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Secret Garden Trapunto Quilt Pattern

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I spent almost a year to get it up here and on my daughter’s bed, from idea to drawing, to the actual quilt then to this pattern and tutorial sharing. The reason behind this long stretch of time is because I have so many things to do and I was being carried away with all the tasks that I lost my sense of priority. In early last year, we bought a new condominium (yes, we are moving from a landed double story house to a condo, crazy!) so that we could have a place of our own. The quilting idea emerging into my mind and I told myself that I am going to make each of my kids at least a quilted blanket for their new bedrooms. A quilt that they can remember for their whole life and perhaps can make it a heirloom piece to show the next generation “See, this is designed and made by your grandma.”… ok, may be just a photo to show if the quilt is too tattered to display…

I bought a Bernina B550 QE (quilter’s edition) from Bernina Malaysia and million thanks to Kelvin who came all the way up to Penang to demonstrate how to use the machine to the fullest. I really love this machine as it has a cruise control on the sewing speed, the BSR stitch regulator, the hand-free foot lifter and many more….. not to mention the reliability of the machine which is well known to be able to pass down for generations. Love love love it!

Hope you will quilt one soon. I am almost finished with my son’s quilt, the “Road Runner”…… stay tuned!

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Secret Garden Font Applique Patterns

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This is the last part of the “Secret Garden Quilt” applique patterns before we get into the how-to-quilt section. If you have missed out the previous applique patterns, here are the links:

1. Flower Applique Patterns
2. Ladybug, Butterfly & Snail Applique Patterns
3. Songbird, Tree & Sun Applique Patterns

It has been months since I finished quilting this Secret Garden Quilt for my daughter’s bedroom of our new house. I didn’t meant to drag it this long and as anxiously as you are, I wanted to share it out as soon as I can. Time is running fast and 24 hours a day, 7 days a week seems a little hectic for my super long to-do list.

When I rushed, I made more mistakes in many decisions and processes. Apart those from the renovations, one of the mistakes related to this post is I saved the photos into a newly yet wrongly formatted external hard disk. It was really frustrated when I was unable to retrieve the photos in the wrong format external hard disk, where I can only be able to open the photos in MAC and not the Windows PC in my office. So, I have to wait until I am back home, copy all the photos from the hard disk (more than thousand of them which are huge RAW files) to another temporary hard disk, reformat the hard disk so that it works on both MAC and WIN systems, then copy all the files back to it. It took me a night and a morning to do it….. really a great lesson to learn.

After showing all the 4 sets of applique patterns above, I am sure you already be able to guess how the quilt will look like. I hope that I can update the how-to-quilt tutorial by next week. Please stay tuned!

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Songbird Tree Sun Applique Patterns

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Count down to the Secret Garden Quilt pattern and tutorial, here is another group of applique pattern: the Songbird, Tree and Sun. From “Flowers“, “Ladybug, Butterfly & Snail“, this, and one more applique to go before we move into the final assembly of the quilt. Can’t wait to share it as soon as possible.

Have I told you before that due to the considerable bountiful design of the Secret Garden Quilt, I have to split the tutorial into a few parts. By doing so, it also gives me more time to prepare the proper pattern in downloadable and printable pdf form. Besides the huge quilt I’d design and quilt, this is also my biggest challenge in pattern and tutorial sharing. Hope it gets more “LIKES” and “LOVES” from you all!!!

Ciao, need to prepare the next tutorial of the quilt [font for the Secret Garden word] and prepare my new house for moving in More updates coming your way!

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Ladybug Butterfly Snail Applique Patterns

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Hi there, I am back with the 2nd group of applique patterns for the Secret Garden Quilt, this time they are the Ladybug, Butterfly and Snail Applique Patterns. Similar to the Flower applique, these little cuties were made with iron on raw edge applique and quilt with trapunto method.

During my previous post, I mentioned that my daughter was sick and I am so glad to receive bundles of love and best wishes from you all, she is recovering well, thank you. My daily routine is about to go back to normal and now I need to really search for a perfect adhesive to glue my butt down so that I can sit still and update my pattern and tutorial more often. I knew that I am running a little late in updating, but I am sure this is gonna be a calm before a storm, YES, more good stuffs are coming your way…. Hint: I am quilting another blanket, this time for my son…. Looking forward to see it?

Also, a little update about my new craft studio, I am happy to tell you that it is 90% completed. I am going to move in 2 weeks later but will be still running between both house for another month or 2 until everything can be settled down (including my kid’s school transfer).

Stay tuned for my next update on the applique pattern, songbirds, tree & sun & font for Secret Garden title. And, don’t forget to participate in the giveaway of World Map Wall Decor [Closed]!

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Flower Applique Pattern

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As I have promised before, once I have done my daughter’s “Secret Garden” quilt blanket, I will post all the details here to share. Without a doubt, this blanket took a lot of preparations, from idea to paper, to blanket, and now to tutorial & pattern sharing. Due to it’s intricacy design that involved a lot of appliques, I have to share the detail part by part when necessary.

This flower applique pattern is part of the tutorials of the “Secret Garden” Quilt Blanket, but it is not limit to this application, you may adapt the pattern to do other craft. In this tutorial, I also included the trapunto method to make the appliqued flowers “pop up”. Coming up next will be the other applique patterns for butterfly, ladybug, snails, songbirds, tree, sun & font of Secret Garden etc…. so please stay tuned.

