We all know the photos are one of the most exciting parts of Quilt Sampler magazine, and we get lots of questions about what the items in those photos are. So to help you out we’ve compiled a detailed list of each pattern & fabric shown in our spread in Quilt Sampler Spring/Summer 2012. If an item is still available in our web shop, it will appear as a link.  Our restocks arrive daily, so if an item is temporarily out of stock, just check back soon. And though the magazine is sold out in most places, we’ve got some left. So if you missed out you can still grab one right here! If you still have questions, just email us. And for even more photos of our shop and the others featured in Quilt Sampler, visit AllPeopleQuilt.com.
As seen in Quilt Sampler S/S 2012 pages 4-5
1. styrofoam shapes wrapped in fabric & cellophane to resemble giant candies (no pattern) fabric: various Kaffe Fassett
2. pattern: European Taupe II (free download from Clothworks Textiles), fabric: Japanese Taupes
3. pattern: Sweet Pea by Blue Underground fabrics: various Kaffe Fassett
4. pattern: Cowboy Baby from the book Material Obsession, fabric: various Western
5. pattern: Villagers Rejoice (free download from Andover Fabrics) fabric: Castle Peeps by Lizzy House
6. pattern: Serenity by Julie Popa, fabric: various William Morris
7. pattern: A Bird’s Life by Lauren & Jessi Jung, fabric: Hideaway by Lauren & Jessi Jung
8. pattern: Pretty in Pink found in the book Livin’ Large by Anka’s Treasures, fabric: various Kaffe Fassett
9. pattern: Modern Day Diamonds by Threaded Pear, fabric: Nicey Jane by Heather Bailey
10. pattern: Triple Crown by American Jane, fabric: solid & printed Jelly Rolls
11. pattern: Come Fly With Me by Creative Sewlutions, fabric: Sanctuary by Patty Young
12. pattern: One-Yard Overlap Apron by Indygo Junction, fabric: Eggplant Patch from the Veggie Patch collection by Hoodie
13. fabric: Suburbia collection from Robert Kaufman
14. pattern: Wild Garden by Golly (temporarily out of stock) fabric: Loulouthi by Anna Maria Horner, KIT AVAILABLE AGAIN SOON
15. fabric: Loulouthi collection by Anna Maria Horner
16. pattern: Field Study by Tula Pink, fabric: Prince Charming collection by Tula Pink, kit available
17. fabric: 1001 Peeps collection by Lizzy House
18. fabric: Children At Play collection by Sarah Jane
19. pattern: Eloise & Elmore by Indygo Junction, fabric: from the Parisville collection by Tula Pink (print shown is sold out but similar options are available)
20. fabric: Prince Charming collection by Tula Pink
21. fabric: Prince Charming Voile by Tula Pink
22. fabric: Greenfield Hill Voile by Denyse Schmidt
23. pattern: found in the book On The Run by Anka’s Treasures, fabric: Honey Buns by Moda

