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PIECING PALOOZA

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August 23rd, 2022

1 pm-5 pm

Recording available afterward

C&T Publishing’s Piecing Palooza is pure summertime fun. A four-hour event with over a dozen live sessions, a panel discussion, and a keynote speaker to help you become an expert piecer!

We gathered quilt piecing experts to share all their pro tips, tricks, and techniques with you. Alex Anderson, co-host of The Quilt Show, kicks off the fun as the opening keynote. A beloved figure in the quilting community, Alex sets the tone for the event by sharing her love of patchwork.

Next, get inspired with 12 30-minute workshops! You’ll get a bespoke experience by joining breakout rooms of your choice that focus on specific piecing subjects, from working with fabric scraps to hand piecing to sewing accurate Flying Geese every time — and so much more!

Sessions include:

Color Schemes for Scrap Quilting (Judy Gauthier)
Find your Zen with Hand-piecing (Becky Goldsmith)
Beyond Basic Dresdens: Piecing within the Wedge (Candyce Grisham)
Foundation Paper Piecing 101 (Mary Hertel)
Playful Piecing with Panels (Cyndi McChesney)
Rapid Piecing with Precision (Lee Chappell Monroe)
No Fuss Flying Geese Blocks (Patty Murphy)
Making Piece With your Sewing Machine (Bernie Tobisch)
Pinless Piecing & Press as You Go (Shelley Scott-Tobisch)
Mastering Color Palettes with Gray-Tone Block Tools (Amy Barrett-Daffin)
Building Your Skills with C&T’s Block Tools (Gailen Runge)

Whether you love paper piecing, hand piecing, or want to be a better precision piecer, every quilter can gain valuable skills to level up their craft.

Worried you’ll miss out on a session? No worries! If you are unable to attend live, all sessions will be recorded for viewing at your leisure.

I will be teaching FOUNDATION PAPER PIECING 101 in my 30 minute session. You will learn all the steps to paper piece this adorable polar bear, and receive the pattern for the Polar Bear block and the directions for the mug rug.

What to expect at Piecing Palooza:

Choose your own learning adventure! Each session breaks into smaller groups for live interaction with your instructors.
Whether you love paper piecing, hand piecing, or want to be a better precision piecer, every quilter can gain valuable skills to level up their craft.
Win big with live prize giveaways throughout the event
All guests receive a virtual swag bag with goodies from the instructors
This is not a webinar. See fellow quilters and ask questions with a mic (or chat)!
Includes access to recordings of all the instructions afterward

PRESS HERE TO JOIN THIS FABULOUS EVENT!

Use my code to get $20 off: marypp22

Wouldn’t this stinkin’ cute Polar Bear make an adorable holiday gift?

Bride and Groom Patterns

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Here’s my new go to gift for bridal showers and weddings…

The BRIDE AND GROOM POTHOLDERS are hot off my press and available to create all kinds of lovely gifts for newlyweds.

THE BRIDE paper pieced block has 3 tiny buttons that resemble flowers. I found them at Hobby Lobby. You could also use tiny silk flowers, or even embroider some tiny flowers with embroidery floss.

THE GROOM block has lots of small pieces, and is not recommended for a beginner paper piecer, but a really fun challenge for an intermediate.

I would love to see what you can make using these blocks…pillows? towels? Show me your projects please!

What new paper pieced block patterns are you looking for? I get my best ideas from my customers!

Beach Bum Gnomes

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Just in time for a summer project, here is my BEACH BUM GNOME QUILT.

This adorable lap quilt was designed while I was vacationing in Hilton Head. I found the fabric in a super cute fabric store on the island.

I had a blast shopping for fabric that would work for the cute little “Hawaiian” shirts.

This Gnome has a unicorn floatie and sunglasses! He is ready for the beach.

This Gnome in his sailboat is definitely going on a pillow for my boyfriend, who adores sailing!

Playing in the sand…too cute!

When I discovered the fabric for this little shirt, with the tiny pink flamingos and palm trees, I went nuts! Do all of you enjoy discovering those special fabrics as much as I do?

Check out this BEACH BUM GNOME QUILT pattern and my many, many more patterns HERE.

Sew Cute Baby Animals Book

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Is there a special child in your life? Mine too! Actually, quite a few of them, and I love to sew cute gifts for all of them! That’s why I created my newest book, SEW CUTE BABY ANIMALS.

With 17 adorable mix and match baby animal images and 6 fun projects, this book will provide you lots of reasons to be creative.

Patterns for baby quilts, a diaper tote, catch-all container, bib, and burp cloth are all included.

Here are just a few of the cutest baby animals ever…all paper pieced, but using NO buttons for the eyes. Everything is fabric, so no chokeables for baby.

You will find farm animals and pets…

Jungle animals…

And more…

I hope you LOVE this book as much as I do!

Don’t forget that these 17 blocks will fit into the patterns from my other books, as well. SEW CUTE BABY ANIMALS book can be found in my ETSY SHOP today!

PRE-CUT FRIENDLY PATTERN BUNDLE, March 2-5

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Announcing the Pre-Cut Pattern Bundle!

Ten fabulous patterns, all using pre-cuts from 10 great designers! Have fun putting together these patterns with the ease of pre-cuts. All 10 patterns for only $19!

This bundle features 10 incredibly talented quilt designers.

No more guessing if what you have on hand is going to work. Every pattern is pre-cut friendly.

