DebbieWendt's Blog

Welcome to Day 7…..MY Day! I’m Debbie Wendt of Wendt Quilting, for those of you who don’t know me. This is my blog where I share Two Tips every Tuesday and other quilty things that happen in my little world of quilting. I hope you will leave your email at the end of my about page to continue to follow my quilting journey. You can also find me on my website, Wendt Quilting…vending and teaching at quilt shows, on Facebook under Wendt Quilting and on Instagram under debbiewendtquilting!

My Holiday Prep is based on one of my newest tools, Hex-a-ma-jig Jr. and “jelly roll” strips (2 1/2″ strips). I’m sure you have some of those wonderful strips laying around, or it is easy enough to cut your own! I had the privilege of doing a “how to” for AQS Christmas Countdown last year. I shared my Winter Tree-Land pieced trees. I am sharing them again here with you. I’ll give you some ideas in photos below. You can find the instructions for Winter Tree-Land on my website under patterns and then free patterns. Yes, the pattern is free but you will need to add it to the cart (no cost) to get the download. All is there for you to make your choice of options. Each option only uses 2 “jelly roll” strips (two strips cut 2 1/2″ x Width of Fabric)!!!

Make Option 1- 3 Small Trees, great for a 3D Pyramid of the three trees. Option 2 – 1 Small and 1 Large Trees, shown as my fancy trees and traditional trees. These are left as unfinished little quilt tops and attached to wooden triangles with wooden spool bases. Adding stars and wool balls (from handbehg Designs) make great centerpieces or mantel decorations. Feel free to finish these into little quilts. Option 3A – 1 Medium and 2 Tiny Trees with light tops, Option 3B – 1 Medium and 2 Tiny Trees with dark tops, This option can be made into a couch pillow; bonus instructions included. Or use your imagination to create place mats or a table runner. Option 4 – 5 Tiny Trees great for Coasters!

The paper templates are included for the triangles and diamonds used to make these trees!!! It is always easier to cut around an acrylic template. You can purchase Hex-a-ma-jig Jr. to cut the triangles and diamonds from your 2 1/2″ strips. Checkout Wendt Quilting for Hex-a-ma-jig Jr.!I hope you enjoy making these delightful trees! I’ll be doing Day 9 on Wednesday. See you right back here.

in quilting,

Debbie

Happy Day 6! Today we head to Morna’s blog for a sweet treat. Check out Creative Arts Professionals for Morna’s day of holiday prep!

in quilting,

Debbie

Are you getting some good ideas? I sure am! Today we head back to Perkins Dry Goods to see another great idea that Celine has for us in prepping for the holidays.

Enjoy!

in quilting,

Debbie

Today we head over to Melissa Bryan’s blog called Big Bee Applique. I hope you enjoy her table runner! I love quick and beautiful, don’t you?!?

in quilting

Debbie

Hello Day 3! Hop on over to Susan Knapp’s blog (Branching Out) to find a baking and sewing idea for the holidays. It is starting to look a lot like Christmas.

And wishing a Happy Hanukkah to those celebrating beautiful nights of lights!

in quilting,

Debbie

P.S. I have upgraded this blog. You will see a new address (debbiewendt.com) but my old blog address will link back to it as well!!

Today I’m sharing a blog hop I am participating in. It started yesterday and so Day 1 was actually on Nov. 30th, sorry my confusion in not getting it posted yesterday. BUT, I’ll post the links below for the 10 days of Holiday Prep. Today’s Holiday idea is over at Perkins Dry Goods. Celine Perkins has posted a Holiday gift idea and recipe. Day 1 is Linda Pearl at One Quilting Circle. (click on the highlighted links to see their posts) Linda did a great introduction with a list of those the designers/creatives participating. All you have to do is follow along to get some great IDEAS and recipes for the Holidays!

I’ll reserve my tips for my TWO days of posting for the hop. Yes, that is two days…Dec. 6th and 8th! Be sure to poke around and see what these designers are up to. I’ll see you back here on Dec. 6th for my first hop post. The schedule for the Holiday Prep Blog Hop by day is listed below. ENJOY!!

in quilting,

Debbie

Day 1 – Nov.30th – One Quilting Circle – Linda Pearl

Day 2 – Dec. 1st – Perkins Dry Goods – Celine Perkins

Day 3 – Dec. 2nd – The Quilt Branch – Susan Knapp

Day 4 – Dec. 3rd – Big Bee Applique – Melissa Bryan

Day 5 – Dec. 4th – Perkins Dry Goods – Celine Perkins

Day 6 – Dec. 5th – Creative Arts Professionals – Morna McEver Golletz

Day 7 – Dec. 6th – Wendt Quilting – Debbie Wendt (right here!)

