Finishing the Vintage Christmas Placemats

The placemats are finally done!!   When we left off last time, I had all the embroidery work done on the placemats and was ready to quilt them.  All the blocks had three inch strips of the directional ornament fabric put on each side for a placemat size of 12 x 18. I loaded the longarm …

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Vintage Christmas Quilt Along – Embroidery

Now that I have all 12 blocks pieced, the next step in the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along is to complete the hand embroidered details on several blocks.  The skate needs its bow, the train and house need the smoke trails, the ornament needs a hanger, and two other blocks need some outlining. While I was …

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Vintage Christmas Quilt Along – Mug and Stocking

Before we get started, I want to let you know about special sale.  Impression Obsession has fabulous stamps for cardmaking and scrapbooking and they are having a flash sale until tomorrow!!  Get 25% off with promo code FLASH, just click on my affiliate link. Moving on to sewing today, the final two blocks in our …

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Vintage Christmas QA – Skate and Candy Canes

I hope you are having a nice holiday weekend.   Today is the fourth Monday, so we'll get a little farther along in our Vintage Christmas quilt along.  The next two blocks are the Skate and the Candy Canes.  If you've missed the previous posts, just click on Vintage Christmas Quilt Along on the sidebar to …

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Vintage Christmas Quilt Along – Lights and Ornament

How are you coming with the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along?  Time for the next two blocks, something to keep us going and entertained while we camp out in our sewing rooms.  If you haven't started yet, just click on the button on the sidebar to see all the posts.  Dig out your scraps, and let's …

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Vintage Christmas Quilt Along – Mitten and Train

ARRRGGGHHH!!  I totally forgot that this past Monday was the fourth one!  Somehow I was thinking it was next week.  Forgive me for being late with our Vintage Christmas Quilt Along.  Luckily, I did have the blocks done, I just forgot to write it up for this week.  Without further ado, lets sew two more …

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Vintage Christmas Quilt Along – Bell and House

How'd you do on your first two blocks on our Vintage Christmas quilt along?  This is a fun way to use up all those bits of Christmas theme fabric you may have lying around. I chose one harder block this month with lots of pieces, and one simpler to keep us on track. If you …

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Vintage Christmas Quilt Along – Candles and Tree

Today we begin the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along, welcome!!  This will be a six month quilt along, with two blocks each month.  This will give you 12 blocks that you can then make into a quilt, placemats or table runner, or continue on your own making more blocks.  We'll have half of summer and all …

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