I love the in-between time at the end of the calendar year, from Christmas Eve until just after the new year. We don't do anything too productive. Time seems to slow. Movies are watched. Boxes of jigsaw puzzles are brought out of the basement and put together. And it’s blissfully easy to forget what day of the week it is.
Then the new year comes in hot! In the first days of the month, my family of four went from wearing our pajamas more often than not to juggling ski patrol and indoor soccer and Special Olympics basketball.
It wasn’t any different at my sewing machine. Other than doing some computer work, those in-between days were quilting-free for me. But now I am wrapping up two new patterns and sewing my little heart out, trying to get the necessary samples done.
I am putting the final touches on the design I introduced in November—Twin-Star Cabins—as well as on what I’m tentatively calling Had to Be You. You know I am a sucker for a good heart quilt, and Had to Be You ticks off so many boxes for me ...
I bought a fat quarter bundle of Lizzy House’s Funny Valentine back in May, when I attended H+H Americas. It’s one of those collections that almost too cute to cut into, but I let it shine in a Valentine-themed design that uses those sweet prints as the backdrop to stacks of hearts.
I am a longtime Lizzy House fan, by the way, and I still have a small horde of her early collections (and still regret that I didn’t buy more Catnap back in the day!). I dug deep in the From Bolt to Beauty archives to assemble a little homage to Lizzy House fabric lines of the past ...
Clockwise from the top left:
- Two Lined Drawstring Bags
- Right Round mini-quilt
- The back of Circa 1870
- A Cargo Duffle
- A Jane Market Bag
- Catnap in my Rosemary project [center pic]
But back to the project at hand ... Does "Had to Be You" fit? If you can come up with an alternative name, please share in the comments. Thanks in advance!
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