From Cut Loose Press® by Rachelle Craig, Havenwood is the perfect beginner class or project! Just about every inch of the fabric is used in this quilt. Grab forty-2 1/2-inch strips (or cut your own), a background fabric and you are ready to go. Kitting not required!
Turning every other block creates the modern off-set look that gives this quilt its style.
The cover quilt is made with Pearl Splendor by Benartex. Or, cut your own strips with the Creative Grids® Stripology XL Ruler.
The 2-1/2″ slits are marked with squares – can’t get any easier than that! What a great way to use up scraps.
Hi! My name is Amy Barickman and I am here to tell you about my new Treasured Threadz™ collection! I’ve been so lucky to create this with my hometown partner, Colonial Patterns. Colonial Patterns has been producing the popular Aunt Martha’s embroidery patterns for over 85 years! Watch this short video for an overview:
The new Treasured Threadz™ fabric panels are a culmination of my love for vintage textiles and passion for repurposing thrifted fabrics and preloved apparel. Using my vintage collection of art, textiles and quilts, I have designed FIVE Treasured Threadz™ fabric panels! I also developed some signature techniques for applying patchwork that are perfect for featuring in your store demos and classes!
Upcycling fabrics has always been a favorite focus of mine over my 30 years creating sewing and craft patterns. Think of these panels as “cheater” or “convenience” panels that offer your customers a shortcut to style! These authentic digital reproductions are perfect for embroidery, quilting, collage or applique. Embellish projects or use the panels for your favorite sewing pattern.
Every panel purchase includes a QR code that will give you access to exclusive digital content. There are three printable PDF patterns (a cross body bag, zipper pouch, and eyeglasses case) as well as an extensive Look Book with over 25 pages of project ideas. Treasured Threadz™ truly offers endless inspiration for creating unique fashion and sustainable sewing projects.
We also have a new companion Favorite Fusible Stabilizer. We have developed this low-loft fusible batting as the perfect partner to our fabric panels. Each package includes a 11″ x 17″ Pressing Sheet, and added value to your customers as they create with our signature techniques to embellish and applique.
With the purchase of the Favorite Fusible Stabilizer, you will find a QR code with detailed videos and PDF instructions for oth Decorative Patch Applique and our Repair Patch Techniques. Both methods are great for embellishing or mending favorites from your home and closet.
There are so many ways to use this stabilizer. Use it to give a layer of body, softness and stability to almost anything you create. You can easily layer this fusible batting with fabric and add decorative stitching for a dimensional, hand-quilted look. Treasured Threadz™ panels are perfect for applique as well as small projects like my popular Fold & Go Folio pattern.
You can use it to create a sturdy fabric for functional projects such as cross body bags or an eyeglass case (both patterns are included with each fabric panel). One of my favorite uses for this stabilizer is for hand embroidery. It’s a wonderful backing for your stitching project, no hoop required!
The broad appeal of Treasured Threadz™ makes it perfect for in-store demo days, design challenges, classes or retreat projects. Even better, a continuity or club program could be created using the patterns that are included with purchase of a panel.
.Thanks for letting me share Treasured Threadz? with you – I hope you are inspired to embrace the opportunity you have with this line and share it with your community. Visit the Checker website to see all of Amy’s patterns, panels and fusible batting: Amy Barickman
Sometimes a pattern is just too darn cute to resist! Since I live in the midwest, I know several people who will want this!
She’s quirky, she’s fun – meet Annabelle. This traditionally pieced quilt pattern features a playful and modern cow design. Get creative and let your imagination run wild with two fabric options (layer cakes or fat quarters) and three sizes (small, throw, and bed).
This pattern isn’t due to arrive until next month but is already trending so place your orders now!
Robin Pickens has combined two loves, fabric design and cross-stitch to stunning affect. All of these designs are floated on her fabrics. The combination of textures adds that awe factor to every project.
Pine Crossing is a cross stitch pattern showing stylized trees across the landscape with a couple of red birds popping out against the wintry forest scene. Appropriate for winter holidays and seasons or in other colors for any time of year.
