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Hello Sewing Friends,

This year,  let's do things right! The holidays bring so much joy but can also bring extra stress and chaos. So you can truly enjoy the moment and be present to make all those priceless memories. I have found the perfect way to add a bit of homemade into your gift giving with this simple Fabric Stocking Gift Card Holder Tutorial using Adventale Fabrics by Katarina Roccella. 

Save yourself the gift bags and wrapping paper and go smaller in size but not in heart. Skip the department store trips and buy someone something that will just clutter their home and take your time getting a gift card to a store where they can buy something they actually need and want. Add your touch of hand made with a mini stocking to hold this gift card. They can reuse it to give someone a gift card or money next year or even put holiday candies in it and give it as a party favor. Make a whole bunch of them and turn them into an advent garland placing small treats in them for your kids to open each day. 

Have fun making this tutorial your own adding personalized touches. Try different kinds of quilting and embroidery threads. Maybe even stitch the letter of the person's  first name you are giving it to. Trying different fabric combinations, I used  “Yuletide Ditsies” its playful holiday florals add such an immense amount of joy to any project. I paired it with AGF “White Linen” flannel to add that soft crisp feel of winter. 

Download your Stocking template here: Stocking Template

Leave me a comment with your favorite holiday sewing tutorials. Hope you add this one to your list! 

Happy Sewing, 

Melissa 

Hello Sewing Friends, 

It’s only 168 days until Christmas and for us quilters and sewists out there it means it is time to start sewing for this magical time of year! Katarina Roccella has out done herself with her new holiday inspired collection Adventale. This heart warming collection is filled with so much love, joy and faith! This time of year celebrates family and togetherness and every single print in this collection embodies just that! 

If it could be the Christmas season all year round I would welcome it in a heart beat. Christmas carols, cheerful decorations and the anticipation fills you with so much joy. One of my favorite things about this time of year is going to all the big department stores to see all the decorated trees. All of them with different themes and styles but all celebrating the same thing. 

Enjoy the pages of the LookBook below, it came out so incredibly beautiful and I am so excited for you to find a project to feel you with holiday magic. 

I love Katarina Roccella’s choice of colors adding pops of pinks, blues and mustard giving this collection a touch of romance and elegance. I love the nordic theme of her collection showcasing woodland animals, winter scenes, playful ornaments and festive florals. 

'Holiday Cheer” free quilt' pattern finishing off 76½" × 96½" is the perfect size to cuddle under when the cold weather months hit! Made entirely out of rows of triangles it will definitely be a quilt the family fights over each year! Which might end up making one for the whole family! I love the soft pink and cream background making the tree pop from the background! 

I had the opportunity to make this quilt with Merry & Bright Fabrics by AGF Studio many years ago and it brought me so much joy, so this is definitely a make getting added to my list this year! 

*Featuring 'Holiday Cheer' quilt made with Adventale Fabrics

What sets this holiday collection apart from any other holiday collection is the beautifully put together panel fabrics with endless holiday sewing inspiration. I love that it's a fool proof way to create home decor, quilts, decorations and festive gifts. There are four amazing panel fabrics to choose from. 

“Jingle All The Letters” showcases the letters in the alphabet to personalize your holiday stockings and quilts. Adding loved one's names and phrases that spread holiday cheer. 

*Featuring “Jingle All The Letters”

“Advent Calendar” project panel gives you step by step instructions to make your own advent calendar, a festive brick house with each window displaying a festive scene. Each year you bring this advent calendar out will be a special tradition that can be passed down to generations. If that wasn’t enough it gives you instructions to create ornaments for your tree. Make angels playing a horn, a rocking horse, gnomes, a snow globe, and Christmas baubles. 

* Featuring “Advent Calendar” 

“Merry Everything” panel is perfect to fussy cut into quilt blocks, turn into holiday gift bags, holiday banners, placemats, centerpieces, pillows and so much more. 

* Featuring “Merry Everything” 

“Welcome Home” displays a winter wonderland with snow covered houses, forest friends and gorgeous winter landscapes. With a white trim in between each block design making it so easy to cut out with added seam allowance to add to quills, pillows, and bags. It also has a great candy colored strip border strip to use for sashing and borders and embellishments.

* Featuring “Welcome Home”

Another detail I need to make sure to point out is the enchanting touch of metallic gold added to a couple of prints in the collection. 

