Celebrate the Most Magical Time of the Year with Adventale Fabrics

🎄 Christmas in July, anyone? 🎁

When I first started designing Adventale, I pictured a cozy, classical Christmas — think forest greens, cranberry reds, warm candlelight…
But somewhere along the way, something magical happened. ✨
The sketches softened, the reds blushed into pinks, and golden accents quietly tiptoed in like morning frost catching the first light. And suddenly, I knew — this collection wasn’t meant to follow tradition. It was meant to reimagine it.

Adventale became my ode to a Pink Christmas — whimsical, vintage-inspired, full of softness and sparkle. Think warm gingerbread tones, sugarplum pinks, snowy whites, and glimmers of gold foil. It’s festive, but in a dreamy, slightly unexpected way — and somehow, it feels even more nostalgic because of it.

My latest fabric collection, Adventale, was created with this very idea in mind — to celebrate the magic of the season with love, light, and a little sparkle. From cozy quilts to thoughtful gifts, Adventale invites you to make this season more meaningful, stitch by stitch.

Whether you're decorating your space, preparing heartfelt gifts, or simply embracing the slower rhythm of winter creativity, Adventale offers the perfect blend of elegance and festive charm.

✨ Looking for inspiration?

I'm so thrilled to share the inspirational Adventale LOOK BOOK and three beautiful blog posts from the AGF team that highlight what you can make with this collection:

🌟 Celebrate the Most Magical Time of the Year with Adventale Fabrics
A closer look at the collection, the story behind the designs, and all the creative possibilities—from quilts to fussy-cut ornaments.

🧵Make a Fabric Stocking Gift Card Holder
A sweet, quick project perfect for handmade gifting! Great for using Adventale scraps or panels.

🏠 Decorating Our Homes with Handmade Cheer

Festive pillows, banners, and home decor ideas to bring handmade warmth into your holiday space.

✂️ Free tutorials on the blog

I’ve been stitching up little treasures with Adventale fabrics, and if you'd love to try too, I have two free tutorials available:

👜 Kiss Lock Frame Pouch– perfect for gifting or keeping something special for yourself.

🎁 Quilted Boxed Pouch (updated version) – now with helpful tips for working with directional prints. Both are beginner-friendly and totally addictive!

🎀 Introducing: The Adventale Ribbon Collection

I’m also thrilled to share a new addition to the Adventale world — the Adventale Ribbon Collection!

This beautifully curated line brings the soft, wintry essence of Adventale to a new medium — perfect for gift wrapping, sewing, journaling, or adding a handmade touch to just about anything.

🌿 Available July 2025
🎁 Ideal for makers, crafters, and gift-givers
💌 Limited release — once it’s gone, it’s gone!

Designed with the same warmth and storybook charm as the fabric line, these ribbons are a dream to work with—and I had so much fun designing them! Using them on my first project (a pouch!) felt like an absolute dream.

🏠 Don’t miss the matching Christmas Village wallpaper

These snowy motifs are also used in my matching wallpaper design available in my Spoonflower shop.

🧵 New Quilt Patterns in Adventale

The Adventale fabric collection truly comes to life through four quilt patterns I created (with some incredible friends!) to celebrate its magical spirit.

💖 Snowflake Magic – a delicate celebration of winter geometry using my beloved Winterflake quilt block.

💎 Bazaar Diamonds – created by my amazing friend Marija, this one plays with contrast and angles for a bold, striking look.

🌌 Sawtooth Sky– created by my wonderful friend Sue, this pattern has soaring stars and gentle movement, now also with a FQ-friendly bonus version.

🏠 Cabin Spark – made by Alicia, this beauty merges the timeless log cabin with sawtooth stars—perfect for your favorite fat quarters.

Each quilt is a love letter to winter’s cozy magic and was made to let Adventale shine—stitch by stitch.

💬 Use code PROMOPATTERNS to get 20% off in my shop!
👉 Visit my Etsy shop for more patterns and inspiration!

