Quilt-achusetts

Merry Christmas!  I love this time of year.  The family gatherings, giving presents and decorating.  Since I packed up up house back in March/April I don't have access, without extra considerable effort, to my Christmas stockings so I took this opportunity to make some stockings for CoraJoan and I.   Since these will are just temporary stockings I went with a non-traditional Christmas color palette for the stockings and my jumping off fabric was the fruit fabric.  I pulled out the reds, navy and off white form the fruits and raided my stash for solid fabrics that would work.   When I was growing up my parents always included a fruit in our stockings, usually an orange.  I've read many reason why this is a Christmas tradition but in our house my parents included the fruit as part of an old family tradition, both my parents would tell us what a special treat fruit at Christmas was when they were growing up. I used a stocking template and the quilt-as-you-go method to make this st

I began fabric designing about 5 years ago and there have been plenty of ups and downs.  I've been blessed with three fabric collections with Paintbrush Studios, Sketchbook ,  Road Trip and Mod Textures .  I've also invested in offering an exclusive line of basics, Sidekicks , in my shop .  Along with those fabric lines I've had the same number of fabric lines not picked by Paintbrush Studio.  Some of those fabric collection were a little rough but one of them standouts, Landscapes!   Landscapes by Heather Black on Spoonflower.com   The Landscapes fabric collection is one of my favorite collections but Paintbrush Studios passed it by, which is fine.  I sat on the collection for many months wondering how I can share it with other people and then I thought of Spoonflower .     These prints are inspired by an oil painting that I did when I was younger and includes two feature collage prints along with a mix of medium and small blenders.  The prints all have a theme related to