Hi! My name is Elise Lea and welcome to Lovelea Designs. The name Lovelea Designs comes from a combination of the word love and my last name Lea (pronounced lee) Love + Lea = Lovelea.
I currently live in near Los Angeles, CA with my wonderful husband Jesse and our miniature pinscher Raptor. My husband is a pilot so I try to spend time with him when he is home and I usually do most of my sewing and quilting while he is away.
In addition to taking care of my family and writing a quilt blog, I work time at Robert Kaufman fabrics as a Custom Merchandising and Project Coordinator in addition to writing my own patterns which can be found in my Shop section or Etsy Shop.
I learned to sew at a young age, but didn’t really start quilting until about 2009 when I wanted to make my husband a Christmas Present. I borrowed my mother in law’s machine to make that first quilt and received my own sewing machine as a gift that Christmas and the rest is history!
I currently sew on a Brother Innov-îs VQ2400 Dream Creator and love it! It is a computerized machine with a digital display and an 11” throat. I also have a brother Innov-îs 900D which is a combination sewing and small embroidery machine. I love both machines and can’t image sewing on anything else.
This is my larger brother machine and the custom table my husband built for it.
I am a lover of color and fabric and pulling fabrics is one of my favorite parts of quilting. I also really enjoy designing quilts and almost all the quilts you see on my blog are my own design.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at elise (at) loveleadesigns (dot) com or leave a comment on my blog. If you would like to follow me you can follow my blog on bloglovin or using the subscribe by email function in the sidebar. You can also find me on Pinterest, Etsy, Craftsy, and Google Plus!
I look forward to talking with you!
Elise
