Ombre Fabric

New V and Co Ombre Fairy Dust 2020

 We are SO SO excited to be adding to our V and Co Ombre Family! Introducing Ombre Fairy Dust for Moda fabrics by V and Co. 🙂  32 colors with shade of dark on the selvages running light to the middle of the fabric. We are so excited to show you the projects we created […]

NEW OMBRE BLOOM by V and Co for MODA fabric

We are so excited to introduce our newest Ombre for Moda Fabrics!  Introducing OMBRE BLOOM  The newest ombre to come to the V and Co ombre family! Showing to Quilt shops now and has shipping date of October 2019 Please enter bloom20 at checkout for 20 percent off all PDFs. (this code will expire MAY […]

NEW OMBRE FABRIC pattern and bundle!

 We are so excited for this new year and for this beautiful Ombre fabric that is due to ship to stores this coming month in February! We are also excited to introduce our newest pdf pattern featuring our Confetti Ombre called Home for the Holidays and for a limited amount of time its on sale for […]

New Patterns for V and Co Confetti Metallic Ombre Fabric and sale!

HELLO! I’m So Excited to FINALLY show off on the blog our new patterns for our new Confetti Metallic Ombre fabric shipping to stores February of 2018. The great thing about these patterns while they feature this great new fabric…it works perfectly with our V and Co Ombre fabric we’ve had in stores and in […]

New V and Co Ombre Pattern Fall Breeze

Hello! I know I know! I said I would introduce the new Confetti Metallic Ombre patterns and some of them are already up in the shop for purchase…but I had to put that aside because we haven’t finished putting all of the new patterns up for sale, that will happen later on next week. So […]

New Ombre Confetti Metallic Fabric by V and Co. for Moda

Well, the time has come when we can finally divulge our fun news! (We’ve missed talking to you but you’ll see why it’s been quiet over here in a second) V and CO. OMBRE JUST GOT FANCY!  Introducing Ombre Metallic CONFETTI by yours truly.   We put a saying on the selvage: “spread kindness like […]

More Ombre Fabric Bundles available in the V and Co Shop

We’re so happy to say we are now fully stocked and have 1/2 yard bundles and Fat Quarter Bundles available of all 20 V and Co Ombre fabrics. You can make this Criss Cross Apple Sauce with a 1/2 yard bundle (minus the background fabric) And you can make this Rising Star with a 1/2 […]

Summer Sampler 2017 Ombre Fabric Bundle

We are so excited about this Summer Star Medallion that Fresh Lemon Quilts, Freshly Pieced and Swim Bike, Quilt have created and we are even MORE EXCITED about their V and Co Ombre version: We are carrying the Summer Star OMBRE BUNDLES in our SHOP. (free shipping with this bundle) The fabrics picked for the pattern are […]

January Moroccan Getaway Fabric Bundle of the Month

 If you follow us on Instagram you already knew this was coming! Introducing the Fabric bundle of the month. Each month we will be featuring a V and Co.Ombre Pattern and the Ombre Fabric Bundle you need to make it. This month we have chosen our personal favorite (shhhh) the Moroccan Getaway Quilt which features […]

V and Co. New OMBRE Patterns and Sale

I am so excited to announce a couple of new patterns for our V and Co. Ombre Fabric with Moda! To celebrate I am offering for a limited time 30% off all PDF patterns! JUST ENTER PDFSALE30B at checkout! Sale ends February 2nd at midnight. As you all know the fabric has now shipped to […]

V and CO OMBRE IS HERE!

