Wouldn’t you just love to have a full sized quilt to hang this holiday season?  If you start now you’ll finish in plenty of time with no pressure.

Folk Art Christmas is a bright and cheery quilt that will welcome friends and family to your home.   Applique is used to create blocks with hearts and holly, ornaments and pineapples, a house with a wreath on the door and a decorated tree.  Finishing at 55″ x 57″. 

 

 

The Magic of St. Nick has lots of Old Worlk charm and has a bit of a sampler look to it.  The blocks are constructed with various methods: piecing, foundation piecing, template piecing and applique.   You can choose the number of candles in the candle blocks.  The center of the quilt will really stand out with ultra suede on St Nick clothes and a dimensional beard.

 

 Choose your fabrics carefully for Winter’s Stars and you’ll be able to leave this quilt hanging even after the holidays are over.  The plain blocks that alternate with the pieced stars are just right for showing off a favorite print. 

 

The Twelve Days of Christmas is the kind of quilt that will generate a great deal of interest with all the detail that it shows.  Hang this now and your grandchildren will have special memories of Christmas at Grandma’s.   If you ever wanted to make an heirloom quilt this just might be the one.

 

You know this is just a sampling and there are lots more Christmas Quilt Patterns available.  And if you can’t quite get into the Christmas spirit yet, browse all the other quilt patterns at QuiltersWarehouse.

Christmas is exactly six months away. If you started sewing for Christmas earlier this month you probably have an item or two finished already.  Doesn’t that feel good?!  Here’s a few more suggestions to help you continue on your way.  Or to give you a push if you haven’t started yet!

  I love this fabric.  I’ve used it in so many projects.  As an accent, a background, a border.  It’s a pretty color with a pretty, understated design.  Love it!

 

 

Here’s a beautiful tone on tone red fabric.  Happy little swirls sprinkled with little stars in a gorgeous red…. not an “in your face” red, but a dark, muted red. 

 

 

Can you hear the bells ringing?  A mottled green background with gold bells scattered all over – can’t you see it paired with the gold fabric above?

 

 

Never A Pair! designed by Mary Kerr makes a cute lone mitten or a lone stocking… who knows where the mate has gone.   Decorate your tree or give as gifts.

 

 

If you need a new tree skirt One Crazy Christmas is a good choice.  You’ll get instructions for three projects…. a tree skirt, a wall hanging, and a stocking.  Crazy quilting and reverse applique are used on all three items.

 

Folk Art Christmas measures 55″ x 57″.  It’s so colorful and cheerful.  Now is the time to start on this one to be sure it’s finished in plenty of time to hang for the holiday season. 

Go pour yourself a nice tall glass of iced tea or cool lemonade and cool off looking at all the Christmas patterns and Christmas fabric. 

For the second installment of Christmas in July we have three gift pattern suggestions and two holiday decoration patterns.

This new pattern from Carolyn’s Creative Designs, Quick Trio Table Runner, is one of those patterns you’ll want to use more than once.   With a dimensional look and buttons for accents it’s as cute as it is easy to make. It will make the perfect hostess gift or maybe for a special co-worker.  Make one as a gift and one in Christmas fabrics for your home.

The Alphabet Take-Along Book will be a hit with the baby and the parents.  A soft introduction to books with lots of fun applique.  Use up your scraps and think about that precious baby as you create this unique gift.

 

Do you know someone that just has to have their tea?  How about a cupcake lover?  Someone that has a weakness for both?  Tea And Cupcakes is an adorable cupcake tea cozy.  It might be fun to make a theme gift with this…. add the cozy, some real live yummy cupcakes and some flavored teas to a basket and you have a special, personal gift.

Now for your holiday home decor…

This new pattern of Silly Snowmen from The Quilted Lizard is almost too cute for words!  The brightly dressed snowman hold hands in a circle.  The birds, holly and stars on the outside and the star and mittens in the center are laid out to give a kaleidoscope look to the piece.  Can you see the snowflake that is formed?

As the poem goes, The Stockings Were Hung by the chimney with care…  Pretty quilty looking bottoms with folk art design tops, these will dress up your living room.

