I recently received the March issue of Sewing Savvy magazine. I was delighted to see the article featuring the Blooming Flowers Jewelry Roll and Makeup Bag that I designed and wanted to share it with you.
These are easy to make and feature embellishment with beads and applique. I also provided instructions to adjust the sizes of the bags. This issue is filled with wonderful sewing projects.
Have a delightful day!
Phyllis
I’m running a little behind in posting this since Valentine’s Day was a week ago. But I wanted to show you this Valentine Day Table runner that I designed for Quilter’s World magazine.
This is a project that you can plan for next year for Valentine’s Day , or use year round with color changes to match your decor. Hearts are great for any day of the year!
I wish you all a happy day!
Phyllis
When walking International Quilt market, there is so much eye candy to grab my attention. This dress in the booth of Coats and Clark really jumped out at me just from the sheer beauty. (My picture doesn’t do it justice). This dress is befitting the dreams of a fairy princess!
The dress was an award winner in the Bernina Fashion show last year. The fabric was all sheer and machine emellished with Coats Dual Duty XP threads which you can see in the detail closeup. 
In addition, crystals were added in the back. The construction of the skirt was really unique with streamers of fabric sewed at the waist, with the edges slightly overlapping and sewn around the bodice in several layers.
Below are more wonderful quilts from the quilt exhibits. (If you missed my earlier post with some quilts, check back a couple of posts to view them.)
Cynthia St. Charles from Montana designed this quilt of a Village. I love the colors!
Another fabulous quilt with wonderful colors, this one was designed by Carol Taylor of NY.
Pat Watson of Victoria, BC Canada designed this quilt.
This quilt by Katie Williams of Colorado was an award winner.
All of the quilts above have such wonderful colors. These were just a sampling of the quilts exhibited at International Quilt Market and they all were wonderful.
I have one more article I want to post from Quilt Market – but its something fun, unique and whimsical that I saw outside the market in the park
The quilt designs are copyrighted by the quilt designers. The photo’s are copyrighted and cannot be used without the permission of Phyllis Dobbs.
I have some special treats from International Quilt Market. Although it was close to Halloween, these treats are not the “trick or treat” kind. They are simply treats to enjoy! 
I visited with my friend, Anna Marie Horner, who designs fabrics for Free Spirit. Anna had some exciting news. She is expecting a new little one. And while she was at Quilt Market, she received more exciting news. Her booth won “best booth” for the 2nd time in a row. Gee, Anna, you are really a superwoman!
Gina Halladay is the owner of Threaded Pear, a pattern company and is in her beautiful booth. In addition, she is the author of the fabulous blog, Quilter’s Buzz. Gina also had some good news. She has purchased a quilt shop, so in addition to her blog, a machine quilting dealership and pattern company, she will have a retail shop. I think Gina qualifies as another superwoman.
And in addition to old friends, I met up with a new friend who I met through Twitter. Lani Padilla owns thequiltshope.net, an online quilt shop. Its fun to meet a Twitter friend in person! (along with her hubby, Sam!)
While walking the show, I saw the most beautiful flowers – the large fabric flowers that were across the top front of the booth of Daisy & Dell. The flowers were a really neat display. Daisy & Dell is a pattern company from Cypress, TX owed by Pat Bruce. I love flowers and the fact that these were fabric instead of real, means that they live forever.
Although I don’t have pictures, it was fabulous to spend time with my wonderful friends, Brenda Pinnick and Vicky Schreiner. Spending time with friends makes the shows even more special.
I still have more to show from Quilt Market – check backfor more gorgeous exhibit quilts.
Jay McCarroll, the winner of the first season of Project Runway was at Quilt Market with two new collections of fabrics with Free Spirit. And I had the delight of meeting Jay as well as have my picture taken with him.
I read more on the internet about Jay. As a winner of Project Runway, he was awarded $100,000 but turned it down. At the time, their contract said that they would own a percentage of all his professional ventures in perpetuality. Wow, what a clause! It had to have taken a lot of courage to turn down the money and I admire him for it. (Project Runway no longer has this clause, thank goodness.)
Please check back as I have much more to show from Quilt Market as well as information on my newest fabric collection – coming soon – Its a Dog’s Life!
Quiltopoly Board Game
If you are a quilter or sewer, you will love the new “Quilt-opoly” board game from The DMC Corporation that debuted at International Quilt Market. Its like Monopoly, (which by the way, I’ve always loved to play) but features quilts and quilting. The properties are all quilt blocks with escalating degrees of complexity.
