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Friday, March 1, 2019

Home Grown Virtual Trunk Show

Today we're going to take you on a virtual trunk show of Nancy Halvorsen's Home Grown projects.

Nancy has shared them all in her book, Home Grown. Take a peek:

In Our House

The book is based on this quilt--nine different applique scenes, each featuring a positive message.

In addition to the quilt, Nancy shows how the blocks can be used in smaller formats--quicker to sew, easier to make, and fun to give as gifts.

Nancy says, "I haven't done applique on a dark background before and I love how the colors pop on the gray. The center block is one of my favorites. I love how it turned out. Love Lives Here is another one of my favorites, and Believe In yourself."

The center block as a pillow:

The center block becomes a table topper with fun scalloped edges:

A mini quilt with the bee skep:

The bright sunshine of Choose Happy on a pillow:

Dream Big: perfect for a baby's room:

Three blocks in a vertical wall hanging:

Nancy also used many of the motifs from the quilt on tea towels--so sweet!

Sweet mother-daughter aprons:

Chef aprons too!

The book also includes two additional quilts.

Home Grown

This quilt features the blocks from the panels, as well as pieced letters, houses, and hearts.

Trellis Garden

This pieced quilt is made up of scrappy flowers. I love all the colors in it!

And don't forget the free quilt pattern, available on the Benartex website:
Our Nest is Best designed by Heidi Pridemore

Click here to download the pattern.

Click here to see the entire Home Grown collection.
Click here to download the Our Nest is Best free quilt pattern.

Click here to visit Nancy's Art to Heart website and click here to find her Home Grown book.

Follow along with our week of Home Grown fun! We'll be sharing inspiring projects featuring the fabric all week long.
Monday
Introducing Home Grown @ Sew in Love with Fabric

Tuesday
Debby @ Debby Kratovil Quilts
Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation

Wednesday
Carol @ Just Let Me Quilt
Nancy @Masterpiece Quilting

Thursday
Jennie @ Clover and Violet
Alison @ Little Bunny Quilts

Friday
Nancy's Virtual Trunk Show @ Sew in Love with Fabric

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Home Grown Blog Hop: Day 1

What would you make with Nancy Halvorsen's Home Grown fabrics? We've asked six designers that question, and we'll be showing you their answers. Follow along on our blog hop Tuesday through Thursday, including chances to win some fabric for yourself, and then make sure to come back Friday for a virtual trunk show of Nancy's projects!

Debby @ Debby Kratovil Quilts

"Nancy's fabrics and quilts have always appealed to me because I love happy, bright, cheerful patterns and colors and these did not disappoint. I asked for a bundle of fat quarters and a half yard of the main print. But what I loved the best are the FOUR 10” squares on the panel!”

Head over to Debby's blog to see the birdhouses up close and enter to win a FQ bundle of Home Grown prints.

Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation

"When I first saw the colors and prints in this collection, I just knew that I had to use them to make something fun. The colors are so happy, and the prints are versatile enough to use just about anywhere. It's a perfect bundle of cheer to help fight the winter doldrums! This is the Hopscotch quilt, and it's a twist on a classic block. This one is perfect if you need a quick quilt. Head over to my blog for a full tutorial, as well as the opportunity to win this pretty bundle for yourself!"

Head over to Kelly's blog to find her tutorial and enter to win a FQ bundle of Home Grown prints.

Click here to see the entire Home Grown collection.

Click here to visit Nancy's website.

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Front Porch Panel: Tote Tutorial

We're back with a third idea for using Cherry Guidry's Front Porch panel--a summer tote! We've used the five different fussy-cut panel pieces to create the bag front and back, as well as an inside pocket. Follow the tutorial below to make your own version--perfect for holding your towel, flip flops, and a great beach read.

