Modern Christmas Tree Quilt - Free Pattern

Hello friends.

I hope you are having a lovely end of the summer. It feels to early to be thinking of winter and holiday season. But time flies and if we want to gift our loved ones a handmade quilt we have to start our preparations with months in advance. Last year I created a quilt similar to this to donate it for a fundraiser for pugs in need (you can see if here). I really loved how it came out then, so I decided to recreate it and write the pattern for it; and share with you. It is a simple pattern but creates a fun quilt. I hope you make it for you or to give to your loved ones this holiday season. The pattern comes together easily and it is beginner friendly.

I hope you enjoy this pattern and if you make it please share your photos and tag me on Instagram.

You can download the free pattern HERE

Enjoy and happy sewing

Martha

Campfire Quilt

The Camp Fire Quit pattern by Suzy Quilts, but I like to call it the friendship quilt. I did not make the quilt top, a friend gifted it to me. She was making it with the intention of making the quilt into a wall hanging for her sewing room but something was not clicking for her and lost interest on finishing it. She offered to me and I happily took it off her hands. I think the pattern is beautiful and the colors she chose are stunning. I absolutely love it. To finish the quilt I backed it with this sweet orange gingham fabric that was gifted to me by another friend; her mom who was downsizing her sewing room and my friend kindly set aside a box full of fabric as well as the lofty batting that I used for the quilt and gave it to me. As you can see, basically all the materials for this quilt came from friends. The binding fabric is the only thing that came from my stash. Hence my decision nickname this the friendship quilt. I used a crosshatch pattern to quilt it and I love the texture that it gives to this quilt.

This quilt now hangs in the quilt ladder in my sewing room. I love that every time I look at it reminds me of friends. And at the same time it is fulfilling its purpose that it was originally created for… a wall hanging for a sewing room.

Wishing you a lovely week. Until next time.

Martha

Lately

Hello friends

I hope you had a lovely weekend. I wanted to share with you some scenes from my sewing room from this weekend. I’ve been working on organizing my fabric scraps and trying to use at least some of them. As you know every project creates more scraps and as quilters we have an endless supply of scraps. Sometimes they add up faster than we can use them, and it can become overwhelming. So I been trying to bring some order to the chaos that it is the scrap bin. I finished this quilt top that has been in the works for quite some time. It is a bit more wild and loud than my usual style. I had many doubts throughout the process, but now that the quilt top is finished I like very much. I got so motivated that I started a couple more projects using scraps. Scrappy projects I think are long term projects and you build them slowly. But I think it is part of their beauty and what makes them more precious; they are a collection of many fabrics, sort of a scraps book of many projects and they are definitely a labor of love.

Wishing you a wonderful week. Until next time.

Martha

Bowtie Quilt

Hello friends

This quilt has been in the making for a very long time. I started it around two years ago. The idea to make this quilt came about because I was going through my scraps and found these lovely Denyse Schmidt scraps that I saved from one of the first quilts that I made. I’m usually not to precious about keeping my scraps by collection or anything like that but these were the exception. I had put them away nicely in a string bag and I saved every little crumb from it. The quilt that I had originally made with this fabric is a star quilt. And if you are a quilter, you know that from making start blocks you end up with a lot of half square triangles left over. Thus I decided to use up all of those little triangles and make this quilt. For the background I chose a lovely blue chambray from Robert Kaufman. I wanted to make the quilt a little bigger (it is 50 X 50 Inches), but I ran out of fabric and didn’t want to order more, so I made do with what I had on hand: made a scrappy backing with fabrics from my stash and finished it by quilting it in a straight line pattern 1 inch apart.

I absolutely love this quilt and the blocks come together very quickly. Even though it took me such a long time to finish it I enjoyed they process very much and I’m looking forward to making another quilt in the same pattern.

I hope you have a lovely week, until next time.

