill Beban who has made this sample for me using my new Christmas Collection Candy Cane Angels..., the quilt pattern can be found in my first self published book 'An Angels Wish', I love the three dimensional stars that each little angel has on the front of her dress and the little plaited hair with bows they each have :) Its so nice to see this quilt made up in my new Christmas fabrics. If you have the urge to make an angelic quilt then have no fear we have put a full colour picture of this quilt in the pattern pocket of every book to help with colour placement etc
I know its too early to think of Christmas but thats how far ahead I have to work which at first was weird but I am getting better at it. The really scary thing is that I have done the designs for the Christmas 2014 collection!! Anyhow here is Candy Cane Angels....
You can see all the fabric swatches here on Lecien's (my fabric companies) website, the fabric should start to appear on shelves in stores around the globe from mid-May.
bye for now
PS. If you want to see a beautiful 'Scandinavian Christmas' quilt then pop over to Leeanne's blog to see how she has quilted Maree's quilt, its worth the visit.
Its been crazily busy here as we prepare everything for quilt market and my teaching tour to Canada in the US. I dont want you all to think that I havent been thinking of you....I have... and when I was in Melbourne last week I bought these two cute stitckers for YOUR car window...
So leave me a message and tell me why YOU have to own one of these stickers :)
Congratulations to Karen and Vivian, be watching your inboxes for my email. Thank you for everyone that left me a comment :)
Seems I am in the right place tonight, the street where the store is has been recently beautified is having a party to celebrate....
There is a big bouncing castle for the kids and my favourite fairy floss (candy floss), you can get your face painted if your a kid.....I wanted my face painted but the lady said 'no' this is for kids only :(
People have set up little stalls down the alleyways between the shops selling all sorts of nice things.
There is live music of all sorts including school bands and buskers :)
The air is filled with the aroma of sausages and onions...mmmm.... I know what I am going to have for dinner tonight.
I cant belive how many people have come...thank you everyone for making our street party so great.
We are open late tonight as our street party includes an open air cinema, 'Mama Mia' is on and I am hoping that we (Vince, Hugo and I) can go and sit on a blanket and watch the movie while eating a sausage ( I know Hugo will love to share some sausage).
Dont laugh, I took my picture with the cute pig?? from Bendigo bank.
Sorry you can't be here to join the strret party celebrations but how about to make up I give you a 10% discount on all online orders....use the discount code STREETPARTY to recive 10% off your online order at www.littlequiltstore.com (not valid with any other offer, online orders only ends 1st May 2013)
The count down to market is on which is lucky or I am going to burst as I have so many things I want to show but I am meant to keep them under wraps until market...whY I ask??? I am hopeless at keeping secrets... WARNING... never trust me with a secret.....!! Here is the line up of fabrics from my new collection Wildflower Wood, I love this colleciton :) and I have made so many thngs with it but I'm not bored with it and still have more ideas but no more time!
I also cant wait any longer to show you my new 7 month stitchery BOM, Woodland Secrets (thanks Facebook Fans for helping me name it). I will be launching this new quilt officially at Spring Market next month where I hope that I can tempt lots of stores to run it in thier stores so you can all have fun stitching it.
I love how the quilting has been done (thanks Barb), the hearts in the quilting go so well with the theme of the quilt...perfect.
The quilt did make its debut in Melbourne last week on The Patchwork Teahouse's booth and Marilyn is taking bookings already.
I love how the little half square traingles look in the border and they were actually quite quick to make, thanks to Wendy Sheppard for helping with the design layout for the piecing :)
Thought you would like a little close up peek at this sweet rabbit block.
I have edged each of the hearts with some Ric Rac that is from my new braids and ribbons collection which will be in stores about the same time as the fabrics :) keep an eye out for the cute printed tin thats coming too.
The fabrics are going to be arriving in stores from the end of May so not much longer to wait, the patterns are almost printed :) so for all the stores we promised an advance copy to, they will be on thier way very soon x I hope!
Taken in 1987.....which feels like forever ago! I know its hard to belive that this is me but it is!
