Pat Sloan's I Love To Make Quilts: Wed Block

12/05/2018

Merry & Bright Sew Along Enter Your Quilt!

Pat Sloan Merry and Bright top done

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

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

Pat Sloan seam ripping

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.

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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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11/28/2018

Merry & Bright Sew Along Block FREE #17

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And our last Merry & Bright blocks is #17......

It was so hard to fit in all the Christmas memories, old and new, that I wanted to share. I think I might have to do a 2nd Christmas Sew along some day!

I decided the Stocking was my last story to weave into this quilt. Christmas stockings are magical to me. We had the chance to hang them up early, constantly peek in them and then on Christmas Morning the discovery of little gems was irresistible! I think we looked in the stocking first every year.

Over time I've made stockings to hang with a Garden theme, Halloween, Valentines, and others. Put them on the knob of a drawer, the handle of the door, and your Fireplace mantle.

I have a tutorial to round out this block, Let's get to it!

I really wanted this big buffalo plaid for the stocking
To see how it would look I cut the alternate strips and placed on top to audtion
Opt A - straight is kind of boring
Opt B - on point is fabulous!
Le me show you how to cut strips so the plaid is on point

Line up the right side of the ruler as show with the fabric 'on point' under it. You are going from corner to corner in a square of the plaid
Cut it long enough for the pattern.. a bit longer is better
Pic 2 - Now cut along the top so you have a chunck on point

Subcut the strips needed.

I did 3 plaid strips, You could switch that up and do just 2 plaid and 3 of another print.

SHARE your quilt block at the END!
In each pattern I have a memory or story of my own. When You share your block at my Facebook group, or when you leave me a comment after posting your block, share YOUR memory with me!

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