Martha

Improv Scrappy Quilt

Hello friends

It has been a while… a lot has happened since the last time I posted anything here. I recovered from some health issues I had been dealing with and I’ve been feeling very inspired to create more quilts and post more consistently here. I have a lot of ideas for new projects and great desire to use up the materials I have on hand. My fabric stash not outrageous at all, quit the opposite; everything fits snuggly into a compact cabinet (that in other life was used as a cupboard in my dinning room) and I try not buy anymore fabric unless I have a project in mind that requires new fabric that I don’t posses in my stash. When it comes to my scraps, I have tried may different methods for storing them… by color, by size, in a bin all mixed, etc. But what I find more practical is to simply use them up and don’t allow myself to accumulate too many scraps that becomes overwhelming to me. Case in point is this little quilt. Back in February I made a Hearts quilt for a Pug Rescue Fund raiser (you can see the blog post here); the cut off from creating the hearts left me with quite a bit of half square triangles and a few scraps. I knew I wanted to create something from them as I was quite drawn to this color palette that I had created for this quilt. I played around with the shapes and different arrangements on my design wall for a while and came up with this scrappy, sort of sampler quilt that I quite like and enjoy the process of making it very much. I quilted it with straight lines vertically and at diagonal at 60 degrees; I haven’t quilted a quit like this before, but I'm very much looking forward to try it again. I really love the effect that it creates.

Wishing you a wonderful week!

Until next time

Martha

Pugs and Kisses

Hello friends! Happy New Year. I hope you are doing well. I wanted to share with my first make of the year. This super cute and adorable hearts quilt. I made this quilt specially to support the wonderful mission of Tiny Paws Pug Rescue. I chose this pattern because Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and because Pugs are the most loving beings and deserve all the love in the world. This quilt will be auctioned to raise funds to help pugs in need. All info available at Tiny Paws Pug Rescue website.

Martha.

Tiny Paws Pug Rescue - Christmas Quilt Fundraiser

The season of giving… I have partnered once again with the wonderful folks at Tiny Paws Pug Rescue to create some quilts for their winter fundraiser. Below are the photos of the three quilts I’ve created and will be auctioned/raffled on their website. Please take a look around and consider participating on their fundraiser . Their mission is to rescue, rehabilitate and find loving homes for pugs and pug mixes. As a pug mom myself, I can’t help myself to feel deeply connected to their mission.

STARS QUILT

Finished Size 40X40 inches. Perfect for a crib, pug bed, or wall hanging . 100% cotton. Machine quilted in a straight line pattern. Biding (border) finished with a delicate hand stitch for a neat invisible finish.

Matching draw string bag included for storage or carry with you.

CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

Finished size 60X60 inches. Perfect size to snuggle on the couch with your pug or pugs. 100% cotton. Machine quilted in a straight line pattern. Biding (border) finished with a delicate hand stitch for a neat invisible finish.

Matching draw string bag included for storage or carry with you.

CHRISTMAS TREE QUILT

Finished Size 58x64 inches. Perfect size to snuggle on the couch with your pug or pugs. 100% cotton. Machine quilted in a straight line pattern. Biding (border) finished with a delicate hand stitch for a neat invisible finish.

Matching draw string bag included for storage or carry with you.

XO

Martha

Bear Paw Quilts - Quilts For a Cause

Hello friends… it has ben a long time since I been to this space. As for everybody around the world things have not been the same for obvious reasons. And to add to the loneliness and heart ache that this global pandemic has brought upon us, I lost two of my beloved pug babies in a period of six months. It was utterly devastating for our little family. We love our fur babies with all our heart and loosing them specially during this time was and still is absolutely heartbreaking. However, I wanted to honor their memory and do something to help others in need. Thus, I decided to collaborate with a local pug rescue, Tiny Paws Rescue, to create these two quilts to be auctioned off to help their cause. They do a wonderful job rescuing and rehabilitating pugs in need and finding them loving homes.

The pattern is a large bear paw… i thought it was very fitting. I used kona cotton for the quilt top and a beautiful and very soft flannel with a charming pug print for the back kindly provided by the folks at Tiny Paws Rescue. I made two quilts one large measuring 60X60 inches and a matching small one that measures 30X30 inches and they will be auctioned as a set. Please consider participating it is a wonderful cause.

“In loving memory of Mona & Holly forever in our hearts”

XO

Martha