I’m so thrilled to announce that I am now designing fabrics with Marcus Fabrics! My first line, Treasured Past, has been released and I’m so proud of it! Be sure to share this with your local quilt shop. Ships in April, which will be here before you know it!
There are several FREE patterns available at Marcusfabrics.com as well as a Premium pattern available there or my website, TraditionalPrimitives.com.
Fall will be here soon and the FB Group, Woolie Friends, is starting a new wool applique Stitch Along! It’s not too late to start! I know many of you here in blog land don’t use FaceBook, but that’s ok! Everything can be found on my website for you to get started and continue! Pumpkin Village is the name of the Stitch Along and you won’t want to miss out on this super fun event! 12 designers have come together to create this group project. Each week a new block will be released and at the end there will be a finishing design offered. We will each be offering a FREE pattern download the week of our release or a specially priced printed pattern during the event for $5. We will each offer fabric and thread kits as well. My block will be released on Monday the 14th so that’s coming up quick! You can preorder the kits or the printed pattern for my block (at a reduced price) from TraditionalPrimitives.com and we will ship as soon as possible! My newer wool applique patterns come with preprinted templates on our Needle Turn and Wool Applique Freezer Paper so you don’t have any tracing you need to do! A big bonus!
The first two designs have been released, but it’s not too late to join in! Pop over to my website and you’ll find the listing for Pumpkin Village on the home page. Be sure to read the description down below the pictures for more details. You’ll find a live link list for each designer so you can order all of the kits and supplies needed. It’s not too late to join in on the fun for this great project! The blocks are so cute and you will love the fun of stitching this fun Pumpkin Village up!
Check out my projects for Baltimore On The Prairie in Nebraska City Nebraska, Sept 2023! Registration is OPEN! Find info at BaltimoreonthePrairie.com. Don’t wait to register so you are sure to get a spot! I’m so excited to teach these lovely blocks.
Birds of Coeur d’Alene is a class on Needleturned Broderie Perse, Applique stems & leaves and a bit of Embroidery to enhance the project. It’s not as difficult as it looks! You will learn the techniques used to complete this 24” block with ease!
Early American Spirit is a class with Starch Basted pieces. We will focus on the Eagle and touch on the center compass and other elements. What a wonderful block with just a touch of challenge and then easy peasy to finish it up! There will be more blocks to come for this wonderful quilt, Early American Spirit!
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Thanks for stopping by and take care!
Missie
TraditionalPrimitives.com
Hey ya'll! Pop over to my website at TraditionalPrimitives.com and check out my new blog post. I'll just be giving you a heads up when I make a new post from now on. It takes too much time do do the posts here and there on the site. Thanks for understanding! I've got a complimentary pattern posted there and a link to get you all the rest of the patterns in the Quilt Around the Block- US Tour! It's nearing the end, so don't dally too long!
Years later I was preparing some applique’ shapes using freezer paper and starch and it dawned on me that perhaps this would work for basting EPP shapes. It worked like a charm, but after a while, I realized I needed some tools (notions) that were not available. My husband encouraged me to start designing what I needed and we now have a line of EPP and Applique' notions for Starch Basting. I've got a few videos on my website that tell you all about the technique and notions, and shows you just how to use them. Take a look HERE and after watching you'll be ready to begin the block. Try to watch the second video listed (from your PC or Android device) as it is the most recent. If you don't have a PC, you can watch the first video loaded. The rest are nice to watch too!
The basics of this technique are:
1-Make the hexie template from a double layer of freezer paper.
2-Cut fabric 1/4" larger on all sides of the hexie.
3-Iron the template to the wrong side of the fabric.
4-Paint the seam allowance with starch.
5-Fold the seam allowance onto the template and iron until dry with a mini iron.
6-Let the hexie cool and remove the template. Repeat, repeat, repeat!
7-Sew the hexies together...YAY!
When you finish getting educated on this method from the videos, download the PDF file HERE . You'll need to complete the checkout process, but don't worry, I will not ask for your credit card info or spam you! This is just the way my website requires you to get the download. Upon checkout completion a Purchase Confirmation box will pop up and you can get the download DIRECTLY FROM THIS BOX. That's the easiest way to find the link. 😊 An email will also be sent with the link to get the download.
