July Bulletin 2017

Red and white, waves, and sunny skin

With Sewing Hearts

I'm wearing a shirt made of fabric from my With Glowing Hearts collection for the day of festivities! 

Happy 150th to our glorious and free home and native land! Happy Canada Day!

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 150th

The Little House on the Prairie books and TV show were a huge part of my childhood, and Laura's heartwarmingly simple descriptions will forever charm my imagination. I just read through this informative, picture-filled post, and this post about her faith, both in celebration of her would-be 150th birthday.

“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness--just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.” 

--Laura Ingalls Wilder (February 7th, 1867--Februrary 10th, 1957, age 90)

Ottawa Parliament Plate

What an appropriate thrifting find this is, considering it's January 2017, the beginning of Canada's 150th year! This souvenir plate features Ottawa's Parliament buildings. The back is stamped with "Johnson Bros England The Old Dominion" which indicates that it's likely pre-1920. Parliament as we know it today was completed by 1922, the Peace Tower added in 1927. The curious thing, though, is that the plate's illustration doesn't exactly represent the current Parliament...or the Parliament that burned down in 1916. Was it created between 1916 and 1920 as a proposed design of the new building? Is it some stock image of a British castle from the library of Transferware designs? Or maybe it's just a bit of artistic license? Hmm...

With Glowing Hearts Fabric Collection

Happy Canada Day! The past several months I have been working on designing a cotton quilting fabric collection in celebration of Canada's 150th Anniversary on July 1st, 2017! The collection was produced by Moda Fabrics and is to be distributed by Trend-Tex Fabrics. With Glowing Hearts: Celebrating 150 Years will be available in shops November 2016. There will be a quilt design contest run by Trend-Tex, and the winning quilts will be displayed at International Fall Quilt Market 2017. So get those sewing machines ready, eh...