Fun gift to make!

Make this fun Pod Pillow perfect for propping up a tablet, e-reader or smart phone. For a more masculine take on this gift, try using FreeSpirit World Tour by Parson Gray. Of course a more feminine version can be made from FreeSpirit Pirouette by Verna Mosquera. Add whimsy for a tween using FreeSpirit Moxie by Erin McMorris -- proof positive that fabric can change the look of any project!

More Fabulous Gift Ideas! Chevron Table Runner or Bed Scarf!

Our quest to insipre your gift-making continues. This installment features our Fabulous Chevron Table Runner or Bed Scarf featuring the decadent FreeSpirit Field Study by Anna Maria Horner. Chevron's continue to be popular so instead of relying on a plain chevron fabric, use various prints to make your own, unique look. The chevron technique can be used to add detail on any project including bags and even apparel. Click here for direction. Fabulous!

Fabulous Fun and Fast Holiday Gift Ideas!

Ho! Ho! Ho! A bit too soon? If you have been in a department store lately, we are right on time. In terms of your sewing, we are certain your machine is already whirring away creating beautiful hand made gifts stitched together with heartfelt love . . . and lots of fabric too! To help your creativity, we are going to be sharing some Fabulous, Fast and Fun project ideas between now and December 23. As the time ticks by the ideas will get simplier so you can create gift, after gift, after gift -- even a few extra just in case! Let's start with this fun, colorful Patchwork Tote featuring FreeSpirit Notting Hill by Joel Dewberry. It could be the perfect tote for your friend's needlework and/or knitting. Or maybe, make one just for you! Click here to start sewing! Ho, Ho, Ho!

Quiltmaker 100 Blocks Volume 8 Blog Tour

If you are visiting our blog, it must be Wednesday, November 11. Welcome to FreeSpirit Fabric. Fabric defines your quilting. The same block in different fabrics can change the very tone of your project.

FreeSpirit Designer Essential solids in Dapple, paired with the classic look of the black and white foulard, designed by Melissa Peda, offers a clean and modern look. Now, imagine the same block in bright orange on a canvas of lime green using FreeSpirit Wishing Well by Jenean Morrison, and the modern look and feel turns whimsical.

That's the beauty of fabric, don't you agree? Quiltmaker 100 Blocks is the perfect place to be inspired by the value of color, design and creativity in the simpleness of one block. Here is a good example, by Nancy Pinney. Her quilt, Spring Loaded, uses Rowan fabrics by Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably which offer totally different design sensibilities -- florals paired with graphical circles and a universal dot -- to create a soft,warm welcoming quilt. Of course, the colors are what draw Nancy's quilt together!

Now, we want you to continue your inspirational journey by exploring 100 blocks. Click here to enter to win a FREE issue of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Volume 8. To enter for your chance to win, you must click through from our blog! We promise, every page will feed your creative soul!

Coming soon!

The latest designer collections will be on display at Quilt Market next week. The buzz of excitement gets louder and louder every passing day. Before the show opens, we'd like to give you a peek at some of the collections we'll be showing off. Today, it's the latest from David Butler.

If you're wondering about his inspiration, read on. Vagabond features 7 prints across 24 fabrics that bring more of designer David Butler's folk-modern sensibility to the quilting and fashion world. With a broad range of richly muted jewel tones and deep grey hues, Vagabond explores the hand-drawn inspiration of travels into the back streets and high deserts of the middle east, and the rich rainforest jungles and temples of Indonesia. The two worlds are brought together with an exciting, sophisticated layering of prints that harken to lush markets, buzzing cities and rich adventure travel. Although the colorations are unique, each print in Parson Gray's Vagabond works in tandem with his past collections Curious Nature, Seven Wonders, & World Tour. The adventure continues!