You can make the hexie with a fussy cut center as shown above, or if you'd rather have a block full of hexies, you'll need to make a few more and fill the center as shown below. I can't wait to see how you make your block with your fabrics when you post in the Old School BOM FB Group! Have fun and please let me know if you have any questions by asking in the FB group or by sending me an email through the comment form on the website, TraditionalPrimitives.com.
It’s time for the finishing reveal for the Potted Petals Mystery Stitch Along! Each block will be free but just for this week only, through April 11th. Kits are still available from each designer's shop. A list of shops and more information can be found on the Potted Petals product listing by clicking HERE. The download for the the borders is the last link listed on that page.
We’ve got another round of kits ready for you! Thank you so much for your continued support of our small businesses. We enjoy bringing you the gift of a free download and really appreciate your purchases keeping us alive during this time at home.
Come back soon! We have another one in the works for you soon!!
Take care,
Missie
Hello Everyone! I’ve just returned from teaching at the Academy of Applique’ held in Williamsburg, VA. It was SOOOO nice to see people in person (with masks) and see the smiles in their eyes. I absolutely love teaching and to teach at the Academy is such an honor! I always tell my students I hope I can teach them something and love seeing them get excited about creating quilts using the methods I prefer and teach. I’ve heard from several students who have finished all the Hexies for the center and are on their way to prepping the rest of the elements for the center.
The class project was Nana’s Garden Club, a quilt inspired by my Mom and Memaw who loved being members of their local garden clubs in Mississippi and Georgia. I remember my Mom being so excited to enter contests of decorating the front door. One year she wrapped the door in gold wrapping paper with a huge ribbon and then added a beautiful winter wreath. She saved that paper and ribbon and we had gifts given for several years with that paper. Memaw had several gardening books that I received from my mom once I started enjoying having a flower garden. I cherish it! I am so blessed to see her handwritten notes in that book. Anyway, the quilt is filled with memories of my Mom and Memaw as I remembered them when I stitched. Isn’t it wonderful how our quilts are filled with memories!
Along with those memories, Nana’s Garden Club is filled with whimsical flowers and a few hexies as accents.
This quilt was a joy to create! Our new product, Ultimate Freezer Paper is an absolute game changer for quick starch prep for applique’ shapes. Due to the wonderful stiffness when two sheets are used together, along with the mini iron and Premium Quilting Starch, the Fingertip Stiletto, which allows you to get your finger right up close to the iron without getting burned and the Starch Brush which gives you just the right amount of starch on the seam allowances, you get quick and precise results on any shape easily! These tools make preparing appliqué and English Paper Piecing shapes a real joy. Then once they are completed, the sewing part goes lickity split! The pattern walks you through the process as well as gives you a lesson on drawing a big circle and setting those hexies in place on the border easily. The pattern is now available on the home page of the website, TraditionalPrimitives.com. While you are ordering the pattern or kit, be sure to also choose the supplies suggested to make the process easy and quick. It all makes a huge difference in the enjoyment and success while making quilts!
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We have kits available for you and remember the pattern is free when you buy the kits for most all of my designs! You can add on the preprinted and doubled template pages. These pages are ready for you to cut and begin! There is also an option for purchasing the precut hexies needed for the quilt. There are lots of options to make everyone happy and get you going on this quilt!
As soon as I returned from the Academy of Applique, we had a visit from all the kids and grandkids. We have 3 grands now and boy oh boy are they fun! Paxton is quickly becoming a little boy. Kenzie is almost a year old now, beginning to walk and talk, and Julian is on his way to being 2 months old! We found a moment to get a quick pic of the three of them together! Once Kenzie discovered Julian’s mouth we couldn’t keep her finger out of there! Haha! Oh the fun they will have together in the future... Of course I love it when all my girls come home. I’m so proud of each of them as they grow up. They love finding time to be together and make great efforts now that they all live in different parts of the country. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for stopping by today!
As always, take care,
Missie
TraditionalPrimitives.com
Come and get it while it’s free! Today you'll find Sweet Snowy Owls as a free download on my website! It will be listed as a free download until 10/13/20 at 10 am central time. Click HERE and then scroll down to the pattern description where you'll find the link.
Please take a look at the kits and other items suggested to make the block successfully. With the purchase of the kit you'll receive a free printed pattern which includes preprinted freezer paper for the templates, showing you our new product Needle Turn and Wool Applique Freezer Paper. It’s a great freezer paper for making templates!
