Country Garden Stitchery

Free shipping on Spoonflower fabrics through March 8th. A great time to try their fabrics if you've been curious. They are wonderful! Click here to go to my Spoonflower shop  The shades of purple, blue, and green in the Cranesbill Geranium prints beautifully.   Lovely home decor fabric. Click here for details on my Cranesbill Geraniums fabric My Green Veggies fabric is fun for market totes.  Customers have made totes with this fabric using the canvas fabric. Fun to add to your shopping bag collection!    Click here to see my Green Veggies fabric

I bought a fat quarter of my Red Zinnia Wildflower fabric in cotton poplin ultra from Spoonflower . I found a pattern on Etsy for a clutch purse I liked.  It ended up being a very adventurous project.  I haven't sewn in a while and my left  brain got a work out  with this endeavor. It has two zippers and three pockets.  Not sure what I was thinking . . . I really liked working with the contrasting zipper and I learned some new techniques with this pattern.  I'll pick a one zipper project next time.    Red Zinnias Wildflower fabric  

For a quick sewing project these dish towels from Spoonflower are fun to make.  The towels are printed on their linen cotton canvas ultra fabric and are nice and sturdy. The fabric softens after washing and has a nice crinkle look from the linen.  They get softer with each washing. Press the towels with a hot iron and trim all the loose threads.   Square the edges with a rotary cutter and mat.  The edges can be pretty uneven and I had to cut 1/2" off one edge to make them even.  Press the edge of the fabric in 3/8" twice.    Do this on all the sides.  Since it is a thick fabric I wanted to make mitered corners.  Here is a great how to video from creativebug  on how to make them.  After the mitered corners are finished fold the hem down where the pressing lines are and sew an edge stitch around the towel.   Finished hem with mitered corners.     Finished tea towe...

Spoonflower has a sister site called Roostery that uses their fabrics to make wonderful home decor items!   I have my cottage houses on a set of their placemats.  You can click here to see the cottage placemats.   And pillows. This would be cute in a little girl's room. You can click here to see the Bunny Flowers Pillow.   A horizontal stripe pillow for home decor with hand painted pastel stripes. You can click here to see the Pastel Stripes Pillow. A fun site to visit for modern home decor!

My  new Spoonflower fabric this week is Bee Botanical Also, Spoonflower is having their two for one sale on fat quarters through November 12! Great deal, don't want to miss it! You can click here for more information   

New this week is my Green Butterflies fabric with stained glass style wings and pink flower blossoms.   You can find the fabric here.   I've already sewn them into needlebooks available in my Etsy shop. You can find them here.   On the bottom border is my Cherry Check fabric and you can find that fabric here. More needlebooks I've sewn lately.  The bird needlebook on the left was made with Spoonflower fabrics also.   You can find it here.

New!  A set of my Spoonflower fabrics with an autumn color theme. Blue Bubbles painted in watercolor.  I love how this printed. Royal Blue Butterflies drawn in pen and ink with watercolor. Autumn Leaves for the fall season with less defined leaves and an orange spatter background.  A nice large floating leaf pattern.  Burgundy Fall Leaves for autumn with an orange spatter/speckle design background.

  Some Spoonflower fabric samples with a nature theme and some checks to compliment.  You can find them here in my Spoonflower shop.