I know. It's not even Halloween yet and this is looking very Christmassy. What can I say, Christmas is my favorite holiday, and when we're all coming down from our candy buzzes in a few days, it will be time to kick into all-out holiday crafting mode, so why not get a head start? Don't you love a cute house ornament? I made a little fabric house last year, but it bugged me that the door and embroidery disappeared into the bottom of the house (Exhibit A), so I changed the design to avoid that problem. These scrappy house ornaments don't take very long to make, and they do include a hanger, I just tucked them under for the photo above. I mentioned before that I was in the mood for a tutorial, well...here it is! Fabric House Ornament Tutorial Materials: Pattern (click here to get pattern) Quilting cotton scraps for house back, roof, window, and door Fabric with numbers or fabric selvage for house number Linen, linen/cotton blend, or cotton quilter’s linen for house front Wool or wool-blend felt scraps for bird 10” length of ribbon, 3/8” to 1/2" wide (satin, grosgrain, velveteen, picot edge, twill tape, etc.) Rick rack (1/2" wide), miniature pom pom, or other trim Wonder Under fusible web (1/8 yard) Sheer weight or lightweight fusible interfacing (1/8 yard) All purpose thread Embroidery thread Button Polyfill or other stuffing material Tools: Scissors, rotary cutter/quilting ruler/cutting mat (optional), sewing machine, iron/ironing board, pins, seam ripper, hand sewing needle, disappearing fabric ink, chopstick or turning tool *Seam allowances are 1/4" unless otherwise noted, finished house is 4-1/2" tall, not including chimney. *Always backstitch/backtack at the beginning and end of each seam. Instructions: HOUSE 1. Cut a piece of fusible interfacing slightly larger than the house pattern piece. Fuse the interfacing to the wrong side of the linen with a hot iron according to package instructions. Press with iron on the linen side until the interfacing is completely fused. Use a ruler and rotary cutter to cut around the house pattern. 2. Draw the cutouts at the bottom of the house with disappearing fabric ink (the cutouts are 1/2" x 1/2"). Cut on the lines with scissors. Cut another house from quilting cotton (there is no need for interfacing for the cotton house). ROOF 1. Place a length of rick rack or pom pom trim on the linen house fabric, indicated on the pattern with a dotted stitch line. Center the trim over the line. I find it helpful to draw a line with a fabric pen 1-3/4" from the top of the house (the solid line on the roof of the house pattern). The top of your medium sized rick rack should meet this line, as well as the roof fabric when you place it over the rick rack (see Step 2). Mini pom pom is a little narrower than rick rack, and so sits a little lower than 1-3/4". 2. Place the roof fabric on top of the trim, right sides together, with the edge of the fabric 1/4” above the stitch line. Sew a 1/4” seam along the stitch line. 3. Fold the roof fabric up. If you use rick rack, go ahead and iron the fabric. If you are using pom pom trim or other synthetic trim DO NOT PRESS WITH IRON!!! Pom pom trim melts very easily. Finger press the fabric only. 4. Turn the house over, and trim the roof fabric to match the outline of the house. 5. Turn the house back over and machine baste the roof fabric in place, very close to the edge of the house. DOOR, WINDOW, & HOUSE NUMBER 1. Cut a piece of Wonder Under slightly larger than the appliqué piece. 2. Adhere the Wonder Under to the wrong side of the appliqué fabric with an iron (bumpy side of Wonder Under to wrong side of fabric). Let cool. Lift up an edge of the paper backing to loosen it from fabric. 3. Cut out the piece of fabric that is fused to the Wonder Under. 4. Remove the paper backing from the fabric. Place the pattern piece on the sticky side of the fabric and cut around it. 5. Remove the pattern and iron the appliqué in place on the front of the house. Do this for the window, door, and house number, using the pattern as a guide for placement. DO NOT decorate your house below the line marked on the pattern, and remember to keep the iron away from any heat-sensitive trims! 5. Using a straight stitch on your machine, sew around the outside edge of the appliqué, just off the fabric edge. Sew a second line just on the inside of the fabric edge. For the door, I used thread that matched the door on the inside of the fabric, black on the outside. For the window, I used black thread only. I sewed pretty fast, not aiming for a super straight line, I like the hand drawn look of wobbly lines. For the house number, I only sewed one seam, on the inside of the fabric edge. BIRD 1. Cut a bird from felt and place it on the house. Sew in place by machine with matching thread, just on the inside edge of the felt. 2. Divide the embroidery floss and use three strands for the bird. Hand embroider beak, feet, and wing with backstitches. 