This quilt has been on quite a ride. A Santa’s Night Ride, to be exact.
It has flown over to France, to the QuiltMania people, who publish three fine magazines: QuiltMania, Simply Moderne and Simply Vintage.
It has flown home.
And it will be making its debut in one of the QuiltMania magazines: Simply Vintage!
I know my friend Carol will like the Corgi on the bed. I do too! My quilt, Santa’s Night Ride will be in this issue, Number #49, which should be out about now. For those of you not aware of the THREE Mania magazines, let me introduce you to this one. While it says “Vintage” on the top, you might instead think of it as more traditional than vintage. It has a lot of our favorite quilt designs, as well as some new ones. I’m just pleased as punch to have my quilt published, and you can buy it from them directly here. Just click on the newest issue, with the Corgi on the front.
The center blocks are Foundation Paper Pieced (FPP) and they go together quickly.
I also made the border with FPP, and here you see my favorite roller. Instead of running to the ironing board, just use this tool, an automotive tool, with ball bearings — I prefer it to the old wooden one I used to use, and it’s $cheaper$.
I always print out a light version of my quilt and map out my quilting. Then I will often use a disappearing pen to transfer my ideas to the quilt.
I even sewed on the binding by machine. It seems like every December, when I’m deep in the Christmas season, I get the bug to make a quilt, but I always finish it up in January. Not this one! This is Quilt #272 in my Quilt Index.
Some tips on using scraps: Keep them in similar values for the center blocks. All my blocks are different, but they “read” the same because I used the same red/white for the inner triangles, and while I used four different greens for the large triangles, they are distributed evenly throughout each block.
Go for one fabric for the light background for both the center blocks and the outside little tree-triangles in the border, as it helps tie the quilt together. You can see above all the different fabrics I used in the outer tree-triangles: cut loose and cut from your scraps.
This has been in the works for nearly a year, so while you may have had a glimpse or two of this small quilt, I was waiting for the day when I could share the happy news, of this publication.
Happy almost December!
Other QM published quilts:
Riverside Sawtooth (in QuiltMania)
Elizabeth’s Lollipops (in QuiltMania: a photograph from a quilt show, but I’m counting it!)
Crossroads (in Simply Moderne)
During the pandemic, I agreed to let them share my blocks with readers of the QuiltMania newsletter. The patterns have now come home to stay, and most are free (see tab, above).
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Lovely quilt. Paper piecing is so much fun! Congratulations on being published again.
I love “Quiltmania” publications including there books. Such an honor to be published in their magazine, congratulations!
“Santa’s Night Ride” home in time
for the holidays. How wonderful!
Carol
Congratulations on another beauty in publication!!
What a happy Merry Christmas quilt! I love the use of all the scraps yet it is so cohesive I didn’t even realize there were a lot of different fabrics until reading through your post. May I ask how you made the light copy for your quilt markings, is it a printer option?
Congratulations on another published beauty!
Congratulations !!!! So excited to see your name in the contents! The Quiltmania trio are my only remaining subscriptions. And I’m going to hunt down that roller. (Sorry if I jumped the gun on the surprise!)
Congratulations! I bet you wish you could have traveled with it. I really like that paper pieced border-great way to keep it so perfect.
Congratulations on the publication! Thank you for all the tips on using scraps and also the roller. I’m going to check out those magazines. I need some new inspiration.
I don’t usually come at twice, but here we go because I looked at the larger picture again and I could see how the placement of some of those green prints with red and white in them really sparked the whole border. You’re really an artist.
What a journey that quilt has been on! I love thinking about what quilts that get shipped to new destination have seen along the way. Congratulations on the publication!
Congratulations on QM showcasing your quilts! They have such incredible quilts, that’s an honor to be included!
I’m going to have to buy one of those rollers. I inherited a tiny quilting iron from my MIL. It’s a metal triangle with sides about 2 inches, but it still needs to be plugged in and heated, so the roller is a nice improvement.
Thanks for the links to your other quilts published in QM. (Just an FYI- the last link doesn’t work.)
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
Congratulations again Elizabeth on your quilt publication! It’s such a happy bright design. I can see it made into a large quilt with multiple blocks ! Happy December!
Congrats on the publication Elizabeth. It’s a lovely little holiday quilt full of fun details and wonderful quilting It’s always a thrill to see our work in magazines isn’t it? I haven’t submitted in ages. Thanks for the roller link too. I put it on my wish list.
Congratulations on another recognition – very impressed with your artistry and your skills! Always enjoy reading your blog and seeing what you have been up to!
Another impressive quilt from you! Congratulations! And Merry Christmas!