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Uppercase Vol 2

Uppercase Volume 2 by Janine Vangool for Windham Fabrics is what I call New Vintage Fabric. Brand New stuff, Current color combinations. Old Timey Feel. Just my cup of tea!! And since these are nice simple designs, some of them really function very well as solids. My FAVORITE kind of "solids" in that they really are a small print but they read like a solid against the wild florals and prints that I like to use. I think these prints will go equally well in a modern...

Black Friday Sale, Blue Nickel Studios, Modern Quilt patterns

BlackFriday-TacoTuesday Sale

I have been so Thankful for all of the great People I have met over the years here on the blog, in my classes, over on Instagram and just everywhere this little Quilting Universe. So I thought I would just throw a little Black Friday Sale as a way of saying thanks! But why stop with just a Black Friday Sale? I thought I might as well cover EVERY other post-Thanksgiving Holiday Sale Event: Black Friday Small Business Saturday & Sunday Cyber Monday and just keep going all...

Urban Folk Home Style, Mid century modern, New Vintage, Modern Old-fashioned, Sewing and Decor books, Banyan Batiks

Urban Folk Book Club

Book Club - Urban Folk Style Hey there! Today I want to talk a little bit about Urban Folk Style which is the tagline I made up a few years ago to describe the Blue Nickel vibe. I felt like I needed to define my style somehow, but all of the taglines I liked were being used by other designers. I came up with Urban Folk to cover my love of modern urban lines in design combined with my love of organic and wonky not-so-precise woodsy, folksy concepts....