7.23.2018

Winter Tales Blog Tour

Hello, Stitchers! Today is an exciting day because I get to share a beautiful new wintery fabric collection that was designed by my talented and sweet friend, Minki Kim! I hope you are following Minki on Instagramher feed is full of amazing designs, gorgeous bouquets, and loads of sunny optimism!

 Retro Mama | Winter Tales by Minki Kim
Winter Tales features Minki's signature colors and cute illustrations: delightful foxes, penguins, and bunnies frolic together in the snow and they almost make me miss snowy weatheralmost!

For my first project, I made a pouch using the zipper installation from my Bound-All-Around Pouch. I altered the shape of the bag to make it HST friendly.

 Retro Mama | Bound-All-Around pouch HST with Winter Tales fabrics by Minki Kim

 Retro Mama | Pouch detail, Winter Tales fabrics by Minki Kim
The cream tree print is such a gorgeous low volume backdrop for this HST project pouch. I love the sweet, uplifting sentiments in the design! The deep blue snowflake triangles are such a happy pop of color.

 Retro Mama | HST pouch with Winter Tales fabrics by Minki Kim

 Retro Mama | pouch back
:: Bound-All-Around Pouch pattern from my shop ::

Of course I had to make a few pear and apple ornaments with this cheery stack of prints! (A little reminder that all my patterns are 20% off in my Etsy shop until August 1!)

 Retro Mama | pear ornament with Winter Tales fabrics by Minki Kim

 Retro Mama | apple ornament with Winter Tales fabrics by Minki Kim

 Retro Mama | apple and pear ornaments with Winter Tales fabrics by Minki Kim
:: pear and apple bundle from my shop ::

And to wrap up this post (hah!), I made some sweet drawstring gift bags. I used the Weebrawbag pattern by Laura ZuckerkussI've seen these bags all over Instagram and could no longer resist! The pattern is easy to follow and I was able to stitch up both bags in an afternoon. These are the small size and I made the pockets a little shorter than the pattern directions suggest to show more of the pretty floral vines prints.

 Retro Mama | weebrawbag pattern by Laura Zuckerkuss with Winter Tales fabrics

 Retro Mama | weebrawbag pattern by Laura Zuckerkuss with Winter Tales fabrics

 Retro Mama | weebrawbag pattern by Laura Zuckerkuss with Winter Tales fabrics

 Retro Mama | weebrawbag pattern by Laura Zuckerkuss with Winter Tales fabrics
:: weebrawbag pattern by zuckerkuss on Craftsy ::

Good news for those of you who do their holiday sewing earlyMinki’s Winter Tales collection for Riley Blake is available now!

Many thanks to Minki for inviting me to join her blog tour and to Riley Blake for sending me these gorgeous prints! To see more Winter Tales projects, visit Christopher at The Tattooed Quilter and Sedef at Down Grapevine Lane, and check out #wintertalesfabric on Instagram.

Happy Stitching!
Kim

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