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stocking treats block six
Block six brings “Sadie Goose.” She’s my favorite block and one that signals we’re halfway through the stocking quilt! Don’t you love her? There’s something about a pink Christmas goose, wearing a Christmas scarf that always gets to me. Block Six Now’s the time to use those cute little flower buttons you have in your embellishment kit! They’re for Sadie’s stocking! You can set them on the stocking when you’ve finished, and take lots of pictures, but don’t sew them on until quilting is complete. Waiting to sew on embellishments is hard for me when I’m working on a quilt. I can’t wait to see the block complete with the…
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Stocking Treats block four
I’m excited to bring you Sugar Plum Stocking Treats block number four! It’s the first place winner from the Moda/Bunny Hill design contest! A huge hug and thank you goes out to Shannon Cogswell for her entry! She took a simple stocking and turned it into something precious! Here’s her original entry: My challenge was to take her entry and make it work in my quilt… I think it fits in perfectly don’t you? I’ve tried to give you detailed instructions in the pattern for making this block. The best thing to do is to read the directions and then look at the actual fabric pictures below. Hopefully, it will…
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we have winners!
I wish I could make everyone who entered the Moda/Bunny Hill contest a winner! There were so many cute stockings it was really hard to choose! And because there were so many great entries I added four runner-ups for a total of seven winners! I’ll be shipping prizes out all week! So here we go, are you ready? First place winner is Shannon Cogswell from Fullerton, California Shannon entered way more blocks than this one, each as special as the one before. I selected her mouse not only for its cuteness but also because it’s going to look so ADORABLE in our surprise mystery quilt! We’re re-making her block using…
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Sugar Plum Stocking Treats
If you’re sitting around with not much to do this afternoon, hop on over to my website and click on the “free” pattern page! What is Sugar Plum Stocking Treats you ask? It’s one of those applique quilts that I occasionally design as a free pattern! But this time, instead of it being a block of the month, I’ve made it a block of the week! I’m letting you know about this pattern a month ahead of time so you can get prepared! Print out the information page and materials list. If you read about it now, you’ll have time to choose your fabrics, pick your layer cake and get ready to…
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How will I choose?
I knew most of you are talented and good at applique, but I had no idea how many of you are such good designers! The blocks coming in for my stocking contest are so good I’m going to have to have a committee to help me choose just 3. Think about it, the stockings are fairly small, about the size of what you might hang on a tree, and the entire block is only 8″ finished! But what this group has filled them with amazes me! Here are a few that just came in. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have! Look at…
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Are you sewing this weekend?
Design Contest If you’re sewing this weekend make sure you include a stocking for our design contest. Just look at these entries from week one in our 12 Designers, 12 Months, 12 Contests! Aren’t these little stockings cute? We’ve even had 3 children enter their stockings! If they can do it so can you! You still have plenty of time and remember how great the prizes are? But you have to enter in order to win so print the stocking template and show us what you can do. 12 Designers Stocking Template The three winners are going to be part of our free mystery quilt that starts in July!…
