tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26653224759317631812024-03-18T21:00:28.321-07:00Tiny Toffee DesignsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665322475931763181.post-60363249350511959972017-01-26T05:16:00.004-08:002017-01-26T05:16:56.292-08:00Valentine´s Day freebie - Sweethearts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665322475931763181.post-74782519469096969492016-09-05T08:02:00.001-07:002016-09-05T08:02:27.395-07:00Halloween houses!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is it Halloween yet?!! Not quite yet but this doesn´t mean we cant sew up funny Halloween houses yet, right?! Let me introduce you the newest addition to the growing collection of Tiny Toffee patterns - the happiest haunted Halloween house block! :)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can find the pattern in my etsy shop right here:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You just got to love those coffin doors and just dream up who might be peeking out of that little window!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a little freebie as well...if you are feeling fancy you can add some embroidery to your house - click the link below to find a sheet with some ideas!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello everyone!!! So, it is no big secret that fall is my favorite ever time of the year so i just HAD to design a set of hexies to show my love for that special season! I am thrilled with how it turned out :) There is a lot of pumpkin goodness - a pumpkin and pumpkin pie -, a jaybird, an owl and a scarf for the knitting enthusiasts out there! You can find your copy in my etsy shop right here:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you everyone for sticking with me!!! Actually I got pretty good news - there is a new hexie pattern set!!! Yay! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meet some of my tropical peeps - a tucan and a turtle! :) There´s also a sail boat and a pineapple :) Are you ready for a tropical island trip?! I sure am! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75;">This is just a super quick blog post to tell you about some exciting news! If you are subscribed to </span><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">LPQ magazine</span></b><span style="color: #351c75;"> you already found out today but if you aren´t, here goes: in issue 37 that hit the newsstands today you will find a Tiny Toffee Designs booklet featuring a total of 26 picnic/Summer inspired hexies!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I sure hope you all are enjoying your Summer like we do - to celebrate the sweet life even more I created a set of hexies to showcase all those yummy treats that make Summer so much fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Think of ice cream parlors, sidewalk cafès, fun fairs, Summer parties...oh the joy!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There also is typical fair food - <span style="color: #b45f06;">cotton candy</span> and candy <span style="color: #3d85c6;">apples</span>!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least there is a <span style="color: #a64d79;">mug of hot chocolate</span> topped with marshmallows! :) (Are you getting hungry yet - I know I do!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello everyone and welcome to day 7 of the Tiny Toffee blog hop!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I actually can´t believe it is already the last stop of the blog hop today! Time did certainly fly by and I am so inspired by all the amazing projects "my girls" made!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As sad as I am that it´s the last day today I am so happy to direct you to my awesome makers today! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meet Mollie from Wildolive and Rachel from Woodenspoon!!! I have known both those lovely ladies for years and I have always been inspired so much by what they have been creating during those years of friendship! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mollie made a super simple but oh so effective project! Go and visit her and check out the prettiest magnet in the world ;) I know there will be many of these in my near future! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rachel had a totally different take on the heart hexie - she turned it into this drop-dead-gorgeous pencil case! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as if she wouldnt have amazed me enough by making one pencil case, she made TWO and used several of the other hexies from the Dream Big set!!! Oh my!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What could be more perfect than a heart hexie to wrap up the blog hop?! Everyone has put their heart into the project they made and I am insanely proud!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you so much to everyone who participated, to all my old and new followers, to everyone who just decided to give tiny piecing a go, to those who already shared their makes with me and to all those who will be sewing along tiny things with me in the future!!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665322475931763181.post-87327323805555630952016-03-21T08:13:00.000-07:002016-03-21T08:13:41.780-07:00Blog hop, day 6<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why did I choose mountains as a part of my Dream Big hexie set? Well, dreams are a very huge deal. Dreams are one of the most important things in life. They are keeping us motivated to work towards what we really want and they make us do things we´d never have done. Our dreams are making us strong and most important of all they make us believe in ourselves. If we believe in ourselves we are able to mountains!