Merry Christmas to you & yours!
I hope you have a beautiful day with loved ones.
Susan
Merry Christmas 2023
Category: My Life
12 Days of Christmas 2023, My Dresden Home Revealed
All of my previous 12 Days of Christmas quilt-alongs have been mysteries,
so this year I decided to switch it up.
If you prefer to be surprised delete this post! Lol
But who can resist this cuteness?
I made & completed the quilt with the help of my quilter, Tamara Lynn,
& I have it here for you to see with the help of my protege Emma!
With a cute house, a few trees & some signature Tiny Dresden plates (just 1 1/2!) this little 17″ x 26″ quilt will be fun to make for you or a friend.
Won’t it look cute on your front door welcoming guests all year!
I’m envisioning some embelishments here & there,
but I want you to make your Dresden Home your own.
I’m really looking forward to seeing all the variations you come up with
so let’s all go to my Facebook group, Sewing With Susan
& show our progress there, shall we?
Between now & December 26th, when the true 12 Days of Christmas & my quilt-along starts, you can make fabric choices & collect the supplies you’ll need including the plastic templates that I’ve used in case you want to get those as well.
Paper templates will be provided but the plastic templates are more fun & accurate to use.
If you want to use the fabrics I’ve used,
they’re Renee Nanneman’s Tradewinds collection by Andover fabrics.
Unfortunately Renee’s web store has just closed until the new year so that she & her hubby can get away for a few days, but if you have your heart set on them perhaps you can find them at your local quilt shop or another online shop.
Fabrics & Supplies
You’ll need 1/4 yd. of each fabric, fat or regular, except the brown you’ll need 1/3 yd.
-Grey fabric for background & transom
-Cream fabric for house & “HOME” background
-Cream fabric for “2024” background
-Red fabric for roof & chimney
-3 Red fabrics for Tiny Dresden plate (yes you could use 1 but that’s no fun!)
-Green fabric for trees (not Tradewinds, but also one of Renee’s greens)
-Floral fabric for “lawn”
-Blue fabric for “2024”
-Brown fabric for letters, door, tree trunks & binding.
You’ll also need:
-1/3 yd. fusible web
-Freezer paper
-Threads to either match or coordinate with appliqué fabrics.
Optional:
-Tiny Dresden plate template #216
-Tiny Tree Template Set #286
Let’s prepare for some fun!
There are sure to be some give-aways too!
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Happy Thanksgiving 2023
Happy turkey day!
I hope you spend your day with those you love,
with a side of sewing thrown it!
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Tiny Tree Demo is Here!
I’ve had several recent requests for a demo on my trees blocks, so here is a quick one!
I hope this short video helps with assembling the tops of my Tiny, Little & Mini Trees!
Just Keep Sewing Trees…
Susan
Christmas Morning Will Be Here Soon!
My new Christmas Morning quilt will be in the newest Quiltmania, issue 158!
It’s time to start making trees & building houses just in time for Christmas.
I’ve used the lovely Christmas Eve collection by Lella Boutique for Moda.
If you want to get a jump start on your supplies they’re here for you:
- 4 3/4 Yds. Non-directional Background fabric(s)
- 1 3/4 Yds. Green fabric(s) for trees, doors & 9-Patch centers
- 1/2 Yd. Black fabric for roofs, Tiny Dresden plates & tree trunks
- 1/4 Yd. Grey fabric for tiny houses
- 1 Yd. Red fabric for mini houses, buildings & 9-Patches
- 1/2 Yd. Sashing fabric
- 5/8 Yd. Binding fabric
- 4 1/4 Yds. Backing fabric
- 75″ x 81″ Batting
- Mary Ellen’s Best Press™ in single finger pump bottle
- Suzn Quilts’ Tiny Tree Template Set #286 – highly recommended
- Suzn Quilts’ Little Tree Template Set #386 – highly recommended
- Suzn Quilts’ Mini Tree Template Set #486 – highly recommended
- Suzn Quilts’ Tiny Dresden Plate Template #216 – highly recommended
- Perfect Piecing Seam guide by Perkins Dry Goods – highly recommended
- Dritz Mighty Steam Iron – highly recommended
- That Purple Thang
- Freezer Paper
- Roxanne™ or other fabric glue
- Apliquick Bars – highly recommended
- 1″ Circle paper cutter – recommended
- Sulky® 733-1005 Black 30 wt. thread for Tiny Dresden plates
If you’re a quick quilter like I am, you’ll have plenty of time to make this quilt for this Christmas morning & for many more to come!
