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		<title>Printable Cozy Fall Bookmarks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been awhile since I posted a free printable, and these bookmarks have actually been sitting in Procreate since last November. I didn&#8217;t get them finished in time, and forgot all about them until I spied them last week. It&#8217;s getting close to being the end of the fall season, but I still hope you can print these off and put them to use for the next couple weeks. These bookmarks are centered on the page so you can print both sides and have double sided bookmarks. I tested it out myself before posting and it worked beautifully on my printer. As a finishing touch I like to use my corner rounder punch. I printed these on cardstock and opted not to laminate them. There are handy little crop marks to help with cutting. The final size of the bookmarks is 1.75&#8243; x 6&#8243; (which I personally find to be the perfect size). Here are links to my supplies used:Cardstock: https://amzn.to/3LRYPTZ (Amazon Affiliate) Printer: https://amzn.to/3XFVzxz (Amazon Affiliate) Corner Punch: https://www.jetpens.com/Sun-Star-Kadomaru-Pro-3-Way-Corner-Cutter/pd/8776 Cozy Fall Bookmarks PDF]]></description>
		
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		<title>Printable Notes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 23:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This free printable is charming embroidery-themed notes, and if you&#8217;re feeling crafty, why not fashion yourself a personalized notepad? Crafting notepads is a breeze; simply print out as many sheets as you desire, cut them out, stack them neatly, and affix them together along the top edge with glue. Detailed instructions for cutting out these adorable note sheets are included in this month&#8217;s downloads. The final product measures a compact 2.5&#8243; x 5&#8243;, ideal for jotting down quick reminders or sweet messages! You can find links to all the supplies I use in my paper crafting section on my Recommendations page or on my Amazon page. My number one recommendation for making notepads is to use a book binding medium for adhering the notepad together. It&#8217;s a much stronger hold than something like Mod Podge or Elmer&#8217;s Glue, although those work, too! Embroidery Notes Instructions.pdfEmbroidery Notes.pdf]]></description>
		
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		<title>Printable Weekly Calendar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have another sewing/quilt themed calendar this month. &#160;This time it&#8217;s a weekly calendar. &#160;I love and use weekly calendars most frequently of any kind. &#160;I include a generous note spot and a version with a habit tracker, or a quilt project tracker. &#160;I hope you find this as useful as I do! &#160;These are meant to print at half letter size (5.5in x 8.5in). &#160;I&#8217;m including separate PDFs for each style, and in 1 per page as well as 2 per page prints. &#160;Enjoy! Weekly Quilting &#8211; Habits 1pp.pdf &#124; Weekly Quilting &#8211; Habits 2pp.pdfWeekly Quilting &#8211; Project 1pp.pdf &#124; Weekly Quilting &#8211; Project 2pp.pdf]]></description>
		
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		<title>Printable Quilty Bookmark</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 01:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wrapped in the warmth of a quilt, lost in the pages of a book &#8230; the best place to be.  I&#8217;ve been drawing up quilt blocks more often and thought these would make the prefect bookmark.  I&#8217;ve included a PDF with registration marks to help you cut it out once it&#8217;s printed.  I like to print my bookmarks on thick cardstock, using the photo setting and matte paper options.  Sometimes I laminate them to make them extra durable, but either way you&#8217;ll be able to print as many as you need from the comfort of your home.  Printable Quilt Block Bookmark.pdf]]></description>
		
