This week for Down the Rabbit Hole I’m featuring a quilt that I DIDN’T make. It’s one of the favourite things I own in the world. Have a watch to find out why. If your Mum is a stitcher like me or if you are a Mum, there’s nothing so wonderful as a new project to plot. Make her day by giving her the gift of sewing ideas… and then maybe find her some sewing time too! Or maybe make your own day instead. After all, whether you’re “mother”to children, pets, friends or house plants, we all deserve a treat now and then! Go to www.sarahfielke.com for a 25% of all pdf patterns and online classes. Don't forget to join up to my new small project BOM - The Lemonade Stand here. Happy sewing! Sarah

​Mother's Day is charging at us again with its expectations of a lovely day with family. Every year since Australian Masterchef first started in 2010, Damian and the boys have cooked dinner for me. Thats 16 years of Mothers Day dinners this year! Over the years the meals have evolved but they are always three course, and all three boys get into the kitchen and cook together. Now that they're grown up, its become a competition - each of them draws a course from a hat, and then I have to judge who won. (Carefully!! 😂) It's a lot of fun, but my favourite thing about it having them with me, and watching the three of them joke around and judge each others recipes and techniques. It's just about my favourite thing in the world. This year Charlie won't be with us, and I'm very sad about it. I am not publicly sad (and I can say things to you, Smites, because they won't read it!), but I'm sad in the secret inside part of my heart that we hide from our loved ones, that I won't get to watch them all together this year. In the outside part of my heart I am absolutely thrilled for Charlie and Lizzie, as they're not here because they have bought a house! And they are moving into it this weekend. Sooooooo exciting, but they are soooo far away from me (well, OK, Melbourne, not that far but far enough!). I will have Oscar though, and Alyssa, which will be absolutely lovely. And yes they are cooking for me. I know Mothers Day isn't a happy day for everyone, and while I love my Mother's Day its always bittersweet one for me. I lost my own beautiful Mum when she was only 54, and I was 28. We were very close, and I miss her every day but most especially on the days when I watch my beautiful boys and wish she was here to watch them too. Anyhow this has wandered into melancholy, so I shall say what I meant to say - that Mother's Day can be for everyone, even if you have a Mum you don't like, or you don't have kids, or your Mum is gone. Because we're all a "mother" somehow, to something! Maybe it's the dog or the cat, your houseplants, the neighbourhood kids that some in for cake, your friends, your husband (OK but if you're mothering your husband stop right now and tell him to pick up his own socks). Take the melancholy out of it and treat yo'self peeps. Nothing like a great excuse for a day for YOU. However, If your Mum is a stitcher like me, there’s nothing so wonderful as a new project to plot. When my boys were growing up (and still even now!) if I'm cranky or sad or having a bad day, one of them will quietly (or cautiously) suggest… Mum, why don’t you go and sew? My youngest especially was an absolute rascal for suggesting often that his being in trouble for something may actually be a symptom of not enough sewing time. Little shit. 😂 And so if you need a new project for your Mum, or from your kids to you, or for you because the cat was thinking of you, on this your special day - we have a 25% off sale on PDF patterns and online classes from now until Sunday. And because you're special and I luffs you, you get your Smites discount too so that's a whopping 30% off. Gee that was a long winded way to say we re having a Mother's Day sale. Phew. Anyway now that's done, I wanted to drop some links to a few really interesting things I've found here and there over the last couple of weeks. I keep saving them up and thinking that I must share them with you, so maybe on that Day of Mothers you're going to take for yourself, you can sit with a quiet cup of something hot, or a martini, and read some interesting things. I hope you do, and if you do let me know which one you found the most interesting, because I was spellbound by quite a few. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is having an exhibition called WORN. It showcases historical fashion garments that have been worn, altered and then worn again - extending their lives and their histories. I think thats such a cool story behind a museum exhibit, and so unusual! There are garments ranging from 1640 to 1930!! I would love to see this! You can find out a bit about if even if you can't go, at this link https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/exhibitions/worn and also at their Instagram account @rijksmuseum Here is a quilt that stopped me in my tracks on Instagram the other day and I had to find out more about it. Once I did, I realised I have the book about the quiltmaker in my library - No Time on My Hands, by Grace Snyder. Grace was the daughter of the maker, Nellie Synder Yost​. The book is the story of Nellie's life. This quilt contains 87,000 triangles. Just going to type that right out because EIGHTY. SEVEN. THOUSAND. TRIANGLES. And you guys all complain when I have 87 leaves on a BOM!! hahahaha The quilt is around 91" x 93", which makes each one of those half square triangle units about half an inch. Anyway this thing is INCREDIBLE and you can see it right now if you're in Washington DC, because it's part of an exhibition called The State Fair that is on until September. https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/state-fairs https://www.instagram.com/p/DXb1Igojdi0/?img_index=1 Here's another one from Insta to blow your mind​. This gown in the Victoria and Albert Museum looks as though it was embroidered with gold thread, but it's actually embroidered with STRAW. How you would even go about that and the skill and patience it must have taken is mind blowing. This is a fascinating Instagram account - Dr Serena Dyer is a fashion historian and I always find her posts so interesting. Here's a link to the listing at the V&A, but the Insta post has video that is great. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1463486/dress-unknown/ https://www.instagram.com/p/DW_qMjnDDnn/ I hope those little titbits keep you interested peeps and I hope you take a moment for yourself on Sunday. And don't forget the sale, and I promise to let you know what they cooked up for me too! Happy Day, and Mothers Day too Sarah x​