The day has come! Well, more like last week but I’ve been a busy individual and can only keep up with my Instagram account on a more regular basis these days! Please go and support your Local Quilt Store and Online Quilt Store that has bought the V and Co Ombre fabric and tell them […]

V and Co: Insta Friday

Julie of Jaybird Quilting shows off some Simply Color and Ombre fabric in her Night Sky Quilt pattern placemats I am on instagram daily it seems. It’s so great with the hashtags and the @’s because it’s so easy to find things and feature other peoples work with my fabric or patterns. So easy! BUT, […]

V and Co: Quilt Patterns for Ombre basics

 The day has come where I talk and talk about our newest patterns using all TWENTY of our new Ombre Basics with Moda. I really can’t gush over these enough, I’ve been dreaming of these for 5 years. And I feel like I just want to scream from the hilltops about them!  It’s been so […]

Moda Basics V and Co. Ombre

I am SOOO excited to FINALLY get to show you what I’ve been busy working on and what I’ve been dying to share.  Introducing V and Co. Ombre Moda Basics. TWENTY colors of ombre. Starting from the top left: Honey, Magenta, Aqua, Avocado, Graphite Grey Hot Pink, Taupe, Indigo Coral, Plum Turquoise, Aubergine, Lime Green, […]

Summer lovin’

Summer is quickly approaching it’s end. I feel like it went in a flash. We traveled and spent much needed time as a family. It was also spent working a little here and there. (Okay more like a lot in the late hours after everyone was in bed till the early morning hours.) I can’t […]

Ombre fabric in quilts and projects workshop in Boston

from right clockwise Bloom Quilt, Secret Garden (in the Simply Color Books, green), I heart You Quilt, and Textured Pillows.   I’ll be in the Boston area in the next couple of weeks! I’ll be teaching a workshop on Saturday June13th. Ombre Lone Star Come join me and Erin of Daley by the Yard  for a Saturday […]

Yes I’m the Cat she calls Judge-Y

Welcome, welcome, please sit for a bit…go on, go on…OKAY SIT DOWN ALREADY. Thank you…First off I’d like to introduce myself:  I’m what the human that owns this blog likes to calls the Judge-y Cat. I live with the humans in this house of mine here in good ‘ol Iowa. I think she calls me […]

Happenings of the last couple of weeks

Ombre wall in the ombre class at Quilt Con  Hello! Well, I’ve crawled back out of my hole after Quilt Con. WHAT A BLAST THAT WAS! It was entirely too fast and too quick, but man it totally tired me out! I was there a total 4 days, and I felt that I didn’t even […]

Keep on Sewing…

Quilt Con triangle class sampler MAN! I have been super busy. So busy I feel like I need to schedule bathroom breaks just to make sure I know it’ll be taken care of. Nope, not even kidding, I lose what day we are on on a regular basis. I went to feed the cat and […]

2015 already

Sawtooth baby quilt using V and Co. Ombre Navy and what I’m working on right at this very second 🙂 What the heck happened to 2014? I can’t even believe that we are now looking at a new year. This last year was a hard one for me…a parent passing away, our beloved dog passing […]

Good tidings

 Well! That was fun. And it’s good to see most of you are on the same page on colors you’d like to come back (hello eggplant and orange!!) and some other additions of yellows, corals, neutrals, reds, blues, more greens…but yeah it was the eggplant and the orange and the yellow. NOTED! Now lets pick […]

Color Theory By V and Co for Moda Fabrics

Okay. So I swear I have been meaning to post pictures of this collection for like weeks now. It’s been a little nuts over here, but I took today off of sewing to post pictures and blog about this new line of mine! I really like it a lot. It’s got your basic V and […]

Well Hello June- I’ll be in Indiana soon!

 HELLOOOOOOOO! So I unintentionally took May off of blogging. A lot of things have come due and I had to use every single moment to get things done in-between soccer, baseball, volunteering at the kids’ schools, and running around like a mad woman AKA: being a MOM. Whoever said I was going to miss my […]

V and Co: What chocolate, a diet soda, and a good friend will get you

 Well first off isn’t Liz awesome? She’s even funnier in person. My “shipping department” is pretty cool, and she’s also a great friend. She saw how stressed out I was and even may have seen some tears when I listed off all the things I had agreed to do. This month is pretty much insane, […]

a little love

i heart you quilt pattern and textured pillows pattern braided pillow shown  Well! I do have to say that you guys were cracking me up on the last post with some of the crap your kids have said! WOW!!!! Fantabulous! And thanks for making me laugh!! So with Valentine’s being kind of around the corner I […]

