New Stitch Along! Pumpkin Village! 🍁🎃🍁

 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! 

Join in on the fun with us!  You’ll be so glad! 

Thanks for stopping in today and as always, take care, 

Missie

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Potted Petals Mystery Stitch Along- Free Patterns!

 Join me and 11 other design teams for a new Stitch Along called Potted Petals offering 12 free patterns over the coming weeks!  A fun project to get you ready for nicer weather.  We’ve been helping our youngest update her first home in Florida for a while now.  We are back home in Iowa and freezing our tails off as another blizzard rolls through today.  Our systems are in shock and this project is just what I needed to help me dream of springtime! 

                                                                                 

Each designer is offering their pattern free in the coming weeks.  We’ve had 4 blocks released as of now and my block will be released on Feb 8th for the free download.  The picture below shows the first four blocks!  Aren’t they awesome?!? This mystery quilt will be just beautiful when completed and such a nice surprise each week when a new block is released.

                                                 

We each have fabric and floss kits available if you decide you’d like those too!  You can find the link for my kit now on my home page at TraditionalPrimitives.com and the download will be added there soon as well.  I’ve  provided a link for all designers participating at the bottom of my Potted Petals product listing.  I hope you join us for this fun event!  Thanks for stopping by today!                                                  

FREE Download Today! (10/12/20)

 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!  

You’ll also find instructions for making this runner shown along with the woolens needed to add the trees and tabs with pennies to the block or to join with the other designers listed in the pattern description to make the runner.  A fun project for fast approaching winter!  

The group project is explained in the description section of the pattern listing also.  

Thanks for stopping in and enjoy the pattern!

Take care, Missie

"Grow Your Blog!!!" Welcome To My Blog! And...The Winner Is....

Hello to all the new visitors who are stopping by my blog for the first time! Welcome! My name is Missie and I am so glad you have come by today. I love Quilting, doing Punchneedle Embroidery, Wool Appliqué and English Paper Piecing...these are my favorite hobbies! I have turned my hobbies into a business most of my days since I became a mother in order to stay home with the kids.

And here they are, all grown up for the most part...and I am still doing the small hobby business! I love it! That's Hubs and I in the center, surrounded by our three daughters and our son-in-law. I thought once the kids were grown I would have so much time on my hands, but you all know how that goes! Seems there is never enough time to do all the stitching that I want to do...so the list keeps growing and growing! How about you? How long is your list?

I thought I would take a moment to write a bit about my window coverings today. I have had so many questions about them recently! We moved into this house in August and it was so sunny in the mornings...we could hardly keep our eyes open! Haha! We needed something to keep the sun out and these coverings came to mind. I used to sew window treatments for the decorating store for about 9 years, but I never made curtains for circular windows. Yes, they are quilts...machine appliqué and quilted. I was really into quilts when we moved here ( and still am!) and that was the first thing that came to mind. I made the quilted panel a bit larger than the window, which is huge for a window, I might add. Each of these is 58" wide at the bottom. They are much larger than they look way up there! The quilt design was made specifically for these windows and I expanded it into a full sized quilt a few months later. That quilt is now the logo for my business and is one of my favorites. I think it's the red background I like so much! Then again, I do like stars too!

After the quilted panels were made they were ready to be mounted on something....that something took a while to figure out, but eventually we decided to see if PVC pipe would bend well enough. We got two elbow joints and flexible PVC along with some stiffer PVC. It took a while to cut the two pieces the correct length in order to bend in the shape of the window, but we started with the bendable PVC cut a bit larger than we needed and trimmed an eighth of an inch away until it bent and fit in the window just right! Basically, the PVC is joined and bent to look like a capitol "D" if it were turned on it's side. It was very simple!