Quilt-opoly board game for quilt lovers
I have a special love for “Quilt-opoly” – I designed the graphics for it, including the quilt block properties, the the actual quilt stitching properties shown in the center of each row, as well as some of the sayings on the cards. It was a fun project to work on and I just love the way it turned out. And I can’t wait to play!
In addition to “Quilt-opoly”, I designed and created the quilt blocks in DMC’s booth featuring their fibers and threads for quilting. I really loved working with the various textures represented in the various fibers of their product line.
Log Cabin Quilt Block
Sunflower Quilt Block
Diamond In Block
Butterfly Quilt Block
As a special note, I want to say that The DMC Corporation is not going bankrupt or out of business. Since I have worked with DMC a lot over the past several years, I occasionally get asked this question. DMC-US is a separate entity and is doing just fine. They have sold their other divisions and are concentrating on the fibers only and are doing extremely well, I’m happy to say!
Tomorrow, I will write about another “celebrity” that I met at Quilt Market as well as show come of the many gorgeous quilts that I saw there. So, please check back!
Mini Pumpkin Quilt
Leona was working on a quilt for an AQS (American Quilter’s Society) show that was held in Nashville in August. Leona’s quilt “Penny for Your Thoughts” was juried into the show and was selected along with 9 others for the Lincoln 2009 Celebration to be on display at the Museum of American Quilter’s Society in Padacah, Ky. The exhibit will run February 7 to April 6, 2009.
Leona did an outstanding job designing the layout of the quilt and combining blocks and techniques. The amazing story behind Leona’s quilt is that she has only been quilting for 2 years. This is a pretty amazing and complex quilt for anyone to complete.
Leona created her first quilt as a lap quilt for her husband to use during football season. After that, she was hooked with quilting immediately becoming her passion. In the past 2 years, Leona has completed 40 quilts. She devotes 8 hours a day to either quilting or studying quilting. Living in a remote area of Tennessee, she uses the internet for her instructor.
One of Leona’s other quilts was this beauty that was a 2nd place ribbon winner.
Leona is a member of the Smoky Mountain Quilter’s Guild as well as the Bit’s n Pieces Guild. I can only imagine the beatiful quilts she will compete in the next 2 years! And if you are in the Paducah area next spring, be sure to visit the Museum and see “Penny for your Thoughts” up close.
International Quilt Market is always a beautiful trade show, full of eye candy with all the beautiful colors of quilts and fabrics. It was an exciting event for me as Meow, Meow, my new cat fabric collection debuted with Quilting Treasures.
I also created several projects for Quilting Treasures’ booth using Meow Meow. I’m in the center with Donna (left) and Jodi (right) from Quilting Treasures. The two quilted projects shown in front are a Meow Meow Cat Carrier (with a fluffy white “stuffed” cat), and a Meow Meow Table Runner. Free instructions for making the table runner as well as a quilt will be on the Quilting Treasures website for downloading soon. I will post a link when it it up.
Two other quilted projects that I designed with Meow Meow cat fabrics are a Chair Back Cover and a Tote Bag.
Quilt Market was held in Portland, OR in mid-May, during an unexpected heatwave with temperatures in the 90’s. Since I live in the South with high temperatures, I was looking forward to the cooler days in Portland. Oh well, at least it didn’t rain.
Portland was really beautiful with all the flowers blooming. Even though Portland is known for roses, I think it should be noted for rhododendrons as they were huge and blooming everywhere. They were gorgeous and gave additional eye candy for Quilt Market.
After Quilt Market as I took a vacation to Seattle and an Alaskan cruise. Please check back for lots more from Quilt Market as well as some photos of unbelievable scenic views from Alaska and Mt Ranier.
I have received some advance pieces of my new Meow Meow fabric collection. They are piled here on my cutting table so that I can start sewing with them.
I am so excited about this fabric collection – cats, cats and more cats, all completely inspired by my Kitty Kat’s attitudes. Meow, Meow will debut from Quilting Treasures at the International Quilt Market in a couple of weeks. The collection turned out just as I envisioned it when I first started designing it – I could not be more pleased!
I think you will be enchanted by designs and colors of these whimsical cats and find a favorite cat “tude”.
Check back as I will show more of these fabrics very soon and some of the projects I’m creating with them.
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