Gifting Handmade Showcase Week 2

Week 2 of my Crafting Handmade Showcase on Instagram has just wrapped up for this year but you’ll get the full recap exclusively here on my blog! In case you missed last week, every day since the beginning of December, I featured a gift idea made by one of my amazing pattern testers on a post on my instagram account @sharonhollanddesigns. Each project features various fabrics from my collections with Art Gallery Fabrics. You can read the Week 1 Recap blog post from last week if you need to catch up or keep reading for the Week 2 Recap.

Let’s review what happened this week…

GIFTING HANDMADE MAKERS

Day 8

Starting out this week is Joyce Ulm from @evamaecustomquilts with these beautiful Peek A Boo Beauty Bags! You can find the pattern for these bags from More Me Know.

Joyce used fabrics from my Shine On and Listen to Your Heart collections. She also added some amazing texture with that cork detailing on the side!

Joyce is an amazing sewer, and long arm quilter! She constantly comes up with the prettiest fabric combinations and her talent always blows me away. You can find these bags and more on her Etsy shop!

DAY 9

Day 9 of the showcase featured Victoria Newmyer from @midlife_quilter beautiful quilt! This is the Retro Garden Quilt Pattern by Rose Petal Quilt Shop, an intermediate level pattern but don’t let curves intimidate you—they’re much easier than you think. Victoria always has great tutorials and projects to share on her instagram feed and blog, be sure to check them out!

Victoria used three prints to create this stunning top, Delicate Balance Six for the background, and Flueron Six with Bright Star Six for the flowers!

Wouldn’t this make the prettiest quilt to display in your home all year long! Or possibly a pillow made with one of the blocks?! It would make the sweetest gift! 

DAY 10

Day 10 kicks off with Brittany Tunison from @brittanytunison and this incredible tote bag! This pattern is the Mod Fresh Granny Tote from Fancy That Design House. I am constantly amazed with Brittany’s eye for colors and fabric combinations which she brings into her own work as a talented pattern designer! Check out her patterns at White Plains Quilts.

Brittany used fabrics from my Willow and Bookish Collections with Delicate Balance Serenity Fusion as the background.

To attach the leather straps to the tote, Brittany used brushed brass Chicago screws for the perfect finishing touch. Wouldn’t this be the sweetest gift to receive? It would be the gift that just keeps giving all year round!

DAY 11

Are you ready to be wowed?!? Marija Vujcic from @maraquiltdesigns brings us this incredible table runner with 3D flowers for Day 11 of my Gifting Handmade Showcase! Marija is always coming up with the most unique and fun patterns and tutorials. You can find the Flower Basket Table Runner tutorial on her website here, and while you are there be sure to check out the rest of her designs!!

Marija used a mix of fabrics from my Listen to Your Heart collection, as well as some prints from my new Fanciful collection.

These flowers make a great hand sewing project for a night filled with hot chocolate and your favorite Holiday movie. You could add them to any sort of project! 

Isn’t the end result so beautiful?! It really takes the flowers from my print and amplifies them in 3D form! I couldn’t love this more!

DAY 12

Day 12 of the showcase shows off this lovely pillow made by Mary Gove of @thecurlyquilter! Mary took a block from the Lottie Quilt pattern by Penelope Handmade and made it into a pillow. Isn’t that such a good idea?! Be sure to give Mary’s Instagram a follow for some serious quilty inspo! 

Mary used prints from my Bookish, Willow, and Listen to your Heart collections, and Delicate Balance six in flannel as the backing. This palette brings such a feeling of calm and serenity, and would make the perfect addition to any room!

You could gift this pillow to someone special, or make it for yourself to add to your holiday decor. Either way, you can’t go wrong!  Mary said this about her pillow:

“My go-to gift lately has been pillows. It’s such a fun way to add texture and beauty to any space, plus anything that is a quick make and has a big impact, is a win in my book.”

I couldn’t agree more!

