Love at Home fabric bundle, and hot pads!

Hi! Happy almost spring to my Northern Hemisphere friends! Today I'm introducing my Love at Home bundle, which will be for sale this Monday, 3/17 at 9AM PST. St. Patrick's Day :)

The bundle has strawberries, hearts, flowers, precious quotes about home, birds, and the cutest little houses.

I read once in color psychology that red and yellow are often used in restaurant decor and marketing because they can make you hungry! Then I realized if you add the mint to the red and yellow, you've got fries, ketchup, and a shamrock shake :) I just felt like this bundle belonged in the the kitchen, so I took a morning and made some new hot pads that I'm very excited to use. For most of them I didn't follow a pattern, just used my Pinterest Board as inspiration and had fun with it. Each of them are double sided with different prints, so lots of versatile options for different times of year. 

The strawberry hot pad was from a tutorial by Ellis and Higgs as a guest poster on Amy Smart's blog Diary of a Quilter. I printed it at 150% so it would be bigger than a coaster, and added leaves to both sides. 

For this circular one I followed the same construction as the strawberry, and added crochet that I'd made years ago. I was sure glad I had saved them! I kept trying out different bowls from my kitchen as a template to see what size would fit perfectly inside the crochet trim that I already had finished. Turns out it was the 6" cake pan, plus a seam allowance. The Lori Holt Chunky Thread should work well for hot pads since it's 100% cotton, so it won't melt like some yards would. I've used this Chunky Thread for so many things, I really truly love it. It even holds up well in the wash! I found a shop that's having a sale on lots of their colors. 

I whip stitched the trim to the edge of the fabric. This is the same kind of scallop trim I've used in pillows, there's a pattern for it in my shop. 

This next one wasn't all fabric from the bundle, this was an orphan block that I decided to finish up while I was at it. Yes, I had the yellow pot in mind when I made it! Now I feel like I want a hot pad specifically designed for every dish I have, right?!

The yellow binding is from the new bundle, I'm not sure what the blue solid is, but the floral is from this Tilda line. I have the fall one, and the spring one, and I love them so much! I want to make a 

If I had more time, I'd have loved to make the following ones as well! They definitely inspired some of mine. 

Apple, Pear, Lemon, Peach Coasters by Minki Kim of Sewing Illustration

I found this darling image on Pinterest, I guess these used to be available through Stoney Clover Lane, but not anymore. I didn't feel up to tackling pleated ruffle trim this week, but maybe some day! So cute. 

If I were making a quilt with this bundle, my first choice would be Happy Scallops by Emily Dennis of Quilty Love. I think it would be so cute! With 30 fat quarters, you could make the full quilt size, or two medium throws. It would be so fun to split the strips with a friend and make best friend quilts! I'd take out the 2 blue prints and use a light blue solid for background fabric, like Moda Bella Mist. White would also be darling. Don't forget I have a super helpful post about different whites and background fabrics if you need help choosing. 

Whenever we have a bundle that has really high contrast in values, i.e. really dark darks and really light lights, I have two strong recommendations always, and the first is a Scrappy Trip! In this case you could either alternate light and dark for a checkerboard effect, or you could align your darks and lights in a strong diagonal for this effect:

Look how tiny my oldest was! Ah!

Another great pattern for high contrast prints is one I suggested last time also, with the Valentine bundle. High Tide Remix would look so great in these colors.

Lastly, as far as quilts go, you can never go wrong with a Swoon 16 by Camille Roskelley. Take out the lightest prints and set them aside for a low volume project, and use your favorite 16 color prints. That would be darling! Here is my friend Jessica @cutesy_crafts' version that she made with my fall bundle from a couple of years ago. 

I thought I'd offer a surprise at the end of the blog post like I used to do, so here's a secret sneaky discount code for those of you who made it to the end. 10% off anything on my site (including the new bundles) withe the code GREEN. See you Monday!