“Seasonal Courier: Cardinal’s Winter” is a features a festive cardinal sitting upon his favorite pinecone. The bird celebrates the winter season with snowflakes of various sizes and top and bottom borders bring in added decoration and color and shapes reminiscent of quilt blocks. Cardinal’s Christmas is the first in a series of four Seasonal Courier birds.
Sweater Weather combines the love of quilt blocks in a soft color palette in the borders with a bolder color pinecone for the winter season in the center. Leafy vines surround the center pinecone rectangle. This cross stitch pattern is the first in the “Sweater Weather” series, with more seasons to come!
Winterly Sampler is a sampler with multiple images including cardinals, trees, vines, pinecones, snowflakes and mistletoe. This festive sampler follows the same basic structure and size as the Fall Frolic Sampler but with a wintery feel!
All of these patterns are due to arrive in the next few weeks so place your order now.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day or those summer weddings, classic hearts is a simple quilt pattern. It is fat quarter and half yard friendly.
Tiled Stars II is a modern star quilt pattern that is fat eighth or fat quarter friendly. The tiles set off the star design to perfection and is muc easier to achieve than you may think!
Classic Stars is a classic quilt with a twist. Off-setting the stars and snowballing the blocks add that awe factor that will make everyone look twice!
Scrappy Gems is a quick and easy stash buster quilt pattern. This Irish Chain quilt pattern has strip piecing shortcuts and uses 2 1/2″ strips to maximum effect.
Log Cabin Stars puts a modern twist on an all-time favorite traditional block. PLacing a star in a half log cabin gives the entire quilt a modern look.
All of these patterns show yardage requirements for multiple sizes so the math is done for you. They are due to arrive any day so place your orders now.
This new size of Exploding Hearts by Slice of Pi Quilts in stunning in this colorway. The black background really makes it pop! This advanced beginner pattern makes a 36″ x 36″ quilt – perfect for a wall hanging or baby quilt! The pattern is fat eighth and fabric cutter friendly.
The original Exploding Heart quilt pattern, captures the feeling of joy bursting from your heart! This stunning pattern is perfect for advanced beginners, as it features standard machine sewing techniques and is fat quarter and fabric cutter friendly.
With its large 72in x 72in finished size, the Exploding Heart quilt is sure to make a statement in any room. The pattern comes as a printed paper pattern, making it easy to follow and reference as you work on your quilt.
Whether you’re an experienced quilter or just starting out, this pattern is sure to inspire you and bring you joy. Create a beautiful and unique quilt that captures the essence of what makes your heart sing with the Exploding Heart quilt pattern from Slice of Pi Quilts.
The original pattern is in stock. The mini version is expected this week so place your orders now.
Deb Heatherly has released several patterns that are scrap-friendly. These patterns are created with simple, beginner friendly techniques and don’t require any specialty tools.
Stars Over Franklin is a great scrap quilt! Just (16) 2-1/2-inch strips create the star points in this quilt and give it that scrappy look. Add your favorite accent fabric, in Deb’s case, gold, background and borders to complete this generous 70 x 70-inch quilt. It is the perfect quilt to learn how to use the Creative Grids® Folded Corner Clipper or Corner Clipper XL for more than bindings. The instructions include an alternate method, however, so it is not required.
Just (34) 10-inch squares is all you need to create this generous 61 x 70-inch quilt. It also is an opportunity to use the Creative Grids® Folded Corner Clipper or Corner Clipper XL for more than bindings. All you need to add is the four B’s: background, borders, binding and backing.
Just 12 fat quarters or 3 yards of scraps, plus the borders, binding and backing is all you need to create this stunning quilt.
Deb lives in the Great Smoky Mountains and says that in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, this was called a postcard quilt because quilters used a postcard for the template to cut the pieces for this quilt. Don’t you love that little bit of history? Incorporating these units into the middle border adds the perfect finishing touch!
The Creative Grids® 3 ½” wide rulers make cutting these pieces easy as pie! That ruler comes in three different lengths: 12 1/2″; 18 1/2″ and 24 1/2″.
The Wooly Wall Hanging quilt pattern finishes at 40″ x 40″ and is designed by Corey Yoder of Coriander Quilts. Wooly Wall Hanging is an intermediate level quilt pattern and is the perfect companion for those of you who made her popular Wooly Stars quilt. The booklet style pattern is full color and includes clear instructions and illustrations.