DAY 13

I am excited to be back again for Day 13 of the showcase! These Market Bags are incredibly fast to make and I put that to the test when I realized I didn’t have a project to fill in the day’s spot! I got to work and whipped these up in no time. I also now have a video tutorial for making the Market Bag that’ll help you better visualize the folding and sewing! I used my recently updated free PDF Market Bag pattern with improved instructions and new illustrations. You can download a copy from my Free Projects page.

For these bags I used prints from my Listen to Your Heart and Willow collections. I also used sherpa fleece for the handle of the Tiny Dancer print, and leather for the Timeless Ticking Stripe print—the mix of materials add such a festive touch!

These also make great reusable gift bags—it’d be like giving two gifts in one! The roomy bag holds a lot and then folds up small when not in use.

DAY 14

Tracey Taber-Perry from @ttabes80 also made an encore make for week 2 and wowed us all again with these incredible handmade beauty set items on Day 14. Tracey’s gift set collection is perfect for traveling or use in the home and would be an amazing gift.

Tracey used fabrics from my Kismet collection as well as a cotton canvas and flannel from my Listen to Your Heart collection.

The Flat Iron - Curling Iron Travel Case was made using this pattern from Sew 4 Home. Tracey lined it with insul-fleece so you can store your hot iron in it right away! It also has a pocket on the other side to put the cord in and keep it separated from the iron.

The free Curve Top Makeup Bag pattern is from Sew Very Crafty and Tracey said it took her less than an hour to make! They are the perfect size bags for your makeup and toiletries!

The mesh bag above is actually a lingerie bag that Tracey turned into a reusable makeup remover pad bag—clever idea! You can find the free pattern by So Sew Easy HERE. For the reuseable makeup pads, Tracey said she used 3 layers of AGF flannel and serged the edges. Talk about a quick and easy gift! The pattern for those DIY Reusable Cotton Rounds can be found at Hello Sewing—I definitely need to make all of these for myself!

DAY 15

Day 15 and the final day of my Gifting Handmade Showcase. The last inspiring project was made by Leah Bruski from @lapinsta and features my Phoenix Quilt Pattern you can find in my SHOP. Leah is a very gifted quilter and is a constant inspiration to our group!

Leah used fabrics from my Listen to Your Heart and Fanciful collections. I think they make such a great holiday palette but also a palette that works all year round!

The Phoenix quilt pattern is for an over-sized throw quilt but I also love these blocks for stand alone projects like pillows or bags!

Leah did an amazing job with this quilt, and I am so blown away by her fabric and color placement! I can’t wait to see how she decides to quilt this! 

Big Thanks to My Tester Group!

I hope you enjoyed the last two weeks of my Gifting Handmade Showcase and seeing each makers projects! I’ve loved seeing all the wonderful handmade gifts my testers came up with and anticipate all the joy these items will bring to the recipients this holiday season!

Gifting Handmade Week 2 Giveaway

With all those projects to inspire and Christmas just around the corner there needs to be a fabric bundle giveaway, right??!! I think so too! So, just like last week, one lucky winner will get a bundle of my fabrics I’ve curated.

GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED

Congratulations to Jeifner!

I’ve pulled together the 12 quilting cotton prints from my new AGF Fanciful blender collection and added 6 coordinating hero prints from some of your favorite Sharon Holland collections to make an 18-piece fat quarter bundle.

That’s 4-1/2 yards total of fabric to dream and create with!

The giveaway is exclusive to this blog post, so make sure to read below for how to enter by commenting on the blog post (replying to the newsletter email does not enter you into the giveaway). Also, please note this giveaway is eligible to US address only—no international shipping, sorry.

Giveaway Now Closed

Congratulations to Jeifner!

*Note: This giveaway is open to US addresses only, sorry no international shipping. If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment--you can't win if I can't contact you!

1. Simply leave a comment here under this post! (Counts as entry number (1) one.)

2. Leave a comment and let me know what’s been your favorite project or projects so for in the Gifting Handmade Showcase. (This comment counts as entry number (2) two). 

3. Be following me (Sharon) on Instagram @sharonhollanddesigns and/or be signed up for my blog post newsletters (counts as number (3) three entry) when you let me know in a comment.

