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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!…
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12 contests, 12 designers, 12 months
There will be 3 winners, some great prizes and a chance to be featured in my new mystery quilt that starts in July! All you have to do is to add a little “something” to my stocking pattern! You can design something to go on the stocking, in the stocking, or next to the stocking. Here’s the info for you… Contest Rules You have 3 weeks to submit your design. I’ll choose the winners on June 1st and announce them on June 5th! The stocking blocks must finish at 8″ x 8″ so be sure and cut your background 8 ½ x 8 ½”. Start with the stocking pattern included below.…
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Fun with Moda
Moda has two fun things happening this year that you might not know about yet. First is a year of contests called “12 Designers, 12 Months, 12 contests”. If you put all the prizes you could win from entering these contests together, you’d need a truck to carry it all! Each of the participating designers have a contest for you to enter. Each contest is different, so you never know what’s coming, but they do have one thing in common, prizes, prizes, prizes! Here’s the list of participating designers: French General: January Sweetwater: February Me & My Sister Designs: March Fig Tree & Co.: April Bunny Hill Designs:…
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Applique All Day with The Fat Quarter Shop!
The best way to learn how to applique is to start with an easy block and jump right in! The Fat Quarter Shop’s made that “sew” easy for you! They carry all the applique tools, Aurifil 80wt. applique thread and of course hundreds of fabrics to choose from. Today you’ll find block six from the Applique All Day Series, exclusively on The Jolly Jabber blog! The Applique All Day blocks are a series of little 6″ blocks I designed using assorted fabrics and different methods of applique. If you’ve missed any of them you can still get the patterns for free on The Jolly Jabber Blog. Today’s Jolly Jabber blog post…
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Applique all Day Block Three
Guess what day today is? It’s another “Applique All Day” day over on the Fat Quarter Shop blog! If you love applique but you don’t have “all day” to make something, block three is perfect for you! It’s raw edge applique! Just fuse and straight stitch on your machine (using Aurifil 80 wt thread of course). You can have this block finished in less that an hour. I designed this block for Jan Patek’s Fern Hill fabric. It’s a 6″ finished block that’s perfect for this time of year. Think what you can do with this cute little block…use three to make a table runner, or six to make a…
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Applique Basics
When Aurifil introduced their new 80wt. thread for applique, Kimberly (Fat Quarter Shop) and I, decided it was a great time to bring you some applique fun using this wonderful thread! Over the next few months The Jolly Jabber blog will be featuring posts on applique, every other Thursday, starting today! I designed 6 applique blocks for this series and The Fat Quarter Shop will have them for free! They’ll include one of the patterns with each of the applique blog posts! Each block can be framed, or you can simply add a border and use it as a mni quilt. They are great practice blocks to keep up your applique skills, and maybe along the way…