This weeks quilt was named for one of my favourite lollies as a child- Fruit Tingles! When I was a kid they were only available in rolls. I used to save the silver paper wrapped around them to make crafty things with 😜 The things you remember. The pattern for Fruit Tingles is available in paper or PDF format from www.sarahfielke.com #sarahfielke #quiltingpatterns #quiltingstories #foundationpaperpiecing #quilting Don't forget to join up to my new small project BOM - The Lemonade Stand here. Happy sewing! Sarah

Hop on board, it's the crazy train. ​Fabric designs are being finalized, my Słodki quilts are being finished, the book is being edited, my quilts for the show are nearly done to send to be basted, the Sydney Quilt Show is being planned, the QuiltNSW 45th anniversary in 2027 is being planned, the Giucy Giuce challenge blocks are arriving, I'm getting ready to go to Canberra for the Canberra Quilt Show (May 21 - 24), to Queensland to teach at Kimz (bookings for the classes and lecture here! https://kimzsewing.com/?s=sarah+fielke&post_type=product), Sisters is just around the corner (classes here! https://stitchinpost.com/search?type=product&options[prefix]=last&q=sarah%20fielke*) and I am WORN OUT peeps but I'm not allowed to stop just yet!! Holy moley what a bunch of bananas. I promised you a few weeks ago a little tutorial on how to make a very simple design repeat by hand, and I do always make good on my promises even if sometimes it takes me a little while to get there. So here it is! Star with a square of paper, the size that you want your repeat to be. This is a 6" repeat, so its a 6" square of paper. Fold and crease the paper in half in both directions.  Draw, or glue, some motifs into the centre of your paper. I am working with a motif from an antique fabric here, so its just a photocopy of the fabric with the flowers cut out, stuck down to get the repeat I want. Make sure that you don't go too close to the edges of the paper.  Cut the paper through the middle vertically.  Turn both sides of the paper so that the cut edges that were in the middle, are now on the outside. Add a couple of extra motifs in the blank spaces, again towards the centre - the only pieces toughing the edges should be where you have cut. Stick the two sides back together, and then make another cut across the middle in the other direction.  Turn, and stick. Add pieces into the spaces. Cut again in the first direction. Keep going until you reach a stage where you have filled all the centres of the paper, and all the cut edges are on the outside.  Here's where I started adding colour references - but my repeat was going to off to be made into proper artwork, so you may have done this before hand or you may not want to!  And here is the finished repeat - I have copied the 6" repeat 4 times, and stuck those together to see the full toss.  I like to use an app like Layout for really quick instant gratification on something like this! You just put your repeat into it once and it will spit it out in different configurations for you. Here's 9 repeats together... And heres 9 x 9! Looks just like real fabric, right?? :D If you wanted to then have your fabric actually printed, you can scan and upload your repeat into Spoonflower. They have a repeat tool, and you can play with getting it larger or smaller onto a fat quarter or a half yard or whatever you like and BOOM - fabric! Cool huh?  OR..... DRUMROLL PLEASE....... SHHH YOU CAN'T TELL ANYONE I SHOWED YOU THIS...... You could wait for my fabric to be released and just buy some of that! GASP OMG 🙈🙉🙊 I was never here, you saw nothing. Move along. See you next week. Sarah x