If your local quilt shop doesn’t sell the Quiltmania family of magazines, maybe it’s time to subscribe to them like I do.
You can also find 1 or all of their publications by clicking on their website here.
My Tiny, Little & Mini Tree Template Sets can be found by clicking here.
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Just a few more days ’til the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in Madison, Wisconsin Sep. 7-9
We’re vending at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show
in Madison, Wisconsin September 7-9!
I’m busy packing…
Come say “hi” & see my quilts up close!
Come on out to see us!
Just Keep sewing…
Susan
Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in Madison Wisconsin Sep. 7-9
I’ll be vending at the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in Madison Wisconsin September 7-9!
Come out to see the beautiful quilts & to shop!!!
This is a new show for me.
I’ve heard nothing but good things about it for years so I’m really excited to be a vendor.
Come say “hi” & see my quilts up close!
Come on out & see us!
Just Keep sewing…
Susan
More New Patterns, Christmas!
Christmas is my very favorite season to sew for.
The beautiful reds & greens of the season are my go-to colors year round so it makes perfect sense that I could sew for Christmas year-round too!
When I saw Renee Nanneman’s Retro Ho Ho collection I knew instantly that it was “me!”
I already had a sampler quilt designed that fit this collection perfectly!
Once I had images of the whole collection more ideas kept coming to mind… I could hardly stop sewing to get my quilts into pattern form for you!
Santa’s Tree Lot is the first quilt.
It uses my new favorite templates… TREES, of many sizes!
But tree templates, as you know, aren’t just for trees & here’s another really fun example of what else you can make with my tree templates!
The Santa hats in two sizes are made with my Mini & Tiny Tree Template Sets, but that’s not all… Their beards are made with my Mini & Tiny Dresden plate templates! This makes your cutting so fast & accurate.
It’s a really quick 57.5 in. x 66.5 in. lap or wall size quilt.
You can find the patterns & templates here on my website
& fabric kits can also be found on Renee’s Need’l Love website by clicking here.
How fun will Christmas photos & decorating be with this cute quilt for many Christmases to come?
Next up is Candy Cane Forest.
It’s another fast-to-cut & fast-to-sew quilt with my tree templates.
It uses my Mini & Tiny Tree Template Sets.
Another fun fact is that it’s fat quarter friendly.
At 69.5 in. x 72.5 in. it’s also a nice lap or wall quilt.
You can find fabric kits on Renee’s Need’l Love website by clicking here.
I think you can see why I was so taken with Retro Ho Ho… I’ll be back with my Retro Ho Ho quilts soon!
Just Keep Sewing (for Christmas)…
Susan
New Patterns Have Arrived!
Lots of new patterns are now on my website here & are ready for purchase & my VERY busy month & a half of travel are now complete so I can catch my breath here for a bit!
It’s been fun designing with Renee Nanneman’s newest lines of fabric.
Her new Gingerlily is a beautiful spring garden of prints. I couldn’t resist making a couple of quilts with the line.
Cutting is made so quick, easy & accurate with my templates. It has become my favorite part of the quilting process these days I think! Try out my templates & you’ll see what I mean! You can see them all by clicking here.
Twinkling Dresdens is my first design.
The blocks are made with my Tiny & Mini Dresden petals with sashing between the quarter plate blocks.
No center circle appliqué (darn it! No Apliquick Bar use this time…) but it does make the blocks so quick to make.
Twinkling Dresdens is a generous lap (or play according to Emma) size quilt but you could adapt it to a bed size quilt easily enough.
I think Emma was saying, “gma, let’s read already!”
My next quilt with Gingerlily is Dazzling Diamonds.
Do you see trees???
I used my Tiny & Mini Tree Template Sets to make the diamonds.
It’s another quickly cut quilt because of my templates. It also sews together quickly.
Both Twinkling Dresdens & Dazzling Diamonds can be found my website by clicking here.
If you’d like to order a fabric kit, Renee has them on her Need’l Love website here.
I’ll be back with more new patterns soon!
Until then,
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival 2023
We can’t wait to see you in KC next week! Come out to see the beautiful quilt show, take some classes & take home some inspiration!
I have a lot of new patterns & also 2 new sizes of tree templates to inspire you.
Christmas Night (Day & Morning) can be sewn all at once or if you prefer, just 1 step at a time with the convenient 15 step instructions. You can find the patterns & templates on my website by clicking here. https://sewingwithsusan.com/
Come see every version of my favorite new Christmas design in person in booth #603/702 & see how easily you can make your own!
All 3 sizes of my tree templates are included in this beautiful quilt.
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Quilting my way through life! 