Grand Revival Designs

Sew What You Love giveaways

There are a couple of giveaways of Sew What You Love, Sugar Hill and a free project from the book I wanted to let you know about. Just leave a comment at Sewmamasew and Craft Gossip for a chance to win.

xoxo

t

Sugar Hill Fabric and Book Giveaway!!!

It's been a long while since I had a giveaway, too long. I just received the my actual book, bound and everything!!!, this week and have been over the moon. I wanted to celebrate with a giveaway of 24 fat quarters of my new fabric collection Sugar Hill and a signed copy of my book, Sew What You Love (which is, btw, available for pre-order). Both may take a while to get to you though since neither have yet been officially released. I think sometime in December the winner will be receiving them. Just leave a comment for a chance to win and celebrate with me!!!

Oh and don't forget this on going promotion where if you link to the book from your blog, website, facebook or twitter page you receive this free pattern download.

Hope you're having a beautiful Saturday!!!

xoxo,

t

Sweet Delilah

My sweet Delilah is almost here. I don't think these scans do her justice but I'll have photos in the next couple of weeks. She'll be introduced at Fall Quilt Market and I think the collection will be available wholesale in October through Free Spirit. I haven't even gotten my sample yardage yet but I can't wait to sew with Delilah.

It has some of the spirit of Darla, the big dotted roses feel so vintage kitchen to me, but with a few smaller scale and decidely girly florals as well which I think will be beautiful for babies. I so hope you like it....

 

Dolce Give-away!!!!

 

 

Well, it's about time for another fabric giveaway. Holly from Decor8 (a blog I check almost every day to be inspired by) was kind enough to blog about Dolce and seeing as she's a design blog rock star as well as author , columnist and decorator and so will be sending lot's of people this way I figured it's a great time to have a giveaway.

The fabric release date is still up in the air, it'll be out in the next couple of months but not exactly sure when, but when it's available the lucky winner will win one fat quarter bundle from the fabulous Fat Quarter Shop

In the mean time, we'll send out one each of our patterns to keep the winner busy till the fabric arrives.

BTW, the bag there is a sample for quilt market but I liked it so much I decided to make it a pattern, coming soon.

So you know how it goes, just leave a comment for a chance to win some Dolce...

xoxo

Tanya

Eh bien, il est temps pour un autre cadeau en tissu. Holly de Decor8 (un blog je vérifie presque chaque jour pour être inspiré par) a été assez aimable pour bloguer à propos de Dolce et car elle est un blog design rock star, ainsi que l'auteur, chroniqueur et le décorateur et sera donc envoyer beaucoup de gens de cette façon J'ai pensé que c'est un grand moment d'avoir un jeu-questionnaire.

La date de sortie de tissu est encore en l'air, ce sera dans les prochains mois, mais pas exactement quand, mais quand il est disponible le gagnant remportera un paquet trimestre de graisse de la fabuleuse Fat Quarter Shop

En attendant, nous allons envoyer un chacun de nos modes de garder le gagnant occupé jusqu'à ce que le tissu arrive.

BTW, le sac il ya un échantillon pour le marché de couette mais je l'ai tellement aimé, j'ai décidé d'en faire un modèle, coming soon.

Donc, vous savez comment ça se passe, il suffit de laisser un commentaire pour avoir une chance de gagner une certaine Dolce ...

xoxo

Tanya

Nou, het is hoog tijd voor een andere stof giveaway. Holly uit decor8 (een blog controleer ik bijna iedere dag te worden geïnspireerd) zo vriendelijk was om een blog over Dolce en het zien als ze een ontwerp blog rockster evenals auteur, columnist en decorateur en zo zal het verzenden van veel mensen op deze manier Ik dacht dat het een goed moment om een giveaway hebben.

Het weefsel release datum is nog steeds in de lucht, zal het uit in de komende paar maanden, maar niet precies wanneer, maar als het beschikbaar is de gelukkige winnaar zal een dikke bundel kwart winnen van de fabelachtige Fat Quarter Shop

In de tussentijd, sturen we een uit elk van onze patronen aan de winnaar bezig te houden totdat de stof aankomt.

BTW, de zak is er een monster voor quilt markt, maar ik vond het zo leuk ik besloot om er een patroon, coming soon.

