Sew Good with Fish Museum & Circus

One of my favorite parts of my career are my connections to other quilting industry people. When Deborah Fisher and I were matched up in a peer group during a class last year, I was thrilled. I’ve been a fan of Deborah’s work at Fish Museum and Circus for a few years, and I was so excited to meet her. Of course, I didn’t maintain my cool at all, but Deborah seems to have forgiven me for my fangirling. In fact, when her new fabric line, Sew Good, came out with Windham, she let me make a quilt for her!

I’m a big fan of Deborah’s pincushions. Well, that’s not really true. I’m actually mildly obsessed, and buy them their own special hand made pins. Please notice – the unicorn has unicorn pins. Don’t worry. It gets worse.

Sew Good is available for quilt shops to order now – make sure your local quilt shop knows you want it. The collection should be hitting fabric stores in February.

I even made a fancy label for this one, and used my Accuquilt to help me make a mini version of my block.

For this fabric collection I went back to my Rotation pattern. I originally designed Rotation to entirely consume a fat quarter bundle. I think it is a great way to showcase a fabric line that includes large prints. The large flying geese allow you to use large scale prints and still be able to see them. For this version, I changed things up a bit, and used a single background print. It doesn’t completely consume your fat quarters, which is okay sometimes. Especially with something as precious as Sew Good. I have BIG PLANS for these scraps.

Rotation Quilt in Sew Good fabric

This is the photo of my quilt they took for the lookbook. (This is my second lookbook. I feel so fancy.) And my quilts look so amazing when a professional takes photos of them.

The prints in this collection are amazing, because the designer does such beautiful work. Deborah isn’t just a cool artist, though. She also came up with this amazing idea to make a binding stripe. The binding stripe is a print, with a line on it. If you cut along the line and fold in half, you get two different binding options. One is polka dots, and the other is an eyelet. I used the eyelet on my quilt. You can go to the lookbook on the Windham website and get more info on the stripe. I found it to be a breeze, and damn adorable. It makes a 2 1/4″ binding, which is narrower than my usual 2 1/2″. It worked fine, though. Maybe I should save some fabric and start using narrower strips. You know, so I don’t use up all of my stash.

So far I have used some of the scraps to make a postcard. I have a Moravian Star in progress, too.

I am so thrilled to be included in Deborah’s first lookbook. I can’t even tell you how it feels to have someone you admire invite you to work with them. And now, I have to go write the pattern up and get ready to actually print copies for quilt shops.

I’ll be sharing more Sew Goodness in February, during a blog hop to promote the fabric’s arrival in quilt shops. I think something this good deserves some English Paper Piecing, don’t you?

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