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can you believe it has been the first day of spring yesterday?! This got me all excited - everyone who knows me also knows that i am not a winter person and as soon as it starts getting cold and snowy I am longing for sunshine and heat! So, yesterday´s beginning of spring was a great excuse for my daughter and me to create a tiny cheerful spring decoration to put on her window. We used the mountain hexie to create the quickest ever hanger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was our little spring project and now please hop over to real superstar today - the lovely and awesome and crazy talented <a href="http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.de/2016/03/tiny-things-blog-hop.html"><i><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Amanda Jean from Crazy Mom Quilts</span></b></i></a>! Go and see her project for the mountains hexie!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy Friday everyone and welcome to day 5 of the Tiny Toffee blog hop!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I started collecting ideas for my Dream Big hexie set I came up with the idea of having a pencil hexie pretty soon. I am one of those people who always write everything down and who always carry a pencil and notebook with them wherever they go - you never know when inspiration strikes, right?! For me personally every design starts with a little note and keeps growing from there. Are you the same? Would you never leave the house without a pencil and paper - just in case?! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cloverandviolet.com/2016/03/dream-big-pencil-pouch-tiny-toffee-blog-hop.html"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">Jennie</span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I asked them both to have a play around with the pencil hexie from the Dream Big hexie set and oh boy did they do an awesome job with their projects!!! The one in the picture above was created by Jennie - who like me is a big planner lover and made the cutest planner supply!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The second project has been sewn by Rebecca and my daughter immediately said she wants a pencil case for school just like this! It turned out so gorgeous! I believe school is even more fun when you get to carry around a pencil case just like this! Visit Rebecca´s blog Hugs are Fun to see and read more about the cutest ever case!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today´s little big star is our tiny lucky elephant! Right away when I designed the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/270782820/dream-big-a-paper-piecing-hexagon?ref=shop_home_active_1">Dream Big hexie set</a> I knew I wanted to have an elephant in there! There are so many cultures where the elephant is a symbol not only of strength but also of wisdom and stability. A lot of people believe that if the trunk is up the elephant will shower good fortune on everyone who is walking by. What a beautiful idea! It is also said to keep elephants close to and facing a door to bring good luck into your house! So make sure to make an elephant...or two...or three... :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please make sure to go and visit her blog to see a lot more adorable photos of this sweet little guy!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Susi and I did a side swap last year where we traded hexies and other goodies. She challenged me to paper-piece or embroider the hexies, and once I got started, I was hooked. I've made several of Susi's patterns and have kept them in hexie form, but decided to create a sew-together bag with the elephants. The mama elephant is true to size, and the baby I reduced to 65%. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Such a fun experience making something so small, and finding the perfect project to make the elephants shine. Looking forward to seeing what Susi comes up with next! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Our arms start from the back because they were once wings."</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>First of all, thank you so much, Susi, for giving me the opportunity to be a part of your wonderful blog hop, and congratulations on the release of your sweet, new collection of paper pieced hexagons!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>When Susi invited me to be a part of her blog hop, I was absolutely thrilled. I’d been watching Susi create these teeny, tiny masterpieces for awhile, and each time a new design would pop up in my Instagram feed I couldn’t get over just how adorable they were. Elephants, stars, tiny flying geese, mountains? Yes, please! But then I saw her tiny swan hexie and was totally smitten. Susi managed to not only create the tiniest paper pieced swan ever, but she’d beautifully captured a swan’s grace and beauty within her pattern. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I was so happy to find I’d been assigned the swan pattern for the blog hop, and I immediately knew exactly what I wanted to create. I envisioned a sweet little project bag with three beautiful swans gracing the front of the pouch. I pulled a few scraps of charcoal Essex linen from my stash for the exterior front of the bag. I knew I wanted the bright white swans to immediately grab the eye, so I chose several black Cotton + Steel prints for the backgrounds of the three hexagons. With the front of the pouch simple and dark in color, I pulled a beautiful new print from Tula Pink’s Chipper line featuring sweet sleeping foxes for the back, as well as a second Chipper print for the interior.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I printed Susi’s pattern on my favorite foundation paper piecing paper (June Tailor Perfect Piecing Foundation sheets) and trimmed the pattern into three sections. If you’re new to paper piecing, be sure to include an extra 1/4 inch margin on each of the trimmed sides for piecing the sections back together. I’d never paper pieced any patterns this tiny, but it was actually a very easy pattern to work with. Each swan came together beautifully in a matter of minutes. After basting the swans into a hexagon, I topstitched them to the Essex linen and went about making a very simple and very basic zipper pouch. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>This was such a quick and easy project. In my opinion, it would make for a sweet handmade gift for friends or loved ones. Thanks again, Susi for inviting me to be part of the fun. I can’t wait to try your other beautiful designs!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you so much for being my guest blogger today, Kate!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Welcome Mike - the blog is all yours now! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>" It was an honor to sew these sweet designs for you Susi! These delightful little designs raise the bar on cuteness! Imagine the many uses...A sweet touch to add to a baby's bib. A patch for a worn elbow or a knee on your little ones clothing. A tiny hexie quilt featuring a themed design....I loved sewing these designs. The tiny size makes them a SUPER QUICK way to add that special touch to your next project! Thank you for asking me to sew with them....You are a TREASURED friend! I just love you!!!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you so much for being my guest blogger today, Mike!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Welcome to day 1 of the Tiny Toffee Blog Hop!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today my friends Heidi from fabricmutt and Andrea from crabapplequilts are going to show you their take on the Flying Geese/Arrow hexie and I couldn´t be more excited!</span></div>
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<a href="http://hugsarefun.com/"><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Rebecca</i></b></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, just in time for St.Patrick´s Day I had a play around with a hexie pattern :) I thought it turned out pretty cute, so I wanted to share it with you. This is comes right out of my sketchbook, so please don´t expect this to be prettied up digitally - I hope you will have fun with this free little pattern! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">...or Tiny Toffee hexies gone big!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Several sewers told me they think they would never master paper piecing in such a small scale. First of all, let me tell you that I am convinced each one of you can do this! Secondly, I thought I´d play around with my designs and enlarge them to a size that doesn´t scare those sewers! ;) The super sized hexies are a great option to increase your confidence in paper piecing. So if you can do a super sized hexie you can totally do a tiny scale one too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Piece the hexie as usual. When you are done don´t remove the paper right away but make sure to cut all excess fabric off along the edges of the paper. Remove paper and use your pieced hexie as a template to cut another hexie from background fabric and one from fusible interfacing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Layer the pieced hexie and the background hexie on top of each other, right sides together. Sew all around with a 1/4 inch seam allowance, leaving a gap for turning on one edge!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so pleased to introduce you to Tinytoffee´s latest set of hexie pattern - "Into The Woods"! If you are a fan of woodland odds and ends these little gems are for you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find the new set of patterns right <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyToffeeDesigns?ref=pr_shop_more"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">HERE</span></b></a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Welcome to week 5 of the Tiny Toffee Merry Stitchalong! Today we will be visiting Mr. Miller - stamp collector, designer and owner of the North Pole Post Office!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Welcome to my little kingdom, everyone! It is very busy in here all year round as we receive Christmas letters and wishlists all year long, not just during Christmas time. The elves you can see over there are writing replies to each and every single letter. Once they are happy with their letters the elves will package them up in an envelope and put a fancy stamp on it. To make sure that children all over the world know right away where their letter comes from I designed this unique Santa´s hat stamp."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For super simple Christmas tags to fancy up your presents this year make your favorite paper pieced hexie as well as an additional hexie for the background. Sew them together right sides out with a slip stitch and either pop a ribbon inside for a hanger or simply use a safety needle to attach it to your present.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Hello fellow candy lovers! Welcome to the 'Dancing Candy Cane!' In my shop you will find whatever candy you can dream of! My most requested treats are wildberry jam filled gingerbread pops. I will collect the wild berries on my Summer vacations in the woods and turn them into the most delicious jam that will be filled into my gingerbread pops. Mrs.Claus always buys a huge box to give to her husband to store away as a special treat on his long and busy sleigh rides!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Prepare your hexies. Make your Christmas tree first. I chose to use pink for the tree + stem and brown for the background to make my hexie look like a "jam-filled" gingerbread. Once you are done with piecing your tree make it into a normal English paper pieced hexie. Make an additional hexie with just brown fabric for the back of the gingerbread pop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Hello folks! Welcome to the owlery! Help yourself to a pair of earmuffs if it is too loud for your delicate hearing! I myself can just turn down my hearing aid whenever my feathered friends get too excited! Post owls have been inhabiting the North Pole ever since I was a little boy and I have always dreamed of taking over the job as owlery caretaker from my father who has taken it from his father and so on. These amazing creatures make sure that wish lists from children all over the world are delivered right to Santa´s front door and they are most reliable when it comes to helping Santa and his elves delivering presents on Christmas!