Category Archives: Paper Pieced Blocks

Sew Sweet!

Some super sweet customers have been sharing photos of adorable projects they have created using my paper piece patterns. I LOVE to see their fun creations.

Bella is a first time paper piecer. She entered her CORGI quilt in her 4H competition and won first place. I love how she repeated the dog blocks in an Andy Warhol Pop Art inspired composition.

Sharon created this awesome neutral colored Dog and Cat quilt. She has incorporated blocks not only from me, but from lots of designers. This makes the quilt very interesting, since it’s not just one designer’s view point.

This is cuteness overload…Lori has made this adorable dog pillow for her sweet dog, Bear.

I am in love with Jennifer’s festive red, white, and blue Chihuahua!

Here’s a photo of Bella, cutest little Labradoodle ever. This is my girl friend’s pet, and she wants a memory pillow of lovely Bella. Sweet Bella is slowly loosing her eyesight.

LABRADOODLE BELLA is my newest dog pattern. Here’s the pillow that I made, too!

And here’s another new dog block to add to my collection of over 65 different dog breeds, the AFGHAN HOUND.

Coming soon is the WINTER BLUES BLOG HOP, a collection of bloggers and artists sharing projects done with the color blue. Can’t wait!

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Sew Can Do
Quilt Fabrication
Home Sewn By Us
My Quilt Infatuation

Cute Penguins…and a FREE PATTERN!

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It’s that time of year…put away the Christmas decorations and let’s decorate using items that will be cute until Easter. Penguins work for me!

These super sweet penguins wearing a cute collection of different hats make a fun wall hanging or table topper. The penguins are paper pieced, and the flowers are appliqued.

I call these “Belly Button Penguins”. I made mine into potholders, but they would make great mug rugs too!

Have fun paper piecing this super easy Penguin Pillow.

Here is a FREE PENGUIN PATTERN just for you! Just click HERE for the free downloadable pattern to paper piece the Hearty Penguin block below.

This is also a cute block for Valentine’s projects.

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A NEW LITTLE RED TRUCK AND A CUTE GNOME!

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Hiking just 2 weeks ago on Arthur’s Rock near Fort Collins, CO. Beautiful! Now it’s back to work designing more holiday patterns.

Hot off of my design table is the RED TRUCK WITH PRESENTS. This adorable little red truck pairs nicely with my LITTLE RED TRUCK block from last Christmas.

I love them together as potholders or pillows.

My friend Shelley used photos of her grand kids in the windows. Super cute!

My Gnome obsession is over the top. Here’s a GNOME WITH MUSHROOMS block pattern that makes an adorable pillow.

I’m loving designing for the holidays, and will be sharing lots more soon…

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Virtual Cookie Exchange Blog Hop with Marney

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I am so excited to be part of the 2019 Virtual Cookie Exchange and Blog Hop hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt. I hope you will visit the other bloggers and enjoy their many yummy cookie recipes.

I am a paper piece pattern designer from Wisconsin, and I LOVE to create holiday patterns. Last Christmas I designed this HOLIDAY BUDDIES table topper .

I love the Caroler, and thought he needed a caroling partner.

This is my CAROLING DOGGIE.

These CAROLING BUDDIES would make an adorable set of holiday potholders.

Let’s make some cute as can be Christmas cut out cookies to match my new potholders. My cookie recipe collection has been growing over the years. Some of my favorite Christmas cookie recipes were shared by friends and co-workers. The recipe I am sharing with you is for Christmas cut-out cookies and was shared by my secretary at school, Marge. I have always loved these cut outs, and they work especially well for thicker cut outs, which are my favorites! You can click on the title of the cookie to get a downloadable PDF version for your recipe files.

Marge’s Sugar Cookies

1 1/2 cups sifted confectioners sugar
1 cup butter (2 sticks)
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond flavoring
2 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar

Mix sugar and butter. Add egg and flavorings, mix thoroughly. Stir dry ingredients together and blend in. Refrigerate 2 hours (I cheat here).

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Divide dough into “manageable” amount to roll on lightly floured surface.

Cut with cookie cutters. Place on lightly greased cookie sheets.

Bake7-8 minutes.

Cool and frost with your favorite frosting. I am going to cheat and buy some canned vanilla frosting.

All paper pieced patterns are available on my Made By Marney ETSY SHOP. CYBER WEEK SALE: Most patterns are 20% off until December 3.

