BitterSweet Bundles

Happy Friday everyone! Today I have a new BitterSweet Bundle to share with you. It has been designed using fabrics available from Contemporary Cloth.  This time I decided to build around four of my favorite Yuwa Japanese fabrics. I like these fabric because they are unique, fun and whimsical. All things you look for when you have a little girl.

This collection consists of 4 Yuwa prints, 3 coordinating solids (Kona Whtie, Kona Medium pink and Kona Blue Jay), and 3 coordinating prints (Bella – large flower – Lotta Jansdotter, Echo – Lotta Jansdotter, and Simpatico – Straw Pinkish). You can buy this bundle here.

Here is an example of how I used some of these prints in a recent project I made for Anne.

Just think of all the fun projects you could whip up using this bundle!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, I will be back tomorrow to announce a special project I have been working on all month (well, sort of all summer) with a wonderful friend of mine.

Today I wanted to share with you my third BitterSweet Bundle – for Contemporary Cloth – Fractured Time. This one is available for purchase and I am very excited about it. I began to realize just yesterday that my bundles are a little different than what most people out there in the quilting blogging community are putting together. I am not doing gradations of color, I am not sticking to any kind of theme or even any particular designer/manufacturer. I am trying to push the envelope and show you different combinations that you may have never thought of or considered before. With each bundle I create I like to start with a main focus fabric, in this case it is the Hay Wire Blue by Alexander Henry. As I started to pull colors and fabrics from it I discovered the Hay Wire Yellow also by Alexander Henry and realized that – Hello! It was the perfect compliment.

All of these fabrics are available separately for purchase at Contemporary Cloth AND they are also available as a bundle for your sewing enjoyment.  Now on my last bundle, Broken Time, there were a couple of questions like what would you do with such a different assortment of colors and prints. Well this time I designed a little mini-quilt/wall hanging for the bundle.

I’m calling this Checkered Stars – because it makes me think of a checkerboard but I also see stars in the design.  (Note: Keep in mind that EQ7 does change the scale of the print when you are doing mock-ups.)  Just a little something fun to help you visualize what this cool little bundle could do. If you like this…let me know and I can whip it up and do a tutorial.  You may be looking at this and saying to yourself “You didn’t use every fabric…” You would be right. When I buy a fat quarter bundle it is for 2 reasons – to build my stash and for specific projects. Half the time I split up the bundles I buy. I do have the oranges pulled into the mock up on a different image:

I think both work nicely and these are color combos you don’t see often but that do work well.

I hope you like thew new bundle, I would love to hear what you think of both the bundle and the new design. I am thinking of using it for a doll quilt I will be making for my Sewing Buddy’s daughter (we are doing a swap!).

First I have to start out with the fact that I am in absolute shock and awe that my last giveaway for my first ever custom bundle over at Contemporary Cloth had 926 entries! WOW! That is just so AMAZING!

Now for the winners, each will receive their own BitterSweet Bundle Fly Away, and for those who didn’t win, you can buy your own!

Sandy B and Barbara. I will be sending both of you emails later today.

Now on to my next bundle for Contemporary Cloth. First I will tell you how I started. I was going through the Yuwa Japanese fabrics on the Contemporary Cloth site, these are Japanese fabrics that I haven’t seen anywhere else. They are all very interesting, Modern, and like nothing I have seen before. I picked one print (upper left) and built the bundle around it.

The Yuwa Print, Kei, for some reason makes me think of a broken or disassembled old fashioned clock, you know, the kind with gears.  After that the rest of the fabrics just fell into place and the Broken Time Bundle was born.  This bundle is available exclusively at Contemporary Cloth for purchase and would add some great basics to your stash as well as a fantastic focal print.

What do you think? Do you see the inspiration? Broken Time?