V and Co: how to make: ombre dutchman free quilt pattern

 welcome welcome! i’m so excited to finally have the time to share this with you! it’s been sitting here since last may when i made this quilt for quilt market. but as you all know the kiddos are in school now and i did my “go and do everything i’ve not been able to do […]

V and Co: tips for small hexagon paper piecing

 phew! well i said i would get this out on wednesday didn’t i? i didn’t mention that it might be at 11:59 on wednesday night…but with all the kids home for summer, that’s how we’re rolling today. anyways, here’s my helpful hints for small hexagon paper piecing. i’ll talk about getting your hexagons started, and […]

V and Co: the tale of tiny hexagons and english paper piecing.

 our summer vacation is halfway done. actually more than that. we go back to school in middle of august much to the children and my sadness. my summer vacations growing up didnt end till labor day. anyone else out there like that? what ever happened to having summer during the summer? hmm. one thing i […]

V and Co.: summer happenings

 we are in full swing summer mode over here. our strawberries are growing and are super sweet, there’s something incredibly cool about eating from your own yard. i miss our days in the middle of nowhere when we had an acre and had our raised beds of veggie’s but strawberries make up for it as […]

V and Co.: friendship quilt along block # 31

welcome to my turn to the friendship quilt along. if you have been following this whole time  and have been making the quilt as we go, welcome to the next one!  if you are just hearing about it, it’s okay i think i’m going to make this quilt this summer when i have a little more […]

V and Co: simply style new patterns spring 2013

sometimes my husband comes home at night and says “your blog is really quiet…how am i supposed to know what’s going on?” to which i give him a nasty look to his smirk. we talk every night. he knows what’s going on. but it does shed light that i do a lot of “stuff” that […]

V and Co: introducing Simply Style for moda fabrics by V and Co

 here’s my second line with moda fabrics! it’s called simply style and will be available this february with the delivery date to stores of july. i am super happy and excited about this line 🙂  i’ve included (of course) my favorite-est colors of green, and blue and you can never go wrong with some gray, […]

V and Co: first quilt of the year 2013

happy new year! a few days late but whatever right? okay so here we go my first quilt and pattern of the year. i’m so excited to show you her. this one has now become my new favorite pattern. yes. i love it a lot. it’s called “i heart you.” i called it that because […]

V and Co: theirs and mine: bernina sewing machines

 the other day the girl noisemaker out of the blue says to me “i want to do what you do.” i looked at her and a whole avalanche of things that i do in the day flooded my brain at that moment. what exactly was she talking about. i think she must of looked at […]

V and Co: around the house

 i’ve been super busy cutting up fabric  creating messes and then sewing up the cut up fabric. the fabric featured here is the simply color ombre dots in aqua i love how it looks in a dresden plate. i’m working on making a few more in the green and the gray. 🙂 and well…you will […]

V and Co: how to: simply color ombre baby quilt

first off WELCOME NOVEMBER!!! what? okay not asking too many questions, but seriously how’d we get here already? anyways, this is one of those projects that i’ve been so super excited to show off here on the blog but, has been sitting on the back burner just WAITING for the right time to make it on […]

V and Co: how to: no raw edge appliqued fall wreath pillow

hey guys, so funny how i said i would be back on wednesday with a fall how to …and here it is thursday. well we had some technical difficulties over here yesterday called “life” and i spent most of my day shuffling children from dentist and doctor appointments that by the time i finally sat […]

V and Co: making baby gifts

i’ve been busy making things baby gifts this week for a baby shower i was invited to. i made a few different kinds, this one is a simple ruffled ombre flower one. and well, might as well show you how i made it and the other ones right? 🙂 so next week watch for how […]

V and Co: My fabric line with Moda: Simply Color

introducing: Simply Color by V and Co. (that’s me) for Moda. debuting at spring market 2012 in Kansas City. yes, i’m pooping my pants. yes, i want to cry i love it so much. yes, i am sewing and sewing and sewing. YES, that is why the blog is so dang quiet, and the projects […]