On this weeks Down the Rabbit Hole I’m talking about Maple Leaf Rag, which is one of my all time favourite quilts. It’s designed primarily from a piece of music, and also from a tiny tiny picture of an antique quilt I had in the back of my mind! The PDF and physical pattern and the acrylic kite template are all available now at www.sarahfielke.com #quilting #quilting stories #quiltingpatterns #sarahfielke #materialobsessiontwo Don't forget to join up to my new small project BOM - The Lemonade Stand here. Happy sewing! Sarah

In this week’s Down the Rabbit Hole we take a jump to my the first ever quilt in my Block of the Month program! The Happy Days quilt has a story behind it of course- and it also teaches you SO MANY TECHNIQUES along the path of its construction. Have a watch to find out all about it! You can find the Happy Days pattern book, which comes with extensive video tutorials, and the accompanying optional template set, at my website https://www.sarahfielke.com/search?q=Happy+days Don't forget to join up to my new small project BOM - The Lemonade Stand here. Happy sewing! Sarah

Happy Wednesday peoples, I hope the sun is shining where you are because it's so beautiful and sunny here!​ All I really want to do is lie in the sunshine and read my book, but work is pressing and I need to get it done. What book am I reading? It's called Hare's Fur by Trevor Shearston, and it's absolutely lovely. Big recommend on this one. It's about a professional potter, living alone in Australia's Blue Mountains, and some children who come into his life. I won't say more than that, as revealing even some of the details will ruin some of the small devastations and joys this book just pops into the story casually. I've only got about 15 pages left and I want to go and finish it!! Read this one, I'm tipping you will love it. Right, on with the show! And what a show it was. Here's some more of my favourites from the AQC, starting with the rest of my pick from the QuiltCon travelling exhibit. I Scream Out Loud by Lynne Hanson  I'd love to share the artists statement on this one but the photo I took is completely out of focus!! My sincere apologies.  Hue's To Say? by Erin Kroeker "We all view the world through a unique lens shaped by experiences, values and perspectives. When these lenses overlap, like in a Venn diagram, shared connections emerge alongside distinct viewpoints. Just as overlapping coloured lenses create new hues, our perspectives blend to form something richer.  My father and son, both colourblind, experience colours differently, reminding me that even when our views don't align conventionally, the unique perspectives of others enrich our understanding of the world." Here we have a quilt from the SAQA ((Studio Art Quilt Associates  https://www.saqa.com/about ) special exhibit. This quilt is by Pat Forster, and is called Ordered Chaos.  "This design was inspired by works by Annie Albers. It evolved from random placement of pieced squares with four orientations and whole squares. Order was brought to the chaotic result by replacing some pieced squares with whole squares, and rotating others, so no triangles have coincident sides.  Hence, the work moved from chaos to order (opposites by nature), evidenced by pieced versus whole blocks, in opposite hues of the colour wheel (orange and blue), in opposite tones(bright and dull), with straight line and curved quilting." It's interesting to me that quite a few of my favourites in the whole exhibition were really quite simple quilts, made using traditional shapes and quilt blocks, but were also very modern. Here is Crooked Paths, Or Eight-Pointed Stars? which is also by Pat Forster, which I didn't know at all when I took the photos. Pat, incidentally, was this year's Rajah Award winner.  Another special exhibit that really held my attention was the Avant Gardé exhibition from Carrefour Européen Patchwork. Some of the figures are absolutely spellbinding and beautifully executed. Reborn as a Quilter by Sangmi Kim "Out of life's grey shadows, I discovered a world of colour - quilting. Each stitched piece became a ritual of healing and rebirth. Even after 30 years, I will be reborn like a big bang." Feel, Connect, Flow by Maria Eugenia Corbella "In my quilt design, I imagine the future of patchwork as a blend of nature, the synthetic, new technologies and out inner world. Living, feeling, creating and respecting the environment while embracing innovation - and enjoying every moment in life." I think this quilt was my favourite of the whole show. The techniques she has used to make this face and background it rests on are so beautiful and what a wonderful use of fabric, and of applique! This is What Are Her Origins by Szilvia Kerékgyártó. New tools and materials promise to make the creative process easier and faster. I hope that in 30 years, quilters will still be innovative yet traditional, preserving the values of handcrafts and never forgetting their origins." As a teacher I always love having my quilts hung in the Teacher's section of a show, and its always an honor to have them hanging alongside my collegue's incredible work. The tutors of a large show should always put on a dazzling display, and this was no exception! My favourite was this painted, improvised piece by American Pat Pauly, called Edge of Autumn. Sorry it has feet! :D As locals, the Victorian Quilters always have the best of their regional show hanging at AQC, and this quilt took my fancy in a big way.  Fruit Salad by Felicity Garde "The colours and design make me think of lemons, oranges, blueberries and passionfruit. The blue loops are fun - they are modified double wedding ring blocks. This top has been in the cupboard for years. I unpicked the border, adding the blue semicircles ad corner circles, and finally it's quilted! It is my own original design." Every time I go to a quilt show I'm struck by the phenomenal array of different skill sets, designs, colours, techniques, sizes, ages.... we quilters really are a talented lot. If you have a quilt you're working on, why not enter it into the Sydney Show? You need to be a QuiltNSW member, but that's easily fixed - and trust me, with the surprises we are working on for the next year or two, you will WANT to be a member... just a little insider co-Presidential info from me there peeps. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. That aside, enter your quilt!! Quilt shows are not quilt shows without the quilts that hang in them people, and the more quilts the merrier. Have you finished one of my quilts since 2023?? I know that LOTS of you have. ENTER IT!! That's FINISHED it, not started it, which means you can just have been sewing on the binding or something.  This is ME telling YOU that as QuiltNSW co-President, I WANT YOUR QUILT IN OUR SHOW!! Come on, don't be shy. You can become a guild member here https://quiltnsw.com/members/#membershiptypes And if you're already a member, you can enter your quilt here - entries close on April 27, but your quilt DOES NOT have to be finished to enter, you just need to have the top well on the way, and to know what size it finishes at.  https://quiltnsw.com/sydney-quilt-show-2025/ With that in mind, I'm off to work on my entries! Want to see? Ahhh.... you'll have to wait for next week.  Sarah x

