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Show and Tell: Welcome to the North Pole

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Thank you to Kari Hawkins, for sharing your wonderful quilt with us! I love the quilt and the fact that you made it 24 years ago and it is still a holiday favorite. Well done!


Thought you might like to see a few photos of my version of the North Pole quilt. I made it in 2000 as part of our local quilt guild’s Challenge. The Challenge was to make a quilt with fabric change, fabric manipulation and fabric embellishments. This quilt allowed me to do all three just fine!

It also placed in our quilt show the next year. 

My family and friends enjoy seeing this quilt every year during Christmas. It is often put on display at our guild’s Christmas party. I am a member of Heritage Quilters of Huntsville and enjoy making Piece O’ Cake quilts.

Thank you, again, Kari, for sharing your quilt and its story.

And updated version of Welcome to the North Pole is still available as an ebook. Click here to find it.

Birds in Toyland Show and Tell…

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Shirley Ratliff took my Birds in Toyland class, online on Creative Spark and she just finished her quilt! It’s wonderful! Shirley made changes to the original pattern that work great in her quilt AND she finished in time for the holidays!

Shirley wrote:

Had sew much fun making this quilt! Changed it up a bit because I wanted to quilt in the border lights. Love these little birdies! Thanks for your kind words about my quilt. You gave me the confidence to tackle this project and have fun doing it! 

I love knowing that you all love my patterns and that the classes bolster your confidence. Yay! Thank you, Shirley, for your kind words.

If any of you are interested in the class, click here to find Birds in Toyland.

If you already are confident in your applique skills, click here to find the book.

Birds in Toyland Show and Tell…

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Sue Sharer wrote to to say:

Thank you, Becky, for your great classes on Creative Spark. I’ve never done wool applique, but your videos made it easy and fun. Sue

Sue, thank you for sharing your quilt with us! You did a great job and no one would ever guess that it is your first wool applique project. Well done, you! I hope you enjoy it this season and for many more :-).

If you are interested in making your own Birds in Toyland quilt:

Show and tell: Lorna’s Vine…

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Tracy May wrote to say that she finally finished her Lorna’s Vine quilt. This is her third hand quilting project; slow but steady.

She made her quilt with all re-purposed fabric.

Well done, Tracy! And thank you for sharing your lovely quilt with us. I hope you stay snug and warm beneath it for years to come :-).

Aunt Millie’s Garden Show and Tell

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Julie Edwards sent me this photo of her newly finished, very pretty quilt that features a block from Aunt MIllie’s Garden as the center medallion.

Julie wrote:

This quilt was a round robin and completed by multiple people in 2015-2016. I belong to an online FB group, and we do swaps and other quilt alongs often. I completed the center block and then sent it to another quilter, she completed a border on that quilt, and off it went to someone else, etc. until it was completed and returned back to me. I finally quilted and finished it in January of this year. 

Round robin quilts are always interesting and this one is no exception. The borders don’t overshadow the block at the center, the focal point of the quilt. Very nice!

Thank you, Julie, for sharing your quilt with us!.

If you are interested, you can find the Aunt Millie’s Garden ebook here :-).

Simply Delicious Show and Tell…

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Margaret Heller just finished her Simply Delicious quilt—it’s amazing!

From Margaret:

I followed the techniques taught in your books, except for the grapes and raspberries. For them I modified Karen Kay Buckley’s techniques for Perfect Ovals by laminating the front and back of the template (put the number of the template on the back side). Then I gathered the seam allowance of the grape or berry around the template, starched it/pressed it, and removed the template when it was time to sew it to the block .

I substituted blocks from the Beautiful Berries pattern for blocks from Simply Delicious so all the blocks illustrated my favorite fruits.

It was custom machine quilted by Christy Gray. (And she told me it’s the last custom quilting she will do.) I’m grateful that she quilted it for me; I doubt otherwise it would ever have been finished.

Thank you, Margaret, for sharing your lovely quilt with us all and I know you will enjoy seeing it hang in shows.

This quilt was one of our blocks of the month and the patterns are still available in a downloadable format. If you are interested, click here to find the Simply Delicious epatterns.