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Love this Nurse Tote!

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I love to hear from any of you, and especially love it when you send me a picture of how you used any of my patterns or fabrics.  I love this tote sewn by Lisa Brooks Smets of Quilted Horse Designs.  She created it as a custom order that was being given as a gift. The red color really makes this bag pop!

Red nurse tote bag

The fabric she used was the red Love A Nurse fabric in my Spoonflower shop.  This fabric is available with several different background colors. This collection also small 5″ blocks with the words “Love A Nurse”surrounded by a border and in a 42″ x 36” cheater quilt layouts in 3 color backgrounds. I think Lisa did a terrific job sewing this tote. She does other sewing and can be reached for custom orders through her Quilted Horse Designs website.

I would love to hear from any of you! And if you purchase any of my fabrics, whether from Spoonflower or elsewhere, I would love to see what you make!

Phyllis

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Its a Dog’s Life Teal Tea Towel

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Its a Dog’s Life!  My last post was about cats (along with some embroidery).  I’m equal with cats and dogs in my love of them and have always had one or the other for a pet. For my Spoonflower shop, I chose dogs to give equal time with cats to create this tea towel to celebrate dogs!

Is A Dogs Life Tea Towel

These whimsy dogs are in various stages of a “human” life – gardening, shopping, walking, wrapped in a quilt, playing at the beach, cooking, being a sheriff, and just being an angel. The background is turquoise teal green with a darker teal border. I designed this tea towel based on my fabric collection “Its a Dog’s Life”.

The tea towels are available from Roostery for purchase, while I have coordinating fabrics available from Spoonflower and direct from Phyllis.

Woof!

Phyllis

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Support Your Bees with a Whimsy Honey Bee Quilt!

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I love bees! And while not a beekeeper, I had my own personal honey bee hive. Unfortunately, it was in the eave of my house. It took a while to find a beekeeper who will relocate it safely due to the hive being in the eaves plus the distance from the ground. I will miss them in my flowers but they have  a new home in an actual hive.Whimsy Honey Bee Quilt Phyllis Dobbs

I had created a whimsy fabric collection “Bee Yourself” to celebrate bees that included fabrics plus a panel of 12 bee blocks – honey bee, spelling bee, busy bee, fashion bee, beach bee, worker bee, quilting bee, sewing bee, queen bee, bee yourself and others.  This is a whole cloth “cheater quilt” I designed based on my fabric collection “Bee Yourself”.

This quilt is in my Spoonflower fabric shop and is made from the same art. The size is 36″ x 42″ and is available as a yard of fabric. It’s ready to sew into a quilt. You can also use it as a quilt panel to create a focal point in a larger quilt by adding borders. I know you will be able to come up with other uses as well.

Coordinating bee fabrics are available in my Spoonflower shop and I also have the bee panel and other fabrics available direct from my studio.

Love your bees and protect them!

Phyllis

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Wholecloth Quilts – Easy to Make for Great Gifts

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Spoonflower is great for purchasing fabrics that you can’t find anywhere else for yardage as small as a fat quarter or for cut and sew projects. I recently opened a Spoonflower shop with many of my fabric designs and I’m continuously creating more. I also created wholecloth quilt tops that are easy and quick to make as a 42″ x 36″ quilt. You can also cut them apart for the blocks or use as a center panel of a larger quilt. These quilts are also great for a beginner quilter. Coordinating fabrics are available for each quilt.Love a Nurse Quilt Top

Love A Nurse quilt top is available in light blue and pink color choices.  Red, navy blue and yellow choices will be available in less than 2 weeks. These quilts make a thoughtful way to show your appreciation for a nurse and all that they do. Just make your quilt sandwich, quilt and add binding and it will be finished.

Kitty Cat Wholecloth Quilt top Spoonflower

I created this Kitty Cat quilt as a quilt pattern that is available in both my Etsy and Craftsy stores in a larger size appliqué quilt.  The fabrics were from my Purr-fect Balance fabric collection available to quilt shops. I used the art to create the Kitty Cat wholecloth quilt top for Spoonflower for those who want to make the quilt without creating the appliqués for the cats.

I have several other quilt tops in my Spoonflower shop am in the process of quilting them. I love the size for quilting with my sewing machine and hope to finish them before Thanksgiving. The weather has turned cool enough that they feel good on my lap while sewing the bindings.

I wish you a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving and time with people you love!

Phyllis