Bountiful Holiday Blog Tour

Sharon Holland’s Bountiful Holiday Blog Tour…

Are you ready for the Holidays? Ok, admit it, you have already been listening to Christmas music!! My kids (I guess I can’t blame the kids) put it on the day after Halloween.

Buying Christmas gifts is one of my favorite and most stressful things to do this time of year. I am always striving to buy the right gift for each person but I always feel like I never hit the mark. Some of my favorite gifts our family has given to our friends was our homemade presents. This is year I told myself more homemade then store bought! Well I am off to a great start. This first gift is for my Niece, she is almost 2 and I think will love this little bunny!

This adorable bunny is made with Sharon Holland’s Bountiful fabrics in…

Perennial Renewal- Sweet Floral Print

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Plain Weave Thatch- The perfect accent print

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The Perennial Renewal print maybe my most favorite print from all of Sharon’s Collections. That is saying a lot since I love so many! It sweet, fresh and delicate!

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Pattern comes from:

Violette Field Threads- Blushing Bunny

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Another great gift is a bag! Everyone needs a bag! Especially now that we need them at the grocery store. This one was made by my good friend Sue at Needle in a Fabric Stash.

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To see more inspiration check out all the projects from these amazing creators!

11-01  Mathew Boudreaux  Mister Domestic

11-02  AnneMarie Chany  Gen X Quilters

11-03  Brooke Sellmann  Silly Mama Quilts

11-06  Blair Stocker  Wise Craft Handmade

11-07  Silvia Sutters  A Stranger View

11-08  Peta Peace  She Quilts A Lot

11-09  Sharon Holland  Sharon Holland Designs

11-10  Heather Andrus  Quilt Story

11-13  Maureen Cracknell  Maureen Cracknell Handmade

11-14  Anjeanette Klinder  Anjeanettek

11-15  Alexis Wright  My Sweet Sunshine Studio

11-16  Katie Skoog  The Simple Life Company

The FUN is not over yet!! Jump over to Sharon’s Blog  and Instagram page  for details on how you could win some Bountiful Fabric from Fat Quarter Shop!!

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xoxo

-Alexis

Sharon Holland-Bountiful Blog Tour

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Hello All!!

Hope you are having an amazing week!! What a beautiful last 2 weeks of Bountiful creations!

The incredibly sweet and talented Sharon Holland released Bountiful, with Art Gallery Fabric, in March. Bountiful is full of nature inspired Florals and Geometric shapes. She brings a mix of soft corals, greens, blues and pink, creating a serene palette. Funny thing is the serene color palette is just like her personality, easy to talk with, super sweet and beautiful inside and out!

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Here is a run down of the super talented creators:

Heidi Staples – Fabric Mutt

Emily Dennis – Quilty Love

Minki Kim – Minki Kim

Heather Andrus – Quilt Story

Sharon McConnell – Color Girl Quilts

Silvia Sutters – A Stranger View

Elina Temmes – Elina Temmes

Kim Niedzwiecki – Gogo Kim

Katie Skoog – The Simple Life Company

Cindy Wiens – Live a Colorful life

Maureen Cracknell – Maureen Cracknell Handmade

Lynn Harris – The Little Red Hen

Anjeanette Klinder – Anjeanette K

Mathew Boudreaux – Mister Domestic

Alexis Wright – My Sweet Sunshine Studio

Sue Stone – Needle in a Fabric Stash

Sue from Needle in a Fabric Stash and I teamed up for the last day of the tour. She made not 1, not 2 but 3 Bountiful Bags!! Check out her blog for all the low down on the beautiful bags she stitched up. I feel pretty lucky to be able to team up with her. She is a talented seamstress and a sweet friend (that just happens to own a fabric shop in town)!!

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So let’s chat really quickly on how I decided what project I would make for the Blog Tour. It all started with Sharon and Maureen’s Sewcial Bee Sample, they inspired me to make my first Quilt Block. Then I got a big head (blahahahaha) and thought hmmm, let take that Quilt Block and make a dress with it.

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I choose their Flying Geese Block.  I will say though, next time I would place the flying geese straight down the middle of the bodice instead of down the sides like it is now.  I am a bit obsessed with the back and I do feel this is a very special dress. True labor of love!!!

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Fabric in the dress:

Scenic Blue Sky

Prairie Crimson

Gather Mellow

Haymow Early

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Fabric used on the bags:

Aborescent Seasons

Perennial Optimism

Scenic Blue Sky

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Pattern Used:

Violette Field Threads, Tween Evelyn (with out the sleeves or bodice ruffles).

Thank you so much for taking the time to read AND thank you Sharon for having me apart of the Tour!

XOXO

-Alexis

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