Category Archives: Paper Piecing

My Happy Place Row Along and FREE STUFF

Thanks so much for stopping to visit. This is my post for our 2018 Row Along, organized by the fabulous Marian Pena from Seams To Be Sew. We have 54 different quilt bloggers/designers participating this year! And…lots of great FREE STUFF! I am offering a free paper piecing pattern. You will find the incidentals towards the end of this post.

Our theme this year is MY HAPPY PLACE. Here’s my free row…My Sewing Room MERGED-My-Sewing-Room-BEST.pdf (1477 downloads ) . This paper pieced row consists of 4 blocks, each 7 1/2″x 7 1/2″. This makes the entire row measure 7 1/2″ high x 30″ long (finished).

Since there’s no place I would rather be than in my sewing room, I am going to make this row into a wall hanging to place above my sewing machine. If you are new to paper piecing, I suggest you watch one of my paper piecing tutorials.

I have added a 1 1/2″x 30 1/2″ strip of BLACK fabric to the top and bottom of my row. Then added a 4″x 30 1/2″ strip at the top and a 10″x 30 1/2″ along the bottom. These pieces can be adjusted to make your wall hanging any height you want. I have steam pressed a piece of fusible fleece to the back of the entire unit. Then I added a backing piece and quilted the entire unit.

Next I created a row of 5 pockets by sewing 5 squares 6 1/2″x 6 1/2″ together. This unit was also quilted and basted to the bottom of my wall hanging. I sewed between each pocket in the seam “ditch” to separate the pockets.

Then I added black binding…I love it! I added tabs along the top to hang from my existing wooden quilt hanger, but a hanging pocket would also work.

 

 

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Are you new to paper piecing? I have 2 paper piecing books with great step by step directions, Cute and Clever Totes and Sew Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. Both books are great for beginners, but also have lots of fun paper pieced patterns for intermediate quilters.

I am so EXCITED to explain this Give-Away because it is from the same company that publishes my books, C&T Publishing. They are giving away a $100 Gift Certificate! That means you can choose from SO MANY great C&T books and sewing tools. I can’t say enough about this wonderful company. They allow me and so many other clever designers a chance to create books and products to share with you! This is an awesome prize for 1 lucky person who …

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Since it is so close to Halloween, I am GIVING-AWAY this pattern, BOO COLLECTION. This collection of 6 Halloween paper pieced block patterns is so clever! Included with the blocks are patterns for a table runner and potholders. These 8″x 8″ blocks can be used in so many fun ways. Be creative and construct an entire Halloween quilt! Table runner measures 17″ wide x 33″ long. Potholders measure 8″x 8″. This is an original Made By Marney pattern.

Here are some super sweet treat sacks made by a friend using some of the blocks from my BOO Collection. Click on this Rafflecopter link to sign up for the

FREE BOO COLLECTION PATTERN.

I would love for you to please SUBSCRIBE to my website, but it’s not a requirement…just enjoy!

Please visit the other bloggers participating today…

Tuesday September 18, 2018

Just Let Me Quilt | Elizabeth Coughlin Designs | Quilt Fabrication
Renee’s Quilting Addiction | Made By Marney

Rules and Guidelines For Giveaways
Please take the time to read it.

Giveaways offered by sponsors are assigned to the various bloggers for their featured day.

There are no prior announcements on who is doing which sponsor except to the sponsor themselves.

You’ll have to visit the blog or the featured blog to enter the giveaways.

Not all giveaways can be entered at Seams To Be Sew.

I will start announcing winners on September 11, 2018, and finish announcing winners on October 10, 2018.

In most cases, the blog where you won at also will announce their
winners.

You must give a valid email address when you enter the giveaways, any email returned to me, loses the ability to win automatically.

With the exception of Show and Tell Day, all giveaways run for approximately one week.

You are given 3 days to answer the email, if you do not answer within 3 days a new winner will be drawn. Check those spam/junk mail folders, you may miss that winning email if you don’t do so because there are no exceptions to this rule.

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This giveaway is void where prohibited by law.

Participating bloggers may enter any of the giveaways.

The word giveaways in the rules and guidelines are also known as sweepstakes.

Most of the giveaways are international shipping this year
in some cases, you will be asked to pay for shipping your giveaways.

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Please note, every effort is made to protect the prizes. They go into a plastic bin when I receive them, and it is covered by an air tight cover. I have a dog in my home and I have a smoker in my home, so I do everything possible to protect the prizes.