3. Make a French knot eye. BUTTON DOORKNOB 1. Add the button last so you don't have to worry about bumping into it while sewing the birdie or other appliqués. CHIMNEY & HANGER 1. Fold chimney fabric in half. Sew across the top and down the side with the raw edges. 2. Trim corner and seam allowances. 3. Turn right side out and press. 4. Place chimney upside down where indicated on the pattern, right sides together. Sew in place very close to the edge of the fabric. Fold ribbon hanger in half, place on the top and center of the roof and sew in place very close to the edge. 5. Alternate method: you may press under the top and side edges of the chimney fabric 1/4", right sides facing out, and hand sew the chimney closed with a ladder/blind stitch before attaching to house. FINISH 1. Place the front and back of your house right sides together and pin. Make sure your ribbon will not get sewn into the seams. Sew around the bottom, sides and top of the house, leaving a 1-1/2” turning hole on one side. DO NOT sew the notched cutouts yet. 2. Reach inside the house to pull open the cutout on one side. Flatten it so the seams match up, and the seam allowances go in opposite directions. Sew across this short straight edge with a 1/4” seam allowance. Repeat for other side. Make sure the seam allowance on the bottom of the house is folded the same direction on both sides. 3. Turn the house right side out, stuff, and close the turning hole with a ladder stitch. 4. You're finished! Hang your ornament on a tree, doorknob, wall or stocking hook. Happy homemaking! Kim P.S. The number fabric is Annie's Farm Stand Seed Catalog from Lakehouse. It has lots of different numbers in several fonts and sizes, perfect if you're going to make a bunch of these. P.P.S. For those of you who don't sew, I will be adding the house ornaments to my shop soon! All the ornaments are on their way to new homes, thanks so much! P.P.P.S. Don't forget that I am having a sale this week, just enter the code CELEBRATE during checkout at my Etsy shop for 20% off your order. The patterns in my sidebar are already discounted. The sale goes through Wednesday, 10/26. Sale has ended, thanks! UPDATE: just editing my sale and shop info, so as not to be confusing :)
It's my turn to be in charge of our quilt for the Believe Circle of do.Good Stitches. Most of the time, we each make two blocks, but this month I chose a design that will be done in vertical strips. The inspiration comes from this quilt by Debbie Grifka over at Esch House Quilts. She graciously gave permission for our circle to use her design for our quilt this month. Thank you, Debbie! If each circle member makes one vertical strip, we'll have a nice size quilt. We will follow the same color scheme of black, white, and bright. The darker colors should be toward the top and the lighter colors at the bottom. Have fun choosing a bright colored door for your houses. Each strip should contain two or three houses. The squares that are not house blocks should be cut at 5 1/2" square. Cut seven or eight of these depending on the number of house blocks contained in the strip. For the house blocks, cut: Background - two 3" squares House - one 3" x 5 1/2" rectangle, two 2" x 2 1/2" rectangles, and one 1 1/2" x 5 1/2" rectangle Door - one 1 1/2" x 2" rectangle First, draw a diagonal line on the back of the 3" background squares. Place one of the squares on the large house rectangle. Stitch on the drawn line and cut away the excess triangle. Press the sewn triangle up and away from the house rectangle. Lay the second background square right side down and sew on the drawn line. Cut away the excess fabric. Press the sewn triangle away from the house rectangle. Sew the 1 1/2" x 5 1/2" rectangle to the bottom of the roof. Sew a 2" x 2 1/2" house rectangle to either side of the 1 1/2" x 2" door. Sew the door to the house and the house block is complete. Make either two or three house blocks and arrange them in your vertical strip to your satisfaction. When the strip is complete, there should be ten squares total, which includes the house blocks. If you'd like to be creative with your house blocks and construct them differently, feel free to do so. It will be fun to construct a neighborhood with your creations.
