Le Challenge #7 Stripes

Stripey Stripes... Here are our entries for this month's le challenge

You can find more about this 1st birthday present at Made in Home

To see my stripes and dots clutch go to Charm About You

And as a little surprise this month we have Jess from The Elven Garden...

I really love stripes. I know a lot of people have a thing for dots, but I find myself being drawn to stripes a lot more than dots. I love the movement striped fabric can give quilt blocks - and how different they can look depending on whether they are cut on the bias, or along the grain. I also love that stripes are really great masculine fabrics. 

Last year, I decided to make my eight year old son a quilt, and in talking to him about what he'd like he mentioned that he loves stripes. A bit of playing with Touchdraw, and the design for my Giant Chevron quilt was born.

 My son chose his five favorite colours for the stripes, and I pulled the least feminine fabrics from my stash in those colours and made his quilt. He really loves it - and is especially proud of the fact that his quilt has been in a magazine (the pattern was published in the July issue of Quilters Companion.) Over the last few months I've had some fabulous quilty friends testing the pattern for me, and it's now available from my Etsy and Craftsy stores. I'd also like to offer a copy for this month's Le Challenge linky party :o)

Thanks Jess! We both enjoyed testing the pattern and you can see ours and other versions of the quilt here.

Check back tomorrow for the next theme!

If you are new to le challenge, find more information here.

For a chance to win a $25 Fat Quarter Shop gift certificate and a copy of the Giant Chevron Quilt pattern make sure you link up your finished projects and please remember to include the button or a link to Le Challenge in your blog post or Flickr description.

How did stripes inspire you? 

Stripey Stripes {In Search of Inspiration}

I am a big fan of stripes. You may remember my entry for the maritime le challenge – yes stripes. It is such a graphic statement, so simple and so elegant.

Pictures found on Pinterest

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

Moroccan interiors

 Stripes on linen for a vintage feel

Or you are more a colourful stripes kind of person

1. Print from Showler and Showler (I have one in Baby MiH’s room and there are amazing); 

2. Milk jugs from Hanne Rysgaard Ceramics; 

3. Striped Cushions from Sweet Home London; 

4. Tribal Arrowhead Necklace from Lucie Ellen

So what have you been up to? I have finished mine (I still cannot believe it) – and here is a sneak peek…

Link up your STRIPES projects on 15th November for a chance to win a 

$25 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop!

Stripes of inspiration

Stripes seem kind of obvious. We all know the parallel bands of colour and when you start looking there seems to be stripes everywhere! Here is some fabric inspiration and a couple of other ways to see stripes...

Fabulous big, bold stripes

Racing stripes

Stripey bags

Stars and Stripes

Stripes don't have to be lines, how about dotted stripes?

or scalloped stripes?

Christmas stripes look beautiful.

I love the idea of patterns as stripes and have just been reminded of this great quilt pattern that I would love to make one day!


Quilty Fun by Lori Holt



Link up your STRIPES projects on 15th November for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop!

So how are you all getting on? Any stripey ideas yet?

And the winner is...

Maria and her Ghastlies purse (I do love that print!). Congratulations!

next up...

The next theme is STRIPES.


I'm already thinking candy canes and snuggly stripey scarves but who knows what we will come up with.

Maybe you can combine the theme with a Christmas make or surprise us by thinking outside the (stripey) box?!

We will see you on the 15th November with your finished projects and your chance to win a $25 gift certificate for the Fat Quarter Shop :)

Le Challenge #6 - Thriller

ooohhhhhhhh it's thriller time!

Here's what we've been up to:

See more about this lampshade at Charm About You

More on the mittens and a chance to win them on Made in Home

Check back tomorrow for the next theme!

If you are new to le challenge, find more information here. 

For a chance to win a $25 Fat Quarter Shop gift certificate make sure you link up your finished projects and please remember to include the button or a link to Le Challenge in your blog post or Flickr description.

Go ahead and thrill us with your finishes...

Thrilling thrillers - some last minute inspiration

How are you all getting on with your entries? I have finally started mine, whoohoo! Which means that I may not have to take pictures an hour before presenting my entry - I am so organised! Anyway Lu and I had a chat today, and we are thinking that thriller was way too easy...

I had two very very different projects in mind for this theme, and in the end it came down to time (of course if I had started before...). The first idea came from what I am actually reading..

Oh yes, a thriller just there... Not sure you would be impressed if my entry is me presenting the book I had just finished - it is impressive as I have not read much since Baby MiH arrived, but still.. What other thrillers could inspire me? Nothing like a bit of 007...

So I thought I could make another book clutch using this cover... if only I had a lot of time... So no, but probably one more project on my to-do-list for another day...

And these films, all thrillers people, right there...

or this poster...

I cannot paper piece (well I can but badly), please please someone make an entry based on this Thriller poster..

Amazing inspiration, well I think it is, so my entry is going to look like this:

If you want to see a bit more about my entry, check my blog

I did mention my two ideas were very different.

Cannot wait to see your entries on 15th! You still have a bit of time to start and finish your project, big or small and have a chance to win a $25 voucher at the Fat Quarter Shop.

If you are new to le challenge, find more information here.