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		<title>Quilty Undated Monthly Calendar</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today I have a quilty undated calendar for you.  All of it was hand drawn and designed by me!  I love to draw and make fun things like stickers and calendars and sell all the Procreate brushes I use to make my items. This is a PDF file for ease of printing. I recommend going into your print settings and choosing to print this at &#8220;Full Bleed&#8221; so you have the lovely creamy color around your whole piece. &#160;If full bleed isn&#8217;t an option with your printer, no worries, you&#8217;ll just have a little white border around it. I hope you enjoy this undated monthly calendar and hope to have many more fun printables in the future! Quilty Undated Monthly Calendar.pdf]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mod Blooms // Wish Quilt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since we're on the topic of Amy's Petal + Stem book this week, I thought it would be appropriate to talk about one of the quilts I helped her quilt for the book.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Garden Whimsy // Quilting Ideas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve been diligently sewing your rows every 2 weeks for the Garden Whimsy Quilt-along and now you&#8217;re thinking to yourself: How should I quilt it? That&#8217;s where I come in, I&#8217;m going to give you a few ideas that are a bit more intricate (perhaps if you&#8217;re taking it to a longarm quilter), as well as a few less intimidating ideas you could accomplish on your domestic machine. If you&#8217;re not sure what i&#8217;m even talking about, the Garden Whimsy Quilt-along is being hosted by Amy Friend in celebration of her book release this spring with Lucky Spool, called Petal + Stem: 40 Modern Floral Blocks to Mix-and-Match. Garden Whimsy is one of the quilt patterns for this cleverly laid out book. I helped Amy to quilt one of the quilts for it, and i&#8217;ll be talking a little more about that and the book later this week. Now, let&#8217;s get to the quilting ideas! The first idea I want to start with is what we ended up quilting on Amy&#8217;s quilt for the quilt-along. When she first started talking to me about quilting it she told me she was thinking about a pattern reminicent of grass, so of course I couldn&#8217;t get that idea out of my head and I went to town finding all the grass-like quilting patterns I could. She ended up choosing a pattern called Arnica by Melonie Caldwell, and made it nice and dense. The pattern itself is 3&#8243; tall, and we squished them together so the quilt had a nice textural feel, with a subtle grassy pattern that didn&#8217;t pull away from the quilt tops design. Sometimes the quilting is the show stopper on a quilt, but in this case it needed to be a subtle boost to the already amazing paper piecing. Besides Arnica we hemmed and hawed over a few other grass-like designs. Any one of these would be a wonderful compliment to this quilt, and most of them would be easy enough to accomplish on your domestic sewing machine. (Clockwise from top left: Bean Sprout, Cat Scratch, Curly Weave, Roaring 20s, Lemon Grass, Pico) If you&#8217;re wanting something more &#8220;modern&#8221; feeling, one of these designs might be what you&#8217;re looking for. You&#8217;ll notice I am keeping the ideas pretty simple, because the quilt is really so eye catching all on it&#8217;s own that most designs will be lost in the background as you focus on the piecing itself, so don&#8217;t over-think the quilting on this one. Simple design really would be perfect. (Clockwise from top left: Modern Leaf, Wishbone, Twisted Mirage, Marble Cake, Wavy Pearls, Abstract Butterfly.) If you were wanting to custom quilt this I would suggest simple outline stitches around each of the pieces and fill with a horizontal line between the different elements in the background. Inside the snail you could do a swirl in the shell, and in the butterfly a repeating clam shell design. The flowers could be a combination of straight line designs and &#8220;beads&#8221;. I&#8217;d really focus on keeping the background simple, and put the details in the piecing. I used the books quilt layout for Garden Whimsy to give some ideas. I repeated a lot of the elements, keeping it simple. While this is the last stop on the quilt-along, there&#8217;s still time to join and enter for prizes. Amy has more info on her blog post and of course you can hop on Instagram and see all the great pieces other makers have shared at the hashtags #petalandstembook and #whimsygardensewalong. There&#8217;s also a free sprout block to make (you can find that on Amy&#8217;s site, too). I look forward to seeing how everyone quilts their final quilt, and I hope you&#8217;ll tag me on Instagram so I can see how you quilted your quilt!