Bear Quilt

Cute, cozy and cuddly! We love this bear quilt! Made with soft and warm nursery flannel and natural batting. 🐻🐻 🐻 🐻 For more quilt designs check out needleanddesign.etsy.com 

Pattern & Color...

Working with cozy flannel is easy. We like to pre-wash it with dye and perfume free detergent on a warm gentle cycle. We dry our cozy flannel on a delicate cycle and iron it when needed. Washing cozy flannel this way, lets us know that the flannel is pre-shrunk.

One note about this material is that it isn't very forgiving, so knowing where and how you want your stitches to look is key.

An earlier cozy flannel quilt we put together was the Blue Dog Quilt (shown on right). 

The start of a new project always begins with a pattern in the N&D studio. Even has we are choosing a design, a color palette is being carefully selected.

For our latest project, a Bear Quilt, we've chosen a variety of brown cozy flannels, including those to the left. (Stay tuned for more photos.)

Valentine's Day

We hope you had a great Valentine's Day full of flowers and sewing. We know we did because there's a huge bunch of mug rugs piled neatly in the studio waiting to be made available in the N&D Etsy Shop. Like always, we never have free time and we honestly prefer it that way...on to the next project!

Mug Rugs

February seems to be flying by. Already we have begun to stitch together what seems to be a gazillion mug rugs. Next month's goal? Well, let's just linger in February while we can. Oh and we know it's early but...Happy Valentine's Day!

Tree Skirts & Mug Rugs

Tree Skirts & More... It's been a busy week and we wanted to share  photos of what we've been working on. From big projects like quilts and tree skirts to small projects like mug rugs and table toppers, we always save fabric and batting scraps. What do you make with your fabric and batting scraps?