Then it was time to attach the quilt to the frame that would fit into the window. I decided to cover the PVC with foam insulation built for these pipes. This allowed the frame to fit snug in the window frame and they fit perfectly after a bit more trimming. Then the quilts were trimmed the shape of the frame with about 4" extra in size. To attach the quilt to the frame, I just rolled the quilts to the backside and pinned them in place with a straight pin! Voila'! They are still keeping the sun out of our eyes just fine! We had plans of taking them down now and then to let the sunlight in. We did this for a while, but had to stand on a chair to reach them and eventually we just left them up all the time. I should also say that we added a large piece of cardboard to keep the sun from shining through the needle holes from the quilting. If I were to make another set someday, I might try it without quilting to see if this fixed the problem. That was quite the long story I just wrote! So sorry about that, but as I said, so many have been asking about them recently. Since a few have asked, I will let you know you can buy this quilt pattern on my website if you are interested. Now everyone can get some PVC and make their own! If you do, be sure to send a picture! I'd love to see your version!

 

For the first time visitors, these two mini quilts were just published in the current issue of Primitive Quilts and Projects Magazine. Bluebirds and Berries arrived home safe and sound this week from the offices of Primitive Quilts and Projects! It was so nice to have them both in my hands again. The needlepunched version is the dark one and the light version is the wool and cotton version. I will have to get them up on a wall soon so I can enjoy them! Now that they are back home, It is time to draw the name of the winner of the year subscription that Primitive Quilts and Projects has so graciously donated for the drawing!

The winner is... Ronnie! Congratulations and thanks so much for following along with my blog Ronnie! Look for an email from me so I can get your information!

I truely appreciate all of my followers and wish I could give you each a year's subscription to the magazine. Since Ronnie is the only winner of the subscription, why don't the rest of you newcomers please find your way to my website if you wish, and find two free patterns on the Wool Pattern Page that you can download. The link to my website is just under the button for this Blog Hop on the right side bar. (While you are at the sidebar, notice I have a former blog...be sure to check that one out. It has many more posts!) For those of you who have followed for a while now, look for a new freebie pincushion on the wool page next week! I will be posting about it next.

 

One of the freebie patterns is a Valentine Pincushion that you can see peeking from inside the basket above. The other freebie is a block called Woolie Tree. I have challenged my blogging buddies, and that includes those who don't blog but like to follow along, to make this block using up those tiny wool scraps we all seem to have a bag of laying around. I have been so busy I've hardly started mine, but it is on my list I mentioned earlier. Have any of you long time followers started this yet? Let's keep it on our lists and see what we can get done in the coming weeks.

Thanks so much for stopping to read the blog today. If you are here with the hop, I'd love to have you join my site as a follower. After all we are trying to grow our blogs! If you sign up to follow, please let me know you've done so and by which method you will be following. It's hard to tell how many followers we really have these days since Google has changed the reader. I like to use my dashboard to keep updated, as I have always done...keeps it simple for me. My preferred way to follow is by clicking "join this site". Then I can keep up on things by accessing my dashboard. How about you?

The organizer of this blog hop will have a list of the blogs joining in posted on her own blog, 2 Bags Full. Thank you Vicki! Be sure to stop by her blog to find a few more blogs to follow. Again, Welcome and Thanks for stopping by today! I hope to see you all here again soon!

Take Care,

Missie

 

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The Trimmings Are Up! Cyber Special Still On!

Here's a reminder that the Cyber Special is still happening at TRADITIONALPRIMITIVES.COM until Saturday night! Go check it out! One FREE EPP pincushion pattern for each pattern you purchase, up to 7 free! Thanks so much to those of you who have made pattern purchases! Feel free to use the contact form and send me your wish list for Christmas. Then send your loved ones my way and I will pass along the list so they can surprise you with a gift...

 

We've found time to complete our Christmas decorating in this household. This year it's minimal decorations as we are lucky to have found a few minutes to get things pulled out and put up! It's always so wonderful to hang out in a room that is lit up for Christmas. I wish we could leave it all there till the Easter Bunny comes! Haha!