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- owl templates can be found <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5oSYLWABD18U25zRnVrY0VLdnM/view?usp=sharing"><span style="color: black;"><i><b>right here</b></i></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- one of the envelope hexie templates from the Christmas delights pattern</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Make the owl. First sew the belly to the owl body front. Stitch on the background eye part, then sew the eyes onto that background you just stitched on. Use a simple "cross-looking" embroidery stitch to attach the pupils.The next step is a little bit tricky, but absolutely doable - promised! We need to slip the fabric envelope under the beak whilst sewing the beak on to make sure it will get caught in this seam. Just go slowly and you will be fine! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello and welcome to week two of the Tiny Toffee Merry Stitchalong! I´m so happy to see you!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Please notice - there is a little tutorial on how to get nice matching points on hexies that got several parts further down in this blog post!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Hello everyone! Come on in, no squeezing, there´s space for everyone! I remember a few years back we had to move all elves in here as Mrs. Clause decided it´s about time to give their elfin home a full makeover. Busy little things ...not the Clauses, the elves of course...but speaking of the Clauses, they always are busy making others happy. Mrs. Clause will pop in every now and then with a big plum cake for me, just because. She has been an awesome customer here for years and always makes sure to order a fresh new Christmas wreath for her door on a regular basis. Today I want to show you how to create your own Christmas wreath for your own front door!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, Miss Ann is quite a cheerful little lady, isn´t she? So let´s get started to create Christmas wreaths with her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- your favorite hexie from the Christmas Delights PDF, pieced and made into a finished hexie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- six more finished 1 inch hexies to go around your pieced hexie </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Gather your supplies. We will need seven hexies in total - your favorite paper pieced one as well as six normal ones. We also need a piece of ribbon for the hanger. Optionally you can do what I did and simply chain some stitches to build your hanger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Arrange the normal hexies around the pieced one to get a layout you like. Now sew them together to build the top of the Christmas wreath. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Take a piece of felt that is larger than the hexie wreath. Place wreath on top and secure it with a few pins. Now stitch around the paper pieced hexie in the middle, right in the seam. We do this to secure the fabric to the felt and because it will come out a lot more flat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Slip the hanger between the fabric and felt on top of the wreath, pin. Now sew all around the hexie wreath, catching the hanger in your seam. Almost done!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I´m done with both of them I make sure that I ironed them properly. I will then see where exactly I have to join them together. Once you have found that "joining line" on both parts mark it. You might wonder now why exactly I´m doing this. Paper has the habit to sometimes just move out of the way, which often might not matter super much on bigger scale paper piecing but can make a huge difference when we are piecing in such a small scale. So, to be on the safe side, I will baste those two parts right along the "joining line" and then sew exactly along that basted line. This way it does not matter whether or not the paper is moving because the basting stitches will hold everything in place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can´t tell you how happy I am to be spending the next few weeks with all you talented people and creating Christmas ornaments with you! We will be making some handmade treasures for the next five Mondays - to make this even more special let´s take a little tour through the beautiful village at North pole that Mr. and Mrs.Claus call their home. Today we will meet Mrs.Claus. She prepared some yummy gingerbread and a cozy seat on the front porch of her tea room. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>"Hello wonderful people from all over the world who want to share their love of handmade Christmas by sewing and creating together! Being Mr.Claus´ wife is a very busy but most wonderful thing. I have so many things to do and prepare before Christmas Eve and my dear husband got up with the snow chickens not only to feed the reindeer and take care of our village but also to read the hundreds of letters from children all over the world that arrive at our post office every morning. He always wants to make their wishes come true and if a kid asks for a blue train and our most silly elf went adventurous and painted it red instead he can get a little grumpy. His grumpiness never lasts longer than a minute because he is a very soppy giant. He would never ever throw one of the kids´letters away but instead he keeps them in a special book that is commonly known as "Santa´s Book". I do very often catch him flicking through this book with a big grin on his face. Today you get a chance to make a tiny version of this most precious book!