Saturday, July 4, 2009

Fabric Focus: Darla by Tanya Wheelan




I don't normally go for the soft romantic girly fabrics, but this line just jumped out at me. I'm currently using fabrics form this line to design a quilt around my "Love Birds" embroidery pattern. The fabrics are of a great quality and feel so wonderful. The colors are just gorgeous and blend so well together. I love the aquas in this line. The "reds" in this line are not true reds but more of a darker deeper shade of pink. I know it's hard to show fabrics on a computer and I wish I had known this when I bought my fabrics. Nonetheless, the colors are beautiful together.

I bought my fabrics from Quilt Taffy's eBay store. They had a fat quarter package that I ordered, giving me a good assortment of the fabric line. They also shipped very quickly and had great customer service.

On to the inspirational projects:

First up is a baby quilt form the Quilt Taffy Blog


A pinwheel baby quilt by Georgia McDonald
Does this pattern ever get old?

What little girl wouldn't love this beautiful patchwork twirly skirt by Ladinka

Check out this diaper bag by sewfunbymonique

And last but not least a lovely fabric bowl by i have to say...


6 comments:

sewfunbymonique said...

Thanks for including me! I agree with all your comments on the fabric. The quality is amazing- I love working with it!

randi said...

How sweet of you to include me!

I pretty much have a crush on the Darla fabrics. They are so pretty and they coordinate so well. I am not much of a girly-girl, but I am hooked on this one.

Randi
I have to say on Flickr

Jamie said...

Lovely photos!
You've just reminded me that I dreamed last night that I was a little girl again, twirling in a skirt like this one! What a great project :)

I saw your doll quilt on Craftster and had to pop over to see your other work...Cheers!

Amanda Jean said...

how fun to see several projects from the same fabric line all in one place. love that fabric line so much!

The DO said...

I think this is an interesting trend: I'm not into girly-girl lines either, yet I seriously love this line! Crazy, eh?

Anonymous said...

I've been looking all over for this!

Thanks.