Check out these adorable Chanukah Stitcheries that Miri created and is making available for free on her web site. There’s Fashionista Girl and Chanukah Top… too cute!

Here’s a gorgeous free pattern from Marcie at Patchalot Patterns called Christmas Sparkler. Many thanks to Mary from Quilt Hollow for giving me permission to publish her photo here and also pointing me to Marcie’s free pattern. Check out the Photo Gallery of completed Christmas Sparklers.

With just two weekends left before Christmas, I sure wish I had time to complete this gorgeous Christmas Shopping Bag. The detailed instructions with photos are fantastic. I would extend the handles several inches, as I prefer a bag that I can carry over my shoulder.

Serena from Embroidery Treasures has instructions on how to make a bag for baking perfect fluffy potatoes in the microwave. When I contact Serena about featuring her product, she asked to wait a couple of days while she created the embroidery design files that can be used on the bag. How sweet is that, thanks [...]

Jan Patek has some lovely free patterns available on her site. I really liked this one called Gatherings. It’s made with scraps of tans, yellows, reds, blues and greens. The finished block is 16″ and the quilt measures 70″ x 86″.

If someone wants to know what they can make ME for the holidays, here’s a great idea. (Just remember I have tiny wrists and I’m partial to purple .) The Pincushion Cuff Tutorial is well written with excellent photos to help along the way. There are lots of great sewing tips on that site, browse [...]

Here’s a quick and easy tutorial to make six placemats. You’ll also need the Stack and Cut Crazy Squares tutorial too.

From Compuquilt comes this whimsical Simply Santa quilt. The Santa applique pattern and paper piecing patterns for the trees are included. Just be sure to download each of the PDF files for each section of the project. The finished quilt is 51.5″ x 44″

Carol Doak, the Queen of paper piecing in my mind, has some wonderful free patterns on her web site. The pattern in the photo is called May Flower. Carol has a blog too, Carol Doak’s Corner.

Here’s a great tutorial on How to Make a Fabric Charging Basket. Personally, I don’t need a charging basket, but I can always use baskets for other purposes. I plan to make up a bunch of these for gifts. I’ll move up the hole cut out area to make it a handle and add another [...]

Here’s a gorgeous Log Cabin Pincushion Tutorial from Calamity Jane’s Cottage. Make up a bunch at one time for all of your quilting and sewing friends.

Here’s a very easy and quick project, made exciting by the wonderful choice of bright fabrics. Mango Tango finishes at 54.5″ square. It’s a great pattern to use up coordinated fabric bundles, or make it all scrappy. I love patterns that let me use up my stash!