October Calendar Block

24
Aug

I love line-art style designs. This design set is done in a single color and multi-color. I’ve used it to quilt my project.

The block is also colored with Inktense colored pencils, my current favorite media for coloring fabric. The pencils are easy to use, no clean up required, and moisture is used to get the water-color effect and make the color permanent.

This pumpkin and cat design comes with the In-the-Hoop Calendar Block set. There are many other sets to choose designs for the rest of the months based on what holidays you celebrate and whether you live in the northern hemisphere or southern.

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Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (10/23/2018)

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Tea Light Angel #3

28
Jun

These Sweetheart Tea Light Angels were specifically designed to be easy to stitch, easy to assemble, and work in a 5 x 7″ hoop. While each angel is composed of 3 pieces, they only take 2 hoopings a for each one.

They’re named Tea Light Angels because they can be placed over a small, battery operated tea light candle. The organza versions in particular glow softly when lit from within.

The lace versions are higher stitch count and require a bit more attention to detail while the organza versions stitch up more quickly and are more substantial.

Single-colored free-standing lace angel. One of 4 in Tea Light Angels set.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (6/28/2017)

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Patriotic FSL Angel

28
Jun

When my friend Claudia sent me her edited version of the “praying angel” to make it into a patriotic angel, I was so delighted with the idea that I asked her if she minded if I reworked the original in the same way.

Rework involved replacing the hands with a star and resequencing the design for efficient color changes while still maintaining registration. Along the way, I did a few other tweaks to improve her while also lowering the stitch count.

I did use matching colored bobbins on the skirt area and regular white for the rest.

Of course, you can still stitch her all-white if you like, in which case you will have jumps and trims because this one isn’t optimized for single color or color her for other holidays.

Stitching multicolor lace does require a little extra work so that thread tails don’t mar your work. Bring up the bobbin thread at each color change, sew enough stitches to secure, then clip the thread tails.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (6/30/2017)

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Easy ITH Stuffie Bunnies

03
Feb

How cute are these little bunnies! Beautifully detailed in-the-hoop stuffed bunnies stitch up quickly. Customize your bunnies by swapping up the fabrics or adding fun little embellishments like ribbons or small buttons.

Each bunny can be completed in just a single hooping. I used brushed cotton on my first bunny and slinky microsuede on the other 3.

The slinky knit worked up much better, turned more easily and has a nice “fur-like” feel. Smallest “baby” bunny fits a 100x100mm (“4×4”) sewing field while the standing bunnies are designed for a 130x180mm sewing field.

These make a quick little gift for baby showers or Easter baskets or “just because!”

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (2/3/2017)

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Inked Vintage Easter Bunnies Quilt

10
Mar

After a disaster at a show where my husband spilled coffee on two of the colored pencil mini-quilts and I found out the book whose instructions I followed to make the color permanent didn’t actually work, I went back to inks.

Tsukineko Inks are most definitely permanent when you follow the directions. This project turned out a little brighter than I would have liked but I’ve heard so many comment, “I love the bright colors!” that I guess maybe that was a good thing.

This seasonal mini quilt doesn’t follow the “windowpane” format I used for the Winter Friends and Halloween Haunted House mini quilts because I really need a rectangular landscape shape.

To keep this one similar in style and size, I instead used a different design in each “pane.” The benefit here though is that you have more designs that can be used in more ways.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (3/10/2016)

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Halloween Haunted House Mini Quilt

30
Sep

Since the release of the Winter Friends quilted and colored wall hanging, I’ve been getting requests for other seasons.

Like it’s companion project, this one is digitized for both multicolor and monochromatic. Also, I’ve colored it with pencils, a technique I happen to like.

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (9/30/2015)

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Winter Friends Quilted Wall Hanging

30
Nov

This project came about as an answer to my embroidery club participants who wanted an embroidered quilt. I’m sure you know the kind: every block is solidly stitched and then pieced together to create a huge embroidered scene that is so stitch-intensive it could practically stand up on its own.

Just the thought of stitching one of those things makes me feel tired! That is not my idea of something fun and enjoyable.

And not only would it take a long time to design, but it would also take a longer time to digitize, test, and make a sample. And guess who would have to do all that? Me!

When I saw this artwork, though, I knew what I wanted to do with it. It was drawn for color line work and with the details that were in it, you’d still need a really large hoop to do it justice.

By enlarging it even more and splitting it into manageable “window panes,” I could make one of those larger embroidered quilts that was really more quilt-like than one composed of embroidered blocks.

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Halloween Luminary Bags

21
Oct

I was playing around with punched tin designs and when I got the idea for making these luminaries. If you think we designers just sit down and whip something out, you’re woefully mistaken!

Even when an idea pops into my head, it still takes a while to figure out the best approach and work out all the details!

This project is about as inexpensive in materials as they come: paper lunch bags. You don’t even need any stabilizer or thread!

I did try making my own bags by cutting up grocery bags, stitching, and then folding into a lunch bag size but in the end, the lunch bags performed better.

The other supplies you need to finish the bag are also quite inexpensive – a bottle of acrylic paint, a small brush, and a common household product everyone is likely to have on hand.

I lit mine with battery operated “candles.” When Halloween is over, simply fold up the bags for next year!

Credits

Designed and made by Lindee Goodall (10/17/2013)

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