It's finally here! My very first fabric collections Lancelot and Guinevere with Riley Blake Designs! I'm so proud of these and so excited and shocked to see my name printed on selvedge. Each collection has 21 prints that are perfect for mixing and matching. You can find them today at these stores online or your local fabric store:

Fabric.com
Hawthorne Threads
Fabricworm
Missouri Star Quilting Co.
Simply Love Fabrics
Cherry Creek Fabric Co


(If I missed your store, please let me know so I can add you to the list)

New York City!!! Drawing this set made me want to book a flight and see all these sights! My husband still hasn't been so there will be a getaway to the city in our future. I also have a craving to binge watch  You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, An Affair to Remember, and all seasons of 30 Rock.

Find the set HERE or HERE.

Rome, Italy has probably been my most requested set...for 4 years...so I finally got around to finishing it! The little columns are just so cute! Find it HERE or HERE. Now that I finished the most requested kit, what else would you like to see from me?

I now have clip art sets for the following countries/cities (click on the city to see the kit):
-Amsterdam
-Germany
-Rome
-London
-Paris
-Washington D.C.

Happy Christmas! This year you get not just one, but TWO new kits! I'm on roll! This nutcracker set is perfectly ready to create gift tags, wrapping paper, ornaments, kid crafts, puppets, or Christmas cards. Purchase yours HERE or HERE.

Merry Christmas! Last year my mom wanted cute nativity illustrations to print off for the grandkids, but she couldn't find any. She asked me to draw some and it took me an entire year to finally get around to it. :) I just love how this set turned out and I hope that you do too!

You can purchase the papers and clip art for commercial use HERE or HERE.

You may have missed my super exciting ginormous announcement on instagram a couple of weeks ago------I am now a fabric designer for Riley Blake!!! My first fabric collection will debut at Quilt Market in October and be in shops in Spring 2018. Pinch me! This is a bucket list life goal of mine and I can't even contain my excitement! Riley Blake is an awesome company and I've loved working with them so far. There's a huge learning curve and it's more work than I thought, but the collection is my new baby and y'all are going to love it! Who's excited with me?! You can check out all the sneak peeks and updates on my instagram account @citrusandmintdesigns.

I've had a few comments from people wishing that they knew how to embroider. Would you be surprised if I said that I learned how to embroider only a month ago? I signed up for Creativebug and took THIS Rebecca Ringquist online class. It's really simple and so much fun! I even taught my 6 year old and she loves it. She is a back stitch pro.

To demonstrate really how easy the stitches are, I (very quickly) created 3 "how to" videos that you can view below (warning, I'm not a videographer, and I'm not a pro embroiderer). These are the three basic stitches that I use in all my patterns. Watch the videos and then get a pattern and get sewing! Find the patterns here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/citrusandmintthreads

Exciting news!!! I have expanded Citrus and Mint to now sell embroidery patterns in a new shop on Etsy called citrusandmintthreads (HERE). It all started with some major creative block, which led me to take a beginning embroidery class on Creativebug (highly recommend). Then I was hooked! There's something to adding dimension and texture to my illustrations that is so satisfying. Added bonus--I can embroider in the car and not get carsick, AND I can embroider when I have migraines (which unfortunately have been coming more and more frequently). So even when I am sick I can create, something I couldn't do before.

I also decided to make this shop all not for profit. I will be donating 100% of my profit from this store to refugee aid. I will select different refugee aid organizations every so often to spread the wealth. This month I will be donating to one of my favorite humanitarian organizations, Lifting Hands International. Right now they are running a Gather for Goats campaign where they buy goats for refugee families so that they can have a good source of nourishment and possible income. So you get fun embroidery patterns, and refugees get goats. I think it's a good tradeoff :) Find the shop here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/citrusandmintthreads

I will be continuing to add more patterns to the shop, especially kid friendly beginning patterns. Let me know what patterns you would like to see in the comments below or email me at citrusandmintdesigns@gmail.com