Lynette Anderson Designs

Hollyhock Purse

I have had a couple of lovely pictures sent to me this week, the first is a sweet bag thats been made by Alice gorgeous daughter of Nicola. Nicola is based in the UK and writes a great blog, here is the link, I met Alice and Nicola when I taught at Quilter Haven a few years ago on one of my trips to the UK.

This is the sweet bag that Alice has made using fabrics from my Hollyhock Cottage fabric collection, I like the little lace trim she has added.

I had breakfast with a friend on Saturday morning, Raewyn worked for me many years ago at the store for a long long time, it was so nice to catch up on all her news. I wanted to show her how the store is looking  and of course no quilter can leave a quilt store empty handed! 

A little bundle of Follow My Heart went home with Raewyn and it seems her cat Max approved!

This gorgeous completed Fernhill quilt was sent by Lisa Mortell, the handquilting on this is superb. Thank you Lisa for sharing this picture with me.

We have put together a gorgeous pack of fabrics to get you started with this project, we also have the patterns and buttons in stock again :)

This sweet bag was made for one of my English friends, Valerie for Chrismtas by Lesley. Its nice to see some Summertime Friends fabrics (my first collection for Lecien) which featured Hugo and Felix. 

A big thank you to everyone for sharing pictures of thier work from my patterns and fabrics, I know I have alot more photos and will share some more another day :)

Auntie Doe...

Dorothea Teale, whom I called Auntie Doe was my grandmothers sister. Here she is holding my Dad on the steps of the house in Broadstone, Dorset where he was born 80 years ago this year. In 1960 Auntie Doe wrote a poety book which she self published 'Poems of East and West', I am happy to say that I still have my copy.

What I am going to share with you now is a small 3 1/2" x 5" homemade book, which I have treasured since 1983. My grandmother gave the little book to me to enjoy when Auntie Doe when passed away and I still enjoy it although I dont get it out very often as the pages are getting a bit tattered and I want to preserve it as long as I can.

A good friend, Phylis wrote, illustrated and made the book for a birthday present back in 1904. I love the writing...

Inside there is a sweet story, each page has been beautifully written and illustrated.

The colours are still bright and the faces very real.

The story is so lovely and rather than share it with you in its entirity I am going to talk to my publishers about the possibiltiy of getting the book printed as I know many girls would love the story and the pictures.

Daffodils were always one of Auntie Doe's favourite flowers and I wonder seeing them here in this painting if she always loved them.

I hope you have enjoyed a peek at this little treasured book of mine as much as I do each time I take it out of its wrapping and read it again and marvel at the lovely little paintings in a book which was created over a 100 years ago!

Quiltmaker magazine...

I was very excited this week when a friend let me know that Quiltmaker Magazine who interviewed me to discover which tools I like for my hand applique and my helpful hints and tips for sucessful needleturn (done my way) applique is out now (June/July issue).

I recently discovered that you can get this magazine either as a hard copy or digitally :) Digital is a great option as it saves the postage costs but you do need to have a reasonably good printer at home. If your interested then take a peek at the website here.

For now and to get you tempted here is a part of the article....

If you follow me on Facebook then you will remember this liitle sneek peek I gave a whie back of this naughty sweet fox who is taking a heart flower to his loved one...

MrFox is on the project that will be in the next issue (July/Aug) of Quiltmaker Magazine which is a good reason to subscribe today so you dont miss out on my MrFox project!

Digital Subscription

Print Subscritption

Have a great weekend, I am catching up with an friend who worked for me many years ago, it will be so nice to hear all her news x

MrOwl wearable pin...

I am counting the days off until I come to Melbourne for the AQC where I am going to be on The Patchwork Teahouse booth...plus, I love Melbourne its such a nice city.

I am doing a mini workshop (Make and Take) on the first three days (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) at 1pm in room 3. We will be making this cute MrOwl wearable, you need to book at booth #53 or to ensure a place you can call the store and pre-book/pay (03) 5966 2400...

As you can see the Cosmo threads are ready, the fabrics are cut....

I will also have my new BOM 'Love Birds' on display and Marilyn will be taking bookings, also if I can find a long arm quilter (anyone out there willing and able?) in time I will have 'Woodland Secrets' my new stitchery BOM to show you.

I cant wait to see you in Melbourne...

Yoko Saito's books in English :)

Here I am with Yoko Saito back in 2011 when Emma and visited TokyoDone with a view to having a booth there in 2012 (which as you know we did)

This book is gorgeous and its in English! Hooray.... this is the latest book thats been translated into English and we have it in stock now.

Strolling Along Paths of Green

The projects inside are just lovely, lots of variety, quilts, bags and table accessories. 

One day when I retire I am going to stitch something from one of these books.

