The Christmas Carol Row Along - Quilt Reveal Day - Santa Land and Giveaway

Sadly, the Christmas Carol Row-Along is coming to a close.

Today is 
QUILT SHOW  DAY
where we show off the projects we made with all these fun rows.

There were over 40 rows!

This was the row I introduced in the beginning of the Row Along

"Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up?"

which became a 9" x 30" table runner.

Next I used my row to make three 9 1/2" x 9 1/2" blocks by using background fabric and placing the applique pieces accordingly.

For the appliques, I used my favorite fabric iron on adhesive,

HeatnBond® Lite

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I needed one more block for my quilt layout, 

so I designed another Santa to go with the others.

The Cowboy Santa block is also 9 1/2" x 9 1/2".

The original plan was to make a quilt with these 9 1/2"  blocks in the middle

and 4 other rows around them,

but

I had all of these super cute fabrics from

Northcott Fabrics 

(I loved these fabrics so much for my row, I ordered even more to make this quilt).

Here is the layout I used with finished block measurements.

The quilt is 60" x 60" finished.

The design works perfect for 4 rows,

a huge block in the center, 

and 

a 9" border with corner blocks (the santa blocks from above).

To achieve the big center block, I enlarged the row pieces from the

Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up? row

by 200% 

and 

chose different pieces from each santa to make the block on an 18" background.

Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up? big quilt block.

Then I chose 4 rows with a Santa theme for the quilt.

Thank you to the following designers for these fun quilt rows:

(links are provided by clicking on the blog names)

Dominick the Donkey

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Fun Threads Designs

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

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Just Let Me Quilt

Up on a Rooftop

by 

A Dream and A Stitch

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

by 

Quilt in Piece

If, like me, you didn't get to visit or make all of the rows you wanted from 

The Christmas Carol Row Along

 hop over to 

Seams to be Sew

where you will see the whole list of designers

 and how

 Marian 

has organized this awesome quilting event.

Here

 is 

Santa Land!

It's such a fun 60" x 60" throw size  with quilted music notes and meandering swirls..

And all that happy Northcott fabric in the border.

I pieced in the fabric panel 

from 

Best Tree on the Lot

to make the back super cute too.

Christmas table runner - check

Christmas quilt - check

What should I make next?

I'll bet there are some great ideas  from the 

other bloggers sharing today:

Quilt In Piece
Words & Stitches
Creatin’ in the Sticks you are here.
Patchwork Breeze
Masterpiece Quilting
Sew Incredibly Crazy
Upstairs Hobby Room
Seams To Be Sew

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Thanks for visiting

and 

Merry Christmas!

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Yee-Haw, Cowboy Santa Quilt Block Pattern and Giveaway on Faithful Reader Friday

Yesterday was such a fun day here in the sticks with the reveal of 

"Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up?"

quilt row pattern for 

The Christmas Carol Row Along.

As a thank you, today is FRF. 

(Faithful Reader Friday)

Yesterday there was a teaser photo of this guy

and today this Cowboy is all yours.
Of course it's a cowboy, right?  Isn't that what you would expect from me?  lol

Complete with his cactus and stick horse, he thinks he is the real santa.

The pieces for both this block and the row are small and there are a lot of them. Thermoweb has a product called HeatNBond EZ Print Lite that makes fusible applique a lot easier.  

You just print the pattern templates on your inkjet printer.  

NO TRACING!!

Thermoweb has been super generous and is offering a gift card to my readers.

Happy FRF!!

You can download

Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up? 

quilt row

and 

Cowboy Santa

quilt block

at my Craftsy Pattern shop.

Click this button.

Thank you so much for the blog love and support.

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Creatin' in the Sticks.

Be sure to enter for a chance to win

 then check out yesterday's giveaways.

One of these15 Fat Quarters Bundles

from the 

Hoffman 1895 Bali Watercolors line.

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The Christmas Caroling Row Along - Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up? - Pattern and Giveaways

Welcome to Creatin' in the Sticks

and

The Christmas Caroling Row Along.

It's been crazy making Christmas during the summer

but if you want to have a quilt finished by December it is a must.

This row was inspired by a childhood memory that may not be quite right, but I chose to go with it.  

"Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up?" was a song my grade school class performed during a Christmas program at school.  When Marian from Seams to be Sew asked for designers to create quilt rows inspired by Christmas carols or poems I thought I knew exactly what I would do.  That song sprang to life in my memory bank.  

What do you do when you want more information about something? 

Google it. 

Well, I found nothing.  There is a similar skit and a lot of Youtube videos of children performing a skit and song, but it's nothing like the performance of "Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up?" in my memory.  My memory is only a song with lots of different descriptions of Santa and a "Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho" and "Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha" every once in awhile.  I even have the sheet music filed away in my mind with a picture on the front of Santas of every size and color.

This is my version of 

The row finished is 9" x 30"

Special thanks for products used in this row goes to:

Thermoweb

 I ONLY use my favorite fabric  iron on adhesive - 

HeatnBond® Lite. 

Thermoweb has been super generous and is offering a gift card to my readers.
This giveaway will start tomorrow
along with another bonus for my readers.
We will call it  FRF - faithful readers Friday.
Watch Creatin' in the Sticks on Facebook for this awesome giveaway!

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Northcott Fabrics 
Best Tree on the Lot - by Ingrid Slyder of Nutshell Designs
(I loved the fabrics so much, I ordered even more to make a quilt)

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More thanks to
Marian at Seams to be Sew for hosting this event.
She has more information for giveaways and rules for all the giveaways on her blog.  
Just click HERE.

I quilted and added binding (Northcott Fabric) to the row to make the perfect table runner.

 You see them everywhere. 
 Tall, skinny, short, or fat which one is the real Santa?
Can't a Santa be a hippie or live on a beach?

Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up? 

You can download the pattern at my Craftsy Pattern shop.

Click this button.

See all of the rows of the day:

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Daydreams of Quilts 

Seams To Be Sew

Be A Quilter

Creatin’ in the Sticks (you are here)

Fun Threads

I've been putting together a quilt with some of the featured rows 
of 
The Christmas Carol Row Along
with
Northcott Fabrics'
Best Tree on the Lot - by Ingrid Slyder of Nutshell Designs


One of these guys is new, can you spot the different one? 
 I'll have him ready for download soon {(wink) bonus day???}
and

I will have the quilt ready to show on 
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Show and Tell Day!

Want the whole schedule of 
The Christmas Carol Row Along?
Click HERE.

Thanks for stopping by.  See you soon!

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