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My Village is Growing- Bit by Bit by Christmas

5/14/2020

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I was able to get some more Village houses done in between other projects. I hope that I am able to keep making these fun little houses here and there and will have a full village in time for Christmas. 
The Village quilt #modavillage
The Village quilt in Christmas fabrics
My mother sent me some little fabric pieces she had too so I included some of those for some doors. I've been using fabrics from Sweetwater, Gingiber, Zenchic, Deb Strain, Natalia Bonner, Bonnie and Camille, my Thatched and Splendid, along with other pieces from my stash.

Red and Green Village blocks
The Village quilt in Christmas fabrics with snowy roofs
I'm so glad that Moda and Miss Rosie's Quilt Company made this pattern available to us during this time of staying at home. It is fun to sew these village blocks. You can view my previous post for more info on getting the pattern https://www.robinpickens.com/blog/the-village-in-christmas-cheer
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The Village quilt in Christmas fabrics #modavillage
The Village quilt in Christmas fabrics
Happy sewing! 
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The Village in Christmas Cheer!

3/26/2020

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Miss Rosies Quilt Co and MODA FABRICS and SUPPLIES have made The Village pattern available for FREE during this time. We all need good projects to keep our minds and hands busy and it really does take a village to make change in our world! So I'm sewing along too with my second Village quilt! This one is Christmas themed. I have charm packs of Circa, Thrive by Natalia Bonner, Merrily by Gingiber and my Splendid collection, along with some other Christmas Sweetwater and assorted other scrappy mixes of red and green fabrics. Bring on the holiday cheer! I'm going to be ready by this next December!
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Village houses by Robin Pickens
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These are my first 27 blocks. I am having a great time just planning doors and roofs and walls. Join in and make your own village! Make sure to share with #modavillage if you are on instagram! Stay safe and sew on!
The pattern is below and PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL QUILT SHOPS buy buying background fabrics for your Village quilt!

Who is running sewalongs with the Village?? Well, on Instagram I have seen several. For shops and inspiration check out the feeds for @sandyleehart, @emiandkostudio, @patchworkathomespun, @dequiltster, @twiddletails, @jules_quilts_, @sugarpinecottage, @inthemakingbham, and @superbuzzy23 ​
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Christmas Tree Table Runner with Shabby Fabrics

7/23/2019

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Hop on over to youtube to see Jennifer from Shabby Fabrics do a tutorial of a festive Christmas Tree Farm Table Runner!
Shabby Fabrics Christmas runner with Splendid fabric
She used a pattern that Moda Fabrics had and allowed her to share. The trees are red and green on one side and white on the other- a fun reverse effect of background vs foreground. Of course I'm really thrilled with this particular table runner since she's showing it in Splendid fabric!!
Shabby Fabrics Christmas runner with Splendid fabric
Along with the Splendid collection there are pops of red and gold star bursts in Grunge fabric as well as with white and star bursts on the background white. I loved seeing how these trees came together in two sides with the strips!
Shabby Fabrics Christmas runner with Splendid fabric and Grunge fabric
If you are interested in Tree Farm Table Runner kits, Shabby Fabrics has a few available at their store! The download link for the free Gina Martin pattern (17.5 x 51.5") offered through Shabby Fabrics website is https://www.shabbyfabrics.com/Assets/Downloads/TreeFarmTableRunner_forDownload.pdf 
​Happy holiday sewing!
Shabby Fabrics Christmas runner with Splendid fabric
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Splendid Christmas Quilts- Binding Time!

