Christmas Quilts, Post 3

This quilt is called Will&Chill and was featured in a McCall's Quilting magazine a few years ago.

It is definitely one of my favourites and goes together quite easily.

The kit and pattern is available online at http://www.mccallsquilting.com/mccallsquilting/articles/Will___Chill

Christmas Quilts, Post 2

My second Christmas wall hanging that I have to show you today is one of my own designs. I used a Christmas panel with a snowman on it, and added a pin-wheel border, using red and cream 10" squares. After that, I added a log cabin border using various shades of green. I think the log cabin border looks like the spirals on a candy cane.

This quilt is queen sized, but I'm fortunate enough to have a large wall in my hallway, that is tall and wide enough to hang big quilts on. (I'm also fortunate to have a Daddy willing to make quilt racks all over the house!)

I thought this would be a nice inspiration of what to do with simple Christmas panels.

Christmas Quilts

Hello everyone!

My Mom has jumped right into the Christmas spirit and has begun hanging my quilts and slowly decorating the house in small stages. It looks really great so far and since I have such an abundance of Christmas related quilts and hangings in my collection, I thought that I would feature one daily. (However you can view all of the photos in my album Christmas Inspiration 2012, on my Quilter's Workshop Facebook page!)

Today I will be featuring my "Classic Santa" wall hanging (as I like to call it).
I love the look of this traditional wall hanging because Santa has a structure similar to a Nutcracker doll, and I absolutely LOVE Nutcrackers!

He is approximately 25 x 49 inches.

I used buttons for his "bell" on his hat, his eyes, and of course down the front of his coat.

I think he would look great as a door banner or as a wall hanging, you could even dress it up and hang some garland across the top of the quilt. 

Below is a link to the free pattern, designed by Debbie Mumm!

http://www.debbiemumm.com/Projects/Quilting/2006/12/

If anyone creates this wall hanging I would absolutely love to see it! You could E-mail me a picture at quilters.workshop@gmail.com or post a picture to my Quilter's Workshop Facebook page!

Happy Christmas Crafting! 

Upcoming Craft Show

Only one week until my next holiday craft show!

Please join us, at the annual Eastdale Collegiate & Voactional Institute Craft Show

Held: Saturday November 17th and Sunday November 18th 2012 at 265 Harmony Rd. N, Oshawa

Hope to see you there!

Durham Craft & Gift Show

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to make a post to let everyone know that I will be a vendor at this weekend's Durham Craft and Gift show. My business, Quilter's Workshop, will be operating in booth 12A.

The show times are as follows:
 Friday October 19th : 3PM-9PM
 Saturday October 20th : 10AM-5PM
Sunday October 21st : 10AM-4PM

The show will be held at the Durham College/UOIT rec centre, 2000 Simcoe St. N, Oshawa.

General Admission is $6
Senior Admission is $5
And children are free!

See the link below to print your $1 off admission coupon!

http://www.showsdurhamregion.com/event_view.php?id=225

There will be over 100 vendors!

Hoping for a great weekend and a great turn out!

Thanksgiving 2012

First of all, I can not believe how quickly Thanksgiving has approached us! Just a few days away now!

I have the perfect Thanksgiving wall hanging to show you!

I have so many Christmas and Halloween themed wall hangings and realized I needed something strictly fall or just for Thanksgiving! I came across the idea for this design from a Youtube video by the Missouri Star Quilt Company, however their design is slightly different.

As some of you may have already noticed, I made his feathers using a "dresden plate" design. To make cutting the blades of your dresden plates easier, I highly recommend this ruler:

Here is a picture of a traditional dresden plate quilt block, in case anyone has not seen one before:

For the feathers of my turkey, I used the 7" length to create my blades. (This ruler comes with instructions on how to use it) I used 15 blades of scraps of deep reds, golds and oranges. You can choose whatever colours you would like, you could even choose to make them all the same colour, possibilities here are endless!

You can cut your background piece whatever size you would like, depending on how much space you want to be left around the edges of your turkey's feathers. I believe I cut mine approximately 15x18

Once your feathers are joined together (using the same dresden plate applique technique) you hand stitch them onto your background material. For the body of the turkey, I used a circle (just like the middle of a traditional dresden plate block, I used a bowl as a template) For his head/neck I drew an hour-glass shape (your drawings don't have to be too accurate, just have some fun with it!) Again, for the feet I drew them, free-hand on a piece of paper and when I had a template I was happy with, I then cut them out of fabric. (Dad's are also very good at assisting with sketching turkey feet....hehe thank you Daddy!) 

I machine appliqued the body, head and feet, I only hand appliqued the feathers. 

I then added his Thanksgiving tie by using one of my leftover dresden plate blades, folding the raw edges in and hand stitching it on. 

Next I added an inner border (cut 1") and an outer border (cut 2")

I quilted it on the machine and bound the edges by hand, and also added a sleeve on the back in order to hang it. I also did a decorative stitch, to enhance the look of the red outer border, using a light beige thread.

For the eyes, I hot-glued some googly-eyes that I found at the dollar store, to give him a more comical and animated look (I was originally planning on hand embroidering the eyes, but I liked the idea of the googly-eyes better). 

Here is a close-up photo so you can see the detailing a bit better!

Wishing everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving! 

FALL

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had a nice relaxing summer and are enjoying September so far!
I am so very happy to be back to school and back into teaching my fall & winter sewing classes!

So far my classes have been very productive and I even have some photos of completed projects to share with you!

If you are interested in classes you can send me an E-mail at quilters.workshop@gmail.com for more information!