Dus je weet hoe het gaat, maar een reactie voor een kans om een aantal Dolce winnen ...

xoxo

Tanya

Nun, es ist an der Zeit für einen anderen Stoff Werbegeschenk. Holly aus Decor8 (a blog überprüfe ich fast jeden Tag von inspirieren lassen) war gut genug, um Dolce Blog und da sie ein Design-Blog Rockstar sowie Autor, Kolumnist und Dekorateur und so wird das Senden werden viel von Menschen auf diese Weise Ich dachte es ist eine gute Zeit, um ein Werbegeschenk haben.

Der Stoff Release-Datum ist noch in der Luft, es wird in den nächsten Monaten, aber nicht genau wann, aber wenn es verfügbar ist der glückliche Gewinner wird ein fettes Viertel Bündel von den fabelhaften Fat Quarter Shop gewinnen

In der Zwischenzeit, wir senden ein jeder unserer Muster um den Gewinner zu tun, bis das Gewebe zu halten ankommt.

BTW, die Tasche ist ein Beispiel für Quilt-Markt, aber ich mochte es so sehr, habe ich beschlossen, machen es zu einem Muster, coming soon.

Damit Sie wissen, wie es geht, einfach nur einen Kommentar für eine Gelegenheit, einige Dolce gewinnen ...

xoxo

Tanya

Funny Time to Cry

So I'm editing pictures of Dolce samples, trying to pick some good ones out of the 100 or so I've taken when I see that picture of Ava at the top there and it just makes me start crying, tears of joy sort of thing. I don't know, the picture just struck me as really poignant, I think it's that expression of joy and confidence on her face or maybe it was just the dimple. Probably it was what I suspect makes every mother cry at a beautiful picture of their child on occasion, that sense that that beautiful moment came and went, never to return. But luckily, there will be more to come...

Note: I'm going to start posting in French, Dutch and German as well, using google translate, an incredibly helpful tool BTW. I am living in Belgium and I see the visits from all over the place on my stats, plus, maybe it'll help me with my French...Apologies to the native speakers of those languages as google translate sometimes comes up with some non-sensical stuff.

Je suis donc la modification des images d'échantillons Dolce, essayant de récupérer quelques bons sur les 100 ou alors je l'ai prise quand je vois cette image d'Ava en haut là et il me fait juste commencer à pleurer, des larmes de joie de la sorte chose. Je ne sais pas, l'image vient de me frapper comme vraiment poignant, je pense que c'est cette expression de joie et de confiance sur son visage, ou peut-être que c'était juste la fossette. Sans doute était-ce que je soupçonne rend chaque cri mère à une belle image de leur enfant à l'occasion, ce sens que ce beau moment allait et venait, ne jamais revenir. Mais heureusement, il y aura d'autres à venir ...

Note: Je vais commencer à poster en français, en néerlandais et en allemand aussi, en utilisant Google Translate, un outil incroyablement utile BTW. Je vis en Belgique et je vois les visites de toute la place sur mes statistiques, plus, ce sera peut-il m'aider avec mon français ... excuses pour les locuteurs de ces langues, comme Google Translate vient parfois avec certains non -stuff sensical.

Dus ik ben bewerken van foto's van Dolce monsters, proberen om een aantal good ones uitkiezen van de 100 of zo heb ik genomen toen ik zie dat beeld van Ava aan de top er en het maakt me beginnen huilen, tranen van vreugde soort ding. Ik weet het niet, het beeld net leek mij echt schrijnend, ik denk dat het die uitdrukking van vreugde en vertrouwen op haar gezicht of misschien was het gewoon het kuiltje. Waarschijnlijk was wat ik vermoed dat maakt elke moeder huilen op een mooie foto van hun kind bij gelegenheid, dat gevoel dat dit mooie moment kwamen en gingen, nooit meer terug te keren. Maar gelukkig zullen er meer te komen ...

Opmerking: Ik ga om te beginnen met detachering in het Frans, Nederlands en Duits ook, met behulp van Google Translate, een ongelooflijk nuttig instrument BTW. Ik woon in België en ik zie de bezoeken van over de plaats op mijn statistiekenpagina, plus, misschien zal het me helpen met mijn Franse ... excuses aan de native speakers van die talen als Google Translate soms komt met een aantal niet sensical-stuff.

