Check out this super awesome shout out in Mollie Makes Magazine! You know, when I wrote this book I was thinking only as far as making a bunch of cool stuff and sharing it with other people who like to make cool stuff. I never thought about what would happen after it was printed and out there in the world. Then I get emails like the one I received from Mollie Makes that says “hey! we loved your book and gave it a great big page in our magazine because you are rad!”  That may not be exactly how it was worded but that was what I got out of it. Their mantra looks like a page out of my own personal mission statement. For everyone who ordered the book from my shop, they are on their way to me right now! Then on their way to you!

This issue (#11) of Mollie Makes is on the shelves NOW in the UK and the US. I love it when I stumble on awesome new resources for inspiration. It always amazes me how much creativity is floating around out there. It’s mind blowing!

Here’s a little bit about Mollie Makes:

‘Mollie Makes is published thirteen times a year. We curate the best craft from around the world into a tactile, collectable and totally irresistible magazine.

We love to make – handmade is more than just a hobby for us, it’s in everything we do.

We can’t resist hunting down treasures in thrift stores, then customising, re-covering and embellishing our finds with our endless stash of ribbons, buttons, fabrics and felt.

We’re forever on the lookout for new inspiration. Whatever we do, we’re living and loving handmade.’

♡ Making ♡ Thrifting ♡ Collecting ♡ Crafting

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Y’all have seen the cover now it’s time to take a little peek inside my new book Quilts from the House of Tula Pink! The photos in this book are totally blowing my mind. I have to give a great big huge digital hug to Elizabeth Maxon for scouting, styling and photographing all of this (check out her blog here). She totally got what this work was about. It’s about fun and humor and fantasy and the little details that bring a story to life. Love it! Love her!

I have my advance copy and am seeing this all in print for the very first time. I am so proud of this collection of work that I can barely express it in words except to say that I offer you the very best of me. I have never worked so hard or cared so much. Holding the final copy in my hands makes me excited to do more. Tear, sniffle, pride… sigh. Now back to work!

Available for Pre-Order and shipping very very soon! (February/March)

Amazon

Barns and Noble

Martha Pullen

Tula Pink Pattern Shop

Published by Krause Publications: Thanks guys!

This is it kids! My very last Frog Prince. I have been drowning in tweets and emails, facebooked and hit up on every social media and physical outlet asking how they can get their hands on one of these big guns. I must say, I am reluctant to let him go.

If you are new to my site you may wondering what the heck this thing is and why anyone would want it. Well, It’s a giant frog with a fly in his belly and a floating crown, obviously. The entire chunk of cotton sateen measures 60″ x 72″. He was the mascot for Prince Charming, my latest fabric collection for Free Spirit Fabrics. The Prince appeared on the back of all of my Prince Charming quilts. I only had 7 of them made. So that’s the back story. He is rare and precious and I am giving my last one away to one lucky person.

So here’s the deal… Because this is a special give away I am handling this a little different. Entries will stop being counted on February 4th and a winner will be announced on monday February 5th. Every pattern purchased from my online shop will count as one entry, every book pre-order will count as three entries. Anyone who has already pre-ordered my book prior to this post is already playing with three entries. For example, if you were to pre-order my book and buy two patterns you would have five entries in the pot. Each entry will be assigned a number and the winner will be randomly selected.

This is not a raffle people, it’s a bonus! Keep shopping from my online shop like you already do and you will be rewarded. It’s like the toy at the bottom of the cereal box only this one is way bigger. Everyone wins!

Re-cap:

each pattern purchase = 1 entry

each book pre-order = 3 entries

Winer announced on February 5th!

GO TO SHOP

So, um… I haven’t been around a whole lot the last month and for this I am almost really sorry. I wanted to say it’s because I have been writing a book but the truth is that I wrote this last year so that excuse is out the window. Hey, a book! That is a way better topic than where I have been.

So here is my book. Quilts from the House of Tula Pink. I was lobbying for the subtitle “Super Awesome Crafty Crap” but in the end everyone decided that the less offensive “20 Fabric Projects to Make, Use & Love” would go over better with the masses. So here is it: 10 amazing quilts and each with it’s own accessory project, fun for everyone!

The photography totally blew my mind. We are talking some serious quilt porn here. The photos were all taken in this crazy abandoned apartment. I like to call the style post-apocalyptic chic. It’s very cool if I do say so myself. The book should start shipping late February. You can pre-order it directly from me in my shop. All books ordered from me will be signed, I have a lovely signature I think you will like it.

