new :: windows market bag

My new design, windows, is making its debut this week as a super handy market bag ...

This design was inspired by pretty simple leadlight window I saw a while ago that featured ovals. I started with some simple shapes, and kept adding! Red ink was the obvious choice!

I'm seriously thinking of also printing this as fabric panels ... yes? In the mean time, you can snap up a Windows Market Bag in the Yardage Design online shop.

Happy Monday everyone!

{first quilt of the year} isla

If you follow Yardage Design on instagram or facebook, you will know that over the past week I have been making a quilt for a new baby girl, Isla, who was born on my birthday a couple of weeks ago. I raided the stash and printed a few of my designs in custom colours to match, and ended up with a bright, fun, interesting quilt for tummy time ...

My starting point was the Juicy Jungle print (by Alexander Henry) that I've had for ages ~ I used the colours in these cute little animals to guide the other fabric choices, including: red ABC panel by Aunty Cookie; green Laundry Birds by Pippijoe; olive Elephants by Umbrella Prints; grape Fan by Yardage Design (this colourway is not in my shop, but email me if you would like me to print it for you) along with some custom printed gold Circa and Freckle; and finally, a few spotty fabrics and a floral from (where else) Spotlight!

I ended up quilting and binding in hot pink, to add a bit of girlyness, and I also backed it with some pink polka dots ...

A most enjoyable project, and I hope the new parents (and baby Isla) like it.

Have a great weekend!

tea + towel

{available here}

Have a lovely Wednesday!

yesterday + sew and go patchwork

Friday's are usually printing days for me, but yesterday I really needed to take some photographs of my products (including some new ones, coming soon!), which took up most of the day. In amongst all of this, I found the patchwork quilt I made last year for my studio door at the convent, so I photographed it as well ...

This quilt has a lot of sentimental value, so I'm thinking about making it bigger. Maybe big enough for our bed? I'm also thinking I might cut a few extra squares, package them up and pop them in the shop ~ what do you think? Sew and go!

Have a great weekend everyone!

sunny + pea

I've been printing some new colourways for my "Fan" fabric. I was looking for some fresh zingy colours, so I went for sunny yellow and pea green ( both on off-white organic cotton hemp) ...

 There was also some faffing about a bit with some star fruit styling ~ as you do!

Both of these new colourways are now in the shop, and "Sevilla" in red is also back in stock incase you fancy making a gorgeous cushion like Beky did!

recipe :: salted caramel cheesecake sandwiches

I made this recipe last week ... it is the most delicious cheesecake EVER! 

The recipe is from the current (April/May 2013) issue of Donna Hay magazine. I made a couple of changes, including reducing the recipe to two-thirds as I used a 20cm x 20cm cake tin (and fitted 3x3 biscuits perfectly). I also didn't have any golden syrup, so I substituted honey.

This recipe is so quick and easy to make. I can't believe I never knew about Lattice biscuits, but they are a perfect top and bottom to this divine "sandwich".

There are so many good recipes in this issue of Donna Hay ~ try the Molten Peanut Butter and Chocolate Fondant Cakes ... Ahhhhmazing! You can thank me later!

Have a great week!