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Snow Happy Hearts are back
Many of you have already made these hearts, but if you missed Snow Happy Hearts in 2018, we’ve made them available again. Just in time for some Christmas sewing, you can choose the ones you love best or purchase the complete set of twelve. These are downloadable PDF patterns. There’s a snowman for every month of the year, and together, they make the cutest set of ornaments! You can decorate a tree, garland, or wreath, give them as gifts, use them as party favors, fill a glass bowl for a table centerpiece, or dress up a table by putting one at each place setting. For the snowmen, we used Primitive…
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Merry Merry Snow Days Block Two, part one
I took more pictures of this block than any other. It has the most “parts,” and I thought if I could get you through this block, you’d be home free! Here’s the beautiful photo that was taken by my photographer Gregory Case. See the snowmen on the right? He’s so busy listening to rap music with his headphones, he dropped his skis! Don’t worry, they do NOT hit the baby llama on the bottom. They hit the ground behind the little llama and just scare him a bit. So let’s get started on block two, part one! I’m going to break this post into two parts. Part one is today,…
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Snow Happy Ornaments
If you read my newsletter yesterday, you already know the answer to this question: What can you do with a package of this Merino Wool Felt and a Merry Merry Snow Days charm pack? You can turn them into Snow Happy Ornaments! Snow Happy Ornaments General Instructions Snow Happy Ornament One Each ornament uses two charm pack squares, one for the front and one for the back. I’ve picked contrasting fabric squares for each one. Here are the fabrics for Snow Happy Ornament #1: Snow Happy Ornament Two I’ll be showing you two ornaments each month, and you’ll have 12 by the first part of November. Think of…
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Snow Happy Hearts Club
Our Snow Happy Hearts Club starts today! You’ll find Miss January in our newsletter, on our website and right here in this blog. She’s a sweet little snow angel, the first of 12 “snowmen”. Snow Happy Hearts January I’ve had so much fun using Lisa Bongean’s Primitive Muslin Flannel for my snowmen and I hope you do too. It’s on back-order at Moda but you’ll find it on our website around the end of January. If you can’t wait, you can get it directly from Primitive Gatherings (sku #1040-21). You’ll need 1/2 yd for all the hearts. This month’s pattern includes the General Instructions and Materials Needed for all twelve hearts.…
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Snowmen are made for wool
You know, don’t you, that I’ve got this thing for wool? I don’t want you to think I’m giving up on fabric, because applique is my passion and I’ve got new patterns coming very soon. It’s just fun to mix fabric and wool together sometimes, especially when those Moda designers keep coming up with such cute fabric. My booth happened to be right across from Lisa at Primitive Gatherings last market, so not only was I looking at wool all day, I was looking at her dang cute Snowman Gathering fabric! Who could resist that combination? I took a jelly roll, charm pack and some of that fabulous yardage…
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Rainy Days are for sewing
Happy Monday everyone! I’m off to teach at our local quilt shop Thimble Creek today. We’re making wool snowmen pillows in January! Unheard of you say? Just think of the start these ladies will have. Remember how fast last year flew by? Here’s our project for today… Snowballs is a fun, quick and best of all EASY pattern! You’ll find it here on my website. Since I’m on the subject of snowmen, I thought you might enjoy seeing this quilt! I spoke at the Diablo Valley Quilter’s Guild last week (what an incredible group of people), and this quilt (Snowbound) was made by Mary Anne the President of the…