As seen in Quilt Sampler S/S 2012 page 6
24. embroidery pattern: On Parade, quilt pattern: On Parade Mini Quilt (free instructions on our blog), fabric: Children At Play by Sarah Jane, KIT AVAILABLE
25. fabric: Sherbet Pips by Aneela Hoey
26. book: Embroidered Effects by Jenny Hart
27. pattern: Mandala Embroidery (free pattern on our blog)
28. fabric: City Weekend Interlock Knits by Oliver + S
29. pattern: Jelly Roll Quilt tutorial coming soon on our blog–similar to this, fabric; Hullabaloo Jelly Roll (that particular Jelly Roll is out of stock but many others available)
30. Little Folks Voile wrapped in waffle cones
31. pattern: City Harbor found in the book City Quilts by Cherri House, fabric: various Kona & Bella solids, KIT AVAILABLE
32. pattern: Serenity by Julie Popa, fabric: various William Morris
33. reupholstered chair fabric: Innocent Crush Home Dec (that particular print is out of stock but many home dec fabrics are available.
34. lampshade covered with fabric: Damask Dot in Dusk from the Parisville collection, applied using 606 permanent adhesive spray
35. pattern: Pretty in Pink found in the book Livin’ Large by Anka’s Treasures, fabric: various Kaffe Fassett
36. pattern: Triple Crown by American Jane, fabric: solid & printed Jelly Rolls
37. pattern: Come Fly With Me by Creative Sewlutions, fabric: Sanctuary by Patty Young
38. pattern: Sugar Pop, fabric: Sugar Pop collection by Liz Scott for Moda
As seen in Quilt Sampler S/S 2012 page 8
39. pattern: Villagers Rejoice (free download from Andover Fabrics) fabric: Castle Peeps by Lizzy House
40. pattern: Serenity by Julie Popa, fabric: various William Morris
41. pattern: I Do by Cherry House (temporarily out of stock), fabric: various batiks
42. pattern: Pleated Tote by Jen Giddens
43. pattern: Birdie Sling by Amy Butler, fabric: Love collection by Amy Butler
44. pattern: Multi-Tasker Tote by Anna Maria Horner
45. fabric: Zoo Menagerie collection by Eleanor Grosch
46. pattern: Eloise & Elmore by Indygo Junction, fabric: from the Parisville collection by Tula Pink (print shown is sold out but similar options are available)
47. pillow made with free-form Thread Doodling technique (tutorial coming soon)
48. pattern: Hoot ‘n’ Annie Owl Softies, featuring Texture Magic
49. pattern: Polly found in the book Softies Only A Mother Could Love (other softies books are available)
50. pattern: Hoot ‘n’ Annie Owl Softies,  featuring Texture Magic
51. book: Countryside Softies
52. pattern: Apple Picking Dress by Oliver + S, fabric: Wallpaper Flowers in Coral from the Children At Play collection by Sarah Jane
53. doll pattern in the book: Wee Wonderfuls

As seen in Quilt Sampler S/S 2012 page 10
54. pattern: Does Not Compute in the book Dare To Be Square Quilting by Boo Davis, KIT AVAILABLE
55. pattern: Modern Alphabet by Tula Pink, fabric: Parisville collection by Tula Pink, KIT AVAILABLE in cool colorway (colorway shown in photo is out of stock)

Then of course, there’s the Colored Pencils quilt which we designed just for this issue of Quilt Sampler. The pattern is in the magazine, and we’ve got kits featuring 162 different fabrics for those pencils.

Which are your favorites? Tell us in the comments!

I have an Outfoxed wallet!
Pattern is Favorite Things’ A Billfold, and my fabric choices were  Lizzy House’ Outfoxed in Yellow and Tufts in Yellow.

All the outer pattern pieces got fussy cut.


Didn’t know such a thing could be so cute.

Let’s take a minute to talk about our new favorite little guy in the shop. This is Skippy The Elephant.
He’s not shy. Here’s his backside.
He’s just making everyone so happy around here with his adorableness.  We owe him to Shelley, who appliqued, pieced, and quilted him.  Shelley’s our go-to girl for applique–she’s become an expert at neat and clean machine methods. See, you can hardly see that tiny machine blanket stitch!
She quilted him with a simple 1-1/2″ cross-hatch similar to the version in the book. Skippy comes from Quilts, Baby! by Linda Kopp, which  is one of those books where there are SO many quilts you want to make in it that it’s a steal since it costs so much less than multiple patterns would be (just like this one.)  Our version uses prints from the Fifi & Fido collection by Anna Griffin, and a few Kona and Bella solids.

We’ve got kits either with or without the book (for those who already own Quilts, Baby!), and it even includes everything for the pieced back.
We’ve already had requests for the giraffe version as seen in the book, and a pig version. We’ll have to see about that!

We didn’t have snow for Christmas, but then finally a couple weeks ago it would not stop snowing! So our intern Sarah made some cute snowflakes for our windows.

All the Wintery wet and cold has made us just want to hunker down and snow, er sew. I actually typed it like that. We’ve been planning new quilts and getting old ones finished. We’ve been hanging new quilts…

I’ve been calling this Firecracker Play. Sounds dangerous, huh. Our friend Mary made it for us to hang in the shop with Jaybird’s Firecracker quilt pattern & Sarah Jane’s Children at Play prints, with some American Jane mixed in there. We’ve got kits available, and you can bundle it with the Lazy Angle Ruler (not required but recommended in the pattern) which Mary reported that she loved. I particularly like that these firecrackers spin both ways.

