Sweet treat T-shirts!

So glad you stopped by! You are in for a treat! This month my team has taken some of my fabric and has created some very cool projects to get your creative motors going.  Not all of my team members are seamstresses...in fact many of them are general crafters that I encouraged to use fabric in a crafty way.  I knew they could, because they are innovative. You see, when creative people are presented with a new medium, "out of the box" thinking starts to happen.  I can hardly wait to see what my team has prepared.  Contrary to popular belief, fabric does not require sewing.  Some of my girls sewed, but from what I hear, others used glue guns, hand stitching, and other unconventional methods to show you news ways to think about fabric.  

This month, I'm sharing a couple of shirts that I made for quilt market. They use fabrics from my Wanna Be a Cowboy 2 fabric line for Riley Blake.  I made a fringe applique with machine stitching.  I used a variety of decorative stitches from my machine, and just turned my fabric slowly to sew.

Cowboy bowling shirt

I made another bowling shirt...this time for my daughter.  The pattern is from Carla at the "scientific seamstress." I designed the horse-shoe and star appliques. The fabric is from my Wanna be a Cowboy 2 fabric collection for Riley Blake.

The second project is one I brought to my class at quilt market.  My good friend Carrie Hobbs created this design.  She used my cowboy 2 fabrics and her creativity. She used raw edge ruffles to decorate the front of the pillow...and those cool buttons...they are HAND MADE!  She took wooden disks, drilled holes in them, burnt the edges and stained them. How cool is that!

The last project is a follow up to the quilt block I designed for the "all dolled up" quilt.  Each of the participating artists created a second block to be displayed in their booth at quilt market...I made a big pillow out of my block...I just extended it some.  

Yeah! It's a Fabric Giveaway!!!

In celebration of my blog total makeover, and having fabric to share...I want to give away a selection of fabric from my Wanna be a Cowboy line available from Riley Blake Designs to one lucky winner. This line comes in 3 different color ways in 7 patterns...a girly pink, cream, red, and brown color way; a boyish red, blue, cream and brown color way; and a tan, brown, cream color way that mixes and matches with both of those. It is available in 100% cotton hiqh quality quilt fabric, or 100% cotton high quality flannel fabric (this flannel washes up beautifully.) I will choose a generous selection of coordinating flannel fabrics in the winner's preferred colorway. I will draw one name on Monday, May 3rd, and announce the winner on Tuesday. To qualify for the drawing, just make a comment on my blog here. I'll put everyone in the drawing who leaves a comment before Sunday night.

The adorable dress and skirts pictured above were made by my dear friend Kristin Barlow out of my cowboy fabrics, they were her daughters' Easter dresses. The quilt pictured is the first quilt I ever finished (I started one other 15 years ago...but can't count it because I didn't finish it.) I made this quilt for my daughter for Christmas. She wanted a pink room...so I tried to comply.

Good luck!