7/12/2019

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My Christmas quilts featuring my Splendid fabric came back from the longarmer, Marion Bott in Las Vegas (she's @bottmarion on Instagram). Oh I love the textures that get added to the quilts when they have the quilting done! I just want to lightly stroke each quilt and feel the patterns of the sewing.
Splendid Christmas Quilts by Robin Pickens
I'm excited that Splendid is in shops now so you can all work on projects with these too! My next step is to put the bindings on and also make pillow backs and add zippers to the pillow cases (or should I leave them as envelope backs?)
Splendid Christmas Quilts by Robin Pickens
Here is the Showering Stars Table Runner as I'm sewing the binding on. I like the linear pantograph of the quilting. The direction of the lines balances out the long format of the runner and strong patchwork lines of the star trails by going the other direction (horizontally vs vertically). 
Showering Stars Table Runner by Robin Pickens in Splendid
Showering Stars Table Runner by Robin Pickens in Splendid
At the time that I was designing these patterns I had to pick out the binding fabric without having the actual made-up quilt in front of me. That is always a challenge for me- deciding binding recommendations so early in the process (but if it goes in a sales catalog I have to do it early). For most of the quilts in this group I wanted the bindings more subtle and just a complimenting Christmas color, so if the quilt is red, I'm doing a simple green. And in the case of Cardinal's Christmas Wreath, I felt so many prints were on the right and left side borders that a solid or almost-solid was called for. 
Jubilant Song in Splendid by Robin Pickens
But when it came to Jubilant Song I had picked the striped fabric for binding and boy, do I love it! Now I wish I had picked a striped binding for Joy and Delight. But my green strips are cut and they are attached to the front, awaiting the hand sewing to the back. I am not going to rip off a whole quilt's binding at this point. But note to future-self, be bold with the stripes!!
I recently posted some scrap bags of Splendid fabric in my online shop. There is a limited quantity so when they are gone, they're gone. And I'll be getting a few quilt kits of Joy and Delight up soon too! But for today, a-binding-we-will-sew!
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Showering Stars Table Runner and Pillow Covers

6/4/2019

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I wanted to create a smaller version of Showering Stars that could be used in home decor for pillows and table decoration. Scaling the stars and trails down to half size made it possible to design with these elements for my Splendid collection in Christmas pillow covers and a table runner.
Showering Stars Table Runner and Pillow Cover Quilt Pattern
I find I do most of my holiday decorating with red and the red textured background in Splendid is rich and vibrant. I love it! The whites are the cream texture which has a subtle sheen when you see the white on cream background. Simple patchwork blocks and a few longer strips make the trails and patchwork and flying geese make the stars. 
Showering Stars Table Runner and Pillow Cover Quilt Pattern
I like playing with the mix of scale by having the double stars pillow and the giant star pillow with a much bigger star. The pattern includes directions for making a simple envelope back for covers and its sized for a nice substantial 26" square Eurosham size. 
Showering Stars Table Runner and Pillow Covers
The table runner is sized 16 1/4" x 71". If you wanted a shorter runner you could crop off the trails on the ends or even just use the center stars with trails (making it 32-36 inches long, depending on if you include the last white blocks on the trails).
Showering Stars Table Runner Quilt Pattern
One thing that was really touching to find out about my original Showering Stars pattern was that numerous people have made it up in patriotic colors for Quilts of Valor. I love this idea! I've also mocked up these pillow covers and runner into red, white and blues to give some additonal inspiration for those that want to explore a more patriotic theme! I'll share those on the next post!
Robin Pickens Christmas Quilt Patterns
Check out my three other new patterns that use Splendid on my store at shopify and lets get sewing for Christmas!
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Joy and Delight Quilt Pattern

6/3/2019

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Joy and Delight is a new pattern I designed with my Splendid Christmas line for Moda Fabrics. I wanted a quilt that showed off the fun mix of fabrics in a layer cake with decorative frameworks for the blocks. But I also quickly decided it was also a good format for alternating blocks of two fabrics- as shown below- my mistletoe greenery and poinsettias which pop nicely against the saturated red texture in the Splendid fabric line.
Joy and Delight quilt pattern by Robin Pickens
Joy and Delight quilt pattern by Robin Pickens
For an extra pop of wintery fun I decided to have graphic snowflakes surround the outer border. Afterwards I thought this could even be fun for 4th of July in reference to fireworks! The snowflakes are made with subcutting joined strips so they actually go together rather efficiently. There is something really satisfying about making a big pile of snowflake blocks!
Snowflake blocks by Robin Pickens for Joy and Delight Quilt
I found the Stripology ruler from Creative Grids was a handy tool for making lots of smaller cuts in an efficient way!
Subcutting snowflake quilt blocks
And here are blocks with flying geese and framing in progress.
Joy and Delight quilt pattern by Robin Pickens
This is a scrappier looking version of the quilt- the original concept using the mix of a layer cake. On this one the framing around the squares is in two colors- red and green for Christmas- and the snowflakes are in a more olivey green. This is next up on my list to make!
Joy and Delight quilt pattern by Robin Pickens
Joy and Delight quilt pattern by Robin Pickens
Check out Joy and Delight along with the other three new patterns to go with Splendid in my shopify shop. Lets get some Christmas projects going!!
Robin Pickens Christmas Quilt Patterns on shopify
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Jubilant Song Quilt Pattern

