Secret Santa Sew Along

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Cutting

from a variety of light prints, cut:

6 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

12 strips, 2" x 11"

from a variety of red prints, cut:

6 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

12 strips, 2" x 11"

Using 6 light strips, 1-1/4" x 11" and 12 red strips, 2" x 11"

make 6 red|light|red strip sets. Sub-cut into 48 | 1-1/4" units.

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Using 12 light strips, 2" x 11" and 6 red strips, 1-1/4" x 11

make 6 light|red|light strip sets.Sub-cut into 48 | 1-1/4" units
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Sew a red|light|red segment and a light|red|light together.
Repeat to make 48 units.
Finished size 1-1/2 x 3-3/4”
2” x 4-1/4" including seam allowances

Secret Santa Sew Along

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Cutting

from a variety of light prints, cut:

35 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

from a variety of red prints, cut:

43 strips, 1-1/4" x 11"

 

Using 17 light strips, 1-1/4" x 11" and 34 red strips, 1-1/4" x 11"
make 17 red|light|red strip sets a shown below.
Sub-cut into 136 | 1-1/4" units.
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Using 18 light strips, 1-1/4" x 11" and 9 red strips, 1-1/4" x 11
make 9 light|red|light strip sets (not shown)
Sub-cut into 68 | 1-1/4" units

Making strip sets is the easiest way to make multiple
block especially when they are all the same color.
For this project we will be making a variety of different
size strip sets, here are the simple steps.
1. Sew strips together along length of strip in order
outlined in each step. Example: light-red-light
2. Press seams toward the dark, being careful not to
stretch and distort the strip set.
3. Sub-cut multiple units by cutting from narrow end
of each strip set at indicated width.

Using light|dark|light units and dark|light|dark units

make 68 nine patches with dark corners. 

Finished block 2-1/4" square,

2-3/4" square including seam allowances

Virtual Visit

My daughter stopped by the shop for a little photo session.

For those of you that can't stop by for a visit, 

come inside and have a look around. 

Secret Santa Sew Along

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Cutting

from a variety of green prints, cut:

48 squares, 2" x 2"

from a variety of brown prints, cut:

12 squares, 1-1/4" x 1-1/4"

from a variety of light prints, cut:

48 strips, 1-1/4" x 2"

Assembly

Arrange one brown square, 4 green squares and 4 light strips

as laid out above. Sew the units in each row together. Sew 

the rows together to make one block. The block should 

measure 4-1/4" square, including seam allowances.

Repeat to make 12 blocks.

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If you missed any details you can find them here. 

Secret Santa Sew Along

Can you keep a secret? 

We are having a Secret Santa Sew Along, follow along

and you will have a great new Christmas quilt ready to 

be quilted by Thanksgiving. If you don't like the whole

mystery thing follow along and get started once the quilt

 is revealed on Black Friday, November 23. 

Here are all the details:

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Finished Quilt 43" x 56"

Each weeks instructions will be posted on Friday mornings

You will need the following fabric quantities. Please keep

 in mind that the quilt is scrappy so yardage totals 

should be made up of a variety of prints. 

small scraps of brown prints

1/4 yard of green prints

3/4 yard of red prints

2-1/2 yards of light prints

We are not making kits for this project so dig into
your stash and be ready for the first post next Friday.

Fabrics pictured above are from my new line of fabric

Temecula Treasures for Marcus Brothers. You will be

seeing a lot more of these prints, I just can't put them

down. Temecula Treasures will be available early 2019

Mini Monday

I just love to try and recreate the look of a vintage quilt

by digging around in my scraps for just the perfect fabric. 

This month Mini Monday quilt is no exception. I think

it comes very close to the original pictured below. 

Please remember that if you have one of our

Mini-a-Month Postcard Collections form 2018

you have the pattern for this little quilt. So sorry

for those of you that do not, we no longer have

our collection in stock. Stay tuned for news about

what we have planned for 2019. 

Hexagon Hand Quilting

 This wonderful French General Convenience Cloth arrived

at the shop last week along with the rest of this beautiful line.

It is the perfect fabric to practice your hand quilting (no seams)

 so we put together a kit to get you started, 

Your kit will include some of my favorite hand quilting supplies.

Fat Quarter of Convenience Cloth

Fat Quarter of Kona Cotton for backing

Fat Quarter of flannel for batting

Coordinated fabric for binding (not shown)

Colonial Needle Under Thimble

John James - Sharps #9 needle

YLI hand quilting thread

Frixion marking pen

If you would like to add a few more of my favorite things to your order.

Elan 5" scissors can be ordered here

Gumdrop Thimble (colors will vary) can be ordered here

We have two different color choices. It is going to be hard to

 choose. Make your selection when you check out here.

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Be sure to check out our hand quilting tutorial here 

and our Finishing a Small Quilt Tutorial here. 

 for some helpful tips and tricks.