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Quick Fusible Applique Method

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I am sewing a full size super single blanket, “The Secret Garden”, that was specially designed for my daughter. The 62″ x 84″ blanket has lots of appliques, if I wasn’t miscounted, there are a total of 360 pieces of them (the photo shown below is only part of the applique I did). I was slapping my forehead and feel a little regret to be so enthusiastic on the design when I realized how time consuming it was to trace every single applique by hand. Well, project must go on and I need to think of a way to make things go faster before I surrender on it. Through out the process, I’ve come out this method that make things a lot easier and faster for me.

Click page 2 to go to the tutorial and I hope that you find it useful for your fusible applique project too.

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Pinwheel Quilt Block Pattern

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Here is the pinwheel quilt block pattern and tutorial I have promised to show you in the Snowman Quilted Pillow Cover and how to piece Half Square Triangle (Easy Quick Method). Finally, I’ve gotten it done within my busy schedule between crafting and renovating of my new house. YAY!!!

This simple Pinwheel Quilt Block is constructed by 4 pieces of Half Square Triangle (HST) units. Arrange HSTs in such a way to resemble a pattern of revolving triangles, just like a pinwheel.

Hope that you will try it out soon!!!

I am currently working on my daughter’s full size super single blanket, hope to be able to update you on the progress soon. The new house is waiting for a DIY on a plank wall, build-in cabinets, furniture and decorations, and we will be ready to move in. Can’t wait!

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Tree Quilt Block

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When I sewed the Quilted Snowman Pillow covers, I wanted to make 3 of them a little different, so, I added some pine tree quilt blocks at the side panels on one of the snowman pillows. You have seen the one with bird prints at the previous tutorial, now, this is the tutorial to quilt a tree block with Half Square Triangles (HST). Coming up next is the pinwheel piecing. Piecing up a tree block has never been so easy with the basic half square triangle units, don’t trust me but see it for yourself on the next page!

In fact, I have a question floating on my head while sewing this: Has anyone seen this technique to piece a tree quilt block from HST before? May be from books or other website? I was scratching my head and squeezing some brain juices to come out with this pine tree shape. I hope it is something new that haven’t been published before. If it is an old technique, I wish I knew it earlier to save my time to design it

It could be too late for 2012 Christmas….lol…. it sure is too late for 2012, but, plenty of time for 2013 Christmas to piece up a tree quilt block. Save up this tutorial either in you browser’s bookmark or pin it on your Pinterest board.  I love Pinterest as I can see clearly what I had pinned with a picture to show. Hope to see you sewing something with this tree block soon. Remember, time flies, in a blink of an eye, Christmas will be just around the corner.

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Quick & Easy Way To Make Multiple Half Square Triangle Blocks

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Making quilt block isn’t as difficult as I first thought. I have learned the hard way and the easy way, picking up experiences as I go. Time is precious, creating and sharing a fail-proof project is always my mission to you! Apart from the recent basic 9 patch block I shared, today, here is another quick and easy method to sew a multiple half square triangles (HST).

Half Square Triangle is one of the popular and versatile basic quilt blocks that can develop into many patterns, be it used alone or combined with other block unit. Just to name a few of what basic Half  Square Triangles able to create by arranging them differently:

1. Pinwheel
2. Pine Tree
3. Friendship Star
4. Broken Dishes
5. Hourglass
6. Flying Geese
7. Triangles
8. Star Flower
9. ZigZag / Chevron
10.  many more…..

This method is suitable for quilts and patchworks that need a lot of repeated 2-color half square triangles. I used these HST in my recent 3 snowman pillows where I sewed 2 of them with Christmas tree and pinwheel quilt blocks, tutorial to follow soon.

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Sew a quilted snowman pillow cover

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As the last piece of my Christmas sewing project for this year, I transformed a quilt panel into 3 throw pillow covers. I cut up the “Share The Joy Snowman” (from Moda) quilt panel, and split it into 5 parts in order to get 3 snowman panels and 2 strips of text banners. With them and additional matching fabrics, I sewed and trapunto quilted 3 throw pillow covers that has 3 different snowman prints on each. In order to make all 3 pillows a little different, I changed the side panels with quilt blocks: Christmas Tree [updated] and Pinwheel (tutorial to follow soon).

Oh my, I deeply fell in love with this quilting style and technique, not only that it gives the 3 dimension effect on the print, it makes the quilt so soft and nice to touch. My kids can never stop stroking their face and hands on the snowman, squeeze and cuddle them all the time. I bet if the weather can get any cooler, they will sure love to hug them to sleep…. Kids, blankets are on the way… please be patient

Remember the Whale baby trapunto quilt blanket I sewed for my friend’s newborn son, where I mentioned that I have lost all the step by step tutorial photos and only can write the tutorial with some “done” photos to explain. If you landed here from that blanket post, you will be able to see some photos that could help you to understand better, especially the 3D trapunto quilting part. Click page 2 for details.

Christmas greeting from Craft Passion, together with the kids here to create a little hoax that spice up my already-challenging crafting world, and not forgetting Mr.CraftPassion that helps up the household core while free my time to craft and create………………
We wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS, let’s share the joy to the world!!!!
Wish you all have a wonderful time at this special holy season of the year with friends and families!

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