Tag: Quilt

A Giveaway!, A Quilt Along

12 Days of Christmas 2023; Day 10

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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.

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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

A Giveaway!, A Quilt Along

12 Days of Christmas 2023; Day 9

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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.

dresdenhomeday92024Download

Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan

Just Keep Sewing,

Susan

A Giveaway!, A Quilt Along

12 Days of Christmas 2023; Day 8

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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.

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Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan

Just Keep Sewing,

Susan

A Giveaway!, A Quilt Along

12 Days of Christmas 2023; Day 7

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Happy New Year 2024!

Don’t forget to show us your 12 Days progress & thanks for those that commented on yesterday’s post for the chance to win the rotary cutter blade 2 pack.

Rita is (again!) the winner of the 2 pack of 45mm rotary cutter blades.

I already have your snail mail info so no need to send it again. lol

Time for some more fun!

Since many of you probably stayed up late to welcome in 2024, I decided an easy sew day was in order. Today you just need to make the final Tiny Tree block, but use the “2024” cream fabric for the background.

In case you lost that download… follow the instructions from Day 1 or Day2!

No need to stress, this should be fun!

Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan

Comment here the title of your favorite Suzn Quilts Pattern.

I’ll be drawing for a prize! 

The prize today is your choice of any Suzn Quilts pattern!

Comment here before I post Day 8 homework tomorrow & you will be entered in a drawing to win any Suzn Quilts pattern you choose.

Just Keep Sewing,

Susan

A Giveaway!, A Quilt Along

12 Days of Christmas 2023; Day 6

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I hope you enjoyed making a Dresden plate!

I love to make them, in case you haven’t noticed.

Thanks to those of you showing your 12 Days progress & also for those that commented on yesterday’s post for the Trinkets fat 1/4 bundle.

Kathryn Merrick is the winner of the Trinkets bundle.

Kathryn, please email your snail mail info so I can send you the bundle – SuznQuilts@aol.com.

On this 6th Day of Christmas, we’re going to make the letters to go with your Dresden “O”.

I used quick fusible web appliqué, but you can choose your favorite form of appliqué.

Click below to download the appliqué instructions for “HOME”.

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Show us your progress on my Sewing With Susan FB page here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan

Comment here what is your favorite form of appliqué. Mine is freezer paper machine appliqué in general, but for small things like these letters, fusible is easier.

I’ll be drawing for a prize! 

The prize today is a 2 pack of 45 mm rotary cutter blades!

Comment here before I post Day 7 homework tomorrow & you will be entered in a drawing to win these blades for your 45 mm rotary cutter.

Just Keep Sewing,

Susan

My Life

12 Days of Christmas 2023, My Dresden Home Revealed

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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

My Life

Christmas Morning Will Be Here Soon!

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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

New Christmas Quilt Patterns, New Magazine Quilt

QUILTmania Issue 140 Is Now Available

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Are you a fan of QUILTmania like I am?

The newest issue, November – December 2020

is now on sale

& I have a quilt pattern within its pages.

Lollipop Tree is a cute little quilt that you can treat yourself or a friend to this Christmas season & for many Christmas seasons to come! Actually you could probably make one for you & a friend if you set your mind to it.

 

 

Of course it has Tiny Dresden plates!

The paper template is included in the magazine, but if you’re like me & prefer to cut around plastic templates & don’t have one yet, you can find them on my website here.

Their magazines are always loaded with lots of quilts, exhibits & other quilt stuff to drool over! Look what’s included in this issue:

In your November-December 2020 issue:

Your quilts and patchwork projects with patterns and explanations:

  • Mystery Quilt, Final Part by Sarah Maxwell
  • Forest by Maria Tamaokoa
  • Christmas Sunshine, from the private collection of Carol Veillon
  • Le Faux Jumeau by Renée Ferré
  • Oiseaux et Couronnes by Michèle Beugnon
  • Lollipop Tree by Susan R. Marth
  • Ho ho ho ! by Anne Sutton

I know you’ll love all the other projects included in the issue too, so look for it now on newsstands or order it directly today.

http://www.quiltmania-inc.us/

& find them on social media here:

If you are not yet a friend, it would be great if you would join:

https://www.facebook.com/quiltmaniainc/

https://www.instagram.com/quiltmaniainc/

https://pinterest.com/quiltmaniainc/

Are you sewing for Christmas now?

What are you sewing?

Share your quilting projects on my FB group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SewingWithSusan

Just Keep Sewing…

Susan

 

A Giveaway!, Dresden Plate Quilt, New Pattern Sample

New Pattern Give-Away Winner

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It’s the perfect fall day here today,

sunny with a high of 84!

Great weather for a give-away.

(What’s not great is WordPress not publishing my posts the way I’ve set them up… things not centered & other things not on their own lines!)

I’m afraid it’s just going to make it all that much easier

to forget the blog & just post to FB & IG!

 

 

Thanks for your comments!

Since I posted this give-away on multiple platforms

I decided I needed to go old school with the drawing.

Names in a bowl, lol!

I couldn’t draw just 1!

Rhonda Colton & Cynthia Holman,

please email me (SuznQuilts@aol.com)

with your preference of either

Dresden Pumpkins or

Tiny Witch Hats

& I also need your mailing address.

If you didn’t win & want to sew these cute little quilts

you can find them along with the templates on my website here.

Just Keep sewing…

Susan

 

Dresden Plate Quilt, New Pattern Sample

New Pattern, Tiny Witch Hats

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Get ready for Halloween with this fun little quilt that not only uses

my Mini Dresden Plate Template,

but also my Tiny Tree Template Set!

Do you see how the hats are my tiny trees,

but instead of a tree trunk I added a brim?

I know, pretty clever…

I used a Halloween charm pack,

but you can use your favorite Halloween fabrics.

There are paper templates in the pattern,

& if you already have the templates you’re set,

but if not they’re available on my website here.

The pattern is available here on my website in both paper & PDF versions.

Just Keep Sewing…

Susan