This week for Down the Rabbit Hole we are back with my Jazz Hands quilt, and a little tutorial on hand piecing. Mirrors, sandpaper boards, beautiful Sohmo pins, add a quarter rulers, and the Jazz Hands templates, papers and patterns are all available at my website www.sarahfielke.com ! You can hear all about the story of Jazz Hands in DTRH number 11, and learn to make it using English Paper Piecing in DTRH 12, both available at my Youtube channel . Have fun! Don't forget to join up to my new small project BOM - The Lemonade Stand here. Happy Easter everyone! Sarah

Hi Smites! I held off this weeks StitchyMites until after my visit to the AQC yesterday, so that I could show you some quilts. For those not in the know, the AQC is the Australasian Quilt Convention, held every year in Melbourne at the beautiful Royal Exhibition Building. It’s a beautiful space and it’s always a lovely show to visit because of that! The show doesn’t have nearly as many quilts as the Sydney Quilt Show, where there are around 400 on display each year – I would think there’s somewhere more in the region of 100-150, and a lot of them are smaller, “challenge” style quilts. This year there were some great special exhibits, including one by QuiltNSW’s own Brenda Gael Smith, the winner of last years Rajah Award. The Rajah is awarded to a quilting teacher, designer, author, historian, guild worker, retailer etc who has made an outstanding contribution to quilting in Australia. The award is named for the historic Rajah quilt, made by convict women en route to Australia in 1841. (More about that in a later Smites!) Brenda is an art quilter who has been involved with QuiltNSW for decades! I have known her for at least 20 years through the guild and also from when I had Material Obsession. She creates textile paintings and sketches using her own hand dyed fabrics. She exhibits often in art and modern quilt shows, teaches and wins awards, and she also runs QuiltNSW’s annual art quilt exhibition, The New Quilt. (If you’re interested in The New Quilt, the entry details are here! The next exhibition is in 2027). This year there is also a travelling exhibition from QuiltCon, sent direct from the February 2026 QuiltCon show in Raleigh, NC. Some of my favourites were Dunkard’s Orange Peel by Emily Kidney “This quilt is a love letter to my box fan and a visual representation of the invisible sensory experience of air currents circulating. I love the secondary shape patterns this block creates when repeated.” Frances by Jeanne Eileen Garcia “Despite my occasional eye rolling as a child at comparisons to my mother – in likeness, tone or attitude – I’ve always valued that connection, like a little echo caried in me. Hand piecing and quilting this portrait created space to consider her influence and how her traits and choices shape my own. The quilt’s front presents her likeness, the back holds notes and reflections from the process. Together, they form both a portrait and a record of thought.” I have photos of the rest of the show for you next week, but before I go I thought I’d share my quilt. You might remember when I started this, as I’ve shown you some snippets along the way. It also hung at the Australian Modern Quilt show. Although it didn’t win a prize at either show, the quilt wasn’t made for that and I didn’t expect it to win anything. It was made for me, and for Freddy, and not for anything else. If you don’t remember the quilt, here is the artists statement, and also a full photo of it hanging, which you wont have seen before! The improv lettering is my own technique which I’ve been teaching for 20 years, you can find out more about it in either my Stitch Your Story book or take the on demand improv class at my website . The applique is by hand as usual, of course! The quote to me is perfect, because Freddy was always one to break the rules and have a lot of fun, and the quilt breaks a lot of quilting “rules” too. I’m actually glad it didn’t win anything at AQC, because the winners go off travelling around Australia and you can’t have them back for 9 months!! And that means that Don’t Miss Out can be hung in the Teachers Pavillion this year at Sisters, which was what I actually made it for in the first place. So there you go! I hope you all enjoy this very small tour of AQC, a larger one next week. Also I promised I would let you know when the entries for the Sydney Show were open and the news is that they ARE OPEN, so get over there and enter a quilt! ! If you think you won’t enter, make sure and have a re-read of my last week’s Smites and then THINK AGAIN ☺ hahahaha and don’t forget we take international entries too. You need to be a QuiltNSW member to enter, but that’s easily done…. And this year we have changed the entry rules so that your quilt doesn’t have to be finished to enter, you just need to know the size it’s going to be. Here’s the link , make sure and tell me if you’ve entered a quilt because I will be VERY proud of you! ☺ Sarah x