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Going The Extra Mile</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted some photos on my Instagram stories about repairing foundation paper pieced blocks in a quilt i&#8217;ll be quilting for a client. I made a &#8220;highlight&#8221; on my profile page with all the posts if you&#8217;re interested in seeing how I go about making FPP repairs, but that&#8217;s not what today&#8217;s post is about. Today I wanted to talk about the business of longarm quilting and offering services like this for your clients. I had a couple of people message me on those posts asking if I charge extra to do that…I don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m sure there are a lot of you gasping and and asking &#8220;Why?!&#8221; to yourself. But let me explain. First off, this is not something I do often. Most quilts arrive in the studio ready to quilt without any repairs being needed. So that&#8217;s part of why I don&#8217;t charge; i&#8217;m not doing it often. This was a special case where the client -a long term client who I&#8217;ve quilted for many, many times- asked before sending the quilt if it was okay. We were trying to get this quilted for her before a birthday, so it was a &#8220;tight deadline&#8221; and I didn&#8217;t want her to miss out on being able to gift this on it&#8217;s intended date. So I just told her to send it to me and i&#8217;d make the repairs. A big reason for this was because I knew I could fix them quickly and that it really wouldn&#8217;t be any trouble for me to do so, and if I couldn&#8217;t make the repair, I could quilt it in without showing or being a problem later. But repairing it before quilting is my preference, and if I can do it quickly, why wouldn&#8217;t I? Heather has sent me so many quilts over the last two years that I never hesitate to go that extra mile for her. Sometimes I get quilts from clients that are new to quilting, or this is their first time sending a quilt to a longarm quilter, and as i&#8217;m quilting i&#8217;ll notice a seam that&#8217;s off (which might result in a tuck when it&#8217;s quilted) or a small hole in their work. I could quilt it and just send it on it&#8217;s way, but if I did that I wouldn&#8217;t be happy with the quality of my work. Quilting is not cheap and i&#8217;m very conscious of the amount of money someone is spending when they send their quilts to me. When I approach a quilt I think about it as if my role was reversed and I am the customer. If I sent my quilt off to be quilted, and the longarmer found a small hole that could be repaired quickly before it was quilted, would I want them to do that? Yes, yes I would. I would gladly do it myself if I was there, but chances are I would have shipped it off to someone so I can&#8217;t go in and grab it from them to make the repairs. Quilting can be very expensive, and the time someone puts into piecing a quilt can be quite extensive, so the last thing I want to do is undermine that by doing a less than stellar job of quilting. No matter the business you&#8217;re in, I think you should always approach it thinking about what you would want if you were the customer. As I said above, most longarmers would charge for extras like this, but I don&#8217;t happen to think that is something to charge for. That is just all part of my service, and the reason someone hires me. I do think the industry is getting a bit better about sharing and supporting each other, but not too long ago longarm quilters kept tight lipped about what they did, what they charged and what patterns they used. I will gladly share the name of a pattern I quilted with because I don&#8217;t want someone to hire me just for a pattern I&#8217;ve used, I want them to hire me for the work that I do; to hire me for me, not a pattern that anyone can find if they search hard enough on Google. I think the tide is slowly changing, but I also feel there&#8217;s lots of room for improvement when it comes to longarm quilters supporting each other. I try to do my part in sharing my knowledge, and perhaps i&#8217;ll be better about posting things from time to time as i&#8217;m pondering them so that others can learn as they make the journey into the business of longarm quilting.