 

We've put the tree in a new spot this year to make room for another chair in the family room. When the family is all here, we have too many sitting on the floor! Hopefully this will help the situation. I am standing near the dining table so it's nice we can see the tree from most parts of this main living area. ( along with the backs of our chairs! LOL

 

FINALLY! Pennies In My Garden is up on the wall. I'm so excited to have it there, even if it is only for a few weeks. I will be vending at the Oklahoma City Winter Quilt Show January 9-11, so it will come down during that time. Please come see me if you live nearby! I think this may be my favorite quilt that I have designed. Perhaps it is the warm colors. It was exciting to see it on the wall after a long wait. This quilt has traveled quite a bit in it's young life, from being on display in a quilt show, to being on display in vending booths, to being on display in a store also. I'm happy it is home for a while! You can see that we also moved the quilt ladder to a new spot during the holidays. It looks crooked in this picture, but it is as straight as it can be! It's a mystery why it looks cockeyed in the picture! Haha!

 

And to the left of that blue chair above is the fireplace. We have the old fashioned felt and sequin stockings. One of my first stitching projects was my own stocking similar to these back when I was in Jr. High. When I saw these I knew they were going to be a family heirloom...even if they are full of plain old felt and sequins and beads. They sparkle wonderfully in the evening light! I have one more kit waiting to be made for the next son in law, when ever he arrives. I will need to find one more before they stop making these kits! And then, I wonder if they will still make them when the grandkids start to come...oh, the worries! Haha!

 

Here is the candle mat that I gave my secret pal Tuesday night! It was so fun to give it. The recipient was genuinely excited about it and it just made my week to see her smile. Such a sweetheart! I forgot to get a picture with the antique ball I made so she sent me a picture. It is below. These are made from the pattern, Josie's Petals that you can find on my website.

 

It was also a wonderful evening because we shared fabrics and gift cards with one of the small group members who had a house fire a few months ago. She is living in a spare room of her daughter's boyfriend's home and has lost most all of her belongings, including fabrics. She has one block she works on occasionally and the fabrics we gave will keep her going for a while and start up her stash again. We gave gift cards so she can replace household items once she gets back into her home again. Tis the season for giving and it was so wonderful to be touched by the joy of giving.

Merry Christmas to you all during this wonderful season!

Take care,

Missie

 

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Wow! You Want To Add This To Your Christmas List! And More Sale!

Do you have a light box? I had a little one from many years ago that I used for scrap booking. A few years ago, the light burnt out and I can't find a bulb that works in it! I have replaced it twice and the bulbs explode, so I have mostly used my front door window when it comes to tracing things. Sometimes I lay a light under my glass table for larger drawings and that works pretty well.

Have you seen the fancy light boxes for sale at the quilt shows? They are pretty nice, and they have a hefty price tag! But if you do lots of tracing, it might be just what you need.

While shopping for my niece and nephew in the big box toy department, I ran across this toy tracing light box! As you can hopefully see on the box, it is from Crayola and is called the Light Up Tracing Pad. It came in pink and blue...it was a tough decision which color I wanted because blue is one of my favorite colors, but I chose pink!

For $19.99 I thought I would give it a try! It has been waiting patiently in my basement for me to find some double AA batteries. I finally found them and gave it a try! I was very happily surprised that this light box will work great for my needs!

It is nice and flat and won't take up much room. I've left my hand in the picture so you can see the size...it's a nice size! A bit larger than a piece of paper...

You can see in this picture that it shows the drawing very nicely. Most of what you are seeing is the light surface and then I've shown you the picture, which has fine lines for Punchneedle, and then a bit of paper on top of a portion of the picture so you can see how strongly it works. I was pretty impressed for a toy!

If your family is asking you what you want for Christmas, this might be a fun thing to put on your list! It's been a long time since I've had a real toy! Let me know if Santa brings you one and if so, let me know how you like it!

Speaking of Christmas lists, feel free to send me your wish list of items on my website by email and I will keep it on hand for the special people in your life to refer to if you want them to choose something for you. Just make a wish list in the contact area of my website and be sure to give me your name. Send your shoppers my way by email and I will let them know what's on your wish list. If you'd like to give me their email address I would be happy to send a note and let them know you've made a wish list! Just be sure you let them know it's coming so they won't think it is spam from me! There is still plenty of time to order before Christmas arrives!

I've been working on a present for a quilter friend in my small group. Who we get the gift from is a secret for now, so I can give you a peak!