That’s THREE possible entries and up to three chances to win! Enter now through Monday, December 19, 2022. I’ll be drawing one lucky winner from the comment pool from this post. The winning comment will be picked at random around 4 pm Eastern. I’ll post the name of the winner on this post once they've been notified and responded to my email.

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season and happiest of New Years!

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Four Free Projects

Normally, I’d space out blogging about projects and make a post for each one but I’m on a time crunch and need to get these Free PDF patterns published so links to them can be included in next week’s Shine On collection Look Book published by Art Gallery Fabrics.

Journal Cover

The Journal Cover project is not a new project for this blog, nor is it going to be part of the Shine On Look Book. The free Journal Cover pattern has been available on the Free Projects page since I first made the scrappy versions for my AGF Sketchbook collection. I am gifting this Sandra Dallas, The Quilt Walk book to my granddaughter and thought how fitting it would be to the theme of the book if I made a quilted cover from Shine On - Woolen Blanket flannel.

I enjoy remaking my old patterns and I went simple this time with a whole cloth cover rather than a scrappy version. The beauty of this type of pattern is it’s a quick and easy project that can be customized to fit any book or journal size you need. The pattern includes how to customize the size for your cover.

Easy Apron

The first time I designed and made an Easy Apron was to feature my Art Gallery Fabrics Sketchbook prints in the Quilt Scene International Quilt Festival magazine in 2015. I’d never published the pattern separately and now seemed like the perfect opportunity to add this as a free pattern to my blog.

This is the perfect project for a beginning sewer because you modify a dishtowel as the apron base (no hemming—yay!) and simply add your own (or pre-made) binding edge and patch pocket.

I’d picked up this fun boho towel at Target a few years back with the very intent of making a dishtowel apron and the color on the towel was just perfect with my Shine On collection! In fact, the entire look coordinated with the An Herb and Spice Cook Book I brought home from my Mom’s bookshelf. That pair of scissors and the Aztec-looking planter were also part of her things. I love that I could include items she used in this photo because I will alway associate my mom with wearing a simple white Baker’s apron—she’d have approved of this apron.

You’ll see more of this Easy Apron project in the Shine On Look Book coming 2/24/22.

Shine On Glasses Case

You may not have some blue-tinted cool vintage sunglasses like the pair that inspired my glasses case pattern but you probably have some sunglasses or readers that could use a protective covering. Now you can make your own case in your favorite prints!

For the Shine On Glasses Case project I quilted Fusible Fleece to a quilting cotton exterior and used Dritz Ruffle and Ruched Elastic to hold the flap in place. No fussy snaps or button closures—just simple but fancy elastic that holds everything in place!

For the prints in my two cases I mixed my new Shine On collection with Bookish prints. You can just see a peek of Shine On - Patchwork Atlas print inside the Bookish - Readers Story case. How perfect is that print for this project!!???

Prairie Point Pals

Last but not least is my Prairie Point Pals pillows. These adorable softie pillows can be used for wall decor or as something for the little loves in your life to snuggle. I love how they look with the Sunrise quilt from the same Shine On collection.

This free pattern includes instructions and templates to make the 9’’ round Sun Flower and the 13’’ round Dandy Lion. The fun petal details on the outer edges are made with Prairie Points—a simple way of folding fabric to make triangles.

The friendly Dandy Lion can be a wall hanging with the optional hanging loop or a cuddly pillow buddy.

Smiley Sun Flower would make a cheery wall decoration for a nursery or a play pal for a toddler with the optional loop omitted.

Have fun experimenting with different types of fabrics and embellishments for this project. For my samples I quilted the Dandy Lions face before assembly and used AGF solid flannel for the Sun Flower’s face and cheeks. The appliqué is raw edge for no-fuss sewing but the pattern gives suggestions for other methods. The prints used in this project are from the Shine On collection.

You’ll see more of these fun Prairie Point Pals project in the Shine On Look Book coming 2/24/22.

Giveaway

I’m so excited for you to get your hands on this collection and either make projects you’ve seen here on my blog or start something fresh of your own—the skies the limit on what to create! This giveaway is for a 16-piece fat quarter bundle of Shine On quilting cotton as my gift to one of my lucky blog readers!

