It's My Turn for the EQ Seasons Row-A-Long!

Wow! The time has really gone by fast for this series of blocks.  Welcome to all of you who are collecting these patterns and I hope you enjoy my Row as much as I did!  Fall is my favorite time of year and all the beautiful colors that come with this Season.

For this year's Row, machine applique was my choice of sewing technique.  I know lots of you know me for paper piecing so I thought I'd change it up a bit!  This pattern is really, really easy.  

Included with this pattern is a section for Basic Fusible Applique so don't worry if this is your first time doing machine applique.  It's really pretty easy and lots of fun!

There are six blocks for the background.  I used Northcott fabric Toscana #9020-10 Picket Fence (that's a cool color name) though you could easily substitute the Toscana #9020-12  Vanilla or mix the two together.  There's lots of backgrounds today that are a variety of off whites or white on whites to add a little more interest to the background.  For a lot of the shades of oranges and yellows, I had a layer cake (10" squares) from Northcott called Artisan Spirit, Sandscapes, Sunglow/Coral.  Many thanks to Northcott for supplying the designers with fabrics and especially for donating all the fabrics for the giveaways.  Since the largest applique shape is the center pumpkin, you can use any layer cake squares you might have left over from another project or simply dive into your stash since most of these shapes are small enough to use up those pesky scraps!

 Here's a close up of the applique stitching around the apple and maple leaf.  I stitched with Sulky 30wt Cotton Solids Red for the apple and Green for the little apple leaf.  I stitched with Sulky 30wt Blendable #4006 for around some of the maple leaves and pumpkins.  Blendables are a variegated coloring but, unlike variegated threads, the coloring varies throughout the thread without any order to it.  Variegated threads tend to always have the exact colorations so that a pattern of color will sometimes appear and distract from the look of the applique stitching.

You can see the blendable color in this yellow/orange Maple leaf.  It really stands out nicely and blends with the Fall colors of the entire Row. Experiment a little with thread colors and weights.  Remember regular sewing thread is 50wt (weight).  The threads I used were 30wt.  The smaller the number the THICKER the thread, opposite of needle sizes!

This Row finishes 8" x 60".  You can make your blocks taller like 10" finished if you want more fabric showing around the applique shapes.  You could use less blocks if you wanted to make a shorter table runner for example.  Take a block off the left and a block off the right and you will have a finished row of 8" x 40".   Add a 3" finished borders all the way around and you'll have a Row that's 14" x 40" (or 60") There's lots of choices for you if you don't plan on making a Row quilt.

For a FREE pdf file of my pattern from Craftsy, click HERE.  You can use this link if you have any trouble downloading from Craftsy.  

As you can tell from the title of this series "2015 EQ7 Seasons Row-A-Long", all of the pattern designers used EQ7 to design the Rows.Click HERE for the EQ tutorial and to download block library and projects.

Also Electric Quilt (EQ) has a give away.  Just click HERE to enter to win EQ7 Software!

If you have EQ 7, just email me at [email protected] and I will be happy to email you the PJ 7 file.

 There are THREE giveaways at the end of my blog so be sure to enter in all of those.

I am giving away a fabric kit for my Fall Row.  It has all of the fabrics I used in my Row with extra fabric of each color so you can pick which colors you want to use for all of those leaves!!

The second giveaway is from Northcott.  You will be entering to win a fabric pack with 6 to 8 different one yard cuts of fabrics!  WOW!  That's a lot of fabric to win!

The third giveaway is a $25.00 gift certificate from the Fat Quarter Shop!!  

Here's the list of giveaways!  Be sure to enter all of them then check out the other designers' sites listed below the Rafflecopter boxes for more giveaways and free patterns!  Have fun!

NORTHCOTT FABRICS
The Northcott giveaway is consolidated.
This week, someone will win 6 - 8 fabrics that are each 1 yard in length a value of $60.00 - $80.00
You may only enter once this week at one of the featured designers which means if you enter here, you are not able to enter at the other designers' site for this week.  Entries are accepted until September 29, 2015.  Winners will be announced by October 6, 2015.

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FAT QUARTER SHOP

The Fat Quarter Shop has given each designer a $25.00 gift certificate to give away! You can only enter once at this blog.  You can enter once at each of this week's featured designers' sites!

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SCHOOLHOUSE FABRIC KIT GIVEAWAY

This giveaway is for my site only and you can enter once a day from today until midnight October 5, 2015.  Good luck!

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September 29 - Be sure to check out all the other designers' sites for this week!
Amy Warner at Sew Incredibly Crazy – Summer
Darlene at Quilt Shop Gal – Winter
Marian Pena at Seams To Be Sew – Spring
Anneka Kornelis at Stof Genoeg – Filler Row
Heidi Kory at the EQ Blog – A Tutorial On Combining Rows

Comments

[Lori Smanski]

this is so perfect for this time of year. I love the fabrics you chose. thanks for the pattern. I know what my sister will be getting for Thanksgiving Dinner. LOL

[Carol]

Such a beautiful Fall row...love it!Thank you!

[Marian]

This is one of my favorite rows Loreen. I truly am grateful you came along for the row along.. It's been a fun experience and seeing what everyone came up with for this event. I truly hope you'll come along again the next time I do this... :)

[Lindi]

I LOVE pumpkin patterns. Thank you so much for this one. L

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Thanks Lori. Great idea about the gift giving. I think my sister will be getting one too!

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Glad to hear that you like it. Thanks Carol.

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

That's very kind of you to say Marian. I would love to row along with you any time!

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

I'm with you Lindi. Can't get too many pumpkin patterns! Thanks for your kind words.

[Joan W]

Thanks for the pattern. I think this would make a great table runner as well as a row in a quilt.

[Susan]

Thank you so much for a great fall row. That could easily go for a table runner, just as it is. I really like the center of it for that purpose.

[barbara woods]

Great pattern

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Thanks Joan. I'm working on a border for mine now to make into a table runner! Be sure to send a picture along if you make yours into a table runner as well!

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Thanks Susan. I have been thinking about taking just the center with the three pumpkins, leaves and some apples to make a pillow or a center for a wall hanging.

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Thanks Barbara!

[Dolores]

Many thanks for this row. I love fall and I love applique.

[Emily]

Such a great row! I love fall!

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Thank you Dolores.

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Thanks Emily!

[Miss Loreen's Schoolhouse]

Thanks to everyone who has been participating in this Row-A-Long and I'm so glad that you like my row.

[Janie]

Your work is always so lovely. You make it look easy. Thank you for the inspiration.