"The Secret Garden" mini quilt!

When Tilda Australia asked me to be a part of the September Tilda Showcase and design a project using Tone Finnanger's new Cabbage Rose and Memory Lane 'Tilda' fabrics I excitedly answered (or did I shout?)  YES!

I've been buying sweet Tilda fabric since 2009 when no-one in my country stocked it. I bought from the UK and Europe, and also did a few fabric swaps with European bloggers, such was my delight in the pretty prints, and I now have a varied collection from back then till now.

You may recognise the centre of my Secret Garden mini-quilt as the Prim Spin Rabbit stitchery which was inside July's issue of The Stitchery Club. It was the perfect feature to celebrate the different Cabbage Rose and Memory Lane fabrics as combined with simple patchwork squares and paper pieced hexies the stitchery now had a 'frame'.

Visit the Tilda World blog (here) to download the project calendar and see what other Australian designers have been making with these fabric delights.

You can also follow @tilda_australia on Instagram to see each project on the day it's revealed through September!

( You can also follow me on Instagram if you're not there already - @jennyofelefantz )

Want to make my "Secret Garden" mini quilt?

It measures 12 1/2 inches square when finished and can be sewn using fat quarters.

 The full PDF pattern, which includes the rabbit stitchery and detailed quilt instructions can be purchased HERE as an instant download.

NOTE: My Stitchery Club members will receive the mini-quilt pattern in their September 17 issue.
Not a member yet? Join here. It's easy and fun!

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"Heartstrings" - a Tilda Club design...

In Australia most quilt shops stock a new Tilda Club pattern & kit set every second month, and each one is designed by a fellow Aussie designer. These kits are very popular and many quilt shops even post overseas for our offshore sewing lovers!

This time the newest Tilda Club pattern & kit release is one of my own designs! I've been keeping this a secret for a few months, but today you finally get to see "Heartstrings - a Sewing Room Mini Quilt"...

My mini-quilt features a sweet embroidered pocket at the top for storing embroidery hoops...

...a scissor keep and needle-book, plus 3 more pockets along the bottom for holding a rotary cutter, tape measure, seam ripper and other odds and bobs!

For those who would like to see my original project it will be displayed around Australia in the "Tilda Trunk Show" at the quilt shops listed below.

You'll also see a second of my projects on display at the Trunk Show, something I'll show here on the blog next month ( and that one will have a pattern you can purchase from me no matter where you live in the world!). 

Aaaah, the secrecy!

Each of these stores also stock the kits for my Mini-Quilt, but if you're not in their area simply Google the name of the shop and give them a call to purchase one!

"Homemade Stitched With Heartstrings" is something I live. After all, there's nothing quite like homemade is there?

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