Showing posts with label valentines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentines. Show all posts

Monday, February 8, 2016

Valentine Fabric Love - a giveaway

A recent IG conversation went something like this:

Aussie friend of mine: Hey Krista, does Canada celebrate Valentines Day like they do in the U.S.?
Poppyprint: Yes, but to most husbands it is a bit of a non-issue {note: THIS IS A GENERAL OBSERVATION WITH NO PARTICULAR HUSBAND IN MIND}
Aussie friend: Lolololololol, same!
Other Aussie friend: funny about that. Same here (crying emoji)
Poppyprint: It's a global crisis
Other Aussie friend: maybe we should just go out and buy our own diamonds. I think they would learn pretty quickly then.

Well, I don't know about you, but I just want more fabric. I hardly ever bother putting my diamonds on.

With this in mind, my lovely blog partner Fabric Please! has generously offered to gift one lucky reader a sweet Valentine of $40 Cdn to spend on anything in their shop!

Might I suggest this lovely Kate Spain Aria charm pack:





These Free Spirit Fowl Play dots are super fun (and on sale!)



This is a blog follower's giveaway because I love you guys for sticking with me.  Leave one comment here (maybe you'd like to share a sweet Valentine story with us?) to enter the giveaway. I'll choose a random winner on Friday, February 12. Just in time to buy yourself something special for the big day. Good luck!

**YOUR EMAIL MUST BE LINKED TO YOUR COMMENT, OR YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS APPEAR IN YOUR COMMENT IN ORDER TO WIN** 
I don't use the email address for any reason other than alerting giveaway winners that they've won. Sorry, but if I cannot contact you, you cannot win. (ETA - comments are now closed).

In the meantime, you may be interested in knowing that Fabric Please! is celebrating one full year in business with a month long sale running now until Feb.26th, 2016. With code ANNIVERSARY you'll receive 30% off all regularly priced yardage. This is a great sale!

Here's another of my homemade, hand-stitched valentines. This one was for my daughter, D (former circus athlete, current energizer bunny).

An embroidered Valentine that I made for my daughter several years ago.

Friday, February 14, 2014

Sharing the Love (runner)

Hello my lovelies and Happy Valentine's Day.

Just a quick visit to let you know I am still here, working very hard and trying to stay focused. It is really hard to walk past my sewing room a zillion times a day without sitting down to sew!  I did manage to finish off my Love runner in time for today, though.


This was an unexpected project that resulted from a new piecing technique I'm working on for upcoming workshops. I tried it out using a really old charm pack of Valentines fabric I found in my stash. The pieced units looked pretty good, and I have never made any home-dec items for Valentine's Day, so I decided to go for it.


The alternate rows are Kona PFD (prepared for dying) white that I had on hand. I used fusible Pellon fleece for a thin batting and stitched in the ditch of every seam.  The hearts were marked, then using a pearl cotton, I quilted them in with a running stitch.


And finally, a little Love chain stitched along one end.   It's all bound up with Lizzy House's fabulous pearl bracelets, which makes a fabulous binding!

I hope you get, and give, a nice lovin' squeeze from someone special today. And if that doesn't work out, treat yo' self to some delicious chocolates. Happy heart day.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Cross My Heart

Cross my Heart by Poppyprint
A machine appliqued bias stem in Madrona Road cross hatch on linen

Happy Day!

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Heart Day is on it's way

I know many people have mixed feeling about V-Day coming up on February 14th.  If you're a lover or fighter, you can still send someone a sweet embroidered note with a cute fabric stamp (hold the hearts if that isn't your thing!).  The tutorial is a few years old, but still fun. The link is on my left sidebar if you want to try making some.

fabric stamp tute_9_24

Me? I'm just in it for the chocolate.  

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Cryptic Valentines

B and I have been married more than 15 years. Saying "I love you" is second nature at this point, so I decided to have some fun with my Valentines this year, inspired by the Sew Mama Sew featured tutorial on fabric Valentines with envelopes.

I think my entry was too late last night for the contest, but I had to take a sewing break to watch the Opening Ceremonies....wasn't K.D. Lang incredible??? And...I never thought I'd see a slam poet totally rock at the world's largest sporting event!! Oh! And Measha Brueggergosman's hair - that was hair of Olympic proportion for sure!!! She's amazing! There was so much I loved about last night, and a few things that made me go 'hmmm?" - punk/grunge fiddling, for example.

Ok, my Olympic moment is over. Here are the cards I made for my family. (ahem, and if you are my family and it is before Valentines Day, please close this window and wait 'till tomorrow!).

Can you guess what each one is?

For B (because the view when he leaves a room is just as spectacular as when he enters, if you know what I mean, nudge-nudge, wink-wink):

buns

For my son T (because he is just so unbelievably clever):

brain

For my daughter D (because she never quits, slows down, or stops smiling):

energy

I also made one for my sister-in-law (based on an Egg Press greeting card image)

birdie

Eat chocolate and be happy tomorrow!!