Hi Smites and a Happy Easter Sunday to you all. I have spent the weekend so far helping my youngest son and his lovely partner move into their new home. As under 30's buying in Sydney (if you're not from Australia, you may not know that Sydney is the second most expensive real estate market in the world to buy into, right up there after Hong Kong at number 1), they have played an absolute blinder as we say here in Aus, and bought their first apartment. It's taken several years of saving every single penny the two of them earned to get their deposit, and we are so so proud of them, and so very happy to see them so happy. And so our Easter weekend has been spent unpacking a kitchen, helping hang artwork, moving couches and putting together a bedframe. I even built an outdoor table, it had Allen key instructions and everything, I'm very pleased with myself 😂 Having built the outdoor furniture (and yes, it is structurally sound!) I thought I had better get back to doing the things I'm actually good at - making things pretty and feeding people. They had decided on chocolate brown and light blue as their bedroom decor, and although there is a quilt being made especially for them they know that they might wait a while for it, and luckily I had this one waiting in the wings, the perfect size and colours without even trying! This quilt is called Sunday, I made it for my book Material Obsession Two. The pattern is available to pre-order here in either PDF or paper formats , and there's also an acrylic template to cut all those diamonds, and EPP papers for it if you like to do things that way coming soon. We like for you to have options :) So that got the making things pretty out of the way for a moment, and I got on to the feeding. I thought I would share what I made for them for dinner last night, their first proper meal in their new home! We had a toast with a little glass of bubbles, and then a heart healthy dinner because Alyssa is watching her cholesterol at the moment (I know she's young for that - its a family issue). These burgers were absolutely delicious, very low in fat and very good for the old ticker! I would highly recommend whipping them up if you're scratching about for an easy and quick weekend family feast. 1tsp sumac 1tsp ground cumin 3 zucchini, grated and excess moisture squeezed out 1 carrot, grated 3 shallots (scallions) thinly sliced 2tbs minced flat leaf parsley 500g minced chicken breast 6 wholegrain bread rolls Store-bought Tatziki Baby rocket (arugala) Red sauerkraut Ripe avocado Mix everything in the ingredient list down to the chicken mince together well in a large bowl, then shape into 6 equal patties. Cook on the BBQ hotplate - they're a little sticky, so make sure to spray a little oil first. While the patties are cooking, warm the rolls in the oven so that they're nice and warm and crunchy. To assemble the burger, spread one side of the bun with avocado and the other with tatziki. Place the patty into the bun, and top with rocket and sauerkraut. I also made some chips by very thinly slicing a sweet potato and two beetroots on a mandolin, and spreading them out on baking trays. I sprayed the slices lightly with olive oil and then sprinkled them with more sumac and cumin, and a little salt. Bake in a 180C degree oven for 15 mins, turn, and bake for another 15. Watch them carefully because they do burn easily! Aaaaand everyone needs some dessert afterwards... this is my current favourite. I usually serve these plums with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, but as we were being heart healthy I picked up some passionfruit and mango sorbet, and they will went pretty well (they're better with something creamy. Greek yoghurt also is delicious with them). If plums aren't in season where you are this also works well with any soft fruit - pears, peaches etc but the strawberries are a must! Strawberries and balsamic vinegar is a match made in heaven. 4 ripe plums 2 punnets of strawberries 2 tbs brown sugar 2 tbs balsamic vinegar 2 tsp vanilla 1 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp cinnamon Mix the sugar, spices and the wet ingredients together in a small bowl to make a rough slurry. Remove stones or cores and quarter the larger fruit, take the tops off the strawberries and cut them in half. Place all the fruit on a baking tray with edges (there's juice afterwards!), then pour the slurry over the fruit and toss it all together well. Bake in a 180C oven for one hour. It's just as nice served room temp as it is served hot. Yummo... starting to regret leaving the leftovers for them yesterday. OK I hope that gives you something to think about peeps, and I hope very much that your Easter weekend is lovely and relaxing, wether you celebrate or wether you're just enjoying the holiday. And no matter which it is, I hope you get some time for stitching! If you're looking for a new project, make sure and watch my Down the Rabbit Hole videos - last week, this week and next week, I'm taking about my Jazz Hands quilt and giving some little tutorials about making it using either EPP or hand piecing. Have fun - and don't eat all the chocolate at once! Sarah x