Shine On is my twelfth fabric collection for Art Gallery Fabrics. See more of the collections HERE. I designed this collection as an early spring collection to give the feeling of spring flowers first emerging from the winter snow—that’s why the palette is light and airy but earthy at the same time.

Giveaway Now Closed

Congratulations to Brandy KL!

*Note: This giveaway is open to US addresses only (sorry, International friends). If you're a "no reply" or anonymous commenter, please remember to include your email address in your comment--you can't win if I can't contact you!

1. Simply leave a comment here under this post and tell me your favorite project(s) of the post. (Counts as your first comment entry.)

2. Leave a new comment and let me know what you’d make first if you won this bundle! This Counts as your second entry.

3. Do you also follow me on Instagram @sharonhollanddesigns ? Make a new comment and let me know and that’ll count as a third entry.

That’s THREE possible entries and up to three chances to win! Enter now through Monday, February 21, 2022. I’ll be drawing one lucky winner from the comment pool on this post. The winning comment will be picked at random around 4 pm Eastern. I’ll post the name of the winner on this post.

Good Luck!

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Sweet Home Quilt Along Giveaway Week 1

Sweet Home Quilt Along Giveaway Week 1

Each Friday, throughout the Sweet Home Quilt Along, there’ll be a Giveaway Friday. Maureen Cracknell , Jennifer Jones, and myself are co-hosting this QAL and have coordinated special giveaway prizes with our amazing participating sponsors for each and every week! If you've happened to miss the first Sweet Home QAL post, take a look back and read about it HERE.

We’ll announce what the giveaway prizes are for each week on Friday morning, here on our blogs. The randomly drawn winners will be selected from the growing Instagram hashtag pool the following Monday around 4 pm Eastern with the winner(s) announced on Instagram.

We’re using Instagram as a Sweet Home QAL community share spot where we can follow along and comment on each others quilt progress and share beautiful photos of our work.

Every time you share a post to your public instagram account and use the official #SweetHomeQAL hashtag in your post caption your post (along with your username) are automatically entered into the giveaway hashtag pool! That’s right—it’s as easy as that, just do what you’d do anyway! So, to up your chances, post a lot of of progress shots of your fabric pull, cut pieces, blocks, sashing, assembly, tops, and ultimately, finished quilts.

You may notice I keep saying you need a public Instagram account to be entered into the giveaway drawings. That’s because if you have your IG account set as a private account, Instagram does not add any hashtags to hashtag pools from private accounts—it’s just the way they roll. So, you may want to go into your IG settings and turn your account to public for the QAL or if not, and I totally get the need for privacy in this strange world we live in, just know that you won’t be eligible for the giveaways.

Sweet Home QAL Sponsors

TODAY'S FEATURED Sweet Home QAL SPONSOR IS Fabric Stork!

Fabric Stork is a family owned online fabric shop selling through Etsy and soon to launch sales from their own Fabric Stork website. Nuria Elkins brings you high quality fabrics in bundles and quilt kits, that are always perfectly delivered!

Visit Fabric Stork: Instagram | Etsy

For this weeks giveaway prize Fabric Stork is generously giving away a 14-piece fat quarter bundle of Maureen Cracknell’s new Cozy and Joyful collection designed for Art Gallery Fabrics.

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Don’t forget to share your Sweet Home quilt makes with your fellow quilt along makers over on Instagram and you’ll automatically be entered into this week’s drawing if you have a public IG account. A lucky winner will be drawn from the growing hashtag pool on Monday, September 14th around 4 pm Eastern and the winner will be tagged and notified on Instagram.

Be sure to follow along on all three host’s blogs as well as our Instagram accounts: Me @sharonhollanddesigns , Maureen @maureencracknell , and Jennifer @penelopehandmade

I also want to let you know that during the QAL Jennifer and I plan to have impromptu IGTV live videos to give you tips and tricks for sewing your Sweet Home Quilt. We each had live videos on Wednesday talking about how to select fabrics for your quilt if you’re not using a kit.

View my IGTV Sweet Home QAL series

View Jennifer’s IGTV story

Work on gathering your fabrics and cutting out all the pieces so next Wednesday we can start piecing the Log Cabin blocks!

