Catching up Saturday

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Hello Friends, I hope you have had a good week, and a good year actually, and with lots of quilting squeezed in.

My year has been extremely busy so far, and I have been working on various things that I hope to share with you soon!

First of all, I thought you might like to see a recent cross stitch finish! I started this in 2021 and am so glad it is now complete! I had stitched this piece with colors from my Indigo thread collection.

The thread collection is 50% off at the moment. You may purchase the collection here.

I am seeing more and more quilters dabble in cross stitch lately! If you are considering stitching, check out the offerings at Fat Quarter Shop HERE.

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I feel like spring just zipped by this year, and we have already had our bout of over 85F! That means it’s time for red/white/blue projects! I am happy to share my Flag Day quilt!

Click here for pattern.

Click here for Old Glory fabrics.

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Have you seen this absolutely gorgeous quilt kit using my pattern Maisons de Patchwork? If you start now, you will be able to have an autumn quilt to usher in the cooler weather later this year! I love the fabrics – they certainly give off Liberty vibes!

Click here to purchase the kit. Kit includes pattern.

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This next week… I will be working on finalizing a few of my commercial patterns, and there is more sewing planned! And my daughter will finish her school year soon, and that’s when my summer busy-ness begins!

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a great weekend!

#ChristmasAllYearRoundQAL Check-in #2

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Hello my friends! I hope you have had a good week. It’s Month #2 for our Christmas All Year Round Quilt Along using the different blocks in my Christmas book! 

A few housekeeping details:

#1. Click HERE if you missed the post with all the pertinent details!

#2. Click HERE if you haven’t downloaded the check-in/assignment schedule for the 15th of each month between Feb through Oct, as well as the fabric requirements!

#3. Click HERE if you haven’t purchased my Christmas book for the construction instructions for the blocks!

#4. Share your blocks on social media and use hashtag #ChristmasAllYearRoundQAL.

#5. Be sure to watch Pat Sloan on YouTube! She is sewing along!

PATTERN UPDATE ALERT — note the mislabeling error in the block diagram for Y.

You may also click HERE for the errata page.

Here are my blocks so far!

And here is the quilt the book that features the J and Y blocks.

Thanks so much for sewing along with me! See you on April 15th for our Month 3 blocks. Have a great weekend!

January 2024 recap

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Hello Friends, I hope you all have been well. How is it that we are on the last day of January? I hope you have had a good start to your year! January has been a busy month for me, and it has gone by so fast! A quick recap on my January in case you missed any of the news I shared during the month of January.

#1. Today is the last day to purchase Stars & Snowflakes pattern PDF from my Etsy store at 40%. Use code Jan24 during checkout. Discount will expire at 11:59pm EST tonight.

#2. January was retreat tag-alongs on Ivory Spring, highlighting the fun and practical notions to bring with you to your next retreat. Click HERE if you had missed my blog post.

#3. I wrapped up American Pie QAL, as well as announcing the tentative list of QALs for 2024!

Click HERE to if you missed the QALs I will be doing this year!

#4. I have 2 projects featured in the new Annie’s Scrap Happy Book! Blue Ridge has been very well received by my quilting friends on Instagram. This quilt is meant to be made with those 1 1/2″ small pieces you just hate to commit to the trash bin.

Click HERE to purchase the book.

#5. I have turned in quite a few quilts just in January for upcoming editorial features. This one has generated quite a bit interest. I will share details when I am allowed to do so!

And on that note, I thank you for visiting today. I hope you enjoy the rest of your January, and stayed tuned for more news in February — starting tomorrow! Take care, my friends.

DETAILS – CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR ROUND QAL

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My friends, Christmas will be officially over this Saturday after Twelfth Night! It’s time to work on keeping Christmas all year round in our quilt (ahem, heart!). I had designed the following quilt for a quilt along using the blocks featured in my Christmas book! 

ABOUT

  1. Throw Size Quilt (63 1/2″ x 63 1/2″)
  2. Low stress QAL – if you had sewn along with me, you know my QALs are relatively low demand and low stress
  3. Again, all the blocks are blocks used in the quilts in my Christmas book. We are just using some of the blocks to make ANOTHER quilt.

WHY

  1. You might see a quilt in the book that you like, but aren’t quite ready to take the plunge to make the entire quilt. This QAL will give you a chance to sample the different blocks. You can even treat this QAL as if you are making test blocks for all the different quilts.
  2. Some have told me they shy away from small pieces. I always tell my quilting friendls small pieces are like big pieces. My tried and true tricks: cut accurately, sew slowly, remake units if necessary, dry iron with no steam. Click HERE if you missed my guest post on Aurifil’s blog, Auribuzz, right before Christmas 2023. This quilt will give you opportunities to gain confidence playing with small pieces.