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pin Banner Tutorial</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 23:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today i&#8217;m sharing how to make this very simple, easy and quick to make pin banner. I bought a few pins this fall and decided I wanted a way to display them in my studio and a pin banner seemed like the cutest and easiest method. I grabbed my canvas and got cutting and this was the end result. It was so easy I decided to type up a quick tutorial so you can make one, too! Supplies: Canvas or other sturdy fabric 1/2&#8243; wooden dowel (at least 7.5&#8243; long) Finial dowel caps for dowel (optional) String or ribbon (for hanging your banner) Begin by cutting a piece of canvas fabric 8.5&#8243; x 12.5&#8243; and marked the bottom center, and 4&#8243; up on each side. Use a ruler and rotary cutter to cut straight line from the center up to the marks on each side to create the pointed pendant shape. (You could also draw a line with your ruler and then cut with scissors if you don&#8217;t own a rotary cutter.) Next you will want to find a way to mark 1/2&#8243; seam allowance on both the sides and bottom of the piece. I use my Hera marker on the ironing board (the squishiness helps to make the mark deeper). The creases created by this help me to accurately fold the seams. Press the 1/2&#8243; seam allowance, starting at one side and working around. I used my Clapper to keep the fold in place while it cooled. Since the canvas is so thick this helps to keep it folded over once it&#8217;s cooled. Now you&#8217;ll want to edge stitch around the piece, roughly 1/8&#8243; from the edge. Don&#8217;t worry about the top edge, that will be concealed in the next steps. Working from the wrong side of the piece, measure down from the top 3&#8243; and place a mark on each side. Fold the top of the piece over to match these marks. Pin in place and stitch with a 1/4&#8243; seam allowance from the top, raw edge. This creates a pocket the perfect size to slip in a 1/2&#8243; dowel. Cut a 1/2&#8243; dowel to 7.5&#8243; and glue on finial dowel caps, if desired. I found mine at JoAnns with the dowels in the woodcraft section. Slip the dowel in to the dowel pocket and tie some ribbon on the ends to hang. Finished size is 7.5&#8243; x 10&#8243;. Update: If you&#8217;d like to make this longer sized banner to hold even more pins cut your fabric 8&#8243; x 18&#8243; and otherwise follow all the directions above. The finished piece measures 7&#8243; x 15&#8243;. Don&#8217;t have a wooden dowel to hang your banner? On this banner I used a piece of driftwood I had saved from a beach trip and I couldn&#8217;t be happier with how it turned out! You&#8217;ll notice the back is unfinished seams, but that didn&#8217;t really matter to me since it will be laying flat against the wall and never be seen. I really don&#8217;t foresee any problems with this in the long run, so I didn&#8217;t worry about any lining or hiding of seams within. I originally shared this quick tutorial on my Instagram and a reader asked about using something like this and the possibility of the backs of the pins scratching the paint (she had just painted her walls). I don&#8217;t think this would really be an issue since it&#8217;s just hanging in place and not being moved around, but I did mention if she was concerned about it she could always sew a lightweight piece of felt to the back when you&#8217;re creating the dowel pocket; just slip it into the seam. I would make the felt just a little bit smaller all around so it doesn&#8217;t peek out the sides of the banner. I might also tack it down lightly at the tip of the banner (just through the exposed seam allowance) to keep it in place, but otherwise leave the sides open so you can reach in and pin your pins to the banner. If this is something your interested in doing, and need a little more clarification (and photos) let me know and i&#8217;ll whip one up to show you what I mean. In the meantime, no more excuses, get making that pin banner you know you always wanted! They really do go together so quick!]]></description>
		
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		<title>Batwings + Bowties Block</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christina]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone!  Today I have long asked for tutorial for the block I used in my Halloween quilt a few years ago.  Not only that, but I made a YouTube video tutorial for it as well.  It&#8217;s such a simple block and so much fun to put together with scraps or small amounts of fabric you have on hand.  It&#8217;s the perfect block for a scrappy quilt. I had so much fun making this quilt, and using all of my hoarded Halloween fabrics.  Halloween is my favorite holiday and I can&#8217;t believe it took me so many years to finally make a quilt for the occasion.  I just love pulling this quilt out in the fall and have such a hard time putting it away.  Obviously JoJo thinks its her quilt!  I don&#8217;t often make quilts from a block I&#8217;ve already done before, but I know I will be making another quilt like this soon with fabrics that will work all year long.  Let&#8217;s get into the tutorial! Batwings + Bowties Block Tutorial For this block you don&#8217;t need very much fabric.  