Also bin ich Bearbeiten von Bildern von Dolce Proben und versuchen, einige gute aus der 100 oder so habe ich, als ich das Bild von Ava siehe oben da, und es macht mich weinen zu pflücken, Tränen der Freude Art Ding. Ich weiß nicht, schlug das Bild nur als wirklich ergreifend, ich glaube, es ist das Ausdruck der Freude und Zuversicht auf ihrem Gesicht oder vielleicht war es nur die Grübchen. Wahrscheinlich war es, was ich vermute, macht jede Mutter weint um ein schönes Bild von ihr Kind bei Gelegenheit, das Gefühl, dass dieser schöne Augenblick kamen und gingen, nie wieder zurückzukehren. Aber zum Glück gibt es mehr zu kommen ...

Hinweis: I'm going to start Entsendung in Französisch, Niederländisch und Deutsch als auch, mit Google zu übersetzen, eine unglaublich hilfreiches Werkzeug BTW. Ich wohne in Belgien und ich sehe die Besuche aus der ganzen Platz auf meiner Statistikseite, plus, vielleicht werde mich mit meinem Französisch helfen ... entschuldige mich bei den Muttersprachler dieser Sprachen als Google Translate manchmal kommt mit einigen nicht -unsinnige Sachen.

Playing with Dolce

 

No fabric to actually sew with yet, it's on it's way but who actually knows when it will arrive. Things get here a bit more slowly. So, I've been playing with Dolce the only way I can. The birdies are giving me lots of applique ideas though. I think this collection will be really good for that. My other collections haven't had such nice small, tight repeats which are so wonderful to use to make appliqued shapes.

And it's always fun to make little virtual doll house rooms....

Well, very soon I think/hope I'll have some actual sewn things to share with you from Dolce (I'm like rabid at this point to get my hands on it!! I hate to wait in general, but it's almost painful to wait for a new collection) And a great, very, very simple bag pattern as well that I really hope you like.

xoxo

t

Stuff to do in a hotel

listen to Pimsleur French
drink the tap water despite advice to the contrary
take pics of strikeoffs
search Ikea website for chairs for new house
be bored
wait
wait
wait for real life to start again

Glimpse of my next collection above. Don't have photoshop to help me fix up the photos from my not great digital camera so I hope these are doing it justice.

Thinking I need a new camera, a goodish one under $500.00. Any suggestions?

Moving to our new Belgian digs in about 2 weeks. CANNOT WAIT!!!

WIll blog from there.

love,
t

French Hatbox, playing with swatches

Well, I've been having a lovely Sunday playing with swatches of French Hatbox, and going to Starbucks for hot chocolate, and taking a walk with my crazy family, it's always an adventure with them truly.

Trying to get ideas for samples to make for market with FH. I think it would be fun to make a little crazy patchwork dress, maybe for a little one. Won't be getting any real yardage for a while but like to just play to start getting ideas.

Have to tell you I'm always a little nervous about putting up a new collection, I mean you all are so incredibly supportive and just plain nice but there's always the chance that someone won't like it and will say so, which would be ok, but, ya know, I want you to like it!

Obviously this collection is super fem, the colors do remind me of the Sophia Coppola film, Marie Antoinette, all sherbet and candy. It's allllll girl, sort of like a sugar cookie with pink icing and those cool silver sprinkle things on top, and I can't wait to make some pretty things for Ava's bed with it...

By the way, I am a total Facebook convert. It is way fun to be able to keep up with people in real time that way. After I got over the initial weirdness of it (if you join it's likely you'll run into people you haven't seen or heard from since kindergarten) I really got into being able to just check in with what my friends and creative peeps are doing in real time. It's just fun, like a real conversation that you can participate in but don't have to.

I even started a group there called Proud to be a Haus-Frau. I put it up as kind of a joke between me and my best girl but apparently it resonated because we already have 44 members. Here's the description I put on Facebook:

 For all women who are so busy schlepping kids around that they find themselves make-up less at kids soccer games, the supermarket, work, etc. on a regular basis. You know who you are, women who haven't had quite enough "mirror time" since their first baby! But are strangely happy that life is so full even if it means they don't always get a daily shower in! Haus-fraus unite! Let the world know about "Haus-Frau Chic."

This group was inspired by my best friend who, when given the eye by a cute guy on the street, exclaimed "don't look at me, I'm a haus -frau." This cracked me up and ever since then I take every opportunity that presents itself to describe myself as a (very proud) Haus-frau.

