Here is the weather for the week, read straight off the radar in the sewing room. A warm front of good ideas is rolling in, the winds are picking up color, and conditions are ideal for pressing seams flat. Gifts for the Quilting Heart is the collection built from that forecast: sewing machines caught in gusts, tides and sunrises, plus a handful of sayings the quilter you love would gladly repeat to anyone within earshot.
High winds, full color
Gale Force Quilting is exactly what it sounds like. A sewing machine sits in the middle of a rainbow storm, with streaks of red, orange, green and blue whipping past it as if the wind just blew through a basket of fabric strips. Creative Breezes is the calmer afternoon, a bright sun over curling teal waves with a small machine tucked into the corner, and Lakeshore Breezes sets a machine inside a round window of blue and purple swirls, lit from behind.
Tides, ripples and one very bright sunrise
Out on the water, Ripple Radiance puts a navy machine silhouette against a burst of purple rays, with blue ripples rolling underneath. Quilting the Current rides the waves beneath a pair of patchwork suns in orange and red, and Color Splashed Stitches parks an orange machine under a blazing sunburst while the sea swirls below in every shade of teal. Stitch Your Stress Away closes the day with a machine in silhouette against a purple and pink dusk, the words written softly across the sky.
Clear skies up high, and a few things she means every word of
For the mountain lover, Peaks Pines and Patches tucks a machine, snowy peaks and a row of pines into one round badge, and Quilting on a Cloud sends a rainbow ribbon of fabric pouring from a machine across a sunny patchwork hillside. Then the sayings blow in. Hello Sweet Cheeks greets the room in warm orange letters around a little machine, and When Life Gives You Scraps finishes its own thought in rainbow letters beside a pair of scissors: make a quilt. There is a dress form next to bright letters telling you to stop dreaming and sew it, a purple confession about the most romantic walks of all (the ones down the fabric store aisles), and an honest admission that she may look like she is listening while her head is busy with quilting.
Who this forecast is really for
You already know her. She checks the weather only to decide whether it is a sewing day (it always is), she hums along with the machine, and her scrap bin could outlast a hurricane. Maybe she is the lake person, the sunrise person, or the friend who nods politely at dinner while mentally cutting half-square triangles. Somewhere in here is the one that makes you laugh and say, that is SO her. The long-range outlook holds all year: sunny in the sewing room, with a steady chance of more fabric coming home.
Written by Jacqueline. Thanks for reading.