6/2/2019

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This group of patterns for Splendid needed a quilt with some larger sections to show off the poinsettias and cardinals without cutting them up to much. I liked the idea of vertical columns that showed a few of the prints with the pointsettias as the main center. 
Jubilant Song Quilt Pattern by Robin Pickens
To balance out the large panels, I liked adding smaller pieced blocks, arranged into elegant and lacy compositions, to form as a decorative top and bottom to the columns. Thin sashing, like window edges, run the length of the quilt. The result is a group of three columns, reminiscent of church windows, with light flooding through the stained glass images. They seem grand and ceremonial and festive for a celebration. 
Jubilant Song Quilt Pattern by Robin Pickens HST blocks
Many thanks to The Felted Pear (Susan!) for helping me with this and making those flying geese and HST and assembling the ends!
Jubilant Song Quilt Pattern by Robin Pickens
Nature celebrates Christmas with Splendid. I feel like I can hear the jubilant song of either the church choir or the choir of birds out in the trees. This quilt pattern in mocked up into three color versions in the pattern- cream, red, and charcoal. Although this is shown with Christmas fabrics, I think it would be striking with other large scale prints, like the William Morris fabrics that Moda produces with rich jewel tones. 
Jubilant Song Quilt Pattern by Robin Pickens_Colors
There are four new patterns I'm sewing for Christmas quilts with Splendid. Check out this and the others: Joy and Delight, Cardinal's Christmas Wreath, and Showering Stars Table Runner and Pillows at my shopify shop.
Jubilant Song Quilt Pattern by Robin Pickens
Christmas Quilt by Robin Pickens at https://robin-pickens.myshopify.com/collections/splendid-christmas
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NUTCRACKER SUITE on Redbubble

11/24/2017

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Its winter time again for Clara and the Nutcracker Ballet Dancers! My daughter danced twice in the Nutcracker ballet that her local dance studio put on. It was a fun and festive time and I have sugar-plum-sweet memories of it! What a beautiful time to celebrate with some Nutcracker designs for holiday clothes and decorating.
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Available through www.redbubble.com/people/robinpickens... my Nutcracker Suite collection. Freshen up the couch with a pillow. Have a cup of mulled cider in a festive mug. Or find some cute totes and zipper pouches for your own little performers...
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Happy Holidays! Happy shopping! And happy, happy dancing!
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Nutcracker Ballet Tea Towels

11/8/2017

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Do you have a tiny dancer who is performing in the Nutcracker? My daughter used to do ballet and she was in the Nutcracker twice. The Nutcracker Ballet is a lovely holiday tradition. I've taken my "Clara's Nutcracker Ballet" print from spoonflower and made four tea towels that fit on one yard of linen cotton canvas. You can make four tea towels (all the same design or one each of the four combined on one yard) on each yard of fabric to help celebrate your holiday traditions and add some ballet cheer to your holiday kitchen! Dance on!

Visit my spoonflower links for my Nutcracker collection and Tea Towels collections.
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Woodland Friends Atlanta Home

1/31/2013

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Robin Pickens Christmas Ornaments and decor 180degrees
How great to see the new display of my Red Birds and Woodland Friends in the One Hundred 80 degrees showroom! I was really excited to attend the Atlanta Gift Show and see the great new space for my Christmas collection. Wooden trees and fabric panels created the lovely, woodsy environment that my little friends seem so happy in. Many thanks to One Hundred 80 degrees for this great space!

Robin Pickens Christmas Ornaments and decor 180degrees tins
Robin Pickens Christmas Ornaments and decor 180degrees
Robin Pickens Christmas Ornaments and decor 180degrees
Robin Pickens Christmas Ornaments and decor 180degrees
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