Welcome
So glad you could join our Christmas Sew-along from the 05.10. – 09.11.2022 want to be there! You’ll find the latest installment of our tutorial here every Wednesday at 7pm, we’re really looking forward to seeing your very own version of our Christmas table runner!
Don’t forget: Show & Tell by Zoom on Saturday, 26.11.2022 to get in the mood for the 1st Advent. The link will be announced in time.
You want to be there? Then download the post and story image for the Sew-along and post it with the hashtag #wonderfultimesal on Instagram and Facebook.
Instructions/Downloads
- Post image “I ‘m in “ | Post “I’m in”
- Story
- Material list | Fabric requirements
- 05.10.22: Block 1 german | Block 1 english
- 10/05/22: Chain | Chain
- 12.10.22: Block 2 german | Block 2 english
- 12.10.22: Block 3 german | Block 3 english
- 19.10.22: Block 4 german | Block 4 english
- 19.10.22: Block 5 german | Block 5 english
- 26.10.22: Block 6 german | Block 6 english
- 02.11.22: Block 7 german | Block 7 english
- 09.11.22: Block 8 german | Block 8 english
- 09.11.22: Completion | Finishing
- Zoom Link Show & Tell 26.11.22
About us
Girls around the Block – these are seven patchwork-crazy women who found each other through the Patchwork Guild Germany. We’re now in our third year of sewing together via Zoom, and we’re kicking off our first joint sew-along with the Wonderful Time SAL.
Us on Instagram
We show our sewing progress on Instagram, you can find us under these names:
@fabric.needle.thread | @anja.seebald.quilts | @laridae.quilting | @heartsbyharz | @christel.hansen.547 | @quiltsandmore.by.mona | @da_ _lus
September 15: My fabric selection
I am happy, I have made my choice. After some deliberation, I decided on a Layer Cake so that I would have plenty of choices while sewing.There are 42 squares of fabric á 10 inches in a Layer Cake, here from the “Holly Jolly” collection by Urban Chiks. The colors are quite pop and the fabric patterns are cool retro, I love that!
As a background I take a dark gray Moda Bella Solids, there the colors then later come out really nice! If you also flirt with a Christmas Layer Cake flirting, take a look here.
September 19: Preparation of fabrics
You know that I am a fan of starched fabrics, because the so-called piecing, i.e. the sewing together of the small pieces of fabric in the patchwork, is then much more accurate and sewing is then also much more fun for me. I use exclusively Spray starch from Sonett because this is not only ecological, but also smells natural and is absolutely residue-free. If you’ve never done this before, you should definitely give it a try, because our pretty Christmas baubles in particular are sometimes quite small.
And this is how it works:
- lay out a bath towel as large as possible
- Lay out fabric on top smoothly
- spray one side saturated --> the fabric may be calmly tend to be wet
- Leave to dry completely overnight, preferably on a clothes horse
- iron
The fabric then has a stiff feel. Here you can see my starched fabrics.
October 7: Block 1 “Wonderful Morning” + chain “Wonderful Chain
Yesterday we completed the 1st block incl. Instructions for the chain published – and my tip to you is: sew all chain blocks at once! Then it will be much easier or more relaxed in the coming weeks. How the first ball is sewn, you can see in the Instruction (Link above here in the post), but here show the steps again on photos:
I show all finished blocks also bigger in my gallery .
October 13: Block 2 “Wonderful Plaid
Yesterday we posted the tutorial for this pretty block, our second Christmas bauble. Here you can see the individual steps:
October 13: Block 3 “Wonderful Little Stars
Here you can see the third block of our Christmas Sew-along. The techniques are known to every patchworker, but for those of you who would like to review the technique “HST – 8 at a time”, you can my free chart download Here you can see the individual steps:
The squares A are sewn on in the same way as in block 1 and 2.
And here is the finished block including chain “Wonderful Chain”.