“Fawns & Flowers”  and “Winterberry Whisper” have a touch of shimmer to add the magic back into our holidays making your finished holiday projects shine extra bright! 

*Featuring “Fawns & Flowers” 

*Featuring “Winterberry Whisper”

Of course no Winter Holiday collection will be complete without a flannel fabric to sew up blankets, pillows, and layering pieces. “Jingle Plaid” is the prettiest plaid to add to your wardrobe. With shades of pinks and mustard this can easily be made into some winter jammies or a cute jumper dress. 

*Featuring “Jingle Plaid” 

Short on time?  Or you are the type of person that ends up waiting til the last minute to get your holiday sewing done. AGF Fabric Wonders will be there to save the day! With the ease of precut fabrics you can have peace of mind that your quilting and sewing projects will come together fast! 

* Featuring Fabric Wonders

Happy Holiday sewing in the hot days of summer! Turn on your favorite carols and get to sewing that Christmas list of gifts! Make it a homemade holiday this year. 

Happy Sewing, 

Melissa

Hello Sewing Friends, 

Decorating our homes for the holiday season inside and out is a big to do each year, but adds to the magic that this season brings. As quilters, making handmade decor to add to our homes makes it even more special because we can revisit are makes each year, passing them down to generations to come to enjoy and cherish. Join me in making a Holiday Door Banner using the “Merry Everything” panel from Adventale fabrics. 

The  "Merry Everything” panel is filled with a ton of different size square and rectangle holiday graphics that can be used to create door banners, wall hangings, tablerunners, quilts, pillows, bags, placemats and so much more! Have fun cutting out each design and making it your own. 

For my door banner I used the Joyful, Noel, Merry & Bright and fussy cut blocks from the panel. I added sashing and made a few fussy cut blocks myself to add to the banner. Easy as that a banner was created. Attach a casing, insert a wooden rod, tie a decorative ribbon and hang it on your front door or beside it. This will easily welcome visitors and bring cheer to neighbors passing by. My banner measured out around 22 ½” x 40” but make it longer or shorter to fit your door or outdoor exterior. 

I used AGF Flannel for my backing which quilted beautifully, adding structure and dreaminess to the banner. As beautiful as the front is, I couldn't stop stroking the back of my project after it was quilted. I used a straight line grid quilting design, about 1” apart and it was the perfect motif to use to make the panel designs pop! 

 I topped it off with the “Jolly Ribbons Festive” print which tied everything all together with its candy cane striped design! 

Fabrics Used:

 Aventale Fabrics: 

ADV25917 - “Merry Everything” Panel 

1 (One) 15" x 19 1 1/2" Noel Block

1 (One) 3" x 15 " Merry & Bright Strip

1 (One) 15" x 19 1/2" Joyful Block

3 (Three) 4 1/2" fussy cut square blocks 

ADV25902-  “Yultide Ditsies” 

2 (Two) 3"x 4 1/2" strips

Prints to fussy cut- you will need a total of three on point fussy cut 3 1/4" blocks

ADV 25911 - “Fawn & Flowers”

1 (one) 3 1/4 fussy cut block on point

ADV25900 - “Christmas Village” 

1 (one) 3 1/4 fussy cut block on point

Or you can use the designs in the panel for fussy cutting. 

 Pure Solids: 

Northern Waves

2 (Two) 3 1/2" squares 

2 (Two) 3 1/4" squares

1 (One) 4" x 21 1/2" strip for casing 

Golden Bronze 

2 (Two) 4 1/2" x 11 1/2" strips

2 (Two) 4 1/2" x 15 1/2" strips

Cotton Candy 

1 (One) 3 1/2" square

1(One) 3 1/4" square

 Backing: 

FS-201 Retro Blue AGF Flannel

 28" x 45" rectangle 

Binding: 

ADV 25913 - “Jolly Ribbons Festive”

Four (4) 2 1/2" strips 

Enjoy the video below and get inspired to create your own DIY Holiday Door Banner. 

Panel prints have easily become my favorite fabrics to sew with because it gives you a great head start on the creative process. With larger designs to cut out you will have a finished project in no time at all, making it less stressful for last min holiday sewing! For more inspiration and sewing with Adventale fabrics page through the our Fabric Lookbook!

Happy Sewing, 

Melissa