It started with a watercolor sketch of some triangles that I kept coming back to. If you’ve seen my last two patterns, The Millennial Quilt and Desert Angles Quilt, you know that I’ve kind of got a thing for quilts that utilize negative space and half-square triangles. If you looked at my sketchbook, you’d figure out that I am absolutely OBSESSED. With this particular watercolor sketch, I also used all of my favorite colors. Peachy pinks, blues, mints, teals, rusty oranges. L

Hello and welcome to the third installment of The Wild Sweet Pea's quilt pattern review series, where I'm sharing with you the free Effort + Ease pattern by Sewn Handmade. This is a throw quilt pattern with a pretty quick finish, using paper piecing and strip piecing techniques. The pattern is meant to showcase a gradient-- you can see a few examples of this quilt on instagram with #effortandeasequilt, or scroll down to see my take on this pattern. Read on to the bottom of t

Good evening and welcome to the second installment of my quilt pattern review series where I will be reviewing Then Came June's Sienna Burst Pattern. If you missed my first pattern review, featuring Southern Charm Quilt's Good Girl quilt pattern, you can read it here. **some of the links in this post (but not all) are affiliate links, meaning I'll earn a small commission off your purchase (at no extra cost to you, obviously). This helps me pay the bills, Thank you. This is no

Hey! Happy Tuesday from my little corner of the world in Centralia, Washington. This post is a big refresher on what I've been up to lately, including my latest quilt finish, a giveaway via social media, and some deals on cool stuff online. Cool, right? Okay, keep reading! EMBROIDERY KIT GIVEAWAY First things first, I want to share this giveaway with you all because it ends on FRIDAY, MAY 18. Click the image below to enter on Instagram or go to The Wild Sweet Pea Quilt & Embr

Hello! It's finally spring. We survived another winter! It's still raining all the time though. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest. The daffodils and grape hyacinths have been blooming in our yard for a few weeks and I can tell the tulips will unfold any day now. There is mud everywhere, and it's always a guess as to whether the hiking trail we choose on the weekends will be flooded or not. The weather can't make up it's mind. My husband and I have done a thorough spring clean

Happy February! It's my daughter's first birthday today, and we took her to the Point Defiance Zoo + Aquarium in Tacoma, about an hour north of where we live. She had a blast- we all did. Zoos raise some ethic questions for me but when it comes down to it, I support conservation in any form. We're all trying to do what we can- and today, my husband and I took our daughter to a place where our dollars will reflect our ideologies, since a good portion of ticket sales at PDZA go

In late 2017, I stumbled upon (as in, saw an instagram post about it... whatever happened to the stumble-upon website? Do people still use that?) the online community that is Finish-A-Long, a vibrant facebook, blogosphere and instagram network of sewists working together to meet their quarterly and annual sewing goals. Now that it's 2018, the year that will be my first full year of sewing for a living, I've decided to join the Finish-A-Long Community. First step: List the sew