Charity Quilt Sale

Hi from Greenville, South Carolina! The hurricane Helene visited us here a few weeks ago. Our damage was not near as bad as Asheville and Western North Carolina, but we had some flooding along widespread power outages from thousands of downed trees.

We were very lucky in our house that we escaped with almost no damage to our property and our power came back on within a day. Most of my friends were out of power and internet for over a week. School was shut down for 8 days.

One of the affected local organizations was Greenville Animal Care. They were without power to take care of all of their animals for over a week. Many people came to the rescue fostering animals and the Greenville Humane Society (which did have power) took over 100 animals to their facility.

I love supporting both of these agencies as they provide free TNR (trap-neuter-release), low cost spays and vaccinations, provide pet food to those who cannot afford it, and run excellent adoption agencies.

To support these two organizations, I am having a charity sample quilt sale from my book, Just One Charm Pack Quilts.

100% of the profit from the sale of these quilts will be split between Greenville Animal Care and the Greenville Humane Society.

See all of the charity quilts here.

Here are my cats that I have adopted...

Reeses (6 years old) - from Greenville Animal Care

Oreo (6 years old) - from the Greenville Humane Society

Piper (5 years old) - from the Greenville Humane Society

Turtle (2 years old) - from a parking lot :)

I hope that you will join me in supporting these two worthy organizations.  Here are a few of the quilts that are included in the charity sale.

You can find all of the charity quilts for sale here.

New Camden Road Quilt

In honor of the Fat Quarter Frenzy digital quilt pattern bundle that is now on sale, I thought that I would make a new version of my Camden Road quilt that is part of the bundle.

I hosted a quilt along for the Camden Road pattern many years ago and I will admit that I never finished my quilt during the quilt along.  I had all of the pieces cut out and the flying geese made and then had to put the quilt on hold.  

I am so excited that I can cross this new version of Camden Road off my in-progress quilt list :)

I made this new, throw sized version of Camden Road using a bundle of older Maureen Cracknell for Art Gallery Fabrics combined with some Moda gray and white solids.

For the quilting, I used Aurifil Dove, a really soft gray thread in a paisley design.  

 For the backing, I did not really have any yardage that worked and almost purchased some wide back fabric for the backing, but instead decided to use my stash.

I had a lot of large scale prints from Maureen Cracknell that I loved, but had trouble using in my quilts.  It took some extra time, but I pieced those prints together into the backing.  I do not love making a pieced backing, but I do love a pieced backing.

Here is a close up with the binding, another Marueen Cracknell print.

Here is the original cover quilt and more information about the pattern:

I hope you enjoyed seeing my finally finished Camden Road quilt.  The colors remind me of fall so I am going to get the quilt washed and on my couch to snuggle with :)

Marble Mystery ++ Oct ++ Hourglass & Triple Units

Who likes making hourglass units?  

Welcome to the October sewing instructions for the Marble Mystery Quilt, the tenth annual Meadow Mist Designs mystery quilt along!  This month we will be making some hourglass and triple units.

The Marble Mystery Quilt is a free quilt-along that will run from July 2024 through March 2025 to make a throw sized quilt (about 65 ½" x 65 ½") with a set of instructions posted the first Thursday of every month.  The quilt pattern is at an advanced beginner level containing basic piecing techniques (no applique, Y-seams, or paper piecing).

The directions and all of the other information relate dot the mystery quilt can always be found on the Marble Mystery Home Page.   

Easy to Print PDF Instructions

If you would like easy to print instructions for the October instructions, they can found as a free download through my shop:  

Part 3 - October Instructions - Hourglass & Triple Units

All Marble Mystery File Downloads

Cutting Instructions

Hourglass Units

B/bg HST UNITS

1. Place a fabric B square 5 ½" x 5 ½" and a bg square 5 ½" x 5 ½" right sides together (or 5 ¾" x 5 ¾" squares if they were oversized). 

Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of the bg square (shown as the solid line).

2. Sew a ¼" seam on either side of the solid line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the marked line and press seams toward fabric B. Do not trim the half-square triangle (HST) units at this point.

3. Repeat to make a total of 8 B/bg HST units approx. 5" x 5" (approx. 5 ¼" x 5 ¼" if using oversized squares).

C/bg HST UNITS

1. Place a fabric C square 5 ½" x 5 ½" and a bg square 5 ½" x 5 ½" right sides together (or 5 ¾" x 5 ¾" squares if they were oversized). 

Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of the bg square (shown as the solid line).

2. Sew a ¼" seam on either side of the marked line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the solid line and press seams toward fabric C. Do not trim the half-square triangle (HST) units at this point.

3. Repeat to make a total of 8 C/bg HST units approx. 5" x 5" (approx. 5 ¼" x 5 ¼" if using oversized squares).

HOURGLASS UNITS

1. Place a B/bg HST unit and a C/bg HST unit right sides together as shown so that the seams nest. 

Draw a diagonal line using a removable marking device on the back of one of the HST units (shown as the solid line) perpendicular to the seam.

2. Sew ¼" on both sides of the solid line (shown as the dotted lines). Cut on the marked line and press seams open.

3. Trim the hourglass units to 4 ½" x 4 ½". Repeat to make a total of 16 hourglass units.

D/bg/D Triplet Units

1. Arrange and sew together the following fabric pieces, pressing the seams open or towards the fabric D squares, to make a D/bg/D triplet unit 4 ½" x 16 ½".

2 fabric D squares 4 ½" x 4 ½"

1 bg rectangle 4 ½" x 8 ½"

2. Repeat to make a total of 12 D/bg/D triplet units.

HOW TO JOIN

This has been my most asked question, how to join in on the Marble Mystery quilt?  There is no official sign up, list, or cost to join in the mystery quilt along.  Each set of instructions will be posted to this blog as a post on the first Thursday of each month.

To ensure you do not miss any of the posts, you can do any of the following:

• Visit the Meadow Mist Designs blog on the day (first Thursday of each month) the instructions are posted or visit the Main Marble Mystery Page which will contain links to all of the posts.

• Join the Meadow Mist Designs Newsletter, the newsletter typically is sent out the day after the instructions are posted with a link to that month's instructions.

• Follow the Meadow Mist Designs blog via email. You will get all new blog posts (all posts, not just mystery quilt posts) at 10am via email the day they post.

• Join the Meadow Mist Designs Facebook Group. Links to the instructions are always posted in the group.

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Any questions? Leave them in a comment below or post them to our Facebook group page. I look forward to seeing everyone's cut fabrics. The next set of instructions will be published on the first Thursday of November, the 7th.