The Deerly Loved quilt pattern finishes at 42″ x 42″.Deerly Loved is an intermediate level quilt pattern that embraces holiday cheer.
The Cuddle Up Sampler quilt pattern finishes at 70″ x 70″. Cuddle Up Sampler is an intermediate level quilt pattern. This is a 21 page 8 1/2″ x 11″ booklet style pattern with full color cutting diagrams and illustrations. What a perfect BOM project!
The Scrappy Evergreens quilt pattern finishes at 66″ x 80″. The quilt utilizes charm packs and mini charm packs. Scrappy Evergreens is an intermediate level quilt pattern and a great way to use up scraps.
The Starry Midnight Clear quilt pattern finishes at 68″ x 82″. Starry Midnight Clear is stunning with a light or dark background.
All of these patterns are due to arrive any day so place your orders now.
Ready for a new Halloween Block of the Month? Meg has you covered! Her descriptions are almost as clever as the blocks:
BLOCK #1
We’ve waited all year for the annual Witch’s Faire! As soon as you walk into the clearing, you’ll pass by the Pumpkin Scarecrow. Every year it seems larger! This pattern is the first of the Witch’s Faire Block of the Month Series and contains the assembly directions for the entire quilt along with the first embroidered block. Colored pencil tinting and very simple embroidery along with very easy quilt piecing make this an easy stitch! There are appliqued pennant banners at the top of the quilt, and you can use your favorite method to apply them. Have fun at the Faire!
Block #2:
Let me introduce you to Finoozala Groop! She was crowned the Queen of Halloween at this year’s Halloween Faire. It may have gone to her head a bit? Finoozala is the proud owner of Groop’s Spider Emporium in Hocuspocusville. If you need quality spiders, she has everything from single horrific ones… to the ever-popular bulk packages of 144 somewhat mediocre specimens. Infest your house in style at Groops!… YIKES, my worst nightmare!
Both should arrive any day, just in time for your new class line-up!
For those of you who loved Cat Scratch, there is now a dog version: Tail Wags Quilt – a Puppy Quilt Pattern.This quilt is going to the dogs! This 51″ x 51.5″ quilt features seven puppy blocks, balls and bones. The included puppy blocks are the Front Facing Puppy (10″ x 14.5″ finished), the Sitting Puppy (12.5″ x 14.5″ finished), the Crawling Puppy (17.5″ x 8.25″ finished) and the Tummy Up Puppy (12.5″ x 23″ finished). You can make the Sitting Puppy and Crawling Puppy blocks face in two directions. The bone blocks and ball blocks are included to form the sashing and borders of the quilt. It is designed using traditional piecing techniques, so no paper piecing is involved. It contains small pieces and straight-line sewing, with some points to match. The pattern comes in full color and is saddle-stitched with a soft laminate cover, spanning 34 pages. Make the quilt or individual puppies for pillows.
Mini Coos is a new and fresh take on the popular Cattle Call Quilt Pattern! This fun quilt is 52.5″ x 62.5″ and features adorable highland coos in a mini format. It also includes optional Scottish tams (hats) to accessorize your coos. The quilt includes two types of coo blocks: the front-facing coos looking in two directions (10.5″ x 15″ finished) and the side coo (15″ x 15″ finished). You can make each coo with or without the Scottish tam. Additionally, the pattern includes two different thistle blocks to create the borders. The coo blocks are versatile and can be used in other projects, such as tote bags, runners, jackets, and more! No paper piecing is involved. This quilt is too cute not to make, so get MOOOOOving!
Tartan Star Quilt Pattern includes instructions for making a tartan and sawtooth star hybrid quilt in six sizes (baby through king). This quilt is a real beauty and can look quite different depending on your chosen fabrics. Despite its complex appearance, the design is simple and is a repeated main block with sashing units and a cornerstone block. The pattern recommends using four different fabrics, which can be variations of one color or a mix of different colors. It also provides guidance on how your fabric choices can impact the final look of the quilt. Pressing tips are included to make the process smooth and enjoyable.
These patterns are due to arrive any day so place your orders now.
