Verity Vintage Studio

Quilting and Sewing with Poppie Cotton Home Sweet Home

Blog tour time!

There have been a few fabric collections I've been privileged to preview that have been so lovely I can hardly wait to sew with them, as they sit on my shelf for months waiting their turn. This was one of them! Home Sweet Home by Elea Lutz for Poppie Cotton is just the cutest 1930s style collection (obviously just my style then!) and I enjoyed sewing with it so much that I made 3 projects - a large, medium, and small - and still was sorry to put it away!

It has vintage-style sketch toiles, florals, birds, samplers, strawberries, cottages...just ALL the cuteness! 

First I made the Petal Patches quilt pattern by My Sew Quilty Life. I've wanted to make it for a while, and this was the perfect collection to use it. 

 

It was a very enjoyable pattern and I'd definitely do it again! I like that it calls for 10" squares. I didn't use them, but it's nice to have a good layer cake pattern around. 

 

I wish in retrospect I'd gone with the blues instead of the yellows, for the alternate flowers, but I still think this is super cute!

 

The sweetest low volume berry print made a perfect border. 

 

I didn't have enough greens to choose from, so I used the collection greens as the darker color, and chose a basic for the lighter green in all the leaves. 

 

It was a quick make and is a good throw size. It would be very easy to make larger - this would be so cute for a girl's twin bed. 

 

I quilted it myself with a free motion meander with daisies. I haven't tried FMQ for a while since my last effort was so discouraging with constant thread breakage no matter what I tried. This time I used more expensive thread and it went SO much better! Hooray! It will be worth buying Aurifil to use just for FMQ if that's what works. 

 

My second project was an everyday dress for my 5-year-old. She had chosen the yellow birdie fabric as her favorite, so I got a yard of it to use for her and pieced it out with a basic. 

 

Naturally I didn't realize until much too late that I had cut the yoke upside down on the print. *facepalm moment*

Oh well!

 

I used a thrifted vintage 1970s pattern that was super quick and easy. 

 

I wanted to lengthen it so it will fit her next summer too, but due to only having 1 yard to work with I didn't have enough fabric. So I went with a contrast ruffle and that worked well. 

 

She likes her new dress quite a bit, and I'm always glad to have another staple in her closet since she is growing so fast it's hard for me to keep up with her clothes!

 

My 3rd and final project for now was a little needle book (no pattern). I always love the adorable makes by Pico Crafts, so this was inspired by those. I wanted to feature something with blues, since I didn't use as much of them in the quilt as I would have liked.

 

The front is pieced, the rest is not. I probably made the whole thing in an hour or so and it was very fun. 

 

I used my new scalloped pinking shears to cut out the felt and decorative stamps for the inside, and love how it looks! The scallops are so much cuter than the traditional zigzag pinking shears. 

 

I always have multiple projects on the go, and since Christmas is coming I know I'll need to pull out a project bag for Christmas cross stitching, so another needle book is going to come in handy. I use my last one a lot!

 

I hope this inspires you to find some of this fabric to sew with, now that it is shipping to quilt stores at last! There are SO many cute things being made on the blog tour, and it's just scratching the surface of possibilities with this adorable fabric line. Truly one of my Poppie Cotton favorites ever!

1960s Autumn Leaf Adjustable Blouse

I've done very little fall garment sewing for myself this year, but I did want to squeeze something in using this adorable leaf print fabric by Lori Holt from her Mercantile line for Riley Blake Designs. It's hard to find autumn prints that are also cool tones, and this is definitely a cute one!

 

I settled on trying a loose pull-on blouse style from a 1960s pattern, but with the addition of a placket down the front, which doubles as decoration and opening to make it nursing friendly.

 

It really should be more roomy for maternity, so I won't fit in it for long - but it will be very comfy and size-inclusive for postpartum, etc. It was still fun to try out yet another non-maternity-but-maternity-friendly possibility from my pattern collection. 

 

It was really super easy, even with the placket addition - my first try at this, but I had seen an Instagram reel showing how to insert one, and it was quite simple. I'm delighted to have that skill figured out.

 

I like the roll collar version best, but couldn't figure out how to work that with the placket, so opted for a simple neck band finish instead - super nice to not have to fuss with facings. I had to add a few neck darts in the back to pull it in a little, and that helped a lot with a good fit.

 

Of course I had to snatch some photos in the golden leaves before they are gone, and the sun came out just in time to highlight the gold. 

Thankfully my hair behaved comparatively well for once and I even got it to look comparatively 1960s - not my favorite era. 

 

I'm wrapping up my fall sewing projects now as fast as I can, to clear the decks for Christmas sewing and crafting. (I may already have way too long of a list!) Next week I will show you my last Poppie Cotton project for the year, but at least I managed to get one autumn garment done for myself before I turn my attention toward Advent.