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Whether or not you read the above, the rules for giveaways are in place to protect everyone. I do not want to hear you didn’t read them, they will be posted on my blog daily during each featured day. There is no excuse for not reading them.

Linking this week with:

Clever Chameleon

Stitch All The Things

Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

Cooking Up Quilts

Ems Scrap Bag

Quilt Fabrication

Silly Mama Quilts

Sew Fresh Quilts

My Quilt Infatuation

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

 

Jack O Lantern Table Topper-Paper Piecing

Here’s a new paper piecing pattern hot off my sewing machine and just in time for your Autumn tablescape.

To construct this table topper, you could use any 4 blocks that measure 8″x 8″ unfinished. The Jack O Lantern Table Topper pattern has 2 pumpkin blocks that repeat.

One pumpkin has a toothy grin…

And the other is toothless…

Or, be creative and substitute some of my other Halloween blocks for some of the Jack O Lanterns. Wouldn’t it be cute to have a table topper with all black cats?

 

Kit Cat block.

Fraidy Cat block.

Scaredy Cat block.

And my fave…Skat Cat block.   These 4 cats would look adorable together!

One thing I love about this octagonally shaped mat, it looks cute from every direction. Whatever you create with my patterns, I would love to see. Email me a photo and I might share it in my next post. My email:  maryannhertel@gmail.com

Linking this week with:

Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

Em’s Scrap Bag

Stitch All The Things

Love, Laugh, Quilt

Silly Mama Quilts

Midweek Makers

My Quilt Infatuation

Silly Mama Quilts

Nina Marie Sayre

Busy Hands Quilts

Confessions Of A Fabric Addict

Tish’s Adventures in Wonderland

Super Scrappy

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FREE Halloween Paper Piecing Fun

Halloween is just around the corner. If you want to get a jump on some cute seasonal projects, you might enjoy these ideas.

WITCHY PILLOW consists of an 8″x 8″ paper pieced block made into a 17″x 17″ pillow.

If you happen to live in the Utah area, my friend Eva is offering a PAPER PIECING PILLOW CLASS using this pattern. She used the new Halloween fabric line from Studio Fabric, “Me and My Ghoul Friends”.   Isn’t it adorable?

Sign up online: http://www.nuttallbernina.com/module/class.htm?classId=266477
Or call Nuttall’s in Riverton at 801-446-7958.

You will be making this fun paper pieced project! Choose your own fabrics or purchase a kit that will include the fabrics you see in the photo.

Two available sessions:
Thursdays September 20th and 27th. 10am – 1pm
Fridays September 14 and 21st. 6-9pm

Day 1: Paper pieced block.
Day 2: Zipper and pillow assembly.

Here are a few other paper pieced blocks that would be cute in this pillow….and they are FREE!

The GHOSTY BLOCK is FREE. Download is available GHOSTY-BLOCK-.pdf (1101 downloads ) .

The GHOULY BLOCK is also FREE. Download GHOULY-BLOCK.pdf (808 downloads ) .

They also make super cute potholders.

So, I hope this motivates you to get started on some sweet Halloween projects! Please remember that when you print a PDF pattern, always select  Custom Scale: 100% on your home printer.

You can find more of my Halloween paper piece patterns on Craftsy and Etsy.

Linking this week with:

Busy Hands Quilts

So Scrappy

Kathy’s Quilts

Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

Love, Laugh, Quilt

Cooking Up Quilts

Free Motion By The River

Stitch All The Things

Clever Chameleon

Silly Mama Quilts

Sew Fresh Quilts

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Woodland Animals

Often, my customers like to substitute different animal blocks in my patterns to get a more unique quilt. Here are 2 new paper pieced blocks that would work well in my Forest Friends quilt pattern.

This friendly Brown Bear is an 8″x 8″ unfinished block. Most of my paper pieced blocks are this size and can be mixed and matched into any of my patterns.

This Fawn would make a cute addition as well. I designed the fawn after finding a newborn fawn curled under a tree in my yard at the cabin. It was resting there for the day, and was later reunited with it’s mother.

So adorable! It laid in this position all day, never moving. Mother deer came in the night to gather her offspring and move on.

It’s always fun to be creative and make your own composition using the animals of your choice. Are there any other woodland animals that you would like to see in this quilt?

Linking this week with:

Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

Free Motion By The River

Clever Chameleon Quilting

Love Laugh Quilt

Stitch All The Things

Quilt Fabrication