The Chicken Quilt

It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally finished!

Some time last year in the fall I started to get that quilty feeling. I got it into my mind that we should all have special Christmas quilts to signify that the Christmas season is upon us. We have a small house so a Christmas quilt would add some instant cheer. I decided to start with my son. He loves birds and I found this pattern by Cluck Cluck Sew which is so cute. My thought was that I could make it more Christmassy through my fabric choices. One of the most fun things to do was to go to the quilt store. It took me a long time to pick everything out but overall I was pretty happy with it.

There was no way I could keep this a secret because it was such a big project and in the end my son ended up helping me arrange the chickens into their final order.

I actually gave it to my son last Christmas. I had just stitched in the ditch and then bound it but I wanted to do more quilting on the chickens. So I took it back after Christmas thinking surely I’ll have it done for next Christmas because I have a whole year….but it didn’t happen. By the time it was on my radar I already had way to much Christmas crafting and craziness upon me.

I managed to not let it go back into the UFO pile for 2025. First thing in the new year I buckled down and finished quilting the chickens. I’m really glad I did because it does feel good to finish something! And now I can move on to the next Christmas quilt.

SVS September Contest Entry

This was my entry for the SVS monthly contest with the prompt CLOUD. We had to make sure it had a cloud, a character and told a story. I'm still figuring out where my work is falling between comic and children's book art but I got a kick out of clouds having group therapy!

I’ve been trying to focus more on my storytelling with each illustration that I do. This was also my first time working with ink and a dip pen. I really liked it and it was a great warm-up to Inktober 2022.

This entry also made it to the finals of the critique arena where the instructors choose the top 10-16 images and then people vote for the winner. It has been a goal of mine to make it to the finals so this felt like a big win!

Business News

I’ve been spending a glorious weekend stitching and working on business things. I’ve been making some changes in this space with the goal of making this space my home. There are so many different platforms these days and while it is important to be a part of those to be seen and meet new people I also feel like having a home that can encompass all of the facets of my creativity is important.

So here you can find all the things that I do. Illustration, embroidery and everything in between. And if life goes according to plan I will post here more often.

Right now I am focussing on getting more patterns into my shop because I have a bunch at the 80% done stage and because in todays climate of uncertainty and stress embroidery just feels like the right thing to do.

I have just started a new instagram account for my embroidery so I can be a bit more consistent for followers of that content. It is @lauras_studio_embroidery if you want to follow along.

Here is the newest pattern that just launched. I had a lot of fun making these colorful cats. Stitching there little faces with the messy satin stitch was fun and I think it was effective at giving them all their own personalities.