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Isn´t Mrs.Claus a very nice woman? I can remember when I was a little girl I wrote letters to Santa, a lot of letters...not only to send him a wishlist but also to tell him how much I liked Christmas and what cookies I would bake with my mom and what candy I found in my advent calendar. Such treasured memories - so let´s get started and making Santa´s book today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">- page 3 of the Christmas Delights PDF with the "letter to Santa" hexie template</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">-size reference and optional felt book cover details can be found right <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5oSYLWABD18NTMtQVN2X3RsdWc/view?usp=sharing"><i><b><span style="color: black;">here</span></b></i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Create your book pattern. This sounds more scary than it is! Our starting point is the top left corner of the envelope. Found it? It´s the one I marked pink in my picture. Now take a ruler and draw a line to the left, 5/8" long. Draw another line upwards, 3/4" long. Now we have the top left corner of the book shape rectangle. The total rectangle measures 4.5" x 3". Find the center and draw a line at 0.5" on each side of the center to create the spine. Refer to the photo, it will make things a lot clearer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. Choose your fabrics. You will need fabric for the book cover (front and back), a contrasting fabric for the spine and fabric for the inside of the book. I chose a bright linen for my inside because I wanted to embroider the year inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3. Now that we have created the pattern for sewing the book we will simply paper piece it like we would with the hexies (part 8 and 9 of the original envelope hexie template are still above and under the envelope but slightly longer now, part 10 is the spine and part 11 is the book back).When you are done trim the fabric all around the paper as I already included a seam allowance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. Cut the interior fabric piece as big as the book exterior (4.5" x 3"). If you want to embroider something inside now is the time to do so! Pay attention to what side you put your embroidery on as it will then either be in the front or the back of your book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once you are done with embroidering tiny little details to the outside and inside of your book lay the two pieces on top of each other, right sides together. Pin. Sew around it with a 1/4" seam allowance but remember to leave a 1 inch gap in the book bottom to turn the book right side out. Clip all 4 corners and turn the book right side out. Carefully pinch out the corners. Iron and then topstitch all around as close to the edge as you can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6. Fold your book in halves as if closing and crease to find the middle. Do the same with your felt. Lay the "open" book in front of you, inside facing you. Pin the bookmark just right next to the center crease on the right hand side of the crease. Do the same with the hanger. Place the white felt on top of it, matching the center creases. Sew down the center crease to secure all layers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are here for the Christmas Ornament Stitchalong - have a seat and get cozy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am SO happy you are here and stitching along with me! This year is all about handmade Christmas for my daughter and me so handmade ornaments are mandatory! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will put up one or two tutorials every Monday throughout the month of November here on my blog. There´s a total of five Mondays, starting on <b>November the 2nd</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of each blog post I will give you an idea of the supplies you might need for the tutorial on the following Monday. This will give you a whole week to get prepared, although I am pretty sure that you will already have everything we need in your craft room! The ornaments I will teach you won´t be your average Christmas ornaments, some of them will be silly, some fancy, and some fairly traditional. You can totally make them your own by using another hexie template other than the one I suggest, by using other fabrics, more or less embroidery...you get it, right?! :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Santa left a small gift for me to give to everyone who got their pattern for participating in the stitchalong. You will get an <b>exclusive Santa Snow Dome pattern</b> to make this whole thing even merrier!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All in all this will be a little tour through Santa´s wonderful world down at North Pole...we will get to visit so many different places. Our first stop will be in Mrs. Clause´s tea room to have a chat and cookie on her front porch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We will be using the hashtag <b>#tinytoffeemerrystitchalong</b> on Instagram. If you have any photos that you would like to share feel free to send them along to me and I will upload them to my blog so we can all admire your makes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- baker´s twine or ribbon for the hangers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- hot chocolate and cookies to enjoy while stitching (this is like the most important supply if you ask me!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- page 3 of the Christmas Delights PDF with the "letter to Santa" hexie template (please do <b>NOT</b> sew this up yet!