Hi all. I'm super excited to share with you that I have a block in Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine. It even says Penguin & Fish on the cover and my block is on the contents page, woot! The magazine will be on shelves on May 8th. My block is a paper pieced elephant like the elephant in our Safari Sweet collection. It was my first time paper piecing and I can't wait to do it again. Paper piecing allows you to make super fancy blocks really easily. So fun! I'd thought I share a few pics.

And...Quiltmaker will be giving away a free mag here on the blog. Leave a comment below if you'd like a chance to win! I'll be choosing someone randomly this weekend. And be sure to check out the Quiltmaker site to see more of the designs and designers.

iphone case in Mollie Makes magazine

Mollie Makes magazine recently did a little article about the Society6 website and featured my "Owl in Ferns" iphone case! Yay! I recently uploaded some more iphone cases, ipad skins, and art prints to Society6 and thought I'd share them with you. Check'm out here. By the way...Society6 is offering free shipping through Sunday!

We Love French Knots

Hi all. Now that International Quilt Market is over, I'm attempting to get back on track with blogging again. One of the things that I missed telling you about was that in September Penguin & Fish was interviewed on the We Love French Knots blog run by the lovely Bari J! I designed a free pattern download of a little squirrel for the blog as well. The squirrels are going CRAZY outside right now prepping for the winter so I thought it was an appropriate time to share this little pattern again. Here is a link to We Love French Knots, please check it out! And here is a link to download the free squirrel embroidery pattern.

My studio in STUDIOS mag!

My studio is in the Fall issue of STUDIOS Magazine, yay! Should be on newsstands soon!

Stuffed

My Kitties and Unicorns were in Stuffed magazine. Yay! I'm so happy to be among so many great plush artists. Stuffed is available at bookstores and check out more pages here.

My bunny is in Small Magazine!

I'm a couple of days late with this post, but I'm still super excited. My bunny muff was photographed for small magazine! Small has the BEST photography of kid's fashion and it's worth a look if you haven't checked it out. I'm so happy my little plush friend could be a part of it.

I'm in the Storque!

Check it out peeps. I was in an Etsy Storque article a couple of days ago! The lovely Linzee McCray wrote the piece about Textile Trends at the International Quilt Market. And one of those trends was embroidery, woo hoo! I got to chat with her about my embroidery kits and she took a pic of me with my big hedgehog pillow. You can read the entire article here.

Foxes now for sale! Woot!

Hi peeps! Just thought I'd share with you some final pics of my little foxes. I'm so happy with how they turned out. They are now available exclusively at Schmancy Toys. So if you're over in Seattle you should go check them out. They are also available on the Schmancy website. You can see them all there!

More press, yay! Canadian Family Magazine

I got pics of my little guys from Canadian Family Magazine today. How fun! They show my bright pink Unicorn and three lion Kitties. It's so exciting to see them in print. Yay!

In Do It Yourself Magazine! Yay!

Check it out. My little L Lion Embroidery Pattern and Kitty no. 122 were in the Winter 2009 issue of Do It Yourself Magazine! Yay!

Blog: We Say Meow

A couple of weeks ago, the lovely Mary Kilvert asked me to be a part of her and Anke Weckmann's new blog "We Say Meow". I immediately said YES and it's quickly become one of my new favorite blogs. It's all about cats, the artists who own them, and the art they make featuring felines. Tee hee, can't beat that! Check out the blog here. The art above was created by (in order from top to bottom) Matte Stephens, Gemma Correll, Lisa Evans, Anna Wadham, and Leila Shetty.

My little horsey in it's home

This was so darling that I just had to post it. I recently did a trade of one of my horses for this wonderful bunny and bunny pattern from Barbara of fuzzymitten. She just posted this video of her little one with the horse as a thank you. Too cute! I love it.

I'm on Bloesem Kids today!!!

I'm on the Bloesem Kids blog today. Eeeeee! I'm offering a giveaway of two of my patterns. I'm also offering a special deal for all Bloesem Kids readers. Check it out here.

My little lion was on Pecannoot!

Yay! My little gold lion was on the Pecannoot blog yesterday. Pecannoot is a new blog started by the wonderful Jess Gonacha and was made to showcase works of "abundance." Basically things to uplift you and make you smile. Fun! It's the perfect blog to go to for some morning inspiration. The third and fourth images here were designed by Jess, and the last image was made by the lovely Gemma Correll.

I'm a Curator! Tinlark Gallery's INSPIRED show opens on Saturday.

Tinlark Gallery in L.A. has a show opening on Saturday to celebrate their 2nd anniversary. The show is called INSPIRED and it features art curated by 7 bloggers, and I'm one of them! Woo hoo! The other bloggers are Grace of Design*Sponge, Joanna of A Cup of Jo, Erin of Design for Mankind, Abbey of Aesthetic Outburst, Meighan of My Love for You is a Stampede of Horses, and Holly of decor8. How I got wrapped up with that amazing bunch of people is beyond me.

The two artists I chose for the show are Amy Huddleston and Ivy Jacobsen. I'm pretty much obsessed with both of them. Examples of Amy's paintings are above in the first two paintings and Ivy's are the third and fourth. Other artists in the show are Anne M. Hall, Bailey Saliwanchik, Betsy Walton, Henrike Stahl, Kime Buzzelli, Marcie Paper, Marta Rich, Mike Perry, Natalia Czajkiewicz, Rachel Papo, Souther Salazar, Tanya Aguiñiga and Yu-i Chan.

The show runs through Feb 21. But if you're in L.A. on Saturday evening please please please head over to Tinlark and check out the show. And take tons of pics to show me because I'll be stuck here in Minneapolis. Get more info about the show on the Tinlark Gallery website.