—Happy sewing

Sweet Home Quilt + Fabric Giveaway

Sweet Home Quilt + Fabric Giveaway

Photo courtesy of Fabric Stork

Hello friends. I’m back with more Sweet Home quilt news as well as a brief review of my personal growth since my last post.

National events such as COVID-19, George Floyd’s wrongful death, the Black Lives Matter movement, and educating myself on the injustices to Black rights in this country have been upper most on my mind these last few weeks. You can follow my day-to-day journey of discovery and learning on these issues along with my regular quilt, fabric, and artwork posts in my Instagram feed @sharonhollanddesigns so I won’t get into any of that here and reserve this space for what you signed up for—quilting and sewing.

This week I added over 100 new fabric masks to my Fabric Masks shop page and will be adding additional masks over the next couple weeks because I’ll be donating 50% off all my masks sales sold from June 7 through July 7, 2020 to the United Way of Greater Cincinnati. Because equity and justice is part of the mission of UWGC I’ve chosen this organization close to home to contribute to on a local level.

Along with 50% of mask sales durning this one month period, I’m donating 100% of my PDF pattern sales as well to the United Way of Greater Cincinnati as well. If you’ve been eye-balling some patterns, this is a great time to make a purchase!

“COVID-19 is a long-term problem that requires our long-term commitment. We will help our Greater Cincinnati community respond, recover and revitalize over the next two years. But there is another “pandemic” we have been fighting for years, and this requires more from us, a greater, longer-term response. That pandemic is related to racial equality and justice.”  —UWGC

Fabric Stork Sweet Home Quilt Kit

I’m so excited to announce a collaboration with Nuria Elkins of Fabric Stork in bringing you this colorful and playful Sweet Home quilt kit. Nuria has curated a beautiful bundle of Art Gallery Fabrics prints and Pure Solids for this kit. Find the kit in her Etsy shop HERE and the pattern in my SHOP here. Order early because these are sure to go fast!

Photo courtesy of Fabric Stork

Prints in this quilt are designed by many of your favorite Art Gallery Fabrics designers including myself (Sharon Holland), Maureen Cracknell, Amy Sinibaldi, Bonnie Christine, and AGF Studio.

Photo courtesy of Fabric Stork

How perfect is that binding!!??? It’s so good! The print used for the binding is a diagonal stripe by Amy Sinibaldi so it gives a bias look from regular WOF (width of fabric) binding strip cuts—brilliant!

Photo courtesy of Fabric Stork

Nuria has already made a sample quilt from her kit and here’s the full view of this adorable neighborhood—I love it and it makes me smile just looking at this photo! This quilt design inspires new meaning for me with every quilt I see made!

Photo courtesy of Fabric Stork

The fun quilting design of clouds and storks (upper left corner) is spot on for this quilt and expertly stitched by Tawny Oland. Find Tawny on Instagram at @tawnyoland and consider her for your next long arm quilting needs!

Fat Quarter Bundle Giveaway!

The generosity of small business owners like Nuria is astounding and as part of our collaboration, Fabric Stork is giving away a 10-piece fat quarter bundle to match the 10 fat quarters used in this quilt kit. That’s a great addition to your stash or puts you well on your way to having most of the fabrics needed to make a Sweet Home quilt the the one made by Nuria—either way, you’ve got to love a fabric giveaway!

The giveaway for this pretty bundle of prints will be held on my Instagram account @sharonhollanddesigns. Just look for the June 12th post with the beautiful Sweet Home quilt made by Fabric Stork and qualify for chances to win by leaving a comment and following both my feed and @fabricstork feed on Instagram.

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Don’t forget to head over to my Instagram feed @sharonhollanddesigns for a chance to win a 10-piece fat quarter bundle from Fabric Stork. Follow the easy entry steps given in my Friday, June 12, 2020 Instagram post. International entries welcome. Enter often to up your chances of winning!

The winning comment will be randomly selected around 4pm Eastern on Monday, June 15th. Winning entrant’s IG handle will be posted on the IG giveaway post once the giveaway closes.

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