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- very small felt scraps in green and red (totally optional!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- a piece of white felt (measuring about 3.75 x 2.25")</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so excited for you to get started with your ornaments - see you on Monday 2nd of November!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love Christmas! <span class="">It makes me happy to decorate our tree together with my little girl. This year will be all about handmade Christmas ornaments and these hexies are perfect to be turned into the most delightful little treasures!</span></span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get your PDF copy of the Christmas hexies quickly <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/252102492/christmas-delights-a-paper-piecing?ref=shop_home_active_1"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">right here</span></b></a> and let the fun begin!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, no ,no...stop! Don´t run away yet!!! This is just a very big name for a really simple task! Foundation paper piecing pretty much just means that you will use your sewing machine to stitch fabric directly onto paper that has your template printed on it. Yes, I am totally serious about sewing ON the paper! Are you still with me?! Great! Let´s get started!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Print out the hexie templates for the PDF and cut them out. Don´t be confused - the templates are reversed to give you a finished paper pieced hexie that is directed the right way. Just remember that the template is printed to the back of the paper and the fabric will be placed on the front so you will end up with a mirror image of the printed template. Don´t worry, this will make perfect sense to you once you get started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are a very organized person you could totally print out a second set of templates and color them in to give you an idea of what colors you want to use and what fabric to pick out for achieving the look you want. Either way, now is a good time to get your fabrics ready and plug your iron in!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, we will do a little change on your sewing machine setting. When doing paper piecing you need to set your stitch length to shorter than you usually do. On my machine I tend to sew with a stitch length of 2,5 and for paper piecing I set it to 1,5. The reason why we are doing this is easily explained - the shorter your stitches are, the more stitches you will get and the more perforation your paper will get, which will make it a lot easier to rip the paper out once we are done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see the numbered steps on the paper, right? So let´s find number 1. The sewing line between number 1 and 2 will connect two pieces of fabric showing two parts of the finished hexie. So you will have to keep that in mind when you choose colors/fabrics. One of those two fabrics might have to be a background and one might be a part of the main object on the hexie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Place the fabric piece you cut out for number one right side up on the front (the non-printed side) of the paper template and hold it against a light source (window, lamp, computer monitor) to help you placing it perfectly. Make sure the piece is big enough to completely cover the number 1 area plus enough seam allowance all around it. Pin it in place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Find the fabric piece you cut out for number 2 and place it right sides together with the number 1 piece in a way that guarantees that both fabric pieces will overlap the sewing line between 1 and 2 - hold it against your light source to make sure! Pin in place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fold your paper template away from the seam you just created and if the seam allowance is really big trim it back to about 1/8 inch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now you are ready to add the fabric for number 3. Just hold the paper template against your light source to help you place the number 3 fabric piece right sides together with the number 2 fabric piece along the sewing line between number 2 and 3. Pin in place, double check that it is big enough and then sew it on along the sewing line and please backstitch again! Fold paper template back, trim the seam allowance and iron. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Repeat all these steps until you are done. Now you will notice that there is excess fabric that overlaps the paper template. Trim all the excess off and then rip out your paper and iron the fabric hexie once again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is where foundation paper piecing meets English paper piecing - oh boy! Haha, again, it really sounds more freaky than it is! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simply cut out the 1 inch hexie template provided on the PDF pattern and place it on the wrong side of the fabric hexie, centering it carefully. Secure it with a pin and baste the excess fabric around the 1 inch paper hexie. When I baste hexies I don´t run my stitches through the fabric AND paper but rather have them running just through the fabric. Why? Because I don´t have to remove any basting stitches in my projects as they simply will not show and it makes removing the paper pieces pretty easy as you can just slip them back out once you are done with your hexie project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do I do it? I will make a stitch at each corner of the hexie to secure the two edges and then will just move to the next corner and do the same there. Repeat this for all corners and secure your thread on the last one. See, all basting happened on the back side of the hexie! No removing of stitches later - hooray! </span></div>
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