Day 11: Fat Quarter Shop!

Thanks to Aurifil for their fabulous post yesterday. Who doesn't love some awesome thread? I have designed a few projects for their blog. I used their thread in this book. Their colors are to die for! In case you missed it, go and check see what this box is all about!

Today I welcome the Fat Quarter Shop! Kimberly Jolly founded the Fat Quarter Shop in 2003. She is an avid quilter [though I don't know how she does it with four kids and a busy business!].

She puts together some fabulous kits and creative bundles and. Her husband, Kevin, has joined in the business. You can't miss their clever marketing bundles and of particular interest, take a look at their holiday shop, The Christmas Cloth Store at the Fat Quarter Shop. Here's fellow Henry Glass designer's Snow Much Fun Flannel.

Fat Quarter Shop has Kate Spain's Joy collection too!

You can still enter to win some wonderful things at the Martingale, Henry Glass, Fat Quarterly, and Pat Sloan.

Enjoy!

xo, L

Day 9: Welcome Fat Quarterly!

Thanks to Kim Diehl for her great post yesterday on the Henry Glass blog! You can still enter the giveaway over at Henry Glass, at Pat Sloan's post here and Martingale's here.

Today, we have the fabulous folks over at Fat Quarterly magazine. Pat has a two-part interview with the Fat Quarterly family. I love to read the e-zine because I can take it with me when I am sitting around waiting for my kids when they're in tae kwon do, piano or whatever else I am waiting for!

I was asked which was my favorite design to make. I would have to say that I had tons of fun with the Holiday Musical Chairs and the Oh Nuts! ornament.  For the Holiday Musical Chairs, it was all about having fun with the fabrics and moving that square around!

Oh Nuts! was a favorite because my son sat beside me watching it's progress. He had a serious interest in the design.

Enjoy!
xo, L

Day 6: Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced

Thank you to Kate Spain for the awesome post yesterday! Make sure that you go through and read everyone's posts. Each one so far has been so fun yet so different! Pat Sloan's giveaway is still open.

• Wednesday, July 18 - La Vie En Rosie with Carrie Nelson
• Thursday, July 19 - Sew Mama Sew ~ Beth Wilson
• Friday, July 20 - Pat Sloan
• Saturday, July 21 - Ellen Luckett Baker of The Long Thread
• Sunday, July 22 - Kate Spain
• Monday, July 23 - Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced
• Tuesday, July 24 - Martingale & Co.
• Wednesday, July 25 - Henry Glass Fabrics
• Thursday, July 26 - Fat Quarterly
• Friday, July 27 - Aurifil
• Saturday, July 28 - Fat Quarter Shop
• Sunday, July 29 - Mark Lipinski 

My next guest is Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced. We met while waiting for the shuttle to the airport this spring in Kansas City right after Quilt Market. I know, mama told me not to talk to strangers. I really liked Lee as we started talking and I had myself a guest here in a matter of minutes. Perhaps she agreed because I talked her ear off but I digress and she hasn't said so. There was just something that was oozing with sincerity and confidence. I like that about people and can pick it up easily. I was right and let's add talented, nice and enthusiastic. Lee is one of those people that you like to have around you. You'll see when you read her blog. She does so much and she has two little ones to boot!

She co-designed and co-hosted the Summer Sampler Quilt Quilt-Along. Love it!

She has some adorable tutorials on her site. I love these place mats!

In addition, she hosts, W.I.P. Wednesday. 

Yep, it's ok to talk to strangers. Go and give her love, won't you? She's made a version of the squirrel ornament. Very cute.

I love her version. You can see it here.

Good luck.

xo, L

p.s. She just designed a tree skirt tutorial for you too. Check it out while you're there!

Day 5: I Welcome Kate Spain

[Credit: Kate Spain]

Thank you Ellen Luckett Baker for her lovely post yesterday! You can still enter her giveaway and Pat's!

I am excited to introduce today's guest too! Kate Spain is a designer who licenses her designs in many industries beyond the quilting industry. I LOVE her style and her blog is a lovely read. I feel especially grateful for her participation in this book tour because she was in the midst of moving. Thank you, Kate!

If you haven't seen her designs before, she designs lovely fabric for Moda. I love her holiday line, Joy, and am going to make some things with it. Fat Quarter Shop has the line here. Fabulous, isn't it?