Houses, Houses, Houses! is now back in stock, we are still waiting on more copies of Scandinavain Quilts to come in but they should be here anyday :)

This gorgeous little village was on display in Tokyo in 2011 now using the book Houses, Houses, Houses you could create your very own village.

Happy Easter

I went browsing yesterday!

One of my favourite stores to browse in here on the Sunshine Coast is The Lovely Bird, its filled with interesting books, papers, pencils, stamps and other inspiring things all of which are artfully displayed on pieces of furniture I want to buy!

Of course if I am honest I can never just browse! I bought the sweetest little recycled notebook, some interesting stamped tin hearts which might look good hanging on a tree with little stitcheries glued to them..

the little notebook has this nice stitching through all the pages like the old books do

I also bought a copy of a brand new magazine called 'Junkies' thats produced by some coast ladies, its filled with ideas on how to recycle etc

the photos are lovely

I am not sure how often the publishers intend to produce a magazine, perhaps monthly?? I will keep my eye out for another one.

Angel faces...

Publishing your own books is a lot of work and after doing 7 self published books I now have my books published by David and Charles (F&W Media) a UK publisher. I get less money than I did when I published my own books but I get alot more exposure as publishers are able to sell to a bigger audience than I can as an individual + they often get books published in other languages for instance my books are now available in French, Dutch and Hungarian which is very exciting.

I ramble....what I wanted to show you today was one of the sweet quilts from my self published book An Angels Wish called 'Angels Are Stars'.

We are in the process of re-making 'Angels Are Stars' using my Christmas 2013 fabric collection 'Candy Cane Angels' which is due to arrive in stores from end May/June.

Jill has sweetly offered to make the quilt for me as I am running out of time (and energy) and so in preparing the pack of fabrics and threads to send to her I needed to paint the little faces for the angels. I paint onto quilters muslin which is a fine good quality calico and use Jo Sonja paints which once they are ironed sets the paint permanently.

Once they have been stitched in place the angels can have their hair done! I did this sample (hence no body) so Jill can see how the hair is done for the quilt :)

Emma has had fun creating a digital version of the quilt using the aged muslin as a background for the angels and fabrics from  Secret Garden collection. As you can see these angels are hairless at the moment too and until Emma can work out how to digtially add the hair they are going to stay bald! However I love what the quilt would look like in these fabrics :)

The pattern along with 10 other angelic projects is in the book 'An Angels Wish'. If you buy the book $22.95 plus postage, some aged muslin and a fat eight bundle of Secret Garden fabrics (which would get you started, you will need to add border fabrics at some stage). Because I have so much spare time, I will handpaint free of charge a set of 12 faces onto quilters muslin (valued at $26.40) for you.

Scattered Hearts

Special Cat (real name Frangipani) loves sleeping on the sofa, its her favourite place. She sleeps with her head on the arm rest...cute.....but she dribbles in her sleep (I would never do that) and the consequence of her dribbling is...stains on the sofa so I thought a pretty quilt to cover the area would look great and since quilts are washable it solves the stain problem. As you can see she loves the quilt :)

The quilt is called 'Scattered Hearts' and is the free to use quilt pattern that was designed to go with my current fabric collection 'Follow My Heart'.

This is the digital picture of the quilt which isnt as nice as the real thing but its what we work with to create the design before the real fabrics arrive.

Download Scattered Hearts Free Quilt Pattern

Stitched By Me...or you?

 We (my family) had a lovely sunday (yesterday) we all gathered at our house for a big breakfast to celebrate all the March birthdays, we ate, laughed and shared news. I just love weekends like that :)

The other thing I love is when you send me pictures of things you have made from my books, patterns and fabrics. Today I have chosen to show you what Rachel sent me. I hope you agree with me, she has done a great job. Rachel tells me that this quilt has been two years (with other projects in between) in the making!

'Stitched By Me' is a sweet 7 part BOM and the beauty of it is that the buttons, tape measure ribbon and pre-cut paper hexagons all come included with the patterns. This is my version (see below), slightly more musted/dirty colours to the ones in Rachels quilt....both lovely.

 I have managed to source some of the lovely aged muslin that I used, it comes with what looks like crease lines and fade marks (thats why I like it, it already looks old!)  Aged Muslin

I dont have the original fabrics that  used but I have to say that my 'Secret Garden' fabrics would look great in this quilt. Here they are in all their loveliness....not much of this fabric collection left now which is a bit sad.

Treat yourself to.... Fabric Bundle + aged muslin+ pattern set

I have had many many requests for individual blocks from various block of the month quilts so here they are. Individual block patterns 

There are several other versions of 'Stitched By Me' on display in the 'I Designed It You Stitched It' album in case you want to see some more colour chouce variations.