It's That Time Again!

Moda's having a Blog Hop and we're in it!

Every year Moda has a big Blog Hop... where all of their fabric designers will post a free pattern as well as some funny stories that revolve around a pre-determined theme. This year the theme is "Your Home Town". It's going to be a blast!

The free projects this go-round will be featuring Moda's newest "precut", Moda Candies. The packs include 2 or 3 little 2½″ squares of each fabric in a line. And they're adorable! See below.

Anyway, if you want to follow along, it will start on the 5th... and it will be running through until the 14th. And the lineup is as follows...

SEPT 5 : Barbara Brackman   /   Aneela Hoey   /   Me & My Sister Designs
SEPT 6 : Blackbird Designs   /   Basic Grey    /   Pat Sloan
SEPT 7 : Brannock & Patek   /   Eric & Julie Comstock   /   Thimbleblossoms
SEPT 8 : Bunny Hill   /   Kate Spain   /   Deb Strain
SEPT 9 : Pieces From My Heart   /   Lauren and Jessi Jung   /   Fig Tree & Co.
SEPT 10 : Primitive Gatherings   /   Lily Ashbury   /   French General
SEPT 11 : Lucie Summers   /   Cotton Way
SEPT 12 : Kansas Troubles   /   Malka Dubrawsky   /   Laundry Basket Quilts
SEPT 13 : Kathy Schmitz   /   Sweetwater   /   V and Co.
SEPT 14 : Minick & Simpson   /   Jenn Ski   /   Zen Chic

The best part is, we're all giving away free stuff! Whoohoo! Who doesn't like free stuff, right?

My blog will be giving away 2 layer cakes and a jelly roll of our newest line, Birds & Berries... as well as a few other super awesome prizes that will be announced later. So get pumped! And make sure to stop by our blog on September 9th!

Oh, And like us on Facebook!!! We'll keep you up to date on all this cool stuff! (The "Facebook LIKE box" is in the right hand column of the page.)

You can also see more about the Blog Hop on Moda's blog.

A Truck Full of Pillows

My mom found a whole bunch of pillow forms on sale and proceeded to go crazy... sewing up 17 pillows for our quilt booth.

They wound up looking fantastic (in my opinon)!

Our neighbor, and long-time family-friend, Vicky Brickhouse, also helped with a bunch of these. See the above "B" pillow that she sewed up (B for Brickhouse). Love it!

The one above looks sort of Anthropologie-esque.

Anthropologie happens to be my favorite store, so I will definitely be claiming that puppy later!

And because I'm a dork, I spent an entire afternoon photographing this rainbow of pillows in a variety of setups/locations.

...And... because Rudy is the cutest little boy ever... he also made the cut for this set of blog photos.

Dress Rehearsal

I was going through some old blog entries today when I came across this post (that I must have forgotten to put up) about our Quilt Market booth.

Anyway, it made me laugh. So I'm putting it up now... even though its way way after the fact.

This was our very first booth for Quilt Market, and we wanted to make sure that we got it right. So we had a dress rehearsal of sorts in the DRIVEWAY, of all places, a few days before we packed everything up into a U-Haul and drove out to Kansas City. Our next door neighbor, Mac, was invaluable during this whole process. We've never built anything like this before... and so he'd pop over every few hours to check up on us... and lend his power tools... etc.

Actually, this dress rehearsal was very helpful as it turned out, because it took us a couple of different tries... and about 5 hours to get it set up this first time.

When we got to Market though... we felt like pros, as we were able to get it up in under an hour.

Decorating it was a different story. That took the entire TWO days that were allotted for the setup. Perhaps we should have done a dry run of decorating as well. :)

I Spy...

A bunny, a tree, two spider webs, and some bees...

When we were kids, my mom was always looking for ways to occupy our time during summer break. Crafting projects worked for a little while, but there comes a time when construction paper and glue are no longer entertaining.

And when we reached that point, Mom always seemed to have an "I Spy" book or two at the ready to stave off any potential boredom. And the tactic worked, my sister and I could spend countless hours scouring the pages of those books. It's like Where's Waldo on steroids...

While some of the "I Spy" pages were easier to get through than others, I think what we loved the most, was finding all the little surprises in the picture that weren't always obvious at first glance....a concept that has heavily influenced our design process now that we're older.

In each line, we like to include at least one fabric that's loaded with little, inconspicuous details. With some of our favorites being snails, little birds, atriums, berries, and bees.

And while some of these items come and go with each line, there's one thing you can count on seeing every time...spider webs!

Why spider webs, you ask? Well, we've got a whole host of reasons. Aside from the fact that they're just plain awesome...they're also believed to be good luck when hidden in crazy quilts and Christmas trees. AND...spiders eat bugs! And really, anything that's going to give my tomato plants and herbs a fighting chance of survival this year is OK in my book.

More From Corinna

My husband and I don't have kids yet...But when we do, I'm hoping we have at least one girl so that I can dress her up in one of Corinna's creations...

We couldn't resist sharing with you guys the Birds and Berries dresses that Corinna from Corinna Couture sent us for our booth at market. These little gems arrived in the mail yesterday... Being suckers for packaging, we were impressed even before we saw what she made. And I think it goes without saying that miss Corinna really outdid herself with these. They are beautiful, and we can't wait to show them off in our booth! And in typical Jung fashion, we took copious amounts of photos, but I think you can understand why this time... And if you happen to have a little girl that you think would look perfect in one of these dresses, Corinna is taking pre orders! You can find more photos and details on her Facebook page .