Obsessing Over Brights for Summer!!

 

 

We are just LOVING all of the BRIGHTS that are coming out this season! I know Summer is the time of year when we're usually on the look out for these brighter hues and with amazing collections like Bekko Home Décor Sateens, you can create everything from fun skirts and sturdy tote bags to recovering a vintage chair or making an awesome quilt (they're still light enough to feel amazing!)

 

 

 

Pam experimented with them in this funky patchwork quilt she created after getting inspired by the Summer catalogs! Don't think you have to stay within a collection or even a fabric type when making a quilt! She used cottons and sateens from several different collections and the result is just awesome!! Use some Cotton Couture Solids, crazy prints or tonals! Just keep the color family similar or complimentary and you're golden!!

 

 

 

 

We also have these great OMBRE'S from the Simply Color collection and they are just SCREAMING to me made into something fabulous this season! One of our Facebook friends mention creating a super trendy Ombre Skirt, and another said the gradation of these fabrics is perfect for appliqueing flowers!! How will you use them??

 

 

 

 

In case you haven't heard, we just launched our NEWEST Cabbage Rose Exclusive Block of the Month Program, BRIGHTS ALL OVER!! This sampler quilt is exactly like its sister, BLACK WHITE & GRAY ALL OVER featuring an Irish Chain and some beautiful bright fabrics! It last 12 months and SHIPPING IS FREE for US Customers! SIGN UP TODAY!!!

 

 

 

 

Want to create a quick, modern quilt this Summer but don't want to pick out all the fabrics yourself?? Try our GORGEOUS Flying Geese Quilt Kit, NOW 30% OFF until Mother's Day along with some of our other favorite Quilt Kits!! Featuring over 30 different prints, this quilt is sure to brighten up any living space you bring it into! 

 

 

How are you using BRIGHTS this Summer?? Share those projects on Facebook or in the comments! Happy Sewing!!

After-School Sewing Series!!

Our very own Caroline Hulse is teaching an awesome After-School Sewing Class Series for kiddos between 7-12  this season! If you have a little one who would love to learn how to sew this year,  then we would love to have them take part in this fun new series! There will be 4 classes, each meeting on Tuesdays afternoons from 3:45-5:30pm, in which students will learn basic sewing skills with each of the projects featured! No prior sewing experience is required, they will learn great basic sewing skills! Moms and Grammies can make their weekly trip to Cabbage Rose after school on Tuesdays and shop while your kiddo  learns to sew!

Here is what we will be making!

February 12th: Infinity Scarf

February 19th: Pillowcase 

February 26th: Tote Bag (part 1)

March 5th: Tote Bag (part 2)

Students are required to bring a sewing machine (with manual), thread (cream or grey), scissors, pins, and any other necessary sewing supplies. But if your student doesn't have a sewing machine, contact Caroline and we can try to work something out! Don't let that stop your from signing your child up to learn how to sew! Hope to see your kids there!!

Fat Quarter Projects from Art Gallery!!

 

 

 

If you've been following along with our 12 Days of Christmas Sales each day, you'll know that today is a good one!!! Today only, ALL of our Pre-Cut Bundles are 25% OFF!!! That's right, One Yard, Fat Quarter and Fat Eighth Bundles are all on sale in time for you to get some just in time for Christmas projects in for a lot less!

 

 

 

And since we have TONS of Fat Quarter Bundles in the shop in gorgeous collections, I thought it would be fun to do a little Fat Quarter Project Roundup and it just so happens that our amazing friends at Art Gallery Fabrics do a fabulous series on their blog called The Fat Quarter Gang where lots of talented ladies (and fellas!) share FREE PROJECTS utilizing Fat Quarters! All of these ideas are wonderful and I picked some fun ones for Christmas creating! Like these adorable Scrappy Stockings!! I just hung my store-bought ones the other day and have been thinking they look awfully sad! I may just have to make a scrappy pair or two this week!!

 

 

 

 

How sweet is this Easy Fat Quarter Skirt? I love a strippy skirt on young girls, its an especially fun way to play with pattern and color! Grab a Color Story Bundle and make several skirts for your daughters, neices, grandbabies or any little lady in your life!

 

 

 

LOVING the Indie Project Bag!! Everyone I know needs a good tote bag and this is the perfect design for toting around whatever new project your working on, your daily essentials or even a few books on a short day of classes! Perfect for any age depending on what fabrics you choose!!

 

 

 

And since we are living in the age of technology, I'm sure you have a few people you could create the Wrapped Up Kindle Cover for this holiday season!! Make it bold, neutral geometrics for a man or do some juicy colorblocking for a funky lady! If you're giving a new Kindle for Christmas, it would be super cute to give it in one of these handmade covers! I bet you could even adapt the pattern for other sized devices if you're not a Kindle family!

 

 

 

 

This lovely Quilted Pillow Sham is a great addition to a bedroom redo or to pair with a new quilt you are giving someone for Christmas! Simple as pie but the result looks SEW chic! Great for a travel themed gift too, no one could ever leave a pillow behind dressed like that!

 

 

 

There are lots more of these awesome Fat Quarter Gang Projects on the Art Gallery Blog so be sure to browse them all! I'm sure you'll find the perfect project for those new bundles you get ON SALE TODAY!!!