WHEN

  1. The 15th of every month from Feb-Oct 2024. That way, you will have time to finish it for Christmas 2024

HOW DOES IT WORK

  1. Refer to the monthly assignments, make the blocks and units as referenced in the page number of the book.
  2. I WILL NOT LIST THE FABRIC PIECES TO CUT. YOU WILL NEED TO FIGURE OUT THE PIECES TO CUT based on the blocks we are making for a month since the information is already in the book. That will give you an experience on how to adapt a pattern for your own liking if you have never done that before. Based on the cutting and construction information, you will make the blocks.
  3. You would have to get my book for the block patterns. You may purchase the book HERE.
  4. On the 15th of each month, I will share pertinent details (if applicable) on my blog and show you pictures of the blocks I make for that month.
  5. For the 15th of October, I will share with you the additional background pieces we will cut for the assembly in order to make all the blocks fit together!

WITH THAT, I SHALL SEE YOU ON FEB 15 TO START MAKING OUR CHRISTMAS ALL YEAR ROUND QUILT!

Announcing 2024 QALs

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Wendy Sheppard related offerings on Annie’s: https://shrsl.com/3xtvh

Emerson Creek Pottery: https://emersoncreekpottery.com/?ref=Wendy

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Hello my friends! Happy New Year to you all. If you haven’t seen it on Instagram, I posted that I had 39 editorial features by my calculations in addition to the different quilt along quilts I completed for 2023. Thank you so much for sharing my 2023 quilting journey with me. I hope you will ride along with me for 2024!

And talking about journeying, I am excited to share with you my QALs that I have scheduled for 2024. I am pretty sure I will add more as we go along, but for now…

If you haven’t followed and watched Pat daily on YouTube, you simply have to! She is a sweet friend. AND she is hosting a QAL with my OWLS SEE YOU pattern starting Jan 15! 

Click HERE for pattern PDF.

Shown here with Pat’s Drawing Room fabrics. You may purchase the fabrics HERE.

We will be using the blocks featured in my Christmas book.

You may purchase the book HERE.

I will post details on Jan 3.

Click HERE for details. 

Click HERE for pattern PDF.

Click HERE for printed pattern.

Click HERE for kit.

Click HERE for pattern PDF.

Click HERE for printed pattern.

And let me end today’s post by wishing you a very HAPPY & HEALTHY 2024! Hugs to you all!

Merry Christmas 2023

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Hello Friends, I want to pop in to wish you the merriest of Christmases! Every year, I pick a quilt to hang in my parlor for Christmas. This year, my Little Road to Bethlehem quilt (from my Christmas book) make Christmas parlor quilt 2023!

Thank you for sharing my 2023 quilting journey. Your support means the world to me!

Christmas Quilting with Wendy Sheppard – Project #8

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Hello my friends, me again! Happy Tuesday to you all!

Once again, I want to thank ALL of you who have bought my Christmas quilt book. Your support is much, much appreciated. My publisher ran out of books and had to reprint several times. There should be sufficient stock now for all the local quilt stores that wish to stock the book.

Fun fact about the book projects – EACH quilt is named after a Christmas carol. Some might be familiar, and some might not be so familiar to you. I hope that with this book, you not only get to make make fun and cozy Christmas quilts for yourself or loved ones, you might also pick up a new Christmas carol or two to sing for Christmas 2023.

In case you missed the previously shared quilt projects in my Christmas book, here they are! Just click on the quilt names.

#1: Heaven and Nature Sing

#2: O Christmas Tree

#3. Meowily on High

#4. Little Road to Bethlehem

#5. Give Us Figgy Pudding

#6. Once in Royal David’s City

#7. While Shepherds Watched

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TODAY I am sharing with you the second last quilt in the book that I have named Deck the Halls! Here are a few interesting fun facts for you to impress your family and friends about this Carol:

Deck the Halls” is a traditional Christmas carol. The melody is Welsh, dating back to the sixteenth century, and belongs to a winter (New Year’s Eve) carol, “Nos Galan“, while the English lyrics, written by the Scottish musician Thomas Oliphant, date to 1862 (Wikipedia). One thing we know is that the Welsh culture is very much a singing culture. And digging deeper, Thomas Oliphant was an impressive guy!