Come join if you are indeed a Haus-Frau!

Hope all you wonderful people had a wonderful Super Bowl Sunday!!!

Love,
t

 

Happy Girl Style

picnics

1930s/40s

shiny red convertibles

freshly laundered sheets hung on a clothes line

begonias on a kitchen window sill

tree swings

green grass

sweet iced tea

apple crisp with real whipped cream

clear blue skies, the kind you get just a few times a year where the air is so crystal clear and the sky that shade of blue that kind of makes your heart ache (in a happy way)

These are the things that inspired this collection, I hope you like it...

And thank you to the girl who posted a while back and said "I love your happy girl style". I think this expresses this collection, Darla, perfectly!!!!!

And yes!!! It's Belgium!!! You clever world travelers got it right away! I can't wait...Anyone who happens to know a realtor who handles rentals in and around Brussels please let me know....

Happy weekend all!!

Tanya

Ava Rose

Ok, so here she is, well some of her anyway, my girl, Ava Rose. Not my actual girl but you know what I mean. There's more but the day went fast and I couldn't get pics of the red colorway which I'm really excited about. Just want to say some slightly corny, drippy, sentimental stuff about the inspiration for this collection.

This really was inspired one of the three loves and lights of my life. My baby who's no longer a baby, my third and probably last child, my precious, sweet, funny, happy, quirky, amazing girl child Ava Rose. I love my precious, smart, funny, quirky, talented and kind older boys just as much but, as a designer, I'm basically all girl. Luckily, they couldn't care less that I haven't named a fabric collection for them.

I named the collection for her because in a lot of ways she is my muse. At age seven she has actual style and opinions about the way things look and what she wants to wear that reflect her own mind and not popular kid culture. She chimes in often to give me actual ideas that I often use in creative projects. But what really inspired me for this collection is simply her age. She's seven, the age where she still loves me in the infinite sort of way children love their parents before they develop their independent personalities and start to see our flaws. So different from the baby way they love you because you simply are their whole world. They now know they're separate from you and now they see you as the person they want to be like when they grow up. An amazing privilege. She wants to be with me, to be my best girlfriend, to hang out, to paint our nails together and to draw with me and cuddle at night. I know, having two older children that this won't last forever, that though their love doesn't diminish, it does change and maybe, bit by bit, it becomes more realistic. This is a good and beautiful thing but of course a poignant thing for a mother as you watch the baby that was a part of you slowly become their own person.

So, I wanted to capture the innocence, loveliness, happiness, vibrancy of my girl, my sweet, sweet girl, at age seven. Every morning when I wake my kids up for school, I take a minute to just look at them, in all their sweetness as they sleep. Often, their sheets and pillow cases are half on, half off and usually the bedding is all white because I learned a long time ago that it's wonderful to just be able to bleach out the dirt of a blanket that's been dragged around the house for some game or another. But I long to see my girl slumbering peacefully in something really pretty. It's a silly thing I know, but wrapping a child in something beautiful just feels good, like a little bit of love manifest or something. Oh sooo corny, I totally know, but it's true for me. So this is collection that I will actually make bedding out of for her and though it reflects my own tastes more then hers, it is also a reflection of my love for my girl, Ava Rose at age seven.

OK, I'm grossing myself out a little with the sappiness, but hey, once in a while the occasion calls for it. So I nervously await your thoughts about the collection which, by the way, I also think will be fab for big girl aprons, bags, porch pillows, tablcloths, etc.

Pretty But Not Quite

Thought I'd show you some of the colorways that won't be making it into the Ava Rose collection. I think they're all pretty but they didn't quite fit into the collection in the way I wanted. Still though, maybe I'll make a reject quilt with them.

French Hatbox

Oh boy, craziness around here. I made a last minute decision to introduce a collection that will be released in August in addition to Ava Rose which will be released in May. So that's what I've been workin on the last couple of weeks to get it in before the deadline.

I'm excited about this collection. It's just so totally unabashedly feminine and the idea of a French hatbox was just a perfectly beautiful fit for the name.

Hope you like the little preview. The artwork's still a bit rough but I think you get the idea.

I'm actually working right now on last minute changes and I've got a sick husband and one sick child (please, don't be the flu) only one so far, fingers crossed, so I've gotta run but just wanted to show you. I cannot wait to cover some hat boxes in this fabric!!!