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MYSTERY Merry & Bright	A Flower Bouquet Weekly blocks starts Jan 2, 2019	'Out of this World' Block of the Month starts Jan 2,2019	Will you Be My Neighbor
Aurifil Designer of the Month	Pat's Podcast 8 years of weekly shows!	UFO Busting Tips --Current --Previous	Chat with Pat Videos

My Active Book & Pattern Sew Alongs

BOOK REQUIRED - Figtree Sampler BOOK - In Christmas or Blue & Cream

BOOK REQUIRED - We are sewing 20 free blocks until the book ships in Nov 2018

COMPLETED  Sampler Sew Alongs

The Solstice	Grandma's Kitchen	In the Summertime	Children's Library
Let's Go Camping	Halloween Projects of ALL Sizes!	Keep scrolling for MORE Free patterns and tutorials!	Exclusive Iron code for 20% off + FREE shipping USE PATSLOAN20
My Secret Garden	Vacation time	Globetrotting	Aurifil Seasonal Embroidery

OTHER Fun Projects

Grand Ole Flag	Button Club projects. You have to scroll to each article. Some day i'll do a table	Pat's Tutorials	More of Pat's  Free Patterns!
Jelly Roll Quilts - Some are FREE	My favorite notions are the SewLine. You can even get a Starter kit with all the Basics! BUY HERE		Wool Mat Review

 

Oh My Stars! A free Charm pack Quilt for you!

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I have had this pattern on my drawing board for a long time and finally have it for you! I wanted a quilt that uses a charm pack plus a bit more. This is 2 packs of Vintage Holiday So that I can make a quilt to enjoy the gorgeous fabric and make it 'quick'.  

These are my Fast & Fabulous Free patterns!

The Details:

• My plan is to make a new quilt each month to enjoy, and I'll tell you which charm pack so you can sew along with me!
• At this time it's one size. In the future I'll have an addon with multiple size quilts. 
• The PDF download is at the end, first let me show you my home decorated for Christmas.

Since I work out of my home, I decorate just my living room and stairway.  We try to keep the work things to a minimum in the living room, but it does spill over at times!

The view from my hall way into my living room.

A few years ago I bought a white tree, I've wanted one FOREVER!  I didn't know if I'd love it or not.. duh.. I do! Someday I'll upgrade it to a fuller one. I've decorated it with red balls and special ornaments. I have those crystal stars too, i love them!

The Quilt on my wall is 'I Believe' and the one of the couch is from my Medallion book. 

The table runner is a new gift from a friend, thank you Karen it fits perfectly here!

The poinsettia bowl belonged to my granny

And I've added my wonderful new Peace, Love, Joy Tins ON SALE HERE!

I love this little corner on the end table. Jim Shore Snowmen my mom have given me over the years with a snow globe my Sister-in-law made for me!

All on top of the mitten mug rug (a FREE pattern)

Do you have a collection you display?

My Oh My Stars! Quilt will hang in my stairway.  I have some vintage quilt stockings on the banister and that little table holds a few more of my snowmen. 

Bonus decorating tip - You can keep all the snowmen out during January!

 

Supplies & Useful Tools:

• My Triangle Book
• Vintage Holiday is the Line in this quilt
• Charm Packs - Sale ones first there are some cuties!
• A Trimmer Ruler

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Two more Wednesdays before the next sew along starts ...

If you want a kit there are still a few HERE and the project details are HERE

Merry & Bright Sew Along Enter Your Quilt!

It's time to share your Merry & Bright quilts!! 

So many exciting tops, and a few finished quilts, have shown up since last week. 

First a true confession, because I'm a real person just like you, I have a seriously long date with Jack on this quilt top.

I will do another post to share about that, it was EPIC, believe me, I'm glad I fixed it.

To Quilt your own quilt:

• My Teach me book shows you how with loads of go to way using your walking foot or freemotion
• My Aurifil Thread kits with 50wt.  SMALL Box on SALE HERE, Other Boxes HERE, including my Perfect Kits

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This quilt is not too big to quilt yourself. Here are some tips on how to approach it

• First quilt top to bottom between the blocks for all the blocks, and inside the inner border. This locks the quilt in a grid and makes it shift less
• I love accenting the chain, so quilt corner to corner for the chain.

Next is Quilting the blocks, they are too big to leave un-quilted. You can approach this as freemotion quilting or just use your walking foot like I have in my book. You have to turn it more with your walking foot but it's doable.

• Take it one block at a time. I like to ouline features like stars, the wreath, block units
• Then do a bit of freemotion in the background
• OR do echo outlines around the first outlines with your walking foot.

Details

• Project Blocks if you missed some
• The layout directions are HERE

Time to Enter you Quilt!

Share a photo of your quilt top by Jan 2 at 6pm eastern This gives you New Years day to finish up!

and I'll have a random number winner selected for a surprise package!

CLICK to read  the legal sweepstakes stuff I'm required to tell you. 

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