New from Suzn Quilts

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Penny Haren

These projects feature the Suzn Quilts templates to their full potential. Whether the project calls for Susan’s Tiny Dresden Plate (SUZ216), the Mini Dresden Plate (SUZ186) or her new Tree Template Set (SUZ286), accuracy is guaranteed.

This cute little Halloween quilt is quick and easy with fusible web appliqué and tiny Dresden plates. The bat wings made from Dresdens added that awe factor for me. And the hat? Too cute!

Decorate your Halloween table with candy corns, birds & a Tiny Dresden plate. Her plastic templates and fusible web appliqué makes it quick & easy. Use the Tiny Dresden Template and the new Tiny Tree Template Set to create the “O” and candy cane border.

This adorable Halloween sampler makes a great 15 step Block-of-the-month or mystery club quilt! The original, pieced & appliquéd quilt measures 41 in x 47 in. The instruction steps are printed for easy monthly distribution.

Decorate your home with the beautiful colors of fall. It’s a quick, small project you can make in a day, but it can easily be made any size. Make another for a friend! Paper templates are included in pattern, but Susan’s new Tiny Tree Template Set makes for quicker & more accurate cutting.

Another beautiful sampler quilt with Susan’s little Dresden Plates! The pattern includes full-size templates and detailed instructions for Dresden plates and freezer paper appliqué, but you can choose fusible web appliqué as well.

Reminiscent of an antique red and green quilt, Plumfield Petals is created with Tiny Dresden plate petals.Once again the sample was made with a freezer paper applique technique but you can use fusible if you prefer.

Another cute & clever 12-step little quilt perfect for a mystery or block-a-day, week or month. Each block’s instructions are printed on individual sheets for easy distribution for shop club meetings.

Veranda Chains features Tiny Dresden plates on each square in a square block. Fully machine sewn blocks including the appliqué make this a fun use of your favorite fabric collection of fat eighths or quarters.

All of these patterns are due to arrive next month, so place your orders now. These are great take along projects for a day in the sun!

Crazy Love

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Penny Haren

Don’t you love the name?

This Cut Loose Press™ pattern #CLPKAL014 features four letters that are all pieced individually after the angles are cut with the Creative Grids® Spiderweb Ruler #CGRKA6. The width of each letter doesn’t matter. Each letter can be trimmed after the sashing strips are added so that the height of each block is exactly the same before they are sewn together.

Karla Alexander is one of my favorite designers because she thinks WAY outside of the box. In this case, she created all of the cutting instructions to work with directional fabrics. And, the pieces are oversized so they are trimmed to size after piecing the angles. With big pieces and built-in fudge factors, even beginners will be successful. The angled pieces are all cut with her Creative Grids® Spiderweb Ruler.

What a great shower or wedding gift. The guests could sign the backing fabric.

At 18 x 53 inches, it would make a statement hanging above a bed! I’m thinking about framing each letter individually and hanging them as a headboard.

If you are a visual learner, a video tutorial will be available soon. Everything is in stock so place your orders now.

Seasonal Door Quilts

Posted on January 19, 2022 by Penny Haren

In Kelli’s own words:
When I realized they weren’t teaching cursive writing anymore at my son’s school, I started the Keeping Cursive Alive Mini Quilt Series. At 12 x 24″ finished, these are the perfect size to hang on the front door, or anywhere else you’re feeling festive! Let’s make door quilts a thing! These mini quilt patterns are designed to use 100% scraps! All traditional piecing and straight seams.

The newest addition to the line is due to arrive soon:

It joins the other patterns in the series:

Give/Thanks Mini Quilt Series Quilt Pattern

I love that they are all the exact same size so they can be interchanged and displayed on your door – inside or out!

HoHo Joy Mini Quilt Series Quilt Pattern

Valentine Pouch

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Penny Haren

I already want to make these for everyone I know!

When my kids were growing up, I would write them a love letter every year for Valentine’s Day. We would do a scavenger hunt complete with hokey poems…Roses are red, Daddy is blue; go to the place where he takes a poo…you get the picture!. Emily Dickenson, I am not, but when you raise four boys and a girl, you have to consider your audience!

I had already decided to bring back that tradition for my kids and grandkids this year. Because of the pandemic, I will send poems and letters to the parents and pass on the tradition. But wouldn’t these bags be great envelopes for the letters as well as a few treats?

Check out these features:

BAG DIMENSIONS: 8in Tall x 7in Wide x 3in Deep – 9.5in at the top when closed.

Bag can be made using one mini charm pack (42 – 2.5in) squares.
Pattern includes instructions for two different ways to attach the zipper.
Added Bonus option for a smaller bag.

Valentine’s Day is on a Monday this year so why not hold a class on the Saturday before. If you have embroidery machines, an initial or monogram in the center of that heart would add the awe factor!

These patterns are due to arrive next week so order them now!
No exposed seams.

New from the Pattern Basket

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Penny Haren

Christmas Wishes is a perfect three month “block of the month”. Make the trees one month, the presents the next, and put it all together in the third month. Fifteen trees or 15 presents are very doable in that time frame. AND they will have plenty of time to get it quilted and bound by the next holiday season!

Add that awe factor by tagging the presents with family names.

Merry and Bright is another pattern that could be broken down into a three month series of classes. Do the small stars one month, the plain stars another, and the intricate pieced stars in the final class. While this is shown in holiday colors, it would be a perfect choice for a summer patriotic quilt as well.