This weeks Down the Rabbit Hole is a tutorial for my Jazz Hands quilt! This week we will look at piecing the quilt by English Paper Piecing, and next week by hand piecing. Mirrors, sandpaper boards, my Sarah Fielke brand needles, my Aurifil 80 weight thread collection, clips, the Jazz Hands EPP template and papers and hand piecing templates AND the Jazz Hands pattern in paper or PDF formats are all available at www.sarahfielke.com ! You can hear all about the story behind the Jazz Hands quilt in Down the Rabbit Hole number 11 , from last week. Enjoy! Don't forget to join up to my new small project BOM - The Lemonade Stand here. Happy Easter everyone! Sarah

Hi everyone and welcome to The Lemonade Stand ! 6 months of juicy sweet fun, delivered right to your inbox. Six small projects, together with six small quilts in the same theme - so you can decide to make one or the other, or both! No lemons, just Lemonade! Each month the pattern will be available for you at my website, together with a video tutorial explaining all the tips and tricks, and little things you need to know to get it made. The patterns and videos will also be available each month for individual sale outside of the program. The individual patterns are more expensive than buying the 6 month program outright. The program is $70 USD (around $100 AUD), and each pattern will be around $17 USD ($25 AUD), so you are obviously better to sign up for the 6 months! However if you have a friend who sees your project and wants the pattern, they will be able to buy one singly. PATCHWORK SHOPS! This also means that each month the patterns will be released as paper patterns for wholesale. The patterns will be revealed to wholesalers in the month prior so that you have time to place an order, or you can choose to run the 6 month program, have the paper patterns delivered each month automatically and kit the projects as you choose. Please email bom2017@sarahfielke.com for more information or to sign up for a wholesale account. Each of the dolly quilts will be no smaller than 12" square and no larger than 18" square. The projects will range in technique, using both hand work and machine work. All projects are suitable for hand work - however not all are suitable for the machine. The projects will include a wide range of techniques including but not limited to appliqué, machine piecing, EPP, inserting a zipper, working with velvet, making bias tape and perfect circles. The mini pieces will include things such as a drawstring bag, a project booklet, a set of zip pouches, a needle book and an apron. The Lemonade Stand is NOW OPEN for full subscription , and the pattern program will begin from July 15, 2025. If you join before July 15 you have the option to pay by the month. After July 15, subscriptions will remain open only with the option to pay for the 6 months in full, or to purchase each pattern separately at a higher price. Template sets and notions are now on sale, and we will begin shipping before the beginning of May. For some months there will be the option of a fabric and/or additional notions kit. These will be in very limited supply! They will not be for sale until the project for the month is revealed, which will be on the first of the month, prior to the pattern being revealed on the 15th. The Lemonade Stand members will be the first to have access to purchasing the kits, which will not go on sale for the public until the patterns are revealed on the 15th of the month. Last year these sold out very quickly, so if you want one please buy them before the public sales open to avoid disappointment. PLEASE NOTE that the Month 1 kit, The Velvet Fog, is already available for sale so that it can be shipped with your template set. Please watch the information video, as it includes info about the potential projects, and info about the template set, notions and bias tape colours I have planned to use in my projects so that you can preorder them with your template set if you choose. Join up here