Snow Much Fun! It's November

Did you get a bunch of trick or treaters? We got quite a few and Belvedere enjoyed greeting them all. The weather here was perfect for the kids, not too cold and clear. If Halloween would have fallen on a Friday or Saturday then it would have been perfect. But last night was pretty darn close! My favorite costume for the evening was a blow up tyrannosaurus rex. The costume stood about six feet tall and was pretty awesome for the little kid that flopped around the neighborhood in it! shhhh…. he got a little extra candy for the great costume.

With all the excitement over Halloween, I forgot today is November 1st and I'm late with posting. I wanted to check in with everyone and see how their quilts are coming along.  As you know, I made two quilts. Both are made using flannel. One uses flannel for the applique, the other one uses wool. I love them both but I am really fond of the wool one. I haven't put them out on display in my home yet because Belvedere is fond of laying on my quilts and these quilts need to be available for when I go on my quilt talks and visit guilds so they are tucked safely away. I'll pull them out on for Christmas and display them in the guest bedroom.

Both of my quilts were professionally quilted by Mary Nordeng. Her work is phenomenal. Let me share with you some of the beautiful stitches she graced my quilts with. Her work is bound to inspire you with how you might want to quilt your quilt.

Isn't the back beautiful!

It's hard to see, but there's a snowman quilted in the center nine patch block.

As you can see, there are snowflake designs in each of the border blocks. Scroll work in the sashing and a swirly design around all of the snowmen.

Here is the same block. For the wool quilt, Mary used a meandering design around the snowmen. I love the look of this too!

In the sashing there are holly leaves quilted. Very festive for winter.

The picture isn't great but I want to show you how to sew the snowflakes onto your quilt. As you can see I use white thread and 'embroider' a snowflake over the snowflake button. Bring your needle up from the back at 1, insert needle to back at 2, then up at 3 and down at 4, up at 5 and down at 6. Repeat a few times to securely sew snowflake in place.

I think it would be fun to show off our finished quilts! So I'm going have a little blog hop so we can share them in December. If you don't have a blog I can share your posting on the Quilt Doodle Blog. I have some fun prizes to celebrate! I've got Olfa products, Batting, Fabric, thread... all sorts of fun stuff to celebrate!
To post your quilt, they don't have to be quilted, just the top pieced. If you don't have a blog, no worries, just send me you pictures and I will happily post them for you.

So email me,

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 Next month, December, Let's share pictures of our beautiful quilt top! 

~Quilt Layout~

To finish this cute quilt, I embellished my design with some special buttons from Just Another Button Company. I do have these buttons available in my Etsy Shop. The pattern for the nine patch can be found on the Quilt Doodle Designs Website. The nine patch and strip directions are still  Free download this month also.  I will not be sewing my buttons onto my quilt top until after I have it all done and quilted. I also have all past blocks along with the complete pattern set. 

Happy Quilting!

Cindy

Announcing a NEW BOM coming January 1st!
This will be a 12 month BOM series. We will work on our piecing skills along with some applique. It will be an adorable scrappy sampler quilt. More details will be posted soon!

I'll be posting fabric requirements soon. Fabric kits will also be available in my Etsy shop. I'm busy gathering and cutting right now. We will be working with some 1930's reproduction fabric. I just love the freshness of the colors and the retro feel. They'll be perfect for this scrappy style quilt. Keep your eye out for the fabric bundles that will be available in the Etsy shop.

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