I decided that I would renew my UK passport for when I travel to the UK in August this year and this is the picture is my very ancient passport which I have to send in with my new application. I am not sure they will think its me but anyhow....we will see! The picture has given my boys all a laugh, of course having you hair permed was all the rage in the 80's but they didnt know that!
I am getting excited about all my trips this year and have got most of the bookings completed. The next (first) trip is to Spring Market in the US which is only 3 weeks away, Spring Market is only open to store owners and its where we launch all the new fabric collections, books and patterns. I love catching up with friends in the same industry and am always scared in case no one likes my new things!
After the 3 day show Vince and I are heading to Canada for a few days holiday and where I am teaching at three stores.
If you check out the teaching page you can see where I will be and perhaps you will be able to join me in Canada or somewhere else in the world :) wherever we meet I know we will have fun together.
Meanwhile I am starting to play with some new ideas....I love making hexagons as its a great way for me to see how the fabrics are working together and hexagons are so quick to do. I am using the new water soluble hexagons which make life even quicker as you dont have to take the paper out when your finished just rinse or as I have discovered after alot of handling the light papery feel vanishes.
I think I can see a nice big bag happening using some rather nice handles that I bought when I was in Tokyo back in January.
Hope your having fun stitching today?
The AQC is held in a lovely old building which was built in 1880 for an exhibition.
Here is my display on The Patchwork Teahouse's stand, you can see a glimpse of my new stitchery BOm 'Woodland Secrets' and the house BOM 'Love Letters'. Once I get home I have a bit of pattern writing to do! Marilyn is taking bookings for both these quilts.
There is a lovely quilt show, sorry the photos area ll a bit dark but as the building is very old and the celings are very high the lighting is not the best.
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Amazing piecing, so acurate and the quilting was superb.
This quilt which looks very dark in colour is not in real life and I absolutley loved it.
Here is a close up picture so you can see some of the detail.
Not my style of quilt but an amazing piece of work....the detail on this was amazing too
This one struck me for its simplicity and it reminded me of that paper cut work people do which I cant remember the name of???
Well its time to get up and be readyfor day two x perhpas I will get to meet you?
bye for now
Lynette x
Look at the gorgeous colouring on this version of 'A Dogs Life', I love it and thats surprising as it has lots of pink on it :) Although I have to say that now I have the sweetest little granddaughter in my life I am liking pink alot! Actually its about time I made a quilt for her and myabe it can be a gift for her first birthday which is fast approaching.
I asked Karen if I could show a picture of her quilt on my blog as I know that all quilters like to see things finished and its even more interesting when the quiltmaker has used different fabrics from the original. I think you will enjoy Karens blog, I will put a link then you can visit her and read her story about how and why she made this quilt. Here is the link to visit Karen dont forget we all love messages, so please leave Karen one if you have time :)
I know I havent shared many pictures of Elsie with you but here she is.....so sweet and still keeping her parents up at night :)
I met Rosa in Nantes last year, she was demonstrating a very clever tool which makes doing glue stick applique so simple. Rosa has developed, designed and copyrighted the tools herself and I have to say I am getting addicted to using them.
So lets gather our tools, I have a pair of Rosa's Apliquick tools, my trusty glue pen, Roxannes Glue (no girl can live without this), a pencil, fabrics, some fusible applique paper. You will notice I am working on a black surface, this is the one of the nicest colours I have found to work on and this thin rubbery mat stops things from slipping around rather like sandpaper board but it doesnt set your teeth on edge, ot rolls up for storage, you can press fabrics on it and when its dirty (not sure how you can tell as its black) you can wash it!
Here is a close up of the ends of the tools....interesting dont you think?
Here is a peek at how to use them but for a more detailed explaination I have done a tutorial.
The Apliquick Tweezers are brilliant and have been designed to hold onto small pieces of fabric while you cut the desired shape out.
As you know I love scissors, specially ones with fine serated blades and these fit the bill perfectly + I love the pewter look finish. Apliquick Scissors
Today we have stocked up Little Quilt Store with all these wonderful gadgets,
Let me know what you think of the tutorial and of course as always if you have any questions please feel free to email me :) and I will do my best to answer.