Posted by Missie Carpenter on Sep 20th 2020
A while back showed you my latest fabric line, Barn Dance. It’s been so much fun making quilts with this fabric! Very soon, I can show you, but for now, it must remain a secret! Barn Dance is out in stores now so please check your local fabric shop for yardage. The next line to be released in December is Abby’s Treasures and I was lucky enough to get some strike offs to create something very special. Before I show this to you up close and personal, I’ll tell you a bit about how Abby’s Treasures came to be...
I’ve always been drawn to reproduction fabrics. I love my colors and I’m sticking to them! There have been times I’ve ventured out of my “Palette” for a special project now and then, but I always come back to the reproduction tones. Rich, deep earthy colors speak to me and bring out the best in my designs. They are always like a gift when I dig in and start choosing fabrics for a new design. My collections with Blank Quilting Corporation are just what I need when I start creating...a full range of lovely color and texture! This collection is available in fat quarter bundles...what a sweet gift indeed. :-}
Many times, people will ask what inspires the fabrics I create. Each line has been inspired by different experiences in my life, but Abby’s Treasures was inspired by antique quilts. I have a small collection and in recent years, I am really learning to appreciate fabrics from the past. I’ve always been attracted to fabrics and textiles, but lately I’ve been very interested in dating fabrics and learning about how they were printed, and about the women who made quilts in the past. I am amazed at how they made quilts without modern tools we have today! We are spoiled! A good thing I must say!
My Dad made me a tall quilt ladder a few years ago and I love it so much. It is always covered with quilts and it’s my favorite way to display antiques. Many times I am drawn to that corner and find myself studying fabrics. Such beauty in the simple, and sometimes very complex shapes.
As I study the simple antique quilts I own, certain fabrics jump out at me and become favorites. I love quilts from the mid 1800’s with their tiny, busy prints...just my style! I am drawn to quilts that have LOTS of different fabrics in them. I started snapping pictures of my favorites and started a picture collection to use for design inspiration for Abby’s Treasures. (That middle picture is not from the mid 1800's but has lots of fun prints.) 
If you have seen my earlier lines, you may have noticed they are full of texture. What is texture on a flat piece of cotton? Printed texture...wools, streaks, rug hooking, old stain blobs, etc. If I were going to use the antique fabrics for a new line, I definitely wanted texture added to the old designs. I’m inspired by texture everywhere and find myself snapping pictures when I come across unique texture. Sometimes from cracks on a floor or wall, architectural sculptures, wood, countertops or clothing textures like sweaters or different weaves. As my collection of fabric and texture pictures grew, they were mixed up and combined, added to with doodles here and there and voila! Abby's Treasures came to be! I am very grateful for the team I work with at Blank Quilting Corporation who hear my wishes and see my vision when I send in an idea and bring it to life! Each print is a special little treasure... I couldn't do it without them!
When you take a look, you see what looks like reproduction fabrics with added touches of texture with rich tones of earthy colors for any season. I loved working with these prints on a new quilt called Nana's Garden Club, available next spring after a special teaching event. Watch for updates and the finish of this beauty.
I've added a few fabrics from my other lines and a few of other fabrics I have on hand that fit the style. And I am brought back to what inspires me when I design fabrics...beautiful quilts. This one isn't an antique, but it will be some day. It inspires me to get the next collection finalized- I can't wait to show you what's coming next!
Abby's Treasures will be in your local quilt shops in December. If you like what you see, please let your local shop know to get this collection ordered before it is sold out! Details can be found by clicking HERE to be taken to Blank Quilting Corporation's website. You'll also see a free quilt pattern using Abby's Treasures in the link above. Each block a treasure of its own.
As always, thanks for taking time to stop by today and read about what inspires me!
Stay well and Take Care,
Missie
Hey Hey! It's my turn to release the block I designed for the Woolen Oak Mystery Stitch-A-Long on FB! 12 design companies have gathered together to give you a happy reason to stitch- free patterns! Each week another block is released and we are at week 10 of 12 so far, but it’s not too late to join. The blocks will be free for a while so you have time to get them al. You also have the chance to purchase kits for thread and fabric if you wish. We'd love to have you join us! Find me on FB or search out the name of the group and request to join. Get your free download for my block HERE! Be sure to take a look at the kit and notion info too. Enjoy!
