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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

My Life

More New Patterns, Christmas!

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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