Day 8 – Dec. 7th – One Quilting Circle – Linda Pearl

Day 9 – Dec. 8th – Wendt Quilting – Debbie Wendt (back to me again!)

Day 10 – Dec. 9th – One Quilting Circle – Linda Pearl

As we roll into Thanksgiving week, I want to wish everyone a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I’m thankful for my faithful followers and appreciate all of you who follow me on this quilty journey. I’m having fun with speaking at guilds, continuing to design tools and patterns and all things quilting!

With our American Thanksgiving we know the winter holidays are just around the corner. I’ll be sharing a couple holiday tips the first week of December in a blog hop. All the details are to come, so be sure to check back.

I’m working on a couple ornament projects with Christmas fast approaching. The first one is for a secret gift, but I wanted to show the back and a solution….well, actually what I used in desperation. I needed a temporary backing for this ornament. I forgot to bring any spare fabric on my trip, so how about a coffee filter. It worked to cover the fusible and is soft and thin to stitch through. I’ll give a report when it is finished and given!

The second is also a secret… in tracing the cups onto the paper back fusible, I decided to make some right-hand mugs and some left-hand mugs. (I started tracing onto the paper and realized I could have both “hands”. It will be fun to see if anyone notices that some are right and some left. Shhh, don’t tell!

#1 – Try a coffee filter to use as a light weight backing. I’ve used dryer sheets before, now we’ll see how the coffee filter hold up!

#2 – Be sure to reverse your design when tracing onto fusible. (Unless you don’t mind things in reverse or have a design that doesn’t require it to be reverse….!!)

in quilting,

Debbie

I’m back in the swing of teaching (IN PERSON!) and giving guild lectures (both in person and on Zoom). Thank you to Rhododendron Needlers quilt Guild for having me teach on Saturday. An all day workshop on BINDINGS. We explored many techniques and they went home with a notebook full of samples and my Brilliant Bindings tool! I’ll be speaking at their guild meeting tomorrow night about…you guessed it…Bindings a World of Options!

Also, thank you to Hands Across the Valley Quilt Guild. I did a Zoom lecture for them on Sunday about My Quilting Journey!

Yesterday I was invited to give a 3-minute Meet the Teachers presentation at the New England Quilt Museum. The Museum puts this on for the supporting guilds in the New England area. It was fun to give a quick overview of the 4 lectures/trunk shows I give and share a few of the classes/workshops I teach. THREE minutes….YES, I had to talk fast. Seriously, I don’t think I talked too fast, but the time sure goes quickly. It was fun to catch up with other teachers and talk to many local guild reps about hiring me to do a program or workshop.

I’m going to keep this post wordy with just my photo. I’m about to the end of my “free space” on wordpress. I’ll continue to have this blog, but I may have to change the address to get to it. I’ll keep you posted! Plus, I’ll continue to do Two Tips. I have some projects coming up to share many more tips. I will also be a part of a blog hop the first week of December, so keep your eyes peeled for creative holiday prep ideas!!

#1 – Visit a local Museum. Many have amazing displays of fabric and fiber art. My local New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA is a little gem!

#2 – Take a quilt friend with you on that Museum visit!

in quilting,

Debbie

The International Quilt Festival in Houston is in the books! It was great to have an in person show. I had a booth, taught a lecture and a class! My booth is shown below from several angles.

My favorite part is the TV I added to show my demo videos on Brilliant Bindings and Hex-a-ma-jig.

I’m working on getting those videos on my website.

I missed writing the last two Tuesdays due to set-up and then driving home. I was able to give many tips in person in my “Bindings – A World of Options” lecture and “Done by Three” class. For bindings, try a variety of fabrics, consider bias as well as straight of grain. In “Done by Three” we covered the basics of cutting, sewing 1/4″ seams and making blocks. Once they had blocks made we learned to square them and began arranging them into a quilt. Using blocks from several students we put them together into the start of the quilt. Not bad, for a variety of fabrics!

Three days later, I got a photo from a student’s finished quilt top! I LOVE Terry C.’s quilt and appreciate her sharing it for us to oogle over! Well DONE! Terry added a clever border with her leftover pieces. This quilt is a great use for Fat Quarters!!

Thanks for a great show in Houston! I look forward to more student quilt photos and reports of using a new, or rediscovered binding ideas.

in quilting,

Debbie