Spring has sprung and its time to do The Bunny Hop… Again! So here are some oldies but goodies from the past!
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Category: Gift Projects
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Easter Reprise
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Valentine’s Day Is Almost Here Part Two
After posting my new Moditional Valentine Table Runner (but really it’s an anytime TableRunner without the appliqué!) I started thinking about previous VDay projects.
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Moditional Valentine Table Runner
I love the Modern movement in Quiltmaking. It’s a fresh take on our craft.
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Create!
One powerful, empowering word. Create! With thanks to those who responded to this wallhanging when posted on our Quilting Your Quilt post, I am now posting the instructions for this little gem. Hang it near your machine. Hang it anywhere you need encouragement. Or make it for a Creative friend.
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Quilt Hunting In Cambria, A Detour
In addition to quilts on our trip to the Central Coast of California, we saw some other interesting textile items. I loved this Santa Star pillow. Looks very cute and pretty simple.
The star is made from a cutter quilt (as much as I dislike that concept!) but think about some of your orphan blocks, prequilted fabrics or Christmas fabrics that could be quilted up quickly and simply. The star is about 11″ (Draw 1/2 a star to fill about 5 1/2″ X 11″ of a sheet of paper to use as a pattern.) This star isn’t turned but all raw edge and I suppose it wouldn’t even need to be quilted. Just stitched and stuffed.
Santa is made flat with a double 1/2″ fringe of bangs (from a 1″ X 6″piece of muslin, note that cute curve that stitches it down) and a long 1/4″ fringe (6″ wide and 5″ long) for a beard. Stitch it as one big smiley curve from the middle of one side of the star center to the middle of opposite side.
The eyes are inked or French knots with glasses from wire or the craft store. And the mustache is just a 1/2″ X 5″ strip knotted once and tacked in place.
Once you have Santa made add a backing and stuff your pillow. Wow! Simple and so cute!This sweet stitchery is an ode to the Rag Doll. After patterning our Twiggy Rag Doll, I thought I needed to post this little framed item.
But the best idea I saw on this trip was this Christmas garland. The gal at the store said she made it by cutting up a whole cloth quilt (Sob!) but I thought this would be a great use for our practice quilt sandwiches!
You know, those 18″ squares of muslin sandwiched with quilt batt used to practice our machine quilting? I’ve always looked for some use for them once they are filled (not that I’ve ever completely finished one!)
What you would do is slice the quilted sandwich into 1 1/2″ X 9″ slices, take a few hand stitches to form a slice into a circle, overlapping about 1/2″ (or glue the slice into a circle with a glue gun.) Loop another slice into that first one and repeat. One quilt sandwich should yield 24 slices which will give you about a 60″ garland. Pretty fun!
P.S. Who says the quilt sandwich has to be muslin? What a great way to use up old Christmas fabrics and increase your quilting skills all through the year!
Hang your garland on your tree, across the mantle or (Gulp! Smile!) in your sewing room!
Now, as always, I suggest you look around this site for LOTS of other dynamite gift ideas and other free patterns.Including:
Past swap/scrap-quilts Rainbow Triangles Quilt – 8 Triangles at a Time! 2012 Rainbow Swaps Burgoyne Surrounded Supply List Iris 2012 Pattern Iris 2012 Supply List Doll Quilt Series (Did you see our latest – Modern Rails?) Free Quilting Classes (Orange County, CA) Times and Locations (We start up again January 7)
The Quilters Alphabet Quilt Archive
New Student Supply List My Etsy site With Even More Patterns!As always, we have a lot going on here at LynBrown.com! Thanks for looking in on us!
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Help the Families in Newtown…
Help the families in Newtown, Conn… Here is how… Becky at Quliter’s Corner in New Milford, CT is collecting pillowcases for the children at Sandy Hook School. She is trying to collect around 600.
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December Doll Quilt-Magic 9-Patch
Susie in my Wednesday class was asking if the Magic 9-Patch could be made as a Doll Quilt. After a short discussion, she went home and made this lovely little quilt.
Starting with 2 1/2″ squares, Susie made 6 1/2″ 9-Patches. Then she cut the blocks into quarters, rotated two diagonally opposite pieces 180 degrees and stitched the pieces back together to make a Disappearing 9-Patch block. She made 12 similar blocks in 12 different but coordinating fabrics for an adorable, fun and fast Doll quilt. So cute I decided to use this as our December Doll Quilt. The PDF is at the end of this post.
In the meantime, look around this site for LOTS of other dynamite gift ideas and other free patterns.
Including:
The Quilters Alphabet Quilt Archive
Past swap/scrap-quilts Rainbow Triangles Quilt – 8 Triangles at a Time! 2012 Rainbow Swaps Burgoyne Surrounded Supply List Iris 2012 Pattern Iris 2012 Supply List Free Quilting Classes (Orange County, CA) Times and Locations (We start up again January 7)
New Student Supply List My Etsy site With Even More Patterns!As always, we have a lot going on here at LynBrown.com! Thanks for looking in on us!
Here is the Magic 9 Doll Quilt Pattern now available on my Craftsy Shop…
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Terrific Tea Towel Thoughts
That is, thoughts on what to do with terrific Tea Towels! I’ve been prowling the net again, looking for Terrific Tea Towel texts! And boy! Did I find some! Of course, I’ll start with my own projects…
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Even More Gifts
It is that time of year. I love to hand make gifts but usually run out of time. This year though Thanksgiving was early and the Holiday Season is just a bit longer. Maybe there will be time to make a gift or two!
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Double Cowl Infinity Scarf
Here is an absolutely luxurious gift to give this year! Just a bit of minkee fabric and 15 minutes (Honest!) and you’ll have a gift sure to be appreciated and USED!