Finished size: 69 1/2″ x 69 1/2″

#1. This quilt is constructed with a mixed of traditional and foundation piecing. The foundation piecing portion is actually straightforward. So, if you have been curious about and wanting to try out foundation / paper piecing, this would be a great project for you.

#2. I made fabric placement for this quilt quite straightforward. ONLY the trees use different prints. The rest is just the same red fabric repeated over and over.

#3. I used BLIZZARD fabrics for this quilt. It is a more muted take on the classic red/green Christmas colors. If you recalled, I am using the same fabrics to make my Kringle Clippers quilt. Click HERE if you have missed my post on that.

It looks like there are no yardages left at Fat Quarter Shop. Check with your local quilt shops. That said, stocking up on the charm packs might come in handy for you for your future projects.

I used the red/green present on white print for backing.

I have posted more pictures on Instagram. Check them out there.

Thanks so much for spending a few minutes visiting with me today. I hope you have a lovely rest of your day!

#ChestnutGroveQAL check-in #8 – FINAL MONTH!

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Hello my friends! TODAY IS THE DAY! It’s our 8th and LAST check-in for Chestnut Grove Quilt Along. We are FINISHED!!! Thank you so much for sewing along with me.

Pattern is released in 4 installments: Quilters World Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter 2023 issues.

Spring issue has the instructions for Blocks 1 and 2 – click HERE to purchase issue if you are not a subscriber.

Summer issue has the instructions for Blocks 3 and 4 – click HERE to purchase issue if you aren’t a subscriber.

Autumn issue has the instructions for Blocks 5 and 6 – click HERE to purchase issue if you aren’t a subscriber.

Winter issue has the instructions for Blocks 7 and 8 – click HERE to purchase issue if aren’t a subscriber.

My original quilt uses Moda’s Nutmeg fabrics. The magazine spread has a fabric chart that tells you exactly what fabrics are used in the original quilt. Click HERE for Nutmeg fabric information.

The background fabric is a Marionberry Pie Grunge from Moda. Click HERE to purchase the background fabric.

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For check-in #8, we are making 10 blocks of the small tulip block. You will notice that the small tulip blocks are sized down from the ones we made for last month.

Here are my quilt along blocks using:

#1. Moda’s Rendezvous fabrics. I have an entire FQ bundle. So I will be using as many fabrics as I can from the bundle for a scrappy look.

Click HERE for Rendezvous fabric information. I love the soft and gentle prints in this collection.

#2. Winter Wonder by Riley Blake Designs. I did add in a few fabrics from their recent Calico fabric line.

Click HERE for Winter Wonder fabric information.

Click HERE for Calico fabric information.

I did see that Fat Quarter Shop is running low on Winter Wonder fabrics, and they don’t have the FQ bundles for sale anymore. 

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And my friends, just like that we are finished with the blocks! I hope you will have fun sewing the blocks together, and finishing the quilt. I will be sewing my quilts leaders/enders style as I work on other projects. I will share pictures once the quilts are quilted and bound.

THANK YOU for sewing along with me and journeying through 2023 with me. Now, just one last bit of tidbit, this quilt is a nod to our first First Lady Martha Washington. Chestnut Grove was the name of her childhood home.

Have a great weekend!

A quick check-in!

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Hello Friends, I hope your week got off to a good start! I thought I would pop in here really quickly to share with you a quilt I shared on Instagram this morning. It has been well received, and I want to share it with those of you who might be on Instagram.

This is my GIFTING THE BEST quilt! It is an easy and quick to make quilt in case you need a gift.

It is featured in Quilter’s World Merry Christmas Quilting Special Interest Publication.

Click HERE to purchase the issue. I have a total of 3 projects featured in it.

Size is 64″ x 70, which would make really cozy sofa quilt!

I used the red and green fabrics in Good News Great Joy collection by Moda Fabrics. If you recalled, I had used the cream and blue fabrics in the same collection to make my While Shepherds Watched quilt. Click HERE if you missed my post. I like that this fabric collection allowed me to achieve two different looks within the same fabric line.

That’s all I have to share! Back to pattern writing I go! Have a great Thanksgiving week!

Christmas Quilting with Wendy Sheppard – Project #7

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Hello my friends, I hope you have had a good week! I can’t believe it’s the weekend before Thanksgiving,. Even though my Christmas shopping is done, I haven’t done one single thing to prepare for Thanksgiving this year. I have been quite busy with work the last few months, and Thanksgiving just crept up on me!