And of course we need warm flannel in the Winter. This easy baby quilt uses the Irving Street flannel collection with Valori Wells’ Lion’ Around pattern, also in a kit.

I almost had to steal it off the wall for my new baby niece. It’s a good thing my sister Rosie already made this for her using the purple & pink prints from Outfoxed. She designed and made it all herself, and even quilted it on the long-arm–her first time ever!

Ah, she makes me so proud. We want to see what Winter sewing you‘ve been working on. Add your photos to our Flickr pool!

When each new fabric line comes in, I’m antsy to sew something with it. But it’s not actually that often that I get to finish a project out of anything in a timely manner. (Thank goodness for all our wonderful shop display sewists!) But when I found myself fondling Half Moon Modern every single day, I felt justified in starting a new project. So I set out to modabakeshop.com for something quick using pre-cuts, and found just the thing: a tutorial for a quilt called Home Sweet Home. Here’s my version, made with just 2 charm packs and some Bella White Jelly Roll strips.

And speaking of being antsy, I’ve been pretty impatient with binding lately, so I bound it completely by machine. I love beautiful hand-binding on quilts that deserve it. But sometimes I just want it done, and if it will be well-used I figure a machine binding will be especially sturdy anyway. I have a quilt at home that’s been waiting for it’s hand finishing for a year, while I’ve finished several machine bindings recently. After trying a few different techniques, I’ve been most often using the method I found in this tutorial from A Quilt Is Nice. It basically involves sewing the binding first onto the back of the quilt, then folding it to the front and edge-stitching it down just inside of the first stitching line. Here you can see what my binding looks like from the front on the left, and from the back on the right.

I like doing it this way for a few reasons: 1-Even though you can see the stitching on the front, since you’re sewing it from that side you can make sure it’s nice and neat. The imperfections are on the back, where I won’t see them. 2-I don’t have to worry about not catching the binding, like I do with the stitch-in-the-ditch method (which is still great, I’m just not very good at it.) 3-I don’t have to pin. Sometimes I use my Wonder Clips, but mostly I just fold and hold with my fingers as I go.

I know not everyone is with me on the machine binding, but I’m curious to know if any of you have machine binding tips or methods you like.

Speaking of Kaffe, we’ve somehow had a lot of Kaffe quilts finished lately.  The tops have actually been done for a while, but we finally had them quilted.  I came to accept that I wouldn’t have time to quilt them myself, let alone by hand, which had been the plan.  So they went of to our dreamy Statler Stitcher-er Sue.

For this one, I wanted to show off that large print, Japanese Chrysanthemum, and the Sweet Pea pattern was perfect. I chose the yellow/orange colorway because I rarely use those colors but lately they are calling out to me.  And I didn’t want to end up all matchy with the sashing, so I took the greyish blue peeking out from behind the mums as the jumping off point for choosing the polka dotted sashing in slate blue.  I think my mom thought I was crazy, but I like how it turned out. I was tempted to do bright orange cornerstones, but went with a faint grey, Bella solid in Feather (also a new favorite for backgrounds, in addition to Kona Snow). Now that was probably more detail than you ever needed to know about this simple quilt.

The strippy quilt was made in Kathy’s first Jelly Roll Quilt Class. It’s actually 2 Design Rolls, one Kaffe and one Brandon Mabley.  They each had fewer strips than a Moda Jelly Roll–which gives you a throw sized quilt–so combined they give you more of  twin size. And with this many strips, you end up with a vertical orientation. This may make no sense if you haven’t made this Jelly Roll quilt before, but it’s kind of a quilt of chance. You just can’t really plan how it will look other than by choosing your strips. I’m anxious to make another one, with a Hullaballoo Jelly Roll this time. Btw, Kathy will be teaching this quilt again next month!

And this is what I’m calling our new favorite quilt. Jennifer pieced it quite a while ago and we wanted to big stitch hand quilt it. We finally figured that we are too far behind on our sewing projects and we’d rather just have it done. We chose a  Baptist fan design which is consistent with the traditional look of the pattern (Summer House from Moda) yet also adds to the modern feel that the colors and woven textures give this quilt.

