New Fabric Line: Tonga Zen and New Patterns

SewCalGal recently had the opportunity to attend a reveal presentation of a new line of batik fabric at Cozy Creative Center.

This new line of fabrics is from Timeless Treasures.

Daniela  Stout is the owner of Cozy Creative Center (previously Cozy Quilt Shop), and the author of many designs and books published by Cozy Designs, as well as the famous Strip Tube Ruler and Jr.  She is also a fabric designer for Timeless Treasures.

You may be familiar with Tonga Cabana, which was designed by Daniela Stout and became a very popular fabric line.  She has now released her 2nd fabric line called Tonga Zen, which has a collection of 25 beautiful batik fabrics that include vibrant colors, as well as perfect blenders, with some really cute batik stamped designs.  Plus, there are quite a few new patterns designed specifically for this new collection.

 

Daniela has also designed three new patterns that look great made with Tonga Zen and can be purchased at Cozy Creative Center (wholesale orders can also be placed for these new designs):

Drop Diamonds

Brighter Side

Bouquet Toss 

Plus, with each Pre-cut Tonga Treat bundle comes bundled with a free pattern:

2 1/2" strips, 10" Square pre-cuts, 6" strips, Fat Quarter Bundle, and 5" pre-cuts.

Also, for a limited time, Cozy Creative Center  has a kit with Tonga Zen fabric and the Winter Soltice pattern, nicknamed the "Zen Kit".

Your should be able to find Tonga Zen fabrics (yardage and pre-cuts) in your favorite shops.   If not, let them know you would like them to carry it as they may not yet be aware of this beautiful new fabric.  Of course, you can find the entire collection at Cozy Creative Center

You can find Timeless Treasures at:

http://www.ttfabrics.com/
http://www.ttfabrics.com/blog/
https://www.facebook.com/ttfabrics

You can find Daniela Stout at:

http://www.cozyquilt.com/
https://www.facebook.com/CozyQuilt
https://www.facebook.com/DanielaStoutatCozy?fref=ts
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Ea9yiDZ2grViTGvc0XzZA

Dancing Butterfly Pattern, by Leah Day

Leah Day has released a new pattern that I'm excited to share insights about, with you today.  The "Dancing Butterfly" pattern combines machine applique techniques with free-motion quilting, to make a finished quilt that measures 64" x 72".

The downloadable pattern comes with easy to follow instructions,  great visuals, fabric requirements, cutting instructions, finishing instructions,  free-motion quilting design worksheets for each design in this pattern, as well as full size templates for the applique' butterfly.  The finished quilt will have 12 applique' butterfly blocks and 24 free-motion quilting sampler blocks, with supporting videos for each block and FMQ design.

But even better yet, the purchase of this comprehensive 60 page pattern gives you access to over 40 videos that you can use to follow along at your own pace.   Highlights of these videos:

Video #1 - Dancing Butterfly Pattern Introduction
Video #2 - How to Fuse and Cut the Butterfly Shapes
Video #6 - Preparing and basting blocks
Video #9 - Troubleshooting FMQ Issues
Video #11-#46 - FMQ Designs (each come with a FMQ worksheet in the downloadable Dancing Butterfly Pattern)
Video #47 - How to connect the blocks with binding
Video #48 - Attaching the binding
Video #49 - The End

The pattern includes instructions to assemble the blocks, using a suggested layout, but you can also modify the layout as you wish.

There is also an optional Facebook group for this quilt along, with links to this group included with the pattern.   

Click Here to learn more.   A printed version of this pattern will be released on December 10th. 

SewCalGal highly recommends the Dancing Butterfly  pattern and quilt-along, with Leah Day, for anyone interested in free-motion quilting and wanting to build on their skills.  At $29.95, this pattern, including videos, is an exceptional value and will certainly be fun to make.

This pattern would also make an excellent gift.  If you are interested in purchasing it as a gift, simply submit such a request through Leah's contact form at: LeahDay.com/contact  and let them know that you want to purchase one, or more copies, as a gift.  They will provide an email with the steps to support this type of purchase.

SewCalGal also wants to share that for those that one of the 2015 Free-Motion Quilting Challenges will also have an option to make a pillow, based on the Dancing Butterfly Pattern, but this option will only apply to those that purchase this pattern from Leah and join her QAL.  More details for the 2015 FMQ Challenge will be released on SewCalGal the end of December.

You can find Leah Day at:

www.LeahDay.com
www.FreeMotionProject.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Leah-Day-Quilting/108034899216421
https://www.youtube.com/user/lcvday
http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/

Quit Pattern Showcase: Glory Stars

This beautiful quilt design is named "Glory Stars" and designed by Sandi Blackwell.    And this pattern was created for the Quilted in Honor program, hosted by Island Batik.

The Quilted In Honor (QIH) program, led by Island Batik, is a fund raising initiative for Operation Homefront, one of the top military fundraising organizations which focuses on helping wounded veterans and their families, along with enlisted soldiers (E1-E6) and their families during situations of emergencies not covered by the government (e.g. illness in the family and they need funds to fly home, accidents, etc.).

Through this program, should you decide to purchase this pattern, or one of many patterns designed for this program, or fabric from the QIH collection, proceeds from the sale are donated to Operation Homefront.  In the case of this pattern, 100% of the proceeds are generously donated to Operation Homefront.  

This pattern is a downloadable design available from Landauer Publishing for a reasonable fee of $10.   And don't forget, 100% of the proceeds of the sale of this pattern are donated to Operation Homefront.

The pattern makes 3 possible sizes - 40"x31", 60" x 47" and 79" x 63" and it is available exclusively from Landauer Publishing.

Sandi also teaches a class at Craftsy "Sensational Square-agonals.

You can find Sandi Blackwell/Stitched Buy at:

http://www.stitchedbuy.com
https://www.facebook.com/stitchedbuy?fref=ts

You can find Laundauer Publishing at:

http://landauerpub.com
https://www.facebook.com/LandauerPublishing
https://twitter.com/LandauerPub

You can find Island Batik at:

http://www.islandbatik.com/
http://www.facebook.com/islandbatik

Quilt Pattern Showcase: Heroic Stars

This beautiful quilt design is named "Heroic Stars" and designed by Penny Haren.  The pattern is a downloadable design available from Landauer Publishing for a reasonable fee of $8.   And, 100% of the proceeds of the sale of this pattern are donated to Operation Homefront, by way of the Quilted in Honor Program, hosted by Island Batik.

The finished size of this quilt is 60 1/2" x 74 1/2"" and it is available exclusively from