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Brace Yourselves

By Lauren | Published: March 4, 2013

Hey, hey! We’ve got some winners to announce, so hang onto your underpants! But before we do so, let me first thank everyone for all the nice comments we received! You guys are the greatest!


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Blog Hop

By Lauren | Published: February 25, 2013

Greetings all! Welcome to our stop on the Blog Hop! For those of you who aren’t familiar with our little fabric team, I’m Lauren and I design fabric with my mom, Jessi.

A while back, there was talk about this blog hop being a tour of our design studios…

And while our instructions have since changed, we couldn’t resist showing you a few pictures of where we spend LOTS of time each day. Not to mention the fact that it’s newly redecorated too…which we’re still pretty pumped about. The following photos will serve as the tour.

In the photo above you can see our Ikea bookshelf that’s been put to good use with some of our recent fabric stashes, books, and various other nick nacks. Below is a zoomed out view of the studio. We wanted this room to remain comfortable, while still being extremely useful.

Here’s some storage that we have beside the computer. Some of the little pales are suspended from the wall… others are made up vintage tins that my mom has been collecting for some time now. Below that, is a picture of two of the x-large, gridded sketch books that my sister and I make for my mom. We’ve made one out of each of our previous lines.

Here’s a colorful collection of thread that we have displayed in an old type tray. We also have a row of ribbon that has been threaded onto a wire above our tv.

And last but not least, our favorite boy in the whole world, Rudy. He’s so cute that he makes an adorable addition to almost any decor. We also have a wall of dog drawings that I drew a few years back in which he makes a few appearances as well.

And now for our block…

We’re number 27! You can download the pattern here… My mom added a little applique in the center too, but that’s optional. We like to think it adds a little something extra to the block.

We’re going to draw two winners (next Monday) for this blog hop, who will receive a charm pack and a jelly roll from our most recent line, Birds and Berries.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the line, scroll down to my previous entry where I walk through the line in detail. It’s super cute! ALSO, we’ve got a free pattern (shown in the picture below) that features this line, and you can download it online here. We think its especially awesome because you can make the entire thing with two charm packs (plus some backing). And if you’re a quilt store owner who wants some glossy printouts of this pattern, just shoot me an email at LaurenJung1@gmail.com, we’d love to send you a few.

So how do you win…

Just post a comment!.
AND If you want to be entered a second time, then like us on Facebook, and let us know that you did so with a second comment. :)

Whew, ok, I think that’s everything. Next on the Blog Hop are: Primitive Gatherings, Malka Dubrawsky, and Me & My Sister. Also, the other bloggers going today are: Kathy Schmitz and Laundry Basket.

Good luck and happy quilting!

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Birds & Berries

By Lauren | Published: November 10, 2012

As with most things, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. And that has been the fate of my “I’m going to start blogging” declaration that I made a few months back.

We just got our strikeoffs in the mail for our NEXT fabric line, and I still have yet to put up a post about our current line, Birds & Berries. I’ve mentioned it in some of my other posts, but as many of you know… I’m long winded and I like to have at least one post that goes over our inspiration… and the little hidden secrets that reside within the prints. So I’m doing that now.

(I actually have a whole list of posts that have never seen the light of day. Carrie’s wedding being one of them. Her wedding came and went, and as usual, I was not on the ball… and when I was finally ready to put it up… she’d been married 6 months. So I vowed to do it on her 1st wedding anniversary. And then her 2nd anniversary. The 3rd time is typically the charm though, and I’m dead serious when I say, on her 3rd anniversary, her wedding post will go live.)

The Birds & Berries line originally started out as the Birds & the Bees. Then I googled that name and was surprised to find that it is still a somewhat risqué term alluding to grownup activities. Then Tula Pink actually came out with a line called the Birds & the Bees that very same Market. So we were glad that we went with our backup name. (She’s a little edgier than us and pulled the name off nicely. :) So kudos to her for being cool!)

Anyway… we have three (sorta four) colorways. Blue, Berry, Green (with a little Yellow). See below.

As we usually do, we went with a garden/nature theme. This one has some slight ethnic influences though. Which was fun. I’m dating an Indian guy who I’m crazy about… and when we first started dating he brought me back some clothes from his trip to India. The fabrics were incredible. And so some of those served as inspiration for our newest line.

The main print has 10 different species of birds in it! Which is impressive, if I do say so myself. There are also snails, bees, inch worms, and spider webs… plus a variety of berries and flowers. The whole thing took FOREVER to draw… AND it was the very last print to be added to this series. I was working on it right up until the deadline (as usual)… and when I finally got to it, Hurricane Irene hit (last year), and our power went out, and I was forced to work on it in my car with my computer plugged into the cigarette lighter. Not a fun time.

Here’s our Blue Colorway.

And the Berry Colorway.

And the Green (with a little bit of Yellow) Colorway.

And that covers most of the high points. If anyone uses this line to make something super cool, please send me pictures!! We love to blog about that kinda stuff!

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Birds & Berries Quilt

By Carrie | Published: November 1, 2012

Have you downloaded our Birds & Berries
pattern yet? If not, I highly recommend that you do, for a variety of reasons. First off, it’s free!

Directions can be downloaded on our website, or you can link directly to the download here. But more importantly, this wallhanging pattern is easy and quick to make, and well…it’s pretty darn cute too. I know, I’m slightly biased, but I really do think this one’s a winner and it deserves a spot in your future projects list.

We love pre cuts here at Lauren + Jessi Jung Designs, and this pattern was designed with that in mind, so it’s great for kitting! The whole quilt requires only 2 charm packs, which covers you for all of the birds & berries, and the border pieces too. You just need a little extra for the binding, background, and backing.

There are a couple of things to note about the quilt that we think add a little something extra to the finished product. One of them is the 3D leaves atop each of the berry bunches (not to worry, these are also easy to make). We think they add a nice level of texture to this wall hanging.

And did you notice that the birds and berries almost seem to pop off the background? We really wanted the colors and patterns to take center stage in this wall hanging, so we quilted it with a tight stipple pattern, leaving the birds and berries unquilted. The end result is a sort of faux trapunto effect…just without the extra hassle.

And so, that concludes my sales pitch for our free pattern. We hope you enjoy making it as much as we did!

Oh…and if you’re a quilt store owner whose interested in kitting this pattern, or you’d just like to have a few copies for a giveaway in your store, drop us a line! We’d be happy to send some of the spiffy 11″ x 17″ glossy printouts your way!

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Carrie’s Halloween Pumpkin…What’s Left of It Anyway

By Carrie | Published: October 29, 2012

I am a huge fan of traditional holiday activities, and Halloween is no exception.

And while I don’t have too many decorations to sprinkle around the house for the season, a carved pumpkin will always make an appearance.

Because of random conferences and other friend outages, our gang decided that the annual gourd gutting needed to take place last week…which is exactly what happened.

Soon after the first cut though, I learned that my Trader Joe’s pumpkin (that I meticulously examined and compared to the available inventory the day before) was decidedly sub par, as it was half rotten. Luckily, I didn’t let this small detail discourage me and ruin the fun that night. So I continued carving, and even managed to end up with a respectable looking jack o’ lantern.

Until we left it outside the next day…

Seems like a pretty harmless thing to do, right? To leave your jack o’ lantern outside…Well, it turns out the combination of intense desert sun, an unusually hot October, and the slightly rotten consistency of the pumpkin’s flesh, made for something much less impressive when the next night rolled around.

It’s safe to say that I won’t be impressing trick-or-treaters with my pumpkin carving craftsmanship this Halloween…but hey, there’s always next year, right?

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