Bag front:

Bag back:

Materials:

1 Front Porch panel

1/3 yard stripe

1/4 yard orange floral

1/2 yard turquoise honeycomb

1/4 yard pink floral

1/4 yard bee print

3/4 yard blue floral

Batting

Cutting:

From the panel:

(2) 7" x 9" block

(1) 4" x 8" block

(2) 4" squares

From the stripe:

(2) 2" x 10" pieces

(2) 2" x 9" pieces

(2) 6" x 18" pieces

From the orange floral:

(2) 3" x 15" pieces

(2) 3" x 10" pieces

From the turquoise honeycomb:

(2) 1" x 4" pieces

(2) 3-1/2" x 15" pieces

(4) 6" x 9" pieces

From the pink floral:

(1) 2-1/2" x 4" piece

(3) 1-1/2" 9-1/2" pieces

(2) 1-1/2" x 11-1/2" pieces

From the bee print:

(2) 3-1/4" x 15" pieces

(2) 2-3/4" x 11-1/2" pieces

From the blue floral:

(2) 16" x 19" pieces (lining)

(1) 7" x 9" piece

From the batting:

(2) 18" x 21" pieces

(2) 1-1/2" x 35" strips

Make the Tote:

Step 1: Sew 2" x 9" stripe pieces to opposite sides of the 7" x 9" vase block. Tip: Sew with the block on top to ensure that your stitch line is inside the outer line of the block. Sew 2" x 10" stripe pieces to the top and bottom.

Step 2: Sew 3" x 10" orange floral pieces to the sides of the block. Sew the 3" x 15" orange floral pieces to the top and bottom.

Step 3: Referring to the photo below, sew (1) 2-1/2" x 4" pink floral piece between (2) 4" panel blocks. Sew 1" x 4" turquoise honeycomb pieces to the to and bottom of the 4" x 8" panel block. Sew these to piece units together alternating with (3) 1-1/2" x 9-1/2" pink floral pieces.

Step 4: Sew 1-1/2" x 11-1/2" pink floral pieces to the top and bottom.

Step 5: Sew 2-3/4" x 11-1/2" bee print pieces to the sides of the pieced panel unit. Sew 3-1/4" x 15" bee print pieces to the top and bottom.

Step 6: Sew (1) 3-1/2" x 15" turquoise honeycomb pieces to the bottom of both pieced bag sides.

Step 7: Baste each 17" x 20" bag side to an 18" x 21" batting piece and quilt as desired. Trim to measure 16" x 19".

Step 8: Layer the quilted bag pieces right sides together and pin, matching raw edges. Sew along both sides and the bottom edge, using a 1/4" seam allowance. Cut 2" squares out from the bottom corners as shown.

Step 9: Pinch a cut corner so the bottom and side seams match and stitch to box the corner. Repeat on the opposite end.

Step 10: To make the inner pocket, place the 7" x 9" panel block right sides together with the 7" x 9" blue floral piece. Stitch around all sides, leaving an opening along the bottom for turning. Clip corners and turn right side out, poking corners as needed.

Step 11: Press the open edges in. Position the pocket on (1) 16" x 19" blue floral piece, centering from left to right and measuring 3-1/2" from the top edge. Pin in place and topstitch along the sides and bottom. Stitching along the bottom will close the opening from turning.

Step 12: Layer the (2) 16" x 19" blue floral pieces right sides together and stitch along both sides and the bottom, leaving an 8" opening for turning.
Step 12: Sew 6" x 9" turquoise honeycomb pieces to opposite ends of (1) 6" x 18" stripe piece. Fold in half lengthwise and press, and then fold each long edge in to the center fold. Position a 1-1/2" x 35" batting strip inside and refold on all press lines.

Step 13: Pin strips closed and then topstitch along both edges. Make (2) handle strips.

Step 14: Test handle length and trim as desired. Pin both ends of a handle strip to the front side of the quilted bag, 2-1/2" in from the outer edge. Repeat on the opposite side of the bag.

Step 15: Tuck the outer bag inside the lining bag, right sides together. Match up the side seams and pin along the top edge. Sew along the edge using a 1/4" seam allowance.

Step 16: Turn the bag right side out. Stitch the opening in the lining closed and then tuck the lining into the bag. Topstitch along the top edge of the bag.

Enjoy your finished tote bag--just in time for summer!

