A Quilt That's Been Counting Down to Christmas, Make The Magic Waffle Quilt with Michelle Freedman, Make a Free-Motion Snowman Vase Quilt, Give Yourself the Gift of Oakshott Shot Cottons, Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game, A Puzzle Full of "Peonies"
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Welcome to Wednesday - December 25, 2024 |
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Featured Quilt - It's All Been Leading Up To This
It's Christmas Day! Whether you're enjoying time with your family, opening presents, loading up on Christmas cookies, or doing all three, it's just a magical day all around. But what were you doing leading up to today? If you were Osami Gonohe, then you might be admiring your Advent Calendar quilt and imaging all twenty-four presents you were getting as you counted down the days to Christmas.
Osami's quilt was featured in the Appliqué Category (Sponsored by your very own TheQuiltShow.com) at the 2024 Houston International Quilt Festival. If you don't know what an advent calendar is, and how it pertains to Osami's quilt, we'll let her explain it for you. "The theme is an advent calendar where you can enjoy opening a present every day during the countdown from December 1st to 24th. Suppressing the desire to open 24 days of gifts at once, one gift is opened each day. I created this quilt by filling boots and small boxes with exciting thoughts." |
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Make The Magic Waffle Quilt with Michelle Freedman |
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Make A "Magic" Quilt This Holiday Season
Meet Michelle Freedman, a graphic designer and marketing manager for Maywood Studios by day, and a quilt designer by night. She shares a fun, fast, and fat-quarter-friendly quilt pattern designed to help you break free from quilting burnout. Using pre-cuts, Michelle shows how easy it is to create The Magic Waffle Quilt—even if you accidentally rotate a block. The block is simple to resize, making it perfect for quilters of all levels. It’s designed to give you that quick win and boost of confidence, helping you dive back into your quilting projects with renewed enthusiasm.
Learn from Michelle, and Bonnie Langenfeld, and by watching Learn About Landscapes and Thread Sketching with Bonnie Langenfeld | The Magic Waffle Quilt with Michelle Freedman. |
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WeAllSew Tutorial: Free-Motion Snowman Vase Quilt |
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The Snowmen Stick Around All Winter Long
Want to practice your free-motion quilting and make a fun holiday project at the same time? Lori Kennedy at WeAllSew shows you how to create a "vase quilt", just a bit bigger than a mug rug, while working on your free-motion quilting. Free-motion quilting what you may ask? Snowmen, of course! |
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Give Yourself the Gift of Oakshott Shot Cottons |
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Treat Yourself (After All, It Is Christmas)
We still have a small quantity of beautiful Oakshott Fabric available - once these precuts are gone they will not be available again as Oakshott fabrics are no longer being made. |
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Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game |
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Is it crazier to think that the year is almost over already, or that you haven't become a master at Jinny Beyer's Memory Match Game? Play today and decide for yourself which seems more likely. |
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The Quilt Show Puzzle: A Quilt For Any Season |
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"Evie's Peonies" by Amy McClellan
Named after her granddaughter Evie, a beautiful Carolina Lily block adorns Evie's Peonies, a red, white, and green stunner by Amy McClellan. While it does feature many reds and greens, and is considered a Christmas quilt by many who see it, Amy says that isn't so, as she says reds and greens are for any season. The polka dot swag border adds a great graphic touch to this "traditional" quilt.
See more of Amy's quilts in How to Use Embroidery and Wool in Your Quilt | How to Do Big Stitch Quilting with Sarah Fielke. |
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