Oakshot Blog
UPDATE – soon the walls were in full colour:
Booth 520 is ready and waiting at QuiltCon, Austin, Texas. Do pop by and say hello to Maria who runs Pinwheels. Look out for more quilts that we know are coming for display…
Fingers crossed that FedEx battle through the snow in Memphis to deliver the extra stock of Oakshott fabrics you are all lining up for!
Keep warm and enjoy the show.
A rummage on Pinterest led Collette of Poppy and Poochie to thoughts of technicolor piles of spices.
The Oakshott fabrics are so shimmery and colourful so I wanted to show them off! The fabrics are a dream to work with and very stable and just beautiful to look at.
“A gramme of saffron please!”Alyce of Blossom Heart Quilts has translated the New Colourshott 10″ Square Pack of 27 colours into a seasonal mood palette. Wonder if you see what she sees in these colour ways*:
Alyce is travelling from Japan to the US to find some quilting threads at QuiltCon, it will be fun to see what she is inspired to do after her visit (don’t forget to drop into Pinwheels at booth 520).
Meanwhile Alyce has done a great tutorial on her blog: http://www.blossomheartquilts.com/2015/02/circle-life-oakshott-mini-quilt-tutorial/
* blossoms, beach, boots and scarves, snow.
Another exciting bloghop from Lily’s Quilts; do follow and see what the bloggers have created from a New Colourshott 10″ Square Pack of 27 colours by clicking on this button:
The first creation from myBearpaw features a truly detailed freehand foundation piecing tutorial; so feast your eyes on her sea urchins and then have a go. Or pop along to Pinwheels booth at QuiltCon, Austin, Texas to have a close up look.
Look out for the booklet we’ll create to bring them all together for you.
Buy the colours of passion and love with a Fat 8ths pack of Colourshott Brighton Rock or Ruby Reds on 13, 14 or 15 February 2015 and we’ll give you 20% off.
Brighton Rock is normally £22.50, click here to buy for £18.00;
Ruby Reds is normally £42, click here to buy for £33.60.
Enter the promotion code VALENTINE at checkout to receive your 20% discount.
Have you seen issue 18 of Love Patchwork and Quilting? Look at page 73 for Lynne Goldsworthy’s fresh use of our New Autumn and Lipari collections, inspired by the geometric shapes of Middle Eastern rugs.
If you are inspired to use the pattern then here’s the link to purchase a New Autumn Fat 8ths Pack.
and a Lipari Fat 8ths: 
The Lakes collection is a wonderful evocation of crisp, clear winter sunshine on bright, frosty days, and the Sew Mama Sew Lakes Table Linen Challenge produced some lovely designs to bring that vibrancy into your house.
We’ve put the six designs into a free booklet for you to download, either click here, go to the Instant Colour page and browse the whole booklet collection, or go to the Oakshott Fabrics shop website and check out the fabrics (all these designs can be made with a Lakes Fat 8ths pack of 16 colours).
Nicky, of mrsssewandsow.blogspot, has had her Lavender Knots quilt published in Quilt Now. She says:
Your Oakshotts really make the impact from afar and draw the eye in for a closer look at the more detailed Liberty fabrics. So thrilled it works at a distance and close up. Liberty and Oakshott make for a winning team! Hope you like it.
For the curious, the fabrics Nicky used from the Oakshott Colourshott collection were:
Nicky said:
They were a joy to work with! Looking forward to seeing Scandinavia* when it comes out.
*What is this rumour? Hang on in there, more to follow about an exciting new collection soon…
The gorgeously sophisticated, jewel-like Oakshott Lipari collection is shown to great advantage in Anne William‘s design called Magic Carpet which first appeared in Popular Patchwork
We have reproduced the pattern in one of our free booklets, so download away and fly off on your own magic carpet. Here’s the link to the Lipari Fat Eighths pack you’ll need to create it.
The free pattern booklets can be found on the Instant Colour page of this blog and on the shop website.