Wishing you a magical, creative, joy-filled July — and a Pink Christmas in the making.
Happy summer & happy stitching,
Katarina ✨

Large patchwork handbag with wooden handles - tutorial

As Decadence fabric collection has started shipping to shops and we are preparing the Look book projects, I figured I can try to explain how I created my Large patchwork handbag with wooden handles, that was exposed in my Portland quilt market booth.

As I had very limited time to prepare all the items for my booth, everything was put together very quickly, without precise patterns to follow and unfortunately, without step by step pictures of making them. What I regret the most is that I didn't take any picture of the patchwork I did, before turning it into a bag :(
But, well I know that most of the quilters have many quilt remnants and unfinished quilt or pillow projects-and this can be a great way to quickly turn them into something usable!!!!

So, any kind of patchwork, quilt block or even any kind of fabric can work great for this.
My big log cabin patchwork blog was approx. 24 x 24". The central squares are 5" and the strips were cut to 2.5". As these were only the fabric strike offs, some were longer and some shorter, I just almost randomly pieced them together to a very long strip, which I was cutting as needed to do the log cabin piecing around.

Anyway, if starting from scratch- HERE's how to make the log cabin block! Just add another strip or more to all 4 sides, to obtain bigger block. You can use it like that, or rotate it into a diamond shape, like I did ;)

As my collection has 2 palettes (color stories: Demure and Lush), I just tried to play with one side of the bag featuring one palette, while the other was featuring the other one. It's good as now I can choose which side to "wear",  depending on my outfit ;) or surrounding?

So, in one local craft store I bought the wooden handles and just had to use them. I never used before any bag pattern with these kind of handles, but have found THIS very nice article/tutorial by Martha Stewart with patterns for many types of handles and also sources where to shop for the handles etc.

So, it was easy to draft the handle allowances looking at those patterns. The body of the bag is pretty much taken from my birdy bag, as well as side attachment details for the shoulder strap-only that it was much thinner than the original one.

I am happily wearing my bag daily and getting so much compliments for it's unique look.
Hope that this will inspire you to make one too!!!
Happy sewing!
xx, Katarina








 

Esoterra

As the Esoterra lookbook is finally out, I can't be happier to share with you some amazing projects and creations that AGF team and some incredible makers were able to put together!

This first quilt is the free quilt pattern, that I created and named Amber. Amber quilt pattern (can be downloaded HERE) is inspired with the diamond shapes from the Ambered bugs print.

All the beautiful items that can be seen above are created by Elina Temmes and pics are her courtesy as well :) The pattern for the gorgeous slippers from the picture can be found in the Tilda's house book, while the Flowermania pattern can be found Here.

There are many beautiful quilts in the lookbook, and "Travels to Esoterra" by Marija Vujčić is one of them. She's working on the free tutorials for the other items that she created with Esoterra, that should be available soon.

 I love this beautiful "Clever girl" dress by Gwyneth LaSpina that is a mash up of Sweet Agnes swing top dress and T-shirt dress.

I love this Dino plush (pattern by Wooly petals) and looks like a great gift-giving idea ;)

This beautiful "Jungle Flight"quilt by Sara Diepersloot (quilted by Jeffery Yasenchok) can be found through Modern Handmade.

I love what Becca Plymale created for her adorable son and I will definitely sew one these classic oxford button-up shirt for my son and rough-n-tumble pants look great too!

Cassie Nicole made this stunning knit dress for her daughter that has a great twirlability ;)

Amazing Adventuring messenger bag and Malcolm quilt are created by Sarah Overton :)

 Probably my favourite bomber jacket in my favourite print from the collection :)

Beautiful Triassic Triangles quilt by Elise Baek looks so fresh and colorful!

I wish I have a toddler in my life to make him this outstanding hoodie jacket by Hello dear kids!!

Last, but certainly not the least is this stunning modern quilt by Paola Baker (pattern can be found in Simply Modern Christmas book by Cindy Lammon)

There are many more projects in the look book, so I hope that you will find something for yourself and/or other dino lovers in your life!!!
xx
Katarina