Prim Winter Hope- A Christmas Freebie

The countdown is on . One day until Thanksgiving and 31 days until Christmas. I have officially started my Christmas shopping. Have you started yet? Most of my shopping will be done online this year. The grandbabies have made their list. 

Today I wanted to pop in with a super short post and share with you Prim Winter Hope. It is the newest addition in my Prim Winter series.

 If you have missed any of them, I invite you to see the 2020 Prim Winter ornaments and last week's Prim Winter Angel. Just click on the names and you will magically be transported back to the post with the pdfs. The previous ornaments include: 

Prim Winter Love , 

 Prim Winter Home, Prim Winter Peace   Prim Winter Joy ,   Prim Winter Faith  

and Prim Winter Angel 

In Prim Winter Hope  a simple red candle is  burning. 

It is a small measuring just 33 X 45. Not big at all, and it can be whipped up in no time flat. 

If you are interested, just check out the pdfs below  and my little disclaimer. 

 Many of you know , but I always like to leave this little disclaimer.  

I stitch my little designs for fun and to decorate my home. I feel very blessed by this community and love sharing my little charts, but I am not a professional designer. And I do not have professional software. Thank you for understanding that I  have to put each page on separate pdf downloads because of the devices I use. I apologize for that.  And I am always grateful for your kind encouragement , your visits, and stitching my little designs. 

Click here for instruction page. 

Click here for colored chart. 

Click here for black/ white chart. 

Well I didn't get on a roll here. I have kept it short and sweet. Aren't you proud? Lol.  Before you leave, I always like to tell you how much I appreciate you for stopping by for a visit. You always make my day. As always...

Happy stitching, ya'll

Melisa

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing . It makes no sound at all but softly gives itself away. 

Hugs and Stitches!!!

Dedicated to my sweet baby sister, Amy. This one is for you, Amo. Love you. 

Crow Creek Doodle Freebie - Embroidery Doodle

 Hello, dear friends.  Every year once that August rolls around, I get into the quilting and crafting mood. Fall just brings it out in me. Lol.  I start doodling away ready to make a few more small quilts to add to my growing collection. I always do some sort of crafting that involves crows. 

Here are a couple of quilts I have created in the past and the beginning of some fall decorating. Crows are one of my favorite birds among hummingbirds, chickens and cardinals. I even decorate my foyer in crows which I will show in a future post. 

Yesterday, I posted a free Fall cross stitch called Crow Creek Saltbox. If you missed this freebie click here to go to the post. 

This design was inspired by my family's  Autumn visits to a farm in a neighboring state called Crow Creek Farm .  As I stitched on this piece, I decided it needed a little quilt to go with it. 

So I drew out some prim doodles to embroider. I love to embroider though I am a little rusty right now. It has been a year since I have embroidered anything.  I used DMC 310 black floss and a back stitch. I think DMC 3371 would look awesome too.

 

I knew I wanted the quilt to be small - mat size really. So I could just accent a little table.  Finally, I decided that a 3 inch square for each doodle would be perfect. 

These were real quick to stitch. 

 I didn't like my first pumpkin so I put it aside  for another project. I also stitched a saltbox house , but my little grandson accidently snipped it with kid scissors. ( I still made a little pillow out of it which can be seen here - with the snip and all. Lol) 

 Once I  completed the blocks , I pieced them into a small quilt and hand quilted it in a few hours.

Now that  extra pumpkin block  ( which is sort of lopsided) -  I decided to make into a candle wrap . I like  my candles  to be decorated too. For the candle wrap, I just used a piece of black and white gingham. I then measured the height of the candle in respect to where I wanted the wrap to be and made sure it wrapped around the candle. I turned under the edges of the gingham and sewed them in place.. Then I found the center of the fabric and used a long running stitch to attach the pumpkin block to the gingham. I just tacked mine around the candle with a few stitches so I can remove it easily.  When burning,  I never leave my candle unattended.

These doodles can be used to create anything  such as in  wool applique', punch needle , embroidery or whatever you dream up. Wouldn't one of the motifs look cute on a needlebook? HMMMM!  🤔

If you are interested in making something with these little doodles,  just  click here  .

These doodles can be enlarged to the size that you want and for personal use. Now if you are interested in making a quilt the same size as mine, I  do not have instructions typed , but I will give the measurements that I used for the quilt top. 

You will need  

Cut 4- 5"  square pieces of white fabric for embroidery. Once it is embroidered trim to 3 1/2" . 

Cut 9 - 1  1/2" yellow squares for cornerstone blocks.

Cut 6  1 1/2" x 3 1/2" from brown fabric 

Cut 6-  1 1/2" x 3 1/2" from orange fabric

If you decide to create something with these doodles, I would love to see what amazing project you dream up. Please tag me on Instagram and use #pinkernpunkinquilting.  Using the hashtag ensures that I will see  your work  due to the device that I am working off ( For some reason,  I can not always see the post  if you just use my name  lol  😃😆(Remember I am inept technology wise. )  

Thank you for stopping by and checking my little quilt out. I hope to work on some fall decor and post it soon. So please stop back in to see what I have been up to. Have a wonderful rest of the week and as always, 

Happy stitching, ya'll!

Melisa