GO TO SHOP

Hey troops! I am having my first semi-annual Show and Tell at The Quilt Shoppe in Stewartsville, Missouri. If you can make it out it should be super fun! So here is how it’s going to go. On Sunday, November 6th I am going to be at The Quilt Shoppe showing the whole design process for creating Nightshade. You will be able to take a look at all of my sketches and process materials for creating the collection. The whole mystery revealed in an intimate setting. See what it takes to create a fabric collection, the work and thoughts that invoke the idea and lead to the final product. Ask me questions, here my witty yet informative answers. Since this is the first one I will be bringing some of my Parisville and Prince Charming sketches as well. This will be an informal sort of discussion, you know, like a bunch of friends just hangin’ out talking about fabric design. I’m excited! I hope to see you there!

Tula Pink Show and Tell
Sunday, November 6th
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
The Quilt Shoppe
118 Hill Street
Stewartsville, MO 64490
quiltshoppeonline.com

Happy Halloween!!! This is my favorite holiday. It’s a creative holiday filled with sugar and spice. Halloween is a time when we all get to live our wildest fantasies. I love beautiful things, I love shapes and details that reflect a kind of over the top decadence. I also have a dark side. Nightshade is the perfect marriage of dark and beauty with a tiny hint of humor.

When I decided I was going to design a Halloween collection I had a really specific idea of what that would and would not entail. I wanted to capture the spirit of the holiday not rest on the icons. My Halloween is about costumes, fantasy, dark mansions and creepy butlers, witch’s brew, mystery and a dash of magic. I intentionally left out the obvious themes and colors. The collection centers around three witch sisters. Each with her own talents as well as her own skeletons. There will be more about that later.

The prints in Nightshade are subtly sinister. Spider Blossoms is a lovely little dark floral concealing spiderwebs, lightning bolts, celestial moons and skulls with crossbones. All the makings of a Halloween bouquet. There are apothecary jars filled with mysterious ingredients that could only lead to the darkest of concoctions. A fishnet lace formed into clockwork ravens that are dispatched to do their witch’s bidding. Of course, all of the best Halloween magic happens at midnight so the collection would be incomplete without a “dark and stormy night” print filled with lightning, stars, moons and stylized clouds. Coven, the main print, is a portrait collage of my three Nightshade witches. They are the heart of the story and every print branches out from them.

So here is the nitty gritty… Nightshade is scheduled to ship to your favorite quilt shop and online stores in April. Why am I showing you all of this Halloweeny goodness so early? It’s not to be mean, I promise. Every once in a while I hear that someone can’t find my fabrics in their area. Now is the time little troops, to let your local shops know that you want Nightshade!

I have been traveling this past week doing all kinds of fun stuff.  I went to the aquarium  where I Instagram’d (@TulaPink) hints of a possible new fabric collection in the far but not so far off future and visited old friends from home.  I started off in San Jose, then San Francisco, Los Angeles south to Laguna Beach and finally ended up back in Los Angeles. It’s crazy how fast a place can change when you are busy whiling away in the country. One night on my tour de force I wondered into a tattoo shop where I met the lovely Ina, an artist and all around awesome gal. I decided to let her take a needle to my knuckles. I walked in for a tattoo and walked out with 8 of them! Can’t wait until it heals! I was afraid that this experience might lead me down a path of addiction like so many of my friends but I think that will have to wait until I forget how much this thing hurt. It’s also very distracting when I type.

Hey! I’m on Instagram! It’s like twitter but with pictures. What? That’s amazing! Now you can track what I’m up to even if you don’t know how to read. Let’s face it, y’all just look at the pictures anyway. It’s a free iPhone app. Everyone is doing it so join me in a picture party. Follow this! @tulapink

Lets celebrate National Sewing Month in September together!  Join the Wesminster Fibers Sew-Along, led by ME!  How fun!  Burdastyle has teamed up with FreeSpirit Fabrics and Coats & Clark to put this event on and its going to be a total blast.  Beginning to advanced sewists are welcome to participate.  It will run the entire month of September (9/1/11 – 9/30/11)  For all of the information regarding sign up and this event, click HERE!

Don’t forget to watch my super dorky video too. I work hard to be that lame so please appreciate it! I had to make it on my phone and I have no idea how to edit video so there are some lovely moments of pure humiliation. All in all I think it’s highly representative of me.