Pat Sloan's I Love To Make Quilts

FREE Embroidery Block of the month, Block 11 + a Deal!

I am the host of Aurifil's Designer of the Month program for the last 6 years. And during that time we have had so many cute projects from our fantastic designers!  I suggested to the Aurifil we run the 2012 Embroidery Block of the Month again as it's darling and many of you might have missed it! This month it's SO DARLING!

Emily Cier of Carolina Patchwork designed our November tree block!

We are making the blocks again with AuriFloss  or Aurifil 12wt, which is equally yummy. You can get my Hometown thread Kit which has a spool of each weight for you to try! 

I also spotted my thread kits ON SALE HERE!

This is the original quilt done in 2012, you are going to LOVE these blocks! I can't wait to see all the black & white blocks set into the quilt. 

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My Perfect Boxes are on SALE, it's a great way to have a storage box & a selection of colors.

BUY MY KITS

PLUS... drum roll.. make the block by the time the NEXT block is released at the end of December, share it at the Aurifil page and YOU might be the lucky winner of a set of AuriFloss threads!

*** DOWNLOAD block & enter contest AT the Aurifil Page ***

Want all the blocks now? DOWNLOAD All prior blocks scroll to 2012

I've been tracing with this super nice lightbox. it is VERY reasonable and makes tracing so much easier to do than taping to a window! Yes.. that is what I used to do ..eek!  

The Goodies

• SIGN UP for New Article Notices
• my Hometown thread Kit which has a spool of each weight for you to try! 
• BUY my favorite Embroidery BOOK
• BUY AuriFloss in kits & single Spools
• Buy my new Favorite Embroidery book
• The Lightbox I use, I have the 17" but they make a larger & smaller size

Let's stitch up a cool mini quilt for December!

I adjusted our Grandma's Kitchen schedule due to my schedule. So today, we have fun mini quilt tutorial! You could make a whole quilt of these, I'm seriously considering it!

GRANDMA's KITCHEN Schedule 

I have a FREE tutorial for you to use ... let's go!

As soon as I knew the buttons were Scarlet I got thinking about the Dresden Pie Ruler that came in my Sew Sampler box a few months ago. I wanted to make a big single Dresden with red & white and have it 'float'. 

TaDa!! I LOVE it, so excited to share with you!!!!! 

I am using a White Grunge and my Red Batik Hometown girl fabric to make the peppermint.

This dresden ruler is so fun to work with.  I can see making one of these for every season with the right colors, seasonal fabrics and a little saying in the middle.. fun fun! Should I do more?? 

Cut 8 white and 8 red blades with the ruler.

I have the supply list, directions and embroidery download at the end.

In the first half of Kimberly's video she shows you exactly how to sew the pie shapes so they lay nice and flat.

The KEY is pressing open those seams!

Once the peppermint is sewn use your 80wt aurifil thread to applique the it to the background square

• Then applique the red circle to the white circle
• Transfer the embroidery design and stitch with 12 wt Aurifil
• Applique the full circle to the middle of your peppermint!

I had to have some fun!!!!

Now to add buttons... red.. red.. everything red!

First I dumped them into my gorgeous Royal Albert Honey Bunny bowl that QuiltJane gave me, its incredible!! 

Then I sorted out 8 groups of 3, with 3 sizes in each.  

I used 12wt Aurifil to sew all the buttons 

For the quilting I did a candy ribbon in the red spokes, and meandered openly for all the rest! If you didn't get my machine quilting book yet, you might want to pop that into your basket!

I can't WAIT to see your Happy Holly Days!

Project Supply List:

• 2/3 yd White Fabric
• 1/2 Red Fabric
• 8" circle tonal Red
• Dresden Pie ruler
• Embroidery Thread & Applique Thread

Project Cutting:

• Cut a background square 19.5
• Cut 8 full size white pie shapes
• Cut 8 full red pie shapes
• Cut 1 white large circle
• Cut 1 red medium circle

Project Directions:

• Follow the video for sewing the pies shapes into a peppermint
• Applique the Peppermint to the background
• Applique the Red circle to the white
• Transfer the embroidery to the circles
• Applique the circles to the center
• Quilt
• Add buttons
• Bind!

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Find all the Goodies!

• Pie ruler is the Dec Notion of the month, so it's on sale right now!
• My Hometown Girl Fabric
• Grunge White & Red
• Aurifil 80 wt
• Aurifil 12 wt
• All the past buttons that are available & Sign up for the Button Lover's Club!
• Royal Albert Honey Bunny Bowl