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It’s time to revisit the magic of Christmas together during the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along and now’s the perfect time to start sewing blocks for the first month! We’re starting with the 6″ Away in a Manger Block and the 6″ Candy Swirl Block. So, pull out your copy of Lori Holt’s Vintage Christmas Book and sew the Vintage Christmas Sampler in her new holiday fabric collection, Home Town Holiday with us. Keep reading for all the details on this festive, year-long quilt along!

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We can’t wait to revisit the magic of Christmas with all of you during the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along! For the 12 months of 2025, we will dust off our copies of Lori Holt’s Vintage Christmas Book and sew the Vintage Christmas Sampler in her new holiday fabric collection, Home Town Holiday. If you don’t already have this staple in your quilting library, now is the perfect time to pick it up!

With a combination of traditional blocks and novelty blocks drawn by Lori, the Vintage Christmas Sampler will keep the holiday spirit alive all year long ...

I’ve decided to sell the Vintage Christmas placemats we made over our quilt along. Since we no longer entertain in our home, I just don’t need them. They have never been used, only displayed on my tables last Christmas. I’ve divided them into groups of four. If you’d like to purchase one or more groups, please let me know. The placemats are all paper pieced, with some having embroidered embellishments.

The quilting is a gently curving design, using a taupe color thread which adds texture to the backgrounds and disappears over the piecing.

The binding matches ...

The placemats are finally done!!   When we left off last time, I had all the embroidery work done on the placemats and was ready to quilt them.  All the blocks had three inch strips of the directional ornament fabric put on each side for a placemat size of 12 x 18.

I loaded the longarm with a big piece of the ornament fabric for backing, and placed the little mats close to each other in a long row.  I had to be mindful of the directional print of the backing.

Auditioning thread colors, I decided on the medium taupe Glide ...

Now that I have all 12 blocks pieced, the next step in the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along is to complete the hand embroidered details on several blocks.  The skate needs its bow, the train and house need the smoke trails, the ornament needs a hanger, and two other blocks need some outlining.

While I was at Beginnings Quilt Shop recently, I found this great Christmas print on sale.  I bought the rest of the bolt, almost six yards.  I plan to use it for the side bars, backing and binding for all the blocks to be made into placemats.  The ...

Before we get started, I want to let you know about special sale.  Impression Obsession has fabulous stamps for cardmaking and scrapbooking and they are having a flash sale until tomorrow!!  Get 25% off with promo code FLASH, just click on my affiliate link.

Moving on to sewing today, the final two blocks in our Vintage Christmas Quilt Along are the Mug and Stocking.  After doing ten other blocks, these went pretty fast.  By now we are all familiar with how these instructions are written and where to look for extra information on the illustrations.

Once again, I chain pieced ...

I hope you are having a nice holiday weekend.  Before we get started with today’s quilt along, I need to let you know two things.  First, the Jolly Bar Quilt Along has been postponed to June 29, as there have been some delays in shipping due to reduced staff at the FQS warehouse.  They are working hard to get all the orders fulfilled, and the delay will allow everyone to be able to begin together.  Second, see the announcement regarding Bluprint at the bottom of this post.  Today is the fourth Monday, so we’ll get a little farther ...

How are you coming with the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along?  Time for the next two blocks, something to keep us going and entertained while we camp out in our sewing rooms.  If you haven’t started yet, just click on the button on the sidebar to see all the posts.  Dig out your scraps, and let’s have some fun.

If you do not already have the book, click on Lori Holt’s Vintage Christmas Book, available at Fat Quarter Shop.  It is also available on Amazon – Vintage Christmas Book at Amazon.  All the patterns will come from the book ...

ARRRGGGHHH!!  I totally forgot that this past Monday was the fourth one!  Somehow I was thinking it was next week.  Forgive me for being late with our Vintage Christmas Quilt Along.  Luckily, I did have the blocks done, I just forgot to write it up for this week.  Without further ado, lets sew two more blocks.

Starting with the mitten pattern, I cut all my bits and labeled them as usual.

The pattern begins with making the little heart, note that the top and bottom are sewn differently.

Make sure your point is the way you want it before you ...

How’d you do on your first two blocks on our Vintage Christmas quilt along?  This is a fun way to use up all those bits of Christmas theme fabric you may have lying around. I chose one harder block this month with lots of pieces, and one simpler to keep us on track.

If you are just joining the quilt along, you’ll need the book. Click on Lori Holt’s Vintage Christmas Book, available at Fat Quarter Shop.  It is also available on Amazon – Vintage Christmas Book at Amazon (affiliate links).  All the patterns will come from the ...

Today we begin the Vintage Christmas Quilt Along, welcome!!  This will be a six month quilt along, with two blocks each month.  This will give you 12 blocks that you can then make into a quilt, placemats or table runner, or continue on your own making more blocks.  We’ll have half of summer and all of autumn to quilt and finish so it can be enjoyed for the holidays this year.  I will not be making any of the star filler blocks, only ones with Christmas images, like the two today.  So if you will want to do a ...