Sew Golden a Chance: July 2018

Well, it is Christmas in July Blog Hop Time and today is my day! I thought long and hard about what I wanted to do for this hop and I found this panel I bought last year because I loved the chickadees so much and the tealish background with the green and red holly was so pretty. Well, I have to admit that I bought 3 panels and was thinking about making a quilt, but I decided I really didn't want to do that now. So, what to do with three big quilt panels??? Use them for Christmas in July!

I wish to thank Carol from justletmequilt.com for hosting this blog hop.

I began by cutting apart all the "pieces" of the panel down to each individual component, except I kept the middle section of one of the panels intact.

This section was going to be left as it is. I then proceeded to put fusible fleece on the back although I am not sure now why I did that. It did turn out really nicely though after quilting...

Next I started resewing everything back together, but in totally different ways.

You are probably getting the gist of what I was making now, a table topper with four placemats, two of the bird with berries and two with the birds on the pine tree. I then applied fusible fleece to these.

But, I was not done yet... My daughter is always asking for those kitchen towels that have the flap that buttons over the top so she can put it on her stove. I found a cute red checkered towel that was in my stash and decided to cut it in two to make two towels.

Gathering and attaching it to the front of a panel piece, I then sewed the "inside flap" above this piece. Then sewing together the front and back outside flap right sides together, I pinned the flaps together folding a quarter of an inch up for the back side, I sewed the three sides together, turned the flap right side out and stitched down the opening through the two flaps and the toweling.

At this point, I was ready to find a button and make the buttonhole.

I knew I would find something in my button box, and so I did. I decided upon the deep red.

I had never made a buttonhole with my Bernina before, and I tried just "winging it" and ended up taking the entire thing out. I found my manual, followed the instructions, and OMG it was so easy. I will have to remember look things up in the instructions.

Anyway, I loved it!

All that was left was to quilt and bind the placemats and table topper. I used a soft and white batting in between (and yes, this is the time to wonder why I used fleece on all the pieces) and did echoing around all the designs in the pieces. I think this turned out great and I am really proud of it.

And the final project (Don't tell my daughter because she will be getting this for her birthday):

Happy Christmas in July! I hope you have enjoyed my project. Please look at all the other bloggers' posts for other great ideas!

There's a ton of amazing talent among the hoppers.

Be sure to visit them all and leave a sweet comment...it will be appreciated!

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Creatin' in the Sticks

MooseStashQuilting

Lily Patch Quilts

Adventurous Applique and Quilting

Melva Loves Scraps

Sew Many Yarns

Cynthia's Creating Ark

July 24

Thimblemouse and Spouse

Seams To Be Sew

Clever Chameleon Quilting

July 25

Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting

Quilter in Motion

Made By Marney

July 26

Quarter Inch Crafter

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats

July 27

Life in the Scrapatch

Always, Kay

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I love this quilt. It is all Kaffe, so how can you go wrong?

I put my first quilt label ever on this quilt. People say you should always put on a label, but I never have before.

Unless the quilt is for sale, I think I will put it on from now on. Looks pretty great.

I got them custom printed from a small business in Minneapolis called "Camelsota" so google them on Facebook if interested. They custom make all kinds of items, including one of a kind t shirts, mugs, etc. Very affordable also.

The wedding was absolutely beautiful. I hope they like the quilt!

I just love the gorgeous prints. A few of my favorites are in this picture, also shows the quilting which was done by Kathryn Hodges Custom Quilting in a swirly paisley type pattern.