Whether that is a charm pack, a layer cake, a jelly roll or even fat quarter packs.

The Pre-cut Pattern Bundle is only available for a few days, so you’ll want to grab your copy today. Like right now. PRESS HERE TO ORDER.

This is my pattern, CAMPIN’ GNOMES.

In my pattern you will get all 5 of these stinkin’ cute camping gnomes, plus directions to assemble the quilt using a charm pack for the outer border.

The bundle is only available for a few days… and I’ll be sharing who’s included, the patterns you’ll get, ect so watch your inbox.

Until then, GET THE PRE-CUT PATTERN BUNDLE HERE.

PRE-CUT FRIENDLY PATTERN BUNDLE

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This amazing bundle of patterns is available to you for just a few days. You will receive all 10 pattern downloads for just $19. This is an wonderful offer, since just my pattern alone normally sells for $10.

This bundle will only be available at this price from March 2-5. I will send out some email reminders to you as it gets closer.

Here’s my pre-cut pattern, CAMPIN’ GNOMES…

My pattern includes 5 paper pieced Gnomes, and the directions to assemble this quilt using a charm pack as the outside border. So easy! This pattern, as well as 9 more will be available for purchase as one bundle for only $19. More to come soon on the other designers and patterns….

FIREFIGHTER BLOCKS AND MORE…

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At the request of one of my customers, I have designed some firefighter blocks.

This FIRE TRUCK BLOCK could have a little face fussy cut into the window. Wouldn’t that be cute?

The FIRE HYDRANT BLOCK was so much fun to design!

The FIREFIGHTER HELMET BLOCK can be personalized with any number, since I include applique numbers in the pattern.

Use all 3 blocks into a wall hanging for your firemen lover.

Here are 2 new sport gnomes…

I was lucky to find this amazing “soccer ball” fabric at Hobby Lobby…

This fabric can be fussy cut to fit perfectly in my block for the Gnome’s soccer ball. Find it HERE. If you can’t find this, try a white fabric with large black dots.

This GOLFING GNOME is super cute, and would make an awesome image to add to a golfing towel! Substitute this gnome block for the GOLFING BLOCK in my GOLF TOTE PATTERN.

Both the GOLF TOWEL and the GOLF TOTE are in this pattern. I love my tote! It has a zipper opening along the top, and a large eyelet opening to hook onto my golf bag.

I was vending last weekend at West Bend Wisconsin…thought you might enjoy to see some photos of my booth!

Happy February!

Newest Gnomes

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Here are some new Gnomes that I designed for customers. You might like them too!

SKIING GNOME is gosh darn cute as he tumbles down the ski slope! I am putting him on a pillow!

PIRATE GNOME and PIRATE SHIP can be used together as a pair of pillows, etc. or separately. They sure would look great in a kid’s room!

I love “My Hero”, DOCTOR GNOME! With the stethoscope ready to use…this cute Doctor is ready to be heroic.

NURSE GNOME is ready with the hypodermic! These two timely gnomes make a cute couple.

Use a metallic fabric for the wings on GNOME ANGEL to give a truly heavenly look! I always attach fusible T-shirt interfacing to the back of any metallic fabrics when I am paper piecing. It makes them much easier to handle.

Yes, I have been busy! Next time, I’ll share some new sports Gnomes AND info about my new book!

Scrap Busting Blog Hop

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Welcome to our Scrap Busting Blog Hop, where we embrace every scrap in our sewing rooms. We are proving that there is no unusable scrap! I find that especially true in paper piecing, where I use my scraps every day. It is important to have a wide variety of colors to choose from when paper piecing, so as to find just that right print and color when piecing together an image.

Thanks to Melissa for hosting this blog hop and giving the designers a chance to share something new.

Since Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, I have created a new HEARTY GNOME block. It is cute as can be, and is free to anyone who subscribes to my blog.

This block is great for intermediate paper piecers, but could be tackled by a confident beginner, too. This sweet gnome looks great in all kinds of projects. I added him to a 12″ pillow.

I have more Valentine Gnome patterns that would pair nicely with the HEARTY GNOME.

GNOME WITH HEART would make a great companion pillow, or make a pair of potholders, or even a small table runner. This paper pieced block pattern is available on Etsy.

GNOME LOVE is not only lovely for your Valentine, but would also make a great gift for a wedding or anniversary. Notice how the space between their hats forms a heart? This pattern is also available on Etsy.

If you are new to paper piecing, visit the Video/Tutorial Page on this blog for step by step directions to paper piece using my patterns.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please visit the SCRAP BUSTING BLOG HOP every Monday in January and February to see new Scrap Busting posts.

You can also visit these SCRAP BUSTING BLOG participants:

Quilting Room With Mel

Katie Mae Quilts

Some Holiday Projects

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I am always asking my customers to send photos of the things they create using my patterns. Today I am sharing some of my favorite photos.

This adorable wall hanging was sewn by Carol Cheesman using LUMBERJACK GNOME, SANTA GNOME, and GNOME WITH GIFTS.

Elise Brasseale made these cute little mug rugs using the elf from SEW YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, and GNOME WITH LANTERN.

Crafty Judy Miniclier created this adorable GNOME QUILT, using assorted GNOMES FROM MY SHOP. Beautiful!

These Christmas blocks were shared by Joyce Albers. She is creating a holiday quilt. She used HO HO HO SANTA, CARDINAL, ICE SKATE, and EASY ICE SKATE.