Thursday, December 25, 2014

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Mini Nordic Completed

I love this great little design by The Crafty Quilter .  You can find all the instructions here.

Monday, December 8, 2014

2014 Handmade Christmas Challenge Gallery

My first project back in January was this apron tutorial.
I had planned to make more aprons throughout the year and didn't get to it until the last few days-- what a festive little group of aprons -- the most recent additions.

Festive Aprons

 Festive Christmas Aprons are quick to make and fun too!
Here's a link to my apron tutorial.

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Christmas Sewing

Here is a purchased tea towel embellished to match a gingerbread man potholder (potholder tutorial here).
For the tea towel, I used the free pattern which can be found at the Fort Worth Quilting Studio.

This design could be incorporated into a cute mug rug.
A Mary Engelbreit storybook quilt.
To make this quilt, I used a panel which was intended to make a cloth book.


Instead I cut out the pages and added red polka dot borders and black polka dot corner stones, in typical Mary Engelbreit style.

For the quilting, I did some wavy lines in the red borders, X's in the black cornerstones, and meandering everywhere else.  And I knew immediately that the binding would be candy cane stripes.
Thank you for stopping by!
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Maple Leaf Block Instructions

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