We used all Kaffe Fassett wovens, mostly because we wanted to use the new Ikat Streaks, and are in love with how it all turned out. One terrible piece of news though, is that Westminster, the company who makes all of Kaffe’s fabric, is no longer making Shot Cotton in Sludge.  (Shot Cottons are Kaffe’s super soft solids that are woven with 2 different colors of thread.)  Funny timing, since grey seems to be the new black, and has actually been our best-selling color of Shot.  I wrote to Westminster to plead with them to bring back Sludge, and ask any of you who care to do the same by contacting them here. Maybe if they realize there is a demand they’ll listen. Alright, down from the soap box.

These quilts are all in the shop now, and are of course much more fun to see in person.  I’m aching to make stuff with Kaffe’s Fall collection, so hopefully we’ll have more to show off soon!

I hope our little teaser didn’t make you think we actually reupholstered that chair ourselves because we certainly didn’t. We did scavenge it from the Deseret Industries ourselves. But all the real work was done by John Hart & his dad at Rocky Comfort in Logan, who we enthusiastically recommend, btw.  What a transformation!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

We had them change the oh-so-80s ruffle to a more modern box pleat. And boy are we so in love with this chair now! (I think the husbands in the shop like having a soft seat to hang out in as well.)  It took about 3 yards of Lovesme Lovesmenot in Leaf from Anna Maria Horner’s Innocent Crush home dec collection.  Free Spirit, who makes AMH’s fabrics, does such a good job with their home dec weight stuff. They use soft heavyweight sateen that would be pretty awesome for a sturdy bag but isn’t so heavy or rough that you couldn’t just put it in a quilt.  But we’re having visions of EVERYTHING recovered in fabric now that we’ve got a good upholsterer. Watch out!

I’m happy to report that we are making good on the scheduled sewing nights. Recently Jennifer and I rummaged through the scrap bin and each made a Polly from the book Softies Only a Mother Could Love.

Adorbs, if I do say so myself.  But I’d like a lil rabbit boy to keep my lil rabbit girl company. (Mine is on the left, Jennifer’s on the right, in case you were wondering.)

The mastermind behind children’s clothing patterns Oliver+S, Liesl, is genius.  I would probably take advice from her on anything, anytime.  Luckily, she’s given some over on the Oliver + S blog over the last several months with her principles for fabric selection.  She explains how to use color, prints, solids, and a little restraint to get the most sophisticated look for the children’s clothes you sew.  Most of these principles can be applied to patchwork and other sewing as well. A summary:

• See the child before the outfit
• Think sophisticated and understated
• Look at the supporting fabrics in a collection, not necessarily the central prints
• Solid colors and neutrals can ground a bright, busy print
• Be eclectic; don’t be afraid to mix collections
• Look for updated versions of traditional prints
• Tonal and two-color prints look very fresh
• Approach juvenile prints with caution

Read about them in detail here (and start from the bottom).  I’d like to add a “hear hear” to Liesl’s tips.  They mirror the way we approach fabric choices for projects in the shop, perhaps we’ll talk about some of our own principles for picking fabric for quilts one of these days.

I think Suppose’ own Oliver+S outfit passes the test.  Meet my aunt Marianne, a clever lady and an adept seamstress.  She made this Birthday Party Dress in Westrade’s classic Tiny Posies print with the button tab in Kaffe Fassett’s Shot Cotton in Watermelon.  Don’t you just want to make a whole bunch! What would you choose to make it in?

As requested, here is a look at some more of the things we’ve been working on.

I made this easy tote bag with the pattern Jay McCarroll gave out at last Fall’s Quilt Market for his debut fabric line.  You can find the pattern here on the Free Spirit blog.  I used giant button holes instead of giant grommets, and I added a birdie applique with button eyes.  I will have to write about my experience meeting Jay another day. But really, I am obsessed with his fabric.

I’ve also been sewing lots of pincushions lately.  I love that I can whip one up in less than an hour and have the satisfaction of finishing a project.   These are just a few we’ve been using in the shop.  (Links to the patterns to come.)

At least someone’s finishing quilts around here.  Our associate Jennifer made Paisley Party, from the free pattern Red Rooster provided for the Paisley Party line of fabric.

And another staff member Deonna made this little quilt, the pattern for which has left my memory for the moment.  These two are the only quilts hanging in the shop right now, as we are getting ready to hang our permanent quilt hanging system.  And oh are we anxious for that.  We have so many pretty things we want to show off!

So much more to come, very soon.