Sue Stocking

The summer Row By Row Experience is AWESOME fun for quilters across the country.

I have joined several Facebook groups that swap license plates and the row kits.

I've made many friends and met many fine women who share my passion for fabric, patterns and the camaraderie of trading and swapping within the quilting community.

This stocking was designed as a THANKS to everyone who traded with me this summer.

This stocking will hang in my sewing room all year. It's not a "Christmas" stocking for me. It's a stocking shaped bag to hold things--like extra license plates!!

The Sue Stocking pattern ($5.00) is available in my Etsy shop here.

Preserve 2 of your favorite license plates forever! 

The "Sue Stocking" pattern makes a 7" x 16" stocking.

The outline, the top horizontal line and 2 diagonal lines are drawn onto the muslin.

After piecing SECTION 1, baste on the diagonal lines, then from the backside baste on the outer line. Now you can see the excess to trim away. 

SECTION 2 has the appliqué tree. 

(You could substitute the foundation pieced tree here.)

This section looks odd because a lot of it will get trimmed away.

The corner of the tree goes on the DOT marked from the pattern.

Baste across the bottom then flip over and baste the rest of the section from the back.

Basted sections.

Excess is trimmed away from the basted line.

Piece SECTION 3 and lay it across the bottom.

(You can substitute the foundation pieced shop here.)

Baste top diagonal line then baste the rest from the backside. Trim.

Double fold a length of fabric to make the seam covers.

Lat over the raw edges and top stitch down bot sides of the cover.

There should be about 5" leftover from the top seam. 

Sew both edges and use this piece for the hanging tab.

Detail of topstitching and machine appliqué.

Prepare to quilt the front and back.

OOPS!!! I forgot to cover the raw edges at the bottom of the name plate! 

So I added that when I did the quilting. No worries!

Both sides are quilted. Lay right sides together and sew.

Zig zag seam to finish and TRIM the top excess seam allowance to 1/8" before binding the top.

Add the hanging tab by sewing through both layers.

Haha now you got to "See Sue Sew!"

These stockings were made the same way but I used selvages for all the strips and the names are appliquéd. The tree and house blocks are foundation pieced.

To see the blog post about how I made these see the Christmas Stockings post on this blog.

Finish it Friday link up at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Quilting the Row by Row--2 at a time

Last weekend Earl and Katie returned from their Maui Honeymoon tanned and happy with the row from the Maui Quilt Shop for me. This will go on the friends/family swap side of my row by row since I didn't personally walk into the shop to get the pattern.

Maui Quilt Shop in Kihei, HI

Thank you Earl and Katie!! What a nice memory to add to this 2015 quilt!!!

And while I am waiting for the last 2 rows to complete my 18 row quilt I started quilting the rows back to back. One side is all shops I went to and the other side is swapped rows or rows from friends.

Hopefully by next week I'll have all the rows done and quilted.

Linking to Finish it Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Row By Row 2015--the Second Batch of Rows

This is the second group of rows for my 2015 Row By Row quilt so far.

The wine row will go on the front of the quilt with the first 8 rows.

All the rest of these rows kits were obtained thru friends and family.

So, these will be the back side of the row by row quilt.

Sew Original in Winston-Salem, NC

I love the wine glass on the license plate!

Purple Frog Quilt Shop in Jefferson, OR

I swapped for this hilarious row. Thanks Kathleen W! 

Scruffy Quilts in San Mateo, CA

I just love these geckos. Thanks Jan R!

The Sewing Studio, Inc. in Martinsville, VA

These fish will have button eyes after the quilting. Thanks Teresa F!

Sharkys Vac N Sew in Wildwood, FL

This shark is adorable and oh look it swallowed a RI license plate! Thanks Suzanne B!

Gone Quiltin, LLC in Bandera, TX

The contrast and colors in this row are wonderful. Thanks Laura C!

Quilter's Paradise in Mt Pleasant, IA

What can I say about these silly frogs? THANKS Karen R!!!!

To make an even 18 rows I've got 3 more kits coming.

Earl and Katie are bringing me a kit from their honeymoon on Maui!!

Aloha!

Linking to Finish It Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.

Earl and Katie got married!

My son Earl Holman married Katie Brant on 7-25-2015 in Pinehurst, NC.

Katie is gorgeous inside and out! We love her and Earl is so thrilled to finally marry her.

John and I thank our friends and family that made the trip to Pinehurst, NC for some golf and the wedding festivities.

This is the rest of the wedding party.

What a fun bunch of young adults.

We wish for them a lifetime of good health and happiness.

(No quilting on this trip!)

Row By Row 2015--the First 8 Rows

The Row By Row Experience for 2015 started on June 21. Each shop will give out a free pattern for a "row" that measures 9" x 36". Quilters collect rows and put them together to win a prize---more fabric! I have sworn that I will buy ZERO fabric this sumer unless it is in one of the row kits. (But winning fabric is OK!)
Since 6/21 I have visited:

Capital Quilts in Gaithersburg, MD
Traditions At The White Swan in Hagerstown, MD
Patches in Mt Airy, MD.
Calvert Quilt Shop in Prince Frederick, MD
Sewlovelee in White Stone, VA,
The Crazy Cousin in Fredericksburg, VA
Quilt Studio in Fredericksburg, VA
Bonnies's Sewing & Fabric in Stafford, VA
The Quilt Vine in Trappe, MD
Mare's Bears in Lewes, DE
Serendipity Quilt Shop in Dagsboro, DE
Cottonseed Glory in Annapolis, MD
Cary Quilting Company in Cary, NC
Thread Waggle in Raleigh, NC
Lindarella's Quilt Works in Southern Pines, NC
Ye Olde Forest Quilt Shop in Greensboro, NC
Studio Stitch in Greensboro, NC
Sew Original in Winston-Salem, NC

From those 18 quilt shops this is what I've got sewn so far:

Traditions At The White Swan in Hagerstown, MD.

See the spider face as the dark blue center square? :)

Patches Quilting & Sewing in Mt. Airy, MD.

I eliminated the posts and rope that went in front of the cabanas. It didn't work for me.

The Crazy Cousin in Fredericksburg, VA.

I love these crazy ducks!! Their boat is still roped to the dock!

Bonnie's Sewing & Fabric in Stafford, VA.

This kit had the raindrop fabric cut the wrong direction to be falling gently from the sky. As a result I've got these poor boats in the eye of a hurricane swirling around them. The rain fabric and the boat fabric is part of the 2015 Row by Row H20 fabric line.

Lindarella's Quilt Works in Southern Pines, NC.

This is my LQS when I'm in NC. Love her patterns and her shop. So cheerful!

Cary Quilting Company in Cary, NC.

Sasha went with me on this road trip to get the elephants. 

I entered a photo of her and Bobbin in front of this shop in the Bobbin contest.

Sasha and Bobbin in Cary, NC.

Studio Stitch in Greensboro, NC.

These Kaffe Fasset fish are just SO adorable!!

(I re-drew the hook. I didn't like the one on the pattern.)

Serendipity Quilt Shop in Dagsboro, DE.

This appliqué is ONE PIECE. It took 1 hr and  25 min to machine appliqué it!

It took longer than that to cut it out! Interesting process...

The rules for the row by row say that if you make at least 8 rows and put them in a quilt that is then quilted and bound you can turn it in at a participating shop to win 25 fat quarters of fabric. Each shop can only have one winner and there may be a bonus prize if that shop's row appears in the quilt. Now that I've got 8 rows done I'm going to work on the back of the quilt...another 8 rows!! Summer FUN!

Linking to Finish it Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.