GOOD HAIR DAY BLOG HOP TOUR STARTS HERE!

Welcome to the first day on Good Hair Day Blog Hop Tour!

The next 9 days are going to be packed full of sewing goodness! Follow along with the Good Hair Day Blog Hop so that you can see all the fabulous projects from the look book in detail and meet the wonderful people behind them. Have you seen the Good Hair Day look book yet? If not you can find it here.

Here is the playlist for the Good Hair Day Blog Tour – you won’t want to miss seeing these projects up close!

Monday, January 11  –   Windham Fabrics / Kim Andersson – I Adore Pattern

Tuesday, January 12 –   Erin Harris – House on Hill Road / Terri Carpenter – The Quilted Fox / Cath Mosley on Instagram

Wednesday, January 13 –  Adrianne Ove – Little Bluebell  /  Kristen Takakuwa – The Needies

Thursday January 14 –  Dan Rouse – Piece and Press / Cal Patch – Hodge Podge Farm

Friday January 15 – Stacey Day – Stacey In Stitches / Amy Gunson – Badskirt

Saturday January 16 – Madeleine Roberg – Domestic Strata / Darci Alexis – Darci Sews

Sunday January 17 – Miriam Blaich – The Berlin Quilter / Crystal Chadwick – The Cloth Albatross

Monday January 18 – Pati Fried & Laura Nownes – See How We Sew / Gillian Smith – Coding Crafter

Tuesday January 19 – Casey York – The Studiolo / Nicole Daksiewicz – Modern Handcraft

Day 1  –   Windham Fabrics / Kim Andersson – I Adore Pattern

I made several projects for the Good Hair Day look book and I love how they all turned out.

It’s funny, as a designer you work with your designs long before they ever make it to fabric, and then when you start working with these designs on fabric they just have a life of their own. Combinations start to come together that come as a surprise, even though you have been working on them for so long. It’s a little bit of fabric magic.

Twice Tied Quilt

Twice Tied Quilt. Photo by Danielle Collins

When I first started thinking about my quilt design for Good Hair Day I knew that I wanted to make something that incorporated a bow design. I wanted something modern, but I kept being pulled to more traditional Bow block designs. What to do? Blow it up large and put a twist on it :)

I love how the bows show the warmer and cooler colors in the collection and I love how they nest across from each other. I adore the ribbon quilting by Terri Carpenter, a lovely tie in with the bows and hair theme.

Twice Tied is a FREE pattern available on the Windham website – available soon!

Good Hair Day Pillow Set

Good Hair Day Pillow Set. Photo by Danielle collins

Oh the the Good Hair Day Pillow Set! These were fun to design, though I had to make quite a few hair designs before finding the three that worked the best on a pillow. These have been very popular and I got many squeals when people saw them at Houston Quilt Market.

I’ve written up a tutorial for these pillows (see the next post) and I can’t wait to see you make them too. It’s so much fun to see peoples projects made with Good Hair Day!

Good Hair Day Appliquéd T-shirt

Good Hair Day appliqué t-shirt. Photo by Danielle Collins

Once I made the appliquéd pillows I was ready the appliqué all the things and experimenting with different flower shapes for this t-shirt was a lot of fun!

Good Hair Day fabric is in stores now! Please please please share images of your Good Hair Day projects with me. I’d love to see them :)

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Enter to Win!

Today I have a Good Hair Day Fat Quarter Bundle to give away!

You can enter by leaving a comment under this post.

The giveaway will be open from now until 8PM PST on Thursday, January 21. The winner for this bundle will be picked at random and I will announce the name HERE on Friday, January 22.

This giveaway is open to everyone, USA and International.

If you’re a “no reply” or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment!

Windham has another Fat Quarter bundle to give away on their blog today, so make sure you visit them as well!

The WINNER of a Good Hair Day Fat Quarter Bundle chosen at random is:

Terri

“This is such a great fabric collection for making some special gifts.”

Congratulations Terri!!!

Good Hair Day Pillow Set Tutorial

Good Hair Day Pillow Set

Look at the lovely Good Hair Day Pillow Set!

These were fun to design, I spent many hours testing different hair designs before finding the 3 that worked the best on these pillows. These have been very popular and I got many squeals when people saw them at Houston Quilt Market.

The Pillow front is made with appliqué and quilted lines. The back of the pillow can be finished with your preferred pillow finish technique.

I’ve written up a tutorial for these pillows and I can’t wait to see you make them too. It’s so much fun to see your projects made with Good Hair Day!