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Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who participated in sewing me a wonky house or wonky tree to be included in Wonkyville. You are the most amazing, creative, generous and helpful followers and friends a girl can have!! Here are all the houses and trees a combined force of 22 people in total have created: 26 trees and 33 houses I can't wait to sew these all together!! What a community effort - houses and trees came in all the way from Norway, USA, Netherlands, Canada, UK and as far away as Indonesia! Amazing!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! I promised an exclusive giveaway for those people who made me something wonky and sent it to me by the end of September and I am here to announce the lucky winners today! The randomly drawn winners are as follows: Gilly Makes is the winner of Prize #1 Notting Hill skinny FQ, red zipper, lollipops, finger pincushion with pins Heidi/Red Letter Quilts Makes is the winner of Prize #2 Timeless Treasures Newspaper print FQ, Sketch fat 8th, zippers, finger pincushion with pins Turid is the winner of Prize #3 Quilt Blocks by Ellen Luckett - sizes ranging from 13"x17" to 22"x13" Muriel is the winner of Prize #4 Just my Type FQ, magnet letters spelling SEW HAPPY, finger pincushion with pins Amanda/Metro Quilter is the winner of Prize #5 Wash Day four 10" squares, Kona FQ, Perle cotton thread Deborah is the winner of Prize #6 Enchantment by Kathy Davis, three pieces ranging in sizes (16x25, 23x20, 18x24 - all inches) Congratulations to you all - I will be in touch soon to get your addresses to send these goodies to you! And thank you to everyone once again - this is going to become one of my all-time favourite quilts! ______________________________ And for those of you who are still in the process of sewing me a wonky house or a wonky tree, please let me know when you are ready to send them and I will send you my address. Thank you from Amy Senior subdivision manger of the Wonkyville estate!
Have you seen me on Instagram? If so you would have seen that the house quilt is in one piece. It's quite big so hard to get a good photo. Maybe an uncropped one is better. Look at that ironing board: only just ironed the quilt. I thought these colours might suit this post... I went for a walk in the bush the other day in preparation for next BIG walk. Who thought I would see an echidna just on the path! And the bush is own kind of dramatic. Posted with Blogsy
Токио квилт фестиваль 2018, часть 1 Tokyo Quilt Festival 2018, part 1 Посты с фотографиями с квилт шоу в 2015-ом году можно посмотреть тут. You can find a lot of photos from Tokyo Quilt Festival 2015 here. Сегодня покажу сумки вне очереди, они заслуживают того. С победителями я была не согласна, но покажу их в конце поста. Today - bags, they were excellent. I didn't particularly agree with the choice of winners, may be I son't understand the criteria, but I will show them in the end of the post. Итак, победители. Первое место: Yasuko Takemura. The winners. First Prize: Yasuko Takemura. Второе место: Masahiko Demoto. Second Prize: Masahiko Demoto. Третье место: Yoshie Kuratomi. Third Prize: Yoshie Kuratomi. Все на сегодня, ждем продолжения :-) Хорошего вам дня! This is it for today. until next time! Have a nice day!
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If you are looking for the Blogger Girl’s Block of the Month Block 3 post, please go here…otherwise…hello again! Happy March 1st, and welcome to the “Free Choice” Schnibbles quilt parade! This month we have a variety of Schnibbles patterns made with beautiful fabrics. We’ll start off with this gorgeous quilt by Andrea. And next […]
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I always gravitate towards the scrappy quilts even my hooking tends to be with a wide assortment of wools this quilt even I could whip up on the machine I see this with lots of green/olive in place of the blue but keep the red! I like seeing the close up shots fun to check out the fabrics perfection all photos from Pinterest it's going to be sunny and warm here today! Dad's room gets the morning sun his bed is the one next to the window so he gets all the heat and loves it as for me... I can nap when he does if only I could bring in a cat to visit him
i figured that since i was so late in sending my block, i should make another one to send as a peace offering. :) i had the small houses on the brain, and i am so glad to finally have it complete! hope you like it sarah!
Even though the sun has come out I still found time to make another five Spelling Bee Blocks. Lori Holt's Spelling Bee Book The House block is a really easy block – great for new house builders. Spelling Bee House Block The Jar block I would class as intermediate for two reasons. One the heart is small and you need to match up the jar top with the lid – can be a little tricky. But the main reason is that the photo of the block in the book does not match the directions. You need to follow the cutting measurements given and the directions – not the photo. I didn't patch the heart for the Spelling Bee Jar Block - it's simpler this way! Next was the Sailboat block which I have named HMS Miss Bee. It reminds me very much of a sailboat block I created last year for my Block-a-Day - I named that one HMS Patchsmith (of course!). Spelling Bee Sailboat Block And then I decided to make my ‘letter’ blocks – a capital ‘P’ ..... A gingham heart for The Patchsmith And a lowercase ‘s’ ..... And a gingham daisy to follow! Needless to say I added a little Patchsmithian touch of gingham– just to make the quilt uniquely mine. I still have three more blocks to make but they are going to have to wait for another day. But pop back in the week when I will be sharing some Bee Happy blocks and tips .....
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