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If you haven’t see the previous day’s blogger’s here is the full schedule. It’s not too late to collect all the yummy recipes.

December 2^nd

Creatin’ in the Sticks

December 3^rd

Barb – Hosted by Just Let Me Quilt

Hill Valley Quilter

Little Penguin Quilts

Everyone Deserves a Quilt

December 4^th

Homespun Hannah’s Blog

Beaquilter

Cynthia’s Creating Ark

Life in the Scrapatch

DesertSky Quilting

Sunlight in Winter Quilts

December 5^th

Quilt Doodle Designs

Ridge Top Quilt

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting
Websterquilt

Bumbleberry Stitches

Kathy’s Kwilts and More

December 6^th

I want to thank Carol for hosting this fun hop and letting me be a part of it.

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Turkey Day is Just Around the Corner…

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My friend Marilyn has created the cutest tote and table runner using my TURKEY block. Thanks so much for sharing!

I call these 3 Christmas designs my “Ho Ho Ho Collection”.

I haven’t had time to put these 3 blocks into a table topper or quilt, but I would love some ideas!

The week after Thanksgiving starts the 2019 Virtual Cookie Exchange and Blog Hop . Don’t miss it! Collect lots of yummy cookie recipes AND see so many clever Christmas decorating ideas.

Can’t wait…I will be posting on Wednesday, December 4.

December 2^nd

Creatin’ in the Sticks

December 3^rd

Barb – Hosted by Just Let Me Quilt

Hill Valley Quilter

Little Penguin Quilts

Everyone Deserves a Quilt

December 4^th

Homespun Hannah’s Blog

Beaquilter

Cynthia’s Creating Ark

Life in the Scrapatch

DesertSky Quilting

Sunlight in Winter Quilts

December 5^th

Quilt Doodle Designs

Ridge Top Quilt

Pumpkin Patch Patterns & Quilting
Websterquilt

Bumbleberry Stitches

Kathy’s Kwilts and More

December 6^th

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More Cute Critters

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I’ve had some requests for more paper pieced woodland animals and you know how much I love designing animals!

I love this goofy weasel. He would work great with my other CUTE CRITTERS.

Here is a BADGER that I designed for my friend Wendy.

And this BADGER FACE has more detail and could be used by my fellow Wisconsin Bucky Badger fans.

I used this BADGER FACE for a TOTE BAG. The pattern to sew this tote can be found in my CUTE AND CLEVER TOTES book.

Thanks to my fun customers who always motivate me to keep creating!

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HAY GIRL

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I am so excited to show you my sweet horse quilt. HAY GIRL was designed with the horse lover in mind.

These 11 ponies are adorbs! I’m trying to choose my faves, but I keep changing my mind.

These are my top 3 picks…how about you? I’m not sure what was more fun…designing these beauties or naming them! My friends helped with the names…

My daughter, Jesi, was an avid horse rider in her youth. I’m sure she will love this lap quilt for her couch.

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The Cat’s Meow

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We had an early season snowfall in Wisconsin…check this out.

Today! Is this what they mean by “snow on the pumpkin”?

This is my newest Halloween quilt design, THE CAT’S MEOW. My very creative customer Mary created this sweet wall hanging, using this pattern.

Every time Mary makes a quilt, she makes an extra block to add to a sampler quilt. She is saving this bat block to include in her future quilt. What a great idea!

I love all of these adorable black kitties. This one might be my fave…how about you?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Quilt Fabrication

BOO Collection for Halloween

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My BOO COLLECTION pattern includes 6 Halloween blocks.

This pattern includes the directions for 6 Halloween blocks, the table runner pattern, and the potholder pattern.

These blocks also make very cute pillows.

Here is a wall hanging put together by Bernadette, using some of my other Halloween blocks.

The super cute Frankenstein and Dracula blocks can be downloaded HERE

FREE Dracula and Frankenstein Paper Pieced Block Patterns

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Dog Quilt Blocks

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Three new doggie quilt blocks designed by customer request.

Lisa sent this photo of Atilla Bear the Chow Chow, hoping for a paper pieced pattern.

This is the finished CHOW CHOW PAPER PIECED PATTERN. I was a bit timid when approaching this design, as Chow Chows have lots of fur, and it is always a challenge to represent fur in paper piecing, but still maintaining a fairly simple pattern.