Archive for the ‘The Birds & the Bees’ Category


YOUR City Sampler blocks – #Tula100

The Sew a long has begun! I am totally, jaw droppingly, overwhelmingly floored by how fast these blocks are popping up! You guys and gals are animals! Sew Sweetness , Jaybird Quilts, Crazy Old Ladies, and Gina Pina have put together a City Sampler Quilt Along for my new book, Tula Pink’s City Sampler | 100 Modern Quilt Blocks  and everyone is doing such an incredible job that I thought I should give y’all a little shout out and let other people see all of the fantastic work you have done. Go show these piecers some love on all of their blocks! There are quite a few that are making me jealous. I just might have to make another one here pretty soon. If you are making some blocks go upload them to the Official City Sampler Quilt Along Flickr group so we can all see them and tell you how wonderful you are.

Remember to use the hashtag #Tula100 on Twitter and Instagram we can all look at each others blocks!

 


Quilt Market / Schoolhouse / Acacia Booth #2351

Thursday, May 16th - Schoolhouse schedule is as follows:

[12:00PM] Tula Pink Acacia for FreeSpirit Fabrics x Renaissance Ribbons | Room B116

[1:55PM] Tula Pink x Aurifil Threads | Room A103/10

[3:45PM] Tula Pink’s City Sampler | 100 Modern Quilt BlocksF+W Media, Inc. | Room B119

Come hang out and check out the all the new stuff that I am debuting! Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, & Instagram for tons of Quilt Market coverage the next few days!


Weekender by the Sea

 

Every so often someone will e-mail me pictures of a project using my fabrics that blows me away.  This is one of those cases.  I’m obviously a huge fan of my own fabric, and i’ve always loved this particular Amy Butler bag pattern. Seeing them work so well together makes me smile.  Thank you Shawna Haynes for making this and for originally sharing a photo on my Facebook page.  I encourage you all to share your projects using Tula Pink on my Facebook wall or by hashtagging #TulaPink on Instagram.  I’m always keeping an eye out for fantastic stuff like this to post!

 

Fabrics – The Birds & the Bees by Tula Pink

Pattern – Weekender Travel Bag by Amy Butler

 


Tula on Tour… The England Edition

In honor of my little trip to England next week I made myself some let’s-be-friends international-commemorative-pillows or LBFICP for short. I am really considering making a pillow for every country I visit for my living room. I will call it my magic travel couch project. Seriously, I am going to England! Yay! I will be there for about two weeks. I will have a lot going on while I am there and there will be a lot of opportunities for us to hang out, take a walk, get a drink, fall in love, you know whatever strikes us in the moment. Sooooo….. Here is the list of Whats, Whens and Wheres:

 

WORKSHOP

Thursday – August 16th

9:30 to 4:30 Beanstalks Quilt

NEC – Twisted Threads Festival of Quilts

 

 

BOOK SIGNINGS AT FESTIVAL OF QUILTS

Twisted Threads – Festival of Quilts

NEC, Birmingham August 16 – 19

Stand# A24 Hall 8

Thursday – August 16th – 5:00pm

Friday – August 17th – 11:30am – 12:30pm

Friday – August 17th – 2:30am – 3:30pm

Saturday – August 18th - 11:30am – 12:30pm

Saturday – August 18th – 2:30am – 3:30pm

Sunday – August 19th - 11:30am – 12:30pm

Sunday – August 19th – 2:30am – 3:30pm

 

MEET AND GREET

Tuesday – August 21st

Blue Star Tavern Dining Room

6 Belgrave Mews West Belgravia London SW1X 8HT

 

WORKSHOP

Wednesday – August 22st

Houndstooth Quilt

LADY SEW & SEW

Farm Road
Henley on Thames
Oxon
RG9 1EJ
United Kingdom
Tel: 01491 572528

 

 


Sew 4 Home

Check out the super cool article on sew4home.com about mixing it up with fabric collections. If choosing fabric outside of a specific collection, of which I am entirely against (just kidding :) ) remains an enigma to you then check this out. They have chosen a couple of different collections and mixed them up with velveteens and trims and lace to create a little bedroom scene. It’s fun and informative which we all like. There will be a new post everyday this week so take a break from what ever you are doing and take a peak.


Welcome to Washington…

Last Chance to sign up for my upcoming adventure at Stash Quilts in Walla Walla Washington! We are going to paint the town pink! The Stash girls and I have come up with a two day plan of quilting and talking and good old fashioned quilty debauchery. I am packing my suitcases full of quilts, fabric and drawings. I will be sneak peaking upcoming fabric collections and sharing my fabric design process. If you love fabric or quilting or me and can make it to Walla Walla come and hang out. I plan on drinking a lot of coffee which often leads to over sharing.

Update: The workshop is now sold out!  Still room for one more at the lecture! 

Here are the details:

Friday, July 27
5 – 7 p.m.
Book signing, meet & greet at Stash

STASH | 25 W. Main St.
Saturday, July 28
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Stacks Workshop (lunch included) at
Marcus Whitman Ballroom.

and
5 – 7 p.m.
Tula Pink Lecture at Marcus Whitman
Ballroom

MARCUS WHITMAN | 6 W. Rose St.

 

To sign up for any of the above events contact the lovely ladies at Stash:

509-526-5141
kathy@myfabricstash.com

www.myfabricstash.com

 

 

I will be teaching my Stacks quilt from my book, Quilts from the House of Tula Pink. I plan being charming and informative all day long. You won’t want to miss it.

 


Space Dust! Finally!

Hey kiddos! After two years I finally figured out a way to pattern Space Dust. It’s the first of my PDF patterns that you can download and have right here. Right now. I love a little instant gratification. This pattern is so epic that it’s the one and only new pattern that I am releasing for The Birds and The Bees. It is only in a downloadable format at this time.

 

I consider this to be a great intro to paper foundation piecing. This is my absolute favorite way to make quilts. It’s the simplest way to achieve perfection and the easiest way to piece triangles. You don’t have to worry about bias or matching points, the foundation does all of that for you. As long as you can sew on a line you can make this quilt. Space Dust has 44 unique templates that make up this completely radical meteor ball. I included tons of diagrams, basic paper foundation tips and techniques, a quilting guide and an extremely detailed fabric placement guide in case you want to make this one just like mine.

 

Sew Sweetness did a really thorough review on this pattern if you want some unbiased info on the pattern and to see it in another fabric arrangement. This is my all time favorite quilt and it took me more than a year to figure out how to write it in the simplest way possible so I am definitely not objective on the subject. Yep, I am biased because I LOVE this quilt!

 

If you want to take a crack at it go to my Pattern Shop or hit the buy now button below.

 

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