Remember, just a bit of sewing each week and you’ll have lots of Christmas work done before it even gets close, leaving you with more time to enjoy the holidays!

Remember way back last December.  Christmas was approaching and you had projects yet undone.  The to-do list included grocery shopping, gift shopping, baking, cooking, cleaning, decorating.  There were parties to attend, gifts to wrap, and snow to shovel.  And all you wanted was time to finish a few hand made gifts for a few special friends and family members. So now is the time to start sewing for this Christmas.  A few hours every week or so devoted to those projects and you’ll be finished early!  No stress!  You’ll even have time to create that Christmas table runner or wall hanging that you wanted for your own home!  Let’s get started…

 

The newest bag pattern from Purse-O-Nalities of Palm Harbor, Maddie’s Bag, would make a great gift.  Their patterns feature lots of easy and time-saving techniques.  They also include real paper pattern pieces… with shapes… not rectangles!  You will have plenty of opportunity to personalize your bag just right for the recipient.

If you need a small gift for a fellow quilt guild member or for any sewing enthusiast, these Wool Pin Cushions will fit the bill.   All you’ll need are your wool scraps and then some embroidery thread to embellish them.

That’s two gifts down… now something for you to decorate your home.

 

This Yuletide Ribbon Wreath will stay fresh for the entire holiday season.  Beautiful poinsettia flowers circle the wreath and holly leaves, berries and ribbon float around the border.

And here’s a bit of holiday fabric to inspire you.  Through The Woods by Maywood Studio is a beautiful shade of blue with a dusting of snowflakes. Snowmen are scattered all around, each dressed in a fun hat and a brightly colored scarf.  Do you feel the creative juices flowing?

Join us next week for some more Christmas ideas.  See you then!

Well, the calendar may not say summer yet, but we know it’s here.  And that means picnics…

This Wine Country Picnic wallhanging will certainly put you in the mood for a picnic.  The valley is pretty as a picture with horses grazing and a balloon in the sky.  The picnic basket is packed with goodies, including wine.  A border of pinwheels adds to the fun.  Made with fusible applique this quilt finishes at 43″ square.

It’s a quilt.  It’s a backpack.  It’s both!  The quilt measures 43″ x 60″ and folds into an attached backpack with room to carry a few extra items.  This would be perfect for a picnic, or to take to the beach.  The Backpack Quilts book includes six variations.  Make one for you and one for a gift.

With all the items in the Summer Picnic collection, you’ll feel like you are on a picnic without even leaving home.  Items included are: Sailboat Pillow, 3D Ladybug, “Grandmother’s Ice Cream” Stitchery, Watermelon Picture, Watermelon T-shirt, and “Cottage by the Sea” quilt.

Are you in a picnic mood yet?

The tulips in our gardens will be blooming soon.  If you just can’t wait, here are a few quilt patterns that feature tulips.

Tulips Spring from MH Designs is constructed with paper foundation piecing.  Full detailed instructions make this pattern easy enough for beginners.  A practice sheet is even included.  Wall hanging finishes at 11″ x18″ and will brighten any room.

Celebrate Spring with Tulip Table Runner by Liz Roehr of Pals 4 Ever, featuring bouquets of delicate two-toned tulips.  Choose your favorite method… fusible machine applique or hand applique.

Cheryl Haynas of Prairiegrove Peddler designed Tulips In Bloom, a collection of patterns covered in tulips.  Includes instructions for two quilts (55″ square and 31″ square), two table runners (one just a bit longer than the other) and two pillows (13″ and 18″). 

Pieces of Spring is a bright, colorful 44″ square quilt with log cabin piecing surrounding four applique blocks. One of the blocks features a watering can filled with tulips, the other blocks have a butterfly, a birdhouse and a basketful of cute, cuddly kitties. The large blocks are bordered by smaller applique blocks.  Make the entire quilt or you can make the center blocks each as a separate projects.  This quilt just shouts Spring!

Have you ever seen 9-patch blocks look this spectacular.  Appliqued tulips really dress up these blocks.  Aunt Maggie’s Tulips is shown here in 30′s reproduction fabrics, or you can use pastels or pull out your scraps. 

So many pretty tulip projects…. you can almost hear the blooms opening!