Lola Pink Fabrics

Christmas Inspiration

Fabric

Aug 012012

Here is a little inspiration for you…plenty of time for Christmas sewing still!

From Katy of I’m a Ginger Monkey featuring Laurie Wisbrun Brrrr! (Do we all know about Fat Quarterly? Maybe I should blog about that too!)

Adorable Vintage Holiday quilt (pattern from Thimble blossoms) from Aneela Hoey featuring her own fabric – Cherry Christmas. SO cute! (PS. there is a sew along for this pattern. You can find details here!)

This awesome project over at Sew 4 Home feature’s Kate Spain’s Joy collection!

Okay! Is that enough to inspire you? There are also tree skirts, stockings and more to be made!! (They are right here!)

British Fabric Bloggers – Great Britain

Fabric

Jul 312012

Who doesn’t recognize the Union Jack? I think I could do a whole post on really fun ideas just using the Union Jack! Maybe another day. As part of our Olympic series, we’ll start with our host country!

There are SO many amazing blogs all over the world – and honestly I am having a hard time deciding what to include. SO I thought this is what we would do – I will start the round up with various fabric designers and pattern/ book authors, and then you to add other fabric related blogs that everyone should know about! (Even your own!) Please keep the links relative (in other words, today is Great Britain…so British blogs)

In no particular order…. (the image will link to their blog)

Katy – from I’m a ginger monkey

Aneela Hoey for Moda Fabrics

Brioni – from Flossybossy

Lynne – from Lily’s Quilts

Cabbages & Roses for Moda Fabrics

Nel Whatmore for Free Spirit Fabrics

Lu Summers for Moda Fabrics

Marie Perkins for Robert Kaufman Fabrics

Okay! Now add the British blogs you want to share with everyone!!!

Opening Ceremonies: Fabric Style

Fabric

Jul 272012

Watching the Olympics is always exciting! Not only do we get to watch the world’s greatest athletes, but we get to learn so much about our wonderful world! What a prefect time to bring a touch of that to our fabric world – and in that same Olympic spirit which requires “mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.”

Over the next couple of weeks we will be posing round-ups of some amazing bloggers and designers that we think you’ll love! We’ll start next week with Great Britain. They are, after all, our wonderful hosts.

Skinny Stripe Quilt in Konas

Fabric, Kona Solids, Quilts

Jul 192012

I love a solids only quilt and this one is a favorite! I found it over on the Robert Kaufman website while picking more colors to add to our collection. Such a great use of the Kona Cotton Solids!

The pattern is free over on the All People Quilts website. If you haven’t been to their site, you should! They’ve got a ton of great projects that are free to download. We’ve made 2 quilts now with their patterns and they’ve both turned out super cute.

This quilt is definitely on my “Make One Day” list … along with about 50 more quilts

Kona Dresses

Finished Projects, Fresh Fabric, Kona Solids

Jul 182012

It’s Kona week here at Lola Pink Fabrics and we’ve got 2 great dresses to show you. Both are made by one of our super, sweet customers. She’s been sewing for years and years and absolutely raves about the Kona cotton solids.

I just love how you can take something as plain as a piece of solid fabric and turn it into something so pretty!So why does she love Konas so much? She loves how bold and saturated the colors are. She also loves the weight of the material saying that pleats hold their shape making Konas a dream to smock with.

I wish I had a fraction of this woman’s talent and skill. I keep hoping that if she comes in to the shop often enough maybe some of her skill will brush off onto me

A Closer Look at the New Konas

Fresh Fabric, Kona Solids, New Fabric

Jul 172012

Robert Kaufman recently released 28 new KONA solid colors and we have 14 of them now in stock. The new colors are so saturated and gorgeous!

I’ve got several projects in mind for these new colors. I’m such a fan of solids only quilts! Though I do love my prints too .. so much to do and so little time to do it!

The colors we got in stock include ..

Melanie picked Kumquat and Wisteria as her favorites yesterday. I shall go with Azalea and Water .. just yummy! So if you had to pick .. which one would you chose as your favorite??

Added bonus: They are on sale right now too! 20% off!!! You can find them all right here!

Improv and New Kona Solids

Fabric

Jul 162012

I wish I had been in Cincinnati this weekend to play with improv piecing with Faith from Fresh Lemon Quilts . You can read about her weekend with their Modern Quilt Guild here.