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!
Sandy and I decided to call this quilt “Stepping Stones” because it reminds us of when we were back on the farm, heading out to get the cows for milking. We had to cross the creek pictured below. When you’re a little girl, crossing something like this seems daunting! We would always step on the stones to try and keep our feet dry. 
This is a fast and easy quilt created with a colorful 40 piece jelly roll and 11 solid white jelly roll strips to make the colors pop. Here’s a close up view. 
You can download this FREE pattern by clicking on this link: 
First things first. I squared off the quilt because all those postage stamps made this top a little, shall we say, UNEVEN. Proof of my effort was this lovely pile of tangled redness. 
Next, I went on a fabric hunt. The ladies at the quilt shop suggested adding a thin, white inner border before adding the red outer border.
I cut the white border at 2 inches and the red border at 6 inches but I think the white border is too wide next to the postage stamps. I’ll need to do a bit of un-sewing to re-cut the white border to 1.0-1.5 inches.
But wait, there’s more! This porch pondering panel purchase includes two, yes two, different designs. Here’s the other one.
The panels are fairly large and will make pillows that are 18 inches or more, depending on how big I make the border. These bright colors will pack a porch pondering punch!
Like these panels? Here’s the scoop on how to find them! 