Good morning! It’s Cindy reporting in today with the 4th block of our Christmas 2020 Series.
Sandy’s design for this little Santa Gnome is so cute! I decided to make two versions, one with a dark background and one with a light background.
Click on the link below for the pattern:
RC 2020 Sew Along Day 4 Santa Gnome
Greetings! We’re happy to present the next block for our Rustic Christmas PAPER PIECING SEW ALONG.
Sandy created this super easy Christmas star block. 
I decided to play around with Christmas colors and am loving this polka dot background. 
NEXT I used the polka dot fabric for the star center. This is nice and bright! If you are new to paper piecing, this is an easy pattern to test your skills The weekend is fast approaching, we hope you have plenty of summer sewing time to try something new!
Click on the link below for the Rustic Christmas paper pieced star pattern:
Hello! It’s Cindy bragging about Sandy designing the cutest paper pieced Christmas block patterns. 
Since Sandy designed 4 very adorable blocks, we’re hosting a PAPER PIECING SEW ALONG. You can make a Christmas banner, a table runner or a mini wall hanging. We think either one is guaranteed to make your 2020 holidays brighter!
The first block is a rustic evergreen tree. For printing these patterns, we suggest using thin copy paper or a special paper made for paper piecing from your favorite quilting store.
Since I am a novice at paper piecing, I used colored pencils to color code the rustic tree block pattern. This helped me to keep track of the fabrics I was using for each section. Who said you have to color within the lines? Not me! 
Here’s a close up of my first tree. I had fun picking out these fabrics! 
Do you need a paper piecing tutorial? Here’s a link to a great tutorial by Crafty Gemini. Sandy and I both learned our paper piecing skills from Vanessa.
The link to the Day 1 FREE BLOCK PATTERN of our Rustic Christmas sew along is below:
Rustic Christmas Sew Along Day 1
Have fun!
Good morning! It’s Cindy reporting in.
Yesterday was a rainy day in Ohio…here’s an outside view from my sewing room…(Oops, photo includes window screen!)
On a day like this, what choice did I have but sew for hours on end? Here’s an inside view from my sewing room…Sadie and Norma were on hand to keep me company.
In last Thursday’s blog, I mentioned Sandy sent a quilt to me so I could help her overcome creative block.
Her block design features 4 inch (finished) half square triangles. Not a favorite piecing technique for me but I just so happened to have 4 inch Thangles on hand! I had perfect half square triangles in no time flat!
Thangles get all the credit for these beautiful, perfect points!
I also assembled a few piles of squares and rectangles. Needless to say, my rotary cutter got a major workout…yikes! My blade needs to be changed after all this cutting!
I’ve got the basic piecing completed, now I’m ready to assemble the blocks. Once I have the blocks pieced together, I can get creative on the quilt design. Stay tuned for another update!