Materials:

• Fabric for the appliqué –  Good Hair Day. For an 18″ pillow like I created, you will need a FQ of fabric for each silhouette.
• Fabric for the background (front and back) of the pillow –  Windham Artisan cross weave cotton. I used an 19 x 19 inch piece for the front and two pieces measuring 19 x 10 and 19 x 14 inches for the back of the pillow.
• Fabric for the inside of the quilted front pillow piece (slightly larger than the front pillow fabric).
• Piece of batting that is slightly larger than the pillow front fabric.
• Double-sided Lightweight Fusible Web –  I used Pellon’s 805 Wonder Under.
• Thread to match your appliqué fabric and background pillow fabric.
• Fabric and paper scissors.
• Pen.
• Removable Fabric Marker.
• Zipper if using one.

The fabrics I used in my pillows are as follows:

Let Your Hair Down Pillow

• Appliqué – Good Hair Day 41243-2 Night
• Background –  Windham Artisan Cotton 40171-13 Red White

Let Your Hair Down pillow. Photo by Danielle Collins

Pony Tail Pillow

• Appliqué – Good Hair Day 41242-5 Caramel
• Background –  Windham Artisan Cotton 40171-35 Aqua Blue

Pony Tail Pillow. Photo by Danielle Collins

Lots of Curls Pillow

• Appliqué – Good Hair Day 41246-17 Cream
• Background –  Windham Artisan Cotton 40171-7 Red Yellow

Lots of Curls pillow. Photo by Danielle Collins

Making the Pillow Front

I used a Fusible Web appliqué for my Good Hair Day pillows and finished them with a zig zag stitch on my sewing machine. Feel free to use other stitches to finish your appliqué edge or even hand finish them with an embroidery thread. It’s your pillow, go for it! :)

The Pony Tail and Let your Hair down designs are the easiest to start with. The Lots of Curls design is a little trickier and needs a bit more patience to cut and appliqué around all those curls.

1. Download the PDF for the appliqué template.

Download: Let Your Hair Down Template

Download: Pony Tail Template

Download: Lots of Curls Template

2. Print out the PDF of the silhouette to the size you need. This template is reversed already for the appliqué to be traced from. I chose to make a finished size of 18 inches for my pillows, but a collection of larger and smaller pillows would be fun.

For the Let Your Hair Down design on an 18 inch pillow I left about 3.5 inches either side when placing the appliqué design on the front. If you enlarge the HairDown.pdf by 165% you will have the right size for an 18 inch pillow.

For the Pony Tail design on an 18 inch pillow I left about 3.5 inches either side when placing the appliqué design on the front. If you enlarge the PonyTail.pdf by 165% you will have the right size for an 18 inch pillow.

For the Lots of Curls design on an 18 inch pillow I left about 1.5 inches either side when placing the appliqué design on the front. If you enlarge the Curls.pdf by 165% you will have the right size for an 18 inch pillow.

3. Tape the pages together if needed.

Pillow Template enlarged to size needed

4. Tape the Fusible to your printed out template and trace the template shape for the hairstyle (black outline) onto the paper side of the Fusible Web.

Trace the black line for the hairstyle shape.

5. Put the paper template aside (we’ll need that again later). Loosely cut out the traced template from the Fusible web.

Loosely cut the traced template from the Fusible web

6. Iron the Fusible web to the WRONG side of the appliqué fabric using the manufacturers directions.

Iron to the WRONG side of the appliqué fabric.

7. Cut the appliqué right on the traced line.

Cut the appliqué on the traced line

8. Remove paper backing and position it over the background fabric for the pillow front.

My pillow size is 18 inches so I cut a 19 x 19 inch square giving me a half inch seam allowance.

Press in place following the manufacturers instructions ( with the 805 Pellon this needs a damp press cloth ). I like to keep some space either side of the silhouette so that I see the full design once a pillow is inserted. Take into consideration that this space includes the seam allowance of half an inch.

Press onto background fabric.

It’s looking cute already!

9. Stitch along the appliqué by machine or hand. I used a thread color that matched my appliqué fabric.

If sewing by machine, make sure your zig zag  (or other stitch) stitch is catching the appliqué on the inside of the stitch and the background fabric on the outside of the stitch. Be patience and stop and pivot with your needle down on the outside of the appliqué to move around the curves of the hair style shape. (Ignore the quilting on the background in this photo, I seemed to have missed getting a photo with just the zig zag on the appliqué).

Stitch around the appliqué edges.

10. Now use your paper template to trace the quilting lines for the silhouette. I found this the easiest if I cut the silhouette shape out of the template, flip the template over and fit this in place under the hair appliqué.

Cut the silhouette shape out of the template.

Flip and fit cut template in place under the hair appliqué

11. Trace these lines onto the pillow top with a removable fabric marker. You could do this step earlier to help you place your appliqué on the background as well.

Trace profile lines onto the pillow top with a removable fabric marker

Profile traced line

12. Make a quilt sandwich with batting and another piece of fabric slightly larger than your pillow front. Bast together with your preferred basting technique. I chose to spray bast mine.

13. Use a straight stitch to quilt these silhouette lines. I used my regular foot, but some of the curves are tricky (I unpicked the Pony Tail face a couple of times) so a free motion foot may be better. Hand quilting would look great as well.

