Tula Pink

I am so excited about Hushabye that I can’t stop making stuff out of it. I am running out of room to keep it all so I am giving it away. Yay!

Free stuff!If you want one then leave me a comment, tell me a little something about yourself,  and I will randomly pick 4 winners to be announced on June 15th. It’s just that easy. I mean, come on, they’re super cute right? You can be the first person(s) on your block to have a little bit of it. Hushabye won’t be in stores until August so it will be like an extreme sneak peak. You can make your local shop owner jealous if you so desire, unless of course your local shop is in Stewartsville. In that case it’s my mom’s shop and she already knows all about it.

**Remember** You don’t have to worry about being clever, the winners will be randomly chosen. I don’t play favorites.

GIVEAWAY CLOSED!!! Winners coming up next! 

I just got back from Quilt Market, like two mintues ago (then my BFF showed up for a visit and here I am a few days later, sorry!) and I wanted to share a few things that I think are both brilliant and hillarious. This first one may need some clarification. First, I collect foreign products that use english in odd ways. I have this little pink pencil case from Korea that has a poem about “gold plated friendship” and “hot shafts of wheat,” innapropriate translations are the funniest thing ever! So when my new friend Angela gave me these little swatches of Japanese import fabrics I just about peed my fancy little pants. If you can’t read it from the picture it says: “Mom’s Cake! Harmony of wheat and chocolate. Table with love.” It sounds like some exotic yet poetic love affair between two baking products from opposites sides of the tracks brought together by the gentle hum of an egg beater. I picture this scene unfolding much in the manner of Fried Green Tomatoes or the Secret Life of Bees minus the epic drama and heartfelt moral tradgedy. I love it. The second treasure I disovered were some very lovely yet sort of disturbing, but in a good way, vintage buttons. Now, I don’t ever buy buttons but I fell in love as sometimes happens. The pugs and the poodles just seemed like something I should have. The horse head is sort of Godfather-ish which I really liked but the real gem is the other one. Is that precious little old fashioned charmer chasing an oversized bat? Yes, indeed she is… naturally.  I also got these nursery rhyme buttons, for the sake of cuteness. Everyone around me is having babies so I am all about finding baby stuff at the moment. I guess I am just at that age where all my friends are getting knocked up. I have a baby quilt to do list a mile long which is fine by me. Baby quilts are little so they go really fast. Good thing I designed a baby-ish fabric line, right? It’s like my 7th sense is some kind of baby detector.

Tula Pink has patterns? What?!? Why that’s crazy. Oh no it’s not little puppy. I am getting ready to go to Market on Thursday and all my quilts are in a row so to speak. The bindings are on and my little babies are all packed up nice and tidy. This is the first quilt pattern I will be releasing, I will have it at Market in the blue and green above and also in pink and brown. I think it’s pretty cute and the quilting on it turned out amazing. You will be able to buy kits and patterns and all things Tula P. in my little shop. Fun!

I will be in Pittsburgh in a shopping capacity. Now that I don’t work in house for Moda anymore I get to go and relax. None of that pesky setting up and tearing down their monstrous booth. It’s way more fun to spend someone else’s money, mainly my Mom’s. We have a list of new stuff we want to find for the shop. So if you will be there say hi because I don’t have to do any work stuff so I imagine I will have a lot more free time then I usually do. I plan to spend my time stalking the booths of designers that I admire and talking to the people I only get to see twice a year. It should be a good time.

Here’s the pattern cover so you can be on the look out for it.