Once again, I want to thank ALL of you who have bought my Christmas quilt book. Your support is much, much appreciated. My publisher ran out of books and had to reprint several times. I think* there is sufficient stock now for all the local quilt stores that wish to stock the book.

Fun fact about the book projects – EACH quilt is named after a Christmas carol. Some might be familiar, and some might not be so familiar to you. I hope that with this book, you not only get to make make fun and cozy Christmas quilts for yourself or loved ones, you might also pick up a new Christmas carol or two to sing for Christmas 2023.

In case you missed the previously shared quilt projects in my Christmas book, here they are! Just click on the quilt names.

#1: Heaven and Nature Sing

#2: O Christmas Tree

#3. Meowily on High

#4. Little Road to Bethlehem

#5. Give Us Figgy Pudding

#6. Once in Royal David’s City

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TODAY, I am back to share about another quilt that is featured in the book. This time, I am sharing a quilt that is closely related to my last name, haha. As soon as I received the green light work on a Christmas book. I knew for sure I had to have a sheep quilt. I have named this one “While Shepherds Watch”. Click HERE to read about this carol. It’s quite amazing the text for this carol was written in the 17th/early 18th century.

Finished size: 56″ x 71″

#1. Construction is pretty straightforward for everything EXCEPT for the tiny pieces for the sheep head unit. Teeny pieces are used so that the proportions for the sheep would come out correctly. Remember my tips for tiny pieces:

CUT & SEW ACCURATELY AND SLOWLY – FINGER PRESS UNTIL THE END IF POSSIBLE – HOT IRON NO STEAM

#2. After you have made the sheep head unit, everything should be a cinch.

#3. I used fabrics from Good News, Great Joy by Moda for this quilt. I love that this line has the black star print that perfectly fits the first line of the carol “While shepherds watched by night…”

I hope you will enjoy making While Shepherds Watched as much as I had designing it.

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Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a great rest of your week.

#ChestnutGroveQAL check-in #7

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Hello my friends! TODAY IS THE DAY! It’s our 7th check-in for Chestnut Grove Quilt Along. We are SO close to the finish line. And the blocks for this check-in will take you less than an hour to make!

Pattern is released in 4 installments: Quilters World Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter 2023 issues.

Spring issue has the instructions for Blocks 1 and 2 – click HERE to purchase issue if you are not a subscriber.

Summer issue has the instructions for Blocks 3 and 4 – click HERE to purchase issue if you aren’t a subscriber.

Autumn issue has the instructions for Blocks 5 and 6 – click HERE to purchase issue if you aren’t a subscriber.

Winter issue has the instructions for Blocks 7 and 8 – click HERE to purchase issue if aren’t a subscriber.

My original quilt uses Moda’s Nutmeg fabrics. The magazine spread has a fabric chart that tells you exactly what fabrics are used in the original quilt. Click HERE for Nutmeg fabric information.

The background fabric is a Marionberry Pie Grunge from Moda. Click HERE to purchase the background fabric.

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For check-in #7, we are making 3 blocks of the following tulip block.

Here are my quilt along blocks using:

#1. Moda’s Rendezvous fabrics. I have an entire FQ bundle. So I will be using as many fabrics as I can from the bundle for a scrappy look.

Click HERE for Rendezvous fabric information. I love the soft and gentle prints in this collection.

#2. Winter Wonder by Riley Blake Designs. I did add in a few fabrics from their recent Calico fabric line.

Click HERE for Winter Wonder fabric information.

Click HERE for Calico fabric information.

I did see that Fat Quarter Shop is running low on Winter Wonder fabrics, and they don’t have the FQ bundles for sale anymore. 

And we just have ONE MORE MONTH to go! Thank you for sewing along with me! Next month, I will share with you why I named thisquilt Chestnut Grove! Have a great weekend.

NATIONAL BLACK CAT DAY

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Hello Friends, Happy Friday to you! Apparently it’s National Black Cat Day. I am always curious as to who comes up with these national days! I thought you might like to see my latest cat quilt. Pattern is in American Patchwork & Quilting October 2023 issue.

I used Moda’s Owl O Ween fabrics to make the quilt. I like only the cute cates and spider prints, not the scary ones! The Owl O Ween fabrics check the box for every kind of cuteness category. The check prints are the cutest spider prints. And the candy prints are really cute too!

I have also used the same fabrics to mock up my Just Kitten Around and Owls See You designs. Patterns are in my Etsy shop HERE.

I hope you will like working with these fabrics as much as I did! Have a great weekend!