Two fat quarters in complimenting, but contrasting fabric, will make you a few blocks, so I suggest digging through your scraps for large pieces.  The finished block measures 9½&#8221; x 9½&#8221;.  I didn&#8217;t include full quilt amounts because I just grabbed and used fabrics as I went to &#8220;build&#8221; the quilt until I was happy with how it looked.  My final quilt ended up being 5 blocks wide by 6 blocks long and is the perfect lap sized quilt for hanging out on the couch. Supplies 2 fat quarters (or scraps large enough to get the pieces you need from them) 6½&#8221; ruler  (or larger) with a diagonal line marked across the ruler (I use Ominigrid rulers) Rotary cutter and cutting mat Sewing Machine (or you could stitch by hand if you like that sort of thing) Hot steam iron for pressing Pins for pinning those seam allowances!  Yes, that&#8217;s important! Lets begin! 1. To start, iron out the fabric you&#8217;ll be using and then cut the following: Background Fabric:• (3) 3½&#8221; x 3½&#8221; squares• (3) 4¼&#8221; x 4¼&#8221; squares Main Fabric:• (3) 4¼&#8221; x 4¼&#8221; squares **Set aside your 3½&#8221; squares, we&#8217;ll be working with your 4¼&#8221; squares for now.** 2. You are going to make half square triangles (HST) with the 4¼&#8221; squares using the 2-HST method (meaning we make two from each set of squares).  Choose which ever fabric is easiest (your background or main fabric) and mark a diagonal line across your square on the backside.  Use either a pen, Hera marker or press them in half with an iron, wrong sides together (my preferred method). 3.  Now you will sew ¼&#8221; on either side of your diagonal line.  I suggest chain piecing them at your machine to speed this step along! 4. Using a ruler cut your sewn square apart on the diagonal line between your two lines of stitching.  Repeat for all three squares.  Open these out and press your seam allowance.  I like to press them to the side and I make sure to press all of them the same way.  For this block I pressed my seam allowance towards the orange fabric. 5. Your HSTs will be larger than you need so we&#8217;re going to have to trim them up.  We&#8217;ll be trimming them to 3½&#8221; square, so go ahead and do that for all 6 blocks and skip to the next step if you&#8217;re already familiar with how to do this.  If not, keep reading! Begin by laying the diagonal line on your ruler along the diagonal line of your block (as shown).  You want to be sure it&#8217;s up towards the top of the HST and close to the side.  You&#8217;re going to trim off the top and and right side, but you just want to take enough off to square up the two sides. Next, rotate your HST 180° (your trimmed sides will now be on the bottom and left).  Line up the 3½&#8221; marks on your ruler on the left side of the block and the bottom (as shown).  Trim the top and right side of your block.  Repeat for all 6 HSTs.  You&#8217;ll notice on this cut your taking off quite a bit, that&#8217;s okay.  For this quilt I gave you enough room for errors in trimming, but when using this method on other blocks you might not have as much to cut off, so it&#8217;s always good to start by cutting the smallest amounts off in the first step of trimming. Tip:  When cutting I like to have a firm hold on my ruler so that it doesn&#8217;t shift around as i&#8217;m cutting.  This is how I like to hold my ruler.  I just apply a little firm pressure at those three points where my fingers are.  If you&#8217;d like to get fancy, Block_Loc sells rulers that have a groove in them that slides right over that seam and stays in place.  I don&#8217;t own one myself, but they sound like a great ruler to have! After all of your HSTs are squared to 3½&#8221; x 3½&#8221; you&#8217;re ready to start assembling the block! 6. I like to lay out my block before I start sewing the rows together.  This ensures all my squares are facing the right direction before I sew. We&#8217;ll be sewing these square together in rows.  Once I have it laid out like this I just stack each row up and carry it to my machine to sew. I highly recommend pinning before sewing.  I know it seems like a lot of work and an unnecessary step, but you have to remember your sewing machine doesn&#8217;t feed the top and bottom evenly.  Even though it&#8217;s only a small amount, it can make the difference in a perfectly pieced block.  So I recommend pinning at the start and end of these squares.  This can be especially helpful if you need to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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