[Credit: Fat Quarter Shop]

Her new line [October release], Cuzco, is gorgeous. Fat Quarter Shop is going to have the line in their shop.

[Credit: Fat Quarter Shop]

I love the goods that she designs for Crate and Barrel. 

[Credit: Crate and Barrel]

See? Talented. Nice too. My son's comments: "We should have purchased that lemon cup that you loved and she used to design for Nickelodeon? Awesome." Ok, I had the cup in my hand and headed to pay but said young man was grumpy that day.  I had to put it down and leave the store. Hrmph! 

She designs many other beautiful goods and you will have to drop by her website and blog to read about the latest because I am beginning to sound like a stalker. Well, I am but don't tell her!

xo, L

Day #3: Sew Merry and Bright with Pat Sloan

Thanks for hopping along the Sew Merry and Bright book tour! I'm enjoying the posts and I want to thank the guests so far! Do go and visit Carrie Nelson and the Sew, Mama, Sew! site for their posts!

Today's guest is the super talented Pat Sloan! She is one of my most favorite people in this industry and she has more energy than my kids! I enjoy seeing her smile when I see her at Quilt Market. She has her own quilting business, works with Aurifil, has a new line for Moda and is the fabulous hostest of American Patchwork and Quilting Radio. Her talent goes on and on. Love you, Pat! Run over to her blog to read her great post!

Here's the list of guests for the Sew Merry and Bright book tour! Please visit each one for a fabulous post and a chance to win a book!

Thanks for hopping along on the Sew Merry and Bright book tour. Carrie Nelson and Sew, Mama, Sew! have done a fabulous job so far! Carrie's giveaway is still on until today so please do stop over there and enter!

In case you missed it yesterday, Sew, Mama, Sew! asked me for a project and when Lil' A saw this Robert Kaufman polar bear fabric, he just had to have it! Sounds like his mother, doesn't he? In case you haven't seen it, the tutorial for the "have jingle will rock" body pillow is over at Sew, Mama, Sew!

Enjoy the tour stops! Have a great weekend!
xo, L

Day 2: Sew Merry and Bright book tour

Holiday Musical Chairs Quilt [Sew Merry and Bright by Linda Lum DeBono]

We are on day 2 of this little book tour of mine! Thank you to Carrie for a great post yesterday! You can still enter her giveaway. It's a cool one.

Today my guest is Sew, Mama, Sew!. I love their site and it is a great source of inspiration. Not only is Sew, Mama, Sew! a store but their blog is full of tutorials, giveaways and great information for quilters or sewers. The ladies at Sew, Mama, Sew! invited me to be a special guest and what does a special guest do? She brings along a special project, of course! Go and check it out. Say hello to Little A because he is featured too! Enjoy it!

On their shop site, you will find lots of great holiday fabrics. Some fabrics are too cute to cut up! What do I do? I design easy projects that have large blocks so that I can feature the fabric as much as the design itself. That's what happened when I designed the quilt above. I loved the hot pink fabric and didn't want to cut it up into little pieces so I made sure that I incorporated that into the design. The same goes for the easy placemat designs in the book. Great, easy projects that still maintain the integrity of the design of that favorite project.

Peace Place Mat

[Sew Merry and Bright by Linda Lum DeBono]

So hop over to the Sew, Mama, Sew! blog today for some fabulous fun!

xo, L

Back To Reality!

Quilt Market came and went. It was an upbeat market and lots of new opportunites presented itself. Here I am with my spiral-bound copy of my book Sew Merry and Bright at the Martingale booth! 

Did you go? What did you find that excited you? I have posted some photos on Facebook and will be putting them up here. I came home and got sick with a cold that zapped my energy. Will be back with photos.

Just wanted to share this one of me and my friend, Brigitte Heitland of Zen Chic.  She just debuted her first line of fabrics with Moda! Yay!

I love her modern aesthetic!

xo,

L

Cool Girls Quilt And Other Stuff!

Exciting news for Martingale & Co. fans. Martingale has just introduced ShopMartingale! Cool Girls Quilt is still available in print but you can now get the e-book version! Whoo! Hoo! 

Have you embraced technology and started buying e-books or .pdf patterns yet? I still love a great book but for some things, a digital download works too!

