Sweet!Īffiliate links below, if you purchase something through my links, I get a small commission. Basically pay for 8 patterns but get 12, so 4 are free. Another great deal is through a new company, Pattern Drop, great idea, a pattern a month, that you can find at Quilting JETgirl. I haven't looked yet, but I think Fat Quarter Shop is having some amazing deals, (no affiliation, but I love their shop), and Sew Mama Sew sent a great list of 30 deals offered in an email, so if you're on their list, you got it. My own pattern is on sale for almost 50% off, only $4. Now I'll leave you to go shop if you aren't already out there, or maybe you are home and done? Or maybe you're like me and waiting until the crowds subside.I'm only heading to one place, my LQS, A Stitch in Time, in Leamington, where she is having 30% off all fabric (she has an awesome selection of Minky) and yarns. Threads: pieced with Gütermann cotton on Billie, my 1947 Featherweight quilted with Isacord (aka Mettler) polyester white 0015 and green5324 40 wt Her muzzle has grass tufts on the fabric, one that's called 'Watercolor' by P&B Textiles, fitting for a painter, no?įabric: À la Carte by American Jane Patterns by Sandy Klop for Moda Fabrics is the main fabric, with stash and scraps It took longer to choose the fabrics than it did to paper-piece little Jade, and this is no beginner-friendly pp pattern! I liked the bling of gold polkadots in the background fabric, the blaze fabric is one I've hoarded for at least a decade for a Christmas kaleidoscope quilt, so it hadn't been cut into, LGC's eyes are my favourite shade of blue, royal blue, and her lips are a maple leaf fabric scrap. I spied it in my greens pile of fabric, and that was my starting point. I loved it, having had a thing for paisleys for some time.oh I had the best most favourite royal blue paisleys skirt I made and wore many many years of my teaching career. I had bought this paisley fabric, not a Christmas print, when I was fabric shopping with Julie of Pink Doxies this past winter in Florida. I remember her saying something about a rich red that makes a sumptuous combination. It was on my mum's quilt post where I wrote about my mum detesting 'buh-LOO' that I discovered green is her favourite. And so I dug out the pieces for the cow and got to work. Well! Get off your butt, Sandra, and get this cow in the stanchion to be milked.ha. The oomph I needed to push me to bring it to fruition happened when she told me she was sending me a little surprise in the mail. Did a myriad of other projects, with this one, and a certain quilt for a certain grandson that is still in the stalled stage, percolating in the back of my brain. I tried to find out, surreptitiously, discovering, she, like me, likes the cooler colours best. What colour? She is a painter, she works with them all, and I didn't recall her saying anything about a preference. I knew for a couple months ahead of her actual retirement that I would make her a cow. There isn't a week goes by that I don't stop to marvel at how much this little blog venture has enriched my life. She said the other day "no longer surprised" at the connections, similarities, coincidences between us when I wrote something about my grandma, whose name was Millie, and she'd written with a day or maybe it was on the very same day, about a painting of her niece with the same name! You can read more about our story here on her blog, and here on my Cows quilt post, and how I apparently influenced her in her decision to retire this year. So that was the first connection of many many more. Helen has done some marvellous (moovelous!) paintings of cows. Note that these cows are not my own design you can find the free pattern at Piecemeal Quilts. She found my blog through a photo of two cows of mine that someone had pinned on Pinterest. My friend Helen, of Word Weaver Art, retired from teaching a few months ago.
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