North Star is a stunning lap quilt. The background fabric makes the stars shine and is a perfect backdrop for some exquisite quilting.

All of these patterns are due to arrive in the next few weeks so place your orders now.

Bareroots Ornaments

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Penny Haren

Check out this pattern for six adorable stuffed ornaments by Barri Sue Gaudet of Bareroots. Each ornament when finished is 4 x 4 inches tall and wide. Use wool felts, felted wool or fabric to make these ornaments. Wool felt and floss kits are available separately to make six all six ornaments.

Here is the Companion Kit or Refill Kit for Bareroots BR233 Everything Nice Ornaments. The kit includes National Nonwovens Wool Felt and DMC Floss for 6 ornaments. These adorable ornaments are fun and easy to make and the perfect way to introduce your customers to handwork. .

Everything Nice Ornament Wool Felt & Floss Kit

The kits and pattern are sold separately so you can buy additional kits since you will definitely want to make more than one! These are due to arrive this month, so place your orders now.

Banners for Every Season

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Penny Haren

Sew Cherished has added more banner designs to their line. The Summer garland will be arriving early next month

Each pattern is 4-1/2″ in diameter and the pattern includes 7 different designs. The perfect choice for portable handwork!

Stitch by Stitch is perfect for a sewing room.

Spring Fever

‘Tis The Season

Snowflake Squad. I blew this one up as far as I could so you can see the detail and personality in her patterns.

These patterns are all designed to work with the Circle Garland by Kraft Klub.

The garland include seven 5 inch round chalkboard circles and is 67 1/2″ long. Simply make quilt blocks or wool work of your choice and affix them with magnets. The circles have a chalkboard finish you can write on with chalk, too.

Where the Sun Shines is due in early next month. The rest are in stock now. What a great way to use up wool scraps! Wouldn’t they make great individual ornaments or gift tags as well?

Stacy West’s Christmas

Posted on May 7, 2021 by Penny Haren

Nobody does Christmas like Stacy of Buttermilk Basin.

Make the season bright with a beautiful quilt complete with wool-applique motifs that will spark your favorite Christmas memories. As you stitch each block of this beauty, you’ll reminisce about your childhood days of sledding, decorating the Christmas tree, and putting out treats for Santa’s annual visit. Holly boughs, candy canes, poinsettias, gingerbread, and other familiar holiday fare will make this quilt one you’ll enjoy displaying for years to come. Your stitching will become a family treasure for generations. Put on some festive music, bake a plate of cookies, and nestle into your favorite spot to enjoy hours of stitching pleasure as you make the 15 nostalgic wool-applique blocks in Christmas Cheer! It’s guaranteed to turn the most wonderful time of the year into a yearlong celebration!

Frankly, a pic of the quilt and this description is all we’ve got now BUT her books are always best sellers – and this one will be no exception! This book is due to arrive in August, so place your orders now!

Kimberbell’s Hometown Halloween

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Penny Haren

This is not coming out until June, but I had to tell you about it now! Kimberbell Design’s last Halloween sampler quilt was one of her most popular patterns ever – and I’m sure this one will be just as popular!

Candy Corn Quilt Shoppe is available as a fabric kit by Maywood Studio.

Candy Corn Quilt Shoppe Kit - Fabric Only, 40in x 40in

And all of the fabrics are available by the bolt or in pre-cuts. Just look at this color pallette! Go to Hometown Halloween to see the entire collection. Kimberbell thought of everything – right down to the diagonal stripe for bindings!

Fat Quarter, Hometown Halloween, 19pcs/bundle

The machine embroidery pattern will be available when the fabric is released.

Candy Corn Quilt Shoppe Machine Embroidery Version

It is also available in a traditional format : Item #KD727. Make sure you add this to your summer schedule so it can be done in time for the Trick or Treaters!

Gift Card Ornaments

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Penny Haren

Gift-giving has never been easier! These delightful ornament bags, designed by Rachel’s of Greenfield, are just the right size for gift cards or other treasures of your choice. Each envelope-style ornament bag has a different decoration on the front and fastens on the back with an old-fashioned figure-eight closure. The kit includes woolfelt®, embroidery floss, and gold string plus precise patterns, and complete instructions to make 6 gift bags.

There are lots of kits to choose from.

These kits are a great way to keep those mask makers engaged. This is my plan:

This year I made GALLONS of Chex mix, filled quart jars, and put them in gift bags. My children and grandchildren had a ball leaving these gifts on the doorsteps of friends and on the desks of their favorite teachers. Hopefully, we will be able to celebrate the holidays this year up close and personal, but we want to continue the tradition. I drew squares the size of each woolfelt piece onto freezer paper. Then, I traced the templates for that color within the square. Since my family and friends are making multitudes of these, we can run as many copies of the template sheets as we have kits – and only have to trace them once. Now, the instructions say to trace the templates right onto the wool felt, but ironing the freezer paper onto the woolfelt with a warm iron was much faster. Why not provide a template sheet to your customers as that “value-added” bonus with the purchase of each kit?

This Gypsy Quilter Appliqué Freezer Paper is over-sized and worked well!

Gypsy Quilter Freezer Paper 12in x 15in Heavy Weight 40ct

And, what great handwork while sitting in front of a fire…..

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