I recently told you about my new patterns with Patterns Gone Digital. Kindred Quilts is carrying them so give them a call or e-mail to ask about the patterns. 

They turned out great, didn't they? 

I still have my on-line class up over at CraftEdu and I will be working on more. 

Now start clicking and exploring! I know, I am such an enabler! 

Have a great weekend!

xo, L

Whoo! Hoo! I Can't Wait For Christmas!

The awesome folks at Martingale & Co. just sent over the cover for my new book, "Sew Merry and Bright." I love it!

With each publication, there's a lot of people in the background who provide support or wonderful products that inspire me to design these projects and to write these books. Fabric companies like Henry Glass Fabrics, Robert Kaufman Fabrics, Michael Miller Fabrics, Moda Fabrics and Adornit are make beautiful products. Aurifil makes equally lovely threads and Kindred Quilts provides me with much great friendship and support. 

Thanks to all.

You deserve it.

Really, really love all that you do.

xo,  L

Happy Days

The publication of this pattern is really a happy day for me. For a long time a lot of life things have been sucking up a lot of my energy and consequently, aside from magazine and book work, I neglected to
explore the next step for my designs. Then, Rebecca from Patterns Gone Digital, and I chatted. It was a good fit for me and here we are. This is the first pattern that I have designed for Patterns Gone Digital and I hope that there will be many more.

The patterns are available in the quilt shops and are sold like an iTunes card. You buy the placard and take it home. Once you're home, you will then scratch off the code and download the pattern.

Let me know what you think!

xo,

L

Where Did July Go?

I was out buying school supplies the other day. School supplies! Can you believe it? How's your summer? Mine's a blur! I can't believe that it's August already. I am working on my book and it is killing me. Don't get me wrong, I love it. It's just that I've had a lot of trouble focusing. I am still coughing albeit less so now. The allergy season this year is killing me. I did manage to go into NYC to visit Henry Glass and I stopped by Kinokuniya. I love their books.

From stitcheries to felted wool, I love it all. The layouts are what make the books, don't you think?

I had to pop by Pennington Quilt Works too. These pincushions/sachets caught my eye.

And so did these pillows!

xo, L

New Place

I want to show you my little canvas. I know that I don't need a new blog. But, I sorta did need another one.  It's not going to be like this one here. Instead, Repeats & Selvage will be a place where I jot notes down, think out loud. In the long run who knows if it will stay around. Sometimes I have these random thoughts that have no place to go. This blog will still be around. Don't go away, ok?

xo, L

What To Do? (Long post)

What does one do when she's sick for three weeks? (and that three weeks started on the very last day of school until today?) What does one do when all four of the summer classes that she's signed her kids up for are cancelled at the last minute? What does one do when she is also juggling some work and deadlines at the same time? Well, she says, let's get creative!

First though, I had to deal with a nasty cold. I have been sick and coughing up a storm for the past three weeks now. I think that I am finally over the big, bad part of this awful cold and I only have a tickle now. Summer colds are the worst. I do recommend Buckley's Cough Syrup but I think it's only available in Canada! It tastes vile but it helps a lot! We had a few visitors and we had some play time with friends.

During this time, my kids' summer plans went out the window. Has this ever happened to you? My kids signed up for engineering, chemistry, DNA and algebra and they couldn't find enough kids for this new program. So I had to get creative. Luckily there were still spots open in the tae kwon do survival camp.

It was fun for a week and then we had to invent some other fun activities. We created our own stuffies by drawing monsters and aliens onto fabric, sewing and then stuffing them with fiberfill.

We made quilts with fabric in Mom's studio.

We visited our family in Canada and did some research on rocks and minerals. Here's my nephew, Dr. J!

 We wrote research papers on the characteristics of the rocks and minerals.

All the while this gave mommy time so that she could work on some magazine and book deadlines. Do you want to see some awesome holiday fabric? I hope that it gets you inspired enough to start some holiday projects. That way you won't be crunched for time later!  First, there's Henry Glass in the stack. Ooooh!

Robert Kaufman's in there too! Awww!

Michael Miller Fabrics does a wonderful job with holiday too! Double ooooh!

Adornit has some holiday cuties too!

I'd say that we made a great recovery! Our summer is well on its way. How about yours!

xo, L