January's BOM Blocks

Welcome! It's the very beginning of the My Favorite Things mystery BOM. I'm so excited!!! For January there are two blocks that we will be working on, a snowman and a Christmas tree. Two of my favorite things. They are both applique. In fact all of the blocks with the exception of December's will be applique.  As I mentioned, it will be a mystery quilt but I have let you in on the layout of the quilt. This quilt can be done scrappy if you want to bust your fabric stash. Each month I will offer a NEW block and it will be FREE for that month, as soon as the next block comes out, past blocks will be available for a small fee....

I traced all of the pieces onto the heat n bond. Drawing in pencil on the paper side of the heat n bond.

Then I iron on the pieces onto the wrong side of the fabric
 and cut them all out.

Then peel off the paper and lay them onto the front
side of your block. Iron in place. The snowman is
placed on a 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" square.

Lay all of the pieces in place for the Christmas
Tree design also. Iron them in place. Remember it will
be a mirror image of the design you traced. The Christmas
Tree design is placed on a 10 1/2" x 15 1/2" rectangle.

I like to machine applique my pieces using a tiny
buttonhole stitch. Here is the setting I use on my machine.
You can also do the stitching by hand using 2 strands of 
DMC floss. This is a good project for in front of the TV.

Here, you can see how small my stitches are. I think
the smaller stitch looks nicely with the scale of the design.
Practice with you machine and experiment with your stitch
size until you find the stitch size that you like.

I go slow to while I applique and stop and pivot around corners.

January Snowman! I embellished the block with some
buttons, beads and embroidery.

'Christmas Tree'
The tree is decorated with brightly
colored buttons.

Finished quilt measurement 57” x 82”

This month's pattern is available for FREE HERE! and also HERE

A printable supply list can be found HERE!

Cutting instructions and quilt construction for the quilt can be found HERE!

Fabric kits are available HERE!

These pretty colors are in the fabric kits...

There's a flicker group!  Please join...Every month post photos of your Quilt Doodle BOM finishes in the BOM flicker group for a chance to win that month's prize! Woot woot!

Don't forget to grab the button too and post on your blog! The more the merrier! The code for the button can be found below.

If you want to be added to the email reminder list... send me your email.

The next block pattern will be posted on February 1st!  The winner for the January block will be announced on February 1st also. I'm looking forward to seeing your first two blocks!

Happy New Year!
Happy quilting,

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