Hope you’ll join us in booth #524, 613!
We’ll be bringing lots of new patterns, kits & my brand new Skinny Mini Tree Template Sets!
I know you’re going to LOVE them!
& I’ll be demoing my favorite tools too!
You can find all the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show 2025 info by clicking here.
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
The Kansas City Regional Quilt Festival will be celebrating its 10 years of inspiration in our 2025 festival to be held June 11 -14, 2025, at the Overland Park Convention Center in the Kansas City marketplace.
6000 College Boulevard
Overland Park, Kansas 66211
The Festival attracts award-winning quilters and educators from across the nation and highlights special exhibits honoring the art of quilting.
The Details
Classes Only – 8am – 7pm
9am – 5pm
9am – 5pm — My Demo in the demo area of lobby 3 pm —
9am – 4pm
Discounted admission tickets can be purchased by clicking here.
Questions? Click here to go to the website.
You’ll find Lori & me in our usual spot,
booth 603-702.
Come say “Hi” & see all of my new patterns
&
a brand new tree template Set; Skinny Mini!
You’ll find a sneak peek here on my website.
Can’t wait to see you!
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Join us Thursday, February 27 & Friday, February 28
Optional Classes on Saturday, March 1
At the Marriot West, 660 Maryville Center Dr., St. Louis MO
Two Days of Stitching Fun! Get ready to thread the needle of excitement and creativity with us! Immerse yourself in hands-on sewing, embroidery, and quilting workshops! Learn from nationally known expert educators who will transform your skills stitch by stitch! Don’t miss out—come join the fun and create your next masterpiece! Grab your tickets now and let’s sew some memories together!
Our Stitch Fest 2025 Expert Educators:
You can find more info & also sign up by clicking here.
I’ll be giving Dresden plate demos & also showing you all of my tips & tricks for perfect plates!
I’ll have lots of quilts with not only Dresden plates of all shapes & sizes, but also my 3 sizes of tree template sets.
Come out & join the fun!
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Have you seen my new Christmas Memories quilt
made with the beautiful
Creating Memories (Winter) fabric collection
by Tilda?
It’s so cute, & you’re going to be sad if you don’t hurry & buy a kit now, while they last!
The cute fabrics & coordinating adorable buttons make sewing up this little quilt memorable.
Click here to get the kit along with the Christmas Memories pattern, or just the pattern either in paper of PDF, your choice.
A sure fun way to sew up a cute Christmas quilt.
Click here to find them on my website.
& they’re featherweight sewing friendly!
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
I hope you’ll join us next week in Madison, WI!
We will debuting lots of new patterns, notions & fun stuff in booth 524-613.
We hope to see you there!
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Does your Dresden Home need some decorating?
I chose these embellishments to complete our Dreden Home.
First, a wreath for the Dresden plate center.
Next, a house number.
And finally, a door knob or sorts, of course!
I knew right away that the “13” would be the perfect house number for me!
The package comes with tiny brads to use to attach the plaquettes.
Attaching it was easy by first poking holes in the fabric then using the enclosed tiny brads.
They’re a bit hard to see, but this is the back of the quilt with them applied.
And Emma loved them all but was very intrigued with the door knob. lol
I actually painted it so it would contrast with the door fabric. It also attaches with the little pre-attached brad.
Lastly I glued the wreath over the center of the Dresden plate center, yes glued! I was skeptical too but this stuff is awesome! I’ve used it several times now & am thinking of other ways to add junk “cool stuff” to my quilts now!
I contemplated gluing the wreath on the door… I would have needed to paint it too though so
we decided it looked good here on the Dresden plate.
It was fun playing with the bits & bobs that morning.
I just noticed it was still dark outside.
Emma & I are good early morning workers thankfully!
We’re pretty happy with our results.
Now I need to decide where to hang it & get the appropriate sleeve or hanger for it.
You can now find these embelishing items on my website by clicking here.
I hope you will be encouraged to finish
& hang your Dresden Home for 2024 very soon.
Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan
My give-away today is this set of embellishments to the first to complete their Dresden Home quilt (if you want them that is).
I can’t wait to see how everyone else will decorate their Dresden Homes.
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
It’s time to quilt your Dresden Home!
The quilting shows really well in the photo above.
I love how Tamara quilted this quilt, but I especially love how she quilted the roof. The only thing I wish she’d done differently is I wish she’s used contrasting thread at least on the roof because you can’t really see how awesome it is except in this photo.
The swirls on the house show really well in the photo below. So do Emma’s pretty nails, lol.
And the cross hatch quilting on the HOME block & also the 2024 block looks pretty awesome too I think.
For those of you than don’t know me, the actual “quilting” of the quilt is my least favorite part.
Tamara, my machine quilter, is so good to fit me into her schedule when possible because she knows I have deadlines &&& my quilting is pretty dead too! Now that I see how she filled the spaces, I might be able to do a decent job of filling them & I hope that you will be inspired too.
I hope you will be encouraged to finish
& hang your Dresden Home for 2024 very soon.
Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
It’s fun contemplating such a small quilt, not overwhelming with so many decisions.
I guess my thought that your thought of rotary blades to be a redundant give-away wasn’t necessarily so, thankfully!
It’s funny to see so many comments reminding me that we’re kind of all reluctant to change blades because it’s not so apparent when to do it, unless we run over a pin or something else that was hiding on our cutting mat.
That’s an obvious reminder & one that ususally makes me say bad words… lol
Our winner of the 45mm 2 pack of rotary blades is Kayla Gunter.
No need to email me your snail mail address. I hope to see you & Brooks later this month!
On this 10th Day of Christmas, we’ll be finishing the top.
But don’t quit after today.
I purposely factored in time for quilting, binding & labeling your quilt so it would be COMPLETE in these 12 Days of Christmas.
Just Keep Sewing, OK?
Perhaps even add some embelishing?
Emma & I have some cute ideas,
at least we think so anyway
& hope you will be encouraged to finish
& hang your Dresden Home for 2024 very soon.
We’re also having another nice give-away!
See below.
Click below to download the Day 10 assembly instructions.
Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan
Be the first to post your finished top on Sewing With Susan & win this second fat 1/4 bundle, 16 pieces (4 yds. total), of Trinkets by Kathy Hall for Andover Fabrics.
Just Keep Sewing…
Susan
Are you having as much fun with your
Dresden Home as Emma & I are?
On this 9th Day of Christmas, we’ll be making the 2024 block.
Emma is only interested in the 2s!
Can you guess why???
Click below to download the instructions & templates.
Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan
Just Keep Sewing,
Susan
Have you recovered from your New Year’s celebrations?
I hope 2024 is a great year for all of us!
At the very least, we’ll all have a cute little quilt to show for it if you’re quilting along with us!
KWILTZ4FUN is the winner of their choice of Suzn Quilts pattern.
KWILTZ4FUN, please let me know your pattern choice
(is it one of my Tiny Dresden series patterns like you mentioned in your comment?)
& email your snail mail info so I can send you the Suzn Quilts pattern – SuznQuilts@aol.com.
On this 8th Day of Christmas, we’ll be making the transom above the door with a half Dresden plate.
Click below to download the Dresden half plate transom instuctions.
Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan
Just Keep Sewing,
Susan
Quilting my way through life! 