Emily Krysanick emailed this photo of her finished Sampling of Santas. Isn’t it wonderful!!!
She wrote that it took just a little over a year to complete. It is all hand appliqued and hand quilted, with a tad of embroidery and trapunto. She made an amazing quilt! Thank you, Emily, for sharing it with us.
This pattern is in our ebook, A Slice of Christmas. In it you will find other classic Christmas patterns. Now is the time to get started on your next Christmas quilt masterpiece!
Donna Rogers is this week’s winner! I’ll be sending her a point guard for her favorite pencil. That could be a Blackwing pencil or a white chalk pencil. These point guards are really handy and if you aren’t Donna, you can find them here.
I love this spot that’s is painted on the sidewalk in front of the shop, Tessuti Zoo, in Pacific Grove, CA.
The last time I posted this, one of you said that it could be painted on a round paver. I didn’t forget and this weekend I got the paver.
I painted it with exterior paint and used the Essential Circle tool to draw rings on the painted paver.
I pencilled in the letters and painted them in with small brushes. Pavers are not smooth which made it harder but not impossible.
I should have painted the light blue behind the letters first but I had thought I would leave it white. There was touching up of the dark blue later.
Isn’t this fun! Now it’s your turn :-).
Wonder Clips are wonderfully handy! I use them for all sorts of clipping jobs. They are designed to hold binding in place for hand or machine sewing and I love them for that job. I also use them when I am English paper piecing. Sometimes I use them like a paper clip.
Kitty Bowman is this week’s lucky winner of a pack of 10 rainbow-colored Wonder Clips. And, because Christmas is coming, I’m adding a holiday scissor charm!
You can find these and other handy sewing notions at pieceocake.com.
Barbara Burnham took my Button Box class last month when I visited the Faithful Circle Quilters in Columbia, Maryland. I love seeing finished class quilts!
I love Barbara’s fabric choices. Way to go Barbara, and thank you for sharing!
FYI: The Button Box quilt is in our book, Piecing the Piece O’ Cake Way, 2nd ed. You can find the book here, and the digital ebook here.
Steve and I went with Jeff to watch the Macy’s parade. It was 18 degrees! I don’t know how the folks in the parade managed to keep the smiles on their faces, but they did. I was especially impressed with the bands. Their fingers must have been so cold!
The crowds were light so we got pretty close. Even so, I saw a lot of heads…
But luckily the balloons fly above the crowd!
We gave up and went back to the warm apartment and watched the rest of the parade on TV with a glass of bubbly.
Jeff is getting ready to cook the turkey. We are thankful for it all :-).
Happy thanksgiving to you and yours :-).
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