We have a blog!

I am so excited to have a new way of sharing fun ideas and tips with you that is alot less intrusive than an email newsletter and lets you rummage through the cobweb postings at your leisure! Many use these blogs to share places they visit (I will link you up with Martha Stewart's latest blog about the Viking convention, for example), new things they have learned, new products they have found, blah blah blah....

Well there are no original ideas! So I will do the same and hope you get something from it each time I leave you a note.

In June, we added some new projects on our website - one is a freebie for you that is a REAL Stash Blaster - the Yo-Yo Posies Quilt - OMGosh this is so fun! I made it from a cute beachy summer fabric and ruched flower centers instead of making YoYo's but whatever your pleasure, girls! this is a great scrappy quilt project...oh okay it DOES require a purchase to get the free download but come on now! It is really cute...

I am learning that in June and July things get really quiet - the big Spring shows are over, every one goes on vacation, the beach is calling...I use this time to sew & create new projects from the new products I found at places like Paducah and at the Spring Market...Aprons were all the rage at Spring Market so we are busy making up some fun ones from the Apron Lady patterns which will appear on the web this month...our idea was to make them from fun funky fabrics, pretty florals and some of the cutest Christmas fabric I have ever seen from Henry Glass fabrics...her patterns use LOTS of bias binding...so it was just the perfect match...

We've added Moda fabrics to our Lollipops line and have some GREAT new choices coming in soon so look for them - the Mary Engebreit and Me and My Sisters Christmas fabrics are HEAVENLY and both include FREE patterns to go with their new lines (which will be up on our site soon)! I attended a retreat with the 'sisters' Barb and Mary (Me and My Sister Designs) and those two are such a hoot! We laughed with them for three days and I came away with a real appreciation for their designs and their fabrics - so creative and and what could be better than working with your sissie?

Sandy Martin continues to have a blast teaching at the Viking Sewing Centers inside JoAnn Fabrics in Florida & Texas - we post where she will be each month on our website so if you want to learn how to use our bias in quilt block construction, than join her for a class on the Floral Bias Pillow - see the pix in our web album!

Lots more to share, but for now, hope this finds you well and sewing fun things for your family and friends and thank a soldier!

Laurie@popsbindings.com