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Front Porch Panel Pattern!

We're back with another idea for using Cherry's Front Porch panel!

The Summer 2018 issue of Quilts and More features this Color Option project for a table topper. It's based on Stephanie Sheridan's Treasured Friendship quilt design.

Used with permission from American Patchwork & Quilting® magazine.

The Summer Stars Table Topper was created by quilt tester Jan Ragaller using fussy-cut sections of the Front Porch panel in Friendship Star blocks. You can download the pattern for this version here.

Click here to find the pattern for this table topper.
Click here to see the entire Front Porch collection by Cherry Guidry.
Click here to find Quilts and More magazine.

Need other ideas for Cherry's panel?
Click here to read Debby Kratovil's Technique Tuesday post.
Don't miss our interview with Cherry about Front Porch!

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Technique Tuesday with Debby Kratovil: On the Front Porch

Well, not exactly ON the Front Porch. The name of the fabric line is Front Porch by Cherry Guidry. We asked Debby Kratovil of Debby Kratovil Quilts to come up with some quick and simple projects using this collection and the companion panel. First let's see the fabrics.

Front Porch by Cherry Guidry for Benartex

Here's Debby:
I was asked to make something with the main panel. Ooohh! I love a challenge. As you can see, it has various squares and rectangles. The center was calling to me: Make me a pillow! The four little squares are a perfect size for mug rugs; I saw journals with real paper on the inside. And I even thought that I could make two good sized bookmarks with those tall, skinny rectangles.

Front Porch panel: 23" x 42"

Now, let's see how I did it.

BOOKMARKS were made by cutting out the flower panels. I left a little bit of the white background fabric on to give me some trimming room. I then transferred fusible webbing to the wrong side and then ironed each one to card stock. I used my Fiscar specialty scissors with a curved blade to cut around the outside, as you can see. Easy. Quick. Not too big for most books

Next, I pulled out my Tri-Recs tool and cut half-rectangles to tilt those four little squares. It's good to audition the triangles to make sure they are in the right position (ask me why I say that . . .)

Added 1/4" to small flower square and cut slightly oversized half-rectangles

As you can see, sometimes you sew the wrong triangles to the wrong side! Time to rip out!

Here are my set of four mug rugs. Of course, I added batting and backing. Left an opening for turning and then top stitched it closed. Very cute, don't you think?!

4 Mug Rugs using Front Porch

I didn't have the time to make a pillow with that center design with those inviting chairs under that awning, but let me show you how I made my two art journals!

I cut out two adjoining rectangles, planning on the pinwheels print to be my front cover (the book is finished in this shot).

Two adjoining rectangles will be the front and back covers for my journal

I cut a piece of contrasting fruit salad print for the inside pocket. It is the same size as the two panel piece above (with seams, of course). Fold in half, wrong sides together. This is now pocket height.

I cut the pocket fabric the same size as the rectangles and folded it in half

Now, align it with the inside green honeycomb print (the same size as the journal cover) with a piece of batting wedged between. Pin.

Align folded pocket fabric with inside lining

Place journal front piece right side down on the pocket and pin.

Align parts and pin

Stitch 1/4" seam around, leaving about 6" open for turning. You can see my opening right under the "s" in "Quilts" below.

Stitched with opening for turning

Trim the four corners to reduce bulk:

Trimming four corners

I turned the journal right side out and stitched around the outside about 1/8" from edge. I took 7 sheets of 8.5" x 14" paper, trimmed it to fit the inside (took 1" off both horizontal and vertical), centered it and stitched right down the middle!

Paper added to inside!

And let's see the pocket!

Journal with pocket for a pen

Here is a picture of two rectangles joined by a small piece of that blue floral print from the top and bottom of the panel. The book is finished.

Two rectangles joined by the blue floral print. I wanted the Lemonade stand to be the front

And the inside of this journal with one of those bookmarks!

Inside of 2nd journal with a handy bookmark!

Now I bet you won't look at panels the same anymore, will you? I can't wait to gift these to my grandsons' teachers. This sunny group is quick and easy, don't you think?

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