selvage

I know I have been saving these little selvage edges of my fabrics for some reason!

These are pincushions of course! All remnants from my fabric favorites, like Little Menagerie.

Heather Bailey, Church Flowers. This one also says Summer Fun!

Girly Girl fabric from a Modern Quilt Guild meeting challenge.

More Melanie Hurlston. Don't you just love the scissor charms? From my sis of course. Can you see some of your fabric faves in there too?

And the back of the pincushions. I used a different square of Mary Engelbreit fabric on each one.

See them Sunday at the Roseville Antique Market. 8 am -4 pm.

sweet menagerie

My sister sent me some fabric from her shop, Quilter's Eden about 3 weeks ago. It's called Menagerie and it is from one of our favorite fabric designers in Australia, Melanie Hurlston of Melly & Me. Our other favorite Australian designer is her sister Rosalie Quinlan. (of course they are sisters!)

Mary asked me to sew up a few baby bibs. So this is what I sent her. I had fun sewing these up. The elephant bib reverses so there is an elephant applique on the back of the flannel polka dots. And the monkey bib reverses also to a flannel polka dot, but it is sewn using my favorite aqua color of thread for a nice little added detail.

Now the bibs used only half of the fat quarter I was sent. So I had to make up some sweet little booties too! I love this little shoe pattern. It features the elephants on one side and the monkeys on the other.

I still had fabric left! Can you believe it. That is one of the best things about creating tiny things for tiny babies. They take tiny bits of fabric. So I did a little fun applique on a long sleeve onesie. It gets cold in Minnesota don't you know!

I am also being sent more of this Menagerie collection, featuring owls and bees. Love new fabrics!

I see more bibs and booties in my future.