Profile stitching and background quilting.

14. Next quilt the background to help define the silhouette.

I chose to do a diamond pattern with the lines 1.5 inches apart. I used painters (blue) tape to mark and space the lines.

Front of the pillow is done!

Pillow Front quilted

For for more tips on making appliqué projects I recommend Casey York’s book Modern Appliqué Illusions.

To finish the Pillow

There are many pillow finishing tutorials online and in quilting magazines and books.

My favorite finishes are an overlap closure or zip.

I wanted to put a zip with a placket on the back of mine. I hadn’t sewn in a zip for ages and found this tutorial from S.O.T.A.K Handmade for installing my zipper, I just adjusted my back rectangle sizes to fit an 18 inch pillow.

Back of the pillow with a zip placket

For the zip placket style on an 18 inch pillow I cut my background fabric pieces:

• 19 x 10 inches
• 19 x 14 inches

Then followed the tutorial on S.O.T.A.K Handmade.

Now how cute is your pillow!!?

The finished pillow !

Please please please share images of your pillows with me. I’d love to see them :)

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Final Day on the Tidal Lace Blog Hop Tour!

Today is the last day on the Tidal Lace Blog Hop Tour, I hope that you have enjoyed seeing these amazing projects by all these very talented creators.

Jen Carlton Bailly – Bettycrockerass

Tide Lines Quilt by Kim Andersson using Quarter Circle blocks.
Photo by Danielle Collins

Starflower Pillow by Anne Sullivan using Quarter Circle blocks. Photo by Danielle Collins.

I was lucky to receive Jen Carlton Bailly’s Quarter Circle templates a few months ago and they make cutting Quarter Circle blocks a breeze! I used them while cutting pieces for my Tide Line quilt and I know that Anne from Play Crafts used them for her Starflower Pillow. I’m so happy to have Jen on the blog hop today to give us some fabulous pointers on cutting and sewing Quarter Circle blocks. Don’t be scared of the Quarter Circle!

You can find Jen’s templates here, be quick they go FAST!

You can see Jen’s great Quarter Circle tips here!

Miriam Blaich – The Berlin Quilter

Colored Pavement Quilt by Miriam Blaich. Photo by Danielle Collins.

Last, but by no means least, we have our finale piece by Miriam. We met through the Quilt Design a Day group on Facebook and I love seeing her designs. Miriam’s wonderful Colored Pavement Quilt is the one featured on the cover of the Tidal Lace look book. Her quilt design is amazing, she uses the Tidal Lace border print (in White Ombre) so well to create this lovely lightness in her design. I can’t wait to make one of these for myself!

Go see this gorgeous piece here!

Well, that wraps it up for the Tidal Lace Blog Hop Tour. It’s been so much fun and so inspirational to see all the wonderful talent on the hop. Tidal Lace will be landing in store in January. I can’t wait to see it out in the wild and I can’t wait to see what YOU make with Tidal Lace.

Make sure you go visit these stops and leave a comment on their posts. There is a FQ Giveaway for every stop on the Tidal Lace Blog Hop Tour!

Tidal Lace Fat Quarter Wheel

You can also find my post here.

Day Eight on the Tidal Lace Blog Hop Tour

Today we have some amazing accessories for you and some for your home all done up in Tidal Lace!

Alicia Wietholter – Swoon Patterns

Sophia Beach Tote by Swoon Patterns. Photo by Danielle Collins

Coraline Clutch by Swoon Patterns. Photo by Danielle Collins

Coraline Wristlet by Swoon Patterns. Photo by Danielle Collins

I love the design detail and thought that Alicia puts into her patterns for Swoon Sewing Patterns. When thinking about what projects I wanted for the Tidal Lace look book I knew that I wanted a big gorgeous beach bag and when I saw Alicia’s Sophia Beach Tote I emailed her right away. The Sophia is large and roomy while still keeping a fabulous shape, I adore this bag! She also made a Coraline wristlet and Coraline clutch which are versatile and adorable bags.

If you see me at Fall Quilt Market I’ll be walking around with one of these amazing bags. Come and say hi and have a closer look. Meanwhile read more about them here.

Stacey Sharman – Peppermint Pinwheels

Compass Pillow by Stacey Sharman. Photo by Danielle Collins.

Stacey from Peppermint Pinwheels is a wonderful friend that I met through the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild. Stacey founded the East Bay group in 2010 (we used to meet in a local coffee shop) and I have long admired her amazing pieced creations. She has seen this fabric collection form from the very beginning and I’m so glad that Stacey was able to create her impressive Compass Floor Cushion with Tidal Lace, it is stunning!

See more here!

Make sure you go visit these stops and leave a comment on their posts. There is a FQ Giveaway for every stop on the Tidal Lace Blog Hop Tour!

Tidal Lace Fat Quarter Wheel

You can also find my post here.