Rosalie Quinlan Designs

Petit Noel Give Away

My new Christmas booklet "Petit Noel" is arriving from the printers tomorrow! I am so excited about it! It has 9 simple christmas sewing projects and would be perfect for Christmas in July groups etc. Many of the projects have been designed as little gifts which work well as Kris Kringle gifts for friends and teachers etc. I have been sharing pictures of it with you for a while now so I will Just show the cover this time.  I have decided to do a Petit Noel give away! Just tell me your favourite thing about christmas in a comment on this post. I will choose 3 winners to each receive a copy of the new booklet. I will choose the winners on the 8th of June. Good luck!

Enjoy your creation!

Rosalie xx

Fairy Garden canvas

I have been playing with my wool felt stash and cosmo threads to create this Fairy Garden canvas on linen. My beautiful Oma Hillie in the Netherlands used to make pictures using similar techniques. My Mother has one that My Oma made for her when she was a little girl in the 40's or 50's. I really enjoyed designing this one!LECIEN has some amazing new metallic threads which add just the right sparkle to this project. The threads are very strong. I pulled them through four layers of fabric including a fusible wadding (parlan) and they didn't break or fray. When it came to ironing the work, I was worried that they may melt but I had no melting or shrivelling even on a hot setting. I think I am in love!I am madly working on writing this pattern and several others that I have shown you. Why do I just want to keep making things instead of getting the patterns finished??? I am being naughty like leaving my homework to the last night at school!This little fairy is in a teacup chariot pulled by two obliging snails!And here is a shot of the finished canvas. It measures 20" x 40" when wrapped around the artists canvas.

Enjoy your creation!

Rosalie xx

seriously obsessed with stitchery

I am crazy in love with stitchery at the moment! The following photos are from a quilt I have designed for an upcoming booklet. I have used the hanky linen in Birch colour for the background and Cosmo #346 as the thread. 

The design is an image taken from my new fabric range with LECIEN called "Folk Heart". I will show you some pics of the fabric when I am allowed to! It will be available a little later in the year. When I repeated the image four times in a cross, I liked what I saw!

I am stitching so much that I have holes in my fingers! I sure do have a smile on my face though!

Just loving chain stitch for extra definition with a thicker line.

Enjoy your stitching today!

Rosalie xx

P.S. I have just checked the proof for "Petit Noel" and it is on its way to the printer! I should be holding it soon!

Fairy Floss

I have been trying very hard to finish one thing before starting another! I have been successful in this for the most part, however, A little Fairy named Floss would not leave me alone until I brought her into being! Here she is... She has removable ballet slippers, tutu and button-on wings  She will be available as a Melly and me pattern very soon!

Enjoy your creation!

Rosalie xx

P.S. My new Christmas booklet "Petit Noel" is only a couple of weeks away!

Pink and Green Should Always Be Seen...

I have spent all of my Easter break stitching pink on green! I just love it!

 
Cosmo 503 is quickly becoming a favourite (much better than Easter eggs!):

 
Enjoy your stitching!

Rosalie xx

 

Winner!

And the winner is Dorothy Ramage. Congrats Dorothy!! Send me an email so we can organise delivery of Quilting From Little things! You are going to love it!

Rosalie xx

Quilting - From Little Things Giveaway!

It is with much excitement that I am able to share with you all the new book from Master Quilter Sarah Fielke!  The book is named "Quilting-from little things...". This is a MUST-HAVE for all avid quilters and lovers of fresh, bright and fun fabrics! I was so excited when the mailman brought me an advance copy of the book. It has provided hours of "drool time" for me as I pored through the pages!  I adore Sarah's unique ability to combine colours and patterns so that the fabrics sing as part of the whole. The book includes inspiration for fabric combining, as well as many fabulous well-thought-out technique instructions as she shares with the reader twenty delicious projects. The following is my all-time favourite quilt... I can't wait to get stuck into some of these projects myself! I do however have to make a big sacrifice as I award one lucky blog reader with my copy of "Quilting-from little things..."  Please leave a comment on my blog for your chance to win my beloved copy! (Don't worry, I will be rushing out to buy another copy for myself very soon!) I will choose one of you by Random Number Generator on Saturday 16th of April. Good luck! The rest of you will have to join me in buying your own copy or keep trying to win a copy on the remainder of the blog tour! Now I am off to make a cup of tea, curl up on the couch with a quilt and drool a little more as I immerse myself in quilting book bliss! Sarah- you've done it again!!!!

Rosalie xx

Sewn Toy Tales

The arrival of our new book is getting closer!!!

Melly and I are so excited to be able to tell you a little more about the new "Melly & me" book which is due to hit stores within the next two months or so.

Sewn Toy tales is a fabulous book full of 12 softie projects that are aimed at both boys and girls and also suit a range of sewing skill levels.  These project are just too cute and I am sure you will fall in love with them all.  There is also a great range of sewing techniques and tips enclosed that will help you create the perfect softie!

This book is also really exciting as Melly and I have teamed back up as sisters to work on an exciting new project. We have contributed 6 patterns each to the book and have an exciting competition planned for when we receive some copies. We are going to ask you all to guess who designed and made each softy (but more of that later!)

We hope to start showing you some of the projects enclosed over the coming weeks to give you a little taste of what you can expect.  You can see the cute as a button "Alexander" caterpillar on the cover - and here is a little look at one of the projects enclosed - "Finnegan" the Frog

"Sewn Toy Tales" is published by the wonderful David & Charles who have been so great to work with. We know that there are plenty of stores that are starting to take pre-orders, so please be on the look out. For any shops, please contact your local David & Charles distributor or Creative Abundance to secure your order.

So exciting!

Melly.

Imagine.... Vietnam.

We are so unbelievably excited to finally release the details of our first "Imagine..." retreat which is being launched in Vietnam from 22nd - 29th October this year!!

In the right side bar you will see the "Imagine... Vietnam" button.  Please click on this to download the complete itinerary and registration information.  

This is a really exciting opportunity for any of you (from any corner of the globe) to join Leanne Beasley , Melanie Hurlston and Myself in a week of complete indulgence! Imagine 7 night in an amazing 5 star resort stitching, touring, dining and spending time with other like minded women, while soaking up some of the amazing Vietnamese culture. We hope you will join us!!

We are also very excited to have an amazing Travel Agent Escort, Annette Dal Sasso, coming along with us. All bookings and queries can be directed to her as per the details on the registration form. 

Imagine....

 

Painting and sewing

Over the last few weeks I have been very busy painting walls, doors and cupboards, trying to get a unit ready for my Son to move into. A very scary thought that my firstborn will be moving out in a very short while! Will I handle it? Can I cut the umbilical??? I hope so!

On another topic, I have been finishing off my new Christmas booklet. I think you are going to love it! It is called "Petit Noel" and is full of quick and easy Christmas projects. It will be released in April with PLENTY of time to get your Christmas sewing underway.

I really love this photo (thanks Leanne!) As usual, we had the best time on our photo shoot! We do work together very well. I guess it comes from a friendship forged when we were just 14!

Enjoy your creation!

Rosalie xx