I hope she likes it! I'm doing a candle mat from my pattern called Josie's Petals that I designed this spring. I have yet to make one for myself, so this has gotten me in the mood! These black wool petals are sewn in brown wool thread to give an old feel to go along with the deep red and pink fabric colors. I will show the rest of the gift after the party! Are you making some handcrafted gifts this year? I'd love to hear about them! If so, enjoy the process of making them and putting a bit of love into each little goodie you make!

I've had my AFTER THE RUSH CYBER SPECIAL going on the last few days, as some of you may know. Thanks to those of you who have purchased! I think I will keep it going a few more days because I have been having trouble getting my newsletter to go out. I want to be sure all of my customers are offered the sale and so far, you bloggers are the only ones who have known about it! I will keep the sale going until Wednesday Night at Midnight. Surely by then the email problems will be solved! So as a recap, you will recieve a FREE English Paper Piecing Pincushion Pattern with the purchase of any pattern on my website. One freebie for each pattern purchased! (Up to 7 free)

 

I will add in the instructions for doing EPP by machine! Add this little freebie detail to your wish list as you tell your shoppers about it! They have till Wednesday this week at midnight to get you some extra goodies for Christmas at no extra cost! :-) www.traditionalprimitives.com

Aren't sales fun!?!

I better get back to my stitching...only a little bit left and I'll be done.

Take care!

Missie

 

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An AFTER THE RUSH CYBER SPECIAL! And Where Has The Time Gone?

I can't believe so much time has passed since I gave you all the free Wooly Tree Pattern! I finally had a few minutes to start on mine...how about you? You can find it on my web store HERE. Take a look around while you are there! Now that you have most likely finished your cyber sale shopping for gift giving, why don't you give yourself a little gift of a pattern from my site!

*** For my After The Rush Cyber Special I will offer a free English Paper Piecing Pincushion Pattern if you purchase a pattern. ONE FREE pattern for EACH pattern purchased! (Up to 7 free since I have 7 different English Paper Piecing Pincushion Patterns). From now through Saturday night!

Everyone loves a FREEBIE! TraditionalPrimitives.com

Back to the Woolie Tree freebie! The pattern you printed was the size of the tree on the left. I blew mine up a bit larger...

I am using scraps all the way and found a 12.5" square of a fabric I have had for more than 14 years! It is sort of a light canvas with quilted lines that will show up when the fabric is washed or stained with Antique It. Once apron a time, I was going to make a vest from this fabric! Glad I didn't! Haha! I also found one piece of brown wool that was large enough for a one piece trunk and branches. You could easily trace the different parts of the tree onto several pieces of wool for a multi wool fabric trunk and branches. I decided to use Heat N Bond Light to trace and adhere the wool branches and trunk since the piece is so small.

Then I found some yellow plaid and repros for the Sunshine and the green wool strip for the grass. (Yikes! I see after looking at this post that my grass was cut on the fold but from the wrong side of the pattern. See how my tree is on a hill rather than in a valley as the pattern shows? Oh well...I am not going to waste the wool, so will keep it as is! OR, wool is so forgiving, I may cut the grass in the center and flip the sides and seam the middle so my tree is in the valley after all. We'll see when I get to sewing! )

You can see my plastic container in the picture above that holds my wool scraps. I will dig through and choose scraps for the leaves after the base pieces are sewn down.

Next, the plan is to use some wool threads and do a nice small running stitch to attach these pieces to the background. After that I will start to embellish with leaves and other goodies. Won't you join me? I would love to post some pictures as we work along together and see what we do for a finished project! We won't be in too much of a rush,as it is a busy time of year for all. A few minutes to prep it as I have and you will be ready to sew along a few minutes here and there. Send me an email or post if you want to join in and send me a few pics along the way! Won't it be fun to see how everyone chooses a different look...let's use our scraps and get stitching!

Don't forget to check out my patterns available on my web site and remember the special going on for my After The Rush Cyber Special...a free English Paper Piecing Pincushion Pattern (up to 7) for each pattern you buy!

I hope you are nice and warm where you are...we have frigid temps here in